Ebrahim Patel is the Managing Director of SiyaXoxa Technologies. He is also the Chairman of the WIEF Young Leaders Network and member of the WIEF International Advisory Panel. He was the Founder and Past President of the Minara Chamber of Commerce and is an Advisory Board Member of the University of KwaZulu Natal ELC. Ebrahim was recently appointed as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Indonesia and serves on the KwaZulu Natal Economic Council which advises the provincial government on economic strategy. He is passionate about youth and entrepreneurship.

Joel Shen is the Vice Chairman of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia and partner in the corporate team at Withers KhattarWong. He advises corpo retailers, payment companies and venture capital fund managers. He is also a member of Withers Tech and recommended by Chambers for his mergers and acquisition work in Singapore.

Joel is listed by Chambers in its inaugural FinTech Guide as one of only seven Notable Fintech Practitioners in Indonesia. He was one of four lawyers from Indonesia to have been included in Asian Legal Business’ 40 Under 40 listing for 2019. He was twice recognised as a Rising Star and the only non-Indonesian practitioner in Asian Legal Business’ Rising Stars in Indonesia. He is a non-faculty lecturer at the Law and Business Faculties of the University of Indonesia and Universitas Pelita Harapan.

Charlotte Kan is an international print and broadcast journalist. She specialises in finance, tech, disruption, lifestyle as well as travel. She has worked for some of the world’s largest media outlets including Bloomberg, Standard & Poor’s, Reuters, Euronews, M6, i-télé, RTL and Le Figaro.

She hosts and moderates international conferences as well as events such as ITU’s AIforGood, WSIS Forum, Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Awards and Monaco Superyacht Awards. Furthermore, she has interviewed countless CEOs, executives, ministers, politicians, leading scientists, artists and VIPs. She is also a media and presentation coach.

Endah N Rhesa is a duo husband-wife musician team from Indonesia. They started their career in 2004 and was inspired to play in minimalist acoustic format, acoustic guitar, bass and vocal. The musical nuance that they aim to bring out is folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, and ballads. To date, they have released five albums with their first titled Nowhere to Go in 2009. The hit single from that album was When You Love Someone. In 2010, they released Look What We’ve Found album.

In 2011, they were awarded the Best Performance for Alternative Artists and Best Producer Alternative Album by Indonesian Music Awards (AMI). Endah N Rhesa performed in many places around Indonesia and have been invited to perform in Malaysia, Singapore and Kazakhstan. In 2013, they released their third album Escape, which was influenced by progressive rock. Two years later, they released another album titled Seluas Harapan and their latest effort was released in 2020, titled Regenerate.

Henri Arslanian is Crypto Leader and Partner at PwC, former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an adjunct professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first fintech university course in Asia. He advises numerous world-leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on fintech and crypto initiatives as well as numerous governments, regulators and central banks on fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters.

Henri is a TEDx and global keynote speaker, a best-selling published author and is regularly featured in the media including Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. His expertise has been acknowledged via numerous awards including most influential individual on Finance globally on LinkedIn by Onalytica and one of the global Top Voices in Economy and Finance by LinkedIn. He hosts Of the FinTechCapsules™ and CryptoCapsules™ social media series.

Henri’s latest book The Future of Finance: The Impact of FinTech, AI and Crypto on Financial Services was ranked as one of Amazon’s global top 10 bestsellers. Before joining PwC, he was with a fintech startup and spent many years with UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong.

Henri speaks English, French, Armenian, Spanish and Mandarin, holds a master’s degree in Chinese law from Tsinghua University, a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School and Hong Kong University. He holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal and a master’s degree in transnational law from the University of Sherbrooke.

Mohammad Ridzuan Abdul Aziz has over 20 years of commercially–driven regulatory, compliance and technology experiences in Asia Pacific. He is currently the Malaysia Country Director and Head of ASEAN Business for WorldRemit, and on the board of KAF Investment Bank, AKRU robo-advisory as well as Ethis Global Ventures.

Ridzuan is a member of the board advisor for the Fintech Association of Malaysia where among others, focuses on raising Malaysia’s unique combined values of mature on-shore eco-system. He is one of the advisors for Labuan Financial Services Authority, Asia Pacific University, Taylor’s University Business School, Quest International University and Policy Streets.

Ridzuan founded regulatory technology advisory firms RHT Compliance Solutions and CS Technology Solutions Sdn Bhd. He was the CEO of Sedania As Salam Capital Sdn Bhd and was a regulator with the KLSE during the 1998 Asia financial crisis, the Securities Commission in 2001 and then redeployed to a joint task force between the Securities Commission and Bank Negara Malaysia during the formation of the investment bank concept in 2002.

Ridzuan holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance from University of Wales, Aberyswyth and has an MBA specialising in management information system from International Islamic University Malaysia.

Amir Jahari is a Malaysian singer, musician and songwriter. He started out as a street busker and now, in his 30s, he is a successful recording artist with multiple hits and albums. Amir has won a variety of awards and had numerous concert performances in various countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia.

Dr Waleed Kadous is Head of Engineering at Anyscale, the United States, the company behind the open source distributed machine learning project Ray. Prior to Anyscale, Dr Waleed worked at Uber, where he led overall system architecture, evangelised machine learning and led the Location and Maps team. He also worked at Google, where he founded the Android Location and Sensing team, responsible for the 'blue dot' as well as ML algorithms underlying products like Google Fit. Currently, he holds more than 40 patents.

M Nazri Muhd is the Founder of MyFinB, Centre of AI Innovation (Global), Chairman for the AI World Summit and also serves as the Honorary Consul for Cabo Verde (West Africa). He specialises in AI and cognitive analytics with more than two decades as a practitioner in these fields. As an early pioneer to deploy AI-based analytics in Asia-Pacific since early 2000, Nazri leads the digital transformation strategies for public, private and non-profit organisations globally where he serves as their AI advisor. Through these roles, he has successfully built a strong global community of AI adopters and practitioners in more than 50 countries.

On 12 July 2021, Nazri was ranked the Number One Thought Leader in AI, Digital Transformation and Predictive Analytics by US-based, independent group called Thinkers360. He was recently awarded the Global Chamber 2020 Excellence Award for Global Partnerships and Innovation. In 2018, Nazri was named one of the World's Top 500 Influential Personalities in the Islamic world and economy by Islamica500. He was also awarded the Asia Pacific's Top Young Business Leader Award in 2010 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

Tasleem Jamila is a Poet, Vocalist, Author, Speaker, Educator and Holistic Health Advocate. She is CEO of My Soul Speaks, a company that creates interactive workshop, presentation and performances across the world. Her work highlights the way hip hop, culture as well as spoken word theatre can contribute to freedom, justice and equality for all people.

As an advocate for women and children’s rights with a universal approach, Tasleem’s programmes have been utilised in detention centres to universities across the globe, and performances that include The Kennedy Centre, Excel London, Columbia University (NYC) as well as the African World Festival of the Arts, just to name a few. She has performed her works across the United States, the United Kingdom, Africa as well as Canada, and continues to tour worldwide. She has a master's degree in spirituality, culture and health.