Event Schedule 2

Meet The Visionaries: Spotlight On our Esteemed Speakers

Event Schedule

Day 2: Wednesday October 8

Keynote Address
10:00
The Role of Smart Regulation in Positioning Africa’s Fintech Ecosystem to Accelerate Inclusive Growth
Keynote & Panel Discussion
10:20
Shaping the Future of Africa’s Digital Workforce
  1. Talent development
  2. Talent retention
  3. Economic impact
Masterclasses
11:15
Remote Work and Hybrid Models: Adapting Talent Management in the African Context (Employers’ Forum)
Enhancing Your Digital Skills for a Competitive Edge (Employees’ Forum)
Keynote
12:05
DeRemi Atanda , MD Remita
Sponsor’s address
12:15
Jimoh Ehi Okoh, Solutions Architect, Huawei
Product Pitch
12:25
Wayne Eyong, Head of Billers, PalmPay
Keynote Presentation
12:30
Ugochukwu Onwuta, Senior Product Manager at Aza Finance
Keynote address & Panel Discussion
12:45
Safeguarding the Funding Pipeline for Fintechs in Africa
  1. Current investment and funding landscape and trends
  2. Key constraints
  3. Strategies for attracting and maintaining investment
13:45
Lunch Break
14:15
Product Pitches/AI Demos/Exhibitors’ Call Time
  1. Smerp Go (by Oghenefego Ogbegwa, Product Manager, Smerp Go)

  2. Connectivity as an enabler to accelerate Inclusive growth within the Fintech Ecosystem (by Yinka Falola, Divisional CEO, ipNX Business)

  3. Unified Payments (James Onu Agada,Group Head, Payment Gateway)

  4. SDM (Atinuke Ola-lafe, Managing Director, SDM Communications Limited)
Keynote Presentation
14:40
Mike Odusami, President, Maxut Consulting
Panel Session
15:00
Dealing with Fraud and Cyber-Attacks; Barriers to an Expanding Digital Economy
  1. Emerging fraud and cybercrime trends
  2. The impact of fraud and cybercrime on specific sectors of the African economy
  3. The role of international cooperation in combating cybercrime.
  4. The importance of data privacy regulations in the digital age.

Day 3: Thursday, October 9

Keynote Address and Panel Discussion
10:00
Global AI Regulation: the Role of Africa and the Global South
  1. Global AI regulatory landscape
  2. Challenges, trends and future prospects
Sponsor’s Address
11:15
Branka Mracajac, CEO, 9PSB
Product Pitches / Exhibitors’ Call Time
11:35
  1. Moving Forward with a Platform Orchestration Strategy (Ifeoluwa Adekunle-Yusuf, Vice President, Product and Engineering, Zest Payments Limited.)

  2. Review of major compliance obligations for fintech companies under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (Olumide Osundolire, Partner, Banwo & Ighodalo (Akeem Salam, Group Head, Business Development and Strategy, 9PSB)

  3. Payment solutions for the future (Fego Okiomah, Country Manager, Newland Payments)
FCDO Roundtable
12:00
Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Finance: Balancing Innovation and Security
Panel Session
12:15
Gen AI Applications for Education and Health in Africa
12:55
Keynote presentation by Huawei
13:10
Inauguration of FintechNGR 2024-2026 Council
13:25
Lunch Break
Presentation and Demos
14:00
  1. What we know about Gen AI as of today- the use cases in financial services in Africa  (Nimide Falasinu, Vice President, Client Experience, Zest Payments Limited)
  2. Product pitch by ULAW (Adaobi Omosefe Uzo, Associate, Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie)
Panel Session:
14:10
Leveraging Biometric Technology for Enhanced KYC and Fraud Prevention in Africa
  1. Biometric technology Use cases and challenges
  2. Biometrics/KYC and data privacy
  3. The Future of Biometric Technology in Africa
18:00
NFW24 Closing Gala & Council Dinner powered by Qucoon