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+

Attendees

15+

Exhibitors

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Speakers

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Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services 2024

Agenda

  • 20 Nov 2025
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8:15 AM

Registration

THEME 1: Navigating the AI Roadmap in Modern Finance

9 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Speakers

Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

9:10 AM

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

  • How is AI revolutionizing threat detection, response, and mitigation in financial services?
  • Balancing AI risks and innovation tools usage 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

9:30 AM

Lead Partner Sponsor – Keynote Address: A Practical Implementation Guide for Enterprise AI Compliance and Risk Management

  • Strategies for managing compliance at scale, especially for multinational corporations
  • Case studies successfully navigating AI compliance challenges in FS

Available for Lead Partner Sponsor

10 AM

Industry Keynote: The Big 3 – Risk, AI and ROI

Speakers

Anil Saha Kumar
SVP, DBS Bank

10:20 AM

Keynote Presentation: Monitoring Risks – How are we Governing these at the Right Time?

  • Available for Gold Sponsor

10:40 AM

Keynote Panel Discussion: Preparing A Robust AI Governance Framework

  • Accelerating AI literacy and capabilities to enhance AI adoption
  • How are we ensuring employees are compliant and risk-vigilant?
  • What can we learn from the EU AI Act and how do we adopt this in APAC?
  • Mastering risk management and ethical guidelines to become proficient

Senior Representative, Xceptor

Speakers

Tze Yong
Heads of Solutions and Architecture, AXS Pte
William Rojas
Research Director, GD Strategic Intelligence

11:10 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!

11:20 AM

Morning Networking Break

THEME 2: Enhancing Your Data and Automation Stack Strategies

Speakers

Dale Jones
Interim Head of Data Insights, NatWest Commercial & Institutional Depositary Services
Mark Croman
COO, NatWest Commercial & Institutional Depositary Services

11:50 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

Speakers

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

12:30 PM

Embracing Behavioural Finance in An Era of Artificial Intelligence

  • Supporting a CX centric strategy for your business
  • How does behavioural science benefit your customer and product delivery?
  • Building a compliant and regulatory safe CX solution

Senior Representative, Glean

12:50 PM

Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) for AI

Speakers

Michael Son-Paik
Consultant, AIFS Advisory Board

1:10 PM

The Training Ground for Bigger and Better Data Analytics – Who’s Winning?

  • Evaluating models and data strategies to reduce hallucinations and biases
  • How do you monitor data confidentiality?
  • Where can AI be used for payments and sequencing matching?

 

Senior Representative, Camunda

1:30 PM

Lunch

THEME 3: From Traditional Banking to Intelligent Finance

2:10 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
Co-founder and Director, Hyperion Fintech

2:30 PM

Navigating AI Infrastructure Challenges in Financial Services

Senior Representative, 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

Speakers

Sunday Domingo
Global Head, Digital Channel Solutions, Standard Chartered Singapore
Yiliang Zhao
Director, Head of Data Science, Openspace Ventures
Saket Newaskar
Head of AI Transformation, Expleo
Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

3:20 PM

Networking Break

THEME 4: Preparing To Become Future-Ready

3:50 PM

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

Speakers

Rory Green
Chief China Economist, TS Lombard

4:10 PM

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?

Speakers

Samer El-Hajjar
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore

4:30 PM

Available for Sponsorship – Accessing the New AI Superforce (Interactive Workshop)

Can you transform capabilities to par with human cognition? Accelerate your artificial intelligence to super intelligence to have open-ended abilities to learn, adapt and deliver. Demos, case studies and sneak peaks to alter your performance.

Available for sponsorship

4:50 PM

Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: What’s next for AI in Financial Services? How Will Asia Shape the Next Wave of Intelligent Finance?

  • • Moving from automation to strategic intelligence: how AI will shape decision-making, risk management, and new business models
  • Preparing for the next investment cycle: what C-level leaders need to prioritise to stay ahead
  • The rise of real-time, agentic AI: transforming customer experience and operational agility
  • Building future-ready data foundations and compliance frameworks across diverse APAC markets
  • How Asia’s unique demographics, digital maturity, and regulatory momentum are positioning the region to set global standards for responsible AI in finance

Speakers

Yiliang Zhao
Director, Head of Data Science, Openspace Ventures
Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

6:10 PM

Chairman’s Final Remarks & Close of Conference

Speakers

Bartosz Golba
Research Director, Financial Services, GlobalData

6:15 PM

Reception Drinks Sponsored by XX

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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 Future: AI x Cybersecurity in APAC’s Financial Sector

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Colin Blackwell
Co-founder and Director, Hyperion Fintech

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

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Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: What’s next for AI in Financial Services? How Will Asia Shape the Next Wave of Intelligent Finance?

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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

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

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Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: What’s next for AI in Financial Services? How Will Asia Shape the Next Wave of Intelligent Finance?

2025-11-20, 4:50 PM

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Chairman’s Opening Remarks

2025-11-20, 9:00 AM

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Chairman’s Final Remarks & Close of Conference

2025-11-20, 6:10 PM

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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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Keynote Panel Discussion: Preparing A Robust AI Governance Framework

2025-11-20, 10:40 AM

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Michael Son-Paik
Consultant, AIFS Advisory Board

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Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) for AI

2025-11-20, 12:50 PM

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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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Rewriting The Cultural Adoption of AI and Automation

2025-11-20, 4:10 PM

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