2024 Summit Sessions

2024 Summit Sessions

  • Mardiya Siba Yahaya

    Getting the Money to Public Interest Technologists Building A Feminist Internet

    - 45min

    This is an interactive session that brings together technologists, and digital rights defenders to map out contextual accessible financial service challenges while identifying possible inclusive technology solutions to advance financial access within the technology and human rights space. A significant aspect of Team Community’s work with digital rights defenders includes providing equity supp…

  • Maria Gorrettie Namuddu

    Empowering Women: Bridging the Gender Gap in Digital Financial Inclusion

    - 30min

    The importance of gender-sensitive approaches in promoting digital financial inclusion. It will highlight the unique barriers faced by women in accessing financial services and explore strategies for empowering women economically through innovative digital solutions.

  • Dre Ngare

    Building Trust and Advancing Open Payments in Africa’s Regulatory Ecosystem

    - 45min

    Fostering Trust and Advancing Open Payments in Africa's Regulatory Ecosystem panel explores strategies for fostering trust and advancing open payments within Africa’s FinTech ecosystem. Our focus will be on shaping inclusive financial compliance frameworks that can bridge gaps and facilitate broader participation in the global financial system.

  • Pourya Omidi

    Trust-based banking technical session

    - 45min

    Undocumented people are excluded from many governmental services and cannot open a bank account in the Netherlands. This exclusion becomes more severe each day, as it is nearly impossible to survive with only cash. Shops and services in the city are rapidly moving towards accepting only card payments. We have now been granted funding from Interledger, together our partner Here to Support, and wit…

  • Nicolo Zingales

    Competition and financial inclusion: competing or complementing goals in DPI & interoperability

    - 45min

    Interoperability in the payments ecosystem and the implementation of a digital public infrastructure (DPI) for digital payments have the potential of fostering two separate goals: market competition and financial inclusion. Nevertheless, depending on the authority advancing each measure and the legal mandate it has been entrusted with, those objectives could be regarded as competing (one is consid…

  • Philip Green

    Empowering Emerging Economies: Mojaloop's Role in Inclusive Financial Access

    - 30min

    Imagine a world where microledgers empower the 1.4 billion underserved in emerging economies to gain access to financial services, and a payment hub facilitates lower-cost instant fund transfers across nations' participating banks. This presentation will unveil how Mojaloop is turning this vision into reality, revolutionizing the accessibility of financial services in emerging economies. With…

  • Uchi Uchibeke

    Introducing Chimoney App: The Interledger App bridging Canada and Africa

    - 30min

    This talk introduces the Chimoney App with features like Interledger Payment Pointer Creation, Funding, transfers to other Payment Pointers, and Web Monetization Support. Attendees will have an opportunity to see the App in action and create their own Payment Pointers. The talk will conclude with instructions on how to create a Chimoney Payment Pointer via API

  • Malou Lintmeijer

    Financial Inclusion for Undocumented Communities: From Strategies to Practices

    - 45min

    Undocumented communities such as refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants often face significant barriers to accessing digital financial services involuntarily, despite affordable and accessible digital financial services being crucial for their economic integration and empowerment. In order to gain some successful solutions against this exclusion, we needed to build a strong coalition of different …

  • Sabine Schaller

    Codius Fireside Chat

    - 45min

    Join us for a panel discussion about Codius and Interledger - the namesakes of Coil that remain interconnected. Coil’s latest approach to Codius takes learnings from previous iterations that were constrained by limitations of ILP at the time.

  • Tadej Golobic

    The Future of Payments in Your Pocket

    - 30min

    Developed as a joint venture between GateHub and the Interledger Foundation, this card integrates a real payment pointer and links directly to your wallet, unlocking new possibilities for transactions, interoperability, and global financial access. Learn how this innovative piece of memorabilia is not just a symbol but a functional tool for driving the future of payments.

  • Chris Lawrence

    Interledger Summit Closing Plenary

    - 30min