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SINGAPORE – Singapore’s largest fintech festival and innovation week kicks off Monday (December 7) with a series of speakers including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
Vice Premier Heng Swee Keat, who is also Coordinating Minister for Economic Policy and Minister of Finance, will open the Singapore FinTech Festival and Singapore Innovation and Technology Week (SFF x Switch 2020) by speaking on the state of the economy.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s festival will be held primarily online Monday through Friday.
The events will take place 24 hours a day and participants can visit technology exhibitions, attend masterclasses from fintech and deep technology experts, as well as network with investment firms and private equity around the world, according to a Joint statement from the organizers of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). and Enterprise Singapore.
There will also be live sessions with climate scientists in the polar regions, the Amazon rainforest and the Himalayas.
Some 1,400 speakers are expected to speak, including financial and technology leaders, entrepreneurs and legislators, including
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
In addition to the online sessions, there will be satellite events taking place in cities around the world from Kampala in Uganda to New York and Shenzhen, where people will be able to visit technology exhibits, among other things.
[[nid:498138]]In total, the festival will have more than 600 sessions, 1,000 exhibitors and 27 international pavilions.
Organizers said more than 60,000 participants are expected from more than 7,000 companies in 130 countries.
MAS’s CFO Sopnendu Mohanty said: “We are proud to have built an online events platform that continues to serve as a meeting point for the global fintech community and a hive for entrepreneurial activity when the industry the more he needs it. “
Edwin Chow, Enterprise Singapore’s Deputy Executive Director for Innovation and Enterprise, said: “Despite the pandemic, we are confident that this event will connect and catalyze new partnerships between innovation enablers, businesses and startups from Singapore and the rest of the world. world”.
This article was first published in The times of the strait. Permission is required for reproduction.
