This workshop is a working session on AI practice among the world's top digital banks. It is built on decisions that banks have already handed to AI, not on product roadshows. Across the SME finance journey — credit, pricing, tenor, servicing — participants will hear what the AI actually looked at, what it decided, which step still had to stay with a human, and what went wrong. The question behind the session is simple: where has AI moved from speeding up the process to making the business decision itself, and what does it take to get there. Participants will leave with a map they can act on: which decisions AI is already making in SME finance today, how the leading digital banks are funding and organising that work, and where the line between machine and human should sit. WeBank, China's first digital bank, will host the session and open with our own AI practice — what we have put into production, what we have deliberately kept out of its hands, and what we would do differently.

Speaker Summary:

Moderator:

- Dr. Vincent Zheng, Deputy General Manager, WeBank

- Eason Wang, Chief AI Architect, Webank

- Barry Wan, Vice President of WeBank Commercial and Institutional Banking Group,

-Rachel Freeman, Chief Growth Officer, GoTyme

-Shailesh Baidwan, Group President, Maya Group & Co-founder, Maya Bank, Maya Philippines

-Manu Panda, Chief Operating Officer, Maya Bank

-Mahesh Uttamchandani, Regional Practice Director for Digital & AI, East Asia & Pacific & South Asia, World Bank

-Sopnendu Mohanty, Group Chief Executive Officer, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

-Qiu Kai, Chief Executive Officer, Anext Bank

-Rajeev Chalisgaonkar, Head of Business Banking & NeoBiz, Mashreq