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EVENT SPEAKERS

Speakers From Previous Years

IFW 23 Speakers

Adem Aykın

United Payment

Turkey General Manager

Akshata Namjoshi

KARM Legal Consultants

Associate Partner

Ali Kutluhan Aktaş

Intertech

Executive Vice President

Armağan Aziz Kaymakçı

Innova

Director of Corporate Sales

Artur Boytsov

Ptoken

Vice President, CMO

Assad Dar

Medieval Empires

Co-Founder & Chief Visionary Officer

Ayşe Öztuna Bozoklar

Odgers Berndston

Managing Partner

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

Caner Jay Baykal

Cointelegraph

Business Development Manager

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

Turkiye Country Manager

Erhan Yazgan

Payfix

Board Member

Esra Özdemir

EY Türkiye

Blockchain Desk Leader 

Evgeni Mitkov

Seven Seas

Managing Director

Evren Cantürk

Misyon Investment Bank

EVP

Fatih Gören

Anadolu Sigorta

Deputy Chief Executive

Gigo Joseph

Chainyard

Vice President Blockchain Services

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

Itır Aydoğan

Yapı Kredi

Strategic Business Development and Innovation Director

Jean-Francois Rochet

Ledger

VP, International Development

Jorge Sebastiao

EcoX Dubai

Co-Founder

Kadir Mustafa Öztürk

Aktif Bank

Executive Vice President / CTO

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

Meral Eredenk Kurdaş

BRF Group and MLP Care

Independent Board Member

Mete Umut Elmas

KuCoin

Country Head of Turkey

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

Finance Office, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye

Vice President

Nick Kerigan

Swift

Managing Director, Head of Innovation

Nick Spanos

Bitcoin Pioneer


Oliver Studd

Valhalla Network

CEO

Özlem Kahramaner

Arksigner

Co-Founder & VP of Public Sector Sales

Özgür Obalı

Insurance Association of Türkiye

General Secretary

Pamela A. Clegg

CipherTrace

Vice President of Crypto Investigations and Risk

Pınar Emirdağ

JP Morgan

Managing Director

Richie Santosdiaz

The Fintech Times

Economic Development Advisor

Samir Safar-Aly

Baker McKenzie LLP

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 Erdem Özer

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

Umut Yeşilöz

İninal

Deputy General Manager - International Relations and Money Transfers

Viktor Andreas

Buildrs

CEO

Previous Speakers

Sinem Cantürk

KPMG

Hakan Tatlıcı

Mastercard

Devie Mohan

Burnmark

Claire Wells

Coinbase

Richie Santosdiaz

The Fintech Times

Dr. Vedat Güven

TİM Danışmanlık

Gilbert Cordier

Wetrade

Ali Haydar Ünsal

Identify Türkiye

Şenay Yüksel

Finteo

Yasin Kahramaner

Ark Signer

Borga Aruta

ESRİ

Alper Özata

Hiperaktif Kredi

Erdem Aydınlı

Omega Invest

Alain Thys

Shalima Ventures

Ali Çebi

Fongogo

Enis Erdem Yurdatapan

Fonbulucu

Cesur Ölçenoğlu

İnteraktif Kredi

Cem Zararsız

Teklifim Gelsin

Alex Panican

The LHoFT

Anna Maj

Centre

Başak Kural

ELogo

Bora Erdamar

BlockchainIST Center

Ceylan Onay Şahin

Boğaziçi University

Charles d’Haussy

ConsenSys

Conan French

OpenRevolution

Dalith Steiger

SwissCognitive

Daniel Bouzas

European Banking Federation

Daniel Coheur

Tokeny

Deniz A. Johnson

Stratyfy & Pera-Partners

Deniz Güven

Mox Bank

Farah Jaafar-Crossby

Labuan IBFC

Kristy Duncan

Women in Payments

Liliana Fratini Passi

CBI

Marco Nigris

Portugal Fintech

Maria Pennanen

Accelerator Frankfurt

Mariana Gospodinova

Crypto.com

Minh Q. Tran

Mandalore Partners

Mohammed Al-Rashidi

One Global

Murat Ali Çengelci

Finance Office of Presidency of the Republic of Turkey

Nithya Sharma

Women's World Banking

Pavel Kravchenko

Distributed Lab

Robin Kiera

Digital Scouting

Sandra Ro

Global Blockchain Business Council

Sopnendu Mohanty

MAS

Thaer Sabri

Electronic Money Association