ADFW 2023 | Abu Dhabi Finance Week | 26 November 2023 | The Galleria Al Maryah Island, 107 Hamouda Bin Ali Al Dhaheri St - Al Maryah Island - Abu Dhabi Global Market Square - Abu Dhabi - UAE

Fresh from a breakout first edition in 2022, where over 8,000 people from 100+ countries joined together to explore the flight of the ‘Falcon Economy’, our second edition promises to be bigger and better than ever.

Held under the theme of ‘Investing In The Transition Era’ , the event will convene the leadership of the global financial industry to explore the opportunities and risks presented by the economic, technological and sustainability shifts effecting the global economic landscape.

2023 Speakers

H.E. Ahmed Jasim Al Zaabi
Chairman, ADGM & Abu Dhabi Dept. of Economic Development

H.H. Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bint Khalifa Al Nahyan
President & CEO, UICCA

H.R.H. Prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud
Founder & CEO, KBW Ventures

H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri
Minister of Economy, Govt. of UAE

H.E. Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri
Minister of Climate Change & Environment, Govt. of UAE

Ray Dalio
Founder & CIO Mentor, Bridgewater Associates, LP

Jenny Johnson
President & CEO, Franklin Templeton

Alan Howard
Founder, Brevan Howard

Ronald P. O'Hanley
Chairman & CEO, State Street Corporation

Peter Orszag
CEO, Lazard

Jenny Lee
Founding Partner, GGV Capital [ONLINE]

Hamad AlHammadi
CEO, Energy & Utilities and Sustainable Manufacturing, ADQ

Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi
Deputy Group CEO, Mubadala

Mohammed Alardhi
Executive Chairman, Investcorp

Laura M Cha
Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing

Ruchir Sharma
Chairman, Rockefeller International and Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Breakout Capital

Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK, Senior Advisor to Centricus

Sir Christopher Hohn
Founder, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, TCI

André Esteves
Chairman & Senior Partner, BTG Pactual

Clare Woodman
Head of EMEA & CEO, Morgan Stanley & Co Intl Plc.

Jean-Paul Servais
Chair and Chairman, IOSCO Board and FSMA of Belgium

H.E. Hamid AlZaabi
Director General, Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing

Yoni Assia
Co-founder & CEO, eToro [ONLINE]

Hani Kablawi
Head of International, BNY Mellon

Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, Circle

Atif A. Abdulmalik
CEO, Arcapita

Jamie Dimon
Chairman & CEO, JP Morgan Chase & Co. [ONLINE]

Thomas Ingenlath
CEO, Polestar

Robert Steers
Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers

Dr. Jaap Kalkman
Group Chief Investment Officer, ADQ

Gary Cohn
Vice Chairman, IBM

Hon. Caroline D. Pham
Commissioner, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Garth Ritchie
Partner, Centricus

Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman/CEO, VaynerX/VaynerMedia [ONLINE]

Henry Ward
Co-founder & CEO, Carta

Peter Hughes
Founder & CEO, Apex Group

Anas Bukhash
Co-Founder, Not [So] Guilty

Loh Chin Hua
CEO, Keppel Corporation

Todd Leland
President, Goldman Sachs International

Ayman Hariri
Co-founder & CEO, Vero

Paul Desmarais III
Chairman & CEO, Sagard

Hendrik du Toit
Founder & CEO, Ninety One

Adeeb Ahamed
Managing Director, LuLu Financial Holdings

Fadi Ghandour
Executive Chairman, Wamda Capital

Tim Draper
Founder, Draper VC

Nadine Chakar
CEO, Securrency, Inc.

Volkan Kurtas
Founder & CIO, Vibrant Capital Partners

Alec Gores
Chairman, CEO & Founder, Gores Group

Christian Angermayer
Founder, Apeiron Investment Group

Mishal Kanoo
Chairman, Kanoo Group

Ibrahim Ajami
Head of Ventures, Mubadala Capital

Drew Goldman
Global Head of Real Estate, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Dr. Douglas Greenig
Group CEO & CIO, Florin Court Capital

Mubashir Mukadam
Founder & CIO, Blantyre Capital

Konstantin Richter
CEO and Founder, Blockdaemon

Caspar Lee
Co-founder, Influencer.com & Creator Ventures

Ajay Bhalla
President of Cyber and Intelligence, Mastercard

Dr. Horst Simon
Director, ADIA Lab

Dr. Karim El Solh
CEO & Co-Founder, Gulf Capital

Jon Medved
CEO & Founder, OurCrowd

Samir Assaf
Chairman, MENA, General Atlantic

Dmitry Tokarev
CEO, Copper

Charles Cascarilla
CEO & Co-founder, Paxos Trust Company

Dr Bruno Lanvin
President, IMD Smart City Observatory

Dan Murphy
Anchor & Correspondent, CNBC International

Emmanuel Givanakis
CEO, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market

Ted Koenig
Chairman & CEO, Monroe Capital LLC

Michel Lowy
Founder & CEO, SC Lowy

Benedict Evans
Independent Analyst

Prof. Alexander Lipton
Global Head, Research and Development, Strategy and Planning Department, ADIA

Arvind Ramamurthy
Chief of Markets, Abu Dhabi Global Market

Rishi Kapoor
Co-CEO, Investcorp

Raja Al Mazrouei
CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance

Ilya Kondrashov
CEO, QuantumLight Capital

Courtney Powell
COO & Managing Partner, 500 Global

Daniel Chapman
Founder & CEO, Argentem Creek Partners

Jayesh Patel
CEO, Wio Bank

Amira Sajwani
Managing Director of Sales & Development and Founder & CEO, DAMAC Properties and PRYPCO

Natella Safar Ali
Executive Director - Registration & Incorporation, ADGM Registration Authority

Adam Ladjadj
Chairman & Founder, The Emirates Family Office Association

Jay Clayton
Senior Policy Advisor and Of Counsel and Independent Chair of the Board, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Apollo Global Management

Patrick Tsang
Chairman, Tsangs Group

Vikas Papriwal
Senior Managing Director, Leader, FTI Consulting, Middle East and Africa

Dan McCrum
Investigative Reporter & Author, Financial Times & ‘Money Men’

John Cusack
Chairman, Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime

Faisal Al Hammadi
Managing Partner, Further Ventures

Basil Al Askari
Co-founder & CEO, Midchains

AJ Nelson
Co-Founder, Rain

Miriam Kiwan
Vice President, Middle East & Africa, Circle

Sachin Dev Duggal
Founder, Chief Wizard, Builder.ai

Tim Land
Executive Director - Monitoring & Enforcement, ADGM Registration Authority

Konstantin Limitovskiy
Vice President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Mina Al Oraibi
Editor in Chief, The National

Sriram Jaganmohan
Chief Investment Officer, Miras

Rohit Arora
Co-Founder & CEO, Biz2Credit & Biz2X

Usman Ahmad
CEO & Co-founder, Zodia Markets

Noor Sweid
Founder & Managing Partner, Global Ventures

Brad Levy
CEO, Symphony

Saeed Al Awar
Partner & Head of Middle East, Rothschild & Co

William Pazos
Co-founder, ACX

Huda Al Lawati
Founder & CEO, Aliph Capital

Ron Daniel
Co-founder & CEO, Liquidity Group

Adam Felesky
Co-founder & CEO, Portage

Dr. Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice Greenberg Fellow for China Studies, Council for Foreign Relations

Mike Belshe
Co-founder & CEO, BitGo

David Lewis
Managing Director, Kroll, and former Executive Secretary FATF

Matthew Chen
CEO, OneConnect Financial Technology International [PingAn Group]

David Rutter
Founder & CEO, R3

Jamal Saleh
Director General, UAE Banks Federation

Jehanzeb Awan
Founder & CEO and Chairman MEAACBA, J. Awan & Partners, Azakaw and MEAACBA

Hussein Sayed
Anchor, CNBC Arabia

Rachel Pether
TV host & Managing Director, Fintech.TV & 3iQ

Frank Dai
President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh
Co-founder & CEO, Astra Tech & Botim

Anita Mo
CEO, Hang Seng Indexes Company

Yasmin Almostehy
Executive Director, The Emirates Family Office Association

Asli Orbay-Graves
Deputy Editor, REDD Intelligence

Arun Mehta
Head of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Sonia Gokhale
Co-Founder & General Partner, VentureSouq

Martina Fuchs
European business correspondent, Xinhua

Jack Inglis
CEO, AIMA

Professor Merouane Debbah
Director of the KU 6G Center, Khalifa University

Dr. Stephen Squinto
Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital

Greg Shell
Partner, Goldman Sachs, Horizon Inclusive Growth Fund

Matthew Amlot
Editor-in-Chief, Arabian Business

Ronit Ghose
Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi

Dr. Karen Young
Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Dan Doney
Co-founder & CTO, Securrency

Bassel Al-Khawaja, CFA
Advisory Head, Abu Dhabi IPO Fund

Barney Reynolds
Partner & Global Head of Financial Services Industry Group, Shearman & Sterling

Antoine Colson
CEO, IPEM

Jennifer Prosek
Managing Partner, Prosek

Vincent Molinari
Founder & CEO, Fintech.TV

Dickon Johnstone
Founder & CEO, Themis

Dr. Leen Kawas
Managing General Partner, Propel Bio

Gabrielle Inzirillo
Head of Ecosystem Development, Financial Services Regulatory Authority, ADGM

Rensche Olivier
Governance, Risk and Compliance Director, VISTRA

Bilal Jafar
Hedge Fund Correspondent, Dow Jones

Dr. Hasanat Dewan
Managing Director & CEO, Integrated Data Intelligence

Marcos Muller-Habig
Acting CEO, 42 Abu Dhabi

Abi-gail Marshman
Senior Managing Director, Head Financial Crime Consulting MENA, FTI Consulting

Matthew Wilde
Senior Managing Director, Teneo

Maria Gonzalez
Senior Vice President, Prosek Partners

Diego Lopez
Managing Director, Global SWF

Dr Kimmo Soramäki
Founder & CEO, FNA

Bas Kooijman
CEO, DHF Capital

Dan Tapiero
Managing Partner, CEO & CIO, 1Roundtable Partners

Rohan Doctor
Founder & CEO, Louisa AI [ONLINE]

Berkay Oncel
Head of MENAT Investments, SC Lowy

Rauda Al Dhaheri
Manager of Research & Development, ADGM Academy

J.K. Khalil
General Manager, MENA East, Mastercard

Zafer Younis
Founder & CEO, SVVI

Salim A. Essaid
Middle East and, business correspondent

Mustafa Alrawi
Acting Managing Director, CNN Business Arabic

Jose Marin
Co-founder, FJ Labs

Wai Lum Kwok
Senior Executive Director - Authorization & Fintech, ADGM FSRA

Hamad Sayah Al Mazrouei
Chairman of ADGM Academy’s Board of Directors, ADGM Academy

Mahmoud Adi
Founding Partner, Shorooq Partners

Hasan Fardan Al Fardan
CEO, Al Fardan Group

Roger Rouhana
CEO, Alpheya

George Osborne
Partner, Robey Warshaw

Laura Gardner Cuesta
Deputy Editor, Debtwire CEEMEA

H.E. Abdulla Mohamed Al Mazrui
Chairman, Abu Dhabi Chamber

H.E. Hareb Al Mheiri
Executive Director of Abu Dhabi Residents Office, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development

AlDhabi AlMheiri
Founder, Rainbow Chimney Bookstore and Publishing House

Julian Marwitz
CEO, Arineos

Ersoy Erkazanci
Presenter, BloombergHT

Gil Adotevi
Chief Executive Officer, Food & Agriculture, ADQ

Zia Hayat
CEO & Founder, Callsign

Dr. Abed Benaichouche
Co-founder & CEO, Open Innovation

Rebeca Minguela
Founder & CEO, Clarity AI

Linda Fitz-Alan
Registrar and Chief Executive, ADGM Courts

Polina Lyadnova
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Drew Propson
Head, Technology and Innovation, World Economic Forum

Amna Al Qubaisi
Racing Driver, F1 Academy

Dilip N Massand, Esq.
CEO, Phoenix Advisors Ltd

Sarah Cocker
Founder, Amplify

Casey Ge
Group Vice President & CSO, President of International Business, Wind Information

GV Ravishankar
Managing Director, Peak XV

Philippe Richard
Executive Director, International Affairs, ADGM

Faysal Abou Zaki
Deputy CEO, Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal group

Hui Yuan
Chairman & CEO, Xiao-I

Richard East
Senior Partner, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP

Stefan Kimmel
CEO, M2

Dr. Parag Khanna
Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha

Ameera Khalid
Vice President, Investor Relations and External Communications, Waha Capital

Pietro Castronovo
Head of Private Capital and Restructuring IMEA, Oliver Wyman

Hosam Arab
Co-Founder & CEO, Tabby

Prakriti Singh
SVP, Head of Acceptance and Digital EEMEA, Mastercard

Mo Ali Yusuf
CEO & Co-Chair Digital Assets, Fuze & MFTA

Melda Akin
Founder and CEO, D14.AI

Raouf Ben-Har
Co-founder, Andalusia Labs

Dominik Schiener
Co-Founder/Chairman, IOTA/IOT Foundation

Nicola Jackson
Legal Director, Clyde & Co.

Henry Chang
CEO, WeMade

Matt Higgins
CEO & Co-Founder, RSE Ventures

Gavin Rankin
CIO, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Henri Arslanian
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Nine Blocks Capital Management

Simone Maini
CEO, Elliptic

Nelson Chow
CEO, Hong Kong FMI Services

Lenah Hassaballah
Editor, CNN Business Arabic

Bhagesh Malde
Global Head of GlobeOp, SS&C Technologies

Dr. Monica Malik
Chief Economist, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Michael Chen
VP - Government & Enterprises Business Development, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Jill Lagos Shemin
Head of Cambridge Fintech Market Observatory, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Sasha Kaletsky
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Creator Ventures

Salem Mohammed Al Darei
CEO, ADGM Authority

Naveen Bhojwani
Managing Director - Debt Advisory, Restructuring & Special Situations (Emerging Markets), Rothschild & Co

Nameer Khan
Chairman & Founder, MENA Fintech Association & Fils

Sameer Hashmi
Middle East Business Correspondent, BBC

Cate Ambrose
CEO, Global Private Capital Association

Chady El-Khoury
Deputy Division Chief, IMF

Karim Labban
Senior Managing Director and Middle East Co-head of Turnaround & Restructuring, Ankura

Dmitry Fedotov
Head, DLT Foundations Regime, ADGM

Vineet Sukumar
Founder & Managing Director, Vivriti Capital

Puneet Agarwal
Co-founder, Moneyview

Omar Mir
President International, Chairman & Board Member, WWT Middle East & WWT

Seth Ginns
Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments, CoinFund

Charles Hoskinson
CEO & Founder, Input Output Global

Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist

Matthias Büchler
Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange

Adel Mehrab
CIO, Al Fozan Holding

H.E. Masaood Rahma Al Masaood
Board Member and Treasurer, Abu Dhabi Chamber

Raihan Shaikh-Khaleel
Managing Director, Swinton Advisors

Dr. Nasser Saidi
President, Nasser Saidi & Associates

Apoorva Sharma
Managing Partner, Stride Ventures

Ahmad Ali Alwan
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Hub71

Hashim Kudsi
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Liwa Capital Advisors

Cody Combs
Future Editor, The National

Sonia Weymuller
Co-Founder and General Partner, VentureSouq

Kelsey Warner
UAE editor, The Circuit

Hasan Al Hosani
Managing Director, Bayanat

Eleanor Slinger
Regional Director, New Statesman Media Group

Tamer Azer
Partner, Shorooq Partners

Elodie Robin-Guillerm
Head of Value Creation, ADIO

Mona el Isa
Founder & CEO, Avantgarde

Adeniyi Abiodun
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, Mysten Labs

Khawla Hammad
Founder and CEO, Takalam

Jo Bamford
Founder and Chairman, HYCAP

Rich Gilmore
CEO, Carbon Growth Partners

Elie Fakhoury
Senior Managing Director, Teneo

Max Yuan
Chairman & CEO, Xiao-I

Mohamed Shalo
Director of Communication and Strategic Partnerships (CSP), Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing

Dr. Reem Mohammed Alshamsi
Director of Research and Strategic Analysis, UAE Financial Intelligence Unit

Dr. Shengliang Lu
CEO, Insightic & Research Fellow, NUS

Vanessa Grellet
Managing Partner, Aglaé Ventures President Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition

Shaikha Al Nowais
Corporate Vice President - Owner Relationship Management, Rotana

Amjad Ahmad
Chairman, empowerME, Middle East programs, Atlantic Council

Patricia Gomes
Regional Head of Commercial Banking, MENAT, HSBC

Hana Al Rostamani
Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)

Lynn Monzer
Associate Director, WIn Fellowship, empowerME, Middle East programs, Atlantic Council

Dhaher bin Dhaher AlMheiri
Advisor, Chairman’s Office, ADGM

Fabrice Dumonteil
Founder & Chairman, Eiffel Investment Group

Jonathan Bravo
Director of Regulatory Affairs, IFRS Foundation

Kay French
Non Executive Director & Advisor to the Chairman, CEO Office, Association of International Certified Professional Accountants & ADX

Daniel Esty
Hillhouse Professor, Yale University

Robin Rix
Chief Legal, Policy and Markets officer, Verra

Nadine Hani
Anchor, Al Arabiya

Eugene Wong
CEO, Sustainable Finance Institute Asia

Alex Zhao
General Manager of Global Finance, Public Cloud Business Dept, Huawei

Abdallah Oulbaks
CEO, GCC Pay

Arjun Vir Singh
Partner & Global Co-Head of Fintech, Arthur D. Little

Deval Sheth
Managing Director, Utimaco APAC & Middle East

Marc Ganzi
CEO, DigitalBridge

Ethan Chan
Founder & Chairman, Arte Capital

Markos Zachariadis
Professor, Chair of Fintech, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

George Triplow
Head of Client Development MENA, Global Family & Private Investment Offices Group, Northern Trust

Dan Allred
CEO, North America, Liquidity Group

Alex Fraser
CEO, London Institute of Banking and Finance

Robert Steers
Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers

Jasem Alawadhi
Head of Strategy, ADIO

Barnabas Reynolds
Partner & Global Head of Financial Services Industry Group, Shearman & Sterling

Kevin T. O’Leary
Chairman, O'Leary Ventures

Peter Abou Hachem
Acting Head of Product & Strategy, Hub71

Maria Vovchok
Podcast Host, Journalist, Dubai Blockchain Center

Deem Al Bassam
Co-founder, Independent Food Company

Shaikha Al Marzouqi
Executive Vice President - Client Relationships & Management, ADGM

Ashish Kumar Sinha
Head of Corporate, Commercial & International Business Management, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Dr. Mazen Ramsay Najjar
Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Jean Herelle
Founder & Chief Information Officer, CrunchDAO by DataCrunch

Paula Naoufal
Senior Reporter, CNN Business Arabic

Gary Sheynkman
Partner, Further Ventures

Abeer Abu Omar
Government and Economics Reporter, Bloomberg

Bader Al Kalooti
MEASA Head of Growth and Operations, Binance

Sara Castelhano
EMEA Co-Head of Payments Product and Solutions and Chair of J.P. Morgan Middle East Limited, J.P. Morgan

Thereshini Peter
Chief Financial Officer for GCC, Visa Inc

Dr. Xing Zhang
Head of Climate Strategy and Policy, AIIB

Seif Amr
Co-founder & COO, Thndr

Gaurav Dhar
CEO, Marshal & MENA Fintech Association Board Member

Samy Massoud
VP of Solutions Delivery, PayTabs

2023 Sponsors

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Department of Economic Development

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• ADQ
• Etoro
• Mubadala
• World Wide Technology

OFFICIAL THEME PARTNERS:
• ADCB
• Abu Dhabi Investment Office
• Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange
• BTG Pactual
• Circle
• FAB
• History
• HSBC
• Huawei

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• ADGM Academy

OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER:
• Etihad Airways

DESTINATION & CULTURAL PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Convention & Exhubution Bureau

TECH ECOSYSTEM PARTNER:
• HUB71

SUPPORT PARTNERS:
• ADIB
• Abu Dhabi Chamber
• Executive Office of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing
• Authority of Social Contribution
• Mastercard
• WIO

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Binance
• MidChains
• OKX
• The Executive Centre
• Emirates Family Office Association