Delegates attending this one-day training session will gain complimentary access to the two-day Technology Decision Makers Conference

For more information please contact Gerlinde Gerber
Program Manager, The Asian Banker ggerber@theasianbanker.com, +86 10 5869 4642

• Board-level and senior management involved in technology decisions in the bank
• CIOs, CTOs, CMOs
• Heads of technology, infrastructure, channels, digital, cards
• Heads of retail banking, consumer banking, marketing, data and analytics
• Senior executives responsible for transformation and innovation
• Executives who have roles in technology and operations

Participants will be presented with a Technology Innovation School Diploma issued by The Asian Banker’s Banking Academy.

Speakers

Debashis Sarkar, Global Head of Reengineering, Standard Chartered Bank, India
Debashis Sarkar is currently global head of reengineering at Standard Chartered Bank. He is also a best-selling author, thought-leader, columnist, American Society of Quality fellow, sough-after-speaker and coach, He has invested more than 23 years in enhancing performance of some of the best known companies in the world. Sarkar is a global authority in lean management and customer performance improvement and his pioneering work in this space has been adopted by practitioners worldwide. Through his career he has held various leadership positions in companies such as Unilever, Coca Cola, and ICICI Bank.

Eric Tachibana, Managing Director, eXtropia Holdings
Eric Tachibana is an experienced Silicon Valley start-up entrepreneur as well as successful private equity fund manager. He also teaches intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at the National University of Singapore and Thammasat University business schools. Tachibana has held senior banking roles at Barclays Capital, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, and COO of the Asia Pacific chief technology office at UBS. Most recently, he joined Amazon Web Services where he supports the APAC platform strategy and transformation.

Sudhanshu Ahuja, Founder and CEO, Ideatory
Sudhanshu Ahuja (Sudh) is founder and CEO of Ideatory, a start-up operating an online platform, which helps companies to select the best talent in the field of data and analytics by providing online quizzes and analytics challenges to evaluate potential hires. It also provides innovation services by organizing private hackathons and intra/entrepreneurship training where client’s employees work alongside young entrepreneurs to imbibe a start-up work culture. Its clients include DBS, Electrolux and several other large companies in the region. Ahuja also works as technology scout for Electrolux where he identifies technologies that could be of strategic importance to Electrolux’s product lines. Prior to founding Ideatory, he worked for the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Matt Dooley, Managing Director, Connected Thinking
Matt Dooley is founder and director of Connected Thinking, providing digital strategy, marketing, and training to banks. He is a member of the Next Bank team with over 20 years international experience driving change at two of the world’s leading banks, across three continents. He was global head of Internet strategy and head of digital experience for the global commercial banking division in HSBC. He pioneered HSBC’s global Internet design standards as a result of establishing the first Internet banking platform back in 2000. He stays abreast of the latest trends in mobile and virtual technology as well as social media and is instrumental in helping participants develop their own personal disciplines in handling these areas.

Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Head, Anti-Money Laundering Network
Nigel Morris-Cotterill founded the Anti-Money Laundering Network as a compliance and risk management consultancy in 1993. Since then he has worked with many leading banks, central banks and other financial institutions around the world concentrating on the fight against financial crime. Morris-Cotterill started his career as solicitor in tracing proceeds of fraud and other crimes and pursuing large-scale recoveries and international actions. He is the author of three books and countless articles and is frequently quoted in national and international media. He writes several blogs and publishes the World Money Laundering Report.

Colin Savage, Head of Research, The Asian Banker
Colin Savage has nearly twenty years’ experience in research, analysis and strategic planning in Asia and Europe. While he oversees all aspects of The Asian Banker’s research team and efforts – from developing innovative methodologies and metrics to producing reports and consulting – he is particularly focused on leading the company’s research work into and ranking of vendor selection and management (for banks) and vendor evaluation (for vendors). Prior to joining the Asian Banker, Savage led the global research and strategy of a major Japanese life insurance group. He is a telecoms and mobile technology thought leader as well as risk consultant.

Delegates to this workshop will also receive complimentary registration to The Asian Banker Summit Technology Decision Makers Conference, which will feature more than 30 other world-class speakers and subject matter experts.