Contactless ticketing for public transport. Touching a "smart poster" to download tourist information. Paying for parking with a simple wave of your mobile phone. Near Field Communication (NFC) applications like these — and many more — are transforming city life in projects and deployments around the globe.

On June 10, 2008, the NFC Forum held its first Spotlight Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. Featured speakers included NFC Forum Vice Chairman Gerhard Romen and leaders from organizations that are deploying NFC-based applications around the world.

Download the NFC Forum Spotlight on Transport and City Life Slides:

• Keynote: Introduction to NFC and the NFC Forum: Gerhard Romen, NFC Forum/Nokia
• Keynote: Be mobile with your NFC-enabled mobile: Wolf Heine, T-Systems
• RMV2go - forming an NFC ecosystem in a Metropolitan Area: Peter Preuss, RMV
• From smart card to mobile ticket standards in Germany – NFC as part of the VDV core application standard: Elke Fischer, VDV
• NFC evolution in SMS-based ticket and payment services: Christoph Kößler, Mobilkom A1
• Touch&Travel – NFC based automatic fare collection using a passive infrastructure: Dr. Marcus Gemeinder, Die Bahn
• London – NFC in a smart card world: Brian Dobson, Transport for London
• NFC in San Francisco: The BART Case: Hans Reisgies, ViVOtech

Learn more about NFC and the NFC Forum at www.nfc-forum.org