Summary Agenda

Tuesday 20th July 2010 - Pre-Conference Workshop
Morning session: Does regulation limit Innovation?

Afternoon session: Building a successful business model

Wednesday 21st July - Conference Day One

9.00 Registration
9.30 Opening remarks from the Chair
Michele Scanlon, Director & Principal Consultant, Indian Atlantic

9.40 M-PESA Kenya case study
Brian Muthiora, Principal In-House Counsel, M-PESA Advisory, Safaricom

10.15 FNB Mobile banking case study
Yolande van Wyk, CEO: Smart Services, First National Bank

10.50 Networking Break & Refreshments

11.20 Driving new service adoption with innovative m-commerce solutions
Mehdi Kanouni, Business Development Manager - Professional Services, Motorola Networks Services Business

11.55 Why tomorrow’s consumers require a different payments infrastructure
Jim Tomaney, General Manager – Europe, FSS Technologies

12.30 Banks and Operators: Marriage of Necessity or Convenience

Ahmad Faheem, Regional Technical Director – EMEA, Utiba

13.05 Lunch

14.30 Panel Session - A regulatory environment in flux: What is the impact of the regulatory environment in Africa on mobile money services?
Panel chair: Margaret Olivier, Senior Payment Systems Specialist, South African Reserve Bank
Panellists include:
Brian Muthiora, Principal In-House Counsel, M-PESA Advisory, Safaricom
Kumaran Selvarajalu, Payments Regulation, Firstrand Bank
Francis Matseketsa, Principal - Oversight, National Payment Systems Division, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe

15.15 Enabling successful mobile money transfers, both domestically and internationally
Marius Dano, Mobile Financial Services Manager, Belgacom International Carrier Services

15.50 Networking Break & Refreshments

16.20 Developing an effective partnership strategy for integrated mobile money service delivery
Senior representative, Nokia Siemens Networks

16.55 Meeting the challenges of achieving interoperability for mobile money services
Richard Ketley, Director, Genesis Analytics 

17.30 Closing remarks from the Chair & End of conference day one

Followed by Drinks Reception

Thursday 22 July - Conference Day Two

9.00 Registration
9.30 Opening remarks from the Chair

9.40 WIZZIT Case Study
Brian Richardson, Founding Director & CEO, WIZZIT

10.15 Delivering An All–Inclusive Mobile Money Service Using the Mobile Channel – A Mobile Operator Perspective
Abiodun Ogunlabi, Program Manager MTN MobileMoney, MTN Nigeria

10.50 Networking Break & Refreshments

11.20 Achieving growth in subscriber uptake – The case of MTN Mobile Money in Ghana

Eli Hini, Commercial Senior Manager, MTN Mobile Money, Ghana

11.55    Panel session: Banking the unbanked
Panel Chair: Doubell Chamberlain, MD, CENFRI (The Centre for Financial Regulation and Inclusion) and
Panellists include:
Brian Richardson Founding Director & CEO, WIZZIT
Modupe Ladipo, Chief Executive Officer, EFInA
Bezant Chongo, Regional Microfi nance Specialist, PlaNet Finance Southern Africa
David Ferrand, Director, FSD Kenya [subject to final confirmation]

13.00 Lunch

14.15 Preparing a South African Rand Mobile Payment Solution for Free Banking - A case study
John Aldridge, Mobile Payment Consultant, C J Systems

14.50 Mobile payments security: risk analysis for the coming generation of mobile payment systems
Dave Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion

15.25 Mobile banking and microfinance
Bezant Chongo – Regional Microfinance Specialist, PlaNet FinanceSouthern Africa

16.00 Closing remarks from the chair & end of conference