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Talks on Digital Financial Services (DFS)

Speakers - Digital Financial Services (DFS)

Stephen Ibaraki, Social Entrepreneur and Futurist
With more than 100 executive roles, lifetime achievement awards and recognitions, a few of Stephen Ibaraki’s positions include: co-chair Practitioner Board Association for Computing Ma-chinery; founding chair Global Industry Council and vice-chair board IP3 International Federa-tion for Information Processing; top 5 blogger IDG-IT World World (Canada); founding manag-ing partner REDDS Venture Investment Partners; keynote at the International Conference on Software Engineering (Austin USA); founding chair Technology Advisory Council Financial Ser-vices Roundtable FinTech Ideas Festival (FSR: 91.7 trillion managed assets, 1.2 trillion annual revenue); invited board advisor within the IEEE divisions. He is also the founding fellow, past board chair and president government-chartered Canadian Infor-mation Processing Society.

Dr. Moez Chakchouk, Graduated in 1998 from Sup’Com engineering school. Moez received his M.S in telecommunications from ENIT Engineering School in 2001. In 2009, he achieved his Ph.D in applied mathematics and in telecommunications, from El Manar Univ Tunisia & Paris Descartes Univ. He started his career in 1998 as a research engineer member of PINA R&D CERT, the Tunisian Center for Research and Studies in Telecommunications. In 2002, he became the chief of RACINES R&D. He joined in 2005 the Tunisian Telecommunication Regulation Authority (INT) first as chief of their technical department, later he became the Head of Interconnection & Access. In March 2010, he was appointed as Adviser to the Minister of Communications Technology. In 2011, Moez was appointed Chairman and CEO of the ATI -Tunisian Internet Agency where he transformed it into a neutral IXP (internet exchange point), Registrar, ISP and launched the open innovation 404Labs. He was appointed Chairman & CEO of the Tunisian Post in April 2015. Moez is a fervent defender of online human rights, he participated in different forums and conferences and he selected as a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance — ourinternet.org.

Ronald Webb is a dedicated payments professional with more than 30 years' experience in payments technology in Africa as a technologist, senior executive, board member, entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor. Ronald is passionate about innovation where the developing world is leapfrogging legacy business models providing ever new opportunities, improving the lives of millions of people through digital financial services. Educated in Zimbabwe, Ronald is currently the Director of Financial Services for Safaricom tasked with leading M-PESA through its next phase of growth. Previously he was the inaugural Director of Payments for Equity Bank, a new directorate that the bank established to centralise payment activities.