8th Eastern India Microfinance Summit 2024
22 February 2024

Empowering the Poor: Microfinance as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development

Time Session
8.00 AM-9.30 AM Delegate Registration and Breakfast and tea for all delegates and Guests
09.45 AM – 10.25AM (Hall – 7) Inaugural Session:
  • Welcome address: AMFI-WB Chairperson, Shri Ajit Kumar Maity
  • Inaugural address: Shri Sujay Kumar Yadav, GM-2, State Bank of India, LHO
  • Inaugural address: Shri Prakash Kumar, DMD, SIDBI, Mumbai
  • Inaugural address: Smt. Usha Ramesh, CGM, NABARD: - NABARD would display a video documentation on intervention of NABARD in financial Inclusion for rural financial Institutions.
  • Inaugural address: Shri Dr. Satyajit Deb, GM, Department of Supervision, RBI Regional Office, Kolkata.
  • Inaugural Address: Shri Jiji Mammen, ED, Sa-Dhan
  • Inaugural Address: Mr. Sudipta Roy, MD & CEO, L&T Finance Ltd
10.25 AM – 11.10 AM Fireside Chat: The New MFI Landscape: Challenges and Opportunity

Moderator: : Tamal Bandopadhyay, Award Winning Author and Journalist, and Consulting Editor, Business Standard, and senior adviser, Jana Small Finance Bank.

Panellists:
  • • Shri Aditya B. Chatterjee, MD, Equifax
  • • Shri Kuldip Maity, Secretary, AMFI-WB and MD, VFS Capital Ltd.
  • • Shri Jiji Mammen, Executive Director, Sa-Dhan
11.10 AM-11.30 AM (Hall – 7) Release of the Equifax Publication and AMFI-WB and SROs joint publication Equifax Publication:
  • 1. Shri Aditya B. Chatterjee, MD, Equifax
  • 2. Ms. Shruti Joshi, Head - Analytics & Insights
AMFI-WB and SROs Jointly:
  • 1. Dr. Mihir Ghosh, Researcher, WE-LEAD Project, AMFI-WB
  • 2. Mr. Saibal Paul, Associate Director, Sa-Dhan
11.30 AM-11.45 AM Tea Break
11.45 AM-12.20 PM (Hall – 7) Session – 1: WE LEAD – A Transformative project for women entrepreneurship
  • • Shri Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Acharya, CGM, SIDBI, New Delhi
  • • Video screening on WE-LEAD Project – videos screening would be digitally opened by Shri Prakash Kumar, DMD, SIDBI and Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Acharya, CGM, SIDBI, Delhi
  • • Mohd Haroon, Associate Manager, SIDBI, New Delhi
  • • Three women entrepreneurs to speak about their success story
  • • Shri Clement Karketta, Project Officer, WE-LEAD Project, AMFI-WB
12.20 Noon to 1.10 PM Breakaway session: (Hall – 7) Session – 2: Panel Discussion: Strategies for Scaling from Group Lending to Individual Micro-Enterprise Loans

Moderator: Shri Tamal Bandopadhyay, Award Winning Author and Journalist, and Consulting Editor, Business Standard, and senior adviser, Jana Small Finance Bank.

Panellists:
  • • Mr. Sudipta Roy, MD & CEO, L&T Finance Ltd
  • • Shri Aditya B. Chatterjee, Managing Director, Equifax
  • • Mr. Rudra Chakraborty, Head - East, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
  • • Shri Manish Agrawal, Chief Risk Officer. IIFL Samasta
  • • Shri Sidhartha Sankar Dash, DGM (ABU & GSS), SBI, LHO, Kolkata
Breakaway session: (Hall – 2) Session – 3: Panel Discussion: Journey through Digital Transformation in Microfinance and application of Personal Data Protection Act

Moderator: Shri Deepak Alok, M2i

Panellists:
  • • Shri Habib Shaik, Vice President-State Initiative. Micro Finance Industry Network (MFIN)
  • • Shri Neeraj Maheswari, CEO & Co-Founder, M-SWASTH Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • • Shri Arvind Murarka, Chief Information Officer, Arohan Financial Services
  • • Shri Sudhir Sinha, CEO, UPMA
  • • Dr. Gyanendra Rout, Faculty Member, BIRD Lucknow
1.10 PM-1.30 PM (Hall – 7):
  • 1. Presentation by Dr. Gyanendra Rout, Faculty Member, BIRD Lucknow on “Capacity Building of MFI Sector-Role of BIRD Lucknow”
  • 2. Presentation by Shri Suryakant Sharma, Business Head -Partnership, Chola MS insurance company on Company products
1.30 PM to 2.15 PM Lunch break
2.15 PM to 3.15 PM (Hall – 2) – Breakaway session: Session – 4: Panel discussion: Traversing the new regulatory framework for Microfinance - experience of the MFIs so far

Moderator: Shri Jiji Mammen, ED, Sa-Dhan

Panellists:
  • • Shri Alok Biswas, MD Janakalyan Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
  • • Shri Sumit Mukherjee, Chief Business Officer, Arohan Financial Services
  • • Shri Partha Mandal, GM, NABARD
  • • Shri Narendra Nayak, CEO, OSAFII
(Hall – 7) – Breakaway session Session – 5: Panel discussion: Supporting smaller MFIs through innovative funding choices and facilities

Moderator: Shri Abhijit Ray, Unitus

Panellists:
  • • Shri Hari Velloor, EVP - Network 1, ESAF Small Finance Bank
  • • Amit Agrawal, Regional Director, South & Central Asia, Water Equity
  • • Smt. Bonani Roy Chowdhury, Managing Director, NABASAMBRIDHI
  • • Shri Promod Kumar Vijayvargia, GM, SIDBI
  • • Shri Dilip Kumar Mirdha, GM, MID Corporate Credit, Head Office, UCO Bank, Kolkata
3.15 PM-3.30 PM Tea Break
3.30 PM-4.45 PM (Hall – 7) Session – 6: Panel Discussion: Power of networks: Sharing of Global Experience by practitioners

Moderator: Saibal Paul, Associate Director Sa-Dhan

Panellists:
  • • Smt. Deepmala Ghosh, GM, NABARD
  • • Shri Anjan Dasgupta, MD, ASAI
  • • Smt. Bonani Roy Chowdhury, Managing Director, NABASAMBRIDHI
  • • Shri Ram Bahadur Yadav, Head Nepal Microfinance Association
  • • Shri Suryakant Sharma, Business Head -Partnership, Chola MS insurance company
4.45 PM – 5.30 PM Valedictory Session
  • • Way forward speech by AMFI-WB Secretary
  • • Felicitation of the sponsors and partners
  • • Vote of thanks
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