Izzat is a Subject-Matter Expert in Emerging Technology and Cybersecurity. His portfolio covers advisory in innovation technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Fintech, Cloud and Internet of Things (loT). He is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer with pragmatic technology and cybersecurity related experiences. Track record includes driving maturity in IT and OT (Industrial Control Systems) across various industries such as BFSI, Telco, High-Tech, ENR and 0&G.

A collaborative engineering professional with substantial experience in designing/architecting and executing solutions for complex business problems involving large scale data warehousing, real-time analytics and reporting solutions. 15+ years of total experience with 8+ years of experience as Big Data Architect in Digital Transformation, Enterprise Implementation and Banking, Financial services (BFSI).

John is the Chief Operating Officer of the Philippine Bank of Communications. He has over 25 years of experience driving innovation, change and digital transformation for financial services in different countries.
He was a pioneer in digital transformation in the late nineties when he helped reengineer the Asia-Pacific operations of one of the largest multinational banks. He subsequently established a private consulting firm in the United States, helping design new digital business initiatives for financial institutions and fintechs.
Prior to joining PBCOM, John was the Head of Global Operations, Technology and Credit for the Philippine National Bank. He was also the Integration Director, who oversaw the merger of PNB with Allied Banking Corporation in 2013. Mr. Medina also worked at Union Bank of the Philippines where he conceptualized and implemented digital banking products and services.
Mr. Medina has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines and an MBA from the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He was an East-West Center Degree Fellow and attended graduate programs at the Handelshøjskolen I Århus (The Aarhus School of Business), Pacific Asian Management Institute and the European Summer School for Advanced Management for additional graduate studies.

Steven WONG Weng Leong is currently the Chief Digital & Global Banking Strategist at China Construction Bank (CCB) Malaysia. Just prior to this, he was the Chief Operating & Financial Strategist (COO, CIO/CTO, CFO & Chief Strategy & Business Development Officer roles combined). At CCB Malaysia, Mr Wong spearheads bank-wide business growth and provides strategic leadership for Global Banking & Markets and Wholesale & Retail Digital Banking (Cash Management, Retail Banking), which includes catalyzing FinTech and Blockchain initiatives in delivering product, technology and digital innovations for the Malaysian and ASEAN markets.

He is well regarded in the financial services industry as an all-rounder and go-to-individual, having held several senior executive leadership positions across various leading financial institutions over the last 28 years. He has held strategic leadership roles in the Front Office (FO), Middle Office (MO) and Back Office (BO) at Western Union, Alliance Financial Group, Maybank, Mayban Life Assurance, MIDF Amanah Investment Bank and Citi.

Farah is the Chief Executive Officer of Labuan IBFC Incorporated, a wholly owned subsidiary of Labuan
Financial Services Authority, the statutory Regulatory Authority for Labuan International Business and Financial Centre, operating under the purview of Ministry of Finance, Malaysia. Labuan IBFC Incorporated serves as the jurisdiction’s official market development agency.

A seasoned strategic communication, market development and financial services professional, she brings with her experience spanning more than 25 years in wholesale financial services, putting her in good stead to develop Labuan IBFC as Asia’s go-to midshore wholesale financial intermediation centre. Formerly attached to the Asian Institute of Finance and Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia’s national stock exchange), Farah has served in numerous senior market development and strategic communications roles.

She has also represented the Association of Stock Broking Companies Malaysia, a nationwide industry led lobby group representing Malaysian stockbrokers during the demutualisation exercise of the national exchange, allowing her a unique hands-on experience surrounding high strategic level issues relating to multiple stakeholder management, eco-system curation and long-term strategic business strategy.

Passionate about equality, financial inclusion and win-win partnerships, she strongly believes that “a rising tide lifts all boats”. Farah has an LLB (Hons) from Sheffield University, United Kingdom.

Arvid Swartsenburg is a senior banker with over two decades experience as a financial services practitioner and consultant across Europe, US, Africa and Asia.

Arvid currently is Head Digital Strategy & Transformation for TMRW Digital Group (TDG) by UOB, a mobile only bank focused on the digital generation across Southeast Asia.

From 2010 to 2020, Arvid was a Principal at Arete Financial Partners, a boutique Management Consultancy focused on supporting financial services clients manage change. In this role, Arvid led a wide range of complex projects across Asia and Africa focused on Strategy, O&T, digital transformation, risk management and M&A.

From 2000 to 2010 he worked at Citi’s Global Consumer Business across the US, Europe and Asia, where he held a variety of senior roles across product, channel, sales & distribution, wealth management & strategy.

Arvid is passionate about digital transformation & innovation and how this is increasingly changing the way we work, live and play. He has gained extensive experience in working with a wide range of FinTechs and startups in his consulting role and remains an investor, mentor and advisor across various startups globally.

Arvid holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and a Bachelor in Arts (BA) degrees in both Economics & Finance from the College of William & Mary in the US and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Melbourne Business School in Australia.

In his spare time he competes in triathlons and Ironman competitions, balancing his training time between swimming, cycling and running. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two daughters.

Kathiravan Manoharan heads Capgemini’s Data Practice for Financial Services Global Business Asia. He brings around two decades of experience and leadership in IT & Consulting. A strategist and advisor for CxOs, his portfolio in Capgemini covers Data, AI, Cloud, Data Governance and Privacy. In the past, he has spearheaded critical strategic programmes for Major banks, Insurance and Public Sector Government organizations in India, the USA, Singapore, Middle East & Japan. A thought-leader in the industry, he has designed cutting-edge solutions, published technical papers & articles and has represented Capgemini on Data and AI in various forums.

Manohar Chadalavada, Global Head, AI, Ecosystems and Open Banking, has been at Standard Chartered for 16 years and worked across various functions. With his domain expertise in Digital Banking, Fintechs, Risk Management and Analytics, he is entrusted drive the application of AI (artificial intelligence) across multiple aspects of our unsecured digital lending and mass market Personal businesses including underwriting, onboarding and client service; identify new sources of data and tools; and industrialise the usage of AI in business processes.

His previously held positions in Group Risk, as Country Risk Officer and Country Credit Head, in Business, as in charge of Innovation and Fintech Partnerships, and multiple other leadership roles gained him a well-rounded experience over the years. He’s also part of the Standard Chartered Modelling and Analytics Centre board.

Outside of work he loves to travel, and recently started learning how to play the guitar with his 14 year old son.

For multiple financial institutions, designed the agile operating model including key building blocks i.e. squad structure, resourcing, OKRs and re-defined key enablers such as Procurement, Budgeting and Recruitment
Digital strategy blueprint for leading BigTech across 20+ markets for financial services business including payments, BNPL, SME lending
Digital strategy for multiple banks including launch of digital challenger bank
Multiple projects in digital transformation of core financial institution processes
Digital cost allocation framework and analytics including digital value capture, cost transparency to support strategic decision making
Development of several digital native financial and non-financial products including customer needs analysis, user journeys, business case and MVP design e.g. virtual credit card, Retailer lending, Retailer VAS hub
Developed digital blueprint for SME SuperApp to drive 2X increase in customer base and support E2E needs for micro and small enterprises including lending, operations, training, e-commerce support etc.

Michelle Rubio holds the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer at UnionBank of the Philippines.

Prior to this, she was the Vice President and the Philippine Country Human Resource, Quality and Corporate Communications Head of the global electrical engineering and power company, Asea Brown Boveri. She was a Senior Consultant at OTi Consulting Singapore where she got involved with government and private organizations in establishing Singapore Quality Class, People Developer, Industry Capability Upgrading (ICAP) certifications, Work Life and Work Redesign. For these capabilities she was certified by SPRING Singapore.

Before a career in Human Resource and Management Consulting, she worked as an engineer in the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industry in the areas of Statistical Process Control and Quality Assurance. Michelle graduated in 1985 from De La Salle University where she obtained a degree in Industrial Management Engineering, minor in Chemical Engineering.

In 2018, Michelle received the Silver CHRO of the Year from the Stevie Awards for Great Employers in New York

Fadly Rasyad is an Enterprise Agile Coach and very passionate with agile way of working.
He was first exposed to Agile back in 2001 through eXtreme Programming that made him realise that Agile is about being a professional team player and highly disciplined to achieve business goal.
Since then he has been advocating Agile to workplaces and for the past 8 years he helped teams and organisations adopting Scrum through coaching, training and facilitating their transformation journey.
He strongly believes that adopting Agile means transforming Business, and for it to be successful, we need to build high performance teams that are fully supported by their organisation.
Besides being an audiophile and an avid learner, in his spare time he will ensure to spend time watching cartoons with his kids!

Saurabh Batra is currently the Deal Lead for Global Partnerships at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore. Prior to this role, Saurabh was the Enterprise Agile Design Lead and Journey Lead for Credit Cards, Personal Loan Customer Journey. In this role Saurabh helped lead the pivot to agile at Standard Chartered for their Consumer, Business and Private Banking division which covers 9.6 million clients and 33,000 employees. Saurabh has over 15 years’ experience in Retail Banking with SCB and ANZ Bank and has worked in Product and Credit Risk Head roles across multiple geographies including Singapore, Malaysia and India. Saurabh is passionate about transforming business, leading cross-functional teams and championing a client centric mindset.

Frankie is the Director of Cyber & Technology Risk in UBS. He brings with ~ 20 years diverse leadership experience in banking and IT companies. He was also regional lead in Citibank APAC regional information security office before.
He’s practical advocator and industry speaker to bridge information/cyber and technology risk with business agenda. He is also the digital transformation & innovation catalyst with patent about next generation wireless networking filed at U.S.A patent office as sole inventor.
He holds bachelor degree and master degree from NUS (National University of Singapore) and NTU (Nanyang Technological University) respectively.

Tanvinder has a proven track record as a thought-leader with in-depth subject matter knowledge and success indeveloping and implementing cybersecurity technologies for large global organisations. Tan is also hands on in formulating technology strategy and leading large change initiatives across a range of security domains. He has significantfinancial services experience in addition to exposure to Oil and Gas, manufacturing, telecom and govt sectors focusing on defining and executing change. Tan has worked with boards across industry lines to advise them on cybersecurity transformations and has worked around the globe with large conglomerates like Australia and New Zealand Bank, Bank of America, Dell etc.

Mr. Sigit Prihatmoko is currently VP Corporate Strategy for PT Bank Negara Indonesia where he advises management on key strategic issues. He oversees long term strategic plan, manage business development and evaluating inorganic initiative, and manage organization change to drive strategy execution.

He has been with the company for more than 20 years, with various roles including VP Strategy and Performance, Head of Strategic Planning Group, Project Manager of Contact Center, Project Manager of Multichannel Strategy, Head of Trade Finance Group, and Manager of IT Division.

Mr. Sigit Prihatmoko was graduated from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia with Magister Management on Financial Management (MM), and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Informattion Technology (JTETI) the same university. Most of his experience falls under banking support including corporate strategy development, multichannel management, contact center, trade finance, international remittance, and information technology project implementation.

Anders is an Associate Partner with Bain & Company in Southeast Asia where he specializes in financial services and enterprise technology. Anders has worked extensively with digitizing and transforming banks in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Singapore. He holds a Master of Business Administration and Computer Science from Copenhagen Business School.

• Grace joined Advisory Banking team in DBS Indonesia in 2014 and subsequently joined Strategic Advisory team in 2017. She has been involved in the execution of various M&A, equity and debt capital market transactions, mainly for Indonesia clients. Prior to joining DBS, she was with PricewaterhouseCoopers Indonesia in the Lead Advisory team.
• Grace graduated from Singapore Management University with Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Accountancy degree.

Deal Experience
• Divestment of PT Air Mancur to PT Combiphar in Indonesia
• KEPCO’s strategic investment into PT Indo Raya Tenaga (Jawa 9 & 10 power plant project)
• IPO of PT Dua Putra Utama Makmur Tbk
• IDR Bonds issuance of PT Japfa Comfeed Tbk and PT BFI Finance Indonesia Tbk
• SGD Bonds issuance of PT Ciputra Property Tbk
• Club deal transaction for a subsidiary of PT Centratama Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk

Pak Michel is currently the Chief of Strategy, Transformation and Digital Officer for Maybank Indonesia. Pak Michel is mandated to lead and be the agent of change in the bank to shape, transform, redefine, fine tune and sharpen the corporate strategy as well as ensuring the execution & benefit realization of the strategic transformation program. In addition to that, Pak Michel is also the digital business lead for Maybank Indonesia that responsible to execute the digital strategy of the bank. Pak Michel has 16+ years working experience working in multi-national organization such as Accenture, EY, Commonwealth Bank, Rabobank and Oracle. Pak Michel has deep business and technology exposure in banking, insurance, telecommunication and retail domain industry.

Chulayuth Lochotinan is the Head of Thailand at Capco where he is responsible for growing its consulting and digital engineering capabilities to serve financial services clients He has over 15 years of experience in as a management and technology consulting professional within financial services, having started his career with Accenture in UK, Chulayuth subsequently held senior leadership roles at PwC and EY and lead numerous digital transformation projects for leading banks and insurance companies in both UK and APAC. Chulayuth specialises in digital banking and insurance innovation with deep focus on customer experience. He advises and helps clients to fully reap the benefits of technology and innovation investments through to successful delivery executions. He has been invited to speak on numerous occasions on emerging technologies and he is passionate about making financial services more accessible.

Chulayuth holds a MEng in Engineering and Computing Science from University of Oxford.

Michael is Head of Digital product and part of the founding team at WeLab Bank-Hong Kong’s
homegrown virtual bank and a wholly owned subsidiary of WeLab Holdings Limited, a leading fintech company in Asia.WeLab Bank represents a 100% digital banking experience that is simple intuitive and built around customers.
Michael leads cross-functional teams that build the bank’s products from ground up to create delightful user experiences and solve customers’ banking pain points. He is responsible for implementing overall product strategy to drive user engagement and market share.

Prior to joining WeLab,Michael spent over 10 years in foreign exchange, building and managing electronic businesses at leading regional and global financial institutions.

Maggie is currently Managing Director, Head of Digital, Customer Experience & Ecosystems for Consumer Business at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, driving the digital & CX agenda and monetarizing the investment on digital & CX transformation. She also leads the ecosystem strategy and development as the engine for business growth. Driven, strategic and forward-thinking leader with more than 20 years’ experience in marketing, business development and digital business with multiple geographic experience including US, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Maggie has proven capability to formulate, drive robust strategy and build market first digital capabilities including internet banking, mobile banking app, Apple watch app, NFC mobile wallet and AI enabled chatbot among many others.
Maggie holds a master’s degree in Information Technology, Macquarie University and a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong.

Srihari is a senior banker with leadership experience across banking, financial services, insurance and fintech industry, with over 20 years of experience in building franchise in country management and regional head roles, with proven credentials in building and turning around the business with end to end (Strategy, Digital Transformation, Products, Sales Distribution, Marketing, Risk Management, Operations and Customer Experience) full P&L responsibilities across markets. During his 20 years successful career, He worked with Citibank, ABN AMRO, MindSearch International, UOB, CIMB Bank, Hong Leong Bank and GoCashless Digital Payments.

He is currently building and managing eRemit singapore, Fintech based out of singapore with focus on digital remittance and financial inclusion with capabilities of money transfer across 13 countries via mobile app. Prior to this, he was Managing Director with CIMB Bank and General Manager with Hong Leong Bank.

Academically, He did his PGDBM (MBA) from XLRI and an Executive Leadership Programme from Insead.

Jason Siew is the CEO of WeChat Pay Malaysia, a Tencent company that operates the WeChat e-wallet payment service for in Malaysia.

He led the team and launched WeChat Pay Malaysia from 0 to 1, and is responsible for directing and executing long-term business strategy and product evolution. He has over a decade of experience in Fintech, Big Data, Cloud Computing & E-Commerce in various capacities in both corporate and start-ups.

Nikki is a Senior Director at SGV & Co.’s FSO-Consulting practice, focusing on Business Design, Strategy, and Business Transformation
She spent two years in SGV’s Global Compliance and Reporting (GCR) Tax Practice before transferring to a private company and returning to SGV in 2018 to join the FSO-Consulting practice
Nikki is a Certified Public Accountant, having graduated Cum Laude from the BS Business Administration and Accountancy program at the University of the Philippines – Diliman
She is part of SGV’s Government and Public Sector (GPS) team for pursuits and projects involving policy redirection, impact assessment, analytics.

Partha is Executive Director Deloitte Consulting in Enterprise Technology & Performance, in Southeast Asia based in Singapore and has more than 2 decades of experience in Business transformation led IT enablement. He is responsible for helping clients with their end to end digital transformation leveraging cloud Technologies. He has Large scale transformation experience cutting across the finance, supply chain domains and analytics, profitability management of major FSI clients in the region. He is engaged in the digital banking initiatives of Clients and is a trusted advisor to Clients in the region.

Ramu is a serial entrepreneur who recently embarked on the new journey to shake the digital transformation for the financial service industry by providing the best-in-class , cost effective, cloud Native, Api driven , next generation financial experience platform and digital banking as a service platform over a Managed SaaS model.
Ramu was an Ex-Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Tonik Digital Bank Inc (March 2019-Aug 2022), the Philippines’ first purely digital neo bank overseeing the Digital Banking IT Organization (Engineering, Technology, Security, Architecture, Vendor Management, and IT Bank Operations Units). He built and launched the first pure-virtual digital bank in SEA Region from ground-up over multi-cloud.
He brings over 19+ years of expertise in information technology strategy, enterprise architecture, Innovative agile product development, program management, technology operations, procurement, vendor management, building an agile organization, it budgeting and cyber security from the banking and telco industries.
Prior to joining Tonik, he served as IT Director for Capgemini Singapore where he spearheaded a Digital Transformation program for the leading telco in Malaysia.
Further, Ramu worked as a Chief Architect (Deputy Director) for Tagit Singapore where he architected and implemented over two dozen retail and business banking solutions for some of the biggest names in banking such as DBS (SG and HK), UOB Retail and Business Banking and Maybank in Singapore, BSN and RHB in Malaysia, Citi and Axis Bank in India, and EON (Union Bank PH), Philippine National Bank (PNB) and Chinabank in the Philippines to name a few.
A global citizen, Ramu is fluent in English, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi and currently resides in Singapore with his wife and two sons. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Bharathiar University (India), MBA at Murdoch University (Australia), and currently pursuing a PG Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking at Emeritus (MIT).

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Darman Susanto Setiono is currently leading the Data Strategy and Quality Group in Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI).

Previously managing the digital marketing and social media of BNI in 2016-2019, he has been involved in several projects related to Consumer Products and marketing campaigns to attract customer engagement and boost sales.

In 2020, Darman pursued a master degree in University of New South Wales (UNSW) with the support of the Australia Awards Scholarship. He obtained a degree in Master of Commerce, majoring in Business Analytics and Marketing Analytics.

Sumit is a Managing Director & Partner of Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Kuala Lumpur. He is a core member of the Financial Institutions practice with expertise in digital bank build, crypto/web 3.0, front-to-back digitization, big data, and analytics in financial services space.

He has worked extensively with BCG clients in Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia on digital bank builds/crypto venture builds, large scale digital transformation, big data and advanced analytics, and digital culture build.

Prior to joining BCG he has set up a digital mortgage business in America.

He is a Computer Science engineer by education and is very passionate about helping clients create long term advantage using digital, technology, big data and analytics.

Jantima Prungkarn is VP Technology Strategy & Business Development at Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand) who helps the organizational transformation by Formulate and lead business strategy and drive collaboration to deliver key programs and business initiatives.

Currently has been working in the Digital &Technology field for over five years. Her professional duties involve developing digital & technology strategies, develop and manage relationships with a variety of key stakeholders to deliver key programs and business initiatives and measurement, monitoring of strategic KPIs.

Jantima enjoys trying new challenges with advanced specialist or managerial skills to lead and manage complex operations, resources, and strategies. She also loves cooking and traveling in her spare time.

Verawat currently serves as SVP, Head of Digital Wealth Platform, Wealth Strategic Initiatives, and Product Sales Strategy at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) in Thailand.

In his role, he oversees the development and operation of digital wealth platforms for wealth relationship managers (RMs). He is a driving force behind the development of “wPlan”, the first hybrid robo-RMs wealth advisory tool in Thailand with 1,000+ relationship managers as users. wPlan received the Financial Times’ Best Private Bank Awards for Robo-advisory in Asia.

Verawat also oversees and drives several strategic initiatives for Wealth Business e.g., sales process optimization, product sales strategies, as well as customer risk monitoring and control.

Verawat received MBA degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which he was fully sponsored by Siam Commercial Bank. He also held a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with 1st Class Honors and Gold Medal (Rank 1st in the class) from Chulalongkorn University. Prior to performing in current role, Verawat had extensive experiences in consulting, corporate strategies, people management, business development and M&A.

Sara is currently the Head of Data in GCash whose mandate is to drive actionable intelligence and innovations in the organization through the right and ethical use of data. She is an experienced analytics professional with 23 years of relevant experience across industries such as Telco, Financial Services and Public Sector. She has worked with organizations in the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia, where her responsibilities have ranged from crafting analytics roadmap, leading end-to-end project implementations, building data science teams to managing stakeholders and championing data driven culture in organizations.

Sara holds an undergraduate degree in BS Statistics from the University of the Philippines and is teaching part-time for the Professional Master’s in Data Science (Analytics) degree at UP Diliman.

Dr. Diokno is the current Secretary of the Department of Finance (DOF). Prior to his appointment as fiscal chief, he served as Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) from 2019 to 2022. Under his leadership, the Philippine central bank was among the first to respond to the pandemic and deploy decisive measures to cushion the adverse impact of the pandemic and pave the road to recovery. Before taking charge of monetary affairs, he served as Budget Secretary under three presidents where he pursued an expansionary fiscal policy to finance investments in human capital development and public infrastructure.

As Finance Secretary, Sec. Diokno seeks to rally the economic team to achieve three broad development goals by 2028: reduce the deficit-to-GDP ratio to pre-pandemic rates, bring down poverty incidence to single-digit, and achieve upper-middle-income economy status by the end of the Marcos administration. Sec. Diokno seeks to go beyond headline economic expansion and achieve a brand of inclusive and sustainable growth with equity.

Sec. Diokno’s policy expertise and research contribution extend to various areas of public economics, such as the structure and scope of government, tax policies and reforms, public expenditure management analysis, fiscal decentralization, national budget, and public debt, among other topics. He has extensive experience in implementing reforms in the public sector, having also served as Budget Undersecretary from 1986 to 1991 and Budget Secretary from 1998 to 2001.

He is Professor Emeritus of the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Over more than 40 years, he taught the following courses: Public Sector Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, and Special Topics (e.g., Public Enterprises Investment and Pricing Policies; Public Sector Reforms; Local Government Finance, etc.). He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (City
University of Manila).

He served as Fiscal Adviser to the Philippine Senate. He also served as Chairman and CEO of the Philippine National Oil Company and Chairman of the Local Water Utilities Administration.

Some of the major policy reform contributions of Dr. Diokno include: providing technical assistance to the 1986 Tax Reform Program to simplify the income tax system and introduce the value-added tax, helping design the 1991 Local Government Code of the Philippines, initiating a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get policy to streamline the release of funds, and sponsoring the internationally lauded Government Procurement Reform Act to modernize, regulate, and standardize government procurement activities in the Philippines.

He served as an adviser and consultant to various multilateral agencies like the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Commission, and USAID for work in the Philippines, China, and transitioning economies like Vietnam, Cambodia, and Mongolia.

Alison Jap (Alison) joined DOKU in 2013, as Senior Manager, International Partnerships where her primary responsibility was to grow DOKU’s presence amongst international merchants and partners. In 2019, Alison became DOKU’s Chief of International Partnerships where she continues to expand DOKU’s network. Alison is an active Board Member and holding the role as Chief Executive Partnerships in the Indonesian FinTech Association (AFTECH) since 2018. Her role is expanding since 2021 as she is currently trusted as the Vice Chairman of Ethics Committee Board in AFTECH. Prior to joining DOKU, Alison was working in the marketing field at Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts and Research In Motion (BlackBerry). She graduated from Cornell University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Hospitality Management.

Abhijit is currently heading API and Open Banking in Axis Bank, spearheading API adoption and API monetisation.

He is an experienced product head with a demonstrated history of working in BFSI. In his tenure, he created an atmosphere for smooth digital adoption that gave the banks an edge.

He acted as a subject matter expert and led advisory projects involving digital transformation strategies.

He had been instrumental in establishing smooth digital experience to on-board customers in bank’s ecosystem for liabilities and assets products.

Arvie is the Co-Founder & CEO of UnionDigital Bank, the digital bank of Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank). Prior to this, he established the Fintech Group of UnionBank in 2016 which banked and enabled fintechs as well as pioneered industry firsts in blockchain use cases such as nationwide blockchain-based network i2i, stablecoin PHX, and Bonds.PH among others.

Arvie also championed open finance through UnionBank’s globally award-winning global API Marketplace and led the initiative which resulted in the creation of UnionBank’s fintech, UBX, where he also sits as Board Director and member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to joining UnionBank, Arvie’s experience spans industries such as banking, telecommunications, and media, with roles across product, sales, finance, strategic planning, and business development.

Chulayuth Lochotinan is the Head of Thailand at Capco where he is responsible for growing its consulting and digital engineering capabilities to serve financial services clients He has over 15 years of experience in as a management and technology consulting professional within financial services, having started his career with Accenture in UK, Chulayuth subsequently held senior leadership roles at PwC and EY and lead numerous digital transformation projects for leading banks and insurance companies in both UK and APAC. Chulayuth specialises in digital banking and insurance innovation with deep focus on customer experience. He advises and helps clients to fully reap the benefits of technology and innovation investments through to successful delivery executions. He has been invited to speak on numerous occasions on emerging technologies and he is passionate about making financial services more accessible.

Chulayuth holds a MEng in Engineering and Computing Science from University of Oxford.

Gareth Bridges leads the development of Equinix’s Financial Services ecosystems in Asia-Pacific. Since joining Equinix in 2014, Gareth has collaborated with banks, fintech startups, enterprises, and consulting partners to accelerate digital business transformation. He has advised Equinix customers in Asia-Pacific on strategies to modernize their technology platforms, enabling them to utilize new and differentiated business models and go-to-market strategies to grow their market-share.

Indra Hidayatullah is Data Management and Analytics Division Head for PT. Bank Tabungan Negara, Tbk. (Bank BTN) whichcovers data management projects nationwide. Bank BTN is known as a Top 5 Bank in terms of assets and the leader of Mortgage Bank which has 40% of market share in Indonesia.

As a Data Management and Analytics Division Head, Indra’s goal is to drive the company into a data-driven organization. He directs and oversees the development of organizing, storing and analyzing hardware/software strategic information and operational/production data. His responsibilities in this role include designing, developing and maintaining data warehouses, data stores, customer relationship management and other business intelligence systems to ensure they meet organizational requirements. He also establishes, plans and administers the overall policies and goals of the data science function, provides strategic guidance and overall direction for analytical efforts.

Indra bringsto his position a well-established background, with more than 20 years of experiencein data analytics & artificial intelligence, business intelligence, information technology andbanking project management. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Bandung Institute of Technology.

Engr. Roy Joseph Roberto, M.Sc., is the Assistant Vice President for Digital Transformation of UnionBank of the Philippines, which was renowned “Best Digital Bank” by several prestigious institutions. He is currently working on strategic projects for improving customers’ digital onboarding experience through AI-powered solutions. Before UBP, he also assumed both leadership and technical roles in Citibank, Lazada, and Accenture.

After passing two licensure exams for Electronics Technician and Electronics Engineers, he spent the early stages of his career as a software engineer in local and global companies, then later on pursued his Master’s Degree in Data Science at the Asian Institute of Management, an international research and management institution co-founded by Harvard Business School.

Passionate about technology and innovation for social good, he has also engaged with Alibaba Business School, the ASEAN Foundation, W.Media, and Tradepass in helping promote data science and digital transformation among young people in the region.

Dr. Adrienne Heinrich heads the AI and Innovation Center of Excellence at Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank) and at Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI). She also has an expanded role as the Innovation Management Lead for Aboitiz Equity Ventures (AEV).

Before that, Adrienne led AI and Machine Learning for personal health and connected care products at Royal Philips.

She has a background in Information Technology and has received her PhD on Video Motion Analysis for emerging application areas

Building digibank know-how at CIMB
In 2018, I joined a small group of less than 15 people to seed CIMB Bank as the 1st Fully Digital Bank in the Philippines. Leveraging its competitively priced CASA accounts, and highly accessible remote loan originations, we were able to successfully on-board more than 2 million customers. I am very pleased to be a part of the team who built this from the ground up. But life in Fintech had more to offer…

Life now at ING
As Head of Digital, I work with a team of 25 people consisting of designers, engineers, and product owners—we’ve so far delivered changes that have eliminated the KYC verification time by a significant ratio, reduce data quality issues in onboarding to our target, and built in tools that have either automated, or simplified the most manual-heavy tasks that have kept our customers from a truly seamless, and personalized experience.

My mission is to continuously re-imagine how machines in Fintech can work more effectively and efficiently, so the work left for humans will be the work that can only be done meaningfully.

Marlon Sorongon uses his 20-plus years of experience in the cyber security industry to share key learnings at various industry events and has been named as a Top 100 Global CISO in 2021 by Menlo Security.

He has led and implemented numerous cyber security projects and information security programs in various industries and keep abreast of Philippines regulatory framework and compliance. He also has an extensive background in network and server security, IT governance, information security management and audit and risk.

Currently, he holds the position of CISO at both Maybank Philippines and Maybank New York, where he works to protect these financial institutions from cyberattacks. In his free time, he is a cyber security advocate and works to educate and mentor future cyber security leaders

Manuel Joey A. Regala currently serves as EastWest’s Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer.

Joey concurrently serves as president and founder of Information Security Officers Group (ISOG) . He was president of ISACA Manila from 2011-2012. Past of ITIP 2014, and Vice President for TSIG Interest Group, a member of the (PNP-ACG Council) Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group Council. With over 35 years of experience in information security and IT security on financial systems, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), an ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Regala is one of the leading pioneers of cybersecurity in the Philippines, having proven himself with an impressive track record of implementing effective and world-class security systems and infrastructures to protect important personal data and bank assets. Regala has also earned an ASEAN Outstanding CIO/CSO Award in 2017.

Selveen has worked with few multinationals in various top management positions, chalking up to 25 years of solid local and international experiences. Over the years,
he earned expertise in the following areas:
• Leadership Development, Training & Coaching
• Strategy, Planning & Business Analysis
• Robotics Process Automation (RPA) Centre of Excellence (COE)
• Lean Six Sigma, Process Assessment, Process Re-Engineering
• Management Consulting
• Change Management

Selveen is currently leading a group wide process re-engineering, process automation, productivity improvement and change management for biggest Financial Guarantee provider in Malaysia

Mohan Jayaraman is an Expert Partner in Bain and Co in the advanced analytics space. His primary focus will be partnering with customers to deliver large data sciences and advanced analytics projects across the FS and consumer sectors in the APac region.

Mohan has over 27 years of experience in Data Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, and digital capabilities across APAC markets. His expertise is in building, operating, scaling, and getting revenue outcomes from Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning and decision sciences capabilities. He also has significant experience in building and executing data strategy across APAC. Mohan has coached gender diverse, culturally mixed, and multigenerational teams of over 500 people to deliver high performance outcomes. He has experience in managing Board roles across the region working closely with investors and promoters.

In his last role before joining Bain, Mohan was with Experian for 11 years with his last role as the APac leader for Analytics and Innovation and MD for the ASEAN (including Japan and Korea). In the role he has built and scaled multiple analytics COEs (Centres of Excellence), the regional Innovation hub with a portfolio of AI products and has grown the P&L for the region substantially. Prior to joining Experian, Mohan was a senior banking professional with ICICI Bank for 8 years, with his last role as its Head of Enterprise analytics and Payment strategy.

Mohan has been an active and passionate member of the Social Innovation Committee of Experian globally, focused on funding and building products with social objectives.

Mohan is a data science, machine learning and technology enthusiast with experience in consumer banking as well as the B2B business space. Outside of work, he is an avid reader of science fiction, enjoys teaching children AI and Robotics through game builds and travelling with his wife and 10-yearold daughter.

Mr. Jesus Vicente O. Garcia has been in the banking industry for more than 40 years. He started his journey in banking at UnionBank of the Philippines, where he used to serve as Head of Reserve Pool, Branch Manager, and Area Head. He also used to work with Pan Asia Bank as the Head of Advertising, Sales, & MOB in 1998. He had been a Branch Banking Group Head of Asiatrust Bank back in 2002. He was previously an Executive Vice President of the Philippine Veterans Bank in 2003. In 2017, he serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Branch Banking Group of CityState Savings Bank. He also used served as Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee in BancNet. Mr. Garcia is the current President and Executive Director of AllBank (A Thrift Bank), Inc. since 2019.

A partner based in Kearney’s Manila office, Marco de la Rosa leads Kearney’s Transformation Practice for Asia Pacific. He is respected as a practitioner and thought leader in large-scale transformations, having helped top companies deliver tangible, step-change outcomes in terms of top- and bottom-line results, customer experience (CX), and operational improvement.

Marco also leads Kearney’s Philippines office. In this capacity, he serves the C-Suites of leading local companies on their most pressing issues, and, as a Filipino himself, is passionate about contributing further to the growth of Philippine enterprises, the nation and its people. Marco brings a collaborative philosophy to his work that helps his clients get the solutions they need, and finds joy in the learning opportunities he finds through consulting. “Consulting affords the opportunity to live in other people’s worlds and help them face their biggest problems,” he says. “Every client, week, and project represents a new world, with new opportunities to deliver impact.”

Over 20 years of industry and management consulting experience in Africa, Middle East and Europe.

– Participated in the build and launch of three digital banks
– Design and build of Digital SME bank
– Multiple demutualization of Mutual Bank to Retail Bank in Africa
– Establishment of agriculture holding company and acquisition of a bank for agriculture value chain including banking as a service platform
– Defining of separation strategy for major Southern African regional banking group
– Establishment of fund for the development of Small Medium Enterprises
– Growth Strategy development for new banks entering the African market
– Part of the curatorship team for a bank to be turned around
– Working capital optimization for a developmental financing organization
– Growth strategy development for FMCG, Banking and Media clients into Africa
– Strategic alignment of transfer pricing and operating model strategies

Amit Agrawal has more than 22 years of Financial Service industry experience worked with majority of tier1/tier2 banks like Citi, DB, Credit Agrico, BNI, Macquarie, Westpac, SCB, DB etc His core competencies are leading risk, regulatory and finance transformation like multiyear implementations, change management, process excellence. During this period, he had held several corporate positions in banks (local/foreign) Big4 consulting, System Integrator and technology companies. He had the privilege to work with senior industry leaders like CFO, COO, CEO’s and diverse cultural backgrounds (worked with 14 different nationalities).

Amit holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Bachelor’s Degree (Electronics Engineer). He is certified in ITIL, PMP, CSM and RPA. His career interest is mainly on using technology like AI, RPA to solve business problems of finance function. As well as numerous articles in leading magazines like APACCIOOutlook, Banking Technology (now called as fintechfutures).

Dan works across Asia in Oliver Wyman’s Digital practice where he supports global clients to digitally transform their existing businesses and also launch new greenfield ventures on modern, low-cost technology stacks using agile and lean ways of working.

He specializes in the development and launching of new digital business models and virtual banks, products, and services. Dan has worked across Asia, Europe, and North America, and most recently led the launch of two new virtual banks and a number of new digital initiatives for two global financial institutions. He is passionate about moving existing organizations into new ways of working and partnering with FinTech firms to design innovative products for the market.

Dan has previously worked at a large global consulting firm and has spent time working on the industry side with a large European bank. He studied Marketing & Management at the University of Newcastle. He is a certified agile practitioner and coach and holds a PMI-PMP certification in Programme Management.

Roberto Bassig is one of the partners of PwC Philippines and PwC’s South East Asia Consulting practice.

Over the last twenty years, he has helped organizations with their most complex problems on technology and enterprise programs such as transformation through the selection of technology assets and models to consider and implement, including redefining of critical business processes in preparation for technology shifts and modernization. He has also advised many organizations in digital assets planning, governance, enterprise architecture and cybersecurity.

He started his career in PwC’s technology audit practice and has been involved in various engagements ranging from process improvement reviews, information security and compliance readiness, IT governance and enterprise resource planning optimization. He was also a former executive of one of the largest ICT organizations in the Philippines.

Gunneet Singh Bally is a seasoned retail banking business leader with over 23 years of experience in diverse economies spanning the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Asia Pacific. Throughout his career, he has developed strategic roadmaps and implemented short and long-term strategies to achieve business growth and economic progress. He currently serves as Security Bank’s Retail Channel Head.

Prior to Security Bank, Gunneet worked with Vietnam Prosperity Bank (VPBank) for nine years in various capacities, including Head of Consumer Lending and Head of Cards Business. He was also the Head of Products and Payments, and Customer Engagement at the digital bank Ubankand the Business Head of Consumer Cards in American Express (AMEX). He also held various other roles at ICICI Bank.

Oliver V. Chato is an IT Professional with over 25 years of experience in the Philippine IT Industry. His skillset includes Software/Hardware Support, Pre-sales, Mobile and Web Application Development and Architecture, Network Management, Systems Engineering, Architecture, and Security, Technical Project Management and Product Development, Innovation/Ideation, IT Program Management, Frameworks and Methodologies. He has comprehensive IT experience in the Software/Hardware Sales and Support, Telecommunications, and Application Development and Professional Services Startup industries. He has been a part of the Ateneo DISCS faculty, specializing in Computer Networks and Blockchain. He has served as a technology lead for private initiatives in Blockchain and Token-based Economics for Health Informatics and Health Records Management. In the past, he has also served as a Commissioner in the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, a precursor of the current Department of Information and Communications Technology. He previously served as the SEC project manager for the CIFSS project that launched in the first quarter of 2021. He is currently the Director of the Information and Communications Technology Department of the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission, managing all ICT initiatives and programs of the Commission that includes Digital Transformation, Ease of Doing Business, Cybersecurity, and the technical aspects of the Fintech Innovation Office programs, among others.

Kevin has more than 8 years of experience in startup, digital transformation, and the financial industry (FinTech & Digital Banking). Currently, he is working at PT Bank Amar Indonesia Tbk (IDX: AMAR) and building the bank’s digital portfolios, which are Tunaiku, the pioneer of the Digital Lending platform in Indonesia and Senyumku, the cloud-based mobile-only intelligent bank that helps build customers saving behavior in Indonesia. As CTO, he is mainly in charge of building up the Product, Engineering, and Data team of Amar Bank across the world – Indonesia, Vietnam, India, Estonia & Finland.

Amar Bank as the pure-play digital bank that introduced digital lending through Tunaiku and has recently launched the first mobile only AI (artificial intelligence) banking app Senyumku.

Sunny is the Chief Information Security Officer at Anext Bank Pte. Ltd. (“ANEXT Bank”). His key areas of focus include the development of information security strategy and governance framework, implementing security controls spanning across multiple technology domains and processes, and the formulation of ANEXT Bank’s information security policies, standards and procedures. In addition, he ensures ANEXT Bank’s compliance to regulatory mandates and resiliency to cyber threats.

Before his career in ANEXT Bank, Sunny has been with JPMorgan, Singtel and United Overseas Bank, where he led a broad range of technology functions including cyber risk and governance, security engineering, IT monitoring and analytics services. He also had extensive experience working with regulators across the APAC region from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Japan, performing continuous monitoring and measurement of security controls’ effectiveness and managing control enhancements programs.

Sunny holds a Bachelor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and a minor in Management Science and Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Stanford University (under the NUS overseas college program).

Welcome Chan is the Technology Risk Management Head of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited (ICBCA). With his capacity, he is responsible for ensuring the ICBCA’s information security policies, technology risk matters to ensure the adherence of regulatory and compliance requirements. He also plays a key role on information and cyber security risk matters of the bank and provides security advises to businesses, projects, IT infrastructure and application reviews to alleviate the potential security risks. Prior to joining the ICBCA, he was the Security Management role in CMB Wing Lung Bank, China CITIC Bank International, and also the Information Security Manager of Bank of Communications, Hong Kong Branch, and had held different IT audit management and Security roles of listed companies and manufacturing enterprises.

Welcome holds an MBA degree from the Hong Kong University of Science Technology, and a Bachelor Degree of Electronic and Communications Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. Welcome is also a qualification holder of CISA, CISM, CISSP, CSSLP, CGEIT, CRISC, CPDSE, CCNP, CREST CPSA, CRT and IRCA ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) Principal Auditor and ISO20000 IT Services Management System (ITSMS) Principal Auditor.

Niels Maerkedahl is the CIO for Business Banking and CTO for Digital Platforms at Standard Chartered Bank . Niels joined SCB in March 2021 from McKinsey, where he led the technology consulting practice in South East Asia and the Banking Technology Transformation service line in Asia. In his role at Standard Chartered Bank, Niels is leading the delivery of partnerships, banking-as-a-service capabilities, digital marketing, real-time analytics and CRM to grow the business across Asia, Africa and Middle East. In addition, Niels leads the overall People Strategy for the technology function in the Consumer Bank and he oversees the Engineering Culture transformation to become a technology-first driven institution.

Prahhakar has 18 years of experience in the banking and financial services Industry with a proven track record in solution consulting to financial institutions on domains such as Financial Crime, Core Banking, Private and Wealth Management, Fund Accounting and technical aspects such as Cloud Native, API and Data. In his current role at Thought Machine, Prabhakar is responsible for solution advisory, consulting and design for digital transformation initiatives for financial institutions in cloud adoption, core banking transformation, digital banking, banking platform augmentation and co-existence strategies.

Sonny is a seasoned professional and has led Pricing and Data Analytics projects/transformations in Asia, Europe and North America.

Sonny returned to Indonesia in July 2019 after spending 20 years living and working in the UK.

His current responsibility at Maybank Indonesia is to lead and manage a team of data scientists, market researchers and pricing specialists, developing a relatively new Division to convert data into meaningful and actionable insights for the Bank to better serve its customers.

Technology leader with 16+ years of experience building trade booking, order management and low latency trading systems. I have worked in many investment and private banks for trading desks across APAC, EMEA and US. I have also worked as Quant Developer for Fixed Income Risk Analytics. Have built trade reporting systems for Mifid and other regulatory requirements using microservices architecture.

I possess in depth experience in Core Java, Python, Springboot, Kafka, Mongodb, Elastic Search, Postgres, Open APIs.

Proficient in managing team of developers and communicating with the stakeholders and a firm believer of Agile practices.

As per my commitment to life long learning I have completed Masters in ML/AI to extend my knowledge to predictive analytics.

With over 20 years of B2B and B2C brand, marketing and communications regional experience in various industries, Jaslyin specializes in brand building, client experience management, content strategy, multi channel performance marketing, and mobile engagement and optimization strategies.

She has managed regional marketing teams across Asia Pacific in global MNCs including Citibank, EY, JLL, Kantar, Credit Suisse and State Street, driving marketing transformation, building go to market strategies and setting up high performing marketing teams from ground up.

A self professed data and customer insights fanatic, she believes that a good company knows the pain points of their customers and value they can bring to address them, while a good campaign delivers on that promise in a compelling and measurable manner.

Andika leads a team of data scientists and machine learning engineers, delivering cutting-edge and innovative AI solutions to enhance business growth while minimizing business risks.

Lucose Eralil is Security Bank’s Head of Enterprise Technology and Operations. His main responsibility is to drive the Banks strategy utilizing the Bank’s Operations, Technology, Cyber Security, and Customer Contact Groups by maximizing technology usage and operational excellence.

Together with Security Bank’s Senior Leadership, Lucose oversees the short- and long-term strategies of the Bank, aligning initiatives with its overall mission and vision. He facilitates the organizational structure of the Bank—including KRAs, recruitment, and performance management—ensuring that these support the organization’s goals. He is also responsible for co-creating roadmaps and implementing strategic initiatives together with the Bank’s CFO.

With his core expertise in Technology, Strategy & Transformation, Lucose is tasked with uplifting the Bank’s technology and cybersecurity footprint through transformation and change. At the same time, he is also leading efforts to reinvent how the Bank interacts with its customers, stitching back to the organization’s customer-centricity strategy.

Lucose brings with him more than 32 years of experience in of Technology & Transformation in the Financial Services Industry, with a track record in driving transformational change. He worked in
multinationals such as the NIIT and Credit Suisse, across various executive leadership capacities, both internationally and regionally.

Mr. Christian Jerome O. Dobles graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Engineering in 1989 from the Ateneo de Manila. In 1993, he graduated from the Asian Institute of Management with a degree in Master of Business Management. He has hands-on experience in banking, corporate restructuring, project evaluation, implementation, finance, sales, operations, and general management. He has been involved in various joint venture projects with international and local companies.

He has thirty-three (33) years of solid management experience beginning in operations, support services functions, sales & marketing and general management. Over the last eighteen (28) years, he has been in a senior management position, heading various departments such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Administration, Strategic Planning, Business Development, and Human Resources.He served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Finance Officer (CFO), then President of the JAD Group of Companies, a contract manufacturer and contract logistics provider of various multinational companies. Prior to that, he was CFO of Vintage Television, broadcasting various sports programs. Earlier in Mr. Dobles’ career, he had stints in the agricultural industry via multinational Dole Stanfilco and in international port operations via the International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI).

Over the last seventeen (17) years, Mr. Dobles has been with Philippine National Bank (PNB) where he held various positions as Head of the Special Assets Management Sector, Head of the Branch Banking Group- Metro Manila, Deputy Head of the Branch Banking Group, Deputy Head of Cards Banking Solutions Group, Sales Head of Ecosystem. Mr. Dobles also performed other functions in the bank as Chairman or Member of various Bank Management Committees and as trainer in management training programs. He was also a member of the Management Panel in past CBA negotiations. He also headed the bank’s year-long Centennial Anniversary Celebration in 2016. He was a recipient of the PNB Service Excellence Award twice. He also
received the prestigious PNB Leadership Award, which is rarely given.

Currently, he is SVP & Head of Transformation of PNB. He is responsible for leading the program of change, working closely with Senior Management in scoping, defining, and articulating the details of the change strategy, and oversee its implementation. He is responsible for the Comprehensive Transformation Program ensuring the alignment of all programs and driving and managing the change process.

Yang Yang Zhang is the Managing Director of Xendit Philippines, a financial technology company providing payment solutions for the Philippines, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Xendit in 2019, Yang Yang was the Co-Founder and Chief of Strategy of a cryptocurrency trading platform in the Philippines, where she discovered the opportunities of the Philippines’ financial infrastructure and thus motivating her to build up her career in the Philippines.

Toby Smith is a Principal in Oliver Wyman’s Digital and Financial Services practice in Asia Pacific. He has 10 years consulting experience in the financial services industry across both incumbent and challenger banks, focusing on digital go-to-market product and service strategy, customer centric operating model, and proposition design. Toby has recently taken on Chief Product Officer roles in the design, build, and launch of digital banks in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Prior to this, he had been active in Neo bank growth in the UK and wider EU, including PSD2 and other open API innovation within the financial services industry.

Mark is the Global Head and Chief Product Owner of the API and Open Banking ecosystem at Standard Chartered Corporate & Institutional banking. Together with his team of global and regional product owners, they define the product strategy and deliver the product roadmap leveraging modern ways of working to constantly bring new capabilities to market.

He has over two decades of experience in both consulting & industry, working at the intersection of technology, business and customer experience to deliver value through the creation of digital solutions and platforms in financial services.

Dodong Montino is the Head of Enterprise Data Services at Union Bank of the Philippines. He led the implementation of the Bank’s Data Vault, which garnered multiple industry awards including the recent Asian Banker Award for Best Big Data Implementation in 2022 and Best Data Management Initiative in 2021.

He is a Data Management Executive with 17+ years of experience in Banking, Telco, & Retail.

Dodong Graduated Cum Laude from the University of Santo Tomas.

Matthew has enjoyed a long and diverse career across a number commercial and management disciplines including sales, digital marketing, operations, and service delivery.

He transitioned from the retail industry across to the technology industry well over twenty years ago heading up content delivery and e-commerce operations for a well know French brand for several years. He later took on senior management roles as Country Manager with international POS/ERP software providers successfully leveraging his knowledge of the retail industry and the software technology industry to design and deliver new mobile applications and hospitality service terminals.

Matthew then took on a new challenge in the IT infrastructure space successfully re positioning a data center business into private cloud offerings and gaining a well rounded knowledge of the entire lifecycle of IT infrastructure deliveries.

Matthew retuned to the application side of the business in 2019 and initially joined Geniusto International to lead the global business development efforts.
In 2021 he was invited by the Board of Directors of Geniusto to lead the firm as Group CEO. Since assuming the post, Matthew has re-focused and re-branded the organization and steered the company to triple digit growth.

in 2023, Geniusto will open its USA operations to address the needs of Community Banks and Credit Unions in North America.

To learn more about Geniusto https://geniusto.com

Juan brings over 20 years of experience in technology and professional services. He has led large transformation programs across Financial Services (Banking, Insurance, Assets Management), Public Sector, and Manufacturing with a specific focus on Enterprise Architecture (EA), Emerging Technologies (ET), and IT Service Management (ITSM), and largescale system integration (SI).

Throughout his career, Juan held multiple senior roles, from defining business processes with business and technical stakeholders to designing, prototyping, and delivering solutions to support complex business environments.

Juan is a regular speaker at numerous technology and business events, including Microsoft and IBM Global Events in Europe and America, and has received different recognitions from the industry, including Certified Enterprise Architect for The Open Group and IASA, Design Thinking, Agile Practitioner for Scrum.org and Project Management Institute, IBM WebSphere Insider, Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

Over 10 years of experience in local and international banking industries, specializing in Trade Finance and Remittance Operations (BPI, Industrial Bank of Korea, EastWest Bank & MUFG Bank Ltd.).

Manage a team of 10 headcounts, comprising Junior to Senior Bank operations associates and officers.

Reliable, diligent, and team-oriented banking professional with over 10 years of experience in processing and reviewing, international and domestic trade finance and remittance transactions through effective & efficient operational management.

Proven ability to improve quality of output, consistency, and productivity to achieve the bank’s strategic goals.

> Developed an operational gap analysis that helps to increase productivity by 60 percent and control potential operational loopholes.
> Leads the successful local payment system integration project (PDDTS, RTGS, & PESONET) and organizes the implementation of competency training for all associates and officers.
> Developed several automation initiatives that significantly reduced processing time by 80%. ( Bank Certification, OR and DR/CR MEMO, BAU Process Automation)

DG Fonacier is the head of the Financial Supervision Sector (FSS), which is mainly responsible for the regulation of banks and other BSP-Supervised Financial Institutions (BSFIs). Under her direct supervision are five subsectors which handle onsite examination and offsite surveillance (or integrated supervision) of BSFIs including specialized supervision of specific areas (i.e., anti-money laundering, trust, financial market operations and information technology), oversight of the public credit registry, policy studies/research, and supervisory data management.

DG Fonacier joined the BSP in 1984 as a bank examiner and worked her way to become the deputy governor of FSS in 2017. In 2008, she headed the BSP’s primary supervisory unit that handles specially-challenged banks. Under her watch, a record number of bank issues and developments were successfully resolved and implemented. She also led the development of various programs, in coordination with the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC), aimed at strengthening the thrift, rural, and cooperative banking sectors by encouraging mergers, consolidations, and acquisition involving weak banks.

DG Fonacier recently served two extended terms, from July 2017 to August 2022, as Chair of the Executives’ Meeting of East Asia Pacific Central Banks Working Group on Banking Supervision (EMEAP WGBS), composed of central bank and supervisory authorities from 11 countries in the East Asia and the Pacific which focuses on bank supervision matters that are relevant to EMEAP WGBS members. She also served as Chair and the alternate of the BSP Governor in the Global Standards and Policy of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion.

She previously served as an alternate Member in the Board of Directors of the National Development Corporation (NDC), as well as the Agricultural Credit Policy Council – Governing Council, and as Chair of the Consumer Protection and Education Committee of the Financial Sector Forum.

She is currently the BSP’s representative to the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) Plenary and Workstream 1 (Supervision/Micro-Prudential Practices) and the permanent alternate of the BSP Governor in the Board of Directors of the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC).DG Fonacier has served as panelist/resource person in various international conferences/fora on banking supervision, sustainable finance, financial technology and digitalization, financial inclusion, shadow banking, microfinance, bank resolution and
crisis management, financial stability, capacity building, etc. organized by international bodies such as the United Nations (UN), IMF/World Bank, Bank of International Settlements (BIS), Financial Stability Institute (FSI), Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC), Asian Bankers Association (ABA), South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) and central banks and monetary/supervisory authorities of various countries.

DG Fonacier took up her Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Accounting degree at University of St. La Salle – Bacolod. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a holder of a Career Service Executive Eligibility (CSEE). She obtained her Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the Ateneo de Manila University. She attended the Program on Rethinking Financial Inclusion: Smart Design for Policy and Practice organized by the Harvard Kennedy School.

Founder & CEO, Hungry Workhorse

He is the Founder & CEO of Hungry Workhorse, a digital and culture transformation consulting firm.

He is Institute Fellow at the US-based Institute for Digital Transformation. He is the Chairman of ICT Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) and Chairman of IT Governance at Finex Academy.

He is a Professorial Lecturer in the MBA program of De La Salle University and Program Director for the Digital Transformation of the Center for Professional Development in Business, DLSU.

He is a business columnist for The Manila Times, Manila Bulletin, and Business World.

Long is the President of Tonik Digital Bank. She brings over 25 years of professional experience in financial inclusion in the Philippines and in different global emerging markets in Asia and Latin America. Prior to joining Tonik, Long was the President of Rizal MicroBank and served as a First Senior Vice President at Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC).

She also held director and consultancy positions in various business and microfinancing institutions such as MicroKonsult, GO Negosyo, BDO Network Bank and ACCION International. Further, she holds a diploma from an executive course on Strategic leadership on microfinance at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA. In her spare time, Long enjoys biking with her husband who is also a seasoned banker.

Patrick Meneses is the SVP Chief Data Officer of Security Bank, one of the Philippines’ leading universal banks which strives to be the most customer-centric in the industry. Patrick’s focus is building institutional analytic capabilities which have meaningful impact to SBC customers. He specializes in designing the operationalization of data & analytics at scale.

Patrick joined Security Bank from a 26-year data & analytics career spanning Big Tech in Silicon Valley to cutting edge solutions in Automotive through more recently consulting the biggest Global Banks throughout ASEAN.

Patrick is a featured speaker and thought leader in events throughout ASEAN. He is active in shaping academic curriculum in the Philippines and enjoys mentoring the next generation of Analytic Professionals.

With more than a decade of solution consulting experience, Ai Ling has worked with many customers in the Asia region to drive their digital transformation strategies, including the Banking and Financial Services industry. She started her specialization first with the Enterprise and Web Experience Management, moving to Customer Experience in the context of Commerce, Marketing, Sales and Customer Service to now the Digital Agreements Platform solutions. She’s aspired to help customers in redefining agreement experience and delivering the values that makes your business more agreeable.

Vidya is а Business Development Manager – APAC at Software Group (SoftwareGroup.com), a global technology company specialized in digitalization and integration solutions for financial service providers.

She has more than 10 years of experience in IT and financial services and has played an instrumental role in strategic digital transformation projects for banks, credit unions and MFIs in the Asia-Pacific region. Vidya’s strong business acumen, passion for financial inclusion and digital innovation come together to help financial institutions successfully grow in the digital era. Prior to joining Software Group, Vidya led key business transformation and client-facing projects in New Zealand telecommunication companies. She carries specific industry knowledge in Project Management, Service Delivery Management, and Account Management areas.

Maria is a fintech and blockchain enthusiast and a lawyer. Maria joined UnionDigital Bank, one of the six (6) licensed digital banks in the Philippines, as its Chief Product Operations & Customer Experience Officer.

Moving to the Philippines in 2015, she joined as an early employee of Coins.ph. She held various Senior Management roles focusing on Business Development, Compliance and Legal for both its fiat and blockchain businesses.

Maria established partnerships for on/off ramp, international remittance rails (fiat/ blockchain), merchant payments. She also worked with regulators to navigate through the applicable regulatory frameworks, secure regulatory approvals and licenses, and ensure ongoing compliance and the administration of a robust AML Program in the context fast growing crypto exchange and mobile wallet

Dan is a Business Transformation professional with nearly 2 decades of leadership experience in reshaping how organization’s ORGANIZE, OPERATE and BEHAVE. Improving how organizations work and perform are his goals and passions. He understands that the key to any successful transformation venture is by starting with culture first – only then can organizations humanize the business for both the employee and the customer.

As an advocate of purpose-led innovation, he envisions a Philippines where families’ dreams come true, businesses flourish and the nation is admired. He would gladly partner with anyone who can help contribute to this vision as he believes that moving forward together is not about being number one anymore.

His experience spans various industries such as banking, utilities and insurance. By thinking in terms of becoming future-ready, rather than future-proof, keeps the organization’s door open to future innovation – developing new solutions, better answers, more advanced technology, and different ideas.

As a certified practitioner in Lean Six Sigma, Customer/User Experience and Design Thinking, he is now currently leading the digital transformation effort of a 110 year old multi-billion dollar life insurance company in the Philippines.

Steven is the Treasurer of Maya Bank, the country’s fastest-growing digital bank. He has over 29 years of banking and finance experience in treasury, trading, balance sheet management, and sales.

Before his role as head of treasury at Maya Bank, he held senior leadership roles in some of the biggest banking firms in the Philippines and region, including BDO Unibank, Inc., Bank of the Philippine Islands, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, Citibank, and Australia New Zealand Bank.

He served as the president of the Money Market Association of the Philippines from 2019 to 2021 and has also served as a board member of the ACI Financial Markets Association of the Philippines. Steven is a proud graduate of the University of the Philippines Diliman.

Global IT management expert with hands-on experience in the design, development, and management of bespoke IT infrastructure solutions and technology start-ups.
Twenty-two years record in leading and motivating individuals to maximize levels of productivity while forming team environments.

He is the Founder & CEO of Hungry Workhorse, a digital and culture transformation consulting firm.

He is Institute Fellow at the US-based Institute for Digital Transformation. He is the Chairman of ICT Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) and Chairman of IT Governance at Finex Academy.

He is a Professorial Lecturer in the MBA program of De La Salle University and Program Director for the Digital Transformation of the Center for Professional Development in Business, DLSU.
He is a business columnist for The Manila Times, Manila Bulletin, and Business World.

Paolo Cansino is a banker, with experience in both corporate and consumer banking spaces, and a university faculty. He is currently Head of Key Accounts – Assistant Vice President of a bank focused on digital banking, driving its key growth initiatives. Prior to his present role, Paolo was Assistant Vice President and a former Management Associate at Citi, with roles revolving around digital banking, retail bank client acquisition, credit card portfolio lending, insurance product management, and controls. His banking career started in corporate lending at BPI as management trainee and account officer.

In parallel, Paolo teaches at the University of Asia and the Pacific, the same institution under which he completed his graduate thesis on financial inclusion in the context of bank lending to the agricultural sector. He earned his Master of Arts degree (With Distinction) in 2020 from the said university and his Bachelor of Arts degree (Cum Laude, Class Valedictorian) from the Ateneo de Davao University in 2013.

Alvin is the Philippines’ Financial Services and Risk lead, covering Board effectiveness, corporate governance, enterprise risk management, regulatory/compliance management, risk analytics, reporting & data management, ESG risk management, digital financial services, conduct risk, cybersecurity and forensics. He has over 18 years of professional and industry experience, delivering projects focused on GRC, technology, privacy, cybersecurity and digital for financial services, FinTech and other industries. He assumed roles across business/operations, risk, and audit. Prior to re-joining PwC in 2013, Alvin was a university lecturer, lead technology risk/information security manager, and risk & assurance manager for multinational banks. In his first stint as a PwC professional, he managed projects on IT and business processes/controls, internal audit, data analysis, financial services and performance improvement advisory. Concurrently, he is PwC Philippines’ firm’s Deputy Chief Data Officer.

He is the Chairman for Education and Research of the Good Governance Advocates and Practitioners of the Philippines (GGAPP). Alvin is also a business writer, having published several articles on risk management and data governance in Philippine publications. He is also the principal author of the GGAPP-PwC Philippines Corporate Governance Survey report—”Finding the true north: Advancing corporate governance in the Philippines.”

Alvin holds the following credentials: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Financial Services Auditor (CFSA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA, non-practicing), and Data Management Capability Assessment Model (DCAM) v2 Accreditation.

An accomplished digital transformation veteran with over 20 years of experience in the banking industry, Mr Suresh Neelakantan leads transformation thinking with proven results across the Digital Product Management spectrum.

Being one of the leaders in the NEC Asia Pacific Value Chain Innovation Lab, he drives digital evolution and manages co-creation partnerships with financial institutions and fintech to provide innovative solutions that have resulted in increased revenue and market share for clients.

Mr. Brian Birt joined NEC from his previous position as VP Sales APAC for SOFGEN LTD PTE. Prior to that, he held executive positions with HP, IBM and Fidelity. Brian has been an evangelist for bank modernization having led teams into APAC to implement the first core-banking solution on the cloud and card-less cash solutions. He is well known in the global banking industry and specifically in APAC with over 20 years of working with a majority of the region’s leading banks.

Anurag Mishra is a EY Technology Consulting Partner based in the Philippines. He has 23 years of experience in global outsourcing with proficiency in enterprise transformation, digital disruption, growth, P&L, and business recoveries. He has helped clients to grow profitability and produce high-impact business outcomes in finance, accounting and client operations.

Ajay Kushwaha is a seasoned digital transformation practitioner with a deep background in various enterprise architecture domains. With his experience in transformative applications development platforms, on-prem and cloud infrastructure transitions, and end-user applications (in Digital Commerce, Marketing, and CRM – B2B/B2C), he brings a wide-angle view of how companies should take a balanced approach toward their technical challenges and turn them into opportunities. He has over 2 decades of experience in the region working with clients in multiple sectors to co-create their digital vision.

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From the vast capabilities of Euronet Worldwide Inc in the global payments landscape, Gerone brings in those that are appropriate for the Philippine market. As a result, the company provides services to banks, fintechs and their customers to participate in the country’s Real-Time Payment rail and ecosystem called Instapay, catering to its current and future overlays.

Gerone is a banking technology veteran for over 36 years. He led IT for various institutions including HSBC Philippines in the mid-90s and its various global service centres in the region thereafter. He was one of the handful ATM programmers in the mid-80s and was one of early technical representatives of banks that started BancNet.

His career came in full circle with Euronet in 2017 deploying ATMs under its own brand and providing ATM and Card Management services to financial institutions and EMIs. In addition, Gerone is a director of RIA Money Transfer Inc, a Euronet company.

He holds a BS degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the dela Salle University, units for MS in Computer Science from the Ateneo de Manila University, and units for MC in Commercial Project Management from the George Washington University.

Jallain S. Manrique is an Advisory Partner and the Head of Technology Consulting in KPMG in the Philippines, he has 15 years of extensive professional experience in the fields of IT audit, SOC or attestation, cybersecurity, data privacy, ERP implementation, robotics process automation, data & analytics, and IT project management.

Jacob Leon is an Adobe Document Cloud Solutions Specialist. He is a 6 year veteran of the business heralding originally from Adobe San Francisco, stopping via Adobe Sydney, and has recently landed to Adobe Singapore. During his tenure, he has supported organisations across highly regulated industries (FSI, Biopharmaceutical, Government, etc) to transform routine document processes, and enable their workforce to be more efficient in the digital world.

Elisha Harrington is an Evangelist on the Innovation team at ServiceNow. In her role, Elisha is laser focused on the future of work, digital transformation, and the power of intelligent systems.
As a thought leader in operational improvement and innovation, she is responsible for all efforts to evangelize the transformative world of work for enterprise customers in the Asian-Pacific region. Elisha is helping customers re-imagine the possible and solve important problems to create stunning change.

Prior to ServiceNow, Elisha worked for a number of top tier professional services firms, consulting with the largest global and Australian local enterprises across banking, telecommunications and more. From running large Digital transformations (both technical and business). Elisha worked for PwC across technology solutions which included fraud detection, risk sentiment, automation, and advanced analytics as well as blockchain and other leading technology cloud SaaS solutions.

Working within C-suite agendas and large impactful programs impacting employee and customer experience, Elisha aims to supercharge productivity scaling across the organisation whilst cultivating a culture of innovation at its core. 

Dietmar joined Tyme 6.5 years ago, he leads the data and analytics function across the group, currently consisting of TymeBank in South Africa and the newly launched GoTyme in the Philippines. He has led lending, data science, machine learning and big data teams for close to 20 years in banking, and previously lectured in the Actuarial field.

Emil Pastor is a Solution Architect at Neo4j based in Sydney. He has been a data and AI professional enabling organisations in various industries through strategy, architecture, use case delivery, and capability building to support stakeholders and client data professionals in leveraging their data assets. Prior to working at Neo4j, he worked as an Architect and Consultant for organisations like Microsoft, McKinsey & Company (QuantumBlack), EY and Teradata.

Gel has been in the Banking and Finance industry for more than a decade. She has been focused in co-creating products and services that would assist businesses to enable their operations to be more efficient, ultimately bringing better service to the Filipino people. One of her thrusts is to inject digital capabilities to small and medium enterprises, including bigger corporations here in the Philippines through UnionBank’s Fintech Business Group. She graduated from De La Salle University with a degree in Organizational Communication. Gel also took further studies in the Asian Institute of Management under their Master in Business Administration program.

Tony Pham is Oradian’s Head of Sales & Partnerships APAC. As our man in Manila, he has helped financial institutions across the country realise their digitalisation journey. Tony began his career in the United States working for, among others, Google, before moving to the Philippines, where he has lived and worked for five years. In that time, Tony has led Oradian’s growth in the Philippines, helping us deliver cloud banking and digitalisation to lenders, rural banks, microfinance institutions and fintechs.

Jayson Chen heads the enterprise growth and cofounded the APAC business at Insider. Jayson is experienced in helping with leading banks in the region on digital transformation, specializing in Customer Data Platform, Marketing Personalization, Omnichannel Strategies and etc.

Meet Insider, the first integrated Growth Management Platform (GMP), or Customer Data & Experience Platform(CDxP).

Insider helps our partners to drive growth across the funnel, from Acquisition to Activation, Retention and Revenue. Leveraging real-time predictive segmentation powered by deep Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities, Insider empowers marketers to deliver personalized journeys across web, mobile web, mobile apps and ad channels. Built on a unified data layer, Insider is easy to implement and simple to use, avoiding the need for complex integrations and dependency on IT teams. Insider simplifies the life of digital marketers and helps them drive growth for their brands, with zero marketing waste.

Insider is a technology company with offices in 25+ markets including London, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Dubai, Moscow, Spain, Warsaw, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Istanbul, Kiev, Sydney, Seoul, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, Sao Paulo, New York, Bogota and more.

Helping world’s leading brands grow beyond the speed of customer expectations, Insider is trusted by over 300 businesses across various industries including Singapore Airlines, Santander, Virgin, CIMB, Bank BCA, Samsung, Telkomsel, Puma, Carrefour, Newsweek, Allianz, BBVA, Dominos, McDonald’s, CNN, and many more

Ravi Patel is a fintech entrepreneur and banking corporate executive. He has spent his career building banks and fintechs for companies like Credit Suisse, Barclays, Grab Financial Services, Axiata Digital Services and also his own companies in the payments and finance segments. Most recently Ravi has worked with modern banking technology software vendors including Thought Machine and Episode Six, where he is currently responsible for building the Partnerships function.

Ravi is passionate about transforming the financial services industry working with modern technologies to create a relevant, secure and profitable industry.

Altona Widjaja, Head of New Digital Ventures, Data and Agile, Bank OCBC NISP, Indonesia

Altona has more than 15 years of experience in Financial Services Technology, Consumer Banking, Data and Strategy in the region. Previously he co-founded the Fintech and Innovation arm of OCBC Group in doing business unit engagement, acceleration programme, Fintech solution development and Innovation culture building for OCBC Group. He drives projects in areas of KYC, AML, Trade finance, Blockchain and Machine learning.

Today, Altona heads up New Digital Ventures, Data and Agile at Bank OCBC NISP to help the bank with their digitalisation effort in open banking, embedded finance, new way of working and Data analytics and machine learning.

A coder by training with Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Masters in Knowledge Engineering from National University of Singapore, Altona is passionate about technology as an enabler and challenging status quo.