2025 Summit Sessions

  • Briana Marbury

    Keynote Speaker

    - 60 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    Speaker: Briana Marbury, President & CEO, Interledger Foundation This keynote sets the stage for a Summit filled with bold conversations, meaningful collaborations, and a shared celebration of what’s possible when we build an open, inclusive financial future, together.

  • Ayden Férdeline

    Human Rights by Design: Financial Infrastructure that Works for Everyone

    - 60 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    As digital public infrastructure becomes the backbone of global financial systems, we stand at a critical juncture: will these foundational technologies amplify existing inequalities or become engines of inclusion? This panel will examine how human rights principles can be operationalized within digital public financial infrastructure. Drawing on expertise from financial inclusion, digital public …

  • Nandini Harihareswara

    The Regulator's Dilemma

    - 90 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    The Regulator’s Dilemma is an engaging, debate-driven role-playing game that places participants in the complex intersection of enabling financial innovation while ensuring consumer protection. Players will role-play being FinTech Innovators or Regulatory Teams, simulating the real-world tensions faced by policymakers. Teams will debate...and ultimately decide: whether to approve, conditionally …

  • Maria Gorrettie Namuddu

    Kanzu Finance

    - 20 min

    • English

    The Infrastructure of Inclusion: Inside Kanzu Finance’s ILP Microloan Engine.

  • Karim Jindani

    Enabling Banks in Pakistan to offer faster, cost-effective remittance services via ILP

    - 20 min

    • English

    Paysys Labs, a leading fintech company known for its innovative digital payment and financial service solutions, is partnering with Allied Bank Limited to transform the remittance landscape in Pakistan. Banks in Pakistan currently face challenges such as high costs and delays in cross-border payments, which impact customer satisfaction. This arrangement will enable ABL to offer faster, more …

  • Douglas Davidson

    BessPay Plugin: Powering MSME Marketplaces on Sharetribe with Interledger Open Payments

    - 20 min

    • English

    The BessPay Plugin for Sharetribe integrates Interledger’s Open Payments standard, enabling MSMEs to transact globally in local currencies, faster, cheaper, and more securely. In this Demo Lab, participants will see a live walkthrough of SouthLink Marketplace, covering marketplace owner setup, seller onboarding, wallet linking, and buyer checkout flows. The demo shows how Open Payments make …

  • Rocío Mejía Flores

    From Policy to Practice: Financial Inclusion in Mexico

    - 60 min

    • Spanish
    • English Translation available

    Financial inclusion is no longer just about opening accounts, it’s about ensuring meaningful participation in the digital economy. This session brings together leaders from across Mexico’s public, private, and community finance sectors to discuss how national policy goals translate into local impact. With insights from government, fintech, and community networks, the conversation will explore …

  • Miguel Alecio

    miPlata - Payroll that reaches home

    - 20 min

    • English

    miPlata is a US-based fintech working with blue-collar businesses to help employees access, spend, and send their paycheck more efficiently. By integrating payroll systems, US debit card products, international money transfer, and stablecoins, miPlata makes it faster, cheaper and safer for employees to support their families across borders.

  • Gavin Chait

    Hop Sauna for federated community-moderated commerce

    - 20 min

    • English

    Hop Sauna reimagines e-commerce and social media. Join me as I demo the current software build, and the roadmap to fully independent, federated and community-moderated commerce.

  • Carolina Trivelli

    From Access to Wellbeing: Designing Financial Tools Women Can Trust and Use

    - 45 min

    • Spanish
    • English Translation available

    Latin America has narrowed gender gaps in account ownership, yet women remain 9.4% less likely to use formal financial services. Access alone is not enough; products must be usable, trustworthy, and relevant to daily life. In Mexico the conversation is shifting toward financial wellbeing and resilience, linking money to priorities such as health, family stability, and education. This session …