Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference Asia Pacific

Leveraging AI to meet evolving customer needs

20

November

  • Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
  • Complimentary

Why attend?

WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2025

  • GenAi for decision-making and personalisation
  • Hyper-automation and customer journey optimisation
  • AI-driven risk management and Cybersecurity
  • Data to intelligence: Next-Gen analytics
  • Regulatory compliance in an AI first world
  • AI governance and ethical deployment in FS
  • Cross-industry collaboration for maximum impact

150+

Attendees

15+

Exhibitors

25+

Speakers

75%

Attendees at Director+ level

150+

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Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services 2024

Agenda

  • 20 Nov 2025
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8:15 AM

Registration

9 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Speakers

Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

THEME 1: Navigating the AI Roadmap in Modern Finance

9:10 AM

Keynote Address: Industry trends impacting 2026 and beyond for Leaders in Financial Services Overseeing Use of AI

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Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

9:40 AM

Keynote Address: Fortifying for the Future: AI x Cybersecurity in APAC’s Financial Sector

  • How is AI revolutionizing threat mitigation, detection and response in financial services?
  • Balancing AI risks with the advantages of innovative tools including ML and LLMs
  • Developing strategies to enhance decision making
  • Building vigilance and security preventatives

Speakers

Frankie Shuai
Global CISO 100 Awardee and President, Project Management Institute (PMI) Singapore Chapter

10:05 AM

Fireside Chat: Preparing A Robust AI Governance Framework

  • Accelerating AI literacy and capabilities to enhance AI adoption
  • How to ensure employees are compliant and risk-vigilant
  • What can we learn from the EU AI Act and what will the impact be in APAC?
  • Mastering risk management and ethical guidelines to become proficient

Speakers

Boon Hiong Chan
Industry Applied Innovation Lead & Head APAC Market and Technology Advocacy, Securities Services, Deutsche Bank
Todd McGregor

10:35 AM

Dragon’s Den

A panel of the industry’s most sought-after solution providers. Set the scene with a 60 second introduction and insight into their products and services. Visit the booths in the exhibition hall for more details and services!

10:40 AM

Morning Networking Break

10:45 AM

THEME 2: Enhancing Your Data and Automation Stack Strategies

11:10 AM

Keynote: Cognitive Parallels: How Generative AI Mimics Human Cognitive Processes

Breaking the barriers to AI mimicking creativity, reasoning, pattern recognition, and where it diverges.

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Dr. Mark Powell
Head of Private Cloud Delivery, Standard Chartered Bank

11:50 AM

How Enterprise Superintelligence Unlocks Gen AI’s Full Value for Financial Services

  • Enabling a deep understanding of unique business contexts: How AI is helping financial institutions unlock operational advantages and enhance customer experience.
  • Transforming work with AI: How to create an AI-first culture, from automation of low-value tasks to increased productivity and revenue generated per employee.
  • Navigating AI challenges: Addressing the complexities of AI transformation, understanding enterprise context, driving successful change management, and doing it all securely.

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Graeme McConnell
Enterprise Accounts Director - SEA, Glean

12:10 PM

Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) for AI

  • Diagnosis: Speed is not the problem; unquestioned trust is. Opaque, hierarchical “digital feudalism” in APAC finance has produced fragile systems where cultural inertia masquerades as discipline.
  • Risk: Siloed guilds and loss of systems thinking hide AI risk; SaaS/API sprawl and privileged AI agents amplify fragility, a wake-up echoed by JPMorgan’s CISO.
  • Remedy: Recast compliance as an aircraft control tower that coordinates visibility and timing, adopt systems-oriented assurance, map integrations and AI agents, and ensure someone is watching the watchers.
  • Culture and alignment: Flatten governance, modernize guilds, shift from passive compliance to active assurance, and align with DORA-style resilience and third-party oversight to govern systems of action before they fail.

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Michael Son-Paik
AI Attorney, AIFS Advisory Board

12:30 PM

Deploying Enterprise-Grade Agents Regulators Can Trust

Everyone says they have AI agents. Few trust them in core processes where they can deliver the most impact.

After this session, you will:

  • Learn the hidden cost of fragmented AI solutions
  • Understand the six core capabilities to deploy AI agents that regulators can trust and COOs value
  • See how leading financial services organisations are cutting cost-to-serve and improving customer experiences with agentic AI

Speakers

Frederic Meier
Senior Vice President Sales

12:50 PM

Lunch

THEME 3: From Traditional Banking to Intelligent Finance

2 PM

Implementing Gen AI into The Value Chain – How Do We Start?

  • Reviewing model code and architecture using XAI (explainable AI) techniques to interpret outputs and algorithms
  • Mitigating and re-testing strategies to find the right solution for your value chain
  • How can we generate simplicity with AI and agility with current infrastructures?

Speakers

Colin Blackwell
Chairman, Hyperion Fintech AG, and Chairman of the Human Resources Committee, Vietnam Business Forum

2:20 PM

Navigating AI Infrastructure Challenges in Financial Services

Speakers

Jack Funchion
VP, Financial services, Digital Realty

2:40 PM

Panel Discussion: Beyond the Bot: Finding the Human Voice in AI-Driven Financial Services

  • Balancing automation and the human touch in client interactions
  • Personalization for a new generation of clients (Gen Z & Millennials)
  • What does meaningful personalization look like for digital-native customers?
  • Building trust through transparency and ethical AI use
  • Avoiding the “Robotic” experience: Injecting brand voice and empathy into AI
  • How do we make sure our AI doesn’t just sound smart, but also feels human?
  • Real-world examples where companies got this right—or wrong—and what we can learn.

Speakers

Sunday Domingo
Global Head, Digital Channel Solutions, Standard Chartered Singapore
Tze Yong
Heads of Solutions and Architecture, AXS Pte
Saket Newaskar
Head of AI Transformation, Expleo
Nico Busch
Senior Director Head of Product
Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

THEME 4: Preparing To Become Future-Ready

3:30 PM

Networking Break

3:50 PM

Industry Address: AI, Trade Wars and The New World Order?

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Rory Green
Chief China Economist, TS Lombard

4:10 PM

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ClickHouse

4:30 PM

Closing Keynote: Rewriting The Cultural Adoption of AI and Automation

  • How do we perceive the current state of AI and automation adoption in Asia?
  • Exploring communication techniques to maintain a balanced level of integrated AI strategies and initiatives
  • Productionising GenAI – is it giving the right data and outputs?

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Samer El-Hajjar
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore

4:50 PM

Chairman’s Final Remarks & Close of Conference

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Todd McGregor

5 PM

Close of conference

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Frankie Shuai
Global CISO 100 Awardee and President, Project Management Institute (PMI) Singapore Chapter

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Keynote Address: Fortifying for the Future: AI x Cybersecurity in APAC’s Financial Sector

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Colin Blackwell
Chairman, Hyperion Fintech AG, and Chairman of the Human Resources Committee, Vietnam Business Forum

Colin is a board member of Hyperion Fintech - a Swiss asset management and fintech company. He is also the founder of Enablecode, a social enterprise based in Vietnam with the mission to create employment for people with disabilities. Enablecode is a global impact portfolio member of the World Bank's Solutions for Youth Employment consortium. He is Chairman of the Human Resources committee of the World Bank's Vietnam Business Forum, representing the private sector to the Vietnam government. He is a global judge of the United Nations Generation Unlimited Youth Challenge and various other competitions. Colin is a regular keynote speaker and media contributor on the topics of artificial intelligence, transformation, and the future of work.

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Implementing Gen AI into The Value Chain – How Do We Start?

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Dr. Mark Powell
Head of Private Cloud Delivery, Standard Chartered Bank

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Keynote: Cognitive Parallels: How Generative AI Mimics Human Cognitive Processes

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Yiliang Zhao
Director, Head of Data Science, Openspace Ventures
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Sunday Domingo
Global Head, Digital Channel Solutions, Standard Chartered Singapore

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Panel Discussion: Beyond the Bot: Finding the Human Voice in AI-Driven Financial Services

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Rory Green
Chief China Economist, TS Lombard

Rory joined TS Lombard in 2018, returning to the UK after almost a decade in Asia. Prior to TS Lombard, Rory spent four years with PRC Macro Advisors, a Beijing based economic research firm specialising in China’s political economy. Before turning to economics, Rory worked at a number of Beijing based mediatech start-ups. Rory is a fluent Mandarin speaker and the winner of two Chinese government scholarships in Economics and Mandarin.

Rory has a BA (Joint Hons) in History & French from the University of Manchester. Rory was awarded two Chinese government scholarships in Economics and Mandarin, and obtained an MSc in Economics from Beijing Normal University in 2014. Rory speaks fluent Mandarin and French, and advanced Korean.

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Industry Address: AI, Trade Wars and The New World Order?

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Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

Bartosz Golba is Research Director, Financial Services at GlobalData, providing robust data and actionable insights to a number of world’s leading financial services organisations, not least related to disruption caused by evolution of technology. A former wealth manager, Bartosz has more than 10 years of experience in dealing with changing behaviours and expectations of both FS providers and their customers.

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Keynote Address: Industry trends impacting 2026 and beyond for Leaders in Financial Services Overseeing Use of AI

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Panel Discussion: Beyond the Bot: Finding the Human Voice in AI-Driven Financial Services

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Chairman’s Opening Remarks

2025-11-20, 9:00 AM

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Matthew Driver
Executive Vice President, Services, Asia-Pacific
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William Rojas
Research Director, GD Strategic Intelligence
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Tony Zhang
Senior Manager, Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI, ManuLife
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Akira Shibata
Head of APAC, Weights & Biases

Akira Shibata leads the APAC region at Weights & Biases, the industry-standard platform for MLOps and LLMOps. He specializes in driving AI value creation across diverse industries, from generative AI to financial services. An accomplished entrepreneur and data scientist, Akira holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of London and has served as CEO of DataRobot Japan and COO of Qosmo, Inc. LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akirashibata/

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Samer El-Hajjar
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore

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Closing Keynote: Rewriting The Cultural Adoption of AI and Automation

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Nico Busch
Senior Director Head of Product

Nico has over 20 years of experience across financial services - with the last ten years working on reconciliation, data automation & workflow products. At Xceptor, Nico is responsible for the design & product management of the Xceptor products: reconciliations, tax, confirmations & data automation.

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Panel Discussion: Beyond the Bot: Finding the Human Voice in AI-Driven Financial Services

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Son-U Michael Paik
General Counsel, BABL.ai

Attorney, AI auditor and governance architect with 25+ years designing cross-border risk systems; I bridge algorithmic audit, legal structuring and operational execution to build AI and GRC frameworks that embed accountability, resilience and enforceable compliance under adversarial and regulatory scrutiny.

Former executive and General Counsel for three listed companies; lead legal operations at BABL.ai aligning audit and certification with the EU AI Act and ISO 42001; founder of GRC Solutions Korea delivering enterprise frameworks; long-running academic roles at Seoul National University, Yonsei and Ewha; translated law and policy into management systems for maritime, steel, manufacturing and renewable energy.

Advise clients across APAC, the US and the EU through CUBE Consulting and MindStudio.ai; NY-licensed with advanced certifications; contributed to the EU Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI and to NIST TEVV work; selective on high-consequence mandates.

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Frederic Meier
Senior Vice President Sales

Frederic is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Camunda, where he leads the global sales strategy, partner channels, and sales engineering functions. He previously held the role of Vice President of Sales North America, driving Camunda’s successful expansion into the region before taking on a global sales leadership role. Frederic brings a wealth of expertise to Camunda’s executive team, backed by multiple post-graduate degrees in International Management

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Deploying Enterprise-Grade Agents Regulators Can Trust

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Saket Newaskar
Head of AI Transformation, Expleo

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Panel Discussion: Beyond the Bot: Finding the Human Voice in AI-Driven Financial Services

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Keith Man
General Manager, APAC, Xceptor

Keith is the General Manager for Asia Pacific at Xceptor based in Singapore, where he leads regional growth and client strategy for data automation solutions in capital markets. With over 15 years experience in fintech and post trade capital markets, Keith has held senior leadership roles across APAC, Prior to Xceptor, he served as Head of APAC for Duco, and earlier held senior positions in Standard Chartered Bank, TriOptima and Royal Bank of Scotland.

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Boon Hiong Chan
Industry Applied Innovation Lead & Head APAC Market and Technology Advocacy, Securities Services, Deutsche Bank

Boon-Hiong Chan leads Securities Market and Technology Advocacy for APAC at Deutsche Bank, and drives applied innovations in securities servicing. With over 20 years of experience, Boon has shaped transformation strategies and client solutions in post-trade and investment services, blending expertise in AI, tokenization, cybersecurity and regulations to advance resilient, forward-looking approaches.

A co-recipient of five innovation awards, a Singapore IBF Fellow and mentor, Boon actively contributes to industry discussions including in MAS Project Guardian and Pathfin.AI.

Based in Singapore, Boon champions financial literacy; modernization and collaboration across the region’s capital markets.

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Fireside Chat: Preparing A Robust AI Governance Framework

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Graeme McConnell
Enterprise Accounts Director - SEA, Glean

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How Enterprise Superintelligence Unlocks Gen AI’s Full Value for Financial Services

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Todd McGregor

Todd is responsible for Celent in India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) and Asia Pacific (AP) regions and has over 30 years experience in technology advisory and consultancy.

He has conducted business in over 50 countries across five continents and previously held Vice President, Partner and General Management level positions with NASDAQ and NYSE listed global technology research and advisory firms Gartner, Meta Group and Forrester in both EMEA and Asia Pacific where he was also a valued member of global Senior Leadership Teams.

His expertise is established in his knowledge of the business application of technology across a wide range of industry verticals with a core focus on banking, financial services and insurance.

Todd helps enterprises and solution providers alike to leverage their investments in gaining strategic and operational advantage to deliver high quality, consequential outcomes with optimal returns on investment.

An open and forward thinker, Todd thrives in multi-cultural environments and is valued by clients for his commercial focus and innovative approach.

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Fireside Chat: Preparing A Robust AI Governance Framework

2025-11-20, 10:05 AM

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Chairman’s Final Remarks & Close of Conference

2025-11-20, 4:50 PM

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Rana Banerji
Sales Leader, ASEAN, ClickHouse

With over two decades of experience spanning consulting, business development, and sales management, Rana serves as the pioneering sales leader for the ASEAN market at ClickHouse. Originally from Australia and now a long-time resident of Singapore, he has spent the last 15 years specializing in business analytics and database technologies. Rana is passionate about delivering tailored, cutting-edge solutions that meet both the immediate and future needs of his clients. Throughout his career, Rana has held key roles at industry-leading companies, including Confluent, Hasura, IBM, and Tridant, among others. His expertise lies in helping organizations unlock the full potential of their data through innovative strategies and solutions.

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