Speakers line up for Global Government Fintech Lab 2023
An image of the Global Government Fintech Lab site Dublin Castle Photo by Luca from Pixabay
Senior government officials from countries including the UK, Spain and Israel are among the latest speakers to confirm their attendance at the Global Government Fintech Lab 2023.
The one-day event, which will be held in Ireland’s capital Dublin on Thursday 18 May, is organized by the Global Government Forum’s sister title Global Government Fintech. It will bring together those responsible for exploring the opportunities and challenges that fintech presents, as well as implementing fintech solutions in public authorities.
Ireland’s Minister of State for Financial Services, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, has already been confirmed to deliver a keynote address to launch the lab. The lab, which is free to attend for all public employees, will then feature panels and breakout sessions, as well as plenty of opportunities for networking.
The Global Government Fintech Lab agenda addresses questions such as how governments and public authorities structure themselves around fintech and explores where the greatest opportunities exist for fintech solutions in the public sector. It also includes an increased immersion the biggest financial data-related opportunities and challenges for public authorities.
More specific breakout sessions are planned on topics including: public authorities’ use of fintech solutions to tackle fraud, error and debt; payments; blockchain; central bank digital currencies (CBDCs); and how ‘green fintech’ can contribute to achieving the climate goals.
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Central banks and financial watchdogs go to Dublin
Recently confirmed speakers traveling from the UK include Ravi Bhalla, Head of Innovation at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and who also chairs the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) – an international network of more than 80 organisations; and Euan Slack, who is responsible for the development and use of digital tools within the UK Cabinet Office’s Government Grants Management Function.
On his way to Ireland from Spain, José Manuel Marqués Sevillano, director of the Banco de España (Bank of Spain – central bank) will be its Department of Financial Innovation and Market Infrastructure; while, traveling from Israel, is Rahav Shalom-Revivo, who established and manages the Treasury Department’s unit for financial cyber innovation and international engagements. She also founded Israel’s National Fintech-Cyber Innovation Lab.
Newly confirmed speakers traveling to the lab from Europe’s Baltic region are Mari-Liis Kukk, head of the Estonian Financial Supervisory and Resolution Authority’s (Finantsinspektsioon) innovation department; and Dina Buse, deputy director of the financial market policy department and head of the department for credit institutions and payment services in Latvia’s Ministry of Finance.
Aiaze Mitha, who leads the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) / UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) joint program on digital finance for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, will also speak at the event.
Explores fintech solutions for authorities
Today’s first panel session, ‘How should financial authorities best explore fintech solutions?’, is set to feature Doris Dietze, Head of Digital Finance, Payment Services and Cyber Security at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance; Karen Cullen, head of Ireland’s Treasury Department’s international affairs unit (and chair of a fintech steering group set up by the Treasury); and Marine Krasovska, head of the fintech supervisory department at Latvijas Banka (Central Bank of Latvia).
Rachel McLaren, Head of Open Banking Payments at the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), and Nazim Gasimzade, Director of the State Treasury Agency in the Ministry of Finance of Azerbaijan, will speak on the topic of payments.
Daniel McLean, Head of Deployment in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Digital Euro Project, will speak at a breakout session on CBDCs. He will be joined at the session by Valentina Ion, who is director of strategy, public finance and industry at Microsoft, which is a partner in the event.
The lab is being organized by Global Government Fintech together with the Irish Department of Finance. It is the second such event after the first Global Government Fintech Lab, which was held in June 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia. This event was organized in cooperation with the Estonian government.
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