Louis Kuijs, APAC Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, skillfully navigates the intricacies of the Asia Pacific macro landscape. In his pivotal role, he shapes the firm's understanding of regional economic trends and their impact on credit markets. With a diverse background across sectors, Kuijs held senior positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Oxford Economics. Notably, he led the World Bank's China Quarterly Update and researched China's long-term growth and structural changes. A sought-after commentator, Kuijs regularly shares insights on China and Asia with global audiences through international media, simplifying the region's economic dynamics. Driven by intellectual curiosity and a profound appreciation for Asia's potential, Kuijs leads in unraveling the economic intricacies of the region.

Hariramchakraborthy (Hari)Janakiraman is the Head of Industry and Innovation, Transaction Banking at ANZ. With over 20 years of experience in international trade and transaction banking finance, Hari brings deep expertise in identifying trends and technologies that will transform the customer experience in payments, trade and data analytics. His team uses bespoke frameworks to design and implement innovative propositions, embedding a rapid 'co-creation' approach to help customers bring new concepts and solutions to life. He has been leading ANZ's work on AI, real-time payments, digital currencies and asset tokenisation, including the 2023 Central Bank Digital Currency Pilot with the Reserve Bank of Australia. Hari is also the chair of International Chamber of Commerce Australia’s Banking Committee and sits on various industry working groups.

Based in Singapore, Mark Attard is the Head of Digital Assets and Client Engagement for the Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS). Mark is responsible for leading Citi’s digital assets initiatives for TTS focused on innovating and revolutionizing the financial landscape through developing distributed ledger technology-based solutions, value movement by leveraging Citi Token Services and the use of smart contracts to conduct programmable payments, atomic settlements for FX Payment versus Payment transactions.

Nikhil heads growth for Onyx Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan's digital assets platform enabling clients to develop innovative solutions using tokenized traditional assets. In his immediate prior stint as a senior product manager, Nikhil led development of two such solutions on ODA taking them from idea to market. Nikhil joined J.P. Morgan in 2019 as part of the pioneering blockchain product and strategy team that later launched Onyx by J.P.Morgan, the firm's dedicated blockchain business unit. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Nikhil was with SinoPac Securities Asia structuring lifecycle solutions for alternative investment funds (i.e. from fund structuring to fundraising to operations). Nikhil brings over a decade of expertise in traditional finance solutions together over half a decade of applying blockchain innovations to re-envision traditional models.

Andreas Spanner is leading the cloud strategy and transformation of Red Hat across Australia and New Zealand. His hands-on experience in startups and large-scale enterprise transformation programmes has given him a solid understanding of business drivers and value creation. Spanner has worked on a wide range of initiatives across different industries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, including full-scale enterprise resource planning (ERP) migrations, human resource (HR), finance and accounting, manufacturing, supply chain logistics transformations and scalable core banking strategies to support regional business growth strategies. Since joining Red Hat in 2015, he helped customers build the necessary capabilities and make the best-fit technology, methodology and architecture choices to be a successful digital competitor. He got his first Commodore 64 when he was 12 years old and started to work as a software developer in 1996 with Krauss-Maffei in Munich building full mission simulators.

Foo Boon Ping manages The Asian Banker’s publishing and research business in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. He regularly engages the financial services community on transformational issues shaping the industry; speaking at and chairing many of the Asian Banker’s as well as partners’ events. He has more than 25 years' experience in strategic brand management, corporate & marketing communication and research & consulting, covering: retail, corporate and transaction banking, financial markets, risk management, compliance and financial technology. He had previously served in senior management positions at UOB and DBS Bank. He was also formerly a senior consulting manager at Ernst and Young and started his career as a financial journalist.