The third edition of the Singapore Fintech Festival will kick off on Monday. This year’s event promises to be the biggest fintech event in the world to date.
1. Close to 40,000 Participants
This year's Singapore Fintech Festival will include over 250 speakers, 450 exhibitors, 16 international pavilions and close to 40,000 participants expected.
2. Three-Day Conference
Held at the Singapore Expo, the Festival will kick off with the three-day fintech conference (12-14 November). Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, will address the audience on the third day.
3. Nine Key Themes
The Conference will focus on nine key themes across 70 sessions, including AI in finance; ASEAN fintech opportunities; cyber-security, techrisk and regtech; financial inclusion; future of banking; future of money; global investor summit; insurtech and market infrastructure.
4. New Zone for ASEAN Startups
Trade visitors and delegates can also learn more about fintech in ASEAN, at the new zone specially dedicated to ASEAN startups. There will also be free guided tours of the area daily.
5. Global Investor Summit
The expanded Global Investor Summit (13-14 November) is specially curated for the investment and enterprise communities. It will showcase the best of next-generation ASEAN startups and growth enterprises across all sectors, both fintech and beyond fintech. Attendees can look forward to deep dive sessions on India, China and ASEAN covering key themes such as investment capital-raising strategies, and investing for impact.
6. Artificial Intelligence in Finance
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Finance Summit (13-14 November) will debut at the fintech conference this year with the theme of «AI in Finance Driving Global Progress». Topics to be discussed include cloud and quantum computing, AI investment, ethical and responsible AI, and predictions for an AI-driven future.
7. Fintech Hackcelerator Demo Day
The Global FinTech Hackcelerator Demo Day (12 November) will showcase 20 market-ready fintech solutions shortlisted from 304 submissions intended to solve real-life industry problems in four categories, including financial inclusion, insurtech, regtech and suptech and general.
8. Fintech Awards
The FinTech Awards (12-14 November) will recognise innovative fintech solutions that have been implemented by fintechs, financial institutions and technology companies.
9. Innovation Lab Crawl
The Innovation Lab Crawl (15-16 November) features 30 innovation labs across Singapore which will be open for visits. Interested parties can sign up here.
10. ASEAN Themed
Alongside Singapore’s chairmanship of ASEAN, this year’s festival features a strong ASEAN theme. The specially commissioned ASEAN-themed Batik Motif stitches together national flowers of all ten ASEAN countries.
11. Global Knowledge Platform
«The Singapore Fintech Festival is now a global knowledge platform. This year, it has expanded to attract a more diverse crowd of international regulators, policy makers, industry leaders and academics from fintech and beyond,» Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief Fintech Officer, MAS, said.
12. All-Day Dining Area
«We have weaved in unique elements from the region in various aspects of our event design, from the overall layout of our stages and lounges to a uniquely ASEAN-inspired culinary theme presented by award-winning chefs at our all-day dining area,» Aloysius Arlando, Chief Executive Officer of SingEx, said.
