3:00 p.m.    Doors Open & Networking 

 

3:30 p.m.   Welcome From Semafor 

 

3:35 p.m.   Governing for Scale in Digital Finance

  • As digital finance scales across East Africa, policy choices will determine whether innovation delivers broad-based inclusion or deepens existing gaps. This conversation examines how regulatory frameworks, market oversight, and regional coordination can enable responsible scale, strengthen trust, and close the access and affordability gaps highlighted in the Global Findex data.

 

3:50 p.m.   Global Findex Overview: The Global Picture, the East Africa Reality 

  • A scene-setting fireside conversation drawing on Global Findex insights to connect global financial inclusion trends with the lived realities of access, usage, and affordability across East Africa, and what this means for the next phase of scale.

 

4:00 p.m.  From Reach to Relevance: The Platform Challenge

  • Mobile money transformed access, but scale alone is not impact. This session explores how financial platforms are evolving beyond transactions to deliver deeper value through interoperability, partnerships, and products that improve everyday financial outcomes for underserved users.

 

4:15 p.m.  Partner Perspective: Investing in Inclusion — Positioning Kenya as a Financial Hub

  • East Africa has become one of the world’s most closely watched financial innovation ecosystems, and Kenya sits at its center. This conversation explores how investment, policy alignment, and digital infrastructure can turn that momentum into long-term capital flows and inclusive growth.

 

4:25 p.m.   Panel Discussion: From Innovation to Scale: Building Financial Infrastructure That Works

  • Digital finance in East Africa has no shortage of innovation, but scaling inclusion depends on infrastructure that is reliable, interoperable, and investable. This panel brings together leaders from banking, national payments systems, and financial system development to examine what it takes to move from pilot-led growth to durable, region-wide scale. The discussion will focus on where coordination across regulators, payment rails, banks, and capital providers can unlock inclusive credit, seamless payments, and resilient financial systems that serve households and businesses across the region.

 

4:45 p.m.   Partner Perspective Session: From Access to Impact — Scaling Financial Inclusion

  • Digital finance has dramatically expanded access across East Africa, but the next challenge is turning that access into meaningful economic participation. This conversation explores how digital infrastructure and financial innovation are translating into practical solutions that support inclusive economic growth.

 

4:55 p.m.  From Mobile Money to Market Access: Opening Capital Markets to Millions

  • As digital finance transforms how people transact, digital rails are extending beyond payments into savings and investment, bringing capital markets closer to everyday financial life. This conversation explores how new market infrastructure and platform partnerships are lowering barriers to participation, enabling first-time investors to access formal markets, and expanding pathways to wealth creation across East Africa.

 

5:10 p.m.    Closing Remarks & Invitation to Reception

 

5:10 p.m.    Reception Begins

 

6:30 p.m.    Reception Adjourns