2022 Summit Talks

2022 Summit Talks

  • Benjamin Bellamy

    Podcasters, unlock your true creative potential with Web Monetization

    - 20min

    Podcasting is booming all over the world, but only a minority of podcasts are monetized. Podcasters who want to make money are facing a cruel dilemma: - Draw away their audience by erecting a paywall. - Expose themselves to censorship by partnering with brands or closed distribution platforms. Thanks to decentralized protocols, Interledger and Web Monetization allow podcasters to sell cont…

  • David Benoit

    Get Paid. For Real. Right Now.

    - 20min

    We're connecting ILP to your bank account, and more. This talk will expose the details of our project, and how we're connecting to ILP. We will talk about how ILP enables instant payments anywhere, which is almost unknown in the payments industry.

  • Arunjay Katakam

    An Open Regulated Global Payment Inter-Network

    - 30min

    The infrastructure to achieve total interoperability already exists to a great extent but needs to be better harnessed. By creating an open regulated global payments inter-network, leveraging and cultivating existing infrastructure, any regulated service provider will be able to send money to anyone, anywhere in the inter-network, speeding up total interoper­ability, reducing the cost of transacti…

  • Michael Richards

    Making Digital Payments Affordable and Simple for Everyone, Everywhere

    - 45min

    While mobile money services exist in nearly 100 countries, 1.4 billion people still lack access to digital financial services, despite most owning a mobile phone, according to the World Bank's Global Findex. By providing a model for how to simplify and reduce the cost of designing interoperability between individual payment services, countries working with the banks, and mobile money and digi…

  • Erin Brown

    The 5Ps of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

    - 30min

    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a hot topic across multiple industries and sectors, especially since the untimely death of George Floyd in 2020. While strategies, tools, and techniques to drive development of inclusive financial systems is the focus of the Interledger Summit, is that goal possible without a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion by actors in the financial incl…

  • Jake Kendall

    DFS Lab work in Sub-Saharan Africa

    - 30min

    Research Share-out

  • Adrian Hope-Bailie

    Payment pointers - the universal payment instrument

    - 30min

    An overview of payment pointers and open payments and how these will create an open and inclusive application layer on the Internet of Value

  • Ayden Férdeline

    Can web monetization protocols bring about a fairer digital future?

    - 40min

    Our current, advertiser-supported Internet is broken. The business models underpinning data brokers, tracking, and programmatic advertising are predatory, and the tiny percentage of revenue that flows back to content creators often makes their work unsustainable. New technologies, like open payment networks that support micropayments and drip-style donations, are fostering more equitable alternati…

  • Roberto Valdovinos

    Central Bank RTGS and ILP implementation: Mexico's SPEI and the People's Clearinghouse

    - 60min

    SPEI is the RTGS platform of the Central Bank of Mexico, currently serving most financial entities in the country, either directly or through intermediary entities. In this group, we will introduce and discuss the structure of a SPEI-oriented Clearinghouse, based on our development of the People's Clearinghouse, which is meant to serve as an intermediary access point to SPEI for indirect part…

  • Néstor Campos

    The value of Interledger Protocol in Latin America now and in the future

    - 20min

    This session is to share how Latin America has evolved in terms of financial access, but how this has not yet reduced the gap with people with less financial access, and at what point the Interledger Protocol can be the support to provide greater and equitable opportunities for all in the region.

  • Andrew Mangle

    Including GenZ in Digital Affairs: Bowie State University Share-Out

    - 60min

    Banking the unbanked population through digitized financial inclusion may bring positive change in the lives of underprivileged populations and economies globally. What better way to prepare for such change than engaging future change makers, thought leaders and activists to be informed and equipped with the knowledge to enable a more equitable digital financial ecosystem? Bowie State Universi…

  • Nic Wistreich

    Revenue Sharing Language (RSL): a human and machine-readable syntax for profit-sharing and royalties

    - 30min

    Revenue Sharing Language (RSL) is a human and machine readable language for describing complex multiple-step revenue-sharing agreements between multiple parties in an open and interoperable way. RSL agreements are Ricardian contracts – a human and machine readable document – unlike a smart contract, which is only readable by software and developers. Created with Interledger Foundation funding as p…