Shafique Ibrahim, an influential leader with 20 years of industry experience, spearheading advancements in Fintech and payments with expertise in payment solutions, cross-border remittances, mobile payments, blockchain, and digital transformation. He has worked with several Banks and Financial institutes globally, partnered with Fintech and Startups to enable digital payment services. He spearheads digital transformation and is responsible for the overall IT Operations at Al Fardan Group, a renowned family business in the Gulf region. A thought-leader and subject-matter expert, delivering IT projects combined with natural business acumen to provide leadership on critical growth initiatives within the payment industry. Shafique holds a master's degree in Information Technology. A member, advisor, and speaker on the innovations in digital payments and financial technology. He has received CIO awards at several forums and recognized as 50 Most Influential Payment Professional. 

Prof. Khaled Shaalan is ranked among the top 2% scientists in 2019 according to a study led by Dr Ioannidis and his research team in Stanford University: https://lnkd.in/gEhjKn4. He is a full professor of Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence at the British University in Dubai (BUiD), UAE. He is an Honorary Fellow at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (UoE), UK. Over the last two decades, Prof Khaled has been contributing to a wide range of research topics in AI, Arabic NLP, Knowledge management, health informatics, and educational technology. Prof Khaled has published 220+ referred publications. Prof Khaled’s research work is cited extensively worldwide and the impact of his research using GoogleScholar’s H-index metric is 40. Prof Khaled has been actively and extensively supporting the local and international academic community. He acts as the chair of international Conferences, journals & books editor, keynote speaker, external member of promotions committees, among others.

Garry is a passionate data management professional who has over 17 years of experience helping companies to better manage and leverage their data assets. Specializing in Data Governance and Data Quality he has worked with a number of leading Financial Services organizations both in the UK and the UAE. He is currently working in the Digital Banking/Fintech space leading the DG/DQ practice at a start-up digital bank.

Dr. Krishnadas Nanath is an Associate Professor in Data Science at Middlesex University Dubai. He is also the Founder of Insights Lab- An applied data analytics hub with more than 450 active members in the club. In his previous role @ Majid Al Futtaim, he was responsible for leading the efforts of enhancing Analytics and Data Science capabilities @MAF as part of the School of Analytics & Technology (Leadership Institute). Before joining MAF, he was a Professor of Data Science, MIS and Cloud Technologies at Middlesex University Dubai, IMT Dubai and IIM Indore in the Information Systems Area. He has executed several corporate training programs and Data Science consulting assignments with prestigious firms in UAE (PWC, Landmark Group, National Bank of Fujairah, UAE Exchange and others). He has been the Keynote Speaker at several forums including Gitex Technology Week IIM Ahmadabad Data Science Summit, Smart Data Conference, Droidcon, Machine Learning Summit, Abu Dhabi Quality Council and several conferences.