Mobile Money opportunities in West Africa
More than 150 million West Africans own a mobile phone under an addressable population of 300 million making the technology available to more than half of the population in a region where access to formal financial services are still limited to the urban and semi urban areas whereas more than 60 percent of the productive adult population still reside in the rural areas.
The ubiquitous mobile phone offers a transformational experience for millions that are denied the opportunity of formal financial services, paying for goods and services from the comfort of the mobile phone, accessing remittance services, whenever and whenever.
The region continues to attract new investors, technologist and Banks that are positioning to gain a share of the market that the world Bank reported to account for over 40 billion USD in international remittances and yet, they cannot send money across the border seamlessly and effortless.
Rural dwellers are still travelling significant distances to have access to basic financial services while some still maintain centuries old habits of keeping cash at home or handing it over to the village savings man in an unsecure and inefficient manner.
Reaching the millions left behind.
Mobile money offers a new exciting channel to reach new market segments, offer new services and drive adoption in one of Africa’s most populated regions, West Africa.
The summit will showcase new technologies, drivers of mobile financial services, innovations that are taking Banking services from the brick and mortar to the ubiquitous mobile phones.
Join other leading experts on March 5th-6th March at the Prestigious Lagos Orientals Hotel, Victoria Island – Lagos, Nigeria to chart the directions in the emerging mobile financial ecosystem in West Africa.
Ms Galpin has over 25 years experience in the IT industry. Her introduction to mobile money came about when she joined the team at Sagentiaplc as the Development Manager, to develop and support the M-Pesa project shortly after its launch in Kenya. Her company, PAYG Solutions, uses mobile technologies to further improve cash flow and flow of money to promote GDP growth in other sectors such as agriculture and microfinance. 
David is a technology and financial services veteran. His career started with the launch of Wells Fargo’s first of a kind online banking service. From there, he moved into e-commerce tech with Intuit, Netscape and BroadVision. For the past three years, he’s been driving the product and marketing efforts for mFino, an innovative mobile financial services company based out of the Silicon Valley in California.
Subject matter expert in mobile money, egovernment and leading circuit speaker and consultant to universities, governments and international organizations across Asia and frica in the mobile financial and mobile government ecosystem.
Experienced in Mobile Money Transfer systems and services. Was part of the initial team that set-up M-PESA pilot and launch in Kenya and hence has gained in-depth knowledge in the agency network, system set-up, logistical support and training of a good Mobile Financial System. 
Killian spent 11 years working in banking in London initially in trading and risk management and subsequently as a management consultant servicing these areas. In 2008 he transferred his experience to the development sector, focusing on access to finance where he helped develop strategy and risk management techniques for different microfinance institutes. Since then his focus has been on the mobile money sector which he feels is the most convenient and cost effective way to deliver financial services to the world’s poor. Earlier in 2010 he set up Mobile Money Consulting and today he is engaged on a number of mobile money projects for clients in both the developing and developed world.
AYO OYEDEPO is an astute Business Development/Process & Business Excellence Advisor. He is an internationally Certified Quality Management System (ISO QMS) Lead Auditor and Europe trained/certified Customer Experience Management Practioner/Consultant by the Global Customer Experience Management Organisation (G-CEM). A graduate of a decade and a half from the prestigious University of Ibadan, Nigeria that has worked in different organizations, he has nearly 12 years of cognate experience in the financial services industry only in Nigeria. That spans across various business development functions having successfully started up/managed various sizes of projects, initiatives and branches in the various banks. With international postgraduate programme/certifications in the UK & Europe, he belongs to a number of international professional bodies. He is an International Keynote Speaker.
Dynamic, innovative, Information technology, mobility and mobile money entrepreneur. With more than 15 years of experience in international organizations. Excellent knowledge of mobile Value added service ecosystems with focus on Middle East & Africa. Passionate about business development and product management, with track record in the mobile payments domain.
Eugene Adogla is the Director of Operations at MicroEnsure Ghana. Prior to MicroEnsure, his experiences included consulting for a number of organizations across Africa on start-up and reorganization strategies, and helping launch the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. He attended and was graduated from Stanford and Oxford Universities (BA and MSc respectively).
Alan Goodrich, General Manager sub-Saharan Africa for Experian MicroAnalytics: In a career spanning over 25 years, Alan has worked for leading financial services organisations Kleinwort Benson and Prudential-Bache, and software vendors including; ERI, Misys, Temenos and Neptune, prior to joining Experian MicroAnalytics. Alan is a Fellow of the Institution of Analysts and Programmers (FIAP) and a former Securities & Futures Association (SFA) General Registered Representative authorised to give investment advice from 1989 to 1995. In particular, Alan has specialised in successfully launching new or repositioned products and services into new market segments.
Laura Shen is a member of the Global Mobile Solutions within Global Transaction Services (GTS). 
