Steve Monaghan is general partner at FinMirai, an investment and digital strategy firm, and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Steve founded the Innovation Groups at DBS Bank and AIA Company Limited and has created new products, businesses, and companies across the technology and financial services industries. In banking, he developed a consumer finance division for OCBC and led the retail bank turnaround of Shinsei Bank in Japan growing revenues by USD500 million, deposits by 25% and improving net income by USD100 million during a nine month transformation. As the chief innovation officer for DBS Bank, Steve drove the innovation agenda and focused on intelligence, big data and social, culminating in an investment of over USD220 million by DBS in IBM Watson, DBS A*Star R&D Lab and Digital Banking. He also developed and filed 6 patents, including DBS’s first patent and Citibank’s first mobile payments patent. He is a private investor in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, life sciences, healthtech, and fintech. Steve has served on the advisory boards of HK Agency Science and Technology Research Institute, Intel, Veritas Genetics, and as an investment committee member of True Global Ventures.

David Ng has over 20 years of experience in infocomm security. His responsibilities include formulating the cybersecurity strategy, develop and implement cyber defence roadmap capabilities to address emerging cyber threats for OCBC Bank and other group subsidiaries. Prior to joining OCBC, he worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as director of IT security division. During his tenure, he represented MAS in key panels and working groups such as the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) G10 Group of Computer Experts on security issues. Today, David is one of the longest standing members of the Association of Banks in Singapore, Standing Committee on Cybersecurity and takes a leading role in collaborating with other industry participants and key government agencies such as the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore. David has been conferred the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) 2021 Fellow Award in Technology for demonstrating mastery of a profession and exemplifying thought leadership and commitment to industry development.

William “Bill” Streitberg is the chief information and technology officer at Hong Leong Bank (HLB). He is a seasoned and innovative IT executive with over 20 years under his belt, specializing in information technology management, projects, operations, strategy and architecture.In his current role, he provides leadership for continual operational improvements, digital innovations as well as the development and execution of an innovative, robust, and secure information technology environment for HLB. Prior to joining Hong Leong Bank, Bill spent 18 years in information technology roles in companies including IBM and CIMB Bank.

Venkat Paruchuri is currently the Managing Director and Global Head of Security Technology Services at Standard Chartered Bank, and based out of Singapore. He brings with him more than two decades building, operating and managing information technology and cyber security programmes globally. Throughout his professional career, he has worked internationally spanning the Fortune 100 companies delivering strategic, innovative and transformative technical solutions in the information and cyber space. Through his work, he covered a wide range of domains within cyber including data, application, infrastructure and cloud security, and in technology spanning application development, engineering, and enterprise architecture.

Tobias Klingel is the head of information security at Y Combinator-backed fintech startup Aspire. He has extensive industry experience, having previously led security at Siemens Mobility for the region. Tobias specializes in security infrastructure architecture, helping organizations to understand, implement and drive regulatory driven security solutions.

PeerapongJongvibool is Fortinet’s Vice President for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. He is responsible for growing Fortinet’s business in this region and increasing the company’s traction with large enterprises and service providers, as well as with the partner community.Jongvibool was previously the regional director for Indochina, overseeing Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos. His responsibilities included driving sales, optimisingoperations and managing the channels in these five countries. Before assuming his regional roles, he was the country manager for Thailand.Before joining Fortinet in 2009, Jongviboolheld different strategic positions at Alcatel-Lucent (Thailand), Allied Telesyn (Asia), Sumitomo Corporation, Worachak International and Nera (Thailand).

Joey Rufo is currently the first vice president and the chief information security officer of Union Bank of the Philippines, the leading bank of innovation in the Philippines. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a board member of the University of the Philippines School of Statistics Alumni Association. His career spans years of experience in the field of IT, data and analytics, privacy, and information security in the telecommunications and financial services industry.

Sean Hong leads the business development for Fortinet public cloud sales in the region, as well as alliances with key cloud partners including AWS, Azure and Alibaba. Prior to Fortinet, Hong led the business development for Ericsson’s SDN/NFV solutions in service provider segment. He is a passionate ICT solution evangeliser with nearly 20 years of comprehensive experience in product engineering, marketing and sales across three continents.

Wong Ching Ping (C.P.) champions Fortinet’s SD-WAN and security fabric solutions to the Southeast Asia/Hong Kong market. His passion as a technology evangelist is to advocate the shift to adopting a holistic fabric approach to network security. Before Fortinet, C.P. spent more than ten years in product development and engineering with a leading telco in Southeast Asia, bringing new technologies and solutions to the market.