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11:00am GMT+08
Blockchain deep dive
Speakers 
Research Director, IDC
James Wester is Research Director, Worldwide Blockchain Strategies, at IDC. His cross-industry practice covers emerging distributed ledger and blockchain technologies. Mr. Wester’s core research examines the technologies, architectures and concepts behind blockchain and how they...
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11:05am GMT+08
Does the world really need high throughput private and public blockchains?
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Co-Founder, Primitive Ventures
Dovey is Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a full-stack crypto assets investment holding company with global presence in San Francisco, Boston, and Singapore. Prior to that, she was Managing Director of DHVC (Danhua Capital), where she led investments into Limebike, MoneyLion...
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Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder, Zilliqa
Max Kantelia is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience of building technology product and services companies in Europe, the US and Asia for the financial services industry. He was selected by EY as one of Asia’s Top 100 FinTech contributors in 2016.Based in Singapore...
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Co-Founder, NEM Foundation
Jeff McDonald is the Co-founder of the NEM Foundation and has been working as a Core Team member on the NEM blockchain project since 2014. He worked from 2008 until 2017 as an assistant professor at Keimyung University in South Korea teaching communications classes. Before that he...
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SVP of Product, Ripple
Asheesh is the SVP of Product at Ripple, which he first joined in 2013 to lead the development of their product suite. Asheesh is an industry expert on blockchain and is a frequent contributor, speaker, and advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Asheesh started his career as an...
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11:35am GMT+08
Blockchain technology: an immutable source of data?
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COO, Beyond Blocks
Gabriel Yang is the Chief Operations Officer of Beyond Blocks, the force behind the Beyond Blocks Summit in Bangkok, Tokyo and Seoul. Gabriel has built Echelon, the APEC Summit, and other major technology and conference brands in his ten years in the business. Gabriel is a coffee...
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Chairman, Factom; Managing Director, YGC
David Johnston is a serial tech entrepreneur and early contributor to the blockchain ecosystem since 2012. In May of 2013 he co-founded the first angel investment group in crypto, BitAngels, and in August of that year served as a Foundation board member to the first ever token sale...
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12:00pm GMT+08
Is blockchain delivering on its promise? Live usecases, not just a whitepaper
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Managing Director, Promontory, an IBM Company
Alex joined Promontory in 2006 and works with banks, regulators and corporations to strengthen risk management and anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs. With a background in quantitative risk measurement and information management, Alex specialises in the effective...
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Chief Officer, Global Business and Finance, STASIS
Vyacheslav is Chief Officer of Global Business and Finance at STASIS, a tokenization platform designed to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset market. STASIS' pilot project, a euro-pegged stablecoin, is a top-100 cryptocurrency with a market cap of over...
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Chief Marketing Officer, Asia, SingularDTV
Jack Cheng is the Asia Chief Marketing Officer of SingularDTV, a global blockchain entertainment platform empowering artists and creators with decentralized tools to manage creativity projects from development to distribution.Jack is also a Co-author with TsingHua University Research...
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CEO, PumaPay
Yoav Dror is the CEO of PumaPay, one of the biggest ICOs in 2018, which raised over $117 Million. With an MBA and over 20 years of experience in heading online high-volume and high-transaction companies, Yoav is now leading the team who develops PumaPay’s Blockchain-based PullPayment...
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CEO, Bluzelle
Pavel is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bluzelle. He has over 15 years’ experience in operational management, digital technology and finance. An NCAA honor roll student-athlete from UCLA, Pavel also was the co-founder of Storypanda, a digital book platform that published critically acclaimed...
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3:45pm GMT+08
AI implementation in financial services
Speakers 
Editorial Director, The Economist Intelligence Unit
Charles is currently director of thought leadership research for Asia, where he covers a territory spanning from Australia to India. His team works with many Western multinationals from the Fortune 500 but increasingly with Asian multinationals, governments, SMEs and high-growth technology...
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3:55pm GMT+08
Are we using it right? Learnings from (perceived) AI applications in financial services
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Technology Lead - Natural Language Processing, Refinitiv
Salman is a Chartered Financial Analyst currently working on developing Natural Language Processing solutions in English, Chinese and Japanese at Refinitiv.He has over 15 years experience working in the Financial Services Industry in advisory roles to global banks and more recently...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Active AI
Biography coming soon
Chief Scientist, Basis Technology
Kfir Bar is the Chief Scientist at Basis Technology. He has spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) disciplines, including neural machine translation and named entity recognition for anti-crime/terror applications. Kfir focuses on combining linguistic...
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CEO, Moneythor
Olivier Berthier is the CEO of Moneythor, the technology company providing financial institutions with a digital banking toolkit powered by artificial intelligence (AI). He is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in banking technology and entrepreneurship.Prior...
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4:25pm GMT+08
Algorithms in action: How to turn a bank into a tech company
Speakers 
Head of Core Cash Management for Asia Pacific & Citi Innovation Lab Singapore, Citi
Morgan is the head of Core Cash Management for Asia within Citi's Institutional business based in Hong Kong. In this role, she is responsible for Payments and Receivables, Channels and Enterprise Services, and Commercial Cards across the region. She also manages the Citi Innovation...
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Head of APAC, Feedzai
A veteran in both the finance and technology industries, Richard is helping to lead Feedzai's global scaling. Before joining Feedzai, Richard held Vice President roles at both Experian and Accertify, during which time he built global sales teams and helped lead regional expansion...
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4:40pm GMT+08
An inside view into creating a chatbot
Speakers 
Global Head, Distribution Transformation, Voice & Virtual, Standard Chartered
Stuart Beaumont is the Global Head, Voice and Virtual and Distribution Transformation, Retail Banking, for Standard Chartered Bank. Based in Singapore, Stuart is responsible for transforming service delivery and improving service standards in the bank’s Client Contact Centres. He...
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Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Kasisto
Dror is Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for the finance industry. Kasisto counts DBS Bank, JP Morgan, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo among its customers as well as other leading...
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5:00pm GMT+08
Is there an inherent conflict between centralized AI and decentralized blockchains?
Moderators 
MD, TRPC Pte Ltd; Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)
May-Ann is the Managing Director of research consultancy TRPC Pte Ltd, and is concurrently the Executive Director of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). She has extensive experience in public policy, technology policy development, and government relations communications across...
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Founder & CEO, TAIGER
Dr. Sinuhé Arroyo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAIGER, a global Artificial Intelligence company headquartered in Singapore with offices in five other countries across Europe, America and Asia-Pacific.He is a Committee Member in the Info-Communications Media Development...
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Founding Engineer of Skype, Co-Founder Future of Life Institute & Philanthropist, ASI
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (cser.org), Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org), and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations. Jaan is on the...
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CEO and Co-founder, MoAir Cloud
Bio coming soon
11:00am GMT+08
What technologies will underpin the next generation of fintech unicorns?
Speakers 
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures
Wei is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures, the largest FinTech focused venture fund in Asia. Arbor aims to shape the way the world transacts by investing in early stage companies that enable frictionless transactions across financial services and digital commerce...
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CEO, Crunchbase
Jager McConnell is the CEO of Crunchbase, the leading platform used by millions of entrepreneurs and investors looking to discover innovative companies and the people behind them. Jager joined Crunchbase as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase...
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11:20am GMT+08
Exploring new data sources
Moderators 
Co-Founder & MD, Reinventure Group
As both a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Danny Gilligan is at the forefront of driving disruptive innovation in Australia’s financial services sector. Through Reinventure Group, co-founded with Simon Cant in 2013, he is pioneering a new model of corporateventure capital...
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Director of Engineering, Flipkart India Pvt Ltd
Srinivas Chamarthy is the Director of Engineering, Pricing & Promotions at Flipkart. In this role, he leads the Pricing and Promotions platforms at Flipkart that price for all products in the catalogue. He is also responsible for building a pricing insights and recommendations data-driven...
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CEO and Founder, Rockmetric
Nimesh is the CEO and Founder of Rockmetric. Nimesh is building one of the fastest growing Enterprise AI start-ups in India. Nimesh works with senior leaders from some of the largest banks and financial services institutions to transform how they monitor business using Data and AI.Rockmetric...
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CEO, Datavisor
Yinglian Xie is the CEO and co-founder of DataVisor, the leading AI and big data analytics company that protects consumer-facing enterprises from a variety of fraud, abuse, and money laundering activities. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University...
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11:50am GMT+08
What data does a bank need? A spotlight on digital transformation
Speakers 
Chief Data & Transformation Officer, DBS Bank
Paul Cobban is Chief Data and Transformation Officer for DBS. Based in Singapore, his portfolio involves strengthening the bank’s data-driven agenda by laying down a strong digital foundation and driving a future ready mindset at DBS.In addition, he spearheads the bank’s improvement...
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12:10pm GMT+08
3:30pm GMT+08
Financial Cloud Deep Dive
Speakers 
CEO & Founder, Valocity Global
Carmen Vicelich is not your typical anything - a powerhouse entrepreneur who has built two multi-million dollar international technology and data businesses in just a few short years.Carmen's energy and ability to make the complex simple has earned her numerous awards, both personally...
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3:35pm GMT+08
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4:05pm GMT+08
Case study: HSBC and Google Cloud
Moderators 
Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Theodora (Theo) Lau is an innovator and technologist, whose work seeks to spark innovation to improve consumer financial well-being and health. She focuses on developing and growing an ecosystem of financial institutions, corporates, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to better...
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Head of Financial Services, Google Cloud Platform UK & Ireland, Google
Adrian’s manages the Banking & Insurance team for Google Cloud and has 20 years experience working in the Financial Services Industry.The consistent theme throughout Adrian’s career has been Transformation from implementing Government Initiatives to ERP and financial systems.Prior...
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Regional Head of Innovation, HSBC
Jennifer Doherty is Asia Head of Innovation for HSBC’s Global Liquidity and Cash Management (GLCM) business. In this role, she is focused on identifying opportunities for HSBC to leverage technology from the Fintech community and deliver value to HSBC’s corporate clients.A seasoned...
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4:25pm GMT+08
When to move to the cloud? Business cases and implementation hurdles
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Advisory Board Member, CFTE
Biography coming soon.
Head of Financial Services Partnerships, APAC, Amazon Web Services
Nilanshuk Haldar leads Financial Services partnerships in APAC for Amazon Web Services. In this role, he helps independent software vendors (ISVs), fintechs and consulting firms grow and scale their business with banks, insurers, asset managers and other financial institutions across...
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Founder & Group Chairman, Avaloq
Francisco Fernandez (born 1962) is an entrepreneur who has committed himself to IT solutions in the finance sector. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich where he also attended post degree studies in business...
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Executive Vice President of Division Digital Center Of Excellence, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Tbk
Digital enabler for one of the biggest bank in ASEAN region, former Regional Program Manager at Silicon Valley's hadrcore DNO specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software and telco industry. Skilled in Analytics, Design Thinking, Big Data, and Digital...
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5:05pm GMT+08
An open platform in the cloud: the development roadmap
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CEO & Co-Founder, Brankas
Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas, an open banking and payments platform. Todd has held senior roles at private equity firm Seawood Resources and management consultancy Booz and Company, spanning technology, public sector, and financial services. He holds a dual Bachelor's...
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Field CIO, Systems Advisory Group, Pivotal
Jesse Bean is a talented executive with over 20 years of experience in Financial Services and technology. He brings a wealth of expertise with particular strengths in areas such as strategy, innovation and driving change at an enterprise level.Currently, Jesse operates as a Field...
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5:20pm GMT+08
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11:05am GMT+08
How is tech building bridges to new consumers?
Moderators 
Chief Executive Officer, Oradian
Antonio Separovic is a financial inclusion and financial technology expert with over 20 years of experience, including ten years in the microfinance sector. Antonio has implemented cloud banking systems across 15 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa as the Global Marketing...
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Chief Executive Officer, BankBazaar International
Vipin Kalra is the Chief Executive Officer of BankBazaar International. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in general management, sales and marketing in global payments, transactional business, digital and online retail sector, and emerging technology areas.In his most...
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CEO, RAM Credit Information Sdn Bhd
Dawn Lai is the CEO of RAM Credit Information Sdn Bhd (RAMCI), a leading licensed Credit Reporting Agency in Malaysia, serving a broad segment of Malaysia’s business community, from leading international and local Brands to financial institutions and SMEs.Dawn has over 17 years...
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11:25am GMT+08
Financial inclusion: What’s working and what are the lessons to learn?
Moderators 
Director, Kapronasia
Zennon Kapron is a Director at Kapronasia, a Shanghai-based financial industry market research firm focused on helping fintech companies and financial institutions understand the opportunities in China and Asia's financial services markets including banking, payments and capital markets...
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Global Head of Credit, PayU
Sid is the Head of Credit at leading financial services provider, PayU. He is responsible for leading PayU's global credit strategy which is built on three pillars: in-house developments, partnerships and acquisitions and investments. Through this approach, Sid leads PayU in developing...
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Vice President, Business, International, Singtel
As Vice President for Business in the International Group of Singtel, Sze Meng lead the team to develop and implement new engines of growth that will help accelerate the Singtel Group's initiatives in the mobile financials, digital entertainment and SME businesses.Sze Meng joins Singtel...
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Executive Vice President - FinTech Hive, DIFC
Raja Al Mazrouei is the Executive Vice President of FinTech Hive at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). In this capacity, she oversees the innovation initiative that brings together key stakeholders from Financial Institutions, Government entities, Technology Partners...
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12:05pm GMT+08
Unmasking the invisible fraud
Speakers 
CEO, AU10TIX
Ron Atzmon is MD of AU10TIX Limited, pioneers of multi-channel ID Authentication.Ron has led the company to the position of technology leader and provider of choice of the world’s major players such Visa, PayPal, Google Airbnb, Nordea Bank.Under Ron’s leadership AU10TIX introduced...
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12:10pm GMT+08
Financial alchemy: turning data to trust
Speakers 
Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe Group
Daniel Kornitzer serves as EVP and Chief Business Development Officer of Paysafe. Prior to this, upon rejoining the Group in 2014, Daniel served as Paysafe’s Chief Product Officer. In his 20+ years in technology management, he has pioneered ground-breaking initiatives, from the...
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12:25pm GMT+08
Biometrics deep dive
Speakers 
Head of Threat Analytics, Biocatch
Tim Dalgleish is a fraud prevention expert, with over 15 years experience in financial services and technology. He has worked with businesses in over 20 countries to implement effective fraud prevention systems and strategies. Prior to his role at BioCatch, Tim led the Asia Pacific...
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Principal Financial Crime Consultant, ACI Worldwide
Giselle Lindley is principal financial crime consultant at ACI Worldwide. Her career has spanned the public sector, banking and insurance, over a period of nearly two decades with the Australian anti money laundering regulator, Austrac and a number of financial institutions in Asia/Pacific...
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12:45pm GMT+08
Mind the Hack
Moderators 
General Manager of APAC, Symphony
Queenie Chan is the General Manager of Asia Pacific for Symphony Communication Services, a Silicon Valley based "unicorn" start-up that provides a secure and compliant collaboration platform with integrated messaging, file sharing, audio/video conferencing, screen sharing and automated...
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Associate Dean of Corporate Programs, ESSEC Business School
Professor Kevyn Yong is an Associate Professor, Management Department and Associate Dean for Corporate Programs at ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific in Singapore. In his role as Associate Dean for Corporate Program, he also leads the design and development of custom programs for...
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President, Asia Pacific, FireEye
Eric Hoh is President of FireEye for Asia Pacific. In this role, he leads an organization committed to helping the region’s organizations improve their defenses against targeted cyber attacks. He is based at the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore.Eric is a seasoned security...
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Researcher, PwC Japan
Dr. Yin Minn Pa Pa is originally from Myanmar and currently working as a security researcher at PwC Cyber Services, PwC Japan. Before she came to Japan, she worked as an IT engineer for the government of Myanmar. She earned her doctorate of engineering from Yokohama National University...
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