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WEDNESDAY 22 MARCH

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a) These photos are from the Conference Welcome and

Plenary Panel 1

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b) These photos are from Plenary Panel 2

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c) These photos are from the Breakout Groups

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d) These photos are from the Press Conference

	Conference Welcome Chandula Abeywickrema, Chairman, BWTP Network Robert Morse, CEO, Corporate & Investment Banking, Citigroup Asia Pacific

	PLENARY PANEL 1
	New Business Partnership Models for Microfinance Outreach
Moderator:	Beris Gwynne, Executive Director, FDC
Speakers:	Renaud Meyer, Deputy Resident Representative, UNDP Partnerships for sustainable and large-scale microfinance: emerging trends Robert Peck Christen, President, The Boulder Institute of Microfinance Reaching the unserved masses: sharing experiences from South America Aloysius Fernandez, Executive Director, Myrada Up scaling rural credit: formal and informal linkages in India

	PLENARY PANEL 2
	New Business Partnership Models for Microfinance Outreach (cont’d)
Moderator:	Liu Wenpu, Professor and Director, Citigroup Microfinace Training Centre, Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Speakers:	Aftab Ahmed, Senior Manager of the Microfinance Group, IFC (World Bank) Promoting microfinance in emerging markets and microfinance development in China Maria Pagura, Rural Finance Officer, FAO Expanding the frontier of rural finance through linkages: case study findings Robert Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citigroup Commercial strategies for microfinance: the Citigroup experience

	DAY 1 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
GROUP A:	Increasing outreach and sustainability of microfinance through ICT
Moderator:	Stuart Mathison, Program Manager, FDC
Speakers:	Ali Ahmed, Chief Information Officer, First MicroFinanceBank, Pakistan Increasing Outreach & Sustainability of Microfinance Through ICT Peter Bladin, Grameen Technolgy Centre Microfinance MIS systems --- no more bottleneck Gabrielle Harris, Executive Director, PlaNetFinance, China John V. Owens, Chief of Party, Microenterprise Access to Banking Services, Philippines Rural Bank Mobile Phone Banking Applications for Microfinance Clients in the Philippines Catching the Technology Wave: Mobile Phone Banking and Text-a-Payment in the Philippines (Handout) RBAP Text-A-Payment & G-Cash Cash-in/Cash-out Services:Innovative Banking Services at Your Fingertips (Handout)

GROUP B:	Deepening outreach of financial services to the poorest
Moderator:	Sanjay Sinha, IMP-ACT Program Representative, United Kingdom
Speakers:	Md Abdul Awal, Director, CDF, Bangladesh Rolando Victoria, Executive Director, ASKI, Philippines Deepening outreach of Financial Services to the poor Murtaza Reza Chowdhury, Senior Regional Manager, BRAC, Bangladesh Edzel A. Ramos, Training Director, CARD-MRI Development Institute, Philippines

GROUP C:	Successful multi-stakeholder partnerships in microfinance
Moderator:	Paul Greener, Program Manager, FDC
Speakers:	Chandula Abeywickrema, Deputy General Manager, Hatton National Bank, Sri Lanka Stephen Rasmussen, Lead Specialist, The World Bank, Pakistan Rosalind Copisarow, Senior Vice President, ACCION International Manish Kumar, Manager - Knowledge for development (ICT), OneWorld, South Asia Sankar Datta, Co-founder, BASIX

GROUP D:	Innovative rural finance approaches to serve the poor A session organised by IFAD
Speakers:	Henri Dommel, Technical Advisor for Rural Finance, IFAD Strengthening rural finace institutions for poverty reduction. IFAD's experience in Asia Aloysius Fernandez, Rural Finance Consultant, IFAD Strenthening grassroots based rural finace systems in India Thomas Rath (Speaker), Country Program Manager, and Peter Situ, Rural Finace Consultant, IFAD Towards sustainable rural finance services for the fural poor. IFAD's partnership with China

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