Bret is CEO and Co-Founder of Sierra, which helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. Previously, he served as Co-CEO of Salesforce. Prior to Salesforce, Bret founded Quip and was CTO of Facebook. He started his career at Google, where he co-created Google Maps. Bret serves on the board of OpenAI.

Brett King is the world’s #7 ranked Futurist (Global Gurus), #1 ranked Fintech Influencer (Fintech Magazine) an International Bestselling Author, and media personality. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented. He has given keynotes for Web Summit, TED, Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, DreamForce, Money2020, The Economist, Consensus, CES, SIBOS and more. He has appeared on CNBC, BBC, ABC, FOX, and Bloomberg. He advised the Obama administration on Fintech policy and was inducted into the Fintech Hall of Fame in 2020. He advises regulators and financial infrastructure leaders in 18 countries, including the UAE Central Bank, the Prime Minister’s Office of the UAE and Mastercard EEMEA AI Center of Excellence (Futurist-in-Residence).
King hosts two #1 globally ranked podcasts The Futurists and Breaking Bank (with 20 million downloads between them). He founded Moven, a globally recognized mobile start-up, which launched the world’s first in-app mobile bank account. He co-founded LumaBrush AI, a smart-toothbrush based AI diagnostic oral health App. He founded Provoke Media, Provoke Management, The Futurists Network, Longevity Alpha and many other emerging future-focused companies.
Banking Exchange magazine named him King of the Disruptors, American Banker crowned him Innovator of the Year, he was voted the world's #1 Fintech Influencer by Fintech Magazine and the #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand, he was personally listed by Bank Innovation as one of the top 10 "coolest brands in banking". King was recognized by Advance Global Australian of the Year as being one of the most influential Australians offshore. His book Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane, was a top 10 non-fiction book in North America. Bank 4.0 was awarded Best Foreign Book for Russia for 2019. Branch Tomorrow his 8th book, came out in 2025, with Bank 5.0 launching in Q4 2026.

Carolyn Weinberg is the Chief Product & Innovation Officer at BNY and a member of the company’s Executive Committee.

Prior to joining BNY, Carolyn served as Chief Product Innovation Officer at BlackRock, where she was responsible for driving the global innovation, development, and commercialization of products for the world’s largest asset manager. She and her teams helped mobilize the firm to build new product lines, forge strategic partnerships, and create thought leadership in support of BlackRock’s growth priorities, including digital assets, fixed income, transition finance, and private markets.

Earlier in her career at BlackRock, Carolyn was Global Head of Product for iShares and Index Investments, where she led global product strategy, development, and commercialization. In that role, she was instrumental in accelerating BlackRock’s growth in fixed income ETFs and sustainable indexing. She also expanded strategic long-term partnerships, established a sustainable index research team, and helped conceive and build new data and trading ventures.

She has been named to Barron’s list of the “100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance” four times. She contributes to the future of financial innovation as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Innovation Advisory Council as well as serving on the Board of Domyn.

Before joining BlackRock in 2018, Carolyn created structured derivatives solutions for corporations at Citibank, where she served as Head of the North America Corporate Solutions Group. Previously, she was Deutsche Bank’s Head of Risk Solutions Structuring, a member of Morgan Stanley’s Corporate Derivatives Group, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Carolyn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in applied mathematics and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She lives in New York City with her family and dog, Gus, a Lagotto Romagnolo. She serves on the Board of the Allen-Stevenson School, the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the Board of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Foundation as an Ambassador. She also served as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Clara B. Arthur is the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS). She brings over 20 years of experience across banking, fintech, and national payment infrastructure. As CEO, she leads Ghanaʼs national payment system infrastructure, overseeing initiatives that strengthen interoperability, expand digital payment adoption, and advance financial inclusion. Prior to her appointment as CEO, she worked as a digital financial services consultant with global development institutions, including CGAP and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), advising on payment market infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and remittance-linked inclusion strategies. Clara previously served as General Manager for Projects and Business Development at GhIPSS from 2015 to 2019. In that role, she led the implementation of key national payment initiatives, including GhIPSS Instant Pay (GIP), the gh-link domestic card scheme EMV migration, Ghanaʼs mobile money interoperability platform and the expansion of the e-zwich agent network. Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership positions at Fidelity Bank Ghana and at eProcess International, the technology subsidiary of Ecobank Group, where she led digital banking projects, card system deployments, and regional switch integrations across multiple African markets.

Clara holds an MSc in Finance and Administration from the University of West London (UK) and a BA in Law and History from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana). She has been recognized among the Top 100 Women in Fintech in Africa.

Mr Marx started his career as a lawyer admitted to the Luxembourg bar (Allen & Overy). He then worked in the tax division of Arthur Andersen, before joining the Safra Republic Group taken over in 2000 by HSBC. He stayed 17 years with HSBC, amongst others as Deputy CEO of HSBC Private Bank. In 2012, Mr Marx joined Lombard International Assurance where he became CEO. In 2016 he was appointed by the Luxembourg government Director General of the Luxembourg Financial Services Commission CSSF. Mr Marx is a member of the Supervisory Board of ESMA, of the General Board of AMLA, and has recently been appointed as Financial Literacy Ambassador by the EU Commission.

Gilles Roth was born on 1 March 1967 in Luxembourg. He studied law at the “Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg” and the “Université Catholique de Louvain” (UCL) in Belgium, where he obtained a degree in law and another degree in business administration and management.

Following the legislative elections of 8 October 2023, Gilles Roth was appointed Minister of Finance on 17 November 2023 in the coalition government formed by the Christian Social Party (CSV) and the Democratic Party (DP).

Gilles Roth was elected municipal councilor in 1993 and became mayor of the city of Mamer in 2000. He joined the Parliament in April 2007 and was reconducted until 2023. In 2013, he became Chairman of the CSV political group.

From 1991 to 1994, Gilles Roth practiced as a lawyer. In 1995, he started working at the Ministry of Finance, before being seconded to the Luxembourg Court of Auditors and the Permanent Representation of Luxembourg to the European Union in Brussels. In 1998, he returned to the Ministry of Finance and became government advisor, later senior government advisor.

Dr. Breeden founded CALM XAI (Concept-Aligned Language Models for eXplainable AI) in 2025 to solve the problem of explainability and governance in language models. The CALM approach replaces guardrails and stops jailbreaks by compiling governance rules as direct overlays within the LLM's reasoning pipeline. This is made possible by a dramatically new approach to tokenization and conceptual alignment throughout. This has led to 15 patent filings and multiple research papers, so far.

Dr. Breeden has founded or co-founded Prediction Company (1991), Strategic Analytics (1999), and Deep Future Analytics (2011). He is a member of the board of directors of Upgrade, a San Francisco-based FinTech; an Associate Editor for AI and Ethics, the Journal of Credit Risk, the Journal of Risk Model Validation; and President of the Model Risk Managers’ International Association (mrmia.org).

Dr. Breeden invented vintage analytics for lending in 1997 and created credit risk models through multiple global financial crises. In 2018 Dr. Breeden invented Multihorizon Survival modeling, combining vintage analytics with behavior scoring using logistic regression or machine learning.

Dr. Breeden earned a Ph.D. in physics, and has published over 100 academic articles, 23 patents, and 8 books.

Dr. Patrick Njoroge served as the ninth Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya from June 2015 to June 2023, after a 20-year career at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of the "Yale Program on Financial Stability" and the "Global Finance and Technology Network," chair of the "Africa Financial Industry Summit" (AFIS) Supervisory Council, and a member of the Africa Expert Panel for South Africa’s G20 Presidency. He has received several awards and recognitions, including four awards for Africa’s Central Banker of the Year, and recognition in 2023 as a Top 25 African Finance Leader. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University. He is MLK, Jr. and Phyllis Wallace Visiting Scholar at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Piero Cipollone has been a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank since 1 November 2023. He is responsible for the Directorate General International and European Relations, the Directorate General Market Infrastructure and Payments and the Directorate Banknotes. He also chairs the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on Digital Euro, the Euro Retail Payments Board and the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures. Before joining the ECB, Mr Cipollone was Deputy Governor of the Banca d’Italia and a member of the Board of the Italian Institute for the Supervision of Insurance. He also served as a member of the Coordination Group for the Cross-border payments programme at the Bank for International Settlements. He previously served as an Executive Director on the Board of the World Bank Group. Mr Cipollone is the author of several books. His papers have been published in international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association and the Journal of Policy Modeling.

Mr Ravi Menon has a portfolio of work in sustainability, innovation, and inclusion.

Mr Menon is Singapore’s first Ambassador for Climate Action and Senior Adviser to the National Climate Change Secretariat at the Prime Minister’s Office. He plays a leading role in Singapore’s efforts to foster collective action internationally and transition planning locally towards a low-carbon future. He is also Chairman of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and a member of the GFANZ Principals Group.

Mr Menon is Chairman of the Global Finance & Technology Network, which harnesses technology and fosters innovation for more efficient, resilient, and inclusive financial ecosystems globally. He is also a Trustee of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Chairman of its Innovation and Enterprise Committee.

Mr Menon is Chairman of ImpactSG, a philanthropy which aims to grow a community of purposeful givers in Singapore and Asia. He is also a Board Member of The Majurity Trust, a charity which deploys cause-based funds for social needs; and a Trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association, a community self-help group.

Prior to his current roles, Mr Menon served for 36 years in the Singapore Public Service.

As Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2011-23), Mr Menon oversaw monetary and macroprudential policies, reformed the financial regulatory framework, and developed Singapore as a green finance centre and a global FinTech hub. On the international front, he served as Chairman of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board Standing Committee on Standards Implementation.

As Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (2007-11), Mr Menon helped to steer the economy during the global financial crisis. As Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (2003-07), he oversaw fiscal policy and government reserves.

Mr Menon is a recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal from the Singapore Government, the Distinguished Alumni Award from NUS, and the Distinguished Leadership and Service Award from the Institute of International Finance in Washington.

Mr Menon holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from NUS.

Sunayna Tuteja is a globally recognized innovation leader operating at the nexus of finance, technology, and policy. She most recently served as the first Chief Innovation Officer of the Federal Reserve System, where she built and led the Fed’s innovation agenda across the 12 Reserve Banks and Board of Governors. Her work focused on both the application of emerging technologies within the institution and assessing the policy implications shaping the future of the financial system - including artificial intelligence, digital assets, tokenization, quantum computing, and the future of money and payments.

With more than a decade of experience as a builder, investor, and operator across TradFi, fintech, crypto, and central banking in North America and Asia, Sunayna is known for helping institutions meet the moment - by solving gnarly problems and translating bold ideas into practical execution, shipped outcomes, and measurable business value. Prior to the Federal Reserve, she built the digital assets practice at TD Ameritrade and led major digital transformation initiatives across TD Bank in both Canada and the United States.

A connector of ideas, individuals, and institutions, Sunayna has spent her career creating the conditions for active engagement between the public and private sectors. Her regularly hosted and curated (and over subscribed!) roundtables have yielded not only a forum for spicy conversations, but also positive connections and productive collaboration. When Sunayna is not nerding out about all things innovation, you can find her adventuring the the skies in her Cessna.

Veerathai Santiprabhob is a distinguished macroeconomist and financial professional with over 30 years of experience spanning economic policy design, commercial banking, and capital markets. He served as the 23rd Governor of the Bank of Thailand (2015–2020), where he led the digital transformation of Thailand’s financial system and steered the country’s macroeconomic and financial stability through a period of global uncertainty.

Prior to his governorship, he held senior executive roles at the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Siam Commercial Bank, and contributed to national economic and financial policy as a member of several high-level committees.

Internationally, he served on the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) of the IMF and chaired key groups including the BIS Central Bank Governance Group, the BIS Asian Consultative Council, and the SEACEN Board of Governors.

Currently, Veerathai serves as an independent director of leading listed corporations, including SCBX, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Minor International, and Thai Airways International.

Deeply committed to social impact, he focuses his efforts on sustainability, education, and Buddhism. He chairs the Independent Oversight Advisory Committee of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the board of Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). He also serves on the board of Chiang Mai University as well as on the International Advisory Board of Global Finance and Technology Network (GFTN).

Veerathai holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in Economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors) from Thammasat University. He is a recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Scholarship and the Eisenhower Fellowship.