​Conference Agenda: starts 1.30pm India time, GMT +5.5

12:30 - 13:30

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​13:30 - 14:00

Keynote: The Role of DLT in Financial Services
​Speaker: Navin Gupta - Managing Director, South Asia & MENA, ​Ripple
About Session: The technology behind distributed ledgers, generally referred to as distributed ledger technology (DLT), provides a variety of potential value propositions for the financial industry, including strengthened identity measures, improvements in information preservation and data integrity, processing efficiencies, increased operational capacity and compliance effectiveness.

​14:00 - 14:20

A European View on DLT and the Future of Capital Markets
Speaker: Michael Gebert - Chairman, European Blockchain Association
About Session: After years of experimentation, many DLT and smart contract use cases in capital markets are live across jurisdictions. Market participants are launching solutions designed to improve existing processes for defined ecosystems in numerous asset classes and in some cases are reimagining value chains as we know them today. However, grand visions of disintermediation or total digital transformation at scale are still far from being realized. How are industry dynamics – collaboration and competition – shaping adoption and demand?

​14:30 - 14:50

Transnational Unit of Account Resulting from the Monetization of Intra-firm Trade
Speaker: Marc Pilkington - Associate Professor of Economics, University of Burgundy
About Session: Transfer prices escape market-dictated conditions, by taking place within the  intrafirm trade ruleset. Intra-firm cross-border trade has held up better than inter-firm trade since 2008; it is now  the basis for trade globalization.  We formulate a novel reform proposal, the re-monetization of multinationals' intra-firm exchanges in a global cryptocurrency called Intra-Firm Trade Coin (IFTC). Banks could well become major stakeholders in the process.

​15:00 - 15:45

Panel Discussion: Will Blockchain Disrupt or Rebuild the Banking & Financial Services
​​​Moderator: Narayanan Raman - Director | Consulting, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
Panelists: 

1. Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner - Head, Frankfurt School Blockchain Center
2. Dr Agata Ferreira - Warsaw University of Technology
3. Simon Seiter - Head of Digital Assets (SVP), Deutsche Börse AG
4. Marloes Pomp - International Strategy, ​Dutch Blockchain Coalition
5. Benjamin Duve - Head of Digital Assets & Custody, ​Commerzbank AG

About Session: Blockchain technology provides a way for untrusted parties to come to agreement on the state of a database, without using a middleman. By providing a ledger that nobody administers, a blockchain could provide specific financial services like payments or securitization. Further, blockchain allows for the use of tools like “smart contracts,” self-executing contracts based on the blockchain, which could potentially automate manual processes from compliance and claims processing to distributing the contents of a will.

​15:45 - 16:00

TBA
​Speaker: TBA
About Session: TBA

​16:00 - 16:45

​Panel Discussion: The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Moderator: Lynn Hoang - Country Director, Binance Vietnam
Panelist:

1. Bénédicte Nolens - Head, BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre
2. ​Jannah Patchay - Whitechapel Think Tank, Future of Payments WG
3. Marjan Delatinne - Managing Director SETL, BBA Advisory Board

Points of Discussion:

• ​Tokenisation , CBDC and Embedding Digital Identity in Payments
• Central Bank Digital Currency and the Future of Finance
• BIS Innovation Hub's Involvement with CBDC

​16:45 - 17:30

Panel Discussion: How to Ensure Smooth Adoption of Blockchain in Banking
Moderator: Jamil Hasan - Podcast Host, ​Irish Tech News
Panelists:

1. Subhra Prakash - Executive Director, Gulf International Finance Limited 
2. Ian Putter - Executive DLT / Blockchain, Standard Bank Group
3. Bhuvana Reddy - PhD Research Scholar, Srinivas University Mangalore
4. Nadia Filali - Head of Blockchain Programs, Groupe Caisse des Dépôts
5. Dan Simerman - Head of Financial Relations, ​IOTA Foundation

About Session: Despite the fact that blockchain technology is still in a developing stage, it is important for stakeholders such as policy makers, regulators, industry and professionals to understand the blockchain or distributed ledger technologies along with legal and regulatory issues and other implementation nuances. The industry feels that the governments need to be more proactive in clearing the framework for the adoption of blockchain in banking.

​17:35 - 17:50

Role of Cryptocurrency Adoption on the Banking and Financial Services Sector
Speaker: Gerard Dache - Executive Director, Government Blockchain Association
​About Seeion: TBA

​17:50 - 18:35

Panel Discussion: Smart Money & Self Driving Banks
Moderator: Myrtle Anne Ramos - Founder, ​Block Tides
Panelist:

1. Vishwas Bajaj - Director, Capgemini
2. Jorge Sebastiao - CEO, Nimbus DeFi
3. Magnus Jones - Nordic Blockchain & Innovation Lead, ​Ernst Young
4. Tanja Bivic Plankar - President, Blockchain Alliance Europe
5. Dr Sindhu Bhaskar - Head Banking & Finance, Government Blockchain Association

About Panel: To be advised

​18:35 - 18:40

Closing Address
Speaker: Blackarrow Representative

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