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Mobile Money World Conference 2009

NeoEdge — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:24:29 +0000

Mobile Money World Conference 2009 will be held on 29 to 30 July 2009 in New Delhi, India to discuss on strategies to develop the best business model and new business partnership in delivering mobile financial services to the mass market.

Singapore (July 07, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mobile Money World Conference 2009 will be held on 29 to 30 July 2009 in New Delhi, India. Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and 'interoperability hubs', handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers will share their latest efforts in launching mobile money transfer services and the key challenges facing them at this conference.

This conference is sponsored by Roamware, Paymate, Utiba and VeriSign.

Companies/organisations representing the Mobile Money Transfer Ecosystems will be speaking at this conference:

- Sudhir Gupta, Advisor (Mobile Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
- Hemant Kaul, Executive Director-Retail Banking, Axis Bank, India
- Frederic Schepens, EVP Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Brussels
- Pallab Mitra, Head, Commerce, Bharti Airtel, India
- Gowri T Mukherjee, Senior Vice President & Head eBusiness, Citibank, India
- Druvi Sirisena, Unit Manager-Mobile Commerce, Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka
- Alexander Boller, Head of Etisalat MMT Initiative, Etisalat, UAE
- Rashed Alabbar, Senior Manager / Product Marketing – eBusiness, Etisalat, UAE
- Richie Sison, Marketing Group Head of G-Xchange, Inc, Globe Telecom, Philippines
- Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, GrameenPhone, Bangladesh
- Srinivas Nidugondi, Internet & Mobile Banking, ICICI Bank, India
- Srinivas Gopal, General Manager-Marketing (Value Added Services), Idea Cellular, India
- Sanjay Swamy, CEO, mChek
- Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, India
- Pramod Parmar, Business Manager, Nepal Telecom, Nepal
- Probir Roy, Co-Founder & Director, Paymate, India
- Deep Basu, Senior Director of Marketing, Roamware Inc
- Zahir Khoja, Head of M-Paisa, Roshan, Afghanistan
- Lokesh Kumar Singh, Managing Partner, Sanchetna Financial Services, India
- Chandrashekhar Bhide, Head of Product Development, TimesofMoney, India
- Farhad Madan, AVP for Business Development, Utiba Pte Ltd
- Basavaraj Nagaraj, Senior Manager – Product Management, Messaging & Mobile Media division, VeriSign Inc.
- Louie Stojanovski, Director of Regional Operations, Asia Pacific, Messaging and Mobile Media Division, VeriSign, Inc
- Naushad Contractor, Senior Director, Vodafone Essar, India

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 28 July 2009 with the title "Security Issues in Mobile Money Transfer and Payment Services".

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Mobile Money World Conference 2009

NeoEdge — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:37:38 +0000

Singapore (June 03, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Mobile Money World Conference 2009 will be held on 29 to 30 July 2009 in New Delhi, India. Highly-regarded speakers representing the mobile operators, banks, mobile transfer networks, mWallets and 'interoperability hubs', handset manufacturers, technology and equipment providers will share their latest efforts in launching mobile money transfer services and the key challenges facing them at this conference.

Companies/organisations representing the Mobile Money Transfer Ecosystems will be speaking at this conference:

- Sudhir Gupta, Advisor (Mobile Network), Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
- Hemant Kaul, Executive Director-Retail Banking, Axis Bank, India
- Frederic Schepens, EVP Strategic Business Development, Belgacom ICS, Brussels
- Pallab Mitra, Head, Commerce, Bharti Airtel, India
- Senior Director, Citibank, India
- Thivanka Rangala, Group Chief Commercial Officer, Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka
- Alexander Boller, Head of Etisalat MMT Initiative, Etisalat, UAE
- Rashed Alabbar, Senior Manager / Product Marketing – eBusiness, Etisalat, UAE
- Richie Sison, Marketing Group Head of G-Xchange, Inc, Globe Telecom, Philippines
- Kazi Islam, Chief Executive Officer, Grameen Solutions, Bangladesh
- Delwar Hossain Azad, Head, Financial Services, GrameenPhone, Bangladesh
- Srinivas Nidugondi, B2 – Direct Banking; Mobile Banking, ICICI Bank, India
- Srinivas Gopal, General Manager-Marketing (Value Added Services), Idea Cellular, India
- Bharat Bhatia, Regional Director, India, SAARC and South East Asia, Motorola, India
- Zahir Khoja, Head of M-Paisa, Roshan, Afghanistan
- Lokesh Kumar Singh, Managing Partner, Sanchetna Financial Services, India
- Chandrashekhar Bhide, Head of Product Development, TimesofMoney, India
- Basavaraj Nagaraj, Senior Manager – Product Management, Messaging & Mobile Media division, VeriSign Inc.

There will be a pre-conference workshop on 28 July 2009 with the title "Security Issues in Mobile Money Transfer and Payment Services".

CONTACT INFORMATION

Sharon Lim, marketing manager
NeoEdge Pte Ltd
65-6557 9166
Email: Sharon.lim@neo-edge.com
http://www.neo-edge.com

Asia Society Announces 2009 Class of Asia 21 Fellows

Asia Society — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:44:32 +0000

21 Fellows Selected Representing 14 Countries

New York, United States (March 25, 2009) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — Asia Society today announced the names of the 2009 class of Fellows for its Asia 21 Young Leaders Initiative, the leading cross-sectoral leadership development program in the Asia-Pacific region. Established by the Asia Society with support from Founding International Sponsor Merrill Lynch, the Asia 21 Young Leaders program brings together the most dynamic emerging leaders under the age of forty from across the Asia-Pacific region to develop shared, innovative approaches to the region's greatest challenges.

"It is increasingly clear in today's rapidly changing world that cooperation between the people, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States will be critical to solving the world's greatest problems. To make this possible, we need new types of leaders from every country who can both understand the transnational nature of the challenges we face and work together to address them," said Asia Society Executive Vice President Jamie Metzl, who spearheads the program. "We are extremely proud to have selected such an impressive group of leaders for our 2009 Fellows class, who we hope, will be major catalysts in this process."

The Asia 21 initiative brings together Fellows from across the Asia-Pacific region representing a broad range of disciplines – business, politics, civil society, media, arts and culture, and academia – who participate in a series of meetings and conferences designed to generate creative, shared approaches to leadership and problem solving and develop collaborative public service projects. Fellows serve a two-year term and come together twice per year in different cities in Asia to address topics relating to environmental degradation, economic development, poverty eradication, universal education, conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS and public health crises, human rights, and other issues.

The first meeting of the 2009 class of Fellows will be held on March 29-April 1, 2009 in The Philippines.

The twenty-one young leaders chosen for this year's class of Asia 21 Fellows are:

Jumaatun Azmi (Malaysia)
Arnel Casanova (Philippines)
Steve Woo-Sung Chung (Korea)
Nitin Das (India)
Enkhchimeg Davaanyam (Mongolia)
Ming Fan (China)
Tamao Gunn (Japan)
Natalie Jorge (Philippines)
Gen Kanai (Japan)
Danny Levinson (USA)
Pardis Mahdavi (Iran)
Westley Watende Moore (USA)
Fawad Ahmad Muslim (Afghanistan)
Rashneh Pardiwala (India)
Truc Pham-Dinh (Vietnam)
Priti Radhakrishnan (USA)
Hendra Sutandinata (Indonesia)
Hsu-ming Teo (Australia)
Ting Hway Wong (Singapore)
Danwen Xing (China)
Keiko Yamamoto (Japan)

About Asia Society
Asia Society is the leading global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. We seek to enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture. Founded in 1956, Asia Society is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution with offices in Hong Kong, Houston, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Washington, DC. For more information, contact the Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021.

Best In Growth, Innovation And Leadership Recognised

China Newswire — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:23:01 +0000

2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards honour the best-in-class companies and individuals

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (October 29, 2008) /ChinaNewswire.com/ — The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards banquet recognised several world-class companies and individuals for successfully growing their corporations, continuously innovating products and processes and outstanding leadership skills that continue to drive excellence.

In its inaugural year in Asia, the Awards recognised eight exemplary organisations and individuals at the banquet officiated by Yang Berhormat Tuan Haji Fadillah Yusof, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia

The banquet was attended by C-level executives from the award receiving organisations and prominent figures in the Malaysian government, trade and banking and finance industry. Other senior-level attendees at the banquet include Telekom Malaysia, Time DotCom, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation, British High Commission, Siemens, Asia Finance Bank, RHB Investment Bank, Ericcson, Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) and Macquarie Telecom.

Speaking at the ceremony, Manoj Menon, partner and Asia Pacific managing director of Frost & Sullivan, said that the recipients have pushed the boundaries of excellence and raised the bar for the industry at large to remain competitive.

"With over four decades of mapping the industry progress in every major business-to business markets, Frost & Sullivan is pleased to recognise companies and individuals who have demonstrated qualities in decision-making and implementing strategies that has promoted widespread action in industry and across the globe, " Menon said.

Divided into three main categories – excellence in growth, excellence in innovation and excellence in leadership – the awards are a reflection of the current market landscape and are carefully examined to determine their relevance to the ever-evolving and competing market place.

The contenders were evaluated for all the categories through market participant interviews, extensive primary and secondary research. The short-listed nominees were further evaluated by an expert team of Frost & Sullivan analysts based on social impact of the business, profit margins, stock performance, market growth and penetration, market share and overall industry standing of the business.

Frost & Sullivan senior management team deliberated on the short listed nominees through subjective and expert criteria which included a 360-degree analysis before identifying the recipient.

Frost & Sullivan congratulates all the recipients of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence Awards

Category/Title Recipient
Excellence in Growth 1.Toll Holdings Private Limited, Australia
2.Tech Mahindra Limited, India
3.Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Company Limited. China
4.Noble Group Limited, Hong Kong
5.Nintendo Company Limited, USA
6.P. T. Bumi Resources Tbk.
7.Doosan Group, Korea
Excellence in Research and Innovation 1.Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan
Excellence in Innovation 1.Tata Motors Limited, India
2.HTC Corporation, Taiwan
3.Lalit Kumar Modi, Indian Premier League, India
Excellence in Leadership 1.B. Ramalinga Raju, Founder Chairman, Satyam Computer Services Limited, India
2.Dato' Sri Idris Jala, CEO, Malaysia Airlines, Malaysia
3.Karim Khoja, CEO, Roshan Telecom, Afghanistan
4.Duk-soo Kang, STX Business Group, Korea
5.Lalu Prasad Yadav, Union Railway Minister, Government of India, India

The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Growth Excellence banquet was held in conjunction with the 4th annual Growth, Innovation and Leadership Congress. Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Malaysia is the strategic partner for the congress and Awards banquet.
About Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, partners with clients to accelerate their growth. The company's TEAM Research, Growth Consulting and Growth Team Membership empower clients to create a growth-focused culture that generates, evaluates and implements effective growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan employs over 45 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 30 offices on six continents. For more information about Frost & Sullivan's Growth Partnerships, visit http://www.frost.com.

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Corporate Communications
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E: surbhi.dedhia@frost.com

Neethiya Sadagopal
Corporate Communications
P: +65.6890.0966
E: neethiya.sadagopal@frost.com

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