What happens when you bring more than 100 of the brightest minds in payments together with 5 of the toughest problems in payments? Well, you get the PYMNTS ThinkAThon 2013 – the best of collective innovation in payments and a starting point for cracking the code on many of the things that keep this vast ecosystem from reaching its fullest potential.
And, so today, as we get ready to kick off PYMNTS ThinkAThon 2014 as part of The Innovation Project 2014 (March 19-20 at Harvard University) we have decided that October 24, 2013 is Collective Innovation Day! And to celebrate we are tipping our caps to celebrate the Collective Innovation of our 2013 ThinkAThon winners – who tackled problems as critical and far reaching as catastrophic system failure to economically delivering financial services to the 2.5 billion underserved, to privacy and security in a mobile world to creating a truly frictionless mobile payments experience for consumers. You can read all about it here.
2014 Call to Action 
So, in the spirit of Collective Innovation, we’d like to ask for your help in collectively developing the short list of topics that you think our teams should tackle in 2014. And, the tougher, the better! We’ll assemble the teams soon, and as last year, report out the results as part of The Innovation Project 2014 on March 19-20. To submit your idea for the PYMNTS.com ThinkAThon challenge, drop us a line and tell us what’s on your mind at theinnovationproject@pymnts.com.
And, in the spirit of Collective Innovation day, if you and your teams and partners have done something to solve a tough problem that would have never been possible without the collective efforts of the team, tweet us @PYMNTS or use the #pymntsinnovation.
We’re always on the lookout for opportunities to partner with innovators and disruptors.
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