The Mastercard Experience Center is designed as a portal to that future, a place where customers and partners can virtually experience that future today, and where we're only limited by the power of our collective imaginations ," said Sandeep Malhotra, executive vice president, products & innovation, Asia Pacific, Mastercard. " By guiding visitors through the future economy, Mastercard aims to bring abstract concepts to life, to inspire purposeful innovation and co-creation of the technologies of tomorrow ." The MEC in Singapore acts as a regional Asia Pacific hub for Mastercard to conduct customer workshops, executive roundtables and employee events. It also serves as an innovation space and R&D lab where consumer insights, needs and trends are identified, helping to inform white space, blue sky innovation and actionable product development roadmaps for the next 12-24 months. Innovation Circuit Another way that Mastercard is supporting customers in their innovation journeys is through Innovation Circuits.