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Industry Leaders to Share Case Studies at M-Commerce World Summit 2010

Singapore, 20 January, 2010

Mr Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.’s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head of Globe Telecom, Philippines, Mr Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services of Grameenphone, Bangladesh and Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology of WING, Cambodia will be sharing their success stories in launching Mobile Remittance/Mobile Money Transfer & Microfinance Services at M-Commerce World Summit 2010 will be held from 16 to 19 March 2010 in Singapore.

The theme of this summit is to discuss strategies in developing the best business model and new business partnership in delivering mobile financial services to the mass market.

M-Commerce World Summit 2010 will be held from 16 to 19 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.
Mr Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.’s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head of Globe Telecom, Philippines, Mr Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services of Grameenphone, Bangladesh and Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology of WING, Cambodia will be sharing their success stories in launching Mobile Remittance/Mobile Money Transfer & Microfinance Services at this M-Commerce World Summit 2010.

The following key issues will be addressed in depth with necessary Real World

Case Studies:

• Overview of Current Market Trends and Developments for Mobile Financial Services in Asia
  
• Banking the Banked – Experiences Launching New M-Commerce Services in Europe and Africa
  
• Profitable and Sustainable Business Models Available for Mobile Money Transfer and POS
  
• Commercial Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Banks in Offering Mobile Financial Services
  
• New Strategies to Capture the Mass Market for Mobile Money Transfer & Mobile Remittance
  
• Additional Revenue Generating Channels through Deployment of M-Payments
  
• Enabling Mobile Money Domestically and Internationally
  
• Banking the ‘Unbanked’ & Microfinance Services
  
• Globe Telecom’s Experience in Launching G-Gash
  
• NFC Technology Updates
  
• Mobile Handsets – What Are the Latest Technology Developments?
  
• Broadband Technologies for Mobile Money Transfer
  
• Analysizing the Various Technology Options for Delivering M-Commerce Services
  
• Impact of Technologies on Mobile Money Transfer Services
  
• Case Study on MasterCard’s Over-The-Air Provisioning Service
  
• The Challenges in Implementing M-Payments in Transit
  
• Management Issues Concerning the Business and Technological Interfaces between Banks and Mobile Operators
  
• User-friendly and Secure Mobile Payments

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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand
  
• 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
  
• Chakaprani GK, Director – Emerging Markets, Nokia Financial Services, Nokia, India
  
• Matthew Talbot, Vice-President, mCommerce, Sybase 365, Singapore
  
• 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
  Senior Director, 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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