ADGM presents the Inaugural Digital Lab Demo Day

Accelerating Abu Dhabi’s innovation-driven digital transformation

One of the key challenges financial institutions encounter in their ability to adopt innovation is the process of procuring, and thereafter integrating with their legacy systems, digital solutions offered by FinTechs and other technology providers in a timely and cost-effective manner.

With the specific aim of solving this challenge, the ADGM Digital Lab is built with functionalities that enable testing and verification of new products or solutions prior to procurement, thereby expediting time to market for financial institutions in a cost-effective manner. Such functionalities include:

• API-driven connectivity: enabling the use of APIs that meet international security and interoperability standards to connect between the systems of financial institutions and FinTechs or technology providers. Before listing an API on the Digital Marketplace, the API-provider is required to complete a conformance and certification process, which will help determine whether they have implemented each part of the standards correctly.
• Docker images and containerisation: enabling financial institutions to easily replicate their core-banking systems in secure, access-controlled containers
• Low-code workflow tools: empowering teams across financial institutions that may not have an IT background to collaborate together and use simple drag and drop functionalities to experiment with how new tech solutions can interact with and improve existing workflows or create / enhance products
• Challenge notice board: through which ADGM Digital Lab users seeking tech solutions can post their problem statements and source solutions from the firms listed on the ADGM Digital Lab Marketplace. For instance, financial institutions may pose problem statements and invite fintechs and regulators to run and test proofs-of-concept (POCs) that can lead to eventual production.
• Synthetic data generator: where access to synthetic data will facilitate innovation testing in full compliance with data protection requirements

Streaming live, Monday, 5 April 2021

• Agenda

  Explore speakers

   
• 10:00 - 10:05am

  Opening remarks

  Speaker:
  H.E. Ruba Al Hassan, Executive Director of Ghadan 21, Acting Director General of Government Affairs, Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and Member, Board of Directors of Hub71

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• 10:05 - 10:25am

  Demo: Overview of the digital marketplace

  Speaker:
  Barry West, Head of Emerging Technology, Financial Services Regulatory Authority, ADGM

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• 10:25 - 10:50am

  Panel: Leveraging a digital marketplace to accelerate collaboration

  Moderator:
  Gabrielle Inzirillo, Head of Market Development, ADGM FSRA
  Panellists:
  

  • Vadim Sobolevski, Co-Founder, FutureFlow
  • Nicolai Baldin, CEO and Founder, Synthesized
  • Izhar Arieli, Co-Founder and CEO, Tenure X
  • Shane Reidel, Founder and CEO, Elucidate

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• 10:50 - 11:25am

  The Knowledge Graph and Regulatory Genome Project

  Speakers:
  

  • Anastasia Dokuchaeva, Head of Product, ClauseMatch
  • Vladimir Ershov, Head of Product, ClauseMatch
  • Emmanuel Schizas, Head of Product / Cofounder, Regulatory Genome Project
  • Chris Charlton, Chief Technology Officer, Regulatory Genome Project

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• 11:25 - 11:40am

  Building business use Cases: How founding partners are implementing the Digital Lab into their innovation toolbox

  Speakers:
  

  • Holly Joint, Head of Major Programmes Office, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
  • Gavin Payne, Head of FABRIC (FAB Research and Innovation Centre), First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • Maryna Razakhatskaya, Head of FinTech, First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • Andrius Anelauskas, Director of Client Relationships, Anglo Gulf Trade Bank
  • Ali Saleh Al Ali, Director of IT and Innovation, Etihad Credit Insurance

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• 11:40am - 12:00pm

  The venture capital viewpoint: How to accelerate traction and scale in the GCC

  Moderator:
  Gabrielle Inzirillo, Head of Market Development, ADGM FSRA
  Panellists:
  

  • Issa Aghabi, Founder and Managing Partner of Access Bridge Ventures
  • Jad Salame, Founder and Managing Partner, Phoenician Invest Ltd
  • Hasan Haider, Founder and Managing Partner, Plus VC

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• 12:00 - 12:25pm

  Regulators respond: Fireside chat with the CBUAE and ADGM

  Moderator:
  Gabrielle Inzirillo, Head of Market Development, ADGM FSRA
  Speakers:
  

  • Shu Pui Li, Advisor to H.E. the Governor of Central Bank of UAE
  • Wai Lum Kwok, Senior Executive Director, ADGM FSRA

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• 12:25 - 12:30pm

  Closing remarks

  Speaker:
  Emmanuel Givanakis, Deputy CEO, ADGM FSRA