Business Social
A section of the Sparkle ballroom at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, where hunderds of attendees gather for the Mastercard 2024 LAC Innovation Forum.
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December 6, 2024

Business Social

The 13th staging of the 2024 Mastercard LAC Innovation Forum came to a close on Thursday (December 4) after two days of intense technologically charged activities.

Held under the theme ‘Beyond’, the annual event held from December 3-4 welcomed hundreds of attendees from the payments, finance and technology industries at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

The flagship event, which presented a number of opportunities for networking, also allowed Mastercard’s customers, comprising banks, merchants and fintechs, to share ideas on how they will fine-tune the vision for the future of commerce in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC).

Business Social was in Miami and bring these highlights.

Marty St George, president of JetBlue Airlines, and Linda Kirkpatrick, Mastercard president for the Americas, engage in a fireside chat during the general sessions of day 2 of the event.

Representatives of the Mastercard communications team share in a group photo with invited journalists from across the LAC region.

Attendees at the Mastercard 2024 LAC Innovation Forum stop by a number of booths to learn about developments taking place in the payments industry during a tour of the Innovation Centre.

A tech developer explains the features of one his latest products to a curious attendee during Mastercard’s 2024 LAC Innovation Forum held in Miami recently.

McLaren’s Darryl Williams gives instructions to participants engaged in a formula One virtual game..

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