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FINTECH WEEK

13-14 April 2023

The largest regional fintech event that brings innovators and entrepreneurs together in its 4th edition

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ABOUT IFW

IN-PERSON EVENT AFTER 2 YEARS

Istanbul Fintech Week is a global venue of discussion and knowledge exchange in an ever-changing financial services industry. In its first three editions, IFW hosted more than 10000+ participants from around 30 countries.

WHERE IS THE EVENT :

Fişekhane / İstanbul

WHEN IS THE EVENT :

13-14 April 2023

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SPONSERS & PARTNERS
Blockchain Fest

Distributed ledger solutions, tokenization, crypto assets, DeFi, digital currencies

Digital Finance Summit

Digital transformation, mobile banking, customer data, cybersecurity, open banking

Pitches

Fintech company presentations from different verticals

EVENT SPEAKERS

Speakers

Adem Aykın

United Payment

Turkey General Manager

Akshata Namjoshi

KARM Legal Consultants

Associate Partner

Armağan Aziz Kaymakçı

Innova

Director of Corporate Sales

Artur Boytsov

Ptoken

Vice President, CMO

Assad Dar

Medieval Empires

Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer

Atilla Benli

Türkiye Sigorta Birliği

Chairman

Ayşe Öztuna Bozoklar

Odgers Berndston

Managing Partner

Bilal Özcan

Ininal

CEO

Bilal Türkmen

Türkiye Sigorta

Assistant GM of Strategy, Digital Transformation and Marketing

Burak Bayhan

Cigna Türkiye

CMO

Borga Aruta

Esri Türkiye

Commercial Sector Manager

Calvin Chu

Impossible Finance

Core Builder

Ceyda Yalçın

Türkiye İş Bankası

Digital Banking - Nays App Tribe Leader

Ceylan Onay Şahin

Brighton University

Associate Professor

Chris Skinner

11:FS

Non-Executive Director

David Atkinson

Holo Chain

Commercial Director

David Uhryniak

TRON DAO

Director of Ecosystem Development

Demet Zübeyiroğlu

FINTR

Chairperson

Deniz A. Johnson

Stratyfy

COO

Dilek Sakallıoğlu

SEDDK

Başkan Yardımcısı

Efe Bulduk

FirstBatch

Co-Founder

Elçin Karatay

Solak & Partners Law Firm

Managing Partner

Emin Vali

Metafluence

CEO & Co-Founder

Emre Ölçer

Türkiye İş Bankası

Head of Digital Banking

Erdem Aydınlı

Omega Invest

Board Member

Eren Temren

Traderlands

Ceo / Co-Founder

Ergi Şener

NomuPay

Country Manager

Erkan Kork

Payfix

Chairman

Esra Özdemir

EY Türkiye

Blockchain Desk Leader 

Evgeni Mitkov

Nexum

Managing Director

Evren Cantürk

Misyon Yatırım Bankası

EVP

Fatih Gören

Anadolu Sigorta

Deputy Chief Executive

Gigo Joseph

Chainyard

Vice President Blockchain Services

Hakan Şahin

Intertech

Head of inter-Cloud

Haluk Özek

Öneriver

Co-Founder & Product Manager

Hasan Sami Bayansar

Insha Ventures

GM

Hüsnü Avşar Gürdal

Mastercard

General Manager, Türkiye and Azerbaijan

Ian Gauci

GTG Advocates

Managing Partner

Iftikhar Qasim

SL2 Capital

CEO

Itır Aydoğan

Yapıkredi

Strategic Business Development and Innovation Director

Jamie Thomson

Vulcan Forged

CEO

Jorge Sebastiao

EcoX Dubai

Co-Founder

Kaan Toker

Allianz Türkiye

Operations Deputy GM

Kadir Mustafa Öztürk

Aktif Bank

Executive Vice President / CTO

Kokila Alagh

KARM Legal Consultants

Founder & Managing Partner

Lisa Nestor

Airtm

Chief Strategy Officer

Mehmet Akif Eroğlu

SEDDK

Chairman

Mehmet Büyükakarsu

BNB Chain

Turkey Business Development Lead

Mehmet Emin Koç

Procenne Digital Security

Vice President of Business Development and Sales

Mehmet Gülez

Mastercard

Advisors, Principal Business Development Turkey & Azerbaijan

Meral Eredenk Kurdaş

BRF Group and MLP Care

Independent Board Member

Mete Umut Elmas

KuCoin

Country Head of Turkey

Mikhail Nikulin

Idena

Founder

Muin Oztop

Mastercard

Advisors Business Development Lead for Eastern Europe

Murat Bitirici

Odeabank

CDO

Murat Çağrı Süzer

GarantiBBVA Payment Systems

CEO

Mustafa Baltacı

KOOP

Co-Founder

Prof. Dr Naseem Naqvi, MBE, FBBA

The British Blockchain Association

President

Necip Fazıl Kaymak

T.C. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Finans Ofisi

Vice President

Nick Kerigan

Swift

Managing Director, Head of Innovation

Nick Spanos

Bitcoin Center

Founder

Oliver Studd

Valhalla Network

CEO

Özlem Kahramaner

Arksigner

Co-Founder & VP of Public Sector Sales

Pamela A. Clegg

CipherTrace

Vice President of Crypto Investigations and Risk

Pınar Emirdağ

JP Morgan

Managing Director

Samir Safar-Aly

Baker McKenzie

Financial Regulatory, Compliance & Investigations Counsel

Sandra Ro

Global Blockchain Business Council

CEO

Sergey Ivliev

Vlinder

Founder

Shafeeq Qureshi

The Crypto Hub

Founder

Semih Gelişli

Yapı Kredi

Director of Cyber Security Center & Information Security Governance

Sinem Cantürk

KPMG Turkey

Fintech & Digital Finance Leader

Steve Good

Dreams Quest

Co-Founder

Sinan Özer Erdem

Odeabank

COO

Theodora Lau

Unconventional Ventures

Founder

Tim Byun

OKX

Global Government Relations Officer

Tarik Adnan Moon

Affine DeFi

Founder & Contributor

Tariq Qureishy

Xponential World

CEO 

Tolga Ulutaş

DefineX Consulting, Technology & Labs

CEO ve Kurucu Ortak

Ulaşcan Deniz Genç

NFT Horizon

CEO

Viktor Andreas

Buildrs

CEO

Vladimir Shapovalov

Cointelegraph

Senior Researcher

EVENT AGENDA

IFW continues to foster the innovation ecosystem in the region by bringing experts and leaders. It curates three main summits in its fourth edition: Blockchain Fest, Digital Finance Summit, and Women in Fintech Summit. There will be roundtable discussions, country presentation, startup pitches and a Pioneers of Finance Awards Ceremony.

Day 1 | 13 Apr 2023
Day 2 | 14 Apr 2023
From 09:30 to 16:15
Blockchain Fest

Main Hall

From 09:30 to 09:45
Blockchain Fest
Keynote: Evolution of centralized trading in a decentralized landscape
From 09:45 to 10:15
Blockchain Fest
The fallout of FTX and its aftermath
From 10:15 to 10:45
Blockchain Fest
Venture investors in crypto--2023 and onward
From 10:45 to 11:15
Coffee Break and Networking
From 11:15 to 11:30
Blockchain Fest
Keynote: How is Web3 changing our lives?
From 11:30 to 11:45
Blockchain Fest
Keynote: Metaverse for Citizens & Public Services
From 11:45 to 12:15
Blockchain Fest
Is metaverse only a hype?
From 12:15 to 12:30
Blockchain Fest
Keynote: Digital assets | Navigating the new reality
From 12:30 to 13:30
Lunch Break
From 13:30 to 14:00
Evolution of regulations in tackling the market challenges
From 14:00 to 14:30
Web3: Marketing Buzz Or Tech Revolution?
From 14:30 to 14:45
Bridging the gap between traditional banking and Defi
From 14:45 to 15:00
Securing crypto and wallets
From 15:00 to 15:30
Coffee Break and Networking
From 15:30 to 16:00
Token crowdfunding in a bear market
From 16:00 to 16:30
Decentralizing the Web
From 16:30 to 17:30
Block Square - Where Is Fintech Headed: The Blockchain Era
From 13:30 to 16:30
Blockchain Fest

Breakout - Hall 3

From 13:30 to 14:00
NFTs: Creating use-cases in a bear market
From 14:00 to 14:30
Are DAOs really game changers?
From 14:30 to 14:45
Fintech for environment
From 14:45 to 15:00
Decentralized Finance: Getting down to the nitty-gritty
From 15:00 to 15:30
Coffee Break and Networking
Startup Pitches & Country Presentations

Hall 4

10.45 - 11.00 | Country Presentation: Lithuania
11:00 - 13:00 | Startup Pitches
C-Suite Roundtables
From 11:45 to 12:15
Token Economics
From 12:30 to 13:30
Open Innovation in Banking vs Defi
From 15:00 to 15:30
Web3 & Metaverse
From 09:30 to 16:15
Digital Finance Summit

Main Hall

From 09:30 to 09:50
Digital Finance Summit
Keynote: Doing digital--Lessons from leaders
by Chris Skinner
From 09:50 to 10:30
Digital Finance Summit
Revolution of banking into Finance as a Service
From 10:30 to 11:00
Digital Finance Summit
Is digital-only banking possible?
From 11:00 to 11:30
Coffee Break and Networking
From 11:30 to 12:00
Digital Finance Summit
Payment 2.0: What will the future bring?
From 12:00 to 12:40
Digital Finance Summit
Banking as-a-Service: a plug and play game
From 12:40 to 13:00
Digital Finance Summit
Keynote: This is a monetary revolution
by Nick Spanos
From 13:00 to 14:00
Lunch Break
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From 14:00 to 14:30
Payments in a fast-converging world
From 14:30 to 15:00
Security in Digital Finance
From 15:00 to 15:15
Keynote: Mehmet Akif Eroğlu
From 15:15 to 15:30
Keynote: Atilla Benli
From 15:30 to 16:15
Insurance Innovation Now!
From 16:15 to 16:30
Coffee Break and Networking
From 11:00 to 11:30
Breakout

Hall 3

From 11:00 to 11:30
Unlocking the Potential of Digital Investments in a New Era
From 14:15 to 16:00
Women in Fintech Summit

Hall 3

From 14:00 to 15:00
Women at the top
From 15:00 to 16:15
Innovator women make strides
Startup Pitches & Country Presentations

Hall 4

10.45 - 11.00 | Country Presentation: Azerbaijan
11:00 - 13:00 | Startup Pitches
From 16:30 to 18:15
Pioneers of Digital Finance Awards

Main Hall

From 16:30 to 16:45
Opening
From 16:46 to 17:00
Keynote: Building leadership on innovation
by Tariq Qureishy
From 17:00 to 17:15
Award Ceremony: Pioneers of Digital Finance
From 17:15 to 18:15
Cocktail Reception
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C-Suite Roundtables
From 11:00 to 11:30
Crypto 2.0
From 12:00 to 12:40
Future Readiness in Fintech
From 13:00 to 14:00
AI in Finance
From 13:45 to 14:30
Embedded Finance
From 15:00 to 16:15
Location-Based Financial Innovation

Main Partner

Name Sponsor

Premium Sponsors

C-Suite Sponsor

Co-Sponsors

Supporters

B2B Platform Partner

Strategic Partner

Metaverse Partner

Media Partners

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Phone:

+90 (212) 924 2050

E-Mail:

contact@istanbulfintechweek.com

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PREVIOUS YEARS REPORTS

EVENT SPEAKERS

Speakers From Previous Years

Sinem Cantürk

KPMG

Hakan Tatlıcı

Mastercard

Conan French

OpenRevolution

Mariana Gospodinova

Crypto.com

Sandra Ro

Global Blockchain Business Council

HE Mr. S. Iswaran

Minister of Trade, Singapore

Yakup Doğan

Yapıkredi

Burcu Civelek Yüce

Akbank

Thaer Sabri

Electronic Money Association

Deniz Güven

Mox Bank

EVENT GALLERY

IMAGES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS