Scaling Sustainable Finance for a Green Recovery – Ecosystm SFF 2021 Roundtable in Partnership with Ecosystm.

The market for sustainable finance is rapidly growing in response to the climate emergency. Despite impressive recent growth, the sustainable finance market has a long road ahead to reach maturity. It faces competing initiatives, uneven coverage by geography and asset class, misalignment of definitions and a mismatch between supply and demand. Moreover, all around the world, countries are still facing social and economic fallout from the global pandemic, and rebuilding our economies in a post-Covid-19 era has never been more urgent.

How can the financial sector adequately respond to these global concerns? What is the role of finance in the green recovery and how can public and private sectors collaborate to scale credible ESG investments? Our experts discuss the most innovative financial products and instruments that aim to deliver social and environmental benefits alongside attractive returns. Moderated by Ecosystm’s Amit Gupta, hear from Marty Dropkin (FIL Asia), R. Raghunathan (WWF-Singapore), Sasja Beslik (SDG Impact Japan), and Zoë Knight (HSBC).

Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the 6th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) ran from the 8 -12 November 2021. The annual event brings together 60,000 participants from 160 countries – both virtually and in-person – for the development of financial services, public policy and technology.

For more information on the Singapore FinTech Festival please visit www.fintechfestival.sg

The Building Blocks of Web 3.0 – Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 Roundtable in Partnership with Ecosystm

Web 3.0 is the next phase of the internet’s evolution, but what technologies does it need to succeed? While the Web 3.0 stack is not yet fully developed, much progress has been made to set the foundations for a new online ecosystem that breaks away from the traditional web into new realms of online interaction. There are many examples of early-stage Web 3.0 applications that show how much potential the technologies can help realise. The concept of Web 3.0 may be interpreted differently but it is, at its core, a movement for a free web. A high-level discussion about Web 3.0 components and how they will shape the future of your online activities.

Hear from Brenda Harvey of IBM APAC, Divyesh Vithlani of Accenture, Emin Gün Sirer of Ava Labs, Peter Wright of ST Telemedia Cloud and Vincent Yang of Firework. This session was moderated by Ullrich Loeffler of Ecosystm.

Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the 6th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) ran from 8 -12 November 2021. The annual event brings together 60,000 participants from 160 countries – both virtually and in-person – for the development of financial services, public policy and technology.

For more information on the Singapore FinTech Festival, please visit www.fintechfestival.sg

Is Decentralised Finance taking over the banking world? Decentralised Finance is an emerging phenomenon, and it has been gaining the attention of the mainstream media since 2020.

Globally, about 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked. There’s a race to “bank the unbanked” to promote financial inclusion. On the other end of the spectrum, there are also efforts to “un-bank the banked”. With the rise of blockchain, it’s time to reformulate the consumer banking system with more secure and more affordable financial products. We hear from an unparalleled group of Decentralised Finance innovators and change-makers on how Decentralised Finance will define the next era of global finance. Hear from Dr Ben Goertzel of SingularityNET, Johann Eid of Chainlink Labs, Sudhir Pai of Capgemini and Justin Amos of Lygon. This session was moderated by Anjali Kapoor of Alt Key Theory.

Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the 6th edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) ran from 8 -12 November 2021. The annual event brings together 60,000 participants from 160 countries – both virtually and in-person – for the development of financial services, public policy and technology.

For more information on the Singapore FinTech Festival please visit www.fintechfestival.sg

In this Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 (SFF) special episode Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer, MAS speaks with Ecosystm CEO Amit Gupta on the Singapore FinTech Festival 2021, and what the SFF has in store for this year – including the themes, Global FinTech community, speakers that are at the forefront, and the impact.

In line with this is inclusive education and Web 3.0 knowledge certification programme that will focus on delivering a “knowledge flow” via online learning. This will be done in partnership with esteemed partners at the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Affinidi, a Temasek company and Oxygen by APIX.

Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 (SFF) will take place from 8-12 November 2021. Register here to get your special discounted SFF pass – https://bit.ly/3pvWEbv

Our analysts and thought leaders are an integral part of our Ecosystm and we look forward to our internal knowledge sharing sessions. This week our analysts came together for an engaging session on their thoughts on Ethics in AI.

During this discussion led by Ecosystm Principal Advisor, Alea Fairchild, we covered:

• Why the conversation on Ethics is heating up
• Will it be a major hindrance to widespread AI adoption
• The importance of getting the data model right for compliance
• The possibility of having a global regulator for AI

During this discussion led by Andrew Milroy, we covered:

• Why do traditional approaches to Cybersecurity need to evolve
• The growth of ransomware attacks
• Sources and targets of data breaches and attacks
• Cybersecurity Insurance
• AI-driven cyberattack prevention

In the second episode, we are covering the type of experiences that organisations encounter during their cloud journey. HPE’s Everything as a Service (XaaS) cloud computing covers a vast number of products, tools, and technologies that are now delivered to users as a service. Essentially, the service speeds up the application development process and offers flexibility to shift IT resources to higher-value projects.

The XaaS model allows organisations to improve their expense models and quickly adapt to changing market conditions. However, there are certain points that organisations should consider before moving to the cloud.

Listen in as – Alan Hesketh – CIO Advisory and Digital Transformation, Ecosystm Principal Advisor and Trisha Rozas, VP – Strategic Accounts, Cloud Technology Partners, Hewlett Packard Enterprise – discuss and what XaaS means in the post-COVID-19 workplace, and what challenges or opportunities does cloud create in terms of accelerating the digital journey of an organisation.

In this interview, we deep-dive into Everything-as-a-service (XaaS), and understand megatrends on the cloud, and how they are helping organisations both manage their costs and provide better agility to support their customers and employees. CIOs and business leaders looking to embrace XaaS but unsure quite how to proceed will find the webinar and the discussion relevant.

This is the first of two episodes where Alan Hesketh – CIO Advisory and Digital Transformation, Ecosystm Principal Advisor is in conversation with Trisha Rozas, VP – Strategic Accounts, Cloud Technology Partners, Hewlett Packard Enterprise to discuss:

• What is Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS)?
• How Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) cloud computing models can help your organisation?
• Benefits of XaaS cloud for an organisation
• Economics of cloud
• Traditional Vs. On-premise model
• Challenges that IT and Finance teams face

CXO Digital Leaders Dialogue series is a gathering of C-level executives created out of a need for senior executives to access advice from their peers and experts.

In episode 1, Alan Hesketh was be joined by Ron Hooton Chief Executive Vision Australia and Nina Du Thaler Non-Executive Director Workways Australia

Click Here to register for Episode 2 in the CXO Digital Leaders Dialogue Series