Apidays Dubai & Middle East 2023 | Apidays | 21 February 2023 | Dubai International Financial Centre, Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade Centre - DIFC - Dubai - UAE

Apidays Dubai & Middle East 2023 brings together local and international experts to share how Open Banking/Finance is evolving and transforming Financial Services in the Middle East Region. Technical advancements and success stories across various aspects of the API landscape will also form part of the event.

Apidays is the leading industry tech and business series of conferences in APIs and the programmable economy.

Financial Services across the MENA region are transforming owing to Open and Embedded Banking/Finance. These transformations open up enormous opportunities for innovation and growth across all ecosystem stakeholders – Regulators, Financial Institutions, FinTechs, and Customers. While leveraging APIs for these transformations, the region also adopts the best-in-class API ecosystem tools and standards.

2023 Speakers

Arjun Vir Singh
Partner - Global Financial Services Practice, Arthur D. Little

Ramana Kumar
CEO of Magnati

Helen Child
Founder of Open Banking Excellence (OBE)

Saleh ALhammad
Country Director, Open Banking Exchange

Mohamed Roushdy
Senior Consultant - Digital Transformation and Fintech Senior, International Finance Corporation

Craig Hughes
Vice President Of Architecture, Emirates NBD

Ayman Jaber
Chief Internal Auditor & Audit & Compliance Committee Secretary, HALA

William Ebenezer
CISO, TEXUB

Imran Qureshi
API Architect, Saudi Central Bank - SAMA

Abe Karar
Chief Product Officer, FintechGalaxy

Huw Davies
Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Office of Ozone API

Illyas Kooliyankal
Group Chief Information Security Officer, Leading Bank

Lorna Trayan
Executive Partner, CISO Advisor, Gartner

Floyd Davis
Vice President, Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific & Japan, Middle East, Solace

Somnath Sarkar
EVP - Group Head of Information Security, Mashreq bank

May Brooks-Kempler
CISO, WIO bank

Anders Olofsson
Founder of FinTech Core

Frederic de Melker
Founder of Stealth Mode Startup

Erik Wilde
API Community Builder, Getting APIs to work

Angela Halawi
Strategic Client Director - Financial Services, Microsoft

Oan Ali
Head of Architecture & DevOps Delivery, Ahli United Bank

Yasmeen Alsaffar
Director Research and Initiatives, Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Dr. Ahmed Alsayed
Head of Digital Delivery`, Bank Albilad

Arlémi Turpault
Developer Advocacy Lead, Postman

Bassem Ktita
Account Executive Leader - APIM & Open Bank, Axway

Mamadou Sow
Principal Presales Architect, Axway

Jocelyn Chamoreau
VP Sales South EMEA, Axway

Markus Müller
CTO, APIIDA

Maurizio Garzelli
Chief Solution Officer, APIIDA

2023 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Axway
• Google Cloud
• Solace

SILVER SPONSOR:
• APIIDA

BRONZE AND COMMUNITY:
• Postman
• Kong