11:55 – 12:50 hrs Panel Discussion 1: Challenges for financial inclusion

* Identifying and Expanding product portfolio of relevant financial services (Micro-Credit, Remittance, Micro-Payments, Savings, Micro-Insurance, Micro-Investment, Government benefit disbursement)
* Innovation and Economy in service delivery channels
* Eco-system for leveraging strength of diverse/multiple industry players
* Business Model: Establishing a business case for entities to invest in financial inclusion
* Regulator’s Role to help overcome challenges
* Expanding and diversifying the market
* Inclusion is business and not merely Corporate Social Responsibility

Session Moderator
11:55 – 12:00 hrs Aditya Menon, Executive Director, Obopay

12:00 – 12:35 hrs Panel Discussion
Sudhakar Ramasubramanian, Chief Executive Officer, Aditya Birla Finance
Sriraman Jagannathan, Chief Executive Officer-Mobile Commerce Venture,Bharti Airtel
J Sriram, CEO – Mobile Commerce Venture, Bharti Airtel
B R Bhat, General Manager, Corporation Bank Sanjay Swamy, UIDAI
Kamaljit Rastogi, Head Products, FINO

12:35 – 12:45 hrs Q&A Session conducted by Session Moderator

12:45 – 12:50 hrs Summing up by Session Moderator

Manoj Mitta, Sr Editor, TOI set the stage for session 2. Here’s an excerpt of his introductory talk

I’m a journalist and I don’t quite belong here…

We’re constantly with tussle with marketing guys for space… There’s a tendency of money speaking everywhere… Centre of gravity in India media has shifted from media to advertiser… We’re increasingly an infotainment band and less and less a civic society institution…

Things have changed, for better or worse. We’ve to be conscious of readers, who are increasingly of younger generations. Why do some channels and publications of reputation are not able to connect? We can’t sustain our journalistic ambitions and we can’t get salary unless the marketing aspect is taken care of…
We’ve an interesting panel here and we can look forward to an interesting session.

Session 2 moderator Shailesh Rao, Managing Director, Google India asked panelists to sum up their views in one single sentence each.

Here’s how each speaker summed up their talks, in one sentence each.

Mobile ad is inevitable. Question is what you’re going to do about it

Leap of faith. We need to believe in inertial. Someone will have to play the lead. We’re young and it’ll take time.

How do we integrate everything into one platform? That will be the key.

Mobile operators will have to work with innovators to move away from traditional sms ads and do something different and unique

Simplification and packaging of mobile will help.

Session Moderator: Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India

11:30-12:30
Panel Discussion:
Pradeep Srivastava, CMO, Idea Cellular
AR Vishwanath, Chairman, CEO and Founder, IMI Mobile
Sanjay Singh, CTO, One97
Raj Singh, MD, India, 2ergo group

12:10-12:30- Q&A conducted by session moderator
12:30-12:35: Sum up by Session moderator