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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
    Emily Southon, Legal Director, DLA Piper Middle East
    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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