Global SME Finance Forum 2017 | International Finance Corporation | 1 November 2017 | Intercontinental Berlin, Budapester Str. 2, 10787 Berlin, Germany

The Global SME Finance Forum 2017 will be held November 1-3 in Berlin, Germany. The annual flagship event of the SME Finance Forum will bring 400+ senior executives from commercial banks, development finance institutions, fintech companies, as well as regulators to focus on leveraging digital banking to serve MSMEs.

This event will inspire participants to think beyond traditional banking mainstays such as SME collection strategies, sales tools, and credit risk management, and to explore new innovations that improve their competitive edge and enable them to better serve their MSME clients. From the fast-changing landscape of blockchain technology to growing application of AI in chatbots and customer analytics, the digitization of banking is set to take the SME financing industry to the new level.

2017 Speakers:

Jingdong Hua
Vice President and Treasurer, Ifc

Ludger Schuknecht
Chief Economist and Heading the Directorate General Fiscal Policy and International Financial and Monetary Policy at the German Ministry of Finance

Dirk Schwenzfeier
Commissioner, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Ted Chu
Chief Economist, International Finance Corporation

Carlos J. Menendez
President, Enterprise Partnerships for Mastercard

Roger Havenith
Deputy Chief Executive, European Investment Fund

Omer Ahsan
Innovation & Propositions, Hsbc

Bolaji Akinboro
Co-founder, Cellulant Coporation and Ceo, Cellulant Nigeria Limited

Jack Aldane
Editor, Development Finance Magazine

Nuria Aliño
Lead of Digital Financial Services (Dfs) for Partnerships and Innovations, Financial Institutions Group, International Finance Corporation

Ravi Aurora
Senior Vice President and Group Head, Global Community Relations, Mastercard

Allison Baller
Global Leader, Mobile Payments and Blockchain, Ibm

Natascha Beinker
Gpfi Co-chair, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development

Amrei Botha
Senior Sme Banking Specialist, Financial Institutions Group and Technical Lead for the Sme Strategy Practice Group, Ifc

Bruce Brenkus
Chief Risk Officer, Spotcap

Lázaro Campos
Management Advisor and Board Member in Digital Payment Ventures

Matías Nuñez Castro
Executive Director of Smes, Banco Santander Mexico

Rajeev Chalisgaonkar
Global Head, Business Banking at Standard Chartered Bank

Vijay Chandok
Executive Director, Icici Bank

Raja Debnath
Global Sme Banking Advisory Services Specialist, International Finance Corporation

Hans Docter
Director Sustainable Economic Development and Ambassador Private Sector & Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nether

Slavolijub Dordevic
Head of Consumer and Small Business Banking, Raiffeisen Bank International Ag

Sameh Elshall
Assistant Sub-governor for Information Technology - Payment Systems and Business Technology Sector, Central Bank of Egypt

Matthew Gamser
Ceo, Sme Finance Forum

Leandro Guerra
Data Science Manager, Experian Emea

Markus Gunter
Ceo, N26 Bank

Sharmila Hardi
Global Head of Ifc’s Banking, Small and Medium Enterprise Business Line

Ulrich Hess
Manager, Bmz/giz Insurance Sector Project and the G7 Insuresilience Initiative

Anushe a. Khan
Senior Operations Officer, Financial Institutions Group

Aditya Khurjekar
Ceo & Co-founder, Let's Talk Payments, Medici

Alla Kramskaia
Global Leader, Advanced Analytics, Dun & Bradstreet

Belkacem Krimi
Chief Risk Officer, Funding Circle

Lesley Lawrence
Senior Vice President, Business Development Bank of Canada

Carlos López-moctezuma
Head of New Digital Businesses, Bbva Bancomer

Ignacio López-perea Páramo
Global Head of Distribution Models for Corporate and Commercial Banking, Bbva

Sebastian Mahler
Head of the Agricultural Weather Risk Management and Weather Insurance Business, Gvf

Syed Abdul Momen
Head of Sme Banking, Brac Bank

Giada Monti
Head of Finance for Innovation, Intesa Sanpaolo

Lav Odorovic
Co-founder and Ceo, Penta

Luca Pagetti
Head of Enterprise Innovation, Intesa Sanpaolo

Silvia Pavoni
Economics Editor, the Banker

Sandra Péloquin
Director, International Relations, Business Development Bank of Canada; and Secretary General for the Montreal Group

Anatoly Popov
Senior Vice President at Sberbank, Russia

Murali Ramakrishnan
Senior General Manager and Business Head of the Sme Group, Icici Bank Ltd

Patrick Reily
Ceo and Co-founder, Verde International

Oscar Robles
Chairman and Ceo, Epesos, Bbva Open Talent Winner 2017

Qamar Saleem
Global Technical Lead, Sme Banking Practice at Ifc

Caspar Sprokel
Head of Equity for the Emerging Markets Team, Triodos Investment Management

David Sutter
Independent Expert

Joyce Tee
Managing Director and Group Head of Sme Banking, Dbs Bank

Balazs Topor
Sme Product & Segment Leader, Raiffeisen Bank International

Sandy Vaci
Md, Bay Devonshire Ltd

Raoul Van Engelshoven
Vice President Financial Services Sector - Europe Ibm

Pau Velando

General Manager, Strands

Andrew Work
Ceo, New Work Media and Publisher, Harbour Times (Emcee)

Bing Xiao
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo

Maya Margie Younes
Head of Marketing Group, Blc Bank

Stefan Zelazny
Chief Innovation Officer, Mobisol

Tamuna Zhizhilashvili
Deputy Director of Marketing Communications and Business Banking, Tbc Bank

Peng Zuo
President, Gingkoo

Alexis Leberl
Co-Founder and CEO, OpenCBS

Jinsheng Qi
Chief Risk Office, Dashu Financial Services Ltd.

Meng Qingfeng
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, CredEx FinTech

Patrick Reily
CEO and Co-Founder, Verde International

Shun Takei
Chief Strategy Officer, Crowcredit Inc.

2017 Sponsors:

GOLD:
• Mastercard

SILVER:
• Experian
• CreditEase
• Verde International
• Bolstra Group

BRONZE:
• Strands
• U.S Chamber of Commerce
• Mujinnong.com