The Indian School of Business (ISB) is hosting a unique conference - "Microfinance: The Way Ahead" - on August 6, 2005...The Conference is of special importance for it has panelists who are leaders in policy making (Rajya Sabha [upper house of the federal parliament of India], RBI [Reserve Bank of India], NABARD [National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development], SBI [State Bank of India]), practitioners (NGOs, NBFCs) multilateral institutions (World Bank), commercial banks (domestic and foreign) and academicians (from leading universities in USA and India - MIT, UCLA, Harvard and the ISB) to discuss future directions of microfinance in India and abroad. It brings together on a single platform the leaders in all the microfinance constituencies.