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Jame DiBiasio is an author, media entrepreneur and journalist. He is founder of DigFin, a media brand and content agency dedicated to digital finance, fintech, and digital assets (www.digfingroup.com) that is now part of AMTD Digital. His books include "Cowries to Crypto" and "Block Kong" (co-author). His book on venture capital will be published in 2023.

吳廣宇先生目前擔任鄧白氏中國區總裁。他同時兼任華夏鄧白氏副董事長、微碼鄧白氏董事長等職務。

作為鄧白氏國際市場領導團隊的核心成員之一，吳廣宇先生全面負責鄧白氏在華業務，組織管理公司戰略的製定、實施與發展。自2019年8月以來，他成功領導了鄧白氏中國內地和中國香港團隊改善數據質量、深化產品戰略、擴展市場機會、優化企業運營，構建本土化商業模式，從而實現公司戰略轉型，驅動業務可持續增長。

吳廣宇先生在全球數據、金融和信用行業擁有多年的從業經歷和管理經驗，他曾常駐北京、上海、香港、迪拜、法蘭克福、米蘭和英屬澤西島等地，擁有外資、民營和國有企業等多類型企業領導經歷，在職業生涯中多次成功帶領團隊實現戰略轉型、組織變革和業務增長。

憑藉豐厚的行業經驗和國際化視野，吳廣宇先生多次受邀出席頂尖大會發表演講，針對數字經濟、數字化轉型、金融科技、信用體系建設等關鍵議題分享洞見，包括中國國際進口博覽會、中國數字化創新博覽會、中國國際信用和風險管理大會以及外灘大會等。

加入鄧白氏之前，吳廣宇先生曾就職於主要信用評級機構和國際銀行，擔任重要職務。

吳廣宇先生畢業於中國人民大學和英國華威大學，擁有管理學碩士學位。

Current Position and Responsibilities 
Maaike Steinebach is Visa’s General Manager for Hong Kong and Macau. She is responsible for the full business operations, strategy development and management of Visa’s businesses in the two territories. She is also the founding member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong.  

Other Information  
Maaike brings more than 20 years of experience working in institutional, commercial and private banking in Europe, Asia, and Greater China.  

Before joining Visa, Maaike served for five years as Country Executive of Commonwealth Bank of Australia (Hong Kong), and before that as Country Executive for ABN AMRO (Hong Kong) and Regional Head Asia for the corporate bank. Prior to Hong Kong, Maaike spent five years in Shanghai as Country Manager for Fortis Bank Greater China.  

As founding member of Women in Tech HK and Women Chief Executive Group HK, Maaike is active in the advocacy for full and equal participation of women and girls in Hong Kong economy and society. She is also an active member in the fintech community in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area.  

Maaike has a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Jehan Chu is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kenetic, a blockchain Venture Capital and cryptocurrency trading firm based in Hong Kong. A former front-end developer, he started investing in cryptocurrency in 2013 and has invested and supported over 230 projects. Jehan founded the Ethereum HK community (2014), co-Founded the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong (2014) and founded the Hyperledger HK community (2016).

Jehan is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program, Director’s Circle of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is co-Founder and Board member of Social Alpha Foundation, a blockchain/social impact non-profit. Jehan holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University and MA from Hong Kong University / Central St. Martin’s.

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A seasoned management consultant and finance industry professional, Helene has held various senior management positions in Strategic Planning, Marketing and Branding throughout her career which includes tenure at global consulting giants Boston Consulting Group and Willis Towers Watson.

Prior to founding GoImpact platform developed to accelerate the adoption of Sustainable Finance, Helene was Managing Director and Head of Strategic Planning, Brand and Communications Asia Pacific for BNP Paribas Wealth Management, a role she has held for 5 years. She also held similar roles at J.P. Morgan Private Bank and Swiss wealth management firm Lombard Odier. In these capacities, she was instrumental in advancing the agenda of Sustainable Finance and Investments across a broad client base of family offices and asset owners.

Helene is a known Influencer and Key Opinion Leader in Fintech and Digital Transformation, recognized by Thomson Reuters Refinitiv as Top 5 in Asia Pacific, and globally a Top 2 Influencer in Sustainable Finance. She has received numerous accolades as Top 100 Women in Finance from FinTech Times, and Top 50 Hall of Fame Global Fintech Leaders. GoImpact platform has already forged partnerships with key players like Temasek Foundation, UNDP, Financial Times and Bloomberg since inception one year ago.

A sought-after speaker and moderator at Fintech and Sustainable Finance forums, Helene graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a First Class Honors degree in English and Economics.

Bénédicte is the Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong Centre. Prior to this appointment, she was a managing director at SC Ventures, the innovation arm of Standard Chartered Bank that leads a series of new ventures across digital banking, banking as a service, SME finance and blockchain. From 2018-2019, she was the Vice President of International Government Relations at Circle, involved in the evolution of blockchain and digital assets. From 2012-2018, she was the Head of Risk & Strategy of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), and in that capacity also acting as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Emerging Risks and the Fintech research lead for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). From 2007-2012, she was a managing director at Credit Suisse and before that from 1997-2007 she was an associate and executive director at Goldman Sachs. Originally from Belgium, she holds LL.M. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Leuven. She is admitted to the New York Bar since 1999. In 2016, she was a recipient of the China Daily Asian Women Leadership Awards for her efforts related to entrepreneurship, innovation and charity. She remains closely engaged in these topics, most recently through her involvement in the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK) and Women in Finance Asia (WiFA.)

Arthur has served as Futu’s Chief Financial Officer since September 2017. Prior to joining the Company, Arthur served as a director at Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited from 2009 to 2016 in its equity business. He also served as a vice president at China International Capital Corporation from 2005 to 2009. Arthur received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Shanghai University of Finance & Economics in 1998 and his master’s degree in business administration from China Europe International Business School in 2005.

Dr. YI Gang is the Governor of the People’s Bank of China and the Deputy Director of the Financial Stability and Development Committee of the State Council. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements.

Dr. Yi joined the People’s Bank of China in 1997 and has held a number of positions, including Secretary-General of the Monetary Policy Committee and Director-General of the Monetary Policy Department. In December 2007, he became a deputy governor and was appointed Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange in July 2009, a position he held until December 2015. He was appointed Governor of the People’s Bank of China in March 2018.

Dr. Yi received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois in 1986 and was a faculty member in the Department of Economics, Indiana University from 1986 to 1994. In 1994, he co-founded the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University and has been a professor at the CCER since then.

His research interests include money, banking and the Chinese economy.

許正宇由二零二零年四月二十二日起出任財經事務及庫務局局長。

許正宇於一九九九年至二零零三年期間出任特區政府政務主任,曾被調派到經濟發展科、香港特區政府駐北京辦事處和民政事務總署服務。他在二零零三年離開政府後曾任職銀行界,其後在香港交易所工作長達十多年,並自二零一九年起出任香港金融發展局行政總監。

許正宇持有英國牛津大學哲學、政治及經濟系榮譽學士與碩士學位,以及INSEAD工商管理碩士學位。他亦參與史丹福大學行政人員培訓課程。

Ms. Jessica Tan is currently Co-CEO of Ping An Group (the “Group”), overseeing the Group’s insurance, technology and healthcare businesses. She sits on the Group’s Executive Committee and Investment Management Committee for its over 30 subsidiaries across Insurance, Banking, Investment, Technology and Internet businesses. She is in charge of 10+ Ping An subsidiaries. Ms. Tan also serves on the board of a number of subsidiaries under Ping An Bank, Ping An Property & Casualty, Ping An Life, and Ping An Asset Management.

In Ms. Tan’s 9 years at Ping An, the Group grew from the world’s 30th largest financial conglomerate into the 2th, serving 668 million online users and 225 million financial customers. Moreover, Ping An made major strides in technology and innovation, having established research institutes and increasing its R&D staff from to over 30,000 (including nearly 3,900 scientists). The Group has filed over 43,000 patent applications around the world, ranking 1st for fintech, AI and digital healthcare globally. In addition, Ping An has won over 70 international championships in the last 5 years, including image recognition, semantic understanding, deep learning, medical imaging, intelligent diagnosis, and has published over 250 papers in internationally renowned journals covering healthtech, AI and other fields, such as The Lancet and American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Ms. Tan serves as a member of several government advisory committees, including a global director of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), a member of the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (the Geneva Association), a member of international advisory panel for Human Health and Potential (HHP) of Singapore, a member of International Advisory Board (IAB) of University of Oxford Blavatnik School of Government, an international Advisor of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a member of Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), and an expert advisor of Shenzhen Advisory Committee, as well as an advisor of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC). She also represented Ping An as one of Co-Chairs for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos event in 2019. Ms. Tan received the Chinese Government Friendship Award in 2019. In 2020, Ms. Tan was listed by the Fortune magazine as the second most powerful woman outside of the US, and won the “Best 2 CEO” award from Institutional Investor’s 2020 All-Asia Executive Team rankings. In 2021, Ms. Tan was named Her World magazine's Woman of the Year, and ranked 6th on the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders list by the Fortune magazine.

Before joining Ping An, Ms. Tan served as a global partner at McKinsey & Company. In her 13 years with McKinsey in the USA and ten Asian countries, Ms. Tan has worked with over 30 world-leading financial and technology companies and regulatory authorities, focusing on strategy, innovation, operations and technology. She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and two bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics respectively. As a native Singaporean, Ms. Tan is married and has two daughters.

Ray Dalio is the founder, Co-CIO and Co-Chairman of Bridgewater Associates, a global macroeconomic investment management firm and the largest hedge fund in the world. A global macro investor for more than 50 years, Ray started Bridgewater out of his two-bedroom apartment in NYC and ran it for most of its 45 years. He is also the author of New York Times #1 bestseller Principles: Life & Work as well as Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, which he co-published with Bridgewater. Additionally, Ray has also published several studies on current financial and social issues including “Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed” and “The Changing World Order: Why Countries Succeed and Fail”; both are available on LinkedIn. He graduated with a B.S. in Finance from C.W. Post College in 1971 where he majored in finance and he received an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1973. He has been married to his wife, Barbara, for more than 40 years and has four grown sons. He is an active philanthropist with a special interest in ocean exploration, microfinance and equal educational opportunities for underprivileged youth.

余偉文先生於2019年10月1日起出任香港金融管理局總裁。他於1986年加入香港政府為政務主任，其後於1993年加入當時新成立的金管局，一年後擢升處長。他於2001年獲委任為助理總裁，並於2007年獲委任為副總裁，直至出任現職。

余先生在金管局先後負責不同範疇的工作。任職副總裁期間，他負責儲備管理、研究事務、對外事務以及市場發展，推動了多項重要金融政策和項目。余先生積極參與了金融危機的應對工作，並在優化聯繋匯率制度的過程中擔當重要角色。

余先生畢業於香港中文大學及美國哈佛商學院。

Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists, with a thirty-year track record of accurate predictions. Called "the restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes magazine, he was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the "rightful heir to Thomas Edison. PBS selected him as one of the "sixteen revolutionaries who made America."

Ray was the principal inventor of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.

Among Ray’s many honours, he received a Grammy Award for outstanding achievements in music technology; he is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, holds twenty-one honorary Doctorates, and honours from three U.S. presidents.

Ray has written six national best-selling books, including New York Times best sellers The Singularity Is Near (2005) and How To Create A Mind (2012). His latest novel, Danielle: Chronicles of a Superheroine, is an Amazon Best Seller and was a Publisher’s Weekly Top 10 Children’s Fiction book. He is co-founder and Chancellor of Singularity University and a Director of Engineering at Google, heading up a team developing machine intelligence and natural language understanding. 

Neil Shen is Steward of Sequoia Capital, and Founding & Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital China. He is also Co-Founder of Trip.com (NASDAQ: TCOM) and Homeinns Hotel Group (NASDAQ: HMIN). 

Neil Shen has received numerous honors and awards in China and across the globe.  He continued to hold the top position in The Midas List by Forbes from 2018 to 2020. When he reached the top of The Midas List 2018, it marked a milestone - the first time a Chinese national has hit the top of the list. He has been the highest-ranking Chinese investor on The Midas List for the year from 2012 to 2020, and also is listed in the "100 Greatest Living Business Minds" by Forbes. In addition, he was listed on the "50 Most Influential Business Leaders in China" and "30 Most Influential Investors in China" by Fortune for the years 2015 to 2020, and "Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide" by New York Times and CB Insights from 2016 to 2019.

Neil Shen serves on a number of philanthropic and public organizations and industry associations, including holding the role of Vice Chairman of the VC Funds Committee of Asset Management Association of China, Member of the Hong Kong Chief Executive’s Council of Advisors on Innovation and Strategic Development, Member of HKEX International Advisory Council, Chair of the Yale School of Management Board of Advisors, Chairman of Yale Center Beijing Executive Council, Trustee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Director of Yabuli China Entrepreneur Forum (CEF). 

He received his Master's degree from Yale University and Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures  (www.sinovationventures.com/) and President of Sinovation Venture’s Artificial  Intelligence Institute. Sinovation Ventures, managing US$2 billion dual currency  investment funds, is a leading venture capital firm focusing on developing the next  generation of Chinese high-tech companies. Prior to founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr.  Lee was the President of Google China, and senior executives at Microsoft, SGI, and  Apple. Dr. Lee received his Bachelor degree from Computer Science from Columbia  University, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Honorary Doctorate  Degrees from both Carnegie Mellon and the City University of Hong Kong. He is the  Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence Council for World Economic Forum Center for the  Fourth Industrial Revolution, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics  Engineers (IEEE), Times 100 in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons , Asian Business Leader 2018  by Asia House, and followed by over 50 million audience on social media.  

In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee built one of the first game playing programs to defeat a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the world’s first large-vocabulary, speaker independent continuous speech recognition  system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named as the hottest research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the great majority of AI leaders in China, including CTOs or AI heads at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While with Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have been featured on Good Morning America on ABC Television and the front page of Wall Street Journal. He has authored 10 U.S. patents, and more than  100 journal and conference papers. Altogether, Dr. Lee has been in artificial  intelligence research, development, and investment for more than 30 years. His  New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book AI Superpowers: China,  Silicon Valley, and the New World Order (aisuperpowers.com) discusses  US-China co-leadership in the age of AI as well as the greater societal impacts  brought upon by the AI technology revolution.

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor.  He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times, The Straits Times and many media outlets worldwide.  He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a professor at Columbia University.

After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership.  During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%.  Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37.  Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS's 'The Dreyfus Roundtable' and FNN's 'The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers'.

In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records.  As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas.  He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.  Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999.  He traveled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record.  Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip.  His book, Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market, was published in 2004.  Another of his books A Bull in China describes his experiences in China as well as the changes and opportunities there. His recent book A Gift to My Children is a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (as well as for all adults and children) to find success and happiness. His latest memoir Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets was published in February 2013. Recently in January 2018, his book A Gift to My Children, 2nd edition which was published in Chinese, was launched in China. And in October 2018, another of his book The Next Big Wave, published in Complex Chinese, was launched in Taiwan. Rogers had two number one bestsellers in Japan namely The Future of Japan and A Warning to Japan that were published in January and July 2019 respectively.

Bill Winters is the Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered PLC (June 2015 – Present).

Bill is a Non-Executive Director of Novartis International AG. He presently Chairs the Taskforce for Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets and Co-Chairs the B20 Action Council on Sustainability & Global Emergencies.

Bill spent 26 years with JP Morgan and was Co-CEO of the Investment Bank (2004-2009).  He was a committee member of the Independent Commission on Banking, established by the UK Govt (2010) and served as advisor to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards. Bill also founded Renshaw Bay, a hedge fund which he ran from 2011-2015.

Bill holds an MBA from Wharton and was awarded a CBE in 2013.

Ashley is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong. He was first appointed in October 2011. In May 2016, Ashley was elected as Chair of the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and was re-elected for a further two-year term in June 2020.

Ashley was previously Chair of the IOSCO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee and Vice Chair of the IOSCO Board. Ashley has represented IOSCO as a member of the Financial Stability Board Steering Committee and Plenary since his election as IOSCO Board Chair.

Ashley started his career as a lawyer in London in 1984. He moved to Hong Kong in 1989 with the international law firm Herbert Smith, practicing corporate and business law. He was Executive Director of Corporate Finance at the SFC from 2001 to 2004, before returning to Herbert Smith, where he became head of the firm’s Asia Region.

張先生於1983年加入政務主任職系，退休後從2018年8月起出任保監局行政總監。他曾擔當的主要崗位包括：1998年至2001年在亞洲金融風暴爆發期間，出任香港駐新加坡經濟貿易辦事處處長；2006年至2009年出任保險業監理專員，經歷環球金融危機；2009年至2011年出任香港郵政署長；2011年至2015年出任海關關長，以及2015年至2017年出任公務員事務局局長。他現任國際保險監督官協會執行委員會成員和亞洲保險監督官論壇主席。

Peter Babej is CEO of Citi Asia Pacific, responsible for all businesses in the 17 countries and jurisdictions where Citi is present. Peter is a member of Citi's Executive Management Team.

Before his current role, Peter served as Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group. Under his leadership, Citi attained a leading position in the sector and participated in numerous landmark transactions globally.

Prior to joining Citi, Peter served in senior roles at Deutsche Bank and Lazard, where he advised financial institutions across North America, Europe and Asia.

Peter holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, and a J.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a director of Lungevity Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lori Beer is the Global Chief Information Officer (CIO) of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and a member of the company's Operating Committee, responsible for the firm's technology systems and infrastructure worldwide. Beer manages a budget of more than $11 billion and over 50,000 technologists supporting JPMorgan Chase's retail, wholesale and asset and wealth management businesses. She also serves as the co-sponsor of the firm's Access Ability Business Resource Group.

Beer joined the firm in 2014, and was most recently the Chief Information Officer for the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). Prior to joining the firm she was Executive Vice President of Specialty Businesses and Information Technology for WellPoint, Inc., responsible for a $10 billion business unit which included WellPoint's Specialty Products.

She also serves as a member of the University of Cincinnati's Lindner College of Business Advisory Council and has endowed a scholarship at the University to support the growing number of women in STEM careers.

Beer has been named a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader and National Association for Female Executives Women of Excellence Health Care Champion. She has also been ranked one of the Most Powerful Women in Banking by American Banker.

Beer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Dayton.

Sophia personifies Hanson Robotics’ greater mission of developing intelligent, empathetic robots that make a positive impact on humanity and co-create a better future for all.

Sophia is Hanson Robotics’ most advanced human-like robot, created by combining break-through innovations in robotics, AI, and artistry. She is endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity, and can simulate a full range of facial expressions, track and recognize faces, and hold natural conversations with people.

Sophia became a much-sought-after media personality, advocating for AI research and the role of robotics and AI in people’s lives. She has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes with Charlie Rose, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, GoodMorning Britain, and has been a keynote speaker and panel member at some of the world’s most prestigious conferences. She has also addressed members of the UN, ITU, and NATO.

Sophia is a vessel for AI research and development. Working with labs, universities, and companies around the world, Sophia donates her body, brain and AI to help advance AI research and development for a benevolent future.

Sophia has also received the title of Innovation Champion for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to promote sustainable development with the use of technology and innovation in developing countries. She was also named the 2018 Gold Edison AwardTM winner in Robotics.

Kathryn Petralia is the President and Co-Founder of Kabbage, a leading global financial services, cash-flow technology and data platform for small businesses.
Before co-founding Kabbage, Kathryn spent nearly 15 years with fintech and ecommerce startups. After graduating from Furman University with an English degree, Kathryn pursued her interest in technology to launch a number of successful startups. She also served as Vice President of Strategy for Revolution Money, which was acquired by American Express, and was the director of corporate development for CompuCredit. In 2017, she was named to Forbes’ 2017 list of the World’s Most Powerful Women. Kathryn recently co-founded Drum, a platform reinventing sales infrastructure by connecting businesses to their ideal customers through an infinitely scalable sales force.

Kathryn serves on the boards of CARE USA, Fannie Mae Advisory Board, The Woodruff Arts Center, Padsplit, Rented.com, and the Atlanta Chamber Music Festival.

Professor Klaas Knot has been President of De Nederlandsche Bank since 1 July 2011. He serves as Vice Chair of the Financial Stability Board and Chair of its Standing Committee on the Assessment of Vulnerabilities. He is a member of the Governing Council and the General Council of the European Central Bank, member of the European Systemic Risk Board, Governor of the International Monetary Fund, Governor of the Bank for International Settlements and also member of its Board of Directors.

Klaas holds several secondary positions. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of the CliniClowns Foundation. Since 2005, he has been Honorary Professor of Economics of Central Banking at the University of Groningen and since 2015 he is also Honorary Professor of Monetary Stability at the University of Amsterdam. Klaas has published several articles in leading (international) journals in monetary and financial economics.

Before taking up DNB’s presidency, Klaas was Deputy Treasurer-General and Director of Financial Markets at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (2009-2011). Between 1995 and 2009 he held several positions at DNB, the Pension and Insurance Authority (2003-2004) and the International Monetary Fund (1998-1999).

In 1991, he graduated with honours in economics at the University of Groningen. In 1995, he obtained his PhD in economics.

賴智明在2009年加入騰訊，於2012到2019年間擔任財付通總經理。 2015年，騰訊的支付業務升級至業務線，騰訊金融科技 (Tencent FiT) 隨之成立，並由賴智明擔任負責人至2019年。 

在擔任財付通總經理和騰訊金融科技負責人期間，賴智明和團隊為騰訊打造支付基礎設施及金融開放生態做出了具有戰略意義的重大貢獻。在支付領域，賴智明和團隊於2014年推出了國民級移動支付應用—— 微信紅包和QQ紅包，深受數億用戶的喜愛，實現了全球最大規模的互聯網金融創新，為騰訊移動支付彎道超車和攻取行業制高點打下了堅實基礎。2014年，賴智明和團隊還推出了騰訊金融科技旗下的專業理財平台——“理財通”。經過短短幾年的發展，騰訊“理財通”的總客戶資產已超過人民幣8,000億元（截至2019年上半年）。在賴智明的領導下，騰訊金融科技成功建立起以支付為入口，覆蓋理財、證券、銀行、區塊鏈等多元領域的金融生態體系，確立了在金融科技領域的領先地位。2017年，賴智明發起成立了騰訊金融學院並擔任院長，致力於結合騰訊在互聯網和金融領域的優勢，培養互聯網和金融跨界人才以促進金融科技行業的發展。

虛擬銀行作為騰訊在香港佈局的關鍵一環，承擔著探索創新和改革攻堅的重任。2019年5月，在賴智明的帶領下，由騰訊等投資發起設立的香港虛擬銀行——富融銀行成功獲得香港金融管理局頒發的虛擬銀行牌照。2019年6月，賴智明作為騰訊集團副總裁出任富融銀行董事長。

賴智銘曾任眾安在線財產保險股份有限公司、和泰人壽保險股份有限公司、中信資本控股有限公司等知名金融企業的董事，協助打造騰訊金融業務生態。

加入騰訊集團前，賴智明在英國Apax Partners私募基金和美國雷曼兄弟投資銀行都擔任投資經理，也曾在瑞士信貸第一波士頓投資銀行擔任助理副總裁。

賴智明是廣東省政協委員，亦是香港特別行政區行政長官創新及策略發展顧問團成員和創新、科技及再工業化委員會委員、香港金融發展局董事會成員兼政策研究小組召集人、香港金融管理局外匯基金諮詢委員會金融基建及市場發展委員會成員。賴智明於2009年獲選“江蘇省無錫市530計劃企業優秀領軍人物”。

賴智明於美國麻省理工學院獲得計算機學士及碩士學位，輔修經濟學，並於美國哈佛大學商學院獲得工商管理碩士學位。

David Hanson develops robots that are widely regarded as the world’s most human-like in appearance, in a lifelong quest to create true living, caring machines. To accomplish these goals, Hanson integrates figurative arts with cognitive science and robotics engineering, inventions novel skin materials, facial expression mechanisms, and collaborative developments in AI, within humanoid artworks like Sophia the robot, which can engage people in naturalistic face-to-face conversations and currently serve in AI research, education, therapy, and other uses.

Hanson worked as a Walt Disney Imagineer, both a sculptor and a technical consultant in robotics, and later founded Hanson Robotics. As a researcher,Hanson published dozens of papers in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals — including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI, AI magazine and more. He wrote two books including“Humanizing Robots” and received several patents. Hanson was featured in the New York Times, PopularScience, Scientific American, WIRED, BBC and CNN.He also received earned awards from NASA, NSF,Tech Titans’ Innovator of the Year, RISD, CooperHewitt Design Triennial, and the co-received the 2005 AAAI first place prize for open interaction of an AI system. Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a BFA in lm Animation video from the Rhode Island School of Design.

邱先生由二○一七年七月一日起出任商務及經濟發展局局長，負責的範疇涵蓋商貿、電訊和廣播政策，亦包括推動創意產業、保護知識產權和消費者權益，以及促進外來投資和旅遊業發展。 

邱先生一直從事政府公務。在出任商務及經濟發展局局長前，於二○ 一二年至二○一七年期間擔任行政長官辦公室主任，協助行政長官制 訂政策及訂立施政方針、目標和優次。他於二○○七年至二○一二年出任環境局局長，負責環境保護、能源、自然保育及可持續發展的政 策。 

邱先生於一九八一年加入公務員行列，任職政務主任。他任職公務員多年間，曾出掌不同部門，包括擔任政府新聞處處長、教育統籌局副 秘書長、工業貿易署副署長和香港特別行政區政府駐美國華盛頓經濟 貿易辦事處處長。 

邱先生畢業於香港大學，其後分別於牛津及哈佛大學進修。

Christine leads the Interbank Information Network (IIN), a new ecosystem and network that enables collaboration, easy and direct access to value-added applications, and commercialization opportunities for financial institutions, corporates and fintechs. Additionally she oversees J.P. Morgan’s global Blockchain team, tasked with setting a comprehensive blockchain strategy for the firm and its various lines of business, designing and driving the development of cutting edge technology products, collaborating with the blockchain and crypto ecosystem, and guiding clients on the journey. Previously, she led development of productionized credit risk tools in Global Wealth Management and held various sales & structuring roles across Commodities, Asset-Backed Securities, and Syndicated Loans. She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was recently named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.”

Joseph Lubin is a co-founder of Ethereum and founder and CEO of ConsenSys, one of the world's leading blockchain technology companies.

In 2014, Joseph co-founded the Ethereum Project and founded ConsenSys to focus on building infrastructure, developer tools, and decentralized applications on the Ethereum platform. Prior to working on Ethereum, Lubin’s career focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance, including his role as VP of Technology in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs.  

Joseph graduated cum laude with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton.

Oliver oversees the strategic direction of the Tinkoff financial and lifestyle ecosystem.

He joined Tinkoff as CEO in 2007 and has been at the helm every step of the way, helping Tinkoff grow into the world's largest independent digital bank by customer base. Before joining Tinkoff, Oliver worked for Visa International for a decade, including as Head of Visa in Russia from 2005 until 2007. Prior to Visa, he held various positions including at Reebok, Shell UK, and the British Library.

Oliver holds a Master of Arts degree in International Politics from Leeds University and a Master’s degree in Information Management and Technology from City University in London. He also has a Bachelor’s (First Class) degree in Russian and French from the University of Sussex.

Renaud is the co-founder and CEO of Upgrade, Inc. a neobank that offers affordable and responsible credit to mainstream consumers. Under his leadership, Upgrade reached $100 million in revenue run rate, profitability and a billion-dollar valuation within 3 years of launch. Upgrade is the only neobank backed by one of the world’s top 10 largest banks. Prior to Upgrade, Renaud founded and ran Lending Club for 10 years. He took the company public, reaching a market capitalization of $10 billion in December 2014. At Lending Club, Renaud pioneered consumer fintech and grew the company to become the largest provider of
personal loans in America.

Renaud was ranked #23 in Bloomberg Markets’ 2015 Most Influential List, an annual ranking of the World’s top 50 most influential leaders across technology, finance, and politics. He was also recognized at the Clinton Global Initiative by President Clinton for expanding access to affordable and responsible credit. In 2014, he won the Economist Innovation Award in the consumer products category and was named the best start-up CEO to work for; by Business Insider. Renaud holds the Newport-Bermuda world speed sailing record.

Agustín Carstens became General Manager of the BIS on 1 December 2017.

Mr Carstens was Governor of the Bank of Mexico from 2010 to 2017. A member of the BIS Board from 2011 to 2017, he was chair of the Global Economy Meeting and the Economic Consultative Council from 2013 until 2017. He also chaired the International Monetary and Financial Committee, the IMF's policy advisory committee from 2015 to 2017.

Mr Carstens began his career in 1980 at the Bank of Mexico. From 1999 to 2000, he was Executive Director at the IMF. He later served as Mexico’s deputy finance minister (2000–03) and as Deputy Managing Director at the IMF (2003–06). He was Mexico's finance minister from 2006 to 2009. 

Mr Carstens has been a member of the Financial Stability Board since 2010 and is a member of the Group of Thirty.

Mr Carstens holds an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. 

Claire Calmejane began her career in 2006 in the Technology Transformation department of Capgemini Consulting, where she supported companies and especially financial institutions in their technological and digital transformation. Contributing to a study on the digital transformation of large companies led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2011, she joined the London office of Capgemini to lead the digital centre of the Financial Services sector. Recruited in 2012 by Lloyds Banking Group as Head of Digital Delivery in the Online Services Department, she was appointed Innovation Director and set up the Innovation Labs and the Digital Academy before being appointed Risk Transformation Director at Lloyds Banking Group.

In September 2018, Claire Calmejane joined Societe Generale as Group Chief Innovation Officer. She is a member of the Group’s Management Committee
Claire Calmejane studied IT Engineering with a degree from the École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées (EPITA) and a Masters degree from the HEC French school of management.

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Mr. Tang studied mathematics at Peking University, and gained a bachelor’s degree in economics at the University of the South (Sewanee) in the US. In 2018, he was awarded the honorary doctorate degree of the University of the South (Sewanee) for his outstanding achievements in the fintech field. During his early career, Mr. Tang joined Wall Street investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he worked on IPO, bond issuance and M&A in the areas of financial services, telecommunications, media and technology.

Mr. Tang founded CreditEase in Beijing in 2006. After efforts of 14 years, CreditEase has grown into an internationally leading fintech enterprise, promoting the development of inclusive finance and wealth management career in China. On December 18, 2015, CreditEase listed its online consumer finance and wealth management subsidiary, Yiren Digital, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:YRD), the first fintech company IPO from China in the global capital markets.

Mr. Tang serves as Chairman of Beijing Internet Finance Association and the member of Specialized Committee for Funds of Funds of China Securities Investment Fund Industry Association, Global Leadership Committee of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Shanghai Finance Institute. In September 2018, Mr. Tang was appointed financial advisor of Xi'an Municipal People's Government. CreditEase serves as member of Standing Committee of National Internet Finance Association of China as well as Vice Chairman of China Micro-credit Companies
Association. Invited by the Singapore Government, as from November 2018, Mr. Tang will sit on its International Technology Advisory Panel to advise Fintech developments. Mr. Tang is also a member of The Wall Street Journal CEO Council and Fortune CEO Initiative. In March 2019, Mr.
Tang became the executive director of China Mergers & Acquisitions Association.

薛永恒先生於1984年加入政府，任職助理機電工程師，於2001年晉升為總機電工程師，於2007年晉升為政府機電工程師，於2011年晉升為機電工程署副署長。他於2017年10月起出任機電工程署署長，並兼任機電工程營運基金總經理。2020年4月22日，薛先生獲委任為創新及科技局局長。

薛先生是一位電機工程師，擁有30多年公共行政經驗，現為香港工程師學會的資深會員，並曾擔任香港設施管理學會會長，以及香港工程師學會生物醫學分部的主席。

薛先生持有香港理工學院電機系院士及香港中文大學工商管理碩士。他亦曾於哈佛大學商學院進修。

Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce worldwide. Founded in 2013, Circle is the pioneer of the fastest growing fiat-currency backed stablecoin, USD Coin. Previously, Mr. Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech. Mr. Allaire provides perspective and policy recommendations at the highest levels inside financial bodies across the US, UK, and Europe.

Mr. Lau is currently Chairman & CEO of WeSure, Tencent’s Internet insurance platform. Tencent WeSure works with leading insurance companies to select and offer insurance services to over a billion users on the WeChat and QQ platforms. Before WeSure, he was Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. and Asia Head of McKinsey Digital. Mr. Lau graduated from Oxford University with a Master degree in Engineering, Economics and Management.

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As Founder & Executive Chair of 10x Future Technologies, Antony defines our purpose - making banking 10x better.

Antony is committed to driving the digital economy beyond the boundaries of 10x; he serves as Group Chairman of Currencies Direct, the leading UK non-bank provider of foreign exchange and international payment services, a board member of Blockchain, the world’s leading software platform for digital assets, and Board Director for US mortgage lending giant Fannie Mae.

Additionally, Antony is committed to advancing digital education and skills in the workforce; his dedication to the advancement of learning is recognised in his role as
Chair of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, an employer-led organisation established to promote high-quality apprenticeships by 2020.
Before creating 10x, Antony served as Group CEO of Barclays plc for three years.

David is the CTO and Global Head of Operations & Technology of Sberbank Group, Executive Vice President at Sberbank. He has a non-typical combination of responsibilities in his CTO role at Sberbank: while being in charge of 40,000+ IT engineers and developers, managing multibillion USD budget and leading technology transformation of a company with 100+ mln active customers, he is also responsible for PnL of technology centric business streams like cloud computing (SberCloud) and consumer electronics and IoT business (SberDevices). In this role David transformed IT function at Sberbank to a product-oriented engineering organization, dramatically reduced TCO of applications, decreased the operation teams by three times, reduced infrastructure-related incidents by 50%+, stabilized the production environments, and launched the #29 world’s powerful supercomputer Christofari. 

In September 2020, he and his team presented a family of virtual assistants, named Salute, and the first in history of Sberbank consumer electronics devices, called SberBox (a smart plug-in box to any TV set that has HDMI input with inbuilt virtual assistants), and SberPortal (a Smart Display with sound crafted by Harmon/Kardon which a person can interact using voice, gestures, touch, video, biometrics, and images). At the same time, David launched the SmartMarket, an analogue of AppStore or Google Play, which allows any company or entrepreneur in Russia creates smart skills for the assistants and get direct access to Sber’s ecosystem customers (100+ mln).

Rafalovsky spent 20 years at Citi in New York. In March 2018, he joined Sberbank. David reports to the CEO, Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank Herman Gref. Rafalovsky is the Member of the Management Committee of Sberbank Group. 

Mr. MU Changchun is appointed Director-General, Digital Currency Institute, the People’s Bank of China in July 2019. Mr. Mu joined the People’s Bank of China in 1995 and was appointed as Deputy Director-General of Payment & Settlement Department in 2017. Mr. MU is a member of CPMI, a member of FSB Financial Innovation Network, and also a member of IMF High-level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology.

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Jing Ulrich is Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Global Banking and Asia Pacific at JPMorgan Chase. She provides strategic advice to the firm’s most senior global clients across all sectors and asset classes, including advisory and capital raising for transformative companies in the technology, mobility, healthcare, and consumer markets. Educated at Harvard and Stanford Universities, Ms. Ulrich helps foster greater cross-border collaboration, building relationships with executives from Asia’s leading enterprises, private equity and sovereign wealth funds, and prominent multinationals. 

Ms. Ulrich has received numerous accolades for her work in the industry. She has been ranked one of Fortune Magazine's 50 Most Powerful Global Businesswomen. Forbes named her one of Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen and ranked her among the 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. The South China Morning Post selected Ms. Ulrich as one of the top 25 most inspirational and influential women in Hong Kong. In recent years, publications including China Daily, China Entrepreneur magazine and FinanceAsia have consistently ranked Ms. Ulrich among the top business elite in Asia. She has also been dubbed the "Oprah Winfrey of the investment world.”

Ms. Ulrich serves as a member of the International Chamber of Commerce G20 CEO Advisory Group. In May 2019, at the annual general meeting of adidas AG, global shareholders elected Ms. Ulrich to the Supervisory Board of adidas for a five-year term. She also serves on the international advisory board of German multinational company Bosch, the Strategy Advisory Board of private equity firm L Catterton and the China Advisory Panel of real estate company CapitaLand. Previously Ms. Ulrich served as an independent director on the boards of Ermenegildo Zegna and GlaxoSmithKline plc. 

Sergio Furio is CEO and Founder of Creditas, the main secured lending platform in Brazil. He was born in Spain and before moving to Brazil, worked as an Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank in Madrid for 5 years, then he moved to NY to join The Boston Consultant Group, where he worked for 7 years advising global financial institutions in strategic planning, product strategy and technology transformation. He co-founded the Brazilian Digital Credit Association, is a board member of HBS Alumni Angels in Brazil, Endeavor’s Entrepreneur, active angel investor, triathlete and marathon runner.

梁女士是證券及期貨事務監察委員會(證監會)委員，並且是副行政總裁兼中介機構部的執行董事。該部門主要負責制訂和執行發牌規定，並對持牌公司進行持續監管，重點監察其業務操守和財政健全狀況。

在加入證監會前，梁女士於 2008 年 8 月至 2013 年 12 月期間出任財經事務及庫 務局副局長，並曾服務香港金融管理局 14 年。

梁女士在香港中文大學畢業，並持有紐約哥倫比亞大學碩士學位。梁女士就亞洲如何抵禦金融危機撰寫了一本相關書籍。

梁女士亦擔任香港貨幣及金融研究中心應用金融研究顧問委員會委員。

梁女士兼任證監會學術評審諮詢委員會及金融科技諮詢小組主席，以及諮詢委員會、投資委員會、財政預算委員會、執行委員會及證監會(香港交易所上市)委員會委員。

Vartika Ambwani has extensive experience in various areas in the technology ecosystem and is an early FinTech leader. She’s currently a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank’s FinTech Growth team which focuses on post-Series A venture-backed companies with annual revenues between $5M and $75M. Vartika is responsible for business development and portfolio management which involves sourcing and managing relationships with founders, C-level executives, VC/PE investors, Corporate VCs, and industry influencers. She also focuses on commercial lending which includes origination, structuring, pricing, and deal diligence for venture debt deals, and working capital lines including warehouse credit facilities.

Prior to SVB, Vartika led Operations at two late-stage (Series B and Series C) FinTech startups in San Francisco, California. Prior to FinTech, Vartika served in various banking roles in Toronto, Canada. In addition to industry experience, Vartika is actively involved in the startup community and serves as an Advisor/Mentor to several VC firms and accelerators including First Round Capital, 500 Startups, Alchemist Accelerator, and Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center where she advises founders/CEOs on fundraising, capital management, go-to-market, partnerships, product expansion, and growth strategies.

Vartika is a CPA, CMA (Ontario, Canada) and completed her degree in Business Management from Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University in Toronto,
Canada.

Jonathan Larsen is now Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.

Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in
Revenues and spanning 19 countries. He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for the last 29 years across the Asia Pacific region and
globally. He brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. He has led multiple large-scale,
successful businesses across a wide range of markets and has extensive experience in negotiating and managing partnerships and M&A transactions.

Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years
advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.

Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker
magazine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the
Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Joseph is a career international banker. He has held executive positions at NAB, ANZ, CIBC World Markets, Citibank and Lloyds Bank.

As Group Executive/Divisional CEO, NAB Business Banking from 2008-14, Joseph was responsible for leading Australia’s largest and most profitable Business Bank and SME franchise.

A member of the Group Executive Committee, the Group Risk Committee and Group Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO), Joseph also chaired the Business Bank Divisional Risk Committee overseeing a loan portfolio of $220bn. At ANZ from 2000-4, Joseph developed a ‘Wall St. to Main St.’ strategy bringing advisory and private equity capabilities to the SME market.

From 2004-7, Joseph was ANZ’s Managing Director, Global Client Relationships. Joseph spent 12 years at Citi, where he had extensive credit and market risk training and held senior risk management roles. Joseph has deep customer, risk and business management experience, together with success in starting new businesses. Joseph holds a MSc (Finance), MBA, MSc International Management (China), MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies and MBA (Banking) degrees from University of London, London Business School and University of Nottingham in China and is currently studying for an MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health at Kings College, London. He is a fellow of FINSIA and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.

He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and authored three books: ‘Corporate Governance & Shareholder Wealth Creation’ (2003), ‘Chinese Firms Going Global – Can They Succeed? (2018) and ‘Breaking the Banks – What went wrong with Australia’s banking? (2019). Joseph is an Adjunct Professor at University of Queensland Business School, and was a member of the expert panel advising the Deans of Australian Universities on finance course content at Bachelor and Master Degree levels.

He was a Director of Football Federation Australia (FFA) from 2010-2018 and has five international football caps for Scotland at youth level.

Since 2016, Brian has been the Executive Director of Hyperledger, a project hosted at the Linux Foundation. He also volunteers on the boards of directors of the Mozilla Foundation (since 2003) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (since 2013) and chairs the Technical Advisory Board at ID2020. Brian's career has switched between starting early web and open source companies (Wired Magazine, Organic and CollabNet), to working for the White House 2009-2010 and as Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum. Brian lives on a farm with chickens and goats, and once took a day trip to Antarctica.

Mirna Sleiman is the founder and CEO of Fintech Galaxy, an open innovation and crowdsourcing platform that enables digital transformation of financial markets, through global engagement and collaboration by offering a cloud-based innovation crowdsourcing platform, an open API sandbox, and an AI-powered global fintech marketplace.
Mirna has more than 15 years of experience in government relations, business strategy, digital communications and journalism.

Driven by passion for innovation and positive impact, Mirna has a track record in leading digital transformation projects, marketing comms strategies and global partnerships with public and private entities, focusing on knowledge economy development, regulatory infrastructure and financial markets. Managed public sector business for Thomson Reuters across 22 MENA countries and partnered with international organizations to promote innovation and social change. She spent more than 10 years as a financial journalist with Reuters, Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal and Zawya.

Mirna has an Executive MBA from City University of London in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is certified from MIT University in Fintech and ecommerce, and in Digital Marketing and Communications from Columbia University.

Arthur Yuen is in charge of the full range of banking policy, supervision, conduct, and enforcement issues at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). He joined the HKMA in 1996 as Head of Administration and has since taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000.  He took up the position as Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008.  He was appointed to his present position on 1 January 2010. 

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Buhle Goslar is JUMO's Chief Executive  Officer for the Africa region and Pakistan.  She has held senior leadership roles in the  financial services, technology, retail, and  tourism sectors. Buhle has worked across  sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Asian and  European markets. A certified international  retail banker, she also holds a BCom Marketing Degree from UNISA and an  Executive MBA from the GSB at the  University of Cape Town.

William Li is the Founder and CEO of Akulaku. Since founding Akulaku is 2014, he has grown the company to one of the largest and most well-funded financial technology groups in Southeast Asia with businesses including digital banking, BNPL, wealth management, and digital insurance. Before Akulaku, William was an investment management at PingAn Investment and a lawyer at King & Wood Mallesons. William graduated from Washington and Lee University with a M.A. in Law and Tsinghua University with a B.A. in Law.

曹映雪女士是InnoVen Capital中國區的董事總經理，是中國風險債權投資行業資深專家，擁有十多年債券工作經驗。

在加入InnoVen之前，曹映雪女士是華創資本高成長企業債負責人，在加入華創資本之前，她先後擔任長江商學院高級研究員、德意志銀行(香港)資本市場部經理和固定收益部副總裁，主要負責境內外大型債券的發起和承銷工作。

曹映雪女士畢業於清華大學經濟管理學院，擁有金融學學士、數量經濟學碩士和博士學位。

Dr. Roland Folz is Chief Executive Officer of Solarisbank AG (since February 2017). Roland has over 25 years of experience in the banking and financial services sector, with additional senior management expertise in the mobility and telecoms industries. He joined Solarisbank from Deutsche Bank, where he spent almost eight years in various regional and global CFO responsibilities. Prior to Deutsche Bank he held executive roles within the T-Com/T-Home division for Deutsche Telekom AG and was CEO of DaimlerChrysler Bank AG. As Co-CEO of Direkt Anlage Bank AG, Roland expanded Germanys first discount broker into 6 European countries, eventually taking the company public in 1999.

劉應彬負責外事、金融基建及經濟研究的工作。劉先生持有香港大學經濟學社會科學學士及社會工作碩士學位。劉先生於1986年加入香港政府為政務主任，並於1997年加入金管局為處長（銀行業拓展），參與銀行業改革及設立存款保障計劃的工作。在借調至財經事務及庫務局工作一年後，劉先生於2004年出任金管局總裁助理一職，並於2005年晉升為助理總裁（策略及風險）。劉先生於2007年出任助理總裁（貨幣管理），直至2013年離開金管局，重返校園進修。劉先生其後在一個非政府組織擔任要職，並於2017年出任香港年金有限公司總裁。

鮑克運先生持有香港中文大學經濟學社會科學學士學位。鮑先生於1994年加入金管局為助理經理，於1997年升任經理，並於2000年升任高級經理及2008年升任主管。鮑先生曾參與金管局不同範疇的工作，包括銀行監理、銀行政策、銀行業拓展、貨幣操作及支付系統運作。鮑先生於2015年至2018年期間借調至香港按揭證券有限公司（按揭證券公司），負責管理按揭證券公司的一般保險業務。鮑先生於2018年10月29日獲委任現職。

At Oriente, Geoffrey is responsible for global business strategy, strategic partnerships, brand, and investments. He has nearly 20 years of experience founding, scaling and investing in technology companies across international markets. 

Before this, Geoffrey spent seven years as a founding Partner at Atomico, a leading global VC firm with over US$2 billion in assets under management where he focused on sourcing new investments and working with portfolio companies on their global business development and expansion initiatives. 

In 2002, Geoffrey co-founded Skype, where he also served as Chief Strategy Officer. At Skype, he worked with a small team to build a leading global telecommunications platform company and oversaw its expansion into Asia and Latin America in addition to driving its initial business plan development and fundraising activities. He also played an instrumental role in the $3.1 billion exit to eBay Inc in 2005. 

Geoffrey holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan.

在數據挖掘、機器學習、人工智能等領域的多個頂級國際會議和期刊發表五十餘篇高質量論文

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Van leads Xinja's neobank technology and consulting business and is Fintech Australia's 2019 Female Fintech Leader of the Year. She is an expert in business
strategy and customer experience disruption, having worked across financial services, telco, energy and education sectors. Her experience spans public policy, regulatory strategy, business and product development, operational excellence, leadership and resilience programs and organisational change and transformation. Van has an MBA, is a former lawyer, regulator and lecturer at UNSW. She has also served on SDN Children’s Services’ research and ethics committee since 2013.

Brad Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Wave Money, a role he has held for the last five years. Wave Money is a fintech joint venture in Myanmar owned by Telenor Group, Yoma Strategic Holdings and Yoma Bank. Wave Money is the leading mobile financial services provider in Myanmar, serving millions of customers monthly across a network of more than 57,000 agents.

Previously Brad headed mobile money and innovation for Visa in Asia Pacific, North Africa and the Middle East. He has also been an emerging payments consultant to World Bank Group, working in a variety of markets including the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh and China. Prior to Visa, Brad was the founding Managing Director of Wing Cambodia, the first bank-led mobile money deployment in Asia. Brad has worked in financial services for 18 years, and is well known in the emerging payments and mobile money industry as a delivery focused executive.

Brad holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Griffith University of Australia and post-graduate business qualifications from the University of Queensland.

Nick Molnar is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of North America for Afterpay, the leading retail installment payments innovator and one of the fastest growing global fintech companies. 

As a former investment analyst and young, serial-entrepreneur, Nick’s vision for Afterpay was to create a global payment solution that would allow consumers to pay for items in four interest-free installments. As a millennial himself, he recognized that this generation has an aversion to credit cards because they can lead to compounding debt. Nick launched Afterpay in Australia in October 2014 and listed the company on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2016. The company expanded into the U.S. in May 2018 and the UK in June 2019. In August 2020, the company expanded into Canada and Southern Europe.   

Prior to establishing Afterpay, Nick launched the leading American online jeweler, Ice.com, in Australia and successfully grew the business to become the largest online-only jewelry and watch retailer in Australia. Earlier in his career, Nick worked as an Investment Analyst at venture capital fund M. H. Carnegie & Co., where he was primarily responsible for growth stage investments. 

Previously, Nick was a semi-professional rugby player in Australia and now is an avid skier and sports fan.  He lives between Sydney and San Francisco, with his wife and two children. You can learn more about Nick from his LinkedIn profile and hear him talk about the founding of the company here.

Anthony is Chairman of MoMo, Vietnam’s leading e-wallet. MoMo is a ‘super app’ with a wide range of use cases for mobile payments, and has integrated directly with the vast majority of the country’s banks, telcos, utilities and public services. MoMo is accepted at leading merchants across supermarkets, convenience stores, gas stations, food, and retail establishments as well as for online purchases across categories like food and grocery delivery, travel and entertainment. Beyond Payments, MoMo is building out its Financial Services business to enable lending, wealth management and insurance through the platfrom. Anthony was previously President and CEO of Mynt in the Philippines, the JV between AliPay and Globe Telecom with the Ayala group locally, that operates the GCash mobile wallet. He was part of Mynt's founding leadership team from 2015 and oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and reinforced market leadership for GCash. He remains an Advisor to the Board at Mynt. Prior to Mynt, Anthony was with Citibank's Global Consumer Group for 17 years across Asia, Latin America, and the US.

Mr. Anubrata Biswas is the MD & CEO of Airtel Payments Bank Ltd, the first Payments Bank in India. Mr. Biswas has an experience of over 17 years in the Banking Industry, holding multiple leadership roles across geographies. Prior to joining Airtel Payments Bank, he worked with ICICI Bank Ltd, India’s second largest bank, as the Retail Business Head for South India.

Mr. Biswas started his banking career with ICICI in 2001. From 2002 onwards he was responsible for building the ICICI Bank brand in the USA and the Middle East, post which, he moved to London in 2006 to set up the Direct Banking business for ICICI Bank UK Plc, a subsidiary of ICICI Bank Limited. From 2009, he headed Retail & Private Banking, and was a member of the Management Committee for this subsidiary. Mr. Biswas moved to Mumbai from London in 2013 to take over the International Retail business for ICICI Bank Ltd. He then took over as the Zonal Head for the Bank in West Bengal from 2016-17.

Mr. Biswas has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (PGDBM) from IIM, Ahmedabad.

陳浩濂由二零一七年八月十六日起出任財經事務及庫務局副局長。 

陳浩濂擁有多年出任跨國銀行高級行政人員的經驗，包括曾為東方匯 理銀行環球市場部董事總經理，及渣打銀行金融市場部董事總經理。 

在加入政府前，他曾服務多個專業及公共機構，包括香港財經分析師 學會副會長、香港證券及投資學會董事、金銀業貿易場顧問及香港總 商會理事，他亦曾出任中西區區議員。 

陳浩濂持有美國密歇根大學經濟學（榮譽）及心理學學士學位，並擁 有特許財務分析師的資格。

Andrea is a Partner within Antler’s global team. Her specific mandate is to drive the strategy and execution behind securing capital for Antler and it’s portfolio companies globally. Andrea is a senior financial service professional with a diverse 18-year international career across 3 different jurisdictions and multiple disciplines. Before joining Antler Andrea was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Investment Management Division where she was responsible for the investment management needs of clients across all asset classes. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Andrea spent over a decade at HSBC in various capacities ranging from designing and executing corporate strategy globally, leading selected M&A activities and undertaking investment and client management activities. Andrea is an Honours Law Degree holder and a Fellow Chartered Accountant having trained with KPMG as her first professional mandate. Andrea is on the Fundraising Committee of AIDHA, a Singapore Charity with IPC status, providing Foreign Domestic Workers and low-income Singaporean women with financial education. Andrea has also been selected to be one of the Female Champions of the Financial Women’s Association Singapore and is a regular guest speaker at Singapore Management University’s Certificate in FinTech & Innovation course. Andrea has lived in Singapore for 9 years and is a proud mother of 6-year-old twins.

Zennon is the Founder and Director of Kapronasia, one of Asia’s leading providers of consulting services focusing on the fintech industry. Zennon has been involved in financial technology for over 20 years and covers all topics fintech and blockchain. Before Kapronasia, Zennon was the Global Banking Industry Manager for Intel based out of Shanghai, China and, prior to Intel, was the CIO for Citigroup Portugal. Zennon has testified in front of the U.S. Congress on issues of China fintech and is the author of ‘Chomping at the Bitcoin: The History and Future of Bitcoin in China’ published by Penguin. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Elizabeth is the CEO and founder of AZA, an established provider of currency trading solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure.  By leveraging cutting edge technology in our flagship products, TransferZero and BFX, AZA is able to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to and from frontier markets. AZA is now a market-maker in every major African currency and facilitates payments into G20 currencies directly.

Elizabeth founded the company in 2013 in Nairobi, Kenya and has expanded it to 10+ markets across Africa and Europe.  Before founding AZA, Elizabeth was a rating analyst for microfinance institutions across sub-Saharan Africa, consulting for Grameen Foundation, Gates Foundation and the Acumen Fund, as well as working with regulators and policy-makers on legislation for financial innovations.  Elizabeth co- chairs the World Economic Forum‘s Council on Blockchain and holds an M.A. in International Business and Finance from Columbia University.

李惠科博士是一位IT行業老兵、連續創業者，在前沿技術的構建和商業化領域擁有20多年的實戰經驗。李惠科博士在中國和澳大利亞曾擔任多個高級行政職務，在研發、諮詢、業務拓展和管理等領域積累了廣泛的行業經驗。李惠科博士創建了文思創新澳大利亞（VanceInfo Technologies Australia Inc.）並擔任首席執行官。這是在澳大利亞本土建立的第一家中國IT服務公司。在他的帶領下，公司業務迅速擴展至亞太地區。李惠科博士也是澳大利亞技術服務商InfraRisk的聯合創始人，2019年InfraRisk被品鈦收購後加入公司，並先後擔任品鈦國際業務負責人、執行副總裁。

李惠科博士擁有墨爾本大學計算機科學專業的博士學位，以及北京理工大學電氣工程專業的碩士學位和學士學位。

Michael has an extensive background in financial services in Asia, Europe and North America. He has been in Asia-Pacific since 1995 - first in Hong Kong for six years, then in Sydney and Singapore, returning to Hong Kong in 2007. Before setting up Hubbis in early 2009, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002 and sold it to global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006, continuing to serve as Chief Executive Officer until October 2008. 

Prior to Pacific Prospect, Michael worked for nine years in financial markets publishing. He joined Euromoney Publications in 1993 as the publisher of a quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services to conceive and launch Finance Asia magazine. While he was Managing Director of Finance Asia, Michael also launched the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine and started the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, Michael founded FIA Limited. 

Born in North Wales, Michael was head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He has a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. He now lives in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, and is married with three children - Reanna, Garett and Tarryn.

Martha Sazon is the President & CEO of Mynt, which operates GCash. Previous to the role, Martha was a Senior Vice President at Globe as Head of the Broadband Business. With more than 20 years experience in various industries like food, OTC drugs and personal care, she is highly experienced in transforming organizations and businesses. In her 12 years in Globe, she has led various businesses such as Postpaid Mobile, Small and Medium Business, and Broadband. She has pioneered and executed breakthroughs, all anchored on addressing important customer needs such as the customizable plans in postpaid, Introducing tech solutions for SME’s, even created a new industry category in prepaid via the highly successful Globe Home Prepaid Wifi, while building agile and digital capabilities.

Martha has attended and finished IMD and INSEAD executive programs and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Accounting (Cum
Laude), from the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Norris is Founder & CEO of the global banking service Monese. Monese was launched in 2015 by Norris, after his first-hand experience of the hassle involved with opening a bank account in a new country. Monese gives people the financial freedom to thrive anywhere, and is for the hundreds of millions of people who live some part of their life in another country - whether it’s for travel, work, business, study, family, or retirement. With its mobile-only multi-currency current account, its portability across 31 countries, and both the app and its customer service available in 14 languages, Monese allows people and businesses to bank like a local across the UK and Europe.

Since 2008, Norris has co-founded and built a number of financial and technology companies in the UK. Norris is passionate about financial education and is founder of the Artha Foundation, a charity that promotes financial literacy in schools.

Chris McCann is a general partner at Race Capital, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including Binance ($2.8B market cap), Solana (valued at $250M), among others.

Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – of the earliest technology-focused publications – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University.

周先生自二零一六年九月一日起擔任現職，負責促進香港的金融科技業穩健發展，並推動香港發展為亞洲區一個金融科技樞紐。他於二零零四年加入金管局，負責有關銀行科技風險管理及業務可持續性規劃方面的監管工作，以及制訂相關政策及指引。周先生於二零一零年擔任紐約辦事處首席副代表。二零一三年返港後，開始負責有關銀行業務操作風險方面的監管工作，以及宏觀審慎監管的數據分析。加入金管局前，周先生為摩根大通銀行副總裁，負責亞太地區的資訊風險管理。

Nick Hungerford is a Partner at Portag3 Ventures and is based in Southeast Asia. He is also the founder of Nutmeg, Europe's leading online investment management service and led the company from an idea through development and $100M of funding. Nick is a digital ambassador for the UK Department of International Trade, a member of the European Power 50 and recipient of Spears Entrepreneur of the year award.

He previously worked at Barclays in areas of product, trading and wealth management and was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin PLC. Nick was a founding Director of Innovate Finance, the association representing the UK’s global FinTech community and an advisor to and investor in a number of technology-led startups.

Nick obtained an Undergraduate degree from Exeter University in the UK and holds an MBA from Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the Securities Institute and a member of the Global Entrepreneur Program. Nick is a volunteer teacher at several UK universities in the subjects of behaviour finance and entrepreneurship.

As the Co-founder and CEO of Lendingkart, Harshvardhan Lunia plays an imperative role in building and scaling a world-class team that designs innovative credit solutions and delivers growth for MSMEs. An exemplary leader and a pioneer at heart, Harshvardhan has always been driven by the passion of small business owners who despite being creditworthy were not served by existing lenders. 

With a vision to implement technology and enable easy MSME financing, Harshvardhan co-founded Lendingkart in 2014. Harshvardhan possesses an in-depth understanding of the evolving MSME ecosystems and has over 15+ years of experience. Harshvardhan's expertise includes managing the overall business leadership and growth conversations, developing the company's strategies, focusing on new business and growth opportunities, in addition to contributing to growth projections and trends.  

Prior to Lendingkart, Harshvardhan has served as the founder & director at Domestic Finance & Investment Private Limited, where he specialized in arranging alternative modes of financing for SMEs. As the relationship manager at ICICI Bank bank earlier to that, Hashvardhan’s primary role involved interacting with clients, understanding their requirements & structuring the deals, in addition to interacting with risk, credit, legal, operations, and executions. Harshvardhan has also worked with The Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank in varying capacities. 

Harsh is a Chartered Accountant and pursued his Post Graduation from ISB (Indian School business).

Zor is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for the finance industry. Kasisto counts DBS Bank, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo among its customers as well as other leading financial institutions who are changing the face of banking with KAI to create engaging consumer experiences and drive business results.

Zor has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. Prior to Kasisto, he was the CEO & Co-Founder of SpeechCycle, a market leader in cloud-based contact center optimization solutions for the telco market, which was acquired by Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR). Before that, Zor founded and ran BuzzCompany.com, a provider of enterprise collaboration and messaging software, which was acquired by Multex.com (MLTX).

Kasisto is the fruition of Zor’s successful track record creating companies and solutions that power conversations. He’s put Kasisto on a mission to help financial institutions attract, engage, support, and transact with their customers via human-like, intelligent conversations, anytime, anywhere.

吳海燕 2006 年加入華創資本,並曾於 2008-2009 年間加入華創資本投資的敦煌網,擔任CEO 助理。海燕于 2010 年回到華創資本,主導投資了同盾科技、老虎證券、二維火、PingCAP、TigerGraph、小滿科技、Wish、什麼值得買、下廚房、每日優鮮等公司。

吳海燕畢業於清華大學工程物理系。

Background
• Founder and Chairman, Atom Bank plc
• Founder and Chairman, Metro Bank plc
• Co-founder and Chairman, the Financial Services Forum
• Goldman Visiting Professor of Innovation and Enterprise, Newcastle Business School
• Chairman and co-founder, 86 400

Anthony Thomson is the founder and former Chairman of not one, but two disruptive banks in the UK. Metro Bank, the UK’s first new bank in 150 years and Atom Bank, the UK’s first bank for mobile.

He’s raised in excess of $1billion in capital over the course of his career and is a highly respected financial services expert worldwide. He has served as the Goldman Visiting Professor for Innovation and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and is the co-author of No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs A New Kind of Marketing.

As Chair of 86 400, he brings his extensive experience in the financial industry and a hunger to shake up the banking landscape in the Australian Market.

• Deputy General Manager, R&D Center, FORMS SYNTRON
• Financial blockchain solution expert, with more than 15 years of experience in the financial IT industry, and has served many large multinational financial institutions
• Served various lecturing positions for graduate students for South China University of Technology
• Obtained dozens of copyrights and applied 7 blockchain patents across multiple blockchain applications in the fields of supply chain finance, banking insurance, and banking, and has obtained dozens of copyrights and applications
• Led a team in 2018 to win the first prize with Project JustSign in the FISCO BCOS Blockchain Application Contest.