Fintech Connect Leaders Summit Asia 2023 | Worldwide Business Research (WBR) | 27 August 2023 | Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, 80 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore 189560

Over the 2.5 days you can meet the APAC leaders in digital transformation, payments, blockchain and regtech, who are driving the financial technology industry forward. Whether it be a tier 1 challenger bank, central bank or incumbent financial institution. They will be all under 1 roof!

Join them as they share practical insights for:
• Building a robust and resilient cybersecurity strategy to protect your organisation
• Exploring the opportunities and risks in ChatGPT - Is this the start of a new era?
• Leveraging blockchain technology to enable the tokenisation of traditional assets
• Building a carbon credit generation with blockchain technology to help reduce your carbon footprint and contribute to global efforts to combat climate change
• Building applications that are both cloud native and cloud agnostic

2023 Speakers

Giao Pik Ho
MD, Strategic Alliances & Fintech, Group Channels & Digitalisation, UOB

Niels Mærkedahl
Global Technology Lead, CTO for Digital Platforms, Standard Chartered Bank

Deepak Sharma
President & Chief Digital Officer, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Ashley Thomas
Head of Strategy & Operations, Revolut Singapore

Sam Tanskul
EVP Innovation & Investment and MD, Krungsri Finnovate

Colin Dinn
Chief of Information Technology & Digital Transformation, Vietcombank

Alvin Chia
SVP - Head of Digital Assets Innovation (APAC), Northern Trust Corporation

Lee Ashmore
Global Head Regulatory & Conduct IT & Regional Head Compliance IT & MI, HSBC

David Song
Digital Assets & Innovation, Green Link Digital Bank

Kriti Jain
APAC Head for New Economy, Fintechs and Platforms, Deutsche Bank

Jagdish Narayanan
Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank

Mika Ariel Von Haartmanharteva
Director – Digital Payments Support, Krungthai Card PCL (KTC)

Aly Madhavji
Managing Partner, Blockchain Founders Fund

Frankie Shuai
APAC Regional Information Security Officer DWS Group, Deutsche Bank Asset Management

Braham Djidjelli
Chief Product Officer, Hugosave

Vasanth Kumar Rajarathinam
SVP – Development Lead, Enterprise Risk, DBS Singapore

Shadab Taiyabi
President, Singapore FinTech Association

Irene Liu
Managing Director, Strategy and Consulting, Accenture

Peter M. Dingle
Head of Venture Capital, Alternatives, Asia, HSBC Global Asset Management

Jitesh Malik
Director, Digital Payments & Loyalty Program, Pulse (Prudential)

Eric SayWei Neo
Board Director, Neo & Partners Global

Abhijit Dey
Vice President - Product Head API Banking, Axis Bank

Robin Chung
Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, Wave Money

Sriram Venkatraman
Product Lead Payments and FX APAC, HSBC

Sivakumaar Palaniappan
SVP & Head of Digital Delivery, RHB Singapore

Joyce Lee Keng Chua
First Vice President Data Management Office, UOB

Balaji Natarajan
Head of Payments and Cash Management, Asia, ANZ

Peter Hoogervorst
Regional Head of Transaction Banking Products Asia, Crédit Agricole CIB

Karthick Chandrasekar
Head of Product & Commercial - Digital Payments Group, DBS Bank

Rajesh Nandakumar
Head of Technology, Westpac Institutional Bank

Phang Weikai
Executive Director Digital Currency Products, Standard Chartered Bank

Arvid Swartsenburg
Head of Digital Strategy & Transformation, UOB

Anupam Dey
Digital Product Head – APAC, Zurich Insurance

Benjamin Quinlan
CEO & Managing Partner, Quinlan & Associates

Kirill Kalashnikov
Regional Director APAC, Robocash Group

Munmun Nath
Chief Marketing Officer, UnionDigital Bank

Joe Jelinek
Research Director, Kapronasia

Zennon Kapron
Founder/Director, Kapronasia

Irfan Ahmad
Head of Commercialization, APAC & Mena, State Street Digital

Sonja Davidovic
Advisor, Bank for International Settlements

Michal Bialer
Chief Product Officer, Trust Bank

Malik Khan Kotadia
Co-founder and Chairman, Finnovation Labs

Mike Leow
SG KnowledgeNet Chair, IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals

Anirudh Mehta
Executive Manager, Models & Risk Analytics, Westpac

Brian Tang
Founding Executive Director, LITE Lab@HKU

Lito Villanueva
Chairman, Alliance of Digital Finance Associations

Chia Hock Lai
Co-founder, Global Fintech Institute

Tanvi Ratna
Founder & CEO, Policy 4.0.

Michelle Chivunga
CEO/Founder/ Investor, Global Policy House

Camilla Bullock
CEO, Emerging Payments Association Asia

William Min
Head of Digital Products, Yoma Bank

Virag Thakkar
Regional Information Security Officer (APAC), Allianz Partners

Neal Cross
Co-founder & Chairman, PictureWealth

Sanphet Sukhapesna
Head of Integrated Risk Management & Analytics, Kasikorn Bank

Chris J. "Mohawk" Reed
CEO & Founder, Black Marketing

Thee Chanyaswad
Head of Data Analytics, Kasikorn Line

Joshua Chong
Consultant, Kapronasia

Ben Heckscher
Consultant, Kapronasia

Raphael Jansa
GM, FinTech Association of HK (FTAHK) & Ambassador, Emerging Payments Association Asia

Liz Beggs
Chief Operating Officer, Payments Consulting Network and Merchant Advisory

Richa Pant
Advisor/CFO for Startup/Fintech, Financial Services Executive and Advisor

Armin Paul D. Allado
Chief Treasury Operations Officer, Bureau of the Treasury, Philippines

John McGucken
Managing Director, Fern Software

Philippe Mercier
Vice President, Solution Sales, APAC Analytics & Digital, NICE

Jinu VM
Sales Engineering Manager, Sendbird

Weihong Chua
Sales Engineer, Sendbird

Tushar Mehta
Senior Solutions Engineer, SEA, Edgio

Devon Ridley
Senior Business Development Executive, SEA, Edgio

Laurent Perche
Senior Regional Sales Manager, ANZ, Edgio

Edwin Koh
Regional Sales Director (SEA), Edgio

Zhou Jie
Senior Business Consultant, Coshine

Zhu Hang
GM, Coshine Japan

Amanda Chan
Director - Identity Solutions Cyber & Intelligence, Ekata, a Mastercard company

Dr. Bo Bai
Chairman & Founder, MVGX

Abhijit Kulkarni
VP Sales APAC, Telesign

2023 Sponsors

• Coshine
• Edgio
• Ekata Inc.
• Fern Software
• Grab
• NICE
• Sendbird
• Teleperformance
• Telesign