MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) APAC Conference & Expo, December 8-9, 2009, Manila, Philippines, Sponsored by Obopay

Event Name: Mobile Money Transfer (MMT) APAC Conference & Expo, December 8-9, 2009, Manila, Philippines

Date: December 8-9, 2009
Type: Conference
Location: Manila, Philippines

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Summary of Event: The MMT APAC (Asia Pacific) brings together the regional industry visionaries behind the most innovative projects through-out Asia Pacific to outline exactly how to make mobile money program a success.

Some of the confirm keynote presenters include Rizza Maniego-Eala ( G- Xchange, Inc.), Bin Zhang (Union Mobile Pay), Jojo Malolos (SMART Communications), Kevin Henry (Celcom), Glen Benidy (WING) and Abhishek Sinha (EKO). Pre-conference Mobile Money Academy sessions will help participants take part in role plays and business planning exercises to gain actionable, practical advice from the experts who have implemented successful commercial mobile money launches. The event will include less formal presentations, more roundtables, CEO Q&A sessions, workshops and technology shootout – a rapid fire aid to MMT partner selection.

According to MMT APAC, the Asia Pacific region will see the biggest take up of mobile payments-reaching 3.8 percent of all mobile users by 2012. The World Bank estimates that USD 118.4bn of remittances will flow into East Asia and the Pacific in 2008. The Philippines offers some of the more accommodating regulatory environments for Mobile Money, seeing the potential for MMT to facilitate lower cost, lower value, higher frequency remittances which can have a positive impact on the GDP. Mobile connections in Asia/Pacific will record a 10.2 percent compound annual growth rate for the period 2009 to 2013, led by India, China and Indonesia. Service revenue in Asia/Pacific will show a 4.2 percent CAGR over the same period.

Pricing Information
Packages:
Gold Pass: All Four Days – Conference + pre- & post-event academy courses, 7-10 December
Silver Pass A: Conference + pre-event academy course, 7-9 December
Silver Pass B: Conference + post-event academy course, 8-10 December
Bronze Pass: Conference only, 8-9 December

Prices:
SAVE $200: Book by 2 October 2009
Gold Pass: All Four Days – Conference + pre- & post-event academy courses, 7-10 December $2,799
Silver Pass A: Conference + pre-event academy course, 7-9 December $2,199
Silver Pass B: Conference + post-event academy course, 8-10 December $2,199
Bronze Pass: Conference only, 8-9 December $1,599

SAVE $100: Book by 30 October 2009
Gold Pass: All Four Days – Conference + pre- & post-event academy courses, 7-10 December $3,099
Silver Pass A: Conference + pre-event academy course, 7-9 December $2,299
Silver Pass B: Conference + post-event academy course, 8-10 December $2,499
Bronze Pass: Conference only, 8-9 December $1,699

Book from 31 October 2009
Gold Pass: All Four Days – Conference + pre- & post-event academy courses, 7-10 December $3,199
Silver Pass A: Conference + pre-event academy course, 7-9 December $2,399
Silver Pass B: Conference + post-event academy course, 8-10 December $2,599
Bronze Pass: Conference only, 8-9 December $1,799

Keynote speakers
• Napoleon L. Nazareno. President and CEO, Smart Communications, Inc.
• Ernest L. CU, President & CEO, Globe Telecom, Inc.
• Jojo M Malolos, Group Head, Financial Services, Wireless Consumer Division, Smart Communications, Inc.
• Rizza Maniego-Eala, President, G-Xchange
• Matt Dill, Head of Digital Ventures, Western Union
• Kevin Henry, VP, Business Innovation, Celcom
• Glenn Benidy, Sales & Marketing Manger, WING Cambodia
• Arief Gunawan, Senior Officer, Telkom Indonesia
• Bin Zhang, General Manager, Union Mobile Pay
• Thivanka Rangala, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dialog Telekom
• Matthew Teo, Project Manager, StarHub
• Alastair Campbell, Chief Strategy Officer, SingTel
• Claire Featherstone, Head of M-Commerce, Maxis
• Vickneswaran Balasubranium, Senior Associate, DiGi Communications
• Melissa Henson, Head of e-business, Citi
• Nestor Espenilla, Deputy Governor, BSP
• Pakk Yourng, IT Manager, Angkor Microfinance
• John Owens, Chief of Party, MABS / USAID
• Janine Firpo, EAP, Mobile Banking Consultant, IFC
• Aleeda Fazal, Paradigm Solutions & Consulting, Formerly Project Manager, M-Pesa & M-Paisa
• Reyhan, Head of Product Development – mWallet, Telkomsel
• Ichwansyah Putra, Head of Mobile Commerce, Indosat
• Francis Ganzon, President, Bangko Kabayan
• Eduardo Jimenez, Regional Associate, Alliance Financial Inclusion
• Graham A.N. Wright, Programme Director, MicroSave
• Kazi Islam, CEO, Grameen Solutions
• Abhishek Sinha, Co-founder & CEO, EKO
• Lance Blockley, Managing Director, Edgar Dunn & Co.
• Aiaze Mitha, Director, Amarante Consulting and Formerly Product Director, M-Paisa
• Menekse Gencer, Director, mPay Connect Inc.
• Carol Realini, CEO, Obopay
• Naushad Contractor, Head- Marketing Mobile Commerce, Vodafone Essar
• Joseph Omar Andaya, President, Green Bank
• Tomas Gomez IV, President, GM Bank
• Charles Hotchkiss, Chairman, Executive Committee, Cantilan Bank
• Robert Alingog, President, PR Bank
• Deepak Varghese, Head of Global Remittances, ICICI Bank
• Jodie De La Cruz, Vice President, Bank of Philippine Islands
• Matthew Talbot, Vice President, mCommerce, Sybase 365
• Jeremy Cleaver, Private Sector Development Specialist, Asian Development Bank
• Chris Beshouri, Managing Principal, McKinsey & Co.
• Blums Pineda, Managing Director, Exicon

Who should attend? Anyone

Background on the Sponsor: Obopay is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA and has several strategic investing partners like Qualcomm, Citi, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Management, Essar. Obopay is bringing mobile payments to consumers through several industry-first alliances. Obopay’s carrier partners in the US include Verizon, AT&T, BlackBerry, Cellular South and Helio and it has alliances with major carriers in India as well.

Obopay has a tie up with MasterCard to deliver fully-integrated on-demand person-to-person mobile payment service in the United States. The service, offered via MasterCard MoneySend, will give all new and existing MasterCard issuing customers the ability to provide an innovative mobile payments service to their MasterCard cardholders on all credit, debit and prepaid MasterCard-branded products. Obopay has also tied up with Citi in the US to pilot an innovative, real-time Person-to-Person mobile payments service. Known as the Citi-Obopay Mobile Person-to-Person service ,it will allow pilot participants to easily and securely send and receive money instantly via any mobile phone. Consumers will be able to remotely track and manage their mobile payment accounts by checking balances, viewing payment histories, and adding funds directly from their mobile phone. Funds received via the Citi-Obopay Mobile Person-to-Person service can also be accessed with a debit card provided with the service. Similar services with leading banks in India will be announced shortly.

Obopay announced recently an exclusive tie up with Grameen Solutions (the world pioneer of Microcredit) to launch The Grameen-Obopay Bank A Billion Initiative which will provide affordable financial services, including cross-border remittances, money transfer, payments, savings and credit accounts to the under-banked communities helping achieve critical financial inclusion.

Online registration: TBA. For additional information on the 2009 MMT APAC conference please visit http://www.mobile-money-transfer.com/apac/register/step1

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Event Type: Conference
Event Starts: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Event Ends: Wednesday, December 10, 2009
Location: MMT APAC will take place in Manila, Philippines. The event venue will be confirmed shortly and listed on this webpage.

Contact information:

Contact Person:
General enquiries:
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1831
mmtapac@clarionevents.com

Clarion’s involvement in MMT is led by Sonum Puri (Conference Producer) and Manoj Nardani (Commercial Director).

Sonum Puri, Conference Producer
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1846
sonum.puri@clarionevents.com

Steven Clarke, Event Director
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1832
steven.clarke@clarionevents.com

Manoj Nardani, Commercial Director
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1828
manoj.nardani@clarionevents.com

Angela Williams, Marketing Manager
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1830
angela.williams@clarionevents.com

Paul Hemmings, Marketing Executive
T +44 (0) 20 7067 1824
paul.hemmings@clarionevents.com

Clarion Conferences
1st Floor
86 Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8QQ

Event Type: Conference

Event Starts: December 8, 2009

Event Ends: December 10, 2009

Location: MMT APAC will take place in Manila, Philippines. The event venue will be confirmed shortly and listed on this webpage.

Organized By: Clarion Events Ltd

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