The growth of HCE – Host Card Emulation for Mobile Payment in the cloud.

Newport Technologies' Karl J. Weaver is an OEM/ODM mobile device ecosystem and business development executive for Near Field Communications, mobile (wallet) payments and TEE embedded mobile device security ecosystems. He recently spent 5 years working in China for Gemalto as a rainmaker for design in embedded Mobile NFC Payments & TEE security technologies to the OEM Smartphone/Tablet PC ecosystem.

Karl is delighted to present on the growth of HCE – Host Card Emulation for NFC Mobile Payment Smartphones in the Cloud. He will explore exactly what Host Card Emulation is, where it came from, discuss Apple “iPay” and Softcard developments. The NFC floodgates are open, and Karl will explain the next industry moves toward mass adoption.

Simply Tapp is an application solution that enables mobile NFC enabled payments directly into your application. Karl will spend some time explaining how to develop an application using HCE NFC, and provide an introduction to Simply Tapp as the SDK provider and ABNote, who provides provisioning of the secure element in the Cloud.

Our guest speaker will start at 6:00pm so please feel free to arrive before then to grab some food and network with other professionals. We will be finishing around 7:00 to allow for Q&A time as well as additional networking.