2014-2015 Global Mifos Summit

Location: Grand Excelsior Hotel - Sharjah, UAE

Date: Mar 10 - 13, 2015

Session Agenda & Notes

Day 1 - March 10

• Keynote & Opening Remarks (transcript of keynote)

• Mifos Year in Review (slides)

• Morning Tea/Coffee & Introductions

• Mifos 5 Year Vision (slides)

• Mifos X Demo (notes)

• Increase your Mifos X Performance and Reduce your TCO with IBM Power Systems (slides | notes)

• Mifos X Business Case Study: Musoni Services ((notes)

• Speed Geeking

  • Coders Trust

  • Ensibuuko

  • Mifos X Android Client

  • Mifos X Messenger

  • Musoni System

  • SARAL

  • Digital Pen

Day 2 - March 11

•  Case Studies

  • Business Case Study: $ERO (notes 1 | notes 2 )

  • Technical Case Study: Mifos X Debian Package1 (notes)

  • Mifos X Technical Case Study: Conflux Technologies

• Creating an Microinsurance Open Source Initiative (notes)

• Innovations in Financial Inclusion Panel (notes)

• Group Photo

• Breakout Exploratory Sessions

  • Exploring New Markets - Cooperatives & Credit Unions

  • Exploring New Markets - Digital Payments

  • Exploring New Markets - Islamic Finance

• Training Session 1

  • FI Leadership Training: IT Strategy

  • Partner Training: Sales - Lessons Learned in the Field

  • Technical Training: Hands on with API

  • User Training: Getting Started with Mifos X (slides)

• Training Session 2

  • FI Leadership Training: Operational Best Practices

  • Partner Training: Hosting & Sys Admin/Data Migration

  • Technical Training: CQRS in Mifos X (slides)

  • User Training: Accounting

• Community Choice Awards Dinner

Day 3 - March 12

• Training Session 3

  • FI Leadership Training: Data and Analytics

  • Partner Training: Reports Development

  • Technical Training: Front-End Development

  • User Training: Loans (slides)

• Panels

  • Nurturing Growth: Technology Enablement for Rural and Agricultural Finance (notes)

  • Social Performance Management Panel: Measuring Meaningful Outcomes

• Exploratory Sessions:

  • Financial Inclusion in the Americas & Asias

  • Financial Inclusion in West Africa, Southern Africa, and MENA

  • Financial Inclusion Trends in East Africa

  • New Era of Financial Inclusion in India

• Exploratory Sessions

  • Access to Energy through Digital Finance

  • Conflux Case Study & Demo of Agent Banking Solution 

  • Crypto-Currency & the Blockchain: What it Means for Financial Inclusion (slides)

• Training Session 4

  • FI Leadership Training: Responsible Product Design

  • Partner Training: Code Configurations

  • Technical Training: Android Development User Training: Deposit Products

• Closing Keynote (Video)

• Summit Wrapup

Day 4 - March 13

 Developer Sprint