2024 Summit Talks

2024 Summit Talks

  • Maria Gorrettie Namuddu

    Empowering Women: Bridging the Gender Gap in Digital Financial Inclusion

    - 30min

    The importance of gender-sensitive approaches in promoting digital financial inclusion. It will highlight the unique barriers faced by women in accessing financial services and explore strategies for empowering women economically through innovative digital solutions.

  • Pourya Omidi

    Trust-based banking technical session

    - 45min

    Undocumented people are excluded from many governmental services and cannot open a bank account in the Netherlands. This exclusion becomes more severe each day, as it is nearly impossible to survive with only cash. Shops and services in the city are rapidly moving towards accepting only card payments. We have now been granted funding from Interledger, together our partner Here to Support, and wit…

  • Nicolo Zingales

    Competition and financial inclusion: competing or complementing goals in DPI & interoperability

    - 45min

    Interoperability in the payments ecosystem and the implementation of a digital public infrastructure (DPI) for digital payments have the potential of fostering two separate goals: market competition and financial inclusion. Nevertheless, depending on the authority advancing each measure and the legal mandate it has been entrusted with, those objectives could be regarded as competing (one is consid…

  • Tadej Golobic

    Future of Finance: GateHub's Adoption of Rafiki for Enhancing Open Payments

    - 30min

    Deep dive into how GateHub is pioneering the future of finance by integrating Rafiki with the Open Payments system. This session will cover the transformative potential of combining these cutting-edge technologies to create a seamless, efficient, and universally accessible payment network.

  • Uchi Uchibeke

    Introducing Chimoney App: The Interledger App bridging Canada and Africa

    - 30min

    This talk introduces the Chimoney App with features like Interledger Payment Pointer Creation, Funding, transfers to other Payment Pointers, and Web Monetization Support. Attendees will have an opportunity to see the App in action and create their own Payment Pointers. The talk will conclude with instructions on how to create a Chimoney Payment Pointer via API

  • Malou Lintmeijer

    Financial Inclusion for Undocumented Communities: From Strategies to Practices

    - 45min

    Undocumented communities such as refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants often face significant barriers to accessing digital financial services involuntarily, despite affordable and accessible digital financial services being crucial for their economic integration and empowerment. In order to gain some successful solutions against this exclusion, we needed to build a strong coalition of different …

  • Philip Green

    Empowering Emerging Economies: Mojaloop's Role in Inclusive Financial Access

    - 35min

    Imagine a world where microledgers empower the 1.4 billion underserved in emerging economies to gain access to financial services, and a payment hub facilitates lower-cost instant fund transfers across nations' participating banks. This presentation will unveil how Mojaloop is turning this vision into reality, revolutionizing the accessibility of financial services in emerging economies. With…

  • Chris Lawrence

    Interledger Summit Closing Plenary

    - 30min