Welcome to the 2009 Prepaid Expo USA

We are here live from the 2009 Prepaid Expo USA, make final preparations for the opening of this year's conference. We’re excited as we get ready to kick off this year’s conference. As avid readers of this blog, you have an opportunity to share in some of the great presentations and information from the conference. This year to help you stay informed of everything that is happening here at Prepaid Expo, as it is taking place, we have several tools to help you, including live blog posts, twitter updates, photos from Flickr, daily emails, and discussions in our LinkedIn group that we will continue to post throughout the event.

We plan to be live-blogging throughout the conference, so be sure and subscribe to our RSS feed to continuously receive updates direct from the conference. Everything is set to begin tomorrow afternoon, but we've been through the space to capture all the work and effort going on to put this tremendous conference together. Here's a look:

We also spent a few moments with Conference Director, Keith Kirkpatrick to tell us a bit about everything in store for the conference:






Finally, if you haven't had a chance, you can read up on some of the industry topics and speakers at the conference:

NBPCA White Paper: State Escheat Laws Need to Evolve for Prepaid

2009 Paybefore Awards Best-in-Category, Industry Achievement Winners Announced Tomorrow

Speaker Profile: Mark W. Yusko

Speaker Profile: Carol Kinsey Goman

Speaker Profile: Ozzie Smith

There is so much more we have in store for everyone, so be sure to follow along here on our blog and our new twitter feed. We'll be updating throughout the conference, as often as possible. So be sure and check back often.