REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING

08:30 AM – 09:30 AM

OPENING REMARKS SESSION

Ayman Irshaid, Founder & CEO, MOMENTS INNOVATION

09:30 AM – 09:40 AM

GUEST OF HONOR SPEECH [LIVE]

HE. Ahmad Hanandeh, Minister of digital economy and entrepreneurship

09:40 AM – 10:00 AM

Oracle Cloud: Driving Your Transforming Journey in Financial Services

Ra’ed Hajarat, Oracle Jordan Country Leader & Regional Director Technology

10:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Scaling Innovation to Building a Global Blockchain Ecosystem

KEYNOTE – VIRTUAL

Navin Gupta, Managing Director South Asia, MENA, Ripple

10:20 AM – 10:40 AM

Driving innovative startups in Fintech

[KEYNOTE] – [VIRTUAL]

There are many disruptive initiatives happening within Japan at the moment. And with COVID19, banks have been forced to speed up their digital transformation process.  It is very interesting to see how online and mobile banking have evolved over the years, and the ways in which new entrants into the sector look to penetrate the market and build relationships with their customers. In this session, Mr. Shibata from FINOLAB, FinTech Center of Tokyo, will explain how changes are taking place in Japan and how startups in Fintech and incumbents are trying to compete or collaborate with the reference to the following topics.

– Shift to cashless society

– Open Banking with API

– New legislation Financial Intermediary Business

 

Makoto Shibata, Head of FINOLAB, Chief Community Officer, FINOLAB Inc., Tokyo,

10:40 AM – 11:00 AM

Networking Break

11:00 AM – 11:20 AM

FinTech Tackles Information Asymmetry Between David Versus Goliath

[KEYNOTE] – [VIRTUAL]

Dr. Clemen Chiang, Founder & CEO Spiking, Fintech & Blockchain, Singapore

11:20 AM – 11:40 AM

Intelligent Banking for Outstanding Conversational Experiences

[LIVE]

Join us to learn how to optimize your customer satisfaction through immediate conversational support and personalized experiences over your customers’ preferred channels.

Amira M. AbuTeen –  Senior Business Development Manager – LEVANT Infobip

11:40 AM – 12:00 PM

Payment Innovation in a New Era

[LIVE]

Join us to learn on the opportunities in the market that need new solutions: B2B & B2C

Alaeddin El Majed, Chief Payments & Partnership Officer, HYPERPAY

12:00 PM – 12:20 PM

VIDEO SHOW_Finance-in-Motion

[KEYNOTE] – [VIRTUAL]

12:20 PM – 12:40 PM

CBDCs in the Middle East: UAE´s and Saudi Arabia´s Project Aber and other ongoing projects.

[KEYNOTE] – [VIRTUAL]

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is a new form of Central Bank money accessible to the general public, accepted as a means of payment, legal tender, safe store of value by all citizens, businesses and government agencies. Project Aber was an initiative launched by the central banks of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to explore the viability of a single dual-issued digital currency as an instrument of domestic and cross-border settlement between the two countries. In this session, Dr. Oriol Caudevilla will analyze UAE´s and Saudi Arabia´s Project Aber as well as the status of the other ongoing CBDC projects in the Middle East.

Dr. ORIOL CAUDEVILLA, FinTech Advisor, HongKong

12:40 PM – 01:00 PM

Open Banking and how cloud technology is enabling this

How can we remove the barriers to enable the wider availability of
real-time payments for merchants and acquirers to ensure the success of Open Banking?

Jessica Letterman, Chief Customer Officer, Form3

01:00 PM – 01:15 PM

NETWORKING & LUNCH

01:15 PM – 02:00 PM

PRESENTATION SLOT_Coming SOON

[KEYNOTE] – []

02:00 PM – 02:20 PM

Digital Transformation & Partnership with Fintechs

[KEYNOTE] – [VIRTUAL]

Amnah Ajmal, Executive Vice President, Market Development, MEA, Mastercard

02:20 PM – 02:40 PM

[PANEL DISCUSSION] Embrace change, take risks, and disrupt yourself

[PANEL DISCUSSION] – [LIVE]

We have often discussed the correlation between innovation and digital transformation, and the positive impact on consumer satisfaction, investment in advanced technology, and the positive impact on revenues. But, while technology may enable the disruption required, it is often the application of existing technology in new ways that disrupts an industry. Featuring some of the top minds in banking, this panel discussion explores how financial institutions can prepare for the future of banking and the challenges facing the banking industry and the secret of successful disruption, the importance of deep-dive research, the qualities of a disruptive leader, how to change existing cultures and where to start.

MODERATOR: Dr Ashraf Bany, Director of innovation Center, Jordan University

PANELIST:

Sami Hamed, CEO, Noor Al Mal

Karim Samra, Founder & CEO, Changelabs

02:40 PM – 03:20 PM

NETWORKING BREAK

03:20 PM – 03:40 PM

NEW LANGUAGE OF FINTECH WORLD: APIs

[VIRTUAL]

Mobile apps, websites, pos devices, web apps and many more. Fintechs are building a variety of digital products to reach their customers. However, the new big thing in fintech is APIs. Every day, new fintechs are launching their APIs and scaling faster with new integrations. From payments to banking, from personal finance to acquiring, fintechs are transforming their products and services to APIs and spread their services to a wider area. In this section, We will explore banking and fintech APIs that offer countless collaboration and innovation opportunities.

Kemal Payza, Fintech Advisor

03:40 PM – 04:00 PM

How Transformational Technology is changing FinTech Landscape

04:00 PM – 04:15 PM

Impact of Crowdfunding and Digital Equity (Digequity) on Economy.

Mohammad Alkhudari– VP FinTech and co-founder Beeezcrowd Crowd funding platform, Cyber Security expert.

04:15 PM – 04:30 PM

FINTECH AWARDS

[AWARDS ceremony] – [LIVE]

04:30 PM – 05:00 PM