WISE CONNECT 2023
AGENDA

14 November 2023 - Event Hall, Ola Beach Club, Sentosa, Singapore

Join global payments experts and groundbreaking product teams for a half-day event packed with lively, quick-fire sessions giving you unmissable insights into the next generation of international payments.

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programme

02:00PM - 02:45PM    Arrival and registration

02:45PM - 03:00PM    Welcome 
 
03:00PM - 03:07PM    Keynote speech: The billion-dollar demo app
  • Kristo Käärmann, CEO, Wise 
03:07PM - 03:15PM     What's next for Wise Platform? 
  • Steve Naudé, Managing Director, Wise Platform
03:15PM - 03:35PM   What will the correspondent of the future look like?
  • Shirish Wadivkar, Global head - Wholesale Payments & Trade Strategy, SWIFT
  • Till Wirth, Head of Product, Wise Platform
03:35PM - 03:55PM    Payments get personal - Strategies to stay relevant
  • Alex Trott, Financial Services Partner, Accenture
  • Richard Heeley, CIO, Macquarie
  • Nish Dharmaratne, Managing Director, GTS Product Global Transaction Services, Westpac 
03:55PM - 04:05PM    Bringing down the cost of international transfers
  • Tony Stylianou, Head of Pricing, Wise

04:05PM - 04:50PM    Tea break and networking  

04:55PM - 05:10PM    Making cross-border payments instant
  • Sandhya Sriram, Head of Speed Analytics, Wise
  • Terence Lau, Implementation Director, Wise Platform
05:10PM - 05:30PM    Win business and lower costs with transparency
  • Rolland Setiawan, Vice President of Remittance Solutions, Bank Mandiri
  • Calvin Ng, Alternate Chief Executive, ZA Bank
  • Magali Van Bulck, Head of Policy, Wise
05:30PM - 05:50PM    Changing tides in cross-border payments
  • Bharath Sattanathan, Partner, McKinsey & Company
  • Sriram Muthukrishnan, MD & Group Head of GTS Product Management, DBS
05:50PM - 06:00PM    Cross-border technology trends
  • Surendra Chaplot, Head of Global Product, Wise
06:00PM - 06:10PM    Looking forward: the next decade in payments
  • Nilan Peiris, CPO, Wise

06:10PM - 09:00PM    Dinner and Drinks

Connect with industry peers and Wise Connect speakers over dinner and drinks at the same venue

Keynote
sessions

 

Get the inside track on global payments from Wise’s CEO Kristo Käärmann.
Learn about CBDCs and the future of cross-border payments with Wise’s CTO Harsh Sinha

In-depth panel discussions

 

Learn from industry experts including SWIFT, McKinsey & Company, UniCredit, Accenture, EQ Bank, EY, Thought Machine and more

Interactive demonstrations

 

How to make payments instant, bringing down the cost of cross border payments, challenges and opportunities in exotic currencies, demonstrate DFv3 and review SDKs and more 

Kristo Käärmann

CEO, Wise

Nilan Peiris

CPO, Wise

Calvin Ng

Alternate Chief Executive, ZA Bank

Rolland Setiawan

Vice President of Remittance Solutions, Bank Mandiri

Richard Heeley

CIO, Macquarie's Banking and Financial Services Group

Steve Naudé

Managing Director, Wise Platform

Shirish Wadivkar

Global head - Wholesale Payments & Trade Strategy,  SWIFT

Bharath Sattanathan

Partner, McKinsey & Company

Nish Dharmaratne

Managing Director, GTS Product Global Transaction Services, Westpac

Sriram Muthukrishnan

Managing Director, Group Head of Product Management Global Transaction Services, DBS

Alex Trott

Managing Director, Financial Services Lead Australia, Accenture 

Surendra Chaplot

Head of Global Product, Wise

Till Wirth

Head of Product, Wise Platform

Magali Van Bulck

Head of Policy, Wise

Sean Koh

Implementation Director, Wise Platform

Tony Stylianou

Head of Pricing, Wise

Terence Lau

Implementation Director, Wise Platform

Sandhya Sriram

Head of Speed Analytics, Wise

Diane Artore

Head of APAC Implementation, Wise Platform