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Fintech Abu Dhabi 2020

H.E. Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, Minister Of State (UAE) and Chairman, Abu Dhabi Global Market
H.E. Abdulhamid M Saeed Alahmadi, Governor, Central Bank of UAE
H.E. Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of AI, Government of UAE
H.E. Shamma bint Suhail Faris Al Mazrui, UAE Minister of State for Youth Affairs,
H.E. Dr. Ahmed Alkholifey, Governor, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority
Amir Yaron, Governor, Bank of Israel
Eddie Yue, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Ravi Menon, Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Hester M. Pierce, Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Vanessa Colella, Chief Innovation Officer, Citigroup
Jenny Lee, Managing Partner, GGV
Akon Thaim, Co-Founder, AKoin
Guillaume Pousaz, CEO & Founder, Checkout.com
H.E. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair, Chairman, Mashreq Group, Al Ghurair Investment and UAE Banks Federation
Daniela Stoffel, State Secretary for International Finance, Government of Switzerland
William Russell, Lord Mayor, City of London
Tim Draper, Managing Partner, Draper VC
H.E. Mohamed Helal Al-Muhairi, Director General, Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry
H.E. Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi, Deputy Group CEO, Mubadala
H.E Dr Tariq Bin Hendi, Director General, Abu Dhabi Investment Office
H.E. Mohamed Abdel Hameed Al Askar, Director General , Abu Dhabi Digital Authority
H.E. Salama Al Ameemi, Director General, Ma'an
Ann Cairns, Executive Vice Chairman, Mastercard
Fahad Al Mheiri, Executive Director, Space Missions, UAE Space Agency
Edward Knight, Vice Chairman, NASDAQ
Ruba Yousef Al Hassan, Executive Director of Ghadan21, Abu Dhabi Executive Office
Saeed Amidi, Founder & CEO, Plug & Play
Nadya Hijazi, Global Head of Digital, HSBC
Simon Paris, CEO, Finastra
Heath Tarbert, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Senator the Hon Jane Hume, Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services & Fintech, Australian Government
Michael Gorriz, Group Chief Information Officer, Standard Chartered Bank
Anat Guetta, Chairwoman, Israeli Securities Authority
Lucy Liu, Co-founder and President, Airwallex
Dov Kotler, CEO, Bank Hapoalim
Yashish Dahiya, Co-Founder & Group CEO , PolicyBazaar.com
Renaud Laplanche, CEO & Co-Founder, Upgrade
Bedy Yang, Managing Partner, 500Startups
Manus Cranny, Anchor Tv /Radio Daybreak Europe, Bloomberg LP
Lubna Bouza, Editor-in-Chief, Sky News Arabia
Dan Murphy, Business News Anchor, CNBC
Richard Teng, CEO, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Omran Sharaf, Head of Mars Mission, UAE Space Agency
Julia Leung, Deputy CEO, Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong
Yuri Misnik, Chief Technology Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Ravi Thakran, Chairman & Managing Partner, GCC Asia Growth Fund
Subroto Som, Senior Executive Vice President – Head of Retail Banking Group, Mashreq Bank
Jean Claude Farah, President of Global Network, Western Union
Bin Ru Tan, CEO, OneConnect Financial Technology
Mikkel Hippe Brun, Co-Founder, Tradeshift
Ibrahim Ajami, Head of Ventures, Mubadala
Dr. Ami Applebaum, Chairman of the Board & Chief Scientist, Israel Innovation Authority
Saleh Romeih, Managing Partner, Softbank Vision Fund
Maya Hojeij, Senior Business Anchor, Ashraq News
Chris Bayliss, Co-Founder and COO, Judo Bank
Sir Edward Lister, Sr Advisor, U.K Prime Minister & Co-Chair, U.A.E. U.K. Business Council
Yossi Vardi, Chairman, Israeli Delegation
Hanan Harhara Al Yafei, CEO, Hub71
Geoffrey Prentice, , Oriente & Skype
Marcus Treacher, SVP, Ripple Labs
Li Meng Lee, Chief Strategy Officer, Razer
Triska Hamid, Editorial Director, Wamda
Hamoud Almahmoud, Editor in Chief, Harvard Business Review Arabia
Mark Cutis, Group Chief Financial Officer, ADNOC
Liz Bacelar, CEO & Founder, Current Global and Decoded Fashion
Eugene Danilkis, Co-founder & CEO, Mambu
Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation
Pratik Gandhi , Chief Operating Officer, Nium
Michael Piwowar, Former SEC Commissioner and Executive Director, Milken Institute
Sarah Rizvi, Group Editor, ITP (U.A.E.)
Hakan Eroglu, Global Head of Open Banking, Mastercard
Paul Taylor, Founder & CEO, ThoughtMachine
Jo Ann Barefoot, CEO, Alliance for Innovative Regulation
Matthew Chen, CEO, Sunline
Jonathan Steinberg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, WisdomTree Investments Inc
Ambareen Musa , CEO, Souqalmal.com
Lawrence Wintermeyer, Executive Co-chair, Global Digital Finance
Hoor Al Maazmi, Space Science Researcher, UAE Space Agency
Logan Allin, Managing General Partner & Founder, Fin Venture Capital
Dr Michael Gronager, Co-founder & CEO, Chainalysis
Peter Zemsky, Dean of Innovation, INSEAD
Vica Manos, Partner, Anthemis Group
Anirudha Panse, Managing Director & Head of Trade Product Management, First Abu Dhabi bank
Zulqarnain Javaid, CEO , UAE Trade Connect
Adeeb Ahamed, Managing Director, LuLu Financial Holdings
Carmen Vicelich, Founder & CEO, Valocity Global
Johan Lundberg, Managing Partner, NFT Ventures
Dr Gerald C. Kane, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School and author of ""The Technology Fallacy''
Husayn Kassai, CEO & Co-founder, Onfido
Omar Soudodi, Managing Director, Payfort (Amazon)
Boaz Yaari, Founder & CEO, Sharegain
Diana Paredes, CEO & Founder, Suade Labs
Dr Robert Wardrop, Founder & Director, Cambridge Centre of Alternative Finance
Brad Carr, Managing Director, Digital Finance, Institute of International Finance
Nadine Mezher, Co-founder & CMO, Sarwa
Frank Meehan, Co-founder & CEO, SparkLabs
Sonia Gokhale, Managing Partner, VentureSouq
Wai Lum Kwok, Senior Executive Director - Capital Markets, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Neal Cross, Co-founder & Chairman, Picturewealth
Rachel Pether, Senior Advisor, SkyBridge Capital & Host FintechTV
Yousef Ahmed Baselaib, Executive Director, Strategy & Corporate Development, Masdar
Kai Keller, Financial Innovation Lead, World Economic Forum
Yousuf Al Mulla, Treasurer, Emirates Angels Investors Association
Tala Al Jabri, General Partner, HOF
Hosam Arab, CEO, Tabby
Vincent Turner, Founder & CEO, uno
Armin Bauer, Managing Director and Co-Founder, IDnow
Helene Panzarino, Director, London Institute of Banking & Finance
Aristeidis Samitas, Chair of the Department of Finance, Zayed University
Waheed Rathore, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Hafid Oubrik, Director of Payment Systems Operations and Development, U.A.E. Central Bank
Shu Pui Li, Advisor - Banking Operations, Central Bank of the UAE
Omar Christidis , Founder & CEO, Arabnet
Jackey Wang, Venture Partner, 500 Startups
HB Lim, Director, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Shane Shin, Co-founding Partner, Sharooq VC
Noelle Acheson, Editorial Director, Coindesk
Andrew Jenkins, UK Governments Fintech Envoy , Northern Ireland
Daniel Seal, Founder & CEO, Unbound
Nameer Khan, Founding Board Member, MENA FinTech Association
Danny E. Sebright, President, U.S. - U.A.E. Business Council
Michelle Bond, CEO, Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM)
Roxana Mohammadian-Molina, Chief Strategy Officer, Blend Network
Dan Doney, Co-founder & CEO, Securrency
Reem Al Junaibi, Operations & Community, Hub71
Abhishek Kothari, CEO, FlexiLoans
Ian Dillon, CEO, NOW Money
Jamie Catherwood, Publisher & CEO, Investor Amnesia
Ruth Wandhofer, Professor, The London Institute of Banking & Finance
Thabet Bakheet Khamis, Director, Information Security, U.A.E. Central Bank
Mark Walker, Editor, The Fintech Times
Neha Mehta, Founder, FemTech Partners
Gavin Payne, Head of FABRIC, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Adam Woolford, Head of Digital Platform, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Charanjeet Singh, Head of Fraud Risk & Investigations, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Maryna Razakhatskaya, Senior Creative Technologist, First Abu Dhabi Bank
Andrius Anelauskas, Director, Client Relationships, Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank
Haitham Al Khazaleh, Risk Management Director, Etihad Credit Insurance
Talha Rehman Khan, Head of Innovation, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
Jane Loginova, Co-founder and CEO , Radar Payments
Fahad Kamr, CEO & Co-Founder, MarketIQ
Valentino Pediroda, CEO & Founder, modefinance
Mohamed Fagiri, CEO & Founder, Uqudo
Aarti Sreenivas, Business Development Manager, TAIGER
Viacheslav Oganezov, Co-Founder & CEO, Finverity
Vishal Sacheendran, Manager, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Gabrielle Inzirillo, Director, FinTech (EMEA), Plug and Play
Brian Yeoh, Head of Data and Technology Governance, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Babak Ahmadzadeh, Co-founder, Plug and Play ADGM
Barry West, Head of Emerging Technology, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Mohamed Jawad Shalo, Head of Financial Crime Prevention Unit, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Yuelin Li , VP Strategy, Onfido
Miljan Stamenkovic , General Manager , Mambu, MENA
Tamer El-Emary, Chief Operating Officer, Thunes
Ashlene Ramadan, Director, MENA, Plug and Play
Chris Hughes, Editor-in-Chief, Unbound
Mark Hudson, Managing Director, Unbound
Shamma Al Fahim, Senior Specialist, Capital Markets Authorisation, FSRA, Abu Dhabi Global Market
Loulou Khazen Baz, Investor & Podcast Producer,
Atif Raza, Head of Sales & Advisory Transaction Banking, Commercial Bank of Dubai
Abdulla Alshehhi, Space Technology Senior Researcher, UAE Space Agency
Carol Lago, Innovation Lead, Grant Thornton
Sumanta Roy , Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Annie Ong , Head of Business Development and Product Management, OneConnect Financial Technology
Shouky Oren , Chairman, The First Digital Bank
Anastasia Dokuchaeva, Head of Partnerships, Clausematch
Prithy Yathavamurthy, NLP Delivery Lead, TAIGER
Hesa Bu-Ali , Licensing Manager, Central Bank of the UAE
Nahil Hanna, Head of Innovation MENA, Unbound
Antonio Ricciardi, Head of Innovation, Unbound

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