The Industry Choice Award voting is now open!
If you are reading this and you are a finalist in this year's Contactless & Mobile Awards, then the time has come to vote for your company, your product, your solution and everything is up for grabs! Like, share, tweet - make sure you spread the word and increase your chance to walk away with not one, but two awards at the end of the month. Personally, I love this award category in the Contactless & Mobile Awards. With it being out of the hands of the esteemed judges, and in the hands of social media reach, it reflects how much drive and determination exists within each company to win.
The nominees of this award are the finalists in the eleven categories outlined in this years CMAs plus 4 runner ups that the judges decided should be singled out for special recognition. These are nominees that the judges felt this year should have made it to the finals but for one reason or another were just pipped at the post. The additional four nominees are:
Ensygnia (UK) – Onescan (secure mobile payment service solution)
Všeobecná úverová banka (Slovakia) – VISA Inspire Wave 2 Pay (micro tags for mobile payment)
Barclays (UK) – PingIt (mobile application for money transfers)
Česká spořitelna (Czech Republic) – Contactless payment cards (highest average contactless spend in region)
The winner of this award will be voted for by the industry at large via our web poll. All companies mentioned here will be in the running, and the company that receives the most votes will win. Our advise? Get people in your office to register a vote, your friends, your family – the more the better your chances are to win. The only important thing to remember is that voting started this morning and will end at midnight on the 17th April. The other finalists are below as a reminder.
1. Contactless Payment Collaboration
Leumi Card Ltd (Israel) – Leumi card wallet
Bank Polski (Poland) – PayWave technology implementation
Austria Card (Austria) – Mobile wallet integration
VeriFone (USA) – Ride with points
2. Retail
Heidi.com (Switzerland) – Digital signage with mobile purchasing
Grassfish (Austria) – VE CONNECT Interactive vending
Proxama (UK) – NFC usage at UK Argos stores
Pyramid IT (Germany) – Interactive shopping kiosk at M&S
3. Transportation and Ticketing
Road & Transportation Authority (UAE) – Smart card for transport
Transport for London (UK) – Contactless payment cards in London
ECEBS/SPT (UK) – Bramble transport and payment card for SPT
Vix Technology (Australia) – Vix eBrio fare collection system
4. Mobile Payment
Boppl (UK) – Boppl (mobile pre-order and payment hospitality service)
BBVA (Spain) – BBVA mobile wallet
Turkcell (Turkey) – Turkcell mobile wallet
Yapital (Luxembourg) – Yapital mobile payment solution
5. Innovation
HDB Technology (France) – CLAP the new information & communication platform
Selinko (Belgium) – Product authentication via NFC
Sequent (USA) – Sequent Open Wallet Platform
QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited (UK) – QS Tap
6. Customer Experience
Citi Bank (Czech Republic) – Micro tags
UBS Switzerland (Switzerland) – UBS Access Card and Access Card Display
RedeProtege (Brazil) – PagTaxi – Taxi contactless payment
Bon-Ton/Thinaire (USA) – Bon-Ton Shoe Salons with NFC
7. Loyalty
Carrot rewards/NXP (Bangkok) – Carrot Rewards for Rabbit card
Escher (Ireland) – P2P NFC Mobile Loyalty
Proxama (UK) – NFC and BLE loyalty solutions
Wooshping/Nokia (UK) – Tap for Tunes
8. Public Domain
Vix Technology (Australia) – UTA/FAREPAY
Nottingham College (UK) – NFC posters for EFL learning
eKiosk (Germany) – Interactive eGovernment terminal
PetHub (USA) – NFC tags for dogs
9. Marketing Campaign
MoLo (UK) – NFC/QR code treasure hunts
Wooshping/Nokia (UK) – Smart Appvent Calendar
Thinaire/Unilever (USA) – Unilever’s Good Humor “Share The Love” campaign
Tapit/Google (Australia) – Google Campaign
10. Infrastructure
Phaymobile (Turkey) – TSMxpert
ATM/Smarting (Spain) – Secure Card Abstraction Layer (SCAL) enabling migration
Ibrahim Serhat BULUT (Turkey) – All-in-Mobile
AIRTAG (France) – AIRPASS SDK solution
11. Eco System
Bell ID (The Netherlands) – Secure Element in the cloud
ICS (The Netherlands) – NFC Mobile Payments
Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (Czech Republic) – mPO2S
Connecthings (France) – MonGroom project – Grenoble
The winner will be announced on the 29th April, during the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference Awards Gala, London. For more details on the event and how to register for tickets, please follow this link here.
I really wanted to keep the focus of this week's editorial on the Industry Choice Awards but I do want mention a couple of video's that we have on our site at the moment. One is an OSPT update from Samsung Semiconductor's Jörg Suchy and another is an interesting interview given by Weve CEO, David Sear, who says that 70% of consumers want to pay with their mobile. If you disagree with this or would like to know more - you can ask him yourself when you see him at the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference where he is speaking on “Navigating a fragmented market in mobile”.
A more normal editorial will resume next week, but until then - get voting!
Until next week.
Steve Atkins
Contactless Intelligence
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