"Micropayments & Access Control"

Kurt Huang, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BitPass
Date: Wednesday, 17 March, 2004
Time: 6:30pm Refreshments; 7:00pm
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions)
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.

Great promise was envisioned by start-up payment providers who raised millions of dollars to build micropayment solutions. All failed. Many sites offered great content, only to fail due to lack of a viable revenue model.

BitPass' mission is to make it very easy to buy and sell digital content online. They reviewed past failures and the current on-line payment environment in developing the targeted solution set for a successful offering. Mr. Huang will explore these issues and present critical elements of the infrastructure, and how that infrastructure is used by contemporary web sites. He will talk about why BitPass believes that sites based on this infrastructure will succeed where others have failed in the past.

Additionally, BitPass has discovered through discussions with customers about the payment system that many of the proposed sites would benefit from collaboration with other sites. Mr. Huang will present in general terms some of these collaborations.

Kurt Huang, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BitPass
Kurt is the architect of the BitPass' micropayment technology. Prior to founding BitPass, Kurt was a doctoral candidate in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University where he did research in artificial intelligence. Kurt holds an AB in computer science from Harvard College and earned an MD from Stanford University.