8.30 – Registration
9.30 – Main Stage: Welcome from the GCVA
Gail Cohen, Director General, GCVA
Adam Hobbs, Managing Director, Motivates & GCVA Co-Chair
Siobhan Moore, Partner, Keystone Law & GCVA Executive Co-Chair
9.50 – Main Stage: A Word from SVS our Lead Sponsor
Malc Berg, VP Business and Account Development, Stored Value Solutions (SVS)
10.00 – Main Stage: An Overview of the Retail Environment UK
Amanda Myatt, Partner, Transaction Services, KPMG UK
10.30 – Main Stage: Gift Card Industry ’22 KPMG – GCVA Data Insight
Alastair Cowen, Data Analytics Manager, KPMG
11.00 – BREAK
12.00 – Main Stage: The Cost of the ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’:
How it has impacted the industry – for better or worse!
Chair: Adam Hobbs, Managing Director, Motivates
Panel: Jinesh Vohra, CEO, Sprive
Peter Dabrowa, CEO, Wonde
Annabel Le May, Senior Commercial Lead, Gift Cards and Concessions, John Lewis Partnership
Deji Damola, Director, EMEA Business Development, Fiserv Gift Solutions
12.15 (40 mins) GCVA 101: The Gift Card Ecosystem
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about gift cards but were afraid to ask! Supported by a video featuring industry experts. Kim will take attendees on a gift card tour.
Presented by: Kim Dinan, Head of Gift Cards, LEGO Retail
12.40 – Main Stage: SVS International Market Overview
Jenny Parris, Chief Revenue Officer, Stored Value Solutions (SVS)
13.00 – LUNCH
14.15 – Main Stage: Charity Spot: The Trussell Trust, supporting food banks throughout the UK
Win a lastminute.com Tour de France experience
14.15 (40 mins) – GCVA 101: The Changing Landscape of Digital Value
Making sense of digital, virtual, and cryptocurrencies
Chair: Aron Alexander, Founder & CEO, WeGift
Panel: Ben Rabb, COO, USA Division, BitCard
Paul Swinton, co-CEO & Co-Founder, B4B Payments
Miranda Graesser, Head of Gift Cards & Sainsbury’s Energy, Sainsbury’s Group
14.30 – Main Stage: Keynote Speaker: Em Stroud
Laugh, Think, Play More… for Life and Business Success
Don’t miss this empowering session with Em – actor, speaker, presenter, clown. Every audience member will go away with ideas on how they can shift their perspective on showing up in their life and work.
15.15 – BREAK
16.00 – Main Stage: Sector Update: Top of the Gift Card Pops
What’s Hot? What’s Not! Join this interactive session and you decide
Presenters: Heather Rogers, Senior Director, eCommerce, Blackhawk Network;
Malc Berg, VP Business and Account Development, Stored Value Solutions (SVS)
16.00 (30 mins) – GCVA 101: B Corp
What’s it all about? And how can it help your business? A B Corp expert will provide first-hand experience of achieving B Corp certification
Speaker: Bill Alexander, Chairman, Motivates
16.20 – Main Stage: The Continual Rise of B2B in the Gift Card Industry, and Value it Delivers in partnership with IMA Europe
This European panel will focus on the exponential growth of B2B, and how to sustain it.
Chair: Andrew Johnson, CEO, Retail & Corporate, Diggecard
Panel: Hollis Thornton, Vice President Client Success, TOTUS
Stoytcho Vlaykov, Managing Director, Cashwave
Stephanie MacNeill, Senior Commercial Manager, Tesco Bank & 3rd Party Gift Cards
Husain Makiya, CEO, YOUGotaGift
16.30 (40 mins) – GCVA 101: Around the World in 30 Minutes
What’s new, what’s in, what’s out – what is shaking the territories all about?
Chair: Todd Tomlin, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, Ncentiva
Panel: Julie Barbier-Leblan, Founder & CEO, Merit Incentives
Keith Brand, Co-Founder TOTUS Gift Card Management and Co-Founder TheGiftCardCentre.co.uk
Heather Rogers, Senior Director, eCommerce, Blackhawk Network