Opened in October 2014, the MasterCard Labs site in New York houses product and technology teams that build prototypes and collaborate with partners, as well as demo areas showing off new ways to pay. The 60,000 square foot space, designed by the architectural firm Gensler, is located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. We dropped by as part of our 2016 New York City Field Study.
For over 25 years, Uma Meyyappan has been a technology executive working in wealth management and financial services, and she is a pragmatist: Even in the era of generative AI, she says, "Do not speak too broadly about the impact of technology in generic terms...be really grounded in a use...