The
Capital Meets Policy
DialogueTM (Annual Flagship Programme)

By Invitation Only

Time

Tuesday 14 November, 8:30am - 4:00pm

Venue

Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4, Orchid Ballroom

Attendance is by invitation only. If you are keen to join, please register your interest.

"Where regulators, policy makers, and global investors converge to shape the future of financial technology."

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue is Asia's premier annual summit between senior policymakers and major capital providers. It brings the most influential voices on both sides together to debate solutions to the most pressing issues facing capital investment, value creation and policymaking.

 

Woven intentionally close to a technology theme with high potential for growth and value creation, the dialogue aims to inform and develop an early outlook for the coming year.

Agenda

Time Session
8:30am - 8:55am Registration
Morning Session The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue
9:00am - 9:10am The 2023 State of Capital & Policy on AI: Discussed through '10 hand-picked quotes'
9:10am - 9:35am The 2024 Capital Provider's Keynote: Where will most business value accrue AI?
9:35am - 10:00am The 2024 Policymaker's Keynote: AI - Where the risk markers are, and why?
10:00am - 10:50am The Great AI dialogue: 2024 capital providers with policy experts
10:50am - 11:35am Policymaking in the age of AI.
11:35am - 12:00pm The 2024 AI direction of travel
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
Afternoon Session The Capital Meets Policy In-Practice
1:35pm - 3:40pm NovA! Launch

8:30am - 8:55am

Registration

Morning Session

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue

9:00am - 9:10am

The 2023 State of Capital & Policy on AI: Discussed through '10 hand-picked quotes'

9:10am - 9:35am

The 2024 Capital Provider's Keynote: Where will most business value accrue AI?

9:35am - 10:00am

The 2024 Policymaker's Keynote: AI - Where the risk markers are, and why?

10:00am - 10:50am

The Great AI dialogue: 2024 capital providers with policy experts

10:50am - 11:35am

Policymaking in the age of AI.

11:35am - 12:00pm

The 2024 AI direction of travel

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

Afternoon Session

The Capital Meets Policy In-Practice

1:35pm - 3:40pm

NovA! Launch

Programme

The 2024 Capital Provider's Keynote:

AI - Where will most business value accrue?

'The Investment Outlook' for AI in 2024 and beyond


Where will most business value accrue, and why?


  • Companies that train and develop AI models
  • Those that supply infrastructure to run applications
  • Enterprise end-users that pay for those s/w and cloud infra services

What sectors are likely to be early vs longer term beneficiaries?


Top 3 risk investors should prefer for when investing in AI


Importance of 'Responsible Investing' in AI, in private and public markets


The 2024 Policymaker's Keynote:

AI - Where the risk markers are, and why?


Emerging policy approaches to AI: Removing vs adding barriers


Sectors/ Technologies likely to be more tightly regulated first


10 years older and wiser since social media. Applying lessons learned


The 4 Tier European AI risk framework. Will this go global?


Role of open-source software in shaping AI policy


Benefits and risks of 'Voluntary AI Ethics Framework'


Preparing for disaster


Policymaking in the age of AI

 

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement and digital transformation, the convergence of artificial intelligence and policymaking has become a crucible of innovation and controversy. 


As we stand on the precipice of an AI-driven future, this panel will delve into the complex landscape where public policy meets cutting-edge technology.


We will explore the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI integration, seeking to illuminate the path forward for responsible, informed, and adaptive policymaking in this dynamic and transformative age. 


The Great Dialogue - 2024

For Investors:


Are investors too optimistic on AI for the near term


AI might lead to winner takes most. Agree? Y/N. Why


Riches are in niches. What AI niches will create value fastest


What are blind spots for AI investors


One ask you have from policymakers



For Policy Experts:


Did AI escape the sandbox?


Are policymakers too slow, while AI accelerates unrestrained


How to solve lack for domain expertise among policymakers


Do you support a new global AI digital agency? Why so


Jack-Lee

Jack Lee

Founding Managing Partner

HCM Capital

Jack Lee

Founding Managing Partner

Mr. Lee founded HCM Capital as Managing Partner. Over the past six years, HCM has been focusing on digital asset and fintech space inlcuding Bitcoin ecosystem in recent years. Mr. Lee successfully invested a few early-stage investments in the US, including Digital Currency Group (“100 Most Influential Companies” by TIME 2021), Galaxy (TSX listed), Figure Technologies, and Abra, etc., where the last three he also served as Board member for years. In 2019 and 2020, Forbes awarded Foxconn on global “Blockchain 50” list for two consecutive years, while Mr. Lee was named as the key leader for its initiatives. Besides, he’s nominated as Fellow at Singapore University of Social Science.

Prior to HCM Capital, he spent seven years at Foxconn Technology Group where he led strategic investments and acquisitions to strengthen Foxconn's value proposition across technology arena. Prior to that, he worked as an investment banker at JPMorgan and Citi in Taiwan.

Mr. Lee received his MBA degree from UCLA Anderson School and a BBA from National Taiwan University.

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Jo Ann Barefoot

Co-founder & CEO

Alliance for Innovative Regulation

Jo Ann Barefoot

Co-founder & CEO

 Jo Ann Barefoot is CEO & Cofounder of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation, host of the global podcast show Barefoot Innovation, and Senior Fellow Emerita at the Harvard University Kennedy School Center for Business & Government. She has been Deputy Comptroller of the Currency, partner at KPMG, Co-Chairman of Treliant Risk Advisors, and a staff member at the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. She serves on the board of Oportun; on the fintech advisory committee of FINRA; on the California Blockchain Working Group Advisory Board; and on the Milken Institute U.S. FinTech Advisory Committee. She is Cofounder of Hummingbird RegTech.

Previously, Jo Ann served on the CFPB’s Consumer Advisory Board and chaired the board of the Financial Health Network. She now serves on the boards of FinRegLab and the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. She has published nearly 200 articles and is a popular keynote speaker, addressing thousands of people annually throughout the world.

Jo Ann was named Fintech Woman of the Year in 2021 by Finovate, recognized as a senior leader on the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2021 by Innovate Finance, and selected to the Forbes list of 50 Over 50. The prior year she was inducted into the Fintech Hall of Fame by CB Insights. In 2021, AIR was honored in Fast Company's World-Changing Ideas awards.

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Jonathan Larsen

Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group, Chairman & CEO of Ping An Global Voyager Fund

Ping An Group

Jonathan Larsen

Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group, Chairman & CEO of Ping An Global Voyager Fund

Jonathan Larsen is Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.

 

He has been at the leading edge of the financial services industry for 31 years and brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational depth, and understanding of the new technology landscape. Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues and spanning 19 countries. Prior to Citi, Jonathan was a Principal in the Financial Services Practice of global management consulting firm, Booz Allen & Hamilton where he spent eight years advising large banks and other financial institutions across Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the United States and Europe.

Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance, Singapore and was named Retail Banker of the Year in 2011 by Asian Banker magazine. He has been widely quoted in major business publications including the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Economist as well as local media throughout Asia Pacific. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

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Jorge Familiar

Vice President and Treasurer

World Bank

Jorge Familiar

Vice President and Treasurer

Jorge Familiar, a Mexican national, has more than 20 years of leadership experience in economic development, finance, and corporate governance. As Vice President and Treasurer of the World Bank, he leads a global team of professionals in the prudent management of debt and asset portfolios for institutions in the World Bank Group (WBG) and over 70 clients. He is responsible for capital markets operations and oversees annual funding programs of US$60 to 70 billion through bonds issued by IBRD and IDA.  He also leads the World Bank Treasury’s capacity building, advisory and capital market intermediation services in financial analytics, asset management, and financial solutions for its clients. As Pension Finance Administrator of the World Bank Group, he supervises the investment and administration of the WBG pension plans with almost US$40 billion assets under management invested in a diverse pool of asset classes. Before joining the World Bank Treasury, he served in multiple roles in the World Bank Group: as a member of the Board of Executive Directors; Vice President for the Latin America and Caribbean Region; WBG Corporate Secretary; and Vice President for Finance and WBG Controller. Starting January 2022, Mr. Familiar is a Trustee at the IFRS Foundation, a public interest organization established to develop a single set of high-quality, understandable, enforceable, and globally acceptable accepted accounting and sustainability disclosure standards. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in finance from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, where he graduated with honors.

Dr-Mihály-Patai

Dr Mihály Patai

Deputy Governor

The Central Bank of Hungary

Dr Mihály Patai

Deputy Governor

Dr. Mihály Patai has been Deputy Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary), and Member of the Monetary Council from 22 April 2019. Until April 2019 he was the President of the Hungarian Banking Association, and the Chairman & CEO of UniCredit Bank Hungary since 2006. From 1996 to 2006, he was Chairman&CEO of Allianz Hungaria Insurance. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Executive Director of Kereskedelmi Bank, and from 1988 to 1993, he worked as assistant to the Executive Director of World Bank.

He graduated from the Budapest University of Economics. He studied under scholarships in London, Vienna and Moscow.

He is the Chairman of the Budapest Stock Exchange, Chairman of the Board of Directors at GIRO Zrt. and Vice President of the Hungarian Economic Association.

Pradyumna-Agrawal

Pradyumna Agrawal

Managing Director, Investment (Blockchain)

Temasek International Pte Ltd

Pradyumna Agrawal

Managing Director, Investment (Blockchain)

Pradyumna Agrawal (Prady) is a Managing Director at Temasek and is currently responsible for Temasek’s blockchain venture building efforts and investments, with a focus on programmable money, digital asset tokenisation, decentralised identity and data, and Web 3 applications.

Prady is a Founding Team Member of LemmaTree, Affinidi, GoodWorker, Trustana, Marketnode, Partior, Menyala and Superscrypt, and represents Temasek on the Boards of these companies. He is also a Board Member of Pine Labs. He has previously represented Temasek on the Diem Council and the Boards of C2FO and GoJek.

Prady joined Temasek in 2013 and before his current role, he was involved in global financial services investing at Temasek, including the Americas, Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and Africa.

Prior to joining Temasek, Prady was with Morgan Stanley as Vice President, Investment Banking. He started his career as an Analyst with Sharad Dalal & Co and has worked at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young.

Prady graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Mumbai, is a qualified Chartered Accountant from India and holds a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

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Professor Sarah Hammer

Professor and Managing Director

The Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Professor Sarah Hammer

Professor and Managing Director

Professor Sarah Hammer is Managing Director of the Center for Innovation in Finance and Senior Director of the Alternative Investments Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In these roles, she focuses her efforts on private capital investments and financial technology. Pf. Hammer also leads Cypher Blockchain Accelerator and Cypher Digital Asset Incubator — the premier global corporate accelerator and incubator for web3 businesses — as well as The Blockchain Laboratory at the Wharton School. Pf. Hammer is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching an upper-level juris doctor course on financial regulation. 

Previously, Pf. Hammer was Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions and Director of the Office of Financial Institutions Policy at the United States Department of the Treasury. In this role, she led and directed the Department’s policy responsibilities involving financial institutions, as well as oversaw the Federal Insurance Office and the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy (cybersecurity). 

Pf. Hammer has held various leadership positions throughout financial services in general management, portfolio management, trading, marketing, research, and analytics at the Vanguard Group, PIMCO, JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock, and Tudor Investments. 

Pf. Hammer earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Studies from Oxford University. She is a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a Member of the American Law Institute. 

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Dr Serey Chea

Governor

National Bank of Cambodia

Dr Serey Chea

Governor

Serey Chea is the Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. She is passionate about financial inclusion and women economic empowerment. Achievements under her leadership include the establishment of Credit Bureau Cambodia in 2012 that propelled Cambodia's Ease of Access to Finance to number 7 worldwide in 2017 by the World Bank, the introduction of Bakong, a national backbone payment system using DLT allowing interoperability amongst all financial service providers making financial services more accessible and affordable, and the introduction of financial literacy into the general education program. Serey hold a PhD in economics and is a member of the Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

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Sheila Bair

Former Chair, FDIC, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability & Senior Advisor and Founding Chair, Systemic Risk Council

Sheila Bair

Former Chair, FDIC, Senior Fellow, Center for Financial Stability & Senior Advisor and Founding Chair, Systemic Risk Council

Sheila Bair has had a long and distinguished career in government, academia, and finance.  Twice named by Forbes Magazine as the second most powerful woman in the world, she is perhaps best known as Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from 2006 to 2011, when she steered the agency through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  For her efforts to protect bank depositors and homeowners during the crisis, she received the Kennedy Library's Profiles In Courage Award, and was named the "little guy's protector in chief" by Time Magazine. A former finance professor and college president, Ms. Bair has been nationally recognized for her innovative initiatives to make college more accessible and affordable.  She is a frequent commentator and op-ed contributor on financial regulation and the student debt crisis, as well as author of the NY Times Best Seller, Bull by the Horns, her 2012 memoir of the financial crisis.  She is also author of Albert Whitman’s Money Tales series for young people.  https://www.amazon.com/author/sheilabair

Ms. Bair currently serves on the board of Bunge Ltd, as Deputy Chair and Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee, and Lion Electric, as Chair of the Nominations and Governance Committee.  She is also a member of the International Advisory Board to the Santander Group, serves on the board of Paxos, a blockchain technology trust company, and as an advisor to several fintech startups.  Her past corporate boards include Fannie Mae, where she served as the first woman Chair; Thomson Reuters, where she chaired the Risk Committee; and Host Hotels.  She is a founding director of the Volcker Alliance, established by former Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker to build trust in government and is the founding chair of the Systemic Risk Council, which advocates for financial stability.  She is also a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security and serves as Senior Advisor to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation on financial issues confronting young people.

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Soraya Hakuziyaremye

Deputy Governor

National Bank of Rwanda

Soraya Hakuziyaremye

Deputy Governor

Hon. Soraya Munyana HAKUZIYAREMYE was appointed Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda in March 2021. 

Prior to that, she served as Rwanda's Minister of Trade and Industry from October 2018 to March 2021; she began her tenure as a Cabinet Member right after her time as Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions/Financial Markets Risk Department at ING Bank in London.

Hon. Soraya M. HAKUZIYAREMYE has had an extensive career in global banking; she worked in various positions at BNP Paribas Group in Paris, Fortis Bank and the Bank of New York Mellon in Brussels. She also served as Senior Advisor to Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2014.

She holds a postgraduate degree in International Management from the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management in the U.S., as well as a Masters in Business Engineering (Ingénieur de Gestion) from the Solvay Business School at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

Tai-Panich

Tai Panich

CEO and CIO

SCB 10X

Tai Panich

CEO and CIO

Tai joined SCB 10X since the beginning in 2020 as CIO.  She is currently CEO & CIO of SCB 10X, the digital technology investment arm of Siam Commercial Bank in Thailand.

Tai has over 20 years of experience working and investing in the technology sector in Silicon Valley, New York, and Singapore. Her expertise is investing in technology companies (both private and public) in AI, Robotics, Semiconductor, Enterprise Software & Hardware, Internet & Media, Fintech and blockchain. Prior to SCB 10X, she was a Portfolio Manager at Pictet Asset Management, where she specialized in investment in publicly-listed technology companies in Asia. 

Tai started her career as a design engineer at SiByte, a Silicon Valley microprocessor startup, where she was one of the early employees. SiByte was acquired for $2.2B by Broadcom.

Tai was awarded the prestigious King’s Scholarship to study abroad. She graduated with honors from MIT, where she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Timothy-Adams

Timothy Adams

President & CEO

Institute of International Finance (IIF)

Timothy Adams

President & CEO

 

Tim Adams currently serves as President and CEO of the Institute of International Finance (IIF) since January 2013. Prior to joining the IIF, Mr. Adams was Managing Director of The Lindsey Group, an economic advisory firm based in Washington, DC. Previously, he served as Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Treasury. In 1993, Mr. Adams co-founded the G-7 Group, a Washington-based advisory firm and later headed their Washington operation as Managing Director. Mr. Adams holds a B.S. in Finance, a Masters in Public Administration, and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kentucky.

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T.V. Mohandas Pai

Chairman

Aarin Capital & 3one4 Capital

T.V. Mohandas Pai

Chairman

Over a career spanning 40 years, Mohandas Pai has served in the areas of finance, accounting, information technology, human resources, education, corporate governance, social impact innovation, environmental conservation, policy formulation, heritage preservation, philanthropy, and the venture and startup ecosystem.

Mohan is currently the Chairman of Aarin Capital, Chairman of Manipal Global Education, Member of the Boards of Havells India and the Institute of Public Enterprises, Member of the Board of Governors of the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), Governing Council Member of the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL) promoted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Chairman of the Regulatory and Financial Technology Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”).

He was awarded the Padma Shri award by the President of India in 2015 and the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2008.

Mohan was previously a Board Member and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Infosys over a span of 17 years, an Investment Committee Member of the SIDBI India Aspiration Fund and the INR 10,000 Cr (USD 1.8 Billion) India Fund of Funds, a Board Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”), a Member of the Board of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the Ascendas Property Fund – the Trustee-Manager of Ascendas India Trust, Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) Foundation, Chairman of the FICCI Skills Committee and Higher Education Committee, President of the All India Management Association (AIMA), and Founder-Trustee of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.

Mohan holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce as a University Rank Holder from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) from Bangalore University, and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as an All-India Rank Holder. He is based in Bangalore, India.

Dialogue Invitees: Senior leaders & decision-makers
(C-Suite, Managing Director, Partner Level)

Capital Providers, Arrangers & Facilitators

  • Venture Capitalists and Private Equity
  • Corporate Venture Capital and Corporate M&A
  • Single / Multi-family Offices
  • UHNWIs / HNWI
  • Investment Banking
  • Private Wealth
  • Law Firms
  • Representatives from Development Finance Institutions
  • Representatives from Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pension Funds, Insurers and other Financial Institutions

Policymakers, Think Tanks & Multi-Laterals

  • Senior Regulators
  • Senior Central Bank Officials
  • Senior Finance Ministry Officials
  • Industry Association Leaders
  • Industry Think Tank Leaders
  • Multi-Lateral Agency Leaders
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