Global Mifos Summit: Full Schedule

16:00 GMT+04

Speed Geeking - Coders Trust

CodersTrust provides microfinance for underprivileged talents to upgrade their coding skills, so they can earn more money on freelance portals. It is an initiative backed by the development fund Danida, or Danish International Development Agency, to provide microfinance for students in emerging nations who want to upgrade their programming skills. The hope of founder, Copenhagen-born entrepreneur Ferdinand Kjærulff, is that these students are empowered to sell their work internationally via freelance portals such as Odesk, Elance and Freelancer. The team is currently operating in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where it collaborates with Grameen Bank, which is renowned for its part in revolutionising the microfinance industry.

Speakers

Ferdinand Kjaerulff

CEO, CodersTrust

A visionary and business oriented entrepreneur, with a fine taste for success of start-ups and global projects, I am an enthusiastic leader, helping people to grow and invest in their development. Some of the key projects I have co-founded or managed before led my career to the... Read More →

Tuesday March 10, 2015 16:00 - 18:00 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Speed Geeking, Digital FI

08:30 GMT+04

Mifos X Technical Case Study: Conflux Technologies

Technical case study on Mifos X Deployment - Conflux will provide a detailed look at one of the implementations they've been conducting.

Speakers

Ashok Auty

Wednesday March 11, 2015 08:30 - 09:15 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Case Study, India | Technical, India

11:15 GMT+04

Exploring New Markets - Islamic Finance

Islamic Finance represents a new growth frontier for financial inclusion and a promising market for the Mifos community once we can fully support its various products and procedurs for Shariah compliance. Zayyad A. Said of Intrasoft Technologies Limited who is also an expert and a consultant on Islamic Finance will lead this exploratory session and interactive discussion to introduce Islamic Finance, how it differs from typical financial services, and the variours products and services to support. Through the discussion, we'll identify the considerations and requirements that must go into the Mifos X platform to help a financial institution offer Shariah-compliant financial services through the Mifos X platform. Partners and financial institutions that are both knowledgeable in this field or are looking to learn more should attend.

Speakers

Zayyad A. Said

An entrepreneur, ICT specialist, Islamic Finance Consultant & Practitioner and also a Strategic Management Consultant.

Wednesday March 11, 2015 11:15 - 12:30 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Brainstorming, Exploring New Markets

12:30 GMT+04

Mobile Financial Services

This session will explore the landscape of mobile financial services by looking at the various mobile money platforms and how we can integrate those into our platform, identifying and cultivating new products and services that can only be delivered via mobile money, and evolving the mobile wallet to become a sophisticated tool for financial inclusion.

Speakers

Kazeem Durodoye

Wednesday March 11, 2015 12:30 - 13:30 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Brainstorming, Digital FI

Subject Mobile

14:30 GMT+04

Technical Training: Hands on with API

This introductory technical session will help you get up and running with developing on the platform, community app and via the API. We'll get hands-on with the API so you can start seeing the full value of the open source Mifos X platform. Homework for this session: come ready with your development environment all set up!

Speakers

Vishwas Babu

Markus Geiss

Wednesday March 11, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Training, Technical

16:00 GMT+04

Afternoon Coffee & Tea

Wednesday March 11, 2015 16:00 - 16:15 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Meal General

16:15 GMT+04

Technical Training: CQRS in Mifos X

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) is a design pattern that simply notions the use of different models to read and write information. Applied to an Application it can leverage performance by scaling reads and writes independently. This session highlights the benefits of CQRS applied to a cloud-based Core Banking System to deliver financial services at a reasonable cost for all segments of the society. This will be a deeper dive into the platform architecture of Mifos X.

Speakers

Markus Geiss

Wednesday March 11, 2015 16:15 - 18:00 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Training, Technical

Company Developers
Audience Technical

08:30 GMT+04

Technical Training: Front-End Development

Now that you've gotten hands-on with the API, took a closer a look at the platform, you can explore how you can development on the front-end. This session will focus on AngularJS and the community app but will be useful for those looking to build on their own front-end of choice.

Speakers

Nayan Ambali

Gaurav Saini

Viithiisys Technologies

Open-source Enthusiastic, Apache OFBiz Consultant & Developer, Internet Marketing and JavaScript Full Stack developer with Node, Angular, Electron and Ionic. Currently researching on VOIP technologies, beacons stack and Material design. Google Summer of Code 2014 and Google Online... Read More →

Thursday March 12, 2015 08:30 - 09:45 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Training, Technical

11:15 GMT+04

New Era of Financial Inclusion in India

India seeks to usher in a new era of financial inclusion with its recent Jan Dhan Yojana initiative and regulations creating two new categories of financial institutions - small finance banks and payment banks. With these sweepng changes, India is making one of the most dramatics moves to ensure financial access for all. We'll have executives from leading financial institutions across India discuss this new initiative, what implications these new guidelines will have for the sector, how their respetive organizations are responding, what impact this will actually have, and how we as a community and platform can be a part of this gold rush of financial services in India.

Speakers

Amit Jain

Suresh Krishna

Prabhakar Rawat

Niranjan Sheelavant

If you are looking to money to make you powerful / younger / sexier / more vital / more interesting / better looking / whatever, you're going to be disappointed. Sorry, but money doesn't do any of that. Got downloaded on 15th August 1977 > Always wanted to be an entrepreneur >... Read More →

Thursday March 12, 2015 11:15 - 12:30 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Panel, India | Interactive Discussion, India

12:30 GMT+04

Access to Energy through Digital Finance

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.

Speakers

James Dailey

Thursday March 12, 2015 12:30 - 13:30 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Expert Session, Digital FI

14:30 GMT+04

Technical Training: Android Development

To finish off our technical training, we'll look at our Mifos X Android client and help you get introduced to its architecture and how you can extend this or build your own Android app.

Speakers

Ishan Khanna

Thursday March 12, 2015 14:30 - 16:00 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Training, Technical

16:00 GMT+04

Afternoon Coffee & Tea

Thursday March 12, 2015 16:00 - 16:15 GMT+04
Al Masa C

Meal General