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Huy Nguyen Trieu is the Co-Founder of the CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship. He is also the CEO of The Disruptive Group – a business builder and advisory firm in innovation and finance. Prior to setting up CFTE, Huy was a Managing Director at Citi, and previously at Royal Bank of Scotland and Société Générale. Before banking, he was the CEO of Ukibi, a VC-funded startup in the US. He is a frequent keynote speaker in Europe and Asia, likes to teach and share with students and entrepreneurs, and is regularly quoted in articles on innovation and finance. He writes the blog Disruptive Finance, is a Fintech Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at Imperial College, an Entrepreneurship Expert at Oxford Said Entrepreneurship Centre. He is also a member of ESMA’s Consultative Working Group for financial innovation and a founding member of the Asian SuperCharger, one of the largest Fintech accelerators in Asia. Huy is a graduate from MIT (US), École Polytechnique (France) and Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees (France). He is married and a happy father of 3 daughters.

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As a Senior Executive with 22 years of international experience, Jean-Philippe is a transformational leader in Banking and Financial Market. He has a successful track record of driving business reinvention leveraging Digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Analytics, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud capabilities. He is now the IBM Global AI & Data Leader for Banking and Financial Market (Retail banking, Financial Market & Insurance). He is responsible to position IBM as the trusted transformation partner in client's cognitive journey helping them to shape it, scale up AI & Data everywhere and get user adoption.

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Johnson 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 & 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.