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Wed 18 Nov1:50–2:00pmFounders Stage
Trust is the product: building for people the system never designed for
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About This Session
Every company is now deciding how much to automate, and how to earn trust when users can’t see what’s happening under the hood. For Tala, that question isn’t new. Over the past decade, the company has built trust at scale with more than 14 million people across Latin America, Southeast Asia, and East Africa, many of them excluded from traditional finance.
In this fireside chat, Tala's founder and CEO Shivani Siroya shares what it takes to build for the global majority: why trust has to be designed into the product from day one, how the company is using AI-native credit infrastructure to serve more people, and what founders and builders can learn from working where the stakes of getting it wrong are highest. Join to hear more about the risks, the tradeoffs, and the lessons from a decade of building.
- When
- Wednesday 18 November1:50–2:00pm, Singapore time
- Where
- Founders StageHall 2, Singapore EXPO
- Access
- Premium Premium sessionWith a Delegate, Executive, Startup, Policy, Academic or Media Pass.Compare all passes
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