As a corporate sponsor of #SFF2021, Standard Chartered will be hosting an entire week of virtual events at this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival on 8 – 12 November, to showcase existing and potential partnerships around themes such as #DecentralizedFinance, #Web3.0, #EmbeddedFinance and more!
These sessions will be streamed on our co-exhibitor site on the Singapore FinTech Festival platform – if you have a ticket, be sure to visit our site!
Don’t have a ticket? Don’t fret! We’ll be streaming an exciting line up of conversations, podcasts and fireside chats on our SC Ventures LinkedIn page – available for all to watch – that’s right, no tickets needed!
Follow our SC Ventures LinkedIn page to get notifications when we go live!
(Note those marked with “Ticketed” will be hosted on the SFF platform, and those marked “LinkedIn Live” will be streamed on our SCV Linkedin available for anyone to tune in!)
Monday, 8 Nov
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| 9:30 – 9.45 am SGT | Opening Speech by Bill Winters
Our Digital Ambitions |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 10:30 – 11:15 am SGT | Building Blocks Better: Paving the way for financial markets 3.0
Harald Eltvedt, SC Ventures, Paramita Dasgupta, Manager, Creating Markets Advisory, IFC East Asia & Pacific, International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group, Kevin Lim, Director, Blockchain@Temasek, Temasek |
SFF site (ticketed) | |||
| 1:15 – 2.00 pm SGT | Singapore FinTech Association Payments Track: Setting up Payment Standards
Matt Wood, Head of Digital & Fintech Partnerships, Asia Pacific, Visa, Venkatesh Saha, Chief Executive Officer, Wise Asia-Pacific Ltd, Wise, Janet Young, Managing Director & Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation, UOB, Kahina Van Dyke, Global Head of Digital Channels & Data Analytics, SCB Moderated by Caesar Sengupta, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Arbo Works |
SFF site (ticketed) | |||
| 3:05 – 3.20 pm SGT | Perspective on Building a Digital Bank
with Dwaipayan Sadhu, Head CPBB, Standard Chartered |
SFF site (ticketed) | |||
| 5:00 – 6:00 pm SGT | Olea: Supporting smaller suppliers with supply chain alternative investments
with Amelia Ng, CEO Olea; Moderated by Marion Bernardi and Harald Eltvedt, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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Tuesday, 9 Nov |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 am SGT | Standard Chartered and Unqork: The Endless opportunities of no-code low-code
Unqork is a cloud computing and enterprise software company based in New York, that offers a no-code development platform-as-a-service for building enterprise applications, supporting organizations in finance, insurance, healthcare and government. With Bassam Chaptini, Chief Technology Officer, Unqork, Rabih Ramadi, Head of Financial Services & Insurance, Unqork, Thorsten Neumann, Chief Technical, SC Ventures, Vikram Gupta, Head, Technology, Cyber and Data Science, Standard Chartered Bank Moderated by Simon Figures, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 am SGT | Ask Me Anything session with CEO of CardsPal
with Saim Yeong Harng, CEO CardsPal CardsPal is our mobile solution that helps customers find the credit card deals to maximise savings. Moderated by Santosh Patel, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 11:30 – 12:30 pm SGT | Singapore digital bank and Moneythor: Building a digital bank from scratch
with Olivier Berthier, Founder & CEO, Moneythor, Dwaipayan Sadhu, Head of CPBB, Standard Chartered Moderated by Saurav Bhatia, Chief Customer Officer, Singapore digital bank Moneythor is a fintech developing banking software components, designed to provide better digital banking for customers and enhanced marketing and analytics for banks. These solutions enable financial institutions to deliver improved functionality and experience for their customers across their digital channels. |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 2:00-2:40pm SGT | How Data is Pioneering the New Client Engagement
With Meri Rosich, Chief Data Officer, CCIB, SCB, and Shari Van Cleave, Global head, Client Experience and Engagement, SCB Session is moderated by Santosh Patel, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 pm SGT | Fintech Bridge Open Call for Tech Solutions: How might we leverage technology to improve crop quality, and manage the supply chain to reduce post-harvest losses?
with Cherotich Rutto, Venture lead, AgriTech, our venture that aims to solve challenges to market access in the fresh produce value chain by enabling price transparency and consistent supply of quality produce to off-takers. Agriculture is the main driver of economic transformation in Africa, impacting over 50% of the population. However, 2 key challenges continue to plague farmers: 1) Limited access to quality inputs, data and information hinders farmers from maximizing their production 2) Post-harvest losses in the agriculture and food supply chain reduces farmers’ income |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 3:30 – 4:30 pm SGT | Atome and Standard Chartered: Delivering mobile-first financial services for consumers across Asia
with Marnix Zwart, Global Head of Partnerships, Retail Banking, Standard Chartered and Trina Yeung, Chief Financial Officer at Atome Financial Moderated by Sachin Sharma, CPO, nexus Standard Chartered |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 5:00 – 6:00 pm SGT | Zai: A new force in financial services offering cross border payment services
with Rimal Gokani, Chief Commercial Officer, Zai, and Simran Gill, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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Wednesday, 10 Nov |
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| 9:00 – 10:00 am SGT | Quantum Computing with USRA
with David Venturelli, Assoc. Director, Quantum Computing, USRA, Alam, M. Sohaib, Research Scientist at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab (QuAIL), USRA and Elena Strbac, Global Head of Data Science Innovation, CCIB, Standard Chartered Moderated with Harald Eltvedt, Apurv Suri, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 10:00 – 10:45am SGT | How can SMEs tap into Green Finance
Learn how small and medium businesses can tap into green finance to scale their businesses With Marcos Neto, Director of the Finance Hub at UNDP, Kai Fehr, Global Head of Trade & Working Capital, SCB, Eric Tham, Managing Director & Head, Group Commercial Banking, UOB, Amy Chung, CEO, Containers Printers, Hourn Thy (Moderator), Head of Operations, SME Finance Forum |
SFF site (ticketed) | |||
| 11:00 – 12:00 pm SGT | How Liberty met the MAS CBDC challenge by tokenizing bonds for retail investors
feat. Project Liberty, our bond tokenization venture solution, with Aaron Gwak, Venture Lead Moderated by Marion Bernardi, Harald Eltvedt SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 1:00 – 1:30 pm SGT | Intrapreneur Journey in the Bank: Building KarmaPoints
with DC Mulay, intrapreneur and Jason Wiggin, SC Ventures KarmaPoints is a platform that brings Consumers, charities and companies together, combining their comparative advantages (will, know-how and resources respectively) to solve the world’s problems. |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 2:00 – 2:30 pm SGT | Letsbloom x Azentio
With Lokesh Sharma, Venture lead of Letsbloom, and Romil Turakhia, Head of Markets, Azentio Moderated by Chang Wea Meng, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 3:00 – 4:00 pm SGT | The Economics of ESG
with Vikram Chakravarty, Managing Partner, EY, and Konstantinos Dimitriou, Associate Partner, EY Moderated by Lynette Lee, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 4:00 – 4:45 pm SGT | Reshaping our Activities to Reduce our Impact on Earth
with Mathias Wikstrom, CEO, Doconomy, Manohar Chadalavada, MD, Global Head, AI, Ecosystems and Open Banking, Standard Chartered Bank Moderated by Dominic Maffei, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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Thursday, 11 Nov |
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| 9:20 – 10:40 am SGT | Future of Digital Banking and Digital Bank
with Alex Manson, SC Ventures; Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer, MAS; Varun Mittal, Global Emerging Markets FinTech Leader, Partner, EY |
Non-ticketed:
Virtual: https://lnkd.in/gFVpkMed |
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| 9:00 – 9:40am SGT | e-signatures accelerate digitization from paper to online
with Sameer Hajarnis, eSignature Practice Leader, One Span and Thorsten Neumann, SC Ventures Moderated by Jason Ho, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 2:00 – 3:00 pm SGT | Autumn, a holistic fintech app to help you be #FutureFit
Hear insights and our vision of future planning for young millennials. This generation seeks out wealth building and future planning differently. How does Autumn come in with best-in-class solutions in Wealth, Health & Lifestyle to help them better navigate their dreams? with Mike Kruger, CEO of Autumn Moderated by Alice Goh, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 3:00 – 4:00 pm SGT | The Economics of Biodiversity – Can Biodiversity be Tokenized?
With Corrado Forcellati, PAIA Consultancy, and Benjamin Tsai, President & Managing Partner, Wave Financial Moderated by Lynette Lee, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 5:00 – 6:00 pm SGT | Nexus and Personetics: How embedded finance can revolutionize the digital experience?
with Kelvin Tan, Global Lead, SC nexus, and David Sosna, Founder & CEO, Personetics, and Marnix Zwart, Global Head of Partnerships, Retail Banking, Standard Chartered Moderated by Simran Gill, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 6:00 – 6:45 pm SGT | The Importance of Data and AI in ESG Ecosystem: A Collaboration to Drive Change
with Pier Luigi Culazzo, Group Chief Data Officer, Standard Chartered, Rahim, Mohammed, Global Hd, Design & Monitoring, Data Management Risk, Standard Chartered, and Vijay Jairaj, Head, Data Management Risk – Responsible AI, Standard Chartered Moderated by Lynette Lee, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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Friday, 12 Nov |
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| 8:45 – 9:15 am SGT | Climate-Tech or where to find the next 1,000 unicorns
with Matt Myers, Climate tech investor & community builder Moderated by Marion Bernardi, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 9:30 – 10:30 am SGT | OpenFin: Developing the next collaborative tools in Financial Services
With Mazy Dar, CEO, OpenFin Moderated by Gakim Solomons, SC Ventures OpenFin is the OS for Enterprise Productivity, bringing organizations together in a single, secure and unified workspace. |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 10:30 – 11:10 am SGT | LSEG and SCB: Merging forces to build faster models
With Karthik Ramamurthy, Head of Product and Valuation Control GBS, Standard Chartered, and Andrei Borsaru, Director Business Solutions at LSEG |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 11:30 – 12:30 pm SGT | Solv: Enabling seamless trade and access to finance for small businesses in post-COVID world
With Jiten Arora, SC Ventures Moderated by Alice Goh, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 2:00 – 2:30 pm SGT | The Evolution of Personalized Investment Ideas to Wealth Clients
with Sushil Anand, Head, Digital Advisory, Group Wealth Management, Standard Chartered; and Alison Chiu, Director, Investment Advisory, Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Moderated by Simran Gill, SC Ventures |
SC Ventures
LinkedIn Live |
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| 5:00 – 5:45 pm SGT | BCG Digital Ventures
with Andy Lees, Partner & Director Product Management at BCG Digital Ventures and Harald Eltvedt, SC Ventures |
SFF site (ticketed) | |||
