Fintech Week 2024 - Istanbul | Istanbul Fintech Week | 16 April 2024 | Istanbul, Turkey

The events are enriched through breakout sessions, roundtable discussions, startup pitches, and B2B meetings. IFW continues to foster the innovation ecosystem in the region by bringing industry practitioners and enthusiasts together from across the world.

2024 Speakers

Adem Aykın
United Payment, Turkey General Manager

Akshata Namjoshi
KARM Legal Consultants, Associate Partner

Ali Kutluhan Aktaş
Intertech, Executive Vice President

Armağan Aziz Kaymakçı
Innova, Director of Corporate Sales

Artur Boytsov
Ptoken, Vice President, CMO

Assad Dar
Medieval Empires, Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer

Ayşe Öztuna Bozoklar
Odgers Berndston, Managing Partner

Bilal Türkmen
Türkiye Sigorta, Assistant GM of Strategy, Digital Transformation and Marketing

Burak Bayhan
Cigna Türkiye, CMO

Borga Aruta
Esri Türkiye, Commercial Sector Manager

Calvin Chu
Impossible Finance, Core Builder

Caner Jay Baykal
Cointelegraph, Business Development Manager

Ceyda Yalçın
Türkiye İş Bankası, Digital Banking - Nays App Tribe Leader

Ceylan Onay Şahin
Brighton University, Associate Professor

Chris Skinner
11:FS, Non-Executive Director

David Atkinson
Holo Chain, Commercial Director

David Uhryniak
TRON DAO, Director of Ecosystem Development

Demet Zübeyiroğlu
FINTR, Chairperson

Deniz A. Johnson
Stratyfy, COO

Dilek Sakallıoğlu
SEDDK, Başkan Yardımcısı

Efe Bulduk
FirstBatch, Co-Founder

Elçin Karatay
Solak & Partners Law Firm, Managing Partner

Emin Vali
Metafluence, CEO & Co-Founder

Emre Ölçer
Türkiye İş Bankası, Head of Digital Banking

Erdem Aydınlı
Omega Invest, Board Member

Eren Temren
Traderlands, Ceo / Co-Founder

Ergi Şener
NomuPay, Turkiye Country Manager

Erhan Yazgan
Payfix, Board Member

Esra Özdemir
EY Türkiye, Blockchain Desk Leader

Evgeni Mitkov
Seven Seas, Managing Director

Evren Cantürk
Misyon Investment Bank, EVP

Fatih Gören
Anadolu Sigorta, Deputy Chief Executive

Gigo Joseph
Chainyard, Vice President Blockchain Services

Haluk Özek
Öneriver, Co-Founder & Product Manager

Hasan Sami Bayansar
Insha Ventures, GM

Hüsnü Avşar Gürdal
Mastercard, General Manager, Türkiye and Azerbaijan

Ian Gauci
GTG Advocates, Managing Partner

Itır Aydoğan
Yapı Kredi, Strategic Business Development and Innovation Director

Jean-Francois Rochet
Ledger, VP, International Development

Jorge Sebastiao
EcoX Dubai, Co-Founder

Kadir Mustafa Öztürk
Aktif Bank, Executive Vice President / CTO

Lisa Nestor
Airtm, Chief Strategy Officer

Mehmet Akif Eroğlu
SEDDK, Chairman

Mehmet Büyükakarsu
BNB Chain, Turkey Business Development Lead

Mehmet Emin Koç
Procenne Digital Security, Vice President of Business Development and Sales

Meral Eredenk Kurdaş
BRF Group and MLP Care, Independent Board Member

Mete Umut Elmas
KuCoin, Country Head of Turkey

Muin Oztop
Mastercard, Advisors Business Development Lead for Eastern Europe

Murat Bitirici
Odeabank, CDO

Murat Çağrı Süzer
GarantiBBVA Payment Systems, CEO

Mustafa Baltacı
KOOP, Co-Founder

Prof. Dr Naseem Naqvi, MBE, FBBA
The British Blockchain Association, President

Necip Fazıl Kaymak
Finance Office, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, Vice President

Nick Kerigan
Swift, Managing Director, Head of Innovation

Nick Spanos
Bitcoin Pioneer

Oliver Studd
Valhalla Network , CEO

Özlem Kahramaner
Arksigner, Co-Founder & VP of Public Sector Sales

Özgür Obalı
Insurance Association of Türkiye, General Secretary

Pamela A. Clegg
CipherTrace, Vice President of Crypto Investigations and Risk

Pınar Emirdağ
JP Morgan, Managing Director

Richie Santosdiaz
The Fintech Times, Economic Development Advisor

Samir Safar-Aly
Baker McKenzie LLP, Financial Regulatory, Compliance & Investigations Counsel

Sandra Ro
Global Blockchain Business Council, CEO

Sergey Ivliev
Vlinder, Founder

Shafeeq Qureshi
The Crypto Hub, Founder

Semih Gelişli
Yapı Kredi, Director of Cyber Security Center & Information Security Governance

Sinem Cantürk
KPMG Turkey, Fintech & Digital Finance Leader

Steve Good
Dreams Quest, Co-Founder

Sinan Erdem Özer
Odeabank, COO

Theodora Lau
Unconventional Ventures, Founder

Tim Byun
OKX, Global Government Relations Officer

Tarik Adnan Moon
Affine DeFi, Founder & Contributor

Tariq Qureishy
Xponential World, CEO

Tolga Ulutaş
DefineX Consulting, Technology & Labs, CEO ve Kurucu Ortak

Ulaşcan Deniz Genç
NFT Horizon, CEO

Umut Yeşilöz
İninal, Deputy General Manager - International Relations and Money Transfers

Viktor Andreas
Buildrs, CEO

Sinem Cantürk
KPMG

Hakan Tatlıcı
Mastercard

Devie Mohan
Burnmark

Claire Wells
Coinbase

Richie Santosdiaz
The Fintech Times

Dr. Vedat Güven
TİM Danışmanlık

Gilbert Cordier
Wetrade

Ali Haydar Ünsal
Identify Türkiye

Şenay Yüksel
Finteo

Yasin Kahramaner
Ark Signer

Borga Aruta
ESRİ

Alper Özata
Hiperaktif Kredi

Erdem Aydınlı
Omega Invest

Alain Thys
Shalima Ventures

Ali Çebi
Fongogo

Enis Erdem Yurdatapan
Fonbulucu

Cesur Ölçenoğlu
İnteraktif Kredi

Cem Zararsız
Teklifim Gelsin

Alex Panican
The LHoFT

Anna Maj
Centre

Başak Kural
ELogo

Bora Erdamar
BlockchainIST Center

Ceylan Onay Şahin
Boğaziçi University

Charles d’Haussy
ConsenSys

Conan French
OpenRevolution

Dalith Steiger
SwissCognitive

Daniel Bouzas
European Banking Federation

Daniel Coheur
Tokeny

Deniz A. Johnson
Stratyfy & Pera-Partners

Deniz Güven
Mox Bank

Farah Jaafar-Crossby
Labuan IBFC

Kristy Duncan
Women in Payments

Liliana Fratini Passi
CBI

Marco Nigris
Portugal Fintech

Maria Pennanen
Accelerator Frankfurt

Mariana Gospodinova
Crypto.com

Minh Q. Tran
Mandalore Partners

Mohammed Al-Rashidi
One Global

Murat Ali Çengelci
Finance Office of Presidency of the Republic of Turkey

Nithya Sharma
Women's World Banking

Pavel Kravchenko
Distributed Lab

Robin Kiera
Digital Scouting

Sandra Ro
Global Blockchain Business Council

Sopnendu Mohanty
MAS

Thaer Sabri
Electronic Money Association