Fintech Surge 2021 | Dubai World Trade Centre | 17 October 2021 | Dubai World Trade Centre, Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade CentreTrade Centre 2 - Dubai - UAE

Bringing together global Fintech leaders, startups and Financial Centers, Fintech Surge is set to be the Middle East & North Africa’s most impactful and visionary event for the regional Fintech ecosystem. From Digital Banking to Paytech, Insuretech, Wealth & Asset management and Regtech, the event will see the financial industry’s biggest tech-revolutions and path-breaking talks.

Finance and technology are inseparable in today’s times. Fintech Surge stands at the convergence point, as an epicentre of the financial industry’s biggest tech-revolutions and path-breaking talks to drive an immediate and immense impact. Your fintech innovation and your business belong here – join us in contributing to the global future of your industry.

2021 Speakers

Philip King
Global Head of Retail Banking, ADIB

Kunal Choitram
Middle East and North Africa Partnerships, STRIPE

Stefan Kimmel
Chief Operating Officer, Commercial Bank of Dubai

Raja Al Mazrouei
Executive Vice President, FinTech Hive

Joy Ajlouny
Co-Founder, Fetchr

Hasan Fardan Al Fardan
CEO, Al Fardan Exchange

Monica Sasso
EMEA FSI Chief Technologist, Red Hat

Masood Khan
General Manager, YAP

Gaurav Dubey
CEO, TDeFi Accelerator

Abdulmajeed Alsukhan
Co-founder and CEO, Tamara

H.E. Gabriel Abed
Barbados Ambassador to the UAE – Government of Barbados, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade

Alex Bornyakov
Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Digital Transformation on IT industry development, Ukrainian Ministry

Jamie Broadbent
Head of Digital, Innovation & Design, RBS International

Yulia Parkhomenko
Head of Development and Financial Monitoring of Virtual Asset Market Division, Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Philipp Rösler
Former Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister of Economy and Technology for Germany

Ken Rutkowski
TEDx Speaker & Radio Host

Pedro Pinto Coelho
Chairman of AFIP, Fintech and InsurTech Portugal

Ivan Zhiznevskiy
CEO, 3S Money

Richie Santosdiaz
Head of MEA, The Fintech Times & Fintech Power 50

Walid Hassouna
Chief Executive Officer, EFG Hermes non- bank financial institutions (NBFI)

Ahmed Osama Abdelkader
Chief Risk Officer, EFG Hermes Finance

Aly Madhavji
Senior Blockchain Fellow, INSEAD

Mai Santamaria
Head of Financial Advisory, Department of Finance (Ireland)

David Lin
Anchor & Producer, KITCO

Mohamad Sabouneh
Portfolio Manager MENA, Startupbootcamp

Paul Carey
Executive Vice President – Cards & Payments, Al-Futtaim Digital Payment Services LLC

Abe Seksek
COO MENA and Russia, Startupbootcamp

Saqr Mashhor Ereiqat
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Riddermark

Josef Holm
Founding Partner, Draper Goren Holm

Eric Osiakwan
Managing Partner, Chanzo Capital

Gareth Soloway
President & CFO, Chief Market Strategist, InTheMoneyStocks.com

Thomas Baxendale
Head of Business Banking Ecosystems and Partnerships, Mashreq Bank

John Lillywhite
Google Research Associate, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government

Andrei Dikouchine
CFO, 3S Money

Salman Arif
Group Product Manager - Capital Markets, BorealisAI (Royal Bank of Canada)

Chris Voss
Author of Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It & CEO of Black Swan Group

Bader Sater
Chief Operating Officer, Bahrain FinTech Bay

Gabrielle Inzirillo
Head of Market Development, Financial Technology & Innovation, FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATORY AUTHORITY, ADGM

Shyam Mohan
VP, Fintech and Enablers, Mastercard

Edouard de La Jonquière
Global Partnership, Middle-East and Africa Expansion, STRIPE

Anders Jensen
Managing Director (MENA), Confirmation (part of Thomson Reuters)

Sami Neffati
Investcorp and Aberdeen Standard Infrastructure Partners

Filippo Renga
Director of the Fintech & Insurtech Observatory, Digital Innovation Observatories, School of Management of Politecnico di Milano

Pooja Singh CFA
International Organisations Expert, Securities and Commodities Authority

Dr. Samyr Mezzour
House of InsurTech Switzerland (HITS), A Generali Company

Stina Söderqvist PhD
Scientist, Dreams Nordic

Nick Spanos
Bitcoin Pioneer

Mohammad Omar Mansur Mansur Ikhlas
Enterprise Lead – Global Projects, Codebase Technologies

Olov Renberg
Founder & VP, Behaviosec

Grant Niven
Head of Group Digital, Banque Saudi Fransi

Hosam Arab
CEO, Tabby

Martynas Kasiulis
CEO, DailyCoin

Paulius Vaitkevičius
Legal counsel, LLM

Mirna Sleiman
Founder and CEO, Fintech Galaxy

Muaiyad Abdullah Al Fallaj
Chief Executive officer & founder member, Rasan Information Technology

Nasir Zubairi
CEO, LhoFT

Aruba Khalid
Associate Project Manager, Dubai Future Foundation

2021 Sponsors and Partners

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• Dubai International Financial Centre

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Stripe
• ADIB

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Valu
• 3s Money

SPONSOR:
• Confirmation

ECOSYSTEM PARTNERS:
• IBS Intelligence
• Fintech Galaxy
• SME10
• Arabnet
• Eye of Riyadh
• Fintechna
• Financial IT
• Fintech Finance
• Power50
• The Fintech Times
• MEA Finance
• Unlock
• Private Banking
• Women Spark
• Wealth Today
• FinSight
• Fintech Futures