Innovation Lab Crawl

Join us for a full day of 8 exciting panels on the latest trends in venture building, intrapreneurship, digital assets, trade finance and supply chains, banking-as-a-service and more.

The event will be held from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Tues. Nov. 5, 2024, at the WeWork auditorium, 21 Collyer Quay.

The panels will feature speakers from eight ventures incubated by SC Ventures, along with industry thought leaders. Each panel session can only accommodate up to 40 guests, so sign up early to reserve a spot!

SC Ventures Lab Crawl: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

Over a series of panel discussions, gain insights into how we are unlocking new avenues for growth, building and driving innovative solutions that bridge financial institutions with society’s ever-evolving needs. From reshaping world trade to advancing digital assets and conservation financing, discover how our venture leads and founders are transforming industries and building resilience in today’s increasingly interconnected world.

Agenda

9:00 – 9:45am | Panel 1 | Enabling a Circular Innovation Ecosystem from Ideas to Impact
Organized by SC Ventures: the ventures building, investment and innovation arm of Standard Chartered.
- Margaret King, SVP, Franklin Strategic Ventures, Franklin Templeton
- Jonathan Chan, Head, Global Innovation, Julius Baer
- Caroline Guyot, Managing Director, ENGIE Factory
- Harald Eltvedt, Venture Building, SC Ventures
- Priya Venkat, SC Ventures (Moderator)

10:00 – 10:45am | Panel 2 | Beyond Banking: Harnessing the Potential of Open Banking
Organized by audax: our digital banking technology solutions provider.
- Mike Breen, Chief Commercial Officer, audax
- Ben Gilbey, SVP & Group Head Digital Payments & Labs, Mastercard
- Manoj Bhojwani Group CIO, ADIB
- Neha Mani, Partner, Financial Services, PwC SEA Consulting (Moderator)

11:00 - 11:45am | Panel 3 | Innovation Partnerships: How to Leverage the Wider Ecosystem to Build New Innovation Opportunities
Organized by SC Ventures Client Engagement Team.
- Luke Wu, Managing Director, The GEAR by Kajima
- Sidne Yeo, Asia Head, Lufthansa Innovation Hub
- Santosh Patel, Fintech Engagement, SC Ventures
- Wei Soon Lum, Client Engagement, SC Ventures (Moderator)

12:00 - 12:45pm | Lunch Break (F&B will be provided)

1:00 – 1:45pm | Panel 4 | The Institutional Imperative: Catalysing the Next Wave of Digital Asset Innovation
Organized by Libeara, our tokenisation platform, and Zodia Custody, our institutional-grade digital asset custody solution.
- Aaron Gwak, CEO, Libeara
- Stacey-Ann Pearson, General Manager, SG, Zodia Custody
- Rania Rahardja, Director of Sales, APAC, Ondo Finance
- Kenneth Bok, SC Ventures (Moderator)

2:00 – 2:45pm | Panel 5 | Shaping Trade Finance & Supply Chain in the New Trade Order (Learn more and register here)
Organized by TASConnect, our bank agnostic supply chain finance platform.
- Kingshuk Ghoshal, Co-Founder & CEO, TASConnect
- Wendy Ang, Founder, SOLV Malaysia
- Apurv Suri, Client Engagement, SC Ventures (Moderator)

3:00 – 3:45pm | Panel 6 | From Trade to Entrepreneurship: Bridging the Financial Divide (Learn more and register here)
Organized by Olea, our fully-digitised trade finance origination and distribution platform, and Labamu, our all-in-one digitization platform empowering small businesses to streamline operations, reach more customers, and access financial services seamlessly.
- Emmanuel Van De Geer, CEO & Founder, Labamu
- Amelia Ng, CEO, Olea
- Xie Wen, Global Head, Business Banking, Standard Chartered

4:00 – 4:45pm | Panel 7 | GenAI and Compliance: A Balancing Act for Startups and Enterprises (Learn more and register here)
Organized by letsbloom, our compliance automation platform for secure & rapid GenAI & SaaS adoption.
- Ramneek Khurana, Principal Architect FSI, Google Cloud
- Madhukar Makhija, Global Head of Data & Analytics, Securities Services, HSBC
- Mauro Sauco, Founder & CTO, Transparently.AI
- Neha Rehani, Head of Sales & Partnerships, APAC, letsbloom (Moderator)

5:00 – 5:45pm | Panel 8 | Investing in Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0: Is There a Difference in Approach? (Learn more and register here)
Organized by SC Ventures’ Investment Team.
- Charles Kok, Director, UOB Venture Management
- Gakim Solomons, Investments, SC Ventures
- Alex Toh, Investments, SC Ventures
- Elisabeth Zhang, Investments, SC Ventures (Moderator)

6:00 – 6:45pm | Panel 9 | Sustainability Panel | Details coming soon – Stay tuned!

Date: 5th Nov
Time: 9:00am - 7:00pm
Location: WeWork, 21 Collyer Quay, Level 1 Auditorium, Singapore 049320

TechLawFest Open House: What’s Up, LegalTech?!

Calling all lawyers, tech enthusiasts, students, startups, and the just plain curious!

We're throwing open the doors for a laid-back #LegalTech community meet-up to dive into the latest buzz, tackle the burning questions on everyone's minds, and connect with folks who are just as passionate as you are.

What’s on the programme?

• 6:30pm: Registration & Networking Drinks
Grab a glass, make a friend, and get ready for a night of great conversations

• 7:00pm: Prompt Engineering Competition Prize Giving Ceremony
Celebrate the crowning of the Singapore Academy of Law’s GenAI prompt engineering competition winners, where the industry’s talented minds will be honoured

• 7:30 pm: LegalTech Open Mic
Got thoughts on the big issues in LegalTech? Here's your chance to speak up! We’ll be tackling the key challenges, exploring the opportunities, and brainstorming what the ecosystem really needs. Facilitated by Noemie Alintissar-Mooney, Consultant, Future Law Innovation Programme, SAL

• 8:15 pm: Network & Chill
Unwind, chat, and let those ideas percolate over free-flowing drinks with your new LegalTech friends

Date: 5th Nov
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Singapore Academy of Law, 1 Coleman Street, #08-06, The Adelphi, Singapore 179803

About LSEG Sustainable Finance & Investment Innovation

At LSEG, we are dedicated to enabling our customers to create sustainable growth. We deliver innovative solutions by combining data science, UX research & design, and software & data engineering to ideate and create prototypes and interactive proof-of-concepts (POCs) – typically leveraging machine-learning and natural language processing. These PoCs are used to test and de-risk potential new product and services with internal subject-matter-experts and customers for feedback and user testing before we take it to production. It’s by combining the best data, technology, talent, and close customer partnerships that we deliver validated solutions to our customers at speed.

Details:

Date: 14 November 2023
Time: 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location: One Raffles Quay, North Tower, #28-01
Agenda:

Registration starts from 1.30pm.

Keynote Sessions:
2:00pm - 3:00pm: Digital Assets: Connecting the Dots
Peter Golder, Head of Group Digital Assets

3:00pm - 4:00pm: Global Bond Issuance: From Carbon Intensive to Transition
Thomas Abbott, Head of SE Asia, Primary Markets
Nitish Ramkumar, Senior Research Lead, SI Research
Naman Sharma, Senior Data Scientist, SI Research

Projects showcase- 1:30pm - 4:30pm:
1) Sustainability Intelligence Platform - A suite of capabilities, including climate reporting and scope 3 emissions calculation, designed to help corporates become more sustainable.

2) Greenium and Sustainable Finance & Investment Analytics-as-a-Service - Embedding quantitative models in sustainable investment within existing workflows

Food and beverage will be served throughout the event. Guests are welcome to network with peers and LSEG's experts anytime from 1pm to close of event at 4.30pm.

About M-DAQ Fireside Chat

Online webinar - panel hosted by M-DAQ with industry experts across AI, payment innovation, social commerce solutions for businesses on the topic of "From AI to Social Commerce: How Technology Impacts eCommerce in 2024". Join us to explore customer-driven trends coming out of cross-border commerce from machine learning and AI, to social commerce and payment innovations.

Details:

Date: 14 November 2023
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Online (run on Microsoft Teams, a Teams invite will be sent when participants register)

Agenda:

11.00am - Webinar (online panel) starts, panel talk, including Q&A
12.00pm - Live webinar ends

About Mastercard Experience Center

The Mastercard Experience Centers are interactive spaces that immerse customers, partners, and employees in Mastercard's evolving story as one of the leading technology and innovation brands. Mastercard Experience Centers blend the digital and physical and leverage data visualizations, virtual reality, and next-gen demos to enhance visitor engagement and spark conversations.

As commerce evolves, so too will payments. Against the backdrop of the next economy, changing consumer expectations, emerging technologies and collaborative regulatory engagement will accelerate new payment innovations. Join us as we share more about the trends impacting the Future of Payments.

Details:

Date: 17 November 2023 
Time: 10:00am - 11.30am
Location: 3 Fraser Street Duo Tower 16th Floor Singapore 189352 

Agenda:

All guests to be registered prior to event via sign up to enable gantry access (by building management)
9:45am - 10:15am: Check in opens
10:15am - 10:45am: Welcome address and a brief sharing around Future of Payments
10.45am - 11:30am: Q&A / self-exploration of demos / showcases
11.30 - Doors close

About PALO IT Innovation Lab

PALO IT Lab Crawl is an annual showcase, where we gather future makers to explore how emerging technology and generative AI can be part of solving some of the world’s biggest problems.

Each year, we venture with partners and brands to handpick challenges
in ecology, commerce, society and public service which is putting people,
planet and profits at risk and uncover new ways to build resilience and longevity into the way we work, play and live.

Details:

Available Time Slots:

Date: 14 November 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Date: 15 November 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Date: 16 November 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Date: 17 November 2023
Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: 11 Beach Rd, #06-01, Singapore 189675

Agenda:

- Discover prototypes reshaping how we work, play, and prosper:
- Advanced engineering for faster digital launches
- Smart regulatory automation for swift compliance
- Tokenised real-world assets for new investment horizons, and more
- Craft a unique LinkedIn URL using our Gen AI tool.
- Interact with top minds on DevSecOps, Innovation, Gen AI, Blockchain, and Sustainability.
- Network with industry peers over relaxed chats, snacks, and drinks!