Digital Financial Services Workshop
We are excited to announce a FinTech Workshop to be colocated with the 2017 ICTD Conference in Lahore, Pakistan. Information Technology University and the University of Washington's Digital Financial Services Research Group will host the workshop.
Overcoming barriers to financial inclusion requires partnerships between researchers and industry specialists to determine technological solutions that can be translated and widely adopted. The goal of this workshop is to bring together members of the ICTD academic community with industry specialists of digital financial services to create opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing. The workshop will focus on bridging between the Pakistan FinTech community and ICTD researchers through round table discussions, working groups, and position papers. The workshop also intends to develop a research agenda to address technology challenges for adoption to Digital Financial Services in Pakistan and elsewhere.
Workshop Schedule
Meet innovators from the ICTD academic community and leaders from the financial and telecom industries. Share knowledge and advance the field. Develop future research plans and generate opportunities for technology development and transfer.
Day One full schedule
November 15, 2017
Welcome
Umar Saif
Vice Chancellor, Information Technology University, PakistanIntroduction
Richard Anderson
Professor, University of Washington, USAGroup Work – “Defining a Research Challenge”
Tea Break
Group Work – “How to Approach the Challenge? Methodology”
Lunch
Talk
Potential Dark Sides of Digital Money
Kentaro Toyama
University of Michigan, USATalk
Road to Financial Inclusion in a Digital World
Mudassar Aqil
CEO, FINCAGroup Work – “Designing a Solution”
Tea Break
Group Work – “Field Test, Scaling Up, Adoption, and Use”
Group Work – “Sharing Your Action Plan”
Closing Remarks
Lubna Razaq
Director Fintech Center, Information Technology University, PakistanDay Two full schedule
November 16, 2017
Welcome
Richard Anderson
Professor, University of Washington, USAPresentation of Findings from Day 1
Lubna Razaq (ITU), Jen Webster (UW) & Richard Anderson (UW)
Talk
War on Cash, Pakistani Style
Qasif Shahid
FINJAPanel Discussion on “Industry Perspectives in Pakistan”
Talk
Digitization of DFS in Pakistan
Yahya Khan
Telenor BankTea Break
Panel Discussion on “Gender and Financial Inclusion”
Talk
Improving Financial Inclusion with Big Data, Machine Learning, and Randomized Experiments
Joshua Blumenstock
University of California, BerkeleyClosing Remarks
Lubna Razaq
Director Fintech Center, Information Technology University, PakistanAlleviating poverty through financial inclusion
and innovative technologies
Speakers from around the world
Kentaro Toyama
University of Michigan, USAKentaro Toyama is Associate Professor of Community Information a
Joshua Blumenstock
UC BerkeleyJoshua Blumenstock is an Assistan
Qasif Shahid
FINJAQasif currently heads FINJA that he helped cofound. Finja is a Pa
Yahya Khan
Telenor BankYahya is the Chief Financial Inclusion and Chief Digital Officer