Digital Finance Africa 2022 September 22nd, 2022

From redefining the digital customer experience to taking a mobile-first view, IT News Africa’s Digital Finance Africa Summit seeks to supercharge your strategy by bringing together African financial services leaders and technology players to discuss the key factors that the industry must keep on the front burner as they embark on the journey to digitization. The summit will also delve into how financial institutions can harness new technologies such as Ai, IoT, Big Data, Blockchain, and Cloud Computing, to compete with challenger banks, serve their customers better, improve efficiency and increase profitability– in spite of the current crises.

Top 10 speakers:

• Peter Neubauer - Founder & Chief Executive Officer at VIPASO
• Abe Wakama - CEO at IT News Africa
• Fionah Umulisa - Country Manager of Farmcrowdy-Rwanda
• Moira Patience CAIB (SA), Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at The Institute of Bankers in South Africa
• John Kane - Chief Innovation Officer at Tyme Bank
• Friedrich Rappard - CIO and Head of IT, Data and Analytics and Project management at Momentum Investments
• Justin Arnoldi - Managing Director, Middle East and Africa at Kasitso
• Dr Nkosi Kumalo - Managing Executive of EXA Business Unit for BCX
• Musa Kalenga - Chief Future Officer at Brave Group
• Dietmar Bohmer - Chief Analytics Officer at Tyme Bank

Agenda:

Day 1:

• 11:00 Host welcome
• 11:02 IT News Africa Address
• 11:05 Accelarating Digital Transformation in Financial Services: The democratization of data and devies
• 11:20 Disruption in Financial Services through emergence of a super platform
• 11:40 The Future of Financial Services in Africa
• 12:00 Panel Discussion (sponsored by Kasito): Digital transformation in the Fintech Industry
• 12:30 Scalling-up, the next frontier for the Fintech innovation organizations
• 12:45 Transforming customer experience and onbording in the disrupted banking landscape
• 13:00 Modernization of Legacy Systems in Financial Services
• 13:30 Virtual exhibition booth walk about
• 13:45 Why a (fin) tech first approch is critical to helping SMEs overcome their most common financial barriers - enabling them to drive economic and social growth
• 14:00 Can microinsurance close Africa's insurance gap
  
• 14:15 Beyond COVID-19: New opportunities for Banks and Fintech Companies
• 14:30 Afternoon closing keynote: The platformization of financial services .
• 14:45 Customer experience and the customer acquisition of communities that are less connected to internet
• 15:00 Event thanks and close

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