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enStage Inc., ALU & Comviva partner with M-Commerce World Summit 2010

SINGAPORE, 10 February 2010

enStage Inc., Alcatel-Lucent and Comviva see good opportunities to showcase their products and services at M-Commerce World Summit 2010 which will be held from 17 to 18 March 2010 in Singapore.

M-Commerce World Summit 2010 will be held from 17 to 18 March 2010 in Singapore. Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and ‘interoperability hubs’, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers will share their latest efforts in launching m-commerce services and the key challenges facing them at this summit.
enStage Inc., Alcatel-Lucent and Comviva see good opportunities to showcase their products and services and have signed up as major sponsors at this event.

Mr Govind Setlur, CEO of enStage Inc., will be speaking on ‘Payment Infrastructure for the New Age of Consumer Payments – including the "Unbanked"& "Uncarded" ‘, Mr Paolo Montessori, VP Asia Pacific of Comviva will be speaking on ‘Evolution from Prepaid Solutions to Mobile Commerce’ and Pascal De Meester, Asia Pacific Head of Business Development for Convergent Payment & Next Generation Intelligent Networks of Alcatel-Lucent will be sharing a case study on ‘Capitalizing on the Wave of Mobile Payments - A telco’s perspective’.

Companies/organisations representing the M-Commerce Ecosystems will be speaking at this conference :

• Mohamed A Kazi, Channel Head-Mobile Banking, Absa Bank, South Africa
  
• Paradorn Wichayapinyo, Marketing Manager, Advanced mPAY, Thailand
  
• Pascal De Meester, Asia Pacific Head of Business Development for Convergent Payment & Next Generation Intelligent Networks, Alcatel-Lucent
  
• Liz Maguire, General Manager Direct Channels, ANZ National Financial Group, New Zealand
  
• Nitin Chittal, Vice President, Retail Banking-Alternate Channels, Axis Bank, India
  
• Frédéric Schepens, Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Belgium
  
• Mohammad Jakirul Islam, Project Coordinator- mCommerce, Citycell, Bangladesh
  
• Paolo Montessori, VP Asia Pacific, Comviva, India
  
• Thivanka Rangala, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka
  
• Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.’s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head, Globe Telecom, Philippines
  
• Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, Grameenphone, Bangladesh
  
• Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA
  
• Silvester Prakasam, Director (Fare Systems), Land Transport Authority, Singapore
  
• Anthony Panal Petalcorin, Senior MIS Manager, Microenterprise Access to Banking Services / Regional Manager, Mindanao, Philippines
  
• Kate Zilla-Bâ, COO, Mondato, USA
  
• Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, India
  
• Louie Stojanovski, Director of Regional Operations, Asia Pacific, Messaging LOB, Syniverse Technologies, Inc., Australia
  
• Dan Armstrong, Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V., The Netherlands
  
• Arief Hamdani Gunawan, Senior Officer-Regulatory Management, Telkom Indonesia, Indonesia
  
• Lalit Sinha, Deputy General Manager, DIT, Union Bank of India, India
  
• Thor Hauge, Vice President, Digital Ventures, Western Union
  
• Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology, WING, Cambodia

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 16 March 2010 on ‘Mobile Marketing, Advertising and Commerce Workshop: Tools for Navigating the Industry Ecosystem - A Hands-On and In-Depth Study of Mobile Marketing Best Practices, Industry Ecosystem Structure, Players and Business Models’ to be led by: Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA and a post-conference workshop on ‘How to Build and Calculate A Successful Business Case for Mobile Banking?’ to be led by: Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand.

The summit website is : http://www.symphonyglobal.com/index.php/event/page/m-commerce

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