Alan Au is the executive director of the Banking Conduct Department at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), responsible for the conduct supervision of banks in Hong Kong (covering consumer protection and financial inclusion; sale of securities, investment and insurance products; bank culture; authorisation and licensing) as well as overseeing financial market infrastructures. Au joined the HKMA in 2010 and had served a number of positions including head of Corporate Development, administrative assistant to the chief executive of HKMA, and head of Banking Supervision. Prior to joining the HKMA, Alan had served as an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government for over a decade. He had been posted to a number of policy bureau and offices in the Government Secretariat including the Financial Secretary’s Private Office, Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, and the Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau.

Renzo Traversini leads the Global Risk Business Consulting team of the Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions division at SAS. The team is composed of risk experts that contribute to both solution evolution and development, and support for SAS risk solution sales and implementations globally. Traversini joined SAS in 1994 as the Analytical practice of SAS Italy. In 2000, he started the risk management business unit until he became the director of the EMEA Center of Excellence for Risk Management in 2013. Throughout his time at SAS, Traversini has been involved in, and led, projects to define offerings, finalize proposals and implement systems for Basel I and Basel II/III compliancy in Banks and Risk Management system projects in the Insurance space. Before joining SAS, he worked for an Italian management consulting company and, before that, in the R&D department of a large international microelectronics manufacturer.

Axel Winter is currently CTO of Central Group, a leader in retail and service business in Thailand. The Central Group consists of diverse investments in various corporations, each of which has become the leader in retail, property development, hospitality, and food & beverage industries. Winter’s responsibilities include leading a rapid, technology driven, transformation journey; defining technology strategy and agile operating model, defining a “Platform Architecture” roadmap, and roll-out of unified commerce platforms, data and analytics, API platforms, customer care, digital marketing, and other platforms. His job also includes setting up the Innovation Center of Excellence, Digital Academy, and driving business unit enablement around user experience, data science, product ownership, and tight integration with the technology department. Before joining Central Group, Winter was global head enterprise architecture & technology strategy at Standard Chartered. Prior to that he held some strategic level positions at companies like Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, GE Capital and Accenture.

David Chang is vice president of Shanghai Blockchain Association under Shanghai government’s science and technology commission, industry fellow of UC Berkeley Blockchain Accelerator and CEO of Blocknology Capital, a technology investment bank focusing on incubating dApps, designing token engineering, raising capital, governing community economy and managing digital assets. Chang is founder of Blockchain Fund Global Alliance (BFGA), a global platform dedicated to institutional investors in blockchain industry, also founder of China Cryptoeconomy Lab, a research organization dedicated to development of crypto-economics in China. He was vice president at JP Morgan Asset Management, Managing Director at Corporate & Investment Bank of BNP Paribas, member of Management Committee and Head of International Business at Guotai Asset Management and also managed hedge fund investment for Canadian largest family, Thomson Family. Chang is also a leading figure in private wealth management and presented numerous trainings on traditional and digital wealth management to China Banking Association, China Construction Bank Private Bank and China Merchant Bank Private Bank

John Gong is a professor and researcher in the areas of finance, industrial organization, and antitrust and competition policies. Gong is a prolific researcher and writer with a list of publications in leading international academic journals. He serves as an expert consultant with the Ministry of Commerce’s (MOFCOM) Antitrust Bureau in China, and acted as the chief architect of the Bureau’s national competition database project. He is a recognized antitrust and patent dispute authority in China, serving as an academic affiliate with Global Economics Group, a leading global economics consulting firm based in the US. He is also the principal author for the China section of the policy position paper by the BRICS New World Bank’s steering committee during its foundation time. He is an inventor of two US patents in switched broadcast television technologies, one of which has been widely deployed in spectrum allocation algorithms in cable QAM modulation equipment in the US. Gong played an important role in US ex-Vice President Al Gore’s National Information Infrastructure (NII) project. He is also a renowned op-ed columnist for several leading newspapers including the South China Morning Post, Global Times and CGTN (China Global Television Network), on economic and political issues.

Thomas McMahon has over 30 years of experience in international exchange based commodity and derivative product creation, clearing, trading, and regulatory licensing. Over the past decade, Thom has worked broadly across Asia to bring to the market major international exchange formation and licensing projects in Singapore, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Dubai, India, and recently concluded the licensing and launch of the Singapore Mercantile Exchange in August, 2010, where he served as CEO and Managing Director from April 2009 until June 2011. Thom served as Deputy CEO of ABX, Allocated Bullion Exchange 2012-2013 and member of the Advisory Committee as well as CEO of the UD Trading Group. Prior to this Thom was President and Managing Director, Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange from April 2007 until April 2009, overseeing the development and implementation of the Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange from the ground up. He has served in various leadership positions at The New York Mercantile Exchange/COMEX from 1983 through 2003.

Kit Wong joined Lufax in 2017 to set up and operate Lu International, and took responsibility over the global expansion of Lufax’s financial services platform. Prior to joining Lufax, he was the Chief Product Officer of OVO, an Indonesian mobile platform for banking, payments and asset management. His previous roles include Sales Strategy and Operations at Google APAC, head of Corporate Strategy and M&A at ANZ Asia Pacific, and financial services consultant at McKinsey. With more than 20 years of experience in tech and financial services – he is passionate about everything in Fintech.

Reona (Leo) Shimada is the co-founder and group CEO of Crowdo. Crowdo (crowdo.com) is an artificial intelligence powered marketplace for lending and investments. Leo is a recognised leader in the fintech industry with close to 20-year experience in the areas of finance and technology across Asia. Leo started his career with McKinsey & Company based in Tokyo and Southeast Asia advising senior executives on their digital strategies. After leaving the Firm, Leo moved on to a Fortune 500 company as the strategy lead for the Asia Pacific region driving projects related to strategy, investments, and innovation.

TM Lee is the co-founder of CoinGecko, a data aggregator for cryptocurrencies and blockchain assets. Since founding CoinGecko in 2014, TM Lee has closely followed the development of crypto-economics and the real-world applications of blockchain technology. Apart from that, TM Lee is a contributing author of two books on digital currencies published by Elsevier – Handbook of Digital Currency, 1st Edition and Handbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion Volume 1. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Minor in Psychology from Purdue University. Recently, he was listed under the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2019.

Mark Flaming serves as chief digital officer at Yoma Bank in Myanmar. He manages the teams that design, build and scale the digital products and channels that Yoma Bank implements to make financial services work for mass market customers in Myanmar. Flaming has a long career in developing financial markets, institutions and regulatory frameworks to extend financial services to unserved market segments. He has worked with policy makers, investors, development finance institutions, supervisors, and service providers. In recent years, Flaming has worked primarily with implementations that innovates technology and design methods to deliver new experiences to financial service customers.

Antoine Martin is the head of Impact Strategy for the Law Faculty of The Chinese University of Kong and a member of the Policy & Advocacy Committee of the Hong Kong Fintech Association. As an impact advocate, he helps researchers and startups alike with building impact-centered strategies. As a researcher, he has followed financial regulations since 2015, with a particular focus on regional fintech policy developments. Antoine is also a co-founder of The Asia-Pacific Circle, a platform which publishes expert insights on Asia-Pacific business trends.

Alex Smith is the Area Lead for Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, spearheading the most complex projects across Asia Pacific. He currently runs technology for Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand. His experience spanning more than a decade, includes development and go to market strategy for many household names and their OTT platforms, including BBC, Channel 4 (UK), Astro, iFlix (MY) and Foxtel ( AU ). He joined Microsoft in 2017 from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led a cross-regional group driving Media & Entertainment for Asia Pacific. Prior to AWS, Smith was the technical director and head of professional services for SwiftServe, an ASEAN focused, federated content delivery network and consultancy, and prior that, senior technical architect for Piksel, a video systems integrator based out of Europe.

Zaid Hamzah is a technology lawyer specializing in cybersecurity and technology law, intellectual property and legal data analytics. With over 30 years of experience in the legal, technology and government sectors, he has served as director for intellectual property at Microsoft; chief legal officer at Telekom Malaysia and senior legal advisor at Singtel’s JV with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures. In his legal technology and intellectual property practice, Hamzah has advised the Malaysian Government on its intellectual property policy and conducted programs on Strategic IP Management for WIPO for participants from China, Philippines, Central Asian Republics and Singapore. He was a consultant for the Japanese Government in the area of R&D commercialisation in Malaysia. He as well is an author of 9 books including “Intellectual Property Law and Strategy”, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.

Rona Morgan was the former group head of risk strategy at ANZ Bank until 2013, and before that, the head of risk strategy at HSBC Asia Pacific. She was responsible for Basel II implementation for HSBC, leading a large team to successfully adopt the most advanced approaches in one of the world’s largest banking group. Her extensive knowledge in risk management is strengthened with a previous background as a commercial banker and a belief in strong regulatory engagement.

Medhy Souidi is the head of FinTech and the StartupXchange programme of DBS Hong Kong. He is co-chair of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong’s Blockchain Committee, and was named by global FinTech hub LATTICE80 as one of the 50 top FinTech influencers in Hong Kong. Prior to joining DBS, Souidi was a senior project manager at Privé Technologies. He has also held senior positions at financial and technology companies and institutions in France, Canada and Hong Kong

Ram Rastogi is a digital payments strategist. He is currently working as a consultant of digital payments & financial inclusion at CGAP (the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a World Bank Organisation, with experience of more than 30 years in various fields in banking and strategy  with State Bank of India (SBI) and six years with National Payments Corporation of India  (NPCI) in designing and  roll out of faster payments  like IMPS and UPI , Cards , Cross Boarder Payments , Bharat Bill Payments System (BBPS) as well.  Rastogi is closely associated with regulators RBI and TRAI, related government departments, NGOs, Public Policy Committees, FinTech industry players and Startups in creating complete ecosystems. He is also a member of Payment Council of India & keynote speaker in International conferences on digital payment services.

Andrew Koh is currently the deputy general manager, Risk Management of HBL Bank. He is a thought leader, risk, compliance and governance expert with over 25 years of working experience covering banking, finance, cards and payment sectors. He has worked in various risk management roles and cross-functional roles in audit, compliance, fraud and technology risk management. As a keynote speaker, panelist moderator and adviser in major conferences, he has presented to board members, directors, C-suite executives, industry experts from central banks, government bodies, financial institutions, major Asian and U.S. Fortune 500 corporations. Koh has been actively involved in Singapore fin-tech start-ups a.k.a. new “Silicon Valley” and has written a series of articles on Rethinking Enterprise Risk Management for an award winning risk magazine, StrategicRisk

Christopher Balding is an associate professor at the Fulbright University Vietnam after nine years at the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School in Shenzhen, China. He advised governments, central banks, and investors around the world on the issue of Chinese economy and financial markets while he was in China. He frequently appears on the global media, including Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, the BBC, CNBC and Al-Jazeera. Christopher’s academic research spanning topics from international trade to finance health status has been cited on Review of International Economics, Health Policy and Planning, the Journal of Emerging Market Finance, the International Finance Review, and the Journal of Public Economic Theory. As an expert in sovereign wealth funds, Balding released a book entitled “Sovereign Wealth Funds: The New Intersection of Money and Power”.

Mayda Lim is member of the board of ANZ Global Services and Operations (Chengdu) Company Limited and head of technology for ANZ Technology Campus China. She contributed to driving exceptional revenue growth, building high performing teams and supporting the bank with its digital transformation. Over the years, she has acquired tremendous knowledge in leading positions within Thomson Reuters, Exel Logistics (DHL) and Ford Motor. She serves on the special committee of the prestigious Fudan University of Shanghai which focus on finance technology talents development. She was the founder of itSMF Singapore Chapter. In Singapore she also served in government advisory committee as member of council for The Future Economy Council Modern Services, to evaluate and oversee the implementation of Industry Transformation Maps. She is also known as a strong advocate of diversity & inclusion especially for Women in Technology and digital for kids.

Mandar Kagade is currently the Head of Public Policy & Outreach at RupeePower, a leading creditech firm in India. His work is an exciting mix of externally working with industry bodies to advocate a facilitative Fintech ecosystem on behalf of RupeePower and internally, working alongside the core team on business development and other strategic initiatives. Leveraging his experience of the policy ecosystem, he also advises the team on the impact of regulatory developments on business on an on-going basis. Before joining RupeePower, Mandar headed up policy for “Catalyst”, a USAID-funded digital payments initiative in India. At Catalyst, he executed several thought leadership projects including a flagship on use-cases relevant to regulatory sandbox, and worked alongside Ministry of Electronics to get government buy-in. His earlier work includes consulting on assignments funded by PayPal.

Amol is responsible for wholesale payments, cash and liquidity management solutions at Commercial Bank of Dubai. Furthermore, he also heads E-commerce and physical acquiring business for GREs, corporates, commercial and financial institutions. Under his leadership, the bank has developed several capabilities to facilitate and optimize corporate and institutional clients’ treasury and payments. He has nearly 22 years of professional experience in managing relationship building functions, including over 14 years in delivering significant growth in payments, cash and liquidity management across diverse customer segments. Amol having held several positions across South Asia and the Middle East has been instrumental in the strategic development and growth of the bank’s cash management proposition. Under his leadership the bank has won several industry recognitions. He was the driving force behind publishing a Treasury and Cash Management Best Practice Handbook, first in the country.

Boon leads the analysis and advocacy of implications to business models, operating environment and clients from market changes, laws and regulations. He is active in topics including digital assets, new payments methods, securities post-trade, financial market infrastructure, funds and outsourcing; as well as on ASEAN and emerging markets. In this role, he represents the bank’s expertise in external discussions including in ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum, APEC Asia Pacific Financial Forum, the Association of Global Custodians Asia and ASIFMA. His experience includes product development, corporate development, P&L leadership and market expansion. He started his career as a systems analyst and in treasury and working capital.

Yogesh Sangle joined MoneyGram in 2014 and has been instrumental in accelerating the company’s growth and market presence across Asia Pacific. Sangle has nearly 20 years of experience in banking and payments industry across Asian markets, together with strong domain knowledge in marketing, sales and product management coupled with expertise in online payments, digital and performance marketing. Before joining MoneyGram, Sangle spent four years at PayPal where he held the position of Asia Pacific’s regional director – consumer marketing. He was responsible for setting up the consumer marketing team and building a performance marketing approach across the region. His previous professional experience includes also positions with Barclays Bank Plc., India as director and head of credit cards and with Citibank N.A., Asia Pacific, as director portfolio management and head of business development and sales working across the bank’s 12 Asia Pacific markets.

Philip has extensive Financial Markets knowledge gained in a 35 year plus career in the industry. Philip is Business Development lead for IBM’s Blockchain payments solution, World Wire in Asia Pacific. he is also a member of the IBM Industry Academy representing Financial Markets. Philip is currently based out of Singapore. He has worked for IBM in EMEA, North America, Asia Pacific, and China across a range of roles combined with a 17-year capital markets and Bank Treasury career. Primarily as a Trader covering Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Proprietary Trading with Midland Bank’s Treasury, Midland Montagu and Nikko Europe where Philip held senior positions in both organisations. He started his career in Trade Finance and Treasury operations at Midland Bank’s International division. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences on a wide range of subjects ranging from industry issues, technology challenges and trends. Philip is also a regular contributor to IBM’s Financial Markets strategic thinking and FM White papers. Philip is also a recent published author, as a contributor to the book “Equity Markets in Transition.”

Wilson Chia is a highly seasoned banker with over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is a banking consultant/advisor in ASEAN on Organisation Strategy, Customer Segmentation Strategy, Risk Management, Wealth Management, SME Banking, Product Portfolio Reviews/Pricing Governance, Distribution Network Optimisation, Organisation Restructuring/ Transformation and Cost Re-Engineering, Talent Development and Incentive Plans, Financial Planning/ Budgeting/ Forecasting, Core Values Implementation as well as Digitisation. Prior to this, he was EVP of Fullerton Financial Holdings (FFH) at Temasek Holdings since 2009 during which he was the head of SME and Commercial Banking, overseeing portfolios across emerging markets, including Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Pakistan and China. Before joining FFH, he worked at Standard Chartered Bank for 23 years and held several key positions, most recently as Regional Head of Consumer / SME Banking in South East Asia. Chia has also served on boards of FIs based in India, Pakistan, Myanmar and China, taking on roles in Risks and Audit committees.

Prof. Sally Eaves is CEO and Founder of Aspirational Futures, a professor in Advanced Technologies and a Global Strategic Advisor on Digital Transformation. She specialises in the application of emergent technology, notably blockchain and AI for both business transformation and social impact at scale. A highly experienced CTO, international keynote speaker and author, Sally was an inaugural recipient of the Frontier Technology and Social Impact award, presented at the United Nations in 2018 and has been described as the ‘torchbearer for ethical tech’.

Sagar is Head of Regulatory Relations for APAC and Middle East at Ripple, a payment technology company named one of the 50 Smartest Companies by MIT and the recipient of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer Award. Sagar manages Ripple’s relations with central banks and policy-makers across APAC and Middle East, focusing on payment innovation and virtual currency policy. Prior to Ripple, Sagar spent 9+ years in the banking industry across multiple functions including technology, strategy, risk and government affairs. He was recognized as one of India’s top young business leaders by The Economic Times, India’s largest selling financial daily.

Urs Bolt has more than 25 years’ experience as a senior banker working in the financial services industry, most recently at Credit Suisse. He focuses now on wealth management, investment banking, risk & regulation, and financial technology business. His expertise centres on developing and launching new digital business platforms and establishing prime services for high net-worth/ultra-high-net worth clients. His focus is to help financial technology (fintech) and regulatory technology companies and financial service providers review/refocus business strategies, develop products and markets, execute sales, scout for fintech solutions and start-ups, build business partnerships, and implement corporate structures and processes.

Umang Moondra heads the APAC expansion for the Fidor Group. A transformation leader with over 25 years in business management, operations and technology, client delivery and sales experience in Transaction Banking, Wealth Management and Credit Cards, Moondra led business units of up to $500 million across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Fidor, Moondra held senior executive roles at Citigroup including Managing Director and Global Transactions Service Operations Head for Asia, Operations and Technology Head for ASEAN, and Retail Banking Head for Singapore. Having worked and lived in India, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Philippines, and led teams of over 3,000 professionals, Moondra has demonstrated experience in building focused and empowered teams both locally and regionally, as well as leading transformation across cultures. As secretary of Singapore FinTech Association, Moondra is an active member of Singapore’s fintech ecosystem. Currently, he is leveraging his banking experience and fintech knowledge to help clients in their business transformation and development efforts.

Graeme McGowan is currently the director of Cyber Security & Risk for Optimal Risk Management Ltd, chief information security office (CISO) and senior tutor, as well as cyber advisor to The Global Cyber Academy, and CISO for the Sokin Group, which provides secure and encrypted global money transfer by meeting market demands and disrupting the current exchange methods of pricing. Staffed by former UK Government security and communications specialists, The Global Cyber Academy provides cutting-edge online and workshop security teaching by accredited tutors and senior-level practitioners. As an independent cyber and security consultant, McGowan provides specialist risk advisory services and proprietary converged and physical security services to public and private sector organisations, providing a complete end-to-end solution, whether for risk-centric requirements or security-driven priorities. In 2008, McGowan took early retirement from a government intelligence agency, where during his final two years he was seconded to the Home Office post-7/7 as the first senior government communications officer, and was also responsible for developing the Code of Practice for RIPA Part III, which provided law enforcement agencies and public authorities the appropriate legal powers to access encrypted data.

Rajiv Candna is the head of Growth for Grab Financial Group. In his role, he sets the overall strategic direction that supports the Grab Financial Group’s ambitions as the leading fintech platform in Southeast Asia. His responsibilities include forging strategic partnerships, leading data analytics, as well as new handling product launches. Prior to joining Grab in Singapore, Chandna’s experience spans a wide range of industries, including the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), DHL and the United Nations.

Neal Cross is chairman of fastest growing wealth fintech business in Australia, going from $0m to $100m funds under management in just 6 months. Cross has a long track record across bluechip technology, finance and data companies. Most recently as the Chief Innovation Officer at DBS Bank, he drove the bank’s transformation into a global innovation powerhouse. He has personally been awarded the world’s most disruptive CIO/CTO globally from judges Sir Richard Branson and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Jan Luebke is responsible for the cash management strategy for financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region, and is also involved in the Single European Payments Area and the re-development of Deutsche Bank’s legacy processing and messaging platforms. Luebke has also had a sales position managing foreign bank clients for Deutsche Bank in Germany. In the earlier years of his career, he headed the high-value-payment operations, Quality Assurance Germany in Deutsche Bank, and in this capacity managed the Euro-migration as well as the Y2K challenge. Luebke has 17 years of working experience in operations and transaction banking, and significant regional and global experience across the Americas, Asia and Europe. He will share his view on the trends, initiatives and directives of cross-border payments impacting transaction banking.

Marc is responsible for the strategic positioning of cash management services for Deutsche Bank globally. The market management function is an integral component of the bank’s franchise in terms of strategic direction, product & service positioning, thought leadership as well as identifying and executing growth opportunities. Marc has been engaged in the financial services industry since 1998, re-joining Deutsche Bank in 2014 after having worked for JPMorgan and ING in various positions in both product management and operations. He is Deutsche Bank’s representative in various industry forums and working groups.

Jame DiBiasio has been a financial journalist since 1995. He arrived from New York with Institutional Investor News, founded AsianInvestor magazine in 2000, and served as editorial director at Haymarket Financial Media, overseeing AsianInvestor, FinanceAsia and The Corporate Treasurer.

Sushil Tyagi has over 20 years of experience working in BFSI IT solutions domain handling top management and general management positions. He has extensive International experience in SEA, Middle East, Africa, India and CIS and Europe markets. Leading in strategy, sales and distribution management, marketing, cross functional initiatives, policy and process re-engineering, successfully leading the ability to win in the market place with strategic thought leadership in line with the shareholders interest and objectives.

Jackal Ma co-Founded Tongdun Technology (formerly known as Fraudmetrix), pioneering in application of Big Data technology into daily business with his “Cross Industry Joint Defense” concept. He has 30 years working experience covering North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Seasoned technology and business executive in Asia, with previous experience including. Advisor and consultant at various business/technology transformation initiatives such as Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered, PingAn Insurance, China Construction Bank and Pudong Development Bank. Appointed as Advisory consultant for various country level initiatives in China including Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, National Development and Reform Committee. Born in Hong Kong, with a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Hong Kong, and an Executive MBA degree from China’s Top Business School Chang Kong Graduate School of Business.

As the Head of Fintech Partnerships & Strategy, Kaushalya Somasundaram leads the partnership and corporate venturing for HSBC’s core businesses including Global Liquidity and Cash Management, Global Trade and Receivables Finance, Custody and Global Markets. She has led HSBC investments in Fintech companies of strategic importance and the bank’s forays into the world of distributed ledgers. Kaushalya has held a variety of senior roles across HSBC including Strategy & Planning, Corporate Development and Group Audit. Kaushalya has also been recognised in the Brummell’s 2016 list of the most inspirational women innovators in London.

Steve Monaghan is Chairman and CEO of GenLife, a Silicon Valley based start-up in which AIA became the lead investor, to create an R&D capability for insurers around the world in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. Originally a commercial pilot, Steve has held senior corporate and banking roles in product, marketing, operations, innovation and general management. He has worked for leading corporations and financial institutions including Dell, Compaq, Citigroup, OCBC, Shinsei, DBS Bank and AIA. Throughout his career, he has specialized in introducing new business models, businesses and products in all major markets in Asia and has filed 6 patents in FinTech. Beside GenLife Steve hold board level positions in True Global Ventures, Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, HK Israel Trade Association, Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO’s.

Tyler Aveni is currently a senior product manager at WeBank, Tencent’s affiliate bank and the first online and privately owned bank in China, where he is responsible for oversees cross-border collaboration and the development of innovative products using emerging technologies. Prior, he was the lead China analyst for the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), housed at the World Bank Group. He was also the Country Director for SuperCharger FinTech accelerator, where he expanded Hong Kong’s leading program for fintech startups to Malaysia by building a local team and developing strategic partnerships with local institutions. Prior to that, he was Co-country director for Planet Finance in Beijing, a non-governmental organization focused on improving financial services for micro-entrepreneurs and small/medium-sized enterprises.

Aseem is the co-founder of GIVE.asia, Asia’s leading charity and personal crowdfunding platform that has raised over SGD$ 40 million dollars for social causes. GIVE.asia has won several awards including SPRING NTU Ideas.inc challenge, President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Special Mention Award and PACT Incubator Programme by DBS Foundation. He also runs Givola Labs which is a digital innovation consultancy that is built on a simple business model of doing interesting work for interesting clients. He is a regular speaker at international nonprofit technology-related conferences and has co-authored articles in a charity fundraising book published by Resource Alliance.

Topp Jirayut Srupsrisopa is the co-founder and group CEO at Bitkub Capital Group Holdings Co., Ltd. (BCGH), a company that holds the title as the startup with the largest seed investment in Thai history. He has dedicated the majority of his career in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry. He co-founded coins.co.th, Thailand’s largest bitcoin exchange. Before blockchain emerged, Topp worked as an investment banker, financial consultant, and central banker. He is a speaker and one of Thailand’s leading bitcoin and open blockchain experts. He is also a board of Director at the Thai Fintech Association.

Paul Ark spent the first half of his career as an investment banker, working on IPOs, acquisitions, and private equity deals for global banks Deutsche Bank and Citigroup in Asia and New York, as well as boutique advisories Tonson Capital and Blackwood Ventures in Southeast Asia. He then transitioned to the world of retail by joining Central Retail, working on regional joint ventures and working on the company’s market entry into China and other Asian markets. He spent several years facilitating Apple Retail’s market entry into Asian markets, opening up flagship stores in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia, before joining Microsoft and advising on their China retail market entry strategy. Paul is also an active startup mentor and angel investor, having made investments in early stage companies in the United States, China, and Thailand, and currently manages the FinTech venture capital fund for Siam Commercial Bank’s Digital Ventures group.

Arvie de Vera spearheads the key transformation initiatives of UnionBank – foremost are the blockchain projects, most notably Project i2i, the banking-as-a-service platform for rural banks. He joined the bank in 2010 as business development director and was tasked to fan the innovation flames in the bank. He also led the corporate product management which handled the bank’s core transaction banking services. He is part of a dynamic team that continues to garner global recognition for innovations in banking. His team had received numerous awards in New York, Dubai, Singapore, London, and Hong Kong for corporate payment solutions and financial inclusion projects. Arvie is vice chairman of the Blockchain Association of the Philippines and co-founded Tech-Up Pilipinas – a movement that seeks to help SMEs, individuals, and large corporates benefit from technological advancements and pave way for inclusive prosperity. He is a member and board director of the Fintech Association of the Philippines which is part of the ASEAN Fintech Association.

Teck Kin joined UOB as an economist in 2006. In his current role, he is responsible for macroeconomic and foreign exchange research with a primary focus in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and secondary coverage for the ASEAN region. He presents the team’s market views regularly to the bank’s management team and clients in the region. With more than ten years of experience in macroeconomic and equity research he is interviewed frequently by local and international print and broadcast media, as well as financial newswires on the economic and market outlook. Prior to UOB, Teck Kin held various positions in equity and credit analysis in other financial institutions in Singapore, Canada and Taiwan.

Alex is the co-founder and CEO of FinFabrik, a fintech firm that reinvents capital markets, and connects asset owners with investors to make investment accessible to anyone in the new digital asset era. Previously, Alex had spent 17 years in various Tier 1 global financial institutions overseeing operations across diverse asset classes, client segments and business lines in Europe and APAC. He has become a serial entrepreneur and angel investor since 2015, and he has been advocating technology-driven innovation to bring forward more user-friendly financial services and broader participation. Alex is a founding board member of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong and sits on the Digital Economy Task Force of the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network. He has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Fintech influencers in Asia and ranked top 9 in Hong Kong.

Dr Christian Hofmann is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Prior to joining NUS law, Christian held several positions in law faculties and in legal practice. Among others, he was a senior legal counsel for Deutsche Bundesbank, the German Central Bank, and a law professor at the Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He held chairs at the University of Cologne and Goethe-University Frankfurt on a visiting basis, was a visiting scholar and fellow of the Humboldt Foundation at UC Berkeley and a Global Research Fellow at NYU School of Law. Christian specialises in the law and regulation of financial institutions and markets, sovereign debt restructuring and comparative corporate law.

Ang is the CEO and co-founder of CapitalBay, the first and only licensed multi-bank supply chain finance platform based in Malaysia. Ang started his career with MarketInvoice, the largest invoice trading platform in Europe, during MarketInvoice’s early days as a start-up. Prior to founding CapitalBay, he also served in Accenture strategy consulting, Credit Suisse investment banking and private equity, where he implemented technology strategies for fintech and financial institutions.

Gordian Gaeta has been a banking consultant for some 25 years. He has advised and served many of the leading financial services organisations across Asia and close to half of the top 100 banks worldwide. He specialises in developing and implementing analytical solutions for complex strategic issues in financial services-related industries undergoing significant change or being exposed to intricate risk issues.

Tod Burwell is president and chief executive officer of Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT). He is responsible for leading the association in its mission to provide advocacy, education and training, and a common industry voice for the global transaction banking community. Prior to joining BAFT, he was a managing director at JPMorgan Chase. Burwell has over 25 years of trade, supply chain and cash management experience as a banking practitioner, as well as serving as a consultant to global corporations and suppliers of strategically integrated trade solutions.

Alain Chevalier is a full Professor of Finance at ESCP Europe. He is also a former Vice Dean, a former Vice Director General, a former Academic and International Dean and a former Dean of Faculty at ESCP Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Paris Ouest Nanterre), a Ph.D. in Management (Paris Dauphine) and the French qualification for Ph.D supervision (Habilitation à diriger des Recherches-ESA Lille 2). He created and supervised the Finance concentration at ESCP Europe. He was also Chairman of the Finance Department for several years. Alain Chevalier was also one of the founders of the French Finance Association (AFFI) and is a former President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). Dr Chevalier is presently a member of the technical committee of the convertible bonds index of NYSE-Euronext and is a board member of several scientific associations in finance, international business and operational research.

Boon Ping manages The Asian Banker publication business and engages practitioners, customers, partners and the media on critical issues that impact the industry. He has more than 19 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry, specializing in strategic branding, marketing communications and consumer insight. Prior to The Asian Banker, he was at United Overseas Bank (UOB), covering Singapore and key markets in the region, such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Bill Chua was former MD and head of global financial institutions group, UOB, managing relationships with banks, non-bank financial institutions, supra-nationals, sovereigns and sovereign entities. In his 34 years of experience in the financial services industry, he has covered institutional wholesale and consumer banking in the front, middle and back offices. Prior to joining UOB in 2000, Chua was with Citibank for 20 years. He serves as a director for several UOB-owned companies and/or joint ventures, and is also an active member of the financial and education communities in Singapore.

Matt Dooley is the founder and director of Connected Thinking, providing digital strategy, marketing, and training to banks. Dooley is a member of the Next Bank team with over 20 years international experience driving change at two of the world’s leading banks, across three continents. He serves as international resource director of The Asian Banker, chairing the innovation tours for c-suite bankers to experience and learn Fintech disruption first hand and acting as a subject matter expert for various training programs. He was global head of Internet strategy and head of digital experience for the global commercial banking division in HSBC. He pioneered HSBC’s global Internet design standards as a result of establishing the first Internet banking platform back in 2000. Dooley stays abreast of the latest trends in mobile and virtual technology as well as social media and is instrumental in helping participants develop their own personal disciplines in handling these areas.

Richard Hartung is currently managing director of Transcarta and international resource director of The Asian Banker with over 20 years of experience in the payments & consumer financial services industry. He has held senior roles for financial institutions including Citibank, Mastercard International, and OCBC Cards. Mr. Hartung holds position as consultant in the areas of retail banking, cards and payment products to financial institutions, service providers, and software companies throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Mathew Welch has spent over 25 years in financial services in Asia. His experience covers a wide range of areas including investment / wholesale banking, asset management and PE investments. He is currently managing director of Asia Dorset Management and international resource director of The Asian Banker. Previously, Welch worked as managing director and head of financial institutions group Asia at ING, and as global head of banks & financial institutions head of Asia for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). Working in SCB, he grew the FI revenues of the bank for more than fivefold in a four year period, adding more than US$1bln to revenues and creating one of Asia’s largest FI businesses.

Alain is a serial tech entrepreneur, executive and investor, with an affinity for financial services and e-commerce. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Yoyo Wallet, the global mobile payment & loyalty platform. He also co-founded and ran OB10, the largest global electronic invoicing network, and Omnis Mundi AG, a Frankfurt-based technology and Internet incubator specialized in e-commerce. As a Venture Partner at Imperial Innovations Plc, the AIM listed technology investment group, Alain was involved in three series A investments in recent years including Acunu, FeatureSpace and MusicMetric, raising over £35m in seed to series B capital from Tier 1 VC’s in the last 10 years. He also served as a strategic adviser to technology companies including ACE Software Solutions in the UK and TreasuryView in Estonia.

HwaErh-Cheng is chief economist at Baoshang Bank. Prior to this he served as chief economist at China Construction Bank, as well as in several departments of World Bank including the residence mission office in China, and economist at the International Monetary Fund. Earlier he pioneered research of a monthly econometric model of the US economy at Cornell University and the national bureau of economic research. He also served as chairman of Wuxi and Qunshang high-tech science park, advisor for the governor of China’s Guangdong province, and taught at Peking University, Beijing Normal University and Shih-Hsin University as visiting professor.

David Chance is a senior executive for payments strategy at Fiserv. He has led the company’s strategy, solutions and technology initiatives to drive innovation across the payments landscape, including card, retail, wholesale, corporate and instant payments. As part of the Dovetail’s executive leadership team, Chance has led the product development and strategy for the recently acquired universal payments company, Dovetail. His experience includes senior roles at eFunds in corporate cash management, middleware and real-time payments, including supporting financial institutions in strategic planning for UK Faster Payments. In this conference, Chance will offer his view on the future of cross-border payments industry.

Meng Chan Shu, has more than 20 years of experience in the financial and commodities markets with expertise in working in exchanges, blockchain technology, clearing and settlement, proprietary trading, asset management, investment banking and custody services. He is the CEO of CBX which is a digital asset trading platform dedicated to providing users with safe and professional digital currency trading services. As the co-founder and CEO of Connect Blockchain DMCC, he has setup the crypto asset trading business and trading desk where he manages liquidity provision for the parent company InBlockchain Inc. Previously he worked at different key positions in Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) and Bursa Malaysia.

John Holder has over 20 years’ experience in VR and Immersive technology. In 2016 he was invited to exhibit Immersive Content at Cannes Film Festival, Artrooms London, Berlinale, Sundance, Paris VR Festival, Venice Film Festival, The BFi and UKVR fest. Specialised in MR, VR, 4k live-stream & recorded 360 video, photogrammetry and AR production. Creator of virtual and mixed reality experiences for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Microsoft Hololens, Samsung GearVR, Google Daydream and Cardboard utilising games engines, WebGL and 360° video. Doctor of Digital Arts, M.Sc. in Virtual Reality and believer of Immersion, Interaction and Innovation.

Steve Monaghan is Chairman and CEO of GenLife, a Silicon Valley based start-up in which AIA became the lead investor, to create an R&D capability for insurers around the world in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. Originally a commercial pilot, Steve has held senior corporate and banking roles in product, marketing, operations, innovation and general management. He has worked for leading corporations and financial institutions including Dell, Compaq, Citigroup, OCBC, Shinsei, DBS Bank and AIA. Throughout his career, he has specialized in introducing new business models, businesses and products in all major markets in Asia and has filed 6 patents in FinTech. Beside GenLife Steve hold board level positions in True Global Ventures, Borderless Healthcare Mobile China, HK Israel Trade Association, Pulse Global and a private investor in Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Healthtech, Fintech and ICO’s.

Mady Korada is an expert in strategy, architecture and innovation. He has been working on exploiting data by use of machine learning algorithms, he as well has created enterprise assets like Business Glossary, Data Dictionaries, Asset Maps and Metadata Repositories usually for the first time in the organization. Korada is also an author. He has published articles on Enterprise Information Management and a book on Big Data Governance with a group of experts. Gartner, a global research and advisory firm has published his articles on data economy and the future of data. He is a member of numerous councils and industry forums.

At Mozilla, Ayden Férdeline researches the ongoing development and harmonization of global privacy standards. He is working to develop an ambitious new toolkit for effectively operationalizing privacy protections online, identifying appropriate regulatory interventions that could incentivize data controllers to adopt higher privacy protections. He is currently a Councilor on the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization, the body which sets policy for generic top-level domain names like .com, where he represents the interests of non-commercial users and uses of the Domain Name System. Before joining Mozilla, Férdeline supported the Internet Society’s global public policy team and was a researcher for the data and analytics group YouGov. He has previously facilitated workshops at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, and the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, among others.

Abdul Rahman AlAshraf is a Tech entrepreneur, Founder and Innovator. He received the European Youth Award Young Digital Champion after his Startup FreeCom has won the overall European Youth Award, for an innovative new communication method which provides alternative connection for people to communicate with when no internet or mobile network is available. He works currently as a Software Consultant for “MHP – A Porsche Company” in the automotive industry, an ambassador for the European Youth Award, and serves as an advisory member for Popular Science Arabia and is a Public Speaker.

Lavan Thasarathakumar is the policy advisor to Ashley Fox, Member of European Parliament (MEP). He has advised on a number of files at the European Parliament including: fintech, virtual currencies and distributed ledger technologies. Lavan has most recently been the rapporteur on the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation and the Comprehensive European Industrial Policy on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In September 2017, he helped establish the European Parliament All-Party Innovation group to promote discussions on matters concerning emerging technologies and what policy responses the Parliament should be promote. Lavan is also the Director of Thasa Consulting, where he drafted the guidance on virtual currencies for the Commonwealth Secretariat and advises clients on emerging technology strategy and implementation.

Dinis Guarda is an author, advisor, serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Ztudium which manages Blocksdna / Intelligenthq / Lifesdna. He has been creating and building ventures focused on global growth, 360 digital strategies, sustainable innovation, blockchain, fintech, AI and new emerging business models such as ICOs and tokenomics. His upcoming books “How Businesses and Governments can Prosper with Fintech, Blockchain and AI?”, “Blockchain, AI and Crypto Economics – The Next Tsunami?” last the “Tokenomics and ICOs – How to be good at the new digital world of finance / Crypto” will be launched soon. Dinis has advised and was responsible for some of the top global financial organisations, such as those who belong to the top 100 cryptocurrencies and Fortune 500 companies, like Reuters, MasterCard, P&G, Philips, Vodafone, and Nike. He is also often listed in various global fintech, blockchain, AI, and social media industry top lists as an influencer.

Rosaline invested $5M of her savings and borrowed another $5M to build CXA after 5 years trying to convince her US MNC to invest in Asia. Now CXA’s award-winning platform has 400k users across 20 countries in Asia and is valued at more than $100m. She supervised Procter & Gamble factory lines in Iowa and then worked at Bankers Trust on Wall Street. She launched two dot-com start-ups before moving to ACE insurance. Rosaline also grew Mercer Marsh Benefits’ 14 APAC countries 800% over 8 years. She graduated from UCLA Cybernetics and Columbia Business School.

Greg Kidd is a firm believer that one’s identity credentials should be truly portable and owned by individuals themselves rather than corporations or governments. The trade-off between security and privacy can meet the needs of both traditional institutions worried about compliance and risk, but also consumer protection advocates who care about the underserved and underbanked. Kidd has acted as an advisor/investor for numerous startups in the exchange space including Ripple, Square, and Twitter through his seed investment firm Hard Yaka. He has served as director at Promontory Financial, senior analyst for payments at The Board of Governor of the Federal Reserve, and senior associate at Booz Allen. Kidd has founded multiple companies, including Dispatch Management Services Corp, which he took public on the NASDAQ. His leadership pursuits include work at Outward Bound and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

Chartsiri Sophonpanich is president of Bangkok Bank, Thailand’s leading corporate and business bank and one of the largest banks in ASEAN. The bank has a long-standing presence across Southeast Asia, as well as in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New York and London. Its overall international network includes 32 locations in 15 economies. He is also a director of Post Publishing PCL and the Electronic Transactions Development Agency. He is a member of the National Strategy Committee and the National Economic Reform Committee, sits on the board of the National Science and Technology Development Agency, a director of TRG Management LP and TRG Allocation LLC, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Bangkok University. He also serves as the board advisor to The Thai Bankers’ Association.

Ranked by Forbes Magazine as a “Web Celeb”, Jimmy Wales is an internet entrepreneur, wiki pioneer, and technology visionary. He co-founded the Wikipedia, based on the idea of imagining a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. He is also the founder of WikiTribune, a groundbreaking ad-free news platform that produces evidence-based journalism, and co-founder of Wikia, a privately owned free web hosting service he set up in 2004. He frequently talks about the opportunities and threats for business leaders in a globally connected world, and how organizations can adapt to compete and innovate in a world that is increasingly open and collaborative. A world leading blockchain enthusiast and expert in AI, blockchain and cybersecurity, he will share his vision on the future of the “Institution” in the age of collaboration and the open sourced shared economy.

David Gyori is a globally renowned FinTech consultant, trainer, author and keynote speaker. He is CEO of Banking Reports Ltd London, providing top quality ‘FinTech Training for Bankers’ all over the world. In addition, Gyori is founding member of the World FinTech Association as well as member of the panel of judges of the European FinTech Awards. He is co-author of ‘The Fintech Book’, published in 2016, quickly becoming a global category best-seller. Gyori is faculty member of the Retail Banking Academy in London, one of the most prestigious banker-training facilities globally. He serves on the advisory board of multiple FinTech companies in the United Kingdom.

Jaspar is a renowned international authority in the field of innovation, transformation and trends. He is considered a pioneer in topics as corporate innovation and human driven cultures. His experience spans from running a corporate innovation unit (Chief Inspiration Officer at ABN Amro) to launching digital ventures. Jaspar has led and contributed to over 100 digital innovation & transformational projects in different industries throughout the world. He is an avid writer on disruption and transformation, amongst others as columnist of the Dutch Financial Times. Jaspar is member of several Advisory Boards.

Cambridge University PhD, Dr Dove started with UBS where he became a leading bank analyst and Executive Director. He has numerous publications under his belt and was ranked no. 5 among European bank analysts. Today, Dr Dove is a principal in hedge fund invested in financial institutions. advises governments, development agencies and financial institutions; He has also written authoritative reports on Sovereign Wealth Funds and infrastructure investment; and was recently an expert contributor to the report for the Irish Parliament on Ireland’s Banking Crisis. Other projects include advising banks on investor relations and strategy.