The Mobile Financial Services Conference 2010 brings together a cadre of international experts with wide-ranging expertise and experience in the related areas of Mobile Banking / commerce & mobile wallet,  together with key stakeholders and practitioners from Jamaica's Banking and Telecommunications sectors, to elucidate a range of issues (regulatory, commercial and technical) with the shared vision of establishing the most effective approach for the delivery of mobile financial  services in Jamaica.

Speakers at the Conference include:

• The Hon. Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance & Public Service, Jamaica


• Mr. Carl Rosenquist, Strategic Business and IT Consultant with extensive expertise in international mobile phone payment systems

• Dr. J P Shim, Professor, Management & Information Systems, Mississippi State University
 
• Professor Hopeton Dunn, Director,Telecommunications Policy and Management Programme, Mona School of Business, UWI


• Dr Dawn Elliott, Department of Economics, Texas Christian University


• Ms Menekse Gencer, mPay Connect, Inc. (via teleconference)


• Ms Camille Busette, mPay Connect, Inc. (via teleconference)


• Mr. Hugo Daley, CEO of Transcel Limited


• Mr. Joshua Haynes, Development Technologist, DAI


• Mr. Edmundo Jenez, General Manager, J.E.T.S Ltd, operators of Jamaica's Multi-Link debit network


• Ms. Loretta Michaels, CGAP

The Conference is being organized and facilitated by the University of the West Indies, Mona, through the Mona School of Business (MSB) and Solutions for Society, a Think Tank in the Tropical Medicine Research Institute (TMRI), in association with USAID Jamaica, the Inter-American Development Bank,  the Development Bank of Jamaica and The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ).