Stuart Smith Executive Director – Head of Regional Engagement Platforms & User Experience Design United Overseas Bank

Stuart is an internationally recognised leader in Digital Transformation, Innovation and Design. He has over 20 years of experience spanning innovation in major private, public, and startup organisations around the world, in many sectors. He was CEO of a Global Innovation & Design Company for over a decade delivering a wide range of projects for clients in all sectors. He is currently Executive Director & Regional Head of Engagement & User Experience Design at UOB Digital Bank.

Before UOB Stuart was the Chief of Digital Innovation & Design at National University Singapore (NUS) Institute of System Science. He led, designed and delivered an extensive executive education, consulting programme in Digital Design & Innovation. Over 6000 professionals from all industry sectors have passed through this programme and several high profile innovation projects have been completed. In January 2016 Forrester Research identified the programme as “leading the way in Asia”.

Stuart originally trained in Environmental Technology & Law at Imperial College, London and then graduated into building automated Air Pollution Sensor Networks and Computer Aided Environmental Technologies. He moved into Corporate Innovation Labs during the “dotcom” boom and developed several methodologies for delivering large scale digital innovation. His work covered a broad spectrum from Human Computer Interactions to Smart Cities and large scale urban developments.

Stuart and has served on the National Library Board (NLB) IT Steering Committee, Ministry Of Health (MOH) Expert Panel on Innovation, SPRING SME Innovation Grant Approval Panel and the Design Singapore/EDB Innovation By Design Programme.

Bryan Carroll Chief Executive Officer TNEX

Bryan Carroll is Chief Executive Officer of TNEX - Vietnam’s first Digital Only SME and Consumer Lifestyle banking proposition. He also sits on the board of two fintech firms: Xtremepush, based in Ireland, and adprov.io based in the US.

Bryan is a highly experienced practitioner in the areas of Digital Banking, Data Science, Digital Marketing, Information Security and Technology Architecture. Before joining MSB he held senior roles with many Banks, Fintechs and Venture Capital companies across Europe, Middle East, Asia and North America, including Rabobank International, Alfa-Bank Russia, Bank of Ireland, Royal Bank of Scotland and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.

Supaneewan Chutrakul First Senior Vice President KASIKORNBANK

Miss Supaneewan joined KASIKORNBANK in 2004 as a Senior Corporate Strategy Officer. In 2009 she was assigned to lead Retail Payment and Foreign Exchange Products Management Department.  After that she was promoted to be a Department Head of Consumer Segment Management Department.

Currently, Miss Supaneewan is Executive Vice President.  She is a new generation of KBank’s management team who has been assigned to supervise Integrated Channel and Business Solutions Division to actively serve customers across multiple channels and let KBank meet and exceed expectations of increasingly demanding customer.  Besides, she is responsible for developing new digital financial platform to serve customers lifestyle together with the key strategic partners such as LINE Financial, Lu International, Central JD Fintech, Grab, PTT, etc.

Supaneewan holds a Master of Applied Economics from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Dom Braun Managing Director, APAC (ex-JAP/KOR) Episode Six

Dom is the Managing Director of APAC (ex-JAP/KOR) of Episode Six. He is responsible for managing and growing Episode Six's business and footprint across the region.

Dom has more than twenty years of experience in areas like business development, payments, leadership and entrepreneurship in the technology, data and financial services sectors, having worked in US, UK, Germany and Switzerland, in addition to Singapore where Dom is located since 9 years. Dom holds an MBA from Warwick Business School.