2025 Summit Sessions

  • Uchi Uchibeke

    - 20 min

    • English

    Join Faheed Alli-Balogun (Head of Product) and Uchi Uchibeke (CEO of Chimoney) for a live, end-to-end demonstration of Web Monetization in action. Building on their work from last year, they will showcase the evolution of the Chimoney App, now enabled with multi-jurisdictional payouts and a seamless user experience. Witness a real-money, real-time micropayment from a supporter to a creator using …

  • Tadej Golobic

    - 20 min

    • English

    Open Payments provides a modern, interoperable way to move money across networks currently using only the Interledger Protocol. But in order to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the open payments ecosystem, we need to connect to established rails like SEPA. In this talk, we'll explore what it takes to add SEPA support to Open Payments, or better to say, how we added support for SEPA …

  • Casey Dike’

    - 45 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    A candid conversation about the philosophical and operational tensions between fintech speed/scale and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) mission/responsibility. What models have worked? Where have partnerships failed? What’s needed to build trust? This discussion will be centered on real talk and practical issues.

  • Max Kurapov

    - 20 min

    • English

    Join us to see what we've been working on in Rafiki and Open Payments over the last year. We'll cover how the projects have evolved in 2025, what new features we have released, our plans for the future, and how Rafiki & Open Payments leverage the Interledger Protocol to simplify payments between integrators.

  • Víctor Manuel Romero Rodríguez

    - 20 min

    • English
    • Spanish

    This proposal outlines the integration of PCH with Mifos X, an open-source Core Banking solution, to enable secure, interoperable, and real-time payments between financial institutions. By leveraging PCH’s capabilities, institutions can interconnect seamlessly across different payment systems, currencies, and digital wallets—reducing settlement times, lowering transaction costs, and improving …

  • Jorge Ortiz

    - 30 min

    • Spanish
    • English Translation available

    The 2026 FIFA World Cup represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to accelerate digital payments adoption in Mexico. The National Digital Payments Strategy leverages the massive influx of international visitors, cross-border wallets, and real-time commerce to promote interoperability, inclusion, and innovation. By connecting local merchants, fintechs, and global payment systems, the …

  • Maria Francis

    - 30 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    The UPI Story - How India became a leader in interoperable payments and what the future holds.

  • Smriti Parsheera

    - 45 min

    • English
    • Spanish Translation available

    This panel examines the pedagogical approaches and curricular innovations emerging from universities that have received Interledger Foundation grants to integrate Open Payments technologies into their academic programs. Faculty representatives will present their methodologies for teaching complex concepts such as the Interledger Protocol and its relationship to the Open Payments API, …

  • Nandini Harihareswara

    - 90 min

    • English
    • Spanish

    The Regulator’s Dilemma is an engaging, debate-driven role-playing game that places participants in the complex intersection of financial innovation and consumer protection. Players role-play as FinTech innovators or Regulatory Panels, simulating the real-world tensions faced by Policymakers and FinTechs in an emerging market. Teams debate whether to approve, conditionally approve, or reject …

  • Ioana Chiorean

    - 90 min

    • English

    Ever wanted to be able to propose a topic at a conference cause you felt it was missing or you wanted to bring it into attention? Now you have the chance! We are doing an unconference session where you all can propose and vote topics from all Interledger world!