Consult Hyperion Podcasts

• James Allan
  James Allan is 25, lives in London and has spent a year trying to live without cash. His experiences are valuable to anyone looking at the next generation of retail electronic money products and services.
• Claire Maslen
  Claire Maslen is Head of NFC for O2. She has spent more than a decade at the leading edge of networking, initially with Cisco and more recently in the O2 Telefonica group. Her responsibilities include business development for the NFC proposition as a whole and the O2 Wallet product
• Dr Michael Salmony
  Dr Michael Salmony of Equens recently managed, at the Board of Directors/Holding level, the post merger integration between previously national organisations (achieving synergies and efficiency gains of more than 400FTE) to yield the first and leading pan-European full-service payment service provider Equens which now processes 1.5 times the gross domestic product of Europe per year.
• Ben Laurie
  Ben Laurie is a founding director of The Apache Software Foundation, a core team member of OpenSSL, a member of the Shmoo Group, a director of the Open Rights Group, Director of Security at The Bunker Secure Hosting, Trustee and Founder-member of FreeBMD and Advisory Board member of WikiLeaks.org. He is currently working with Google in London on various projects, including their Caja Javascript sanitizer project.
• Bruce Sterling
  Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching Summer Intensive Courses on media and design. In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Part 2 of 2
• Bruce Sterling
  Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. In 2003 he was appointed Professor at the European Graduate School where he is teaching Summer Intensive Courses on media and design. In 2005, he became "visionary in residence" at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Part 1 of 2
• Dr Hazel Lacohée
  Dr Hazel Lacohée joined BT in 1998 and is a Principal Researcher undertaking qualitative social research for BT Innovate. She is responsible for investigation of the commercial, socio-economic and customer impact of ICT applications and systems and providing thought leadership on the social and market implications of communications technology. She is currently focused on issues concerning privacy, security, trust, data collection and public surveillance and is lead author of the Trustguide report.
• Ken Howes
  Ken Howes is Vice-Chairman and Co-founder of the Prepaid International Forum. Ken, who has had broad experience in retail banking, payments and electronic commerce, has been closely involved in various major developments in the global payments business over the last 25 years. He is also a Director of Edgar, Dunn and Company (EDC), a global management consulting firm which specialises in the financial services and payments sectors, and is based in London.
• Deniz Tuncalp
  Deniz Tuncalp is the founder of the mobile digital signature service in Turkcell. In addition to his work with Turkcell, he lectures on technology management and organisation in several universities in Istanbul. He is also doing research in the adaptation of individuals and organisations to new technology. In this podcast, he talks about Turkcell's innovative mobile digital signature services and explains how it is developing the market.
• Rosemarie Wilken
  Rosemarie is a Regional Executive at Fundamo Limited, and specialises in consulting to and supplying Mobile Banking and Payments solutions globally. She has an MBA (cum laude) with her dissertation being on Prepaid Mobile Telephony in Africa. Currently Rosemarie manages business development and customer relationships for Fundamo¹s Global Partnership Programme as well as Resellers in the Latin America and Asia Pacific Regions.
• Karsten Nohl
  Dr. Karsten Nohl is a researcher at the University of Virginia. A cryptographer, who was researching some aspects of RFID and privacy, he was part of the team that attracted widespread industry interest when they reverse-engineered the NXP MiFare Classic smart card. In this podcast, Karsten explains what the team did and what some of the lessons might be for the designers of secure identification systems.
• Paul Smee
  Paul Smee started his working life in the Department of Trade and Industry where he worked from 1978 to 1988. Paul moved on to the London Stock Exchange where he held a number of appointments, including Head of Government Relations. A number of high profile roles followed, including Director General of the Association of Independent Financial Advisers. In January 2005 Paul joined APACS as Chief Executive.
• Rover van Mierlo
  Rover van Mierlo is Director Central Logistics and Innovation of Schuitema NV. Schuitema is the second largest retail organisation in The Netherlands with 450 C1000 stores. Before that, Rover was the supply chain manager of Akzo Nobel Twaron Products, Practice Leader Industrial Consulting at KPMG Management Consulting and a project leader at Philips International. In this podcast, he talks about the results of the C1000 NFC trial.
• GrIDsure
  Jonathan Craymer and Stephen Howes are the inventors of the GrIDsure system and founders of GrIDlock TLS. GrIDsure is a "visual PIN" system, which replaces a simple numeric PIN with a pattern-based alternative. In this podcast, they tell us where the idea came from and where they hope it might go.
• Dr Michael Mainelli
  Dr. Michael Mainelli is Professor of Commerce at Gresham College in London. Michael is Executive Chairman of Z/Yen, a City-based risk/reward firm, where he works on strategy, technology, finance and business development. He spent seven years as a partner and board member of an accountancy firm directing their financial services consultancy work in the UK and overseas, followed by a position as Corporate Development Director of the MoD¹s Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.
• Alistair Lukies
  Alistair Lukies is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Monitise. Alastair has a proven track record of turning visions and concepts into real businesses. Prior to conceiving, financing and successfully building Monitise, Alastair was a co-founder of epolitix.com, the portal for Westminster, Whitehall and the devolved institutions. In this podcast, he highlights a couple of Monetise's new initiatives and explains the company's proposition.
• Charlie Edwards
  Charlie Edwards is a senior researcher at the London "think tank" DEMOS. He writes, lectures and consults on national security, resilience, defence and intelligence. He works with international institutions, government departments, companies, and NGOs. A regular commentator in the national and international media, in this podcast he discusses the DEMOS essay collection "UK Confidential", reflecting on issues of privacy and identity in the modern age.
• Economist
  Ummul Choudry of Economist Conferences and Dave Birch of Consult Hyperion discuss the The Digital Money Summit which will be held in London on 25th November 2008. Economist Conferences have kindly invited a number of Forum friends -- including Sandra Alzetta, Jack Selby, Susie Lonie, Diane Coyle and many more -- to come along and address a business audience on the state of the digital money marketplace now that more and more consumers are experiencing new ways to pay.
• James McDonald
  James McDonald is head of Contactless Payments for Barclays Business. James has worked for Barclaycard for 35 years with roles covering processing, fraud, finance,research and development, operations, business strategy and has been involved with, and led, Point Of Sale product innovation and development for the past 25 years. Over the last 8 years James has led the Barclaycard Business Poi