UOB TMRW Lab Crawl @ SGX dive into the inner workings of UOB's digital strategy, anchored on creating an adaptive banking experience, engaging customers through gamification and integrating sustainable practices into digital banking.
Dive into the inner workings of UOB's digital strategy, anchored on creating an adaptive banking experience, engaging customers through gamification and integrating sustainable practices into digital banking.
Investments in ASEAN’s financial technology (FinTech) firms tracked last year’s bumper funding, clocking in US$4.3 billion in the first nine months of 2022 – higher than the combined sum from 2018 to 2020.
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Dive into the inner workings of UOB's digital strategy, anchored on creating an adaptive banking experience, engaging customers through gamification and integrating sustainable practices into digital banking.
31 Oct 2022, 7:00pm
Venue: Parkroyal Collection Marina Bay, Garden Ballroom, 6 Raffles Blvd, Singapore 039594
The FinLab - The Greentech Accelerator's Showcase Day
Looking for sustainable solutions and technologies for your business? Check out the exciting green innovations from the greentechs under The FinLab’s Greentech Accelerator Programme!
The Showcase Day is a culmination of the 3-months accelerator programme to celebrate the journey and achievements of the 12 regional greentechs who are in the areas of Energy Efficiency, Carbon Management and Reporting, and Zero-Waste Supply Chain. Through the programme, these 12 greentechs have undergone a series of mentorships, masterclasses and partnership discussions with industry partners and SMEs to green their business.
During the Showcase Day, you will be able to explore the innovations of the greentechs and engage with ecosystem and industry partners.
Agenda:
Meet the Greentechs – Tour the Greentechs’ Booths
Welcome and Opening Address
Sharing on UOB’s Sustainability Strategy and Tools for Your Business
The Greentech Accelerator Programme Showcase
Awards Presentation
Networking
Speaker:
UOB The FinLab
UOB The FinLab
The FinLab is UOB’s innovation accelerator that brings the ecosystem together to catalyse business growth and transformation.
With a regional presence in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, The FinLab provides access to a range of business and technology experts, tools and content through The FinLab Online and in-person programmes. These programmes range from supporting the FinTech and start-up community in developing solutions, to assisting the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) community in going digital and innovating for sustainability.
Founded in 2015, The FinLab has supported and connected with more than 14,000 businesses globally.
1 Nov 2022, 9:00am
1 Nov 2022, 11:00am
Venue: 2 Shenton Way, #01-01 SGX Centre 1, Singapore 068804
UOB TMRW Lab Crawl @ SGX
UOB TMRW aims to be the world's most engaging digital bank. UOB TMRW supports UOB to scale across ASEAN by delivering a data-driven, hyper-personalised digital banking experience that is simple, engaging and transparent. These sessions dive into the inner workings of UOB’s digital strategy, anchored on creating an adaptive banking experience, engaging customers through gamification and integrating sustainable practices into digital banking.
Agenda:
UOB TMRW Introduction
Key capabilities & performance
Strategic Priorities
Tour of SGX
Speaker:
UOB TMRW
UOB TMRW
UOB TMRW supports UOB to scale across ASEAN by delivering a data-driven, hyper-personalised digital banking experience that is simple, engaging and transparent.
3 Nov 2022, 10:30am
Global Plenary Hall 1
8 Global ESG Insights
Climate change is precipitating a humanitarian crisis on a scale unseen before. The increasing frequency and magnitude of catastrophic events is impacting the global economy and the livelihoods of people in both the developed and emerging world. Against this backdrop, hear what the top voices in ESG have to say about the challenges and solutions to achieving a just transition to net zero.
*Attend this session to complete the Day 2 requirements for the ESG Learning Journey!
Speaker:
Eric Lim
Group Chief Sustainability Officer and
Head of Group Finance, UOB
Eric Lim
Managing Director
Group Chief Sustainability Officer Head of Group Finance UOB
Mr Eric Lim is the Chief Sustainability Officer at UOB. He leads a dedicated corporate sustainability office that is focused on achieving the Bank's sustainability objectives of helping businesses to advance responsibly, steering consumer wealth to sustainable investments and fostering social inclusiveness and environmental well-being.
Concurrently, Eric is also the Head of Group Finance, where he is responsible for the Bank’s core finance functions spanning financial strategy, capital management, regulatory and financial reporting, tax management, business finance and performance management.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Accounting from the Nanyang Technological University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
2 Nov 2022, 12:30pm
Elevandi Insights Forum
Room 2 (Garnet 213)
Responsible AI in Financial Services: Foundations and Future
This Roundtable aims to discuss the roles and regulations of AI/ML in the financial services industry and given its nascency, what the future evolutions might be. The objective of this Roundtable is to emphasise the importance of and to align the course of action to promote a collaborative, consistent and global adoption of RAI standards. Key discussion areas include:
1. Context of AI & RAI adoption
2. Current implementation and challenges in RAI adoption in the industry
3. Steps to promote large scale adoption
Speakers:
Johnson Poh, Head, Group Enterprise AI and Data, UOB
Sameer Gupta, Managing Director, Chief Analytics Officer, DBS Bank
Vijay Jairaj, Executive Director - Responsible AI and Data Ethics, Standard Chartered
Sunita Kannan, Global AI Sales and Strategy Lead, Microsoft
Donald MacDonald, Head, Group Data Office, OCBC Bank
Mohammed Gharbawi, Co-head, Fintech Hub, Bank of England
Kelvin Wong, CEO, Building and Construction Authority
Tan Boon Khai, CEO, JTC Corporation
Manisha Khanna, Head, AI & Analytics, Asia Pacific, SAS Institute Pte Ltd
Dr Mara Balestrini, Digital Transformation Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank
Dr Ramine Tinati, Managing Director - Applied Intelligence, Accenture
Hays McCormick, Data Science Fellow, BNY Mellon
Reuben Lim, Chief Operating Officer, Singapore Fintech Association
Anup Kumar, Distinguished Engineer & CTO for Data & AI, IBM
Yeong Zee Kin, Assistant Chief Executive (Data Innovation and Protection Group), IMDA & Deputy Commissioner, PDPC,
Infocomm Media Development Authority
Dr Chinmay Parikh, Innovation Lead, Financial Conduct Authority
Charmaine Wong, Head of Group BI & Analytics, Group Head of ESG Data & Analytics, HSBC
Executive Director Head of Enterprise Artificial Intelligence UOB
Mr Johnson Poh has been a Data Scientist with experience spanning across the finance, consulting and government sectors for the past decade. His present and past professional appointments include being Executive Director and Head Enterprise Artificial Intelligence for UOB Group, Head Data Science/Practice Lead at DBS Bank, Chief Data Scientist, ASEAN at Booz Allen Hamilton as well as Principal Data Scientist at Ministry of Defence, Singapore respectively.
Johnson also serves as an Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU) where his focus areas include applied machine learning as well as big data tools and techniques. He completed his bachelor’s degree at University of California, Berkeley, majoring in the subjects of Pure Mathematics, Statistics and Economics. He received his postgraduate degree in Statistics at Yale University.
2 Nov 2022, 2:50pm
Knowledge Plenary (Digital Assets & Web3)
Hall 2
Programmable Money in SG
Project Orchid and its experiments explores the potential of programmable money and the infrastructure required to support it. This panel will discuss the motivation for programmable money and how it might support a digital asset ecosystem in Singapore
Note: Attend this session to complete the Day 1 requirements for the Digital Assets Learning Journey!
Speakers:
Adrian Ong, Head of Cash Management Sales, Group Transaction Banking, UOB
Talitha Rui Ling Chin, Senior Product Manager, Open Government Products
Ng Peng Khim, Head of Institutional Banking Group & Future Ready Technology (Technology & Operations), DBS Bank
Wong Wenbin, Head of GrabFin Singapore, Grab
Melvyn Low, Head Global Transaction Banking, OCBC Bank
Moderator:
Alan Lim, Head, FinTech Infrastructure Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Adrian Ong
Head of Cash Management Sales
Group Transaction Banking
Adrian Ong
Managing Director Head of Cash Management Sales
Group Transaction Banking UOB
Adrian Ong is the Group Head of Cash Management Sales under Group Transaction Banking in UOB. In his past eight years with the bank, Adrian has successfully built a strong client-centred sales platform across all UOB core markets in the region. Adrian drives the sales strategy and works in close partnership with our product organisation to build and deliver innovative and market leading solutions that help our clients operate more effectively and efficiently in a dynamic environment.
Adrian has more than 25 years of banking experience, having led various sales teams in his previous institutions. Prior to joining UOB, Adrian was concurrent Singapore Head of Transaction Banking and APAC Regional Sales Head for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) from 2011 to 2014. He also spent more than 10 years at J.P. Morgan, leading the Multinational Corporate Cash Management Sales team. Adrian has extensive experience working with both multinational corporates as well as Asian headquartered corporates in driving their centralised treasury management initiatives, including the operation or regional/global treasury centres and shared service centres.
Prior to joining the banking industry, Adrian was a Corporate Treasury Analyst with the Regional Treasury Centre of American Express International Inc, covering the Group’s treasury requirements across the Asia Pacific region.
3 Nov 2022, 3:00pm
Elevandi Insights Forum
Room 3 (Garnet 218)
Open Finance and Beyond
The roundtable will explore the opportunities and challenges along the journey from ‘Open Banking’ and ‘Open Finance’ towards a more holistic Open Data ecosystem, including with linkages across economies. In particular, the roundtable will focus on practical methods for overcoming barriers and realising the full benefit of Open Data, including in:
Expansion beyond traditional sectoral boundaries
Greater commonalities across borders, both in technical API standards and in policy frameworks
Supporting data protection and user-empowerment, including with interoperable identity solutions
Speakers:
Kevin Lam, Head, UOB TMRW and Group Digital Banking, UOB
Alla Kantar Levy, Head of Finance, Israel National Digital Agency
Stefan Klestil, General Partner, Speedinvest
Kelvin Tan, Global Lead, Standard Chartered nexus
Oscar Decotelli, CEO, DXA Invest
Dr David Hardoon, Chief Data and AI Officer, Aboitiz Group & Managing Director, Aboitiz Data Innovation Pte Ltd, Aboitiz Data Innovation Pte Ltd
Carrie Suen, Senior Advisor, Ant Group
Aung Kyaw Moe, Founder & CEO, 2C2P
Camilla Bullock, CEO, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Aman Narain, Global Head of Platforms, HSBC
Anthony Sheyantha, CEO, Boost
Moderators:
Brad Carr, Executive, Digital Governance, National Australia Bank
Nicolas Brügger, Senior Policy Advisor, State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF)
Kevin Lam
Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking
Kevin Lam
Managing Director Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking UOB
Mr Kevin Lam is the Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking at UOB. He leads the strategy for the Bank’s overall Digital Banking initiatives and oversees the roll-out of TMRW, UOB’s digital bank for ASEAN’s digital generation, in its key markets across the region. TMRW launched in its first market, Thailand, in March 2019, and subsequently in Indonesia in August 2020.
Kevin has been with UOB since 2005 and served in various senior positions including Managing Director and Head of Personal Financial Services in UOB Malaysia from 2011 to 2013 and Deputy CEO of UOB Malaysia from 2013 to 2015. He was most recently the President Director of UOB Indonesia in 2015 until September 2020, when he took on his current role.
Kevin had worked for several large international foreign banks and technology companies in Singapore, USA, and Hong Kong for more than a decade before joining UOB Group. In his 25 years of experience in the banking industry, he has held a range of positions in the areas of strategic planning, business management, product development, sales and distribution, technology and banking infrastructure development and other areas of corporate services.
2 Nov 2022, 2:30pm
ESG Impact Zone Hall 5
SME Challenges to Going Green
No net zero dialogue is complete without factoring the involvement and contribution of the SME segment, which accounts for almost 70% of countries' GDPs and employment tallies worldwide. Yet SMEs continue to be largely unengaged when it comes to sustainability matters. Join DBS, OCBC and UOB as these stalwarts of Singapore’s financial system shed insights on the challenges their SME clients face in embarking on these journeys, and how banks are taking landmark steps to support SMEs in overcoming these.
Speakers:
Frank Phuan, Co-founder & Business CEO, EDPR Sunseap
David Chia, Managing Director, Beckhoff Automation Pte Ltd
Olive Tai, Managing Director & Co-founder, Synagie
Moderator:
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi, Head of Sustainable Business, UOB
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi
Head of Sustainable Business, UOB
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi
Executive Director Head of Sustainable Business UOB
Ms Melissa Moi is the Head of Sustainable Business in the Corporate Sustainability Office at UOB. In her role, she supports the delivery of a sustainable business strategy across UOB’s footprint including the management and mitigation of ESG risk, development of sustainable business strategies and frameworks, supporting sustainable product innovation, and driving the bank’s leadership in sustainable finance.
Prior to joining UOB, Melissa spent a decade at Bank of America where she led the firm’s ESG efforts in Asia Pacific. Her role included client facing advisory on sustainability, driving a sustainable finance strategy in the region as well as the implementation of corporate ESG initiatives across risk, social investment and environmental footprint.
Melissa has also spent a decade in the NGO sector in the education and healthcare sectors in Canada and Asia in both program implementation and organizational leadership roles.
Melissa is a member of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Medical Foundation, a charity focused on improving healthcare for newborn babies in rural China. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa.
3 Nov 2022, 2:00pm
Talent Pavillion Hall 3
Next Generation of Work: Powered by Tech, Driven by People
Technological advances today have a huge impact in the future of work - such as scaling and speeding up human capabilities, work automation through AI and enabling innovation in the workforce. Find out how this growing trend has influenced hiring strategies, talent demands and work opportunities.
Speakers:
Vikas Verma, Head of Strategic HR, UOB
Hannah Lennon, Employee Engagement and Experience Lead for Singapore, Mercer Singapore
Rachel Burton, HR Director, APAC, Meta
Moderator:
Juan Madera Jimenez, FSI Lead Singapore, Microsoft
Vikas Verma
Head of Strategic HR
Vikas Verma
Executive Director Head of Strategic HR UOB
Mr Vikas Verma joined UOB in 2019. He heads Strategic HR where he leads a diverse team to design and implement HR Transformation programs with the vision to futureproof UOB and its people.
Prior to UOB, Vikas has over two decades of experience across industries in HR Strategy, HR Technology, Employee experience, Strategic Workforce planning and Talent Management.
3 Nov 2022, 1:00pm
Ecosystem Stage Hall 3:5D2-07
UOB TMRW: The One Single Platform for UOB's ASEAN-focused Strategy
UOB Thailand recently. announced the integration of the UOB Mighty and TMRW applications into one digital banking platform named UOB TMRW, just 10 months after the introduction of UOB TMRW in Singapore. Come join us in this session to find out more about the integration, how we did it so quickly, and how we are leveraging this feature to deliver on our promise to make banking simple, seamless and personalized for everyone.
Speaker:
Annie Tan
Chief Operating Officer, TMRW Digital Bank, UOB
Annie Tan
Managing Director Chief Operating Officer TMRW Digital Bank UOB
Ms Annie Tan is the Chief Operating Officer at TMRW Digital Bank. Her role covers Program Management, Financial Management, Process Management and Digital Data Analytics.
For Program Management, she is focused at continuously improving the way product owners within TMRW work with technology teams to deliver customer centricity outcomes as well as managing the progress of the programs across the different countries.
She is also responsible for the overall TMRW Build Roadmap, aligning build initiatives to achieving strategic outcomes for the business in the long term.
4 Nov 2022, 12:30pm
Elevandi Insights Forum
Room 2 (Garnet 213)
Data Ecosystems in a Web3 World: Heterodox approaches to data portability
The meeting will take stock of developments in distributed data ecosystems in which data subjects play a direct role in holding and sharing their verifiable credentials or data with other counterparts, especially in the context of financial services.
The meeting will aim to:
Define the key features of new and emerging distributed data sharing models
Take stock of existing multi-country collaborations
Identify their economic models and roles in broadening access, inclusion and development, and
Outline the policy concerns seen by government and multilateral authorities
The meeting should result in a set of recommendations outlining the scope of issues and approaches public sector authorities should be considering to enhance market driven data portability domestically and across borders, while still addressing policy and regulatory objectives.
Speakers:
Chua Chek Ping, Executive Director, Blockchain and Digital Asset Team, UOB
Derrick Loi, GM, International Business, Digital Technologies, Ant Group
Glenn Gore, CEO, Affinidi
Professor Irene Ng, CEO, Dataswift
Pradyumna Agrawal, Managing Director, Investment (Blockchain), Temasek International Pte Ltd
Nicolas Brügger, Senior Policy Advisor, State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF)
Siddharth Shetty, Co-founder, Sahamati
Dr David Hardoon, Chief Data and AI Officer, Aboitiz Group & Managing Director, Aboitiz Data Innovation Pte Ltd
Aboitiz Data Innovation Pte Ltd
Purushothama Shenoy, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Singapore
Chua Chek Ping
Executive Director, Blockchain and Digital Asset Team
Chua Chek Ping
Executive Director Blockchain and Digital Asset Team UOB
Mr Chua Chek Ping is currently a member of UOB's Blockchain and Digital assets team, which is set up to formulate and drive the banks developments in this area. Prior to this, he was of Head for Strategic Alliances and Fintech when he first joined UOB in 2017.
In this role, Chek Ping leads his team to work with Business and Functional teams to forge and expand strategic collaboration and partnerships with external parties operating in the Fintech and Digital ecosystems. These includes industry projects that looks into solving for data consent and data sharing.
Prior to his current role, Chek Ping has over 20 years of commercial and corporate banking experience with DBS, HSBC and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) based in Singapore and China.
2 Nov 2022, 3:00pm
Elevandi Insights Forum (Closed Door Forum)
Integrated SME Financial Ecosystems
The roundtable seeks to understand how to create a standardised and interconnected SME Financial Ecosystem, through a discussion around:
The importance of financial education to upskill local MSMEs and SMEs to scale their businesses in the digital economy
The role of verifiable credentials and alternative assessment tool of “intent to pay” to offer credit to MSMEs/SMEs
The role of public and private sector to offer financing and guarantees to serve the underserved business community
Speakers:
Janet Young, Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation, Strategic Communications and Brand, UOB
Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Manish Bhai, Founder & CEO, UNO Digital Bank
Darren Buckley, Chief Retail Banking Group Officer, Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank)
Toh Su Mei, CEO, ANEXT Bank
Daniel Wilson Kodwo Addo, CEO & Managing Director, Consolidated Bank Ghana
Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari, First Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana
Kwamina Duker, CEO, Development Bank Ghana
Neha Mehta, Regional Lead - Pacific, UNCDF
H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General, The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat
Roberta Casali, Vice President for Finance and Risk Management, Asian Development Bank
Associate Professor Guan Chong, Deputy Director, Centre for Continuing and Professional Education (CCPE), Singapore University of Social Sciences
Saurav Bhattacharyya, CEO, Proxtera Pte Ltd
Helge Muenkel, Chief Sustainability Officer, DBS Bank
Riad Meddeb, Director A.I., UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development
Vishal Shah, President & Group Chief Operating Officer, Validus Investment Holdings Pte Ltd (Validus Group)
Rachel Freeman, Chief Growth Officer, Tyme
Bernadette Puyat, Deputy Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Jeremy Tan, CEO, Liquid Group Pte Ltd
Moderator:
Matthew Gamser, CEO, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation
Janet Young
Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand
Janet Young
Managing Director Head of Group
Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand UOB
Ms Janet Young leads the Channels and Digitalisation teams to build customer engagement and connectivity across online and physical channels in key Asia markets to support all customer segments across the Group. Working with business and technology partners internally, and Fintechs and ecosystem partners externally, she champions innovation to create digital solutions and collaborative business models that benefit the bank and the bank’s customers.
She also leads the Brand management, Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility teams across the group to achieve UOB’s brand vision, supported by impactful communication with all stakeholder groups and strong community relationships.
Janet is a Board Member of the Singapore National Council of Social Service (NCSS), National Environmental Agency (NEA), InnoVen Capital (a venture debt JV between UOB and Temasek Holdings), The FinLab and Accuron Technologies. She also serves Advisory Councils of Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore and Elevandi.
She has more than 25 years of banking and corporate experience. Prior to joining UOB, she held senior roles at global banks and European MNC.
2 Nov 2022, 5:00pm
Talent Pavilion Hall 3
Talent Pavilion Networking session
This is a great opportunity to mingle with Hiring Officers from top banks such as DBS, JPMorgan, SC Ventures, UBS and UOB on available internship and job vacancies! Don't miss your chance to get hired here!
Speakers:
Micah Leong
Vice President, Group Human Resource, UOB
Mr Micah Leong is currently a recruiter with UOB. He has extensive experiences in recruiting top-level and senior executives in Asia and working with clients who are in the well-known local and regional multinational corporations.
Micah has over fifteen years of HR and recruitment experience ranging from in-house recruitment functions with the world's leading banks such as BNP Paribas, ABN AMRO and Citibank to executive search business. He has a successful track record in placing senior candidates in Singapore, India, Japan, Hong Kong and China.
Sherry Teo
Vice President, Group Human Resource, UOB
Ms Sherry Teo has been in recruitment since 2005, specializing in banking professionals hiring across middle, back office, support and IT function. She has worked in recruitment companies and various multi-companies.
Winnie Lim
Assistant Vice President, Group Human Resource, UOB
Ms Winnie Lim joined the Talent Acquisition (TA) team in Sept 2022 as a TA supporting GTO. Prior to UOB, she was with a startup firm. She comes with 8 years of working experience supporting mid to senior roles specializing in E-commerce, Marketing, Corporate and IT. She graduated with a Degree in Hospitality and Tourism. During her free time, she enjoys Pilates and food hunting.
Launch of FinTech in ASEAN 2022 report - Leveraging embedded finance to build new business models
Compared with last year's record high, FinTech funding in ASEAN was more measured in 2022 – against a backdrop of tighter economic conditions and geopolitical uncertainties. In our latest report launch, glean insights on FinTech funding trends in ASEAN and hear from industry leaders on how embedded finance is creating new business opportunities for businesses and FinTechs alike.
This session is presented by UOB, PwC Singapore and Singapore FinTech Association.
Agenda:
Opening address by Janet Young
Panel session and moderated by Wong Wanyi
Closing address by Sng Khai Lin
Speakers:
Janet Young, Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation, Strategic Communications and Brand, UOB
Thio Boon Kiat, Group Chief Executive Officer, UOB Asset Management
Herston Powers, Co-founder & Managing Partner, 1982 Ventures
Sng Khai Lin, Co-founder & Chief Investment Officer, Alta
Moderator:
Wong Wanyi, Financial Services Partner, FinTech Leader, PwC Singapore
Janet Young
Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand
Janet Young
Managing Director Head of Group
Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand UOB
Ms Janet Young leads the Channels and Digitalisation teams to build customer engagement and connectivity across online and physical channels in key Asia markets to support all customer segments across the Group. Working with business and technology partners internally, and Fintechs and ecosystem partners externally, she champions innovation to create digital solutions and collaborative business models that benefit the bank and the bank’s customers.
She also leads the Brand management, Communications, Corporate Social Responsibility teams across the group to achieve UOB’s brand vision, supported by impactful communication with all stakeholder groups and strong community relationships.
Janet is a Board Member of the Singapore National Council of Social Service (NCSS), National Environmental Agency (NEA), InnoVen Capital (a venture debt JV between UOB and Temasek Holdings), The FinLab and Accuron Technologies. She also serves Advisory Councils of Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore and Elevandi.
She has more than 25 years of banking and corporate experience. Prior to joining UOB, she held senior roles at global banks and European MNC.
Thio Boon Kiat
Group Chief Executive Officer, UOB Asset Management
Thio Boon Kiat
Group Chief Executive Officer UOB Asset Management
Mr Thio Boon Kiat has almost 30 years of investment management experience. He has served as the Group CEO of UOBAM since 2011 from his previous appointment as Chief Investment Officer. Under his leadership, UOBAM has established itself as a leading regional player in the asset management industry with a presence in 9 markets in Asia. UOBAM has also received wide industry recognition winning nearly 300 top awards from prestigious organisations such as Morningstar, Refinitive and Asian Investor.
Notably, UOBAM was awarded Asia Fund House of the Year from AsianInvestor in 2021 for a third consecutive year. This award is granted to the best fund house which excels in business strategy, execution, investment performance, asset gathering, and innovation.
In recognition of his contributions to the industry, Boon Kiat was recognised as one of the 25 Leaders in fund management in Asia in the past 25 years by Asia Asset Management in 2021 while also receiving the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by AAM in 2020. He was previously recognised as CEO of the Year in Asia in 2014 and 2015. He was also conferred the “IBF Fellow” title by the Institute of Banking and Finance in 2015.
Beyond UOBAM, Boon Kiat has also served as Treasurer from 2013 to 2019 at the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS) and was a member of its EXCO from 2006 to 2019.
A passionate advocate of digitalisation, Boon Kiat spearheaded UOBAM's digital transformation, driving the adoption of emerging technology and digital infrastructure positioning UOBAM as a digital leader in asset management. His belief of an optimal balance between human and machine in asset management; that AI should be more “augmented intelligence” rather than “artificial intelligence” has borne tangible results like UOBAM Invest, Singapore’s first robo-advisory app by an established asset manager, in 2020, and the first corporate robo-advisory platform in Singapore in 2018. UOBAM Invest has raised over S$1billion from corporate clients in Asia.
A firm believer in “Investing for Purpose and Profit”, Boon Kiat has championed the cause for sustainable investing and led UOBAM to be one of the first regional asset managers in Singapore to sign the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) in 2020. This is on top of also being a signatory to the Singapore Stewardship Principles for Responsible Investors, underlining the firm’s commitment to sustainability.
4 Nov 2022, 12:00pm
Ecosystem Stage
F&B Area Hall 6
Lunch & Learns: Women In Leadership
Women are powerful agents of change. Want to know how women can make a difference in the workplace and why it matters? Join us for a conversation over lunch with accomplished female leaders who will share their perspectives on building careers and making an impact.
Speakers:
Ho Giao Pik, Head of FinTech & Strategic Alliances, Group Channels and Digitalisation, UOB
Dr Darian McBain, Advisor, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Amanda Wick, Founder, Association for Women In Cryptocurrency
Ho Giao Pik
Head of FinTech & Strategic Alliances, Group Channels and Digitalisation
Ho Giao Pik
Managing Director Head of FinTech & Strategic Alliances
Channels and Digitalisation, UOB
Giao Pik HO is Managing Director at United Overseas Bank and leads with Strategic Alliances and Fintech for the Group franchise. In her current capacity, Giao Pik brings her strong banking experience to enterprise digitalization, building ecosystem partnerships and identifying digital capabilities to drive growth in customer segments through innovative fintech and digital platform solutions. Prior to that, Giao Pik had overall business responsibilities for Banks and Non-Bank Financial Institutions clients in South & South East Asia as well as leading with all Bank client relationships for the Group with a mandate to deliver on total client relationship value across Capital Markets, Global Markets and Global Transaction Banking products.
Preceding UOB, Giao Pik held roles in senior management, client coverage, risk management and operations in ANZ and Standard Chartered Bank. In ANZ Singapore, she led the Financial Institutions business in various geographies for ANZ’s International Banking business. A member of ANZ Singapore’s Management Group and leadership committees, Giao Pik is also a founding EXCO member of Money-Minded Singapore, ANZ’s flagship financial literacy program.
Giao Pik is passionate about diverse leadership, perspectives and inclusion in the wider community and sits on BoardAgender Management Committee, a Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) initiative. She is also a champion and mentor with Financial Women’s Association.
2 Nov 2022, 3:30pm
Elevandi Insights Forum Room 1 (Garnet 212)
Unlocking Digital Collaboration Opportunities to Advance the Financial Ecosystem Towards Sustainable Finance
The roundtable aims to address the following outcomes:
Alignment on key challenges banks encounter in the transition toward net-zero commitments and sustainable financing
Outlining and underscoring digital, data and AI core-capabilities that can address key friction points
Promoting the potential of public-private digital collaboration and partnerships to smoothen and enhance the transition to green financing
Speakers:
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi, Head of Sustainable Business, UOB
Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Kelvin Wong, CEO, Building and Construction Authority
Michael Zeller, Head, Artificial Intelligence Strategy & Solutions, Temasek International (USA) LLC
Matt Johnson, Managing Director, AI & Data, Temus
Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer, Standard Chartered
Yulanda Chung, Managing Director, Head of Sustainability in Institutional Banking Group, DBS
Yeo Wenshan, Assistant General Manager, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Singapore Branch
David Koh, Managing Director, Deputy Head of Corporate Banking, Asia Pacific, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer, City Developments Limited
Tan Boon Khai, CEO, JTC Corporation
Helge Muenkel, Chief Sustainability Officer, DBS Bank
Sunil Veetil, Regional Head of Sustainability, HSBC Commercial Banking, Asia Pacific, HSBC
Sim Feng-Ji, Deputy Secretary, Smart Nation and Digital Government
Moderator:
Dr Darian McBain, Advisor, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Bharath Sattanathan, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi
Head of Sustainable Business, UOB
Melissa Ker-Zia Moi
Executive Director Head of Sustainable Business UOB
Ms Melissa Moi is the Head of Sustainable Business in the Corporate Sustainability Office at UOB. In her role, she supports the delivery of a sustainable business strategy across UOB’s footprint including the management and mitigation of ESG risk, development of sustainable business strategies and frameworks, supporting sustainable product innovation, and driving the bank’s leadership in sustainable finance.
Prior to joining UOB, Melissa spent a decade at Bank of America where she led the firm’s ESG efforts in Asia Pacific. Her role included client facing advisory on sustainability, driving a sustainable finance strategy in the region as well as the implementation of corporate ESG initiatives across risk, social investment and environmental footprint.
Melissa has also spent a decade in the NGO sector in the education and healthcare sectors in Canada and Asia in both program implementation and organizational leadership roles.
Melissa is a member of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Medical Foundation, a charity focused on improving healthcare for newborn babies in rural China. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa.
2 Nov 2022, 12:30pm
Elevandi Insights Forum
Room 3 (Garnet 218)
Addressing the New Skills Gap in Financial Services
In a changing world that challenges governments, organisations and individuals, there is a widening skills gap for those who cannot adapt to the new digital world. Identifying the skills gap in financial services to develop digital-resilient and a future-enabled workforce is a priority for governments.
But how can governments, regulators and other policy-makers be at the core of this progress?
CFTE will invite global thought leaders and practitioners to share their analysis and experience as a starting point for the discussion in the room.
Speakers: Richard Lowe, Group Chief Data Officer, Data Management Office, UOB
Pieter Franken, Co-founder, Safecast
Michael Lew, Managing Director, Ankura
Sameer Vakil, Co-founder & CEO, GlobalLinker
Lawrence Chan, Group CEO, NETS
Khairi Azmi, General Manager, Singapore & Head of Sales, APAC, Okcoin
John Kane, Chief Innovation Officer, Tyme
Tram Anh Nguyen, Co-Founder, CFTE
Jerry Tso, Senior Director, Head of Singapore Development Center, PayPal
Purushothama Shenoy, Chief Technology Officer, IBM Singapore
Brad Carr, Executive, Digital Governance, National Australia Bank
Moderator: Huy Nguyen Trieu, Co-founder, CFTE
Richard Lowe
Group Chief Data Officer, Data Management Office
Richard Lowe
Managing Director Group Chief Data Officer, Data Management Office UOB
Mr Richard Lowe is the Group Chief Data Officer and Managing Director of Data Management Office in UOB. His responsibilities include leading the data and advanced analytics vision, strategy and transformation for the UOB group and its entities. His focus areas include Data Governance and Monetisation, AI and ML, Self Service Big Data and Analytics.
Prior to joining UOB, Richard spent most career in Australia building and leading data and business analytics capabilities in both Financial Services and Telecommunications Sectors.
Richard also serves a variety of roles in industry, some that include Chairman of the Standing Committee for Data Management for the Association of Banks Singapore (ABS), Vice Chairman of the Data Analytics, Advisory Board of Singapore Management University (SMU), and Chairman of the Data Taskforce for the ASEAN Bankers Association (ABA).
3 Nov 2022, 12:30pm
Elevandi Insights Forum
Room 2 (Garnet 213)
The Business Model for CBDC Wallets
This session will explore options for a workable economic and risk model for future CBDCs and aim to drive the following outcomes:
Identify potential economic models for CBDC intermediation
Examine how needed functions, such as AML/KYC and cyber risk management, can be funded under a non-deposit taking revenue-generating model
Identify both the value-added customer services likely to be cannibalised and potentially realised by the advent of a retail CBDC
Speakers: Lyselle Tan, Senior Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Asset Team, UOB
John O’Neill, Head of Digital Asset Strategy, HSBC
Raj Dhamodharan, Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
Glenn Tasky, Director, Financial Stability, Supervision, and Payments, The SEACEN Centre
Moderators: Timothy Adams, President & CEO, Institute of International Finance (IIF)
Jessica Renier, Managing Director, Digital Finance, Institute of International Finance
Lyselle Tan
Senior Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Asset Team
Lyselle Tan
Senior Vice President Blockchain and Digital Asset Team UOB
Ms Lyselle Tan is a member of Blockchain and Digital Asset team that serve as a Centre of Excellence on matters relating to Blockchain, Digital Assets and related technologies. Lyselle leads the Central Bank Digital Currency pillar which aims to work and collaborate with regional central banks across Asia and ASEAN and to help bring central bank led CBDC innovations to the region and our clients.
Prior to joining the team, Lyselle implemented transformational financial supply chain management capabilities on UOB's digital banking platform for business which enables clients to digitalise their supply chain trade documents submission and financing at different stages of the supply chain.
Lyselle had also worked in fintechs and banks in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand focusing on Transformation Program Management and Transaction Banking. Lyselle is also practitioner of Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment cognitive intervention program that aims at enhancing individual's learning attitude, intrinsic motivation, cognitive efficiency, concept formation and insightful reasoning.
3 Nov 2022, 2:05pm
ESG Ecosystem Stage Hall 5
Spotlight on ESG FinTech Part 2: Accelerating Climate Finance for a Net Zero Future: Enabling Economic Resilience, Sustainable Industries & Green Communities
Speaker:
Eric Lim
Group Chief Sustainability Officer and
Head of Group Finance, UOB
Eric Lim
Managing Director
Group Chief Sustainability Officer Head of Group Finance UOB
Mr Eric Lim is the Chief Sustainability Officer at UOB. He leads a dedicated corporate sustainability office that is focused on achieving the Bank's sustainability objectives of helping businesses to advance responsibly, steering consumer wealth to sustainable investments and fostering social inclusiveness and environmental well-being.
Concurrently, Eric is also the Head of Group Finance, where he is responsible for the Bank’s core finance functions spanning financial strategy, capital management, regulatory and financial reporting, tax management, business finance and performance management.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Accounting from the Nanyang Technological University and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
2 Nov 2022, 3:00pm
ESG Impact Zone
Hall 5
SME Fireside Chat: SME Financing Showcase
The Sustainability Compass will equip SMEs with foundational sustainability knowledge and clear actionable steps to start their sustainability journey. Created for busy SME owners, this online assessment tool does not require sustainability literacy. After inputting responses online, the SMEs will get a customised report based on their company sector and stage of their sustainability journey.
Speakers: Daniel Chua, Executive Director, Regional Business Group, UOB Commercial Banking
Felicia Gan, CEO, Ghim Li Global Pte Ltd
Jacky Chan, CFO, Applied Total Control Treatment Pte Ltd
Daniel Chua
Executive Director, Regional Business Group, UOB Commercial Banking
Daniel Chua
Executive Director Regional Business Group UOB Commercial Banking UOB
Mr Daniel Chua has worked with UOB's SME clients in the region for over 15 years, leading in various collaborative initiatives such as ESG, product solutioning - bridging clients, relationship management teams, and product teams together.
4 Nov 2022, 3:35pm
Knowledge Plenary
Financial Education & Literacy: The SME and Consumer View
Speaker:
Lawrence Loh
Head of Group Business Banking
Lawrence Loh
Manager Director Head of Group Business Banking UOB
Mr Lawrence Loh is the Managing Director and Head of Group Business Banking. He is responsible for UOB Group’s small business segment across it’s South East Asia markets.
In addition to driving growth of the markets under his coverage, he leads the beyond banking initiatives in UOB small business segment that drive strategic partnerships with government institutions and technology companies to help curate SME ecosystems, build SME digital capabilities so SMEs can benefit to operate more efficiently to scale their businesses domestically and regionally.
Lawrence has more than 20 years of banking experience. Before joining UOB, he held several key management roles in a global private and investment bank. He also had operational and leadership responsibilities in product analytics and business development in consumer banking and private banking.
He began his career as a management consultant. He holds Bachelor of Commerce from
the University of Queensland, Australia and is a Fellow – Corporate Banking with The Institute of Banking and Finance.
2 Nov 2022, 4:10pm
Product Announcements Hall 3
Auto-Save - the first AI-driven automated savings feature on a mobile banking app in Southeast Asia
UOB is the first bank in Southeast Asia to launch Auto-Save, an AI (artificial intelligence) driven automated and self-adjustable savings feature on the TMRW mobile banking app in Indonesia. Auto-Save is a customer-centric solution that helps our customers save more effortlessly.
Come join us in this session to find out more about the feature, the underlying technologies, and how we at UOB are leveraging this feature to deliver on our promise to make banking simple, seamless and personalized for everyone.
Speaker:
Kevin Lam
Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking
Kevin Lam
Managing Director Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking UOB
Mr Kevin Lam is the Head of TMRW and Group Digital Banking at UOB. He leads the strategy for the Bank’s overall Digital Banking initiatives and oversees the roll-out of TMRW, UOB’s digital bank for ASEAN’s digital generation, in its key markets across the region. TMRW launched in its first market, Thailand, in March 2019, and subsequently in Indonesia in August 2020.
Kevin has been with UOB since 2005 and served in various senior positions including Managing Director and Head of Personal Financial Services in UOB Malaysia from 2011 to 2013 and Deputy CEO of UOB Malaysia from 2013 to 2015. He was most recently the President Director of UOB Indonesia in 2015 until September 2020, when he took on his current role.
Kevin had worked for several large international foreign banks and technology companies in Singapore, USA, and Hong Kong for more than a decade before joining UOB Group. In his 25 years of experience in the banking industry, he has held a range of positions in the areas of strategic planning, business management, product development, sales and distribution, technology and banking infrastructure development and other areas of corporate services.
