Mobile Money Africa

Benjamin Pius

Share with Africans the vision of BSPMEDIA?

Our vision is to provide unparalleled access to critical business information that business executives across Africa need to achieve competitive advantage in their business.

How are your events impacting on the sector in Africa?

We believe that we are in the business of helping business and organisation grow in their respective markets.

With our wide-ranging programmes – delivered through our executive business meetings, summits, conferences and seminars – our customers gain access to the tools that will enable them make strategic business decision for their organizations. These decisions then impact their organization’s bottom-line in a strong and positive manner.

Educate us more on the upcoming events in West Africa?

We are very excited about our forthcoming events in West Africa. More importantly, during next month (February 2010) we will be hosting our 3rd “Mobile Payments and Mobile Summit” from the 24th – 26th February 2010 at the Southern Sun Hotel in in Lagos.

One of our flagship events, this summit has been designed to showcase success stories of local, regional and international m-Payments and m-Commerce projects, providing participants with fresh and innovative ideas that will enable them achieve sustainable success with their mobile commerce and mobile payments services.

Are we expecting same value compared to events in Europe / North America focusing on Banking the unbanked Africa?

The quality of our events and programmes speaks for itself. Judging by the reviews and feedback we got from participants at our previous events such as the ones in Johannesburg and Nairobi, I can tell you that the upcoming Lagos event, being a highly focused summit, will deliver superior quality and value in terms of networking opportunities and access to illuminating knowledge.

A brief on expected speakers?

We have secured some very important, high profile speakers to deliver key presentations. The important feature of this summit’s speaker panel is the industry spread that they cover. I mean, we have top level speakers from the Telecoms, Banking and Regulatory sectors of the African mobile money industry. In addition to the industry depth, we’ve also ensured that we drew key speakers from across the entire continent, from North to South and East to West Africa.

This a West African event and why your choice of Nigeria?

Nigeria is a major, major market for the industries that we serve. Following on from our mobile money events in Johannesburg and Nairobi, there had been clarion calls by our partners to come to Lagos, Nigeria for our West African leg of the summit. And I must tell you, we are surely delighted that we are hosting the event in Nigeria. The interest has been outstanding!

What should delegates expect?

Delegates would expect a high profile summit, deliver to the highest standard where their fellow delegates are top-level management executives. For Mobile Banking and Mobile Commerce executives, this is the event to be at.

Benjamin Pius
Director – Directors BSP Media,UK

African Mobile VAS Summit
22 – 24 February 2010
Central Lagos, Nigeria
www.bspmediagroup.com/AMVS_WA2010

Mobile Payments and Mobile Commerce Summit
24 – 26 February 2010
Central Lagos, Nigeria
www.bspmediagroup.com/events/MPMCS_WA2010