Innovate Finance Global Summit 2019 | Innovate Finance | 29 April 2019 | Guildhall, Gresham St, London EC2V 7HH, UK

What to Expect in 2019

FinTech has changed how we look at financial services. It is shaping how the next generation will interact and think about finance. Catalysed by the financial crash 10 years ago, it has evolved into a powerful global movement driven by companies delivering ideas that harness the power of the digital age to create better, sustainable services for a more diverse community.

IFGS will convene the global FinTech community to the FinTech capital of the world: the UK. By showcasing the very best of industry and the global and cross-sector nature of financial innovation, it will be the definitive event for FinTech in 2019.

Why Attend?

IFGS 2019 will focus on the key areas enhancing, empowering and safeguarding the FinTech sector today and in the years to come. You will hear from the best of industry on: developments in technology, the talent and skills gap, the importance of diversity and new sessions for this year, including Green Finance and Embedded Finance. Plus.

• Outstanding world-class speakers and partners that will share their knowledge and experience in content rich sessions on our 3 stages.
• Invaluable access to 2000 key industry stakeholders influencers and unrivalled opportunities to connect with senior decision makers.
• Access to the technologies defining the FinTech sector and the people behind them.
• Brand new agenda tracks and sessions focused on the cross-sector nature of FinTech, delivering surprises as new players and ideas take the stage.
• IFGS 2019 will also mark the start of UK FinTech Week (29th April – 3rd May)

2019 Speakers

Mark Carney
Governor of the Bank of England

Susanne Chishti
CEO, Fintech Circle

Cris Conde
Senior Advisor, Accel

Goncalo de Vasconcelos
CEO, SyndicateRoom

David Goldberg
Co-founder & Global CEO, Founders Pledge

Katie Derham
Broadcaster, BBC

Anthony Danon
Principal, Speedinvest

Mark Mullen
CEO, Atom Bank

Lex Sokolin
Global Director Fintech Strategy, Partner, Autonomous Research

Raj Samani
Chief Scientist, McAfee

Catherine McGuinness
Chair, Policy and Resources Committee, City of London Corporation

Saul Klein
Investor and Entrepreneur

Stuart Sherman
CEO, IMC

Ben Davey
CEO, Barclays UK Ventures

Thomas Rex
Senior VP, Fingerprint Cards

Emily Reid
Partner, Hogan Lovells

Robert Hannigan CMG
Former Director, GCHQ

Paul Christensen
Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Previse

Sophie Stevenson-Guibaud
Vice President of European Expansion, Fidor

Chris Denson
Innovation Crush

Alston Zecha
Director, Eight Roads Ventures

Kaushalya Somasundaram
Head of Fintech Partnerships & Strategy, HSBC

Shachar Bialick
Founder, Curve

Charlotte Crosswell
CEO, Innovate Finance

Peter Lancos
Co-founder and CEO, Exate Technology

Rhydian Lewis OBE
Founder & CEO, RateSetter

Marc van Weede
Head of Corporate Development, Aegon Asset Management

Erin Platts
Head of Relationship Banking, Europe, Silicon Valley Bank

Natalie Ceeney
Chair, Innovate Finance

Keith Morgan
CEO, British Business Bank

Jacinta McNicholas
Managing Director, Inclusion, Diversity and Corporate Citizenship, State Street

Sushil Saluja
Senior Managing Director – Financial Services, Europe, Accenture

Husayn Kassai
Co-founder and CEO, Onfido

Jesse McWaters
Financial Innovation Lead, World Economic Forum

Roxana Mohammadian-Molina
Chief Strategy Officer, Blend Network

Alastair Lukies CBE
Founding Partner, Motive Partners

Davinia Tomlinson
Founder and CEO, rainchq

Tim Levene
CEO and Partner, Augmentum

Sonal Rattan
Co-Founder and CTO, eXate

Yeming Wang
General Manager, Alibaba Cloud EMEA

Rob Moffat
Partner, Balderton Capital

Eric Mouilleron
CEO, Bankable

Anne Boden
CEO, Starling Bank

Dan Cobley
Managing Partner, Fintech, Blenheim Chalcot

Manoj Saxena
Executive Chairman, Cognitive Scale

Justin Fitzpatrick
CEO & Co-founder, DueDil

Adam Farkas
Executive Director, European Banking Authority (EBA)

Chris Woolard
Board member and Director of Strategy and Competition, FCA

Martin Goodson
Chief Scientist and CEO, Evolution AI

Anne Ravanona
Founder & CEO, Global Invest Her

Russell Pert
UK Head of Industry, Financial Services, Facebook

Dr Desné Masie
Economist

Nikhil Rathi
CEO, London Stock Exchange, Plc

Ricky Knox
CEO & Co-founder, Tandem

Felicia Meyerowitz Singh
Co-Founder and CEO, Akoni

Frank Jan Risseeuw
CEO, Yolt

Suzie Neuwirth
Founder, Peer2Peer Finance News

Russell Shaw
Founder, Tech London Advocates

Dr Segun Aina OFR
President, FinTech Association of Nigeria

Stephen Dury
Head of Innovation, Santander

Monica Kalia
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Neyber

Catherine Wines
Executive Director and Co-Founder, WorldRemit

Lucy Malenczuk
Senior Policy Manager, Consumer and Community, Age UK

Charles Delingpole
Founder and CEO, ComplyAdvantage

Asif Faruque
Head of Content, L39

Karen McCormick
Chief Investment Officer, Beringea

Mark Adams
Senior Executive Leader, Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Irene Hernandez
Founder and CEO, GATACA

Bindi Karia
Innovation Expert and Advisor

Dr Jian Guang Shen, Ph.D
Vice President and Chief Economist, JD Digits

Imran Gulamhuseinwala OBE
Implementation Trustee, Open Banking Implementation Entity

Suchitra Nair
Director, EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, Deloitte

Simon Miller
UK CEO & UK Co-Founder, Scalable Capital

Freddy Kelly
CEO, Credit Kudos

Karen Kerrigan
COO, Seedrs

Ruzbeh Bacha
Founder and CEO, cityFALCON

Gordon Chapple
Manager RegTech, FCA

Nick Cook
Director of Innovation, FCA

Raman Bhatia
Head of Digital Bank UK, HSBC

David Pinski
Chief Strategist for Financial Innovation, Hitachi

Graham Kellen
CDO, Schroders

Alison Rose
Deputy CEO, Natwest Holdings. CEO, RBS's Commercial and Private Banking.

Jan Hammer
General Partner, Index Ventures

Blair Turnbull
MD, Digital & Retail, UK & International, Aviva

Greg B Davies, PhD
Head of Behavioural Science, Oxford Risk

Mark Hoban
Chair, Skills Taskforce

Keith Saxton
Ambassador, Innovate Finance

Virginia Tan
Founding Partner, Teja Ventures; Co-Founder and President, Lean In China

Jon Zanoff
Managing Director, Techstars

Chris Skinner
CEO, The Finanser

Seema Khinda Johnson
Co-Founder and COO, Nuggets

Jonathan Reynolds MP
Shadow Economic Secretary to the Treasury

Steve Hatfield
Principal, Deloitte

Anna Tsyupko
CEO and Co-Founder, Paybase

Gurpreet Johal
Partner, Deloitte

Dr. Andrei Kirilenko
Director, Centre for Global Finance and Technology, Imperial

Kieran D’Silva
Co-Founder and CFO, PrimaryBid

Matt James
Head of Scouting UK and Europe, RBS Innovation and Solutions

Thomas Bloch
Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships and Germany, Moneyfarm

Ben Mason
CEO, Compliancy Services

Daniel Hegarty
CEO and Founder, Habito

Dan Morgan
Head of Regulatory Relations Europe, Ripple

Jaidev Janardana
CEO, Zopa

Oscar Williams-Grut
Senior City Correspondent, Yahoo Finance UK

Sherry Coutu CBE
Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor

Omar Ali
Partner, EY

Anette Broløs
Independent FinTech Analyst

Vinoth Jayakumar
Investment Principal, Draper Esprit

Yusuf Özdalga
Partner, QED Investors

Ryan Edwards-Pritchard
Managing Director, Funding Options

Walter Riviera
EMEA AI Technical Solutions Specialist Lead, Intel

Stephanie Cohen
Chief Strategy Officer, Goldman Sachs

Liz Lumley
Director of FinTech, VC Innovations

Francesca Carlesi
Founder and CEO, Molo

Simon Toms
Partner, Allen & Overy

Melanie Palmer
CMO, Exo Investing

Oliver Prill
CEO, Tide

Todd Latham
Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Product, Currencycloud

Deanna Oppenheimer
Founder, CameoWorks

Ajit Tripathi
Partner, ConsenSys

Dima Dubilet
Co-Founder, Monobank

Rachel Lord
Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, BlackRock

Diana Paredes
CEO and Co-Founder, Suade

Richard Hay
UK Head of FinTech, Linklaters

Sheraz Dar
CEO, CreditLadder

Gemma Steel
Director, General Counsel and Head of Compliance, Project Imagine Dozens

Kosta Peric
Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Ben Rose
Insurance Director, Digital Risks

Adam Toms
CEO, OpenFin Europe

Lu Shuchun
Secretary-General, NIFA

Dr Lewis Z. Liu
CEO & Co-Founder, Eigen Technologies

Michael Gruener
Head of Retail Europe, Middle East & Africa, BlackRock

Jeremy Roberts
Head of UK Retail Business, BlackRock

Joe Parkin
Head of UK Sales, iShares and responsible for Aladdin Wealth Technology Distribution, UK, Netherlands and the Nordics, BlackRock

Steve Cook
CTO, Form3 Financial Cloud

Teana Baker-Taylor
Executive Director & Board Member, Global Digital Finance

Antonia Romeo
Permanent Secretary, Department for International Trade

Felicity Burch
Director of Innovation and Digital, CBI

Matteo Rizzi
Venture Partner, NEVA FinVentures

Angus Dent
CEO, ArchOver

Adrienne A. Harris
Senior Research Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Nadia Edwards-Dashti
Founder and Managing Director, Harrington Starr

Brett Shanley
CEO & Founder, Higgler

Shefali Roy
COO & Chief Compliance Officer, TrueLayer

Ryan Feit
CEO & Co-Founder, SeedInvest

Vica Manos
Managing Director, Anthemis

Becky Pritchard
People Editor, Financial News

Aritra Chakravarty
Founder & CEO, Project Imagine & Dozens

Anna Wallace
Head of Innovate, FCA

David Swanson
Head of Lending, ArchOver

Phillip Dutton
Co-Founder, Solidatus

Yuelin Li
Director of Strategy & Expansion, Onfido

James Monaghan
VP Product & Development, Evernym

Jeremy J. Wilson
Vice Chairman Corporate Banking, Barclays

Jana Mackintosh
Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy, Worldpay

Ian Howard
Co-Founder, Neotas

Matt Hopkins
Head of FinTech, BDO LLP

Kabir Kumar
Director, Flourish

Henry Ritchotte
Founder, RitMir Ventures

Donna Parisi
Derivatives Partner – Global Head of Financial Services and FinTech, Shearman & Sterling LLP

Arnaud Saint-Paul
Founder, Give Nation

Zeeshan Feroz
CEO UK, Coinbase

Joanne Smith
Group CEO, TCC.Group & Recordsure

Ben Matthews
Partner, Baringa Partners

Mike Sigal
Co-Founder, Upside Partners & General Partner, 500 Startups

Juliet Kiluwa
Digital Finance Advisor, Financial Sector Deepening Trust Tanzania

Huw Van Steenis
Senior Adviser to the Governor, Bank of England

Doris Honold
Group Chief Operating Officer, Standard Chartered

Emma Steeley
CEO, AccountScore

Lord Holmes
Richmond MBE

Paul Taylor
CEO, Thought Machine

Dan Smith
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Exponential Ventures

Asesh Sarkar
CEO, Salary Finance

Emma Huntington
Leading Innovation & Ventures, Nationwide Building Society

Giles Andrews OBE
Co-Founder & Director, Zopa

Eileen Burbidge
Partner, Passion Capital

Alliott Cole
CEO, Octopus Ventures

Reshma Sohoni
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Seedcamp

Michelle Prance
Director of Innovation & Strategy, Lloyds Banking Group

Jo Ann Barefoot
Founder & CEO, Barefoot Innovation Group

Derek Ryan
Partner, Deloitte

Marcus Scott
COO & CFO, TheCityUK

John Davies
Founder & Chairman, Kompli-Global

Andersen Cheng
CEO, Post-Quantum

Shawn Brown
CEO, Trunomi

Dave Ramsden
Deputy Governor for Markets & Branding, Bank of England

Matt Cooper
Chief Commercial Officer, Crowdcube

Ali Celiker
Founder & CEO, British Pearl

Oliver Bussmann
CEO & Founder, Bussmann Advisory

Caroline Plumb OBE
Founder & CEO, Fluidly

James Codling
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Venture Founders

Nick Roe
CEO, SelfieWealth

Elizabeth Corley CBE
Senior Advisor, Allianz Global Investors

Matt Cockayne
VP EMEA, Envestnet | Yodlee

Anastasia Dokuchaeva
Head of Partnerships, ClauseMatch

Shona Gosh
Senior Reporter, Business Insider UK

Claire Calmejane
Chief Innovation Officer, Societe Generale

Parmy Olson
Senior Technology Writer, Forbes

Nanna Saito Nielsen
Director of Banking Operations, GoCardless

Rishi Khosla
CEO, OakNorth

Munish Varma
Partner, SoftBank

Christoph Rieche
CEO & Co-Founder, iWoca

Tikhoze Banda
Senior UK Account Manager, MangoPay

Kristy Duncan
Founder & CEO, Women in Payments

Anju Patwardhan
Managing Partner, CreditEase Fintech VC Fund

Michelle Pearce-Burke
Co-Founder & CIO, Wealthify

Daniel Korski
CEO & Co-Founder, PUBLIC

Peter Radcliffe
Entrepreneur, Chairman and Board & Business Advisor

Mohamed Ait Si Brahim
CTO, Profile Pensions

David Lofthouse
Venture Partner, Clocktower Technology Ventures

Stephen Simmons
Chief Credit Officer and Data Science, Oakam

Samir Desai
CEO & Co-Founder, Funding Circle

Ian Connatty
Managing Director, Funds, British Patient Capital

Kirsty Roth
Global Head of Operations & Group General Manager, HSBC

Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Al-Khalifa
CEO, Qatar Development Bank

Ebru Pakcan
EMEA Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi

David Axford
CIO, Unum

Edward Maslaveckas
CEO, Bud

Lana Abdullayeva
Payments Innovation & Policy Director, Lloyds Banking Group

Zeeshan Feroz
UK CEO, Coinbase

David Porter
Head of Investment Delivery and Strategic Partnerships MAS Solutions, EMEA Alliance Bernstein

Jonathon Pinner
Commercial Director, Urban Jungle Insurance

Peter Simon
Lead Data Scientist: financial markets, DataRobot

David Parker
Executive Director, Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB)

Nigel Jenkinson
Assistant Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Forum

Rupert Taylor
Founder & CEO, Brismo

William Moore
CEO for Banking, Phinsys

Ian Connatty
Managing Director Funds, British Patient Capital

Anya Navidski
Founding Partner, Voulez Capital

Stephen Simmons
Chief Risk & Data Science Officer, Oakam

Charles Ng
Associate Director-General of Investment Promotion, Invest Hong Kong

Michele Foradori
Investment Manager, BlackFin

David Brear
Global CEO, 11FS

Ruby Sayed

Dave Axford
UK CIO, Unum

Rasheed M. Al Maraj
Governor, Central Bank of Bahrain

Clara Chiu
Director of Licensing and Head of Fintech Unit Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)

2019 Sponsors, Partners and Exhibitors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Deloitte

GOLD SPONSORS:
• BlackRock
• Broadgate
• DataRobot
• QDB

SILVER SPONSORS:
• ALLEN & OVERY
• COMPLIANCY SERVICES
• Eigen Technologies
• Hogan Lovells
• intel
• Linklaters
• LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
• VISA

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Baringa
• Finance Malta
• HITACHI
• HKSTP
• NEW GROUND COFFEE
• ripple

NETWORK PARTNER:
• SWIFT

PROGRAMME PARTNERS:
• EDB
• Omidyar Network
• Open Banking

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Altfi
• Bright TALK
• Business Reporter
• Chatsworth
• CIO Applications
• Fintech Conference
• Financial IT
• Fintech Finance
• Fintech Futures
• The Fintech Power 50
• FN
• MLEx
• Peer2peer
• The Fintech Times
• The Paypers
• UKTN

EXHIBITORS:
• Allen & Overy
• ShipAny
• Bankable
• Barclays
• BlackRock
• BluQube
• Bureau Van Dijk
• Citi
• Compliancy Services
• Copenhagen Fintech
• Cube
• Currencycloud
• Dataminr
• DataRobot
• DueDil
• EDB
• Eigen Technologies
• Envestment Yodlee
• EXO Investing
• ezbob
• Freight Amigo
• Hitachi
• Intel
• Invest HK
• Kompli-Global
• Linklaters
• LLoyds Banking Group
• Mangopay
• Money Forum
• NatWest
• Ngdit
• NorthRow
• oakam
• OakNorth
• Onfido
• Openfin
• Pecutus
• Saltedge
• Santander
• Seedrs
• Syndicate Room
• Synechron
• Thought Machine
• Tink
• World Remit