Global Mifos Summit

Let's start again.
In $ERO we are creating a new kind of bank. A bank from zero. In Latin America new regulations of e-money are creating the conditions to address the BoP users. We are taking this opportunity very seriously and we are using Mifos as technology core to doing so.
$ERO from Uruguay is going to present a case study on the innovative work they're leading to becomes the country's first e-money issuer all powered by Mifos X on the back-end.

We know that gettting Mifos X up and running quickly is of great importance. Terence Monteiro has packaged up Mifos X as Debian package allowing you to get a Debian/Ubuntu build up and running in mere minutes. He'll go over how to deploy the Debian package and how he went about building it - a great session for anybody looking to become more proficient in Mifos X Dev Ops

Panel on innovations in financial inclusion to include Coders Trust, $ERO, and Musoni Services.

Joining us on this panel and interactive discussion will be several individuals from our community with extensive experience supporting and or delivering rural and agricultural financial services. They'll explore the large opportunity there is to serve the smallholder farmer market, challenges that must be overcome in serving this segment, the products and services that need to be supported, and the innovation we can build in or on top of the platform to enable more effective rural and agricultural finance.

Social performance management and measuring the true impact of financial inclusion is a top priority of the Mifos Initiative and the entire sector in general. With our Microcredit Summit Campaign commitments around the PPI and our long-term vision for the Client Impact Portal, social performance management is critical. We'll welcome to the panel, several of the most socially-motivated financial institutions in our community and discuss their effort to truly measure a double bottom line:
- Suresh Krishna of Grameen Koota
- Prabhakar Rawat of AT-Grassroots & SARAL
- Niranjan Sheelvant of Nirantara

CGAP notes that globally 1.3B+ people lack access to electricity & another 1B have unreliable connections. They are forced to turn to expensive, unhealthy alternatives which decrease purchasing power, damage health, & cause severe harm to the environment. Already on the market are numerous solar technologies to meet these clean energy needs. However, affordability is an issue - clients can’t purchases these devices outright and solar companies lack a viable financing model.

Coupling these solar technologies with digital finance, a new class of clean energy companies has emerged providing solutions on a rent-to-own or energy-as-a-service via a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) transaction model. James Dailey, former CTO and co-founder of MicroEnergy Credits will share his expert knowledge on PAYG and Clean Energy business models and steward a discussion on what the community is currently doing in the space. We're eager to get adoption and continued development of our PayGoSol module.

Conflux will present on a demonstrate the work they've been leading on agent banking solution in India.

Bitcoin, the Blockchaiin, Crypto-Currency, Distributed Ledger - if your head starts to spin at the mention of those terms, this session will help to educate you on these new protocols and systems that have the potential to completely change the shape of the global financial system. We'll explore specifically the disributed ledgers and open protocols and how these new technologies can have a huge impact on financial inclusion. We want to explore a money transfer solution built on these protocols and gauge the community's interest and readiness to adopt.