AITEC Shocked by Sanusi’s Suspension, Postpones BMM Conference

AITEC Africa has postponed it banking and mobile money conference earlier scheduled for March 12 and 13, citing the suspension of Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a major setback. 

In an email to our correspondent and on behalf of AITEC Team, Nick Fairbairn, said that AITEC regrets the inconveniencies the decision would have caused the enthusiastic prospect participants.

Fairbarian said, “For a number of reasons, including the recent dismissal of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, we have decided to postpone AITEC Banking & Mobile Money Lagos until the 15-16 of July.

“The Central Bank is an important partner for the conference and its current state of transition makes it impossible for it to provide its usual level of input for the event.

“We regret any inconvenience this change may cause you. We have set the new dates for Lagos in the week following our AITEC Banking & Mobile Money Accra on the 9-10 of July, which will enable international participants to cover both events with one trip to the region”.

AITEC had last week thrown her doors open to banks and other financial institutions to attend the Banking & Mobile Money West Africa Conference earlier scheduled to hold at Eko Hotel from 12-13 March for free.

The organizers that the VIP delegate passes provide access to the full conference and exhibition over both days, including lunches and refreshments.

Meanwhile, the programmes are still intact. Part of the conference programme and topics include: “Future-proofing your technology landscape through outsourcing” by Derrydean Dadzie, chief doer, DreamOval, Ghana; “Social media and banking: crowdsourcing customers and managing relationships”  to be delivered by Gbenga Sesan, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN); “The mPos journey” by Quintin Stephen, sales director, iVeri, South Africa and “Building an open mobile acceptance platform in Africa” by Matt Putman, managing director, Emerge Mobile, South Africa.

The workshops will dwell on issues like The role of banks in achieving traceability for West Africa’s agricultural exports to be handled by Judson Welsh, chairman and founder, African Investors Management Services, Ghana; Quality, Software Testing & Mobility – A Case for performance testing Scriptless test automation by Roland Oladeji Omoresemi, CEO & Founder, Tezza Business Solutions Ltd, USA, Nigeria, Kenya and Dan Gannon, President and CEO, Turnkey Solutions, USA.

AITEC Africa’s core business since 1987 has been focused on ICT event management, professional development and training in Africa. It has been a market-leading pioneer in terms of spreading knowledge on the Internet, computing and telecommunications in sub-Saharan Africa