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M-Commerce World Summit 2011 will aim for Global Mobile Payment Infrastructure and Beyond

Singapore, 20 January, 2011

M-Commerce World Summit 2011 will be held from 6 to 7 April 2011 in Singapore to discuss on strategies to profit from mobile financial services to the mass through developing strategic partnership and best business model.

M-Commerce World Summit 2011 will be held from 6 to 7 April 2011 in Singapore. Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and ‘interoperability hubs’, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers are invited to share their latest efforts in launching m-commerce services and the key challenges facing them at this summit.

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

Case Studies:

• Overview of Current Global Market Trends and Developments for Mobile Financial Services
• Building Global Mobile Payment Infrastructure and Beyond
• A Future Direction for M-Commerce? Assessing Strategic Opportunities at the Nexus of Social Networks and Mobile Value Transfers
• Profitable and Sustainable Business Models Available for Mobile Money Transfer and POS
• Commercial Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Banks in Offering Mobile Financial Services
• Mobile Banking and Payments Success from the Bank’s Point-of-View
• Building an Open Mobile Payments Ecosystem
• New Strategies to Capture the Mass Market for Mobile Money Transfer & Mobile Remittance
• Additional Revenue Generating Channels through Deployment of M-Payments
• Growth of International Mobile Commerce
• Mobile Banking - Consumer Behaviour and Adoption
• Case Study on IMPS (Instant Inter-bank transfer) by Union Bank of India
• Banking the ‘Unbanked’ & Microfinance Services
• Case Study on Globe’s Experience in Implementing GCASH
• Case Study on Dialog’s Experience in Launching Tradenet in Sri Lanka
• Case Study on Celcom’s Experience in Developing an Innovative M-Commerce Platform using Open API

Concept

• Remittance Provider Case Study - Mobile Remittance in 2011
• NFC Technology Updates
• Mobile Handsets – What Are the Latest Technology Developments?
• 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 Ecosystem will be speaking at this conference :

• Nitin Chittal, Vice President, Retail Banking-Alternate Channels, Axis Bank, India
• Frédéric Schepens, Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Belgium
• Salil Bhuvanadasan, Head-Mobile Money, CamGSM, Cambodia
• Ng Wei Ken, Head of MCommerce, Product Innovation, Celcom, Malaysia
• Mohammad Jakirul Islam, Project Coordinator- mCommerce, Citycell, Bangladesh
• Sandeep Lal, Managing Director Consumer Banking Group eBusiness, DBS Bank, Singapore
• Fariq Cader, Senior General Manager Mcomm, Dialog Axiata, Sri Lanka
• Richie Sison, Marketing Group Head of G-Xchange, Inc, Globe Telecom, Philippines
• Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, Grameenphone, Bangladesh
• Atsumasa Tochisako, President and Chief Executive Officer, Microfinance International Corporation (A KDDI Group Company)
• 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
• Yvonne Cheong, Vice President, Internet/Mobile Banking, OCBC, Singapore
• Tom Wills, Principal Consultant, Secure Strategies, USA
• Shankar Narayanan, President and Co-founder, Tagit, Singapore
• Dan Armstrong, Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V., The Netherlands
• Arnab K. Biswas, Head-mCommerce, Tata Teleservices, India
• Vincent Kadar, CEO, Telepin Software, Canada
• Lalit Sinha, Deputy General Manager, DIT, Union Bank of India, India
• Gregg Marshall, VP of Business Development, Western Union

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 5 April 2011 with the title “Keeping the Hackers at bay without Putting Off Your Customers: A Primer on Usable M-Commerce Security” and a post-conference workshop on 8 April 2011 on “Bank-MNO Cooperation in the Mobile Money Ecosystem: Have We Moved Forward?”.

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