Fintech Abu Dhabi 2023 | Abu Dhabi Finance Week | 28 November 2023 | TBA, Dubai, Abu Dhabi

Bringing together the best companies, innovators, and leaders in the fintech world, This events will delve into topics such as investing in the next human agenda, how social media is re-writing the banking playbook, digital payment trends, the future of digital assets and currencies. This will be a public forum for fintech founders, innovators, entrepreneurs, VCs, academics and banks.

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 Almheiri
Minister of Climate Change & Environment, Govt. of UAE

H.E. Khaldoon Al Mubarak
Managing Director & Group CEO, Mubadala

Ray Dalio
Founder, CIO Mentor, and Member of the Bridgewater Board, Bridgewater Associates, LP

Jenny Johnson
President and CEO, Franklin Templeton

Alan Howard
Founder, Brevan Howard

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

Peter Orszag
Incoming CEO, Lazard

Jenny Lee
Founding Partner, GGV Capital

Hamad AlHammadi
Chief Executive Officer, Energy & Utilities and Sustainable Manufacturing, ADQ

Mohamed Alabbar
Founder, Emaar

Todd Leland
President, International, Goldman Sachs

Mohammed Alardhi
Executive Chairman, Investcorp

Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman, VaynerX

Laura M Cha
Chairman, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing

Ruchir Sharma
Chairman, Rockefeller International

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

Andre Esteves
Chairman, BTG Pactual

Dr. Samer Haj-Yehia
Chairman, Bank Leumi

Clare Woodman
CEO & Head of EMEA, Morgan Stanley International

Jean Paul Servais
Chairman, IOSCO

Hamad Al Mazrouei
Chairman, ADGM Academy

George Osborne
Partner, Robey Warshaw

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

H.E. Dr. Abdulrahman Al Hamidy
Director General & Chairman, Arab Monetary Fund

Yoni Assia
Co-founder & CEO, eToro

Abdulla Mohamed Al Mazrui
Chairman, ADCCI

Hani Kablawi
Chairman, International, BNY Mellon

Jeremy Allaire
CEO & Founder, Circle

Atif A. Abdulmalik
CEO, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Arcapita

Gil Adotevi
CEO, Food & Agriculture, ADQ

Thomas Ingenlath
CEO, Polestar

Charles Hoskinson
Founder, Cardano

H.E. Hareb Al Muhairi
Executive Director, ADRO

Bob Steers
Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers

Dr. Jaap Kalkman
Group Chief Investment Officer, ADQ

Caroline Pham
Commissioner, CFTC

Garth Ritchie
Partner, Centricus

Henry Ward
Co-founder & CEO, Carta

Peter Hughes
Founder and CEO, Apex

Loh Chin Hua
CEO, Keppel Corporation

Murtaza Hussein
Chief Investment Officer, Alternatives & M&A, ADQ

Antoine Flamarion
Co-founder, Tikehau Capital

Ayman Hariri
Co-founder & CEO, Vero

Paul Desmarais
Chairman & CEO, Sagard

Hendrik du Toit
CEO, Ninety One

Adeeb Ahamed
Managing Director, LuLu Financial Holdings

Mustafa Alrawi
Managing Director, CNN Arabic

Fadi Ghandour
Executive Chairman, Wamda Capital

Tim Draper
Founder, Draper VC

Ming-Po Cai
Chairman & CEO, Cathay Capital

Omar Mir
CEO, WWT

Jose Marin
Co-founder, FJ Labs

Nadine Chakar
CEO, Securrency

Henry Chang
CEO, WeMade

Matt Higgins
CEO, RSE Ventures

Volkan Kurtas
Founder & CIO, Vibrant Capital Partners

Christian Angermayer
Founder, Apeiron Investment Group

Mishal Kanoo
Chairman, Kanoo Group

Ibrahim Ajami
Head of Ventures, Mubadala

Drew Goldman
Global Head of Real Estate, ADIA

Amna Al Qubaisi
Racing Driver, MP Motorosport

Joseph Bamford
Chairman, HYCAP

Doug Greenig
CEO & CIO, Florin Court Capital

Mubashir Mukadam
Managing Partner & CIO, Blantyre Capital

Konstantin Richter
CEO and Founder, Blockdaemon

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

Ajay Bhalla
President, Cyber and Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard

Dr. Horst Simon
Director, ADIA Lab

Rebeca Minguela
Founder & CEO, Clarity AI

Dr. Abed Benaichouche
Cofounder & CEO, Convergaince

Dr. Abed Benaichouche
Cofounder & CEO, Open Innovation

Gavin Rankin
Chief Investment Officer, ADCB

Dr Karim El Solh
CEO, Gulf Capital

Hamad AlMazrouei
CEO / Chairman, ADGM Registration Authority/ADGM Academy

Parag Khanna
Founder & CEO, Climate Alpha

H.E Hareb Al Muhairi
Executive Director, ADRO

HE Masaood Rahma Al Masaood
Director, Al Masaood Family Office

Jon Medved
CEO + Founder, OurCrowd

Salem Al Darei
CEO, ADGM Authority

Samir Assaf
Senior Advisor & Chairman, MENA, General Atlantic

Shmuel Chafets
Executive Chairman & Founder, Target Global

Mo Ali Yusuf
CEO, Fuze

Dmitry Tokarev
CEO, Copper

Vineet Sukumar
Founder and Managing Director, Vivriti Capital

Adel Mehrab
CIO, Al Fozan

Dhaher bin Dhaher AlMheiri
Advisor to Chairman, ADGM

Zia Hayat
Founder & CEO, Callsign

Charles Cascarilla
CEO & Co-founder, Paxos Trust Company

Bruno Lanvin
President, Smart City Observatory

Simone Maini
CEO, Elliptic

Dan Murphy
Correspondant, CNBC International

Emmanuel Givanakis
CEO, ADGM FSRA

Ahmad Ali Alwan
Deputy CEO, Hub71

Dr Nasser Saidi
President, Nasser Saidi & Associates

GV Ravishankar
Managing Director, Peak XV Partners

Ted Koenig
Chairman & CEO, Monroe Capital

Cate Ambrose
CEO, Global Private Capital Association

Michel Lowy
Founder & CEO, SC Lowy

Linda Fitz-Alan
CEO, Courts, ADGM

Puneet Agarwal
Co-founder and CEO, Moneyview

Raihan Shaikh-Khaleel
Managing Director, Swinton Capital

Ben Laidler
Global Markets Strategist, eToro

Benedict Evans
Independent Analyst

Prof. Alexander Lipton
Global Head of Quantitative R&D, ADIA

Roger Rouhana
CEO, Quantum Wealth

Samia Bouazza
Group CEO & Managing Director, Multiply Group

Arvind Ramamurthy
Chief of Market Development, ADGM

Rishi Kapoor
Co-CEO, Investcorp

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

AlDhabi Almheiri
Co-founder, Rainbow Chimney

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

Nasser Saidi
President, Nasser Saidi & Associates

Hashim Kudsi
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Liwa Capital

Casey Ge
Chief Strategy Officer, President, Win.d International

Drew Propson
Head, Technology and Innovation, World Economic Forum

Monica Malik
Chief Economist, ADCB

Raja Al Mazrouei
CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance

Alan Murray
CEO, Fortune

Ilya Kondrashov
CEO, Quantum Light Capital

Courtney Powell
COO, 500 Global

Daniel Chapman
Founder and CEO, Argentem Creek Partners

Nelson Chow
CEO, Hong Kong FMI Services

Jayesh Patel
CEO, WIO

Amira Sajwani
Managing Director, Sales & Development, Damac

Cody Combs
Futures Editor, The National

Nadine Hani
Anchor, Al Arabiya

Vanessa Grellett
President, Blockchain for Social Impact

Dominik Schiener
Chairman & Founder, IOTA

Marc Ganzi
CEO, DigitalBridge

Natella Safar
Executive Director, Registration and Licensing, ADGM

Adam Ladjadj
Founder and Chairman, EFOA

Jay Clayton
Fmr. Chairman, SEC

Patrick Tsang
Chairman, Tsangs Group

Faysal Abou Zaki
Deputy CEO, Al-Iktissad

Mahmoud Adi
Founding Partner, Shorooq Partners

Stefan Kimmel
CEO, M2

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

Hasan Fardan Al Fardan
CEO, Al Fardan Group

Nicola Jackson
Legal Director, Clyde & Co.

Dan McCrum
Author, Money Men

John Cusack
Chairman, Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime

Melda Akin
Founder, D14.ai

Faisal Al Hammadi
Managing Partner, Further Ventures

Basil Al Askari
Co-founder & CEO, Midchains

AJ Nelson
President and co-Founder, Rain

Miriam Kiwan
Vice President, MENA, Circle

Sarah Omowelu
Founder, Access Abu Dhabi, Maven

Sachin Dev Duggal
Founder & Chief Wizard, Builder.AI

Lenah Hassaballah
Editor, CNN Business Arabic

Tim Land
Executive Director, Monitoring & Enforcement, ADGM

Philippe Richard
Executive Director, International Affairs, ADGM

Etienne Schneider
ex-Deputy Prime Minister, Luxembourg

Konstantin Limitovskiy
Vice President, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Mina Al-Oraibi
Editor in Chief, The National

Matthias Buchler
Head of Strategy, ADX

Ersoy Erkazanci
Presenter, BloombergHT

Sriram Jaganmohan
Chief Investment Officer, Miras

Rohit Arora
CEO + Co-founder, Biz2Credit

Polina Lyadnova
Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Nameer Khan
Chairman, MENA Fintech Association

Sarah Cocker
Emcee, Abu Dhabi Finance Week

Usman Ahmad
CEO and co-founder, Zodia Markets

Jeff Desjardins
Founder & Editor in Chief, Visual Capitalist

Noor Sweid
Founder and Managing Partner, Global Ventures

Karim Labban
Senior Managing Director, Ankura

Brad Levy
CEO, Symphony

Saeed Al Awar
Partner, Rothschild & Co

William Pazos
Co-founder, ACX

Huda Al Lawati
Founder & CEO, Aliph Capital

Ron Daniel
Co-founder and CEO, Liquidity Group

Adam Felesky
Co-founder and 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, Global Head of AML Advisory, Kroll

Dr. Lu Shengliang
CEO, Insightic

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

Matthew Chen
CEO, OneConnect

Apoorva Sharma
Managing Partner, Stride Ventures

David Rutter
Founder & CEO, R3

Jamal Saleh
Director General, UAE Banks Federation

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

Max Yuan
Chairman & CEO, Xiao-I

Laura Gardner Cuesta
Senior Editor, Debtwire

Hussein Al Sayed
Anchor, CNBC Arabia

Prakriti Singh
SVP, Head of Acceptance and Digital, Mastercard

Rachel Pether
Anchor, Fintech.TV

Frank Dai
President, Huawei Cloud Middle East & Central Asia

Dmity Fedotov
Head, DLT Foundations Regime, ADGM

Abdallah Abu-Sheikh
Founder, Astratech

Anita Mo
CEO, Hang Seng Indexes Company

Yasmin Almostehy
Executive Director, EFOA

Asli Orbay-Graves
Deputy Editor, REDD Intelligence

Henri Arslanian
Co-founder, Nine Blocks Capital Management

Arun Mehta
Head of Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, FAB

Sonia Gokhale
Managing Partner, VentureSouq

Martina Fuchs
Business Journalist, Martina Fuchs

Jack Inglis
CEO, AIMA

Merouane Debbah
Professor, Khalifa University

Patricia Gomes
Head of Commercial Banking, MENAT, HSBC

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

Greg Shell
Partner, Impact Fund, Goldman Sachs

Matthew Amlot
Managing Editor, Arabian Business

Ronit Ghose
Global Head, Future of Finance, Citi

Karen Young
Senior Research Scholar, Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

Dan Doney
Co-founder & CTO, Securrency

Bassel Al-Khawaja
Advisory Head, Abu Dhabi IPO Fund

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

Antoine Colson
CEO, IPEM

Seth Ginns
Managing Partner, Coin Fund

Dilip N Massand
Founder & CEO, Phoenix Advisors

Jennifer Prosek
Managing Partner, Prosek

Vince Molinari
CEO, FintechTV

Dickon Johnstone
Founder & CEO, Themis

Dr. Leen Kawas
Managing General Partner, Propel Bio

Gabrielle Inzirillo
Ecosystem Development Manager, ADGM

Richard East
Senior Partner, Quinn Emanuel’s London office

Bilal Jafar
Hedge Fund Correspondent, Dow Jones

Dr. Hasanat Dewan
Managing Director and 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

Maria Gonzalez
SVP, Prosek

Kimmo Soramäki
Founder & CEO, FNA

Bas Kooijman
CEO, DHF Capital

Bhagesh Malde
Global Head of Fund Services, SS&C

Dan Tapiero
Founder CEO, 1Roundtable Partners

Rohan Doctor
Founder & CEO, Louisa.ai

Rauda Al Dhaheri
Research and Development, ADGM Academy

J.K. Khalil
General Manager MENA East, Mastercard

Salim Essaid
Middle East and Business Correspondent, AI Monitor

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

2023 Partners

HEADLINE PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Council for Economic

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Ada
• Etoto
• Mubadala
• World Wide Technology

OFFICIAL THEME PARTNERS:
• ADCB
• Abu Dhabi Investment
• ADX
• BTG
• CIRCLE
• FAB
• History
• HSBC
• Huawei

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• ADGM

OFFICIAL AIRLINE PARTNER:
• Etihad

DESTINATION & CULTURAL PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau

TECH ECOSYSTEM PARTNER:
• HUB71

SUPPORT PARTNERS:
• ADIB
• Abu Dhabi Chamber
• Trends - Globe
• Authority of Social Contribution
• MasterCard
• WIO

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• Binance
• Mid Chains
• OKK
• The Executive Centre