By now, you should know that on June 1-2 2011, Innotribe will host its first standalone event in Mumbai.
Innotribe Mumbai – Mobile payments: Connecting the unbanked will focus on the opportunities that high mobile penetration presents to take banking services to the historically ‘unbanked’ communities – and explore the ways in which mobile technologies are being used today and can be exploited in the future to enable greater financial inclusion.
Yesterday, we pumped out our first world-wide press-release and we updated the event site with the latest and greatest speakers confirmed. You can also follow latest additions to the program via the Innotribe twitter.
Today, I would like to share some insights in the interactive sessions, the so called “Innotribe Labs”, famous from Innotribe at Sibos.
We have three Innotribe Labs:
- On at the end of day-1 on banked-unbanked
- Two in the afternoon of day-2: one called “The Mixer” and one called “Mobile Arena”
Innotribe Labs are highly interactive workshops, very well pre-designed and executed by our innovation team under the facilitation leadership of Mariela Atanassova. Whereas the Labs are still under design – trying to leverage the speakers and experts that have committed for these Labs – I can already give you a flavor of what’s going to happen on 1-2 June 2011.
1 June 2011 – 15:30 -17:00 Innotribe Lab “Banked – Unbanked
- If we can pull it off logistically, we plan to take those interested by bus to the slumps, 2 miles away from the luxury hotel where we hold Innotribe Mumbai. Our plan B is to use video material. It seemed to us that only if you have seen the slumps, you can have a discussion about banked – unbanked.
- Nokia will set up a live environment of one their latest project with UBI targeting more than 30,000 villages in rural India. You will be able to experience hands-on what banking the unbanked using cheap mobile device means.
- That will be followed by a Lab immersive experience, designed by Innotribe Facilitation Studios.
2 June 2011 – 13:30 – 15:00 Innotribe Lab “The Mixer”
- We have the ambition to create “serendipity” or (un)planned encounters. We want to “mix” local and international entrepreneurs in the mobile space and exchange experiences. What works, what not ? What can we learn from each other ? Where does the investment money go ?
- We are proud to collaborate with Ashoka. Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, they have elected over 2,500 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in 70 countries.
- I have seen the pre-selection of Ashoka Fellows that we’ll have the pleasure to welcome in Mumbai. This will be an awesome experience
2 June 2011 – 15:30 – 17:00 Innotribe Lab “Mobile Arena”
- We will indeed ask all participants to sit in a big circle, forming a real “arena” discussing mobile payments.
- The circle will be segmented in different groups representing banks, unbanked, telcos, platform providers, etc, etc
- Each segment or slice will be represented by a pre-assigned spokesman.
- The spokesmen will fight in the middle of the arena, in the “snake pit” in the middle of the arena.
- The ambition of this session is to come to some recommendation on how to create synergies in this space, to avoid that all parties try to re-invent the wheel, and to see if SWIFT Innotribe can play a role in enabling collaborative innovation.
You got it: Innotribe Mumbai will be a unique experience. Combining an impressive set of speakers with our proven interactive Innotribe Lab format.
As somebody said after our Innotribe Lab at SOFA begin March 2011: “I will never look to SWIFT in the same way, you guys are much more that a network, a BIC code and standards. You are a true innovation community”.
Oh yes, there is one more thing: I have 5 free passes for this event. Send me an e-mail (peter dot vanderauwera at swift dot com) if you want one. They will be given on a first in first out basis. So, you have to be fast !
See you in Mumbai on 1-2 June 2011. May the Innotribe vibe be with you.
Cross-posted as well on the swiftcommunity.net blog at the innotribe twitter account
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