The first week of October, on the 2nd and 3rd, some of the world's top digital commerce players will be reunited in Brazil, in Southern city of Curitiba, for the EBANX Summit 2018. Companies such as  Spotify, Pipedrive, Udacity, Xsolla, Wish, Light in the Box, DHgate, Farfetch, and Amazon will have their high-level executives among the attendees of this conference, that will provide a deep dive into the business landscape in Latin America. The summit is promoted by EBANX, global fintech company with Latin American DNA that offers end-to-end payment solutions from Latin America to international merchants that want to start or increase their cross-border sales to the region.  The event is supported by FAE Business School.

EBANX Summit 2018 will put on stage some of the greatest specialists on the market to talk about economy, logistics, consumption, and business opportunities in LatAm. "No other event reunites so many high-level executives from players in the industry with the purpose to talk about Latin America. EBANX gathers C-level and directors of some of the largest global companies in the world to do exactly that, and to inspire other companies to invest in the region and to enjoy all its consumer potential, since it is home to over 400 million internet users", said Alphonse Voigt, co-founder and CEO of EBANX. 

Keynotes and panels – A close look on business landscape in LatAm

This year, the keynotes will be about the economic landscape in Latin America; what are the trends in payments in the region; fraud prevention; how is the cross-border market in Argentina; how is the payments market in Mexico; political landscape and the elections for president in Brazil, with a forecast for businesses in the country; logistics in Brazil; and a case study on the largest Brazilian bank.

The keynote speakers will be the Brazilian journalist, TV hostess, Politics editor and columnist Giuliana Morrone; the senior director and co-leader of payments practice at Americas Market Intelligence (AMI), Lindsay Lehr; the president of Correios, the Brazilian Post Office, Carlos Roberto Fortner; the director of the Argentine Chamber of E-commerce (CACE), Gustavo Sambucetti; the president for Brazil and South America at Mastercard, João Pedro Paro Neto; and the executive manager for the acquiring and payment business platforms at the Brazilian bank Itaú Unibanco, Leandro Franco.

Panels will also be part of EBANX Summit's program. The e-commerce director at the Mexican bank BBVA Bancomer, Javier Ayala Ramirez, and the founding partner at Y&G Consultores, Yoliztli Gutiérrez, will gather to discuss "E-commerce Payments in Mexico", bringing topics about acquiring in the country. The director of fraud prevention at Mastercard, Daniel Marchetti, and the co-founder of the anti fraud system Konduto, Tom Canabarro, will be joining for the panel about "Fraud Prevention", that will present strategies for fraud prevention in Latin America, besides featuring how machine learning works in these cases.

Beyond the overview – Workshops, virtual tours, and exhibition

Additionally to the keynotes and panels, EBANX Summit 2018 will also offer workshops about the Latin American market and products for it; user experience tips for websites that sell to LatAm; marketing and shopping behavior in the region; and chargeback. The workshops will be presented by EBANX experts in these fields.

Video tour spaces will also be part of the event, presenting everything about some of the most traditional local payment methods in Latin America. A Correios Tour will make attendees feel as if they were traveling alongside the package from the point it arrives to Brazil to the moment it arrives to the customer.

In order to make the event's experience complete, EBANX teams will be at booths in an exhibition of EBANX products and services, explaining everything about payment solutions, business intelligence, market & product landscape in each of the Latin American countries where EBANX has operations in, customer service in LatAm, B2C marketing, market intelligence & content, among other topics.