Many highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, m-Wallets and interoperability hubs, handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers will share their latest efforts in launching m-commerce services and the key challenges facing them at the M-Commerce World Summit on 17 and 18 March 2010 in Singapore.

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 16 March 2010 on ‘Mobile Marketing, Advertising and Commerce Workshop: Tools for Navigating the Industry Ecosystem - A Hands-On and In-Depth Study of Mobile Marketing Best Practices, Industry Ecosystem Structure, Players and Business Models’ to be led by: Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA and a post-conference workshop on ‘How to Build and Calculate A Successful Business Case for Mobile Banking?’ to be led by: Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand.

Companies speaking at this conference include:

• Mohamed A Kazi, Channel Head-Mobile Banking, Absa Bank, South Africa
• Paradorn Wichayapinyo, Marketing Manager, Advanced mPAY, Thailand
• Pascal De Meester, Asia Pacific Head of Business Development for Convergent Payment & Next Generation Intelligent Networks, Alcatel-Lucent
• Liz Maguire, General Manager Direct Channels, ANZ National Financial Group, New Zealand
• Nitin Chittal, Vice President, Retail Banking-Alternate Channels, Axis Bank, India
• Frédéric Schepens, Executive Vice President, Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Belgium
• Mohammad Jakirul Islam, Project Coordinator- mCommerce, Citycell, Bangladesh
• Paolo Montessori, VP Asia Pacific, Comviva, India
• Thivanka Rangala, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka
• Govind Setlur, CEO, enStage, inc., USA
• Paolo Baltao, G-Xchange, Inc.’s Product Group and International Remittance & Banking Business Development Head, Globe Telecom, Philippines
• Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, Grameenphone, Bangladesh
• Michael Becker, VP Mobile Strategies, iLoop Mobile, USA
• Silvester Prakasam, Director (Fare Systems), Land Transport Authority, Singapore
• Andrew Parker, Business Development Manager, M.Com, New Zealand
• Anthony Panal Petalcorin, Senior MIS Manager, Microenterprise Access to Banking Services / Regional Manager, Mindanao, Philippines
• Kate Zilla-Bâ, COO, Mondato, USA
• Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, India
• Chakaprani GK, Director – Emerging Markets, Nokia Financial Services, Nokia, India
• Louie Stojanovski, Director of APAC Operations, Messaging LOB, Syniverse Technologies, Inc., Australia
• Dan Armstrong, Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V., The Netherlands
• Arief Hamdani Gunawan, Senior Officer-Regulatory Management, Telkom Indonesia, Indonesia
• Lalit Sinha, Deputy General Manager, DIT, Union Bank of India, India
• Thor Hauge, Vice President, Digital Ventures, Western Union
• Anthony Perkins, Head of Technology, WING, Cambodia

Mr Govind Setlur, CEO of enStage Inc., will be speaking on Payment Infrastructure for the New Age of Consumer Payments – including the “Unbanked” & “Uncarded”, Mr Paolo Montessori, VP Asia Pacific of Comviva will be speaking on Evolution from Prepaid Solutions to Mobile Commerce and Pascal De Meester, Asia Pacific Head of Business Development for Convergent Payment & Next Generation Intelligent Networks of Alcatel-Lucent will be sharing a case study on Capitalizing on the Wave of Mobile Payments - A telco’s perspective.