Past Events

The Digital Future: Fintech, AI, and the Path to Financial Inclusion

December 11 – 12, 2023

The Promise and Future of New Financial Technology: For Better or for Worse?

June 7 – 8 2022

Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development IPA-LIFT-CEGA Researcher Gathering

October 7 – 8, 2024

The Lab for Inclusive Fintech (LIFT) at the University of California, BerkeleyIPA’s Entrepreneurship and Private Sector Development (EPSD) Program and the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) hosted a researcher gathering on October 7 and 8, 2024, at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

The in-person event was held by invitation only and brought together researchers from around the world for two days of discussions on innovative research designs, early-stage results, and new papers focused on entrepreneurship and private sector development, with a special focus on digital financial services and financial technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, new work on entrepreneurship, and private sector development, including access to finance, fintech and leveraging digital technologies, women’s entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability and resilience, innovation and technology adoption, access to markets, workforce development, industrial policy, improving management, machine learning and AI, and advances in research methods and measurement.

A scientific committee composed of EPSD and LIFT academic advisors reviewed and selected the presentations for the conference. We are not accepting published or forthcoming papers.