Two-day 2012 AITEC Conference scheduled for Accra on May 28

A two-day 2012 AITEC Banking and Mobile Money West Africa Conference is scheduled for Accra from May 28-29.

The conference has attracted participation by banking and payment technology experts from the world including the UK, Switzerland, USA, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Finland, Canada, Egypt, and Ghana.

A statement issued and copied to Ghana News Agency in Accra on Monday said over 50 speakers would be making presentations or leading workshops during the conference.

It is on the theme: “Banking Innovation For Financial Inclusion and Service Excellence”

Mr. Sean Moroney, Chairman of AITEC Africa, praised the commitment being shown by experts from around the world, by travelling to Accra to share their valuable knowledge and experience.

“I’m confident that this is going to be a bench-mark event for West Africa’s banking and payments industry. Particularly in Ghana, there is a new determination on the part of financial institutions to upgrade systems and adopt leading-edge technologies to deliver improved services to a broader customer base.

The breadth and depth of the briefings at this year’s conference will go a long way to helping achieve those objectives.”

The statement said six key focus areas during the conference were, financial integration for national and regional development; cloud computing for financial services; mobile money for financial inclusion; productivity tools to achieve service excellence; multi-channel service strategies; and risk management and data security strategies.

It said Silensec, a leading training and consultancy organisation working across Europe and Africa, would host two in-depth security training workshops at the conference.

These are; Ethical Hacking and Mobile Banking Security, to be delivered by George Nicolaou, who heads the Silensec Malware Analysis Laboratory.

Mr. Nicolaou is currently working on an advanced Exploitation Software Tool kit and is the lead author of Silensec Ethical Ninja Exploit Development and Protection Evasion training courses.

Temenos, the region’s leading payments switch supplier, will be hosting a breakfast briefing for bank CEOs on the second day of the conference.

Mr Phil Sorrell, Head of Global Mobile Banking at Temenos from the UK, will do a live demonstration on “Mobile financial services and the evolution of branchless banking”.

Senior bankers will be invited to participate and experience the leading-edge systems it has developed to integrate mobile payment services into mainstream banking systems.**