Reasons to Join Smartex
JOIN SMARTEX AND FIND ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING:
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- What are the types, benefits and real-life examples of smart technology?
- Will all smart cards eventually be superseded by mobiles, and if so, how and when?
- The rise and rise of AI – what are the latest developments that affect our smart community?
- Which comms technologies and wireless protocols are likely to dominate?
- What is the national strategy for public transport ticketing and payment systems?
- How will the widely anticipated explosive growth of IoT affect our market?
- What is the future of mass-consumer retail payments?
- What form will national/international Digital ID take, and who’s in charge?
- How and when will biometrics become the mainstream authentication technique?
- How can smart technology support sustainability?
Smartex Forums debate & seek answers to these and other pressing, highly topical issues.
Smartex Forums debate and seek answers to these and other pressing topical issues.
Since 1993, over 6,790 of our sector-specific (both live and virtual) meetings have attracted over 20,000 delegate-days of attendance, with over 2,350 specialist speakers covering the entire spectrum of smart cards and smart technology, the smartphone revolution, AI, IoT, FinTech, biometrics, wearables and related technologies as applied to the main smart market areas. With so many new technologies, applications and form factors on the near horizon, it’s hard to understand or even imagine our industry without Smartex meetings and networking.
Several of our Forums have become sector-specific, especially for transport ticketing and payment, for University and College smart campus schemes, and for the FinTech market. The newest group, the Future Technology Forum (FTF), launched in April 2023, focuses on the technology behind our ever evolving smart world – from Mobile to AI, from the technology that supports Metaverse to ChatGPT, the FTF will encompass any topical technologies that will support or underpin consumer and regulatory demands in the future. We constantly modify the scope of our Forums to accommodate the ever-changing smart reality.
During 2025, 467 individuals attended our F2F and virtual meetings, representing nearly 300 organisations. Networking, and doing business with fellow members and other delegates, is therefore yet another real benefit of membership. In 2026, we are planning eighteen F2F meetings, with five virtual meetings to encourage attendance for those that find it difficult to join in person, and where our members have asked for these because of travel distance or calendar constraints.
Can you afford not to be part of this influential group at the heart of these fast-moving and volatile technologies so vital in the new e- and m-worlds, particularly in these current challenging times?