Finovate Middle East 2018 | Informa | 26 February 2018 | Madinat Jumeirah, 6 King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud St - Dubai - UAE

Finovate's newest event will bring together the Middle East's fintech community to showcase cutting-edge banking, financial and payments technology. See the latest fintech innovations demoed live on stage and hear insights from global financial services experts.

Who attends Finovate?

For more than 10 years, Finovate has attracted the best and brightest both on stage and in the audience:

• Decision-makers from across the financial services spectrum including banks, brokerages, card issuers,
payment providers, investment companies, insurance providers and everything in between
• Execs and founders of fintech and general technology companies
• VC, corporate, private equity and angel investors interested in funding fintech companies
• Influential research analysts, press and consultants from large financial services practices
• Leading government, regulator, and industry association representatives focused on the emerging fintech sector

2018 Speakers

Lex Sokolin
Futurist

Geert Van Kerckhoven
CEO, 0smosis

Len Adriaenssens
CMO, 0smosis

Chris Taylor
CEO , Abu Dhabi Finance

Richard Teng
CEO, Abu Dhabi Global Market

H.B. Lim
Associate Director, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

Vishal Sacheendran
Senior Specialist, Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM)

Wai-Lum Kwok
ADGM

Cigdem Iltemir Carino
Senior VP, Digital Banking Design and Innovation, Akbank

Ahmed Albalooshi
First Vice President - Head of IT, Al Baraka Banking Group

Deborah Webster
CEO & Founder, AMANI CIRCLE

Hjh Rosmah Ismail, Independent Non-Executive Director, AmBank Islamic

Narayanan Ganapathy
Chief Executive Officer , Angivest Ventures

Danny Abla
Director, Fintech , Arab Financial Services

Aleksi Grym
Head Digitalisation , Bank of Finland

Craig Moore
CEO , Beehive

Moussa Beidas
CEO & Co-Founder, Bridg Payment Solutions

Devie Mohan
CEO, Burnmark

Rajiv Shah
Middle East CEO, CapitaWorld ME

Jinand Shah
Promoter and Global CEO , CapitaWorld ME

Ateeq Ali
Regulatory Development Manager, Central Bank of UAE

Emre Karter
Managing Director, Head of Treasury & Trade Solutions, MENAPT, Citi

Ruth Wandhofer
Regulatory and FinTech expert, Citi

Mike Cunningham
CEO, Clearly

Mohamed El Sabban, Digital Innovation Head, Digital Banking & GTS, Commercial International Bank, Egypt

Andrew Reid
Head of Digital Market Management and Governance, Deutsche Bank

Bryan Stirewalt
DFSA

Serdar Guner
Director, Supervision, DFSA

Sameer Singh Jaini
Fintech Asia top 100 influencer, CEO, Digital Fifth

Avira Tharakan
CEO, Docswallet

Ágnes Bati
International Project Assistant, Dorsum

Thomas Buemsen
Managing Director, Middle East, Dorsum

Anvita Varshney
Board Member, Dubai Angel Investors

Raja Al Mazrouei
Acting Vice President, FinTech Hive, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)

Ibrahim Iqbal
Head of Customer Innovation, Dubai Islamic Bank

Hans Christensen
Director , Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

Vitor Barros
Pre-Sales Director, ebankIT

Diana Winstanley
Business Developer , ebankIT

Andrzej Szewczyk
Vice President & Managing Director, Efigence

Marek Lesiak
President & CTO, Efigence

Iván Nabalón, CEO, Electronic IDentification

Thaer Sabri
CEO, Electronic Money Association

Omeed Mehrinfar
EMEA Plug and Play

Peri Ozdemir
Head of Digital Innovation, Emirates NBD

Suvo Sarkar
Senior Executive Vice President & Group Head, Retail Banking & Wealth Management, Emirates NBD

Faisal Saeed
Head of Remittance, Emirates NBD

Naimish Shah
‎SVP, Innovation & Fintech, Architecture and Cyber Security, Emirates NBD

Arturo Gonzalez Mac Dowell
Co-founder, European Future Fintech Alliance

Tariq Sanad
CFO, Fetchr

Idriss Al Rifai
Founder and CEO , Fetchr

Amin El Kholy
Community Partner, FinTech Connector

Vikas Bansal
Community Partner, FinTech Connector

Mirna Sleiman
Co-founder , Fintech Galaxy

Zhi Ying Ng
Senior Analyst, Forrester

Maher Loubieh
Co-Founder, HalalaH

Esam Alnahdi
Co-Founder, HalalaH

Katharine Budd
Co-Founder, IBOC

Bryony Travers
Head of Marketing & Communications, IBOC

Rami El-Dokany
Founder, Inclusion

Mohamed Roushdy
Experienced CIO, Independent

Farrukh Habib
Researcher , International Shariah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA)

Tamas Erni
Chairman, Loxon Solutions

Rahul Jayakar
Head Global Transaction Services, Product and Trade, Mashreqbank PSC

Bernard Matthewman
Regional Director, MEA , Motive Labs

Andrew Fay
CEO, Munnypot

Samir El Zein
CEO & Founder, Neotic

Siddharth Bhandari
CEO & Co-Founder, Newbridge Fintech Solutions

Leonard De Tilly
CTO & Co-Founder, Newbridge Fintech Solutions

Gary Singh
VP of Marketing , Ondot

Sara Grinstead
Chief Innovation Officer, RAKBank

Padmini Gupta
CEO & Founder, rise

Michael Jesse
CEO, RISQ

Ozan Vakar
CTO, RISQ

Paul Schulte
Founder & Editor and International Fintech Guru, Schulte Research

Ahmed Agour
Associate , Sheraa

Siddiq Farid
CEO & Founder, Smart Crowd

Ambareen Musa
CEO , Souqalmal

Gaurav Dhar
International Payment Tech Entrepreneur and Investor, Mentor , Startup Bootcamp Smart City Dubai

Todd O’Brien
Managing Director, Startupbootcamp Smart City Dubai

Dharmesh Mistry
Chief Digital Officer, Temenos

Jim Marous
Author and Publisher, The Financial Brand and the Digital Banking Report

Steve Naude
Head, Middle East & Africa, Transferwise

Rahul Pai
UAE Exchange

Promoth Manghat
UAE Exchange

Ayman Adel Kamal
Deputy CEO, Union National Bank, Egypt

Saurabh Gupta
CEO & Founder, Verismart

Jaco Maritz
Chief Information Officer, Wealth Migrate

Scott Picken
CEO, Wealth Migrate

Shihab Khalil
CEO, ZagTrader

Daniel Fakhoury
Sales & Bus. Dev. Manager, ZagTrader

2018 Sponsors and Partners

EXCLUSIVE STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• United Arab Emirates Ministry of Finance

PLATINUM:
• UAE Exchange

SILVER:
• Temenos
• Profile Software

BRONZE:
• Loxon Solutions
• Plug and Play
• Ortec Finance

SUPPORTING:
• Dubai International Finavial Centre

COMMUNITY:
• Astrolabs
• Byte Academy
• EFA
• Finolab
• Holland Fintech
• Plug and Play
• Fintech Connector
• Fintech Galaxy
• SME Finance
• Femtech Leaders
• Fintech Professionals Associations
• Startup Boot Camp
• Swiss Finance + Technology Association
• Women Who Code

MEDIA:
• Banking Technology
• Bankers Hub
• Blockhain in Europe
• Block Explorer
• Big Data made simple
• Arabnet
• Aite
• Befast.tv
• Breaking Banks
• Fintech Finance
• Headcount
• Mercator Advisory Group
• Ovum
• IBs Intelligence
• Fintech Time
• Business Review
• Crowdfund Insider
• Forrester
• Innovate Finance
• Oxford business
• Financial IT
• Gigabit
• IFN
• Plus Journal
• The Paypers
• The Nilson Report
• The Fintech Times
• RFI Group