In-Person & Virtual Conference
February 22 & 23, 2023
Dubai International Financial Center, Gate District 5, Level 2, The Atrium
500+
attendees
200+
companies
25+
sessions
30+
speakers
Apidays Dubai & Middle East 2023 brings together local and international experts to share how Open Banking/Finance is evolving and transforming Financial Services in the Middle East Region. Technical advancements and success stories across various aspects of the API landscape will also form part of the event.
Apidays is the leading industry tech and business series of conferences in APIs and the programmable economy.
CIOs, CTO, CDOs, SVPs, VPs, Heads of Innovation, Heads of API, API Architects, Developers, Software Engineers, Infrastructure & Cloud Managers, IT Managers, Product Managers, Consultants & Analysts
Learn from the best about Business Models, Design & Documentation, Lifecycle Management, Security & Identity Management, Testing & Monitoring, Banking APIs and Open Banking, Developer Marketing, Digital Transformation, GraphQL, Microservice Architecture, Mobile & IoT APIs
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Financial Services across the MENA region are transforming owing to Open and Embedded Banking/Finance. These transformations open up enormous opportunities for innovation and growth across all ecosystem stakeholders – Regulators, Financial Institutions, FinTechs, and Customers. While leveraging APIs for these transformations, the region also adopts the best-in-class API ecosystem tools and standards.
Head of DIFC Innovation Hub and FinTech Hive
My role within DIFC Authority is to contribute to the growth of the DIFC by developing and managing its FinTech & Innovation functions in line with the Dubai Vision of a global business hub for tech.
Specialist in:
• FinTech & Innovation
• Business Development
Partner - Global Financial Services Practice at Arthur D. Little
Arjun is Partner with Arthur D. Little's Financial Services Practice based in the UAE focussed on topics relevant to the future of financial services.
He is actively engaged with the Payments, Fintech, Web3, DeFi, Crypto & the wider Start-up ecosystem - as a passive investors, an advisory board members and as a commentator on the rapidly evolving scene.
CEO of Magnati
Ramana Kumar has been instrumental in driving innovation in the payments space in the region, having led many “first in the market” initiatives across payments, including digital payments, cashless initiatives and financial inclusion. Under his leadership, FAB has become the market leader in launching new generation payment solutions, as well as being the first bank in the region to drive monetisation through payments data.
Ramana has strong experience across corporate banking and transaction banking, and the ability to build payments solutions that connect the corporates to ever-innovating retail customer needs. He has special interests around innovation, FinTech, financial inclusion and blockchain, and their impact on the payments space.
Founder at Fintech Bazaar | Senior Consultant at IFC (World Bank)
Multi-faceted information technology professional with more than 20 years of extensive experience in different industries and business segments, financial services (conventional, Islamic), conglomerate, real estate, consulting/advisory services, and software services, attaining 15 years experience as a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and CXO advisor in leading organisations in GCC. Demonstrated success leading and fostering teams in completing major business and digital transformation programs conforming to unique and challenging goals and timelines while keeping Customer Experience CX and Innovations as a key pillar. Solid background and knowledge in Technology, different business industries, financial services as well as strategic management. Charted success in constructing the IT organization and systems of four financial services start-ups (Banks) in MENA as well the first conversion ever for conventional to Islamic Bank. Nominated as one of the top 50 CIOs in the Middle East at the IDC CIO Summit 2021, top 50 Digital leaders in Middle East CXO50 by CXO insights Middle east in 2020, top 50 CIOs in the Middle East by CNME magazine in 2012, and as Manchester Business School Distinguished Ambassador of the Middle East Centre where obtained MBA degree focusing on strategy management. Distinguished speaker at major regional and international conferences about Fintech, Proptech, and disruptive technologies: Open Banking & Finance, Blockchain & Digital Assets, CBDC, AI/ML, IoT, and Big Data, as well one of the main Fintech and Digital Banking contributors in the Middle East, and member of the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) Fintech Working Group (FWG). Proven technology leader equipped with advanced communication and interpersonal skills, fluent in both English and Arabic. Technically proficient in multiple back-office solutions, core banking, ERP, and digital solutions spanning across different industries spanning across different industries
Vice President of Architecture at Emirates NBD
I have gained extensive experience as an enterprise architect, solutions architect and development manager over the last 20 years. I believe I'm a logical thinker with a proven track record managing and growing multiple distributed agile development teams in the financial services sector.
I've demonstrated, designed and delivered event-driven architectures; reducing channel driven inquiry traffic loads from core systems. I've implemented blockchain technology (Ripple) for cross-jurisdiction payments and near-time remittance to India (via India’s Unified Payments Interface). I've accomplished the delivery of external API’s to facilitate B2B interaction.
Chief Internal Auditor & Audit & Compliance Committee Secretary at HALA
CISO at TEXUB
William is a practicing Enterprise Architect with over two decades of experience in building products and services for global organizations.
Recent experience is focused in helping companies externalize their business assets as APIs in the area
of Open Banking , PSD2 , Headless commerce , Supply chain , IATA NDC and HTNG Open API.
Chief Product Officer at FintechGalaxy
Savvy, accomplished, high-integrity, bilingual leader, highly regarded for strategically guiding new products, processes, technologies and management information systems to drive business performance, client engagement and operational excellence. Out-of-the-box, analytical thinker and visionary recognized for creativity and innovation. Sought for consummate expertise in executing large-scale transformational initiatives across key strategic enterprise programs (+$200M), developing and implementing operational controls and action plans, transforming strategic plans into business solutions that streamline business processes, improve customer experience, mitigate risks, reduce costs, increase productivity ratio and enhance overall ROI.
Subject matter expert on Digital/Open Banking, Digital Transformation, Digitization, Digital Strategy, Customer Experience Management, Business Architecture and Data Analytics. Proficient in recognizing and retaining individual talent, building high-performing teams and cultivating a culture of collaboration and winning.
Exceptional academic qualifications, including teaching Corporate Performance Management, among other courses, at the triple-accredited Telfer professional MBA program, at the prestigious University of Ottawa in Canada.
Co-founder and CEO at Ozone API
ABOUT
I believe open banking, open finance and open data will change the world. It excites me and all of my professional focus is on trying to make that happen.
I spent the first part of my career (20+ years) in banking and payments. Having great fun building high growth businesses, divisions and teams at places like Barclays, MasterCard and HSBC.
The second part of my career (the last 5 or 6 years) has been EVEN more fun having moved out of big banks and turning my attention to building fintech start ups. I feel privileged and am really excited to be working with a great team to build Ozone API and make that belief a reality.
Group CEO at CyberShelter
Executor of many successful and effective Information & Cyber Security Transformation Programs for banks and other institutions.
25+ years of Experience in Banking, Financial and Telecom sectors. A pioneer with 20+ years core experience in Information Security.
A mentor who groomed professionals from various backgrounds to cyber security with innovative approaches. A career guide for many professionals in the region.
Executive Partner, CISO Advisor at Gartner
A well-versed, adept communicator, with more than 20 years in the Cybersecurity field, Lorna has an MSc, and is CISSP certified. She is currently working in Gartner as a CISO Advisor and Partner. She is a known speaker in security events in the region with several published blogs and articles. She also runs security awareness sessions to Boards of Directors, non-security Executives, VPs and GMs in organizations.
Lorna joined Gartner in 2019 and currently holds the role of CISO Advisor and Partner. She has worked with more than 45 Cybersecurity Leaders/CISOs in the region, across different industries, to help them achieve their security goals and overcome challenges.
Vice President, Solution Engineering - Asia Pacific & Japan, Middle East at Solace
EVP - Group Head of Information Security at Mashreq Bank
Somnath is an IT and Information Security professional with 30+ years of experience across multiple geographies, diverse background in financial services.
In his CISO role, Somnath visualized the changing landscape of digital cyber-security and was instrumental in enabling disruptive technologies to grow in the evolving market place, introduced effective digital security, system designs and data and helped his organization to take calculated risks and transform as a market leader.
Founder of FinTech Core
Anders is a well established thought leader in banking, focusing on open banking, new payment methods and business models. His professional career includes leadership roles at FinastraU/ D+H/Fundtech as well as sales and solution roles with IBM and CGI/LogicaCMG. He has over 25 years’ international business experience with deep technology, transformation & outsourcing experience, delivering successes for customers across their retail, wholesale, cash management & payment businesses.
Founder of Stealth Mode Startup
I'm a C-level intrapreneur and entrepreneur. Over the years, as an intrapreneur, I built a robust reputation around setting up, enhancing and improving retail banking segments across European and MENA markets. My digital strategic vision has a proven track record of success, counting on an extensive external professional network of senior banking, payment, insurance, digital, fintech and regulatory specialists.
CTO at APIIDA
Markus Müller is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at APIIDA. He oversees technology strategy and product development. Prior to focusing on API management and security technologies in his role as CTO of APIIDA, he worked on bringing digital and physical identities and security systems together, to create a holistic view on security.
Today, he and his team work directly with customers to solve the problems of the most complex API environments. Markus is a member of multiple API and security related working groups and holds a seat in the Business Governance Board of the OpenAPI Initiative. He is also a regular speaker at conferences and meetups, such as the apidays.
Head of Architecture & DevOps Delivery at Ahli United Bank
Seasoned IT professional and digital transformation specialist with over 18 years career track of diversified technical and management skill set and having outstanding record of accomplishment for providing ESB applications, CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), ePayments, eCommerce, CRM, ERP, and Channel Banking applications (IVR, Internet Banking, SMS, Tablet Banking) across GCC, the UK and Africa.
Head of Digital Delivery at Bank Albilad
A Digital Transformation and PMO Consultant in Banking and Government domain with a track record of transformation products, services, and projects.
With more than 18 years of proven track record of large and medium scale programs/projects for several organizations especially banking, insurance, and telco industries. The projects/programs I have successfully managed ranges from pure software and infrastructure (Hardware, Site, and Facility) into a mix of both. In 2014, I have moved to the business side where I have managed a number of key projects and products for Cash Management department of Alrajhi Bank as one of the largest Islamic banks in the world. During those years, I have gained a wide experience in PMO Transformation, adopting PMP/PMI framework, and practing PRINCE2 method.
Developer Advocacy Lead at Postman
ABOUT
Arlemi Turpault leads Developer Advocacy at Postman, an API platform used by 20M+ people around the world. He started his career as a software engineer doing research and development for Augmented Reality solutions, then naturally turned to developer relations as a deep advocate for great user experiences and access to knowledge. Based in London (UK), and when not interacting with other community members, he can be found reading fantasy books or pretending to be a guitar hero on Rocksmith.
Account Executive Leader - APIM & Open Bank at Axway
Bassem KTITA is a customer-centric Senior Account Executive in charge of the Middle East & Africa Market at Axway.
Bassem leverages his 15+ years of IT experience in consulting, business analysis, systems integration, and distributed application architecture to drive clients towards open banking readiness, client-focused agility, rapid innovation, and global technology leadership.
He is specialist of Middle East Market, and he is responsible for positioning Axway as the number one thought leader and integration solution provider in the open banking space.
As an integration specialist, Bassem is intimately familiar with architectural best-practices for distributed, service-oriented, Web-based API and event-driven applications that leverage both legacy integration technologies, such as ESB, EAI, ETL, MOM & Web Services, as well as modern integration technologies, such as APIs, microservices, containerization and service mesh.
Principal Presales Architect at Axway
Mamadou join oracle at April 2006 as BI/CRM consultant with multi skills having an experiment as well in the implementation of solutions of data integration, reporting and multidimensional analysis by a functional approach. He brings his expertise in the resolution of business problems trade.
In 2010 he took a new challenge as co-owner of Cleora Consulting to help the customers to success them digital transformation, big data and cloud projects.
In parallel of Cleora Consulting in 2010 , he founded Treetelco SAS one of the first fintech startup using Telecom infrastructure to provide Bank services by using mobile application and prepaid cards and continue to share his knowledge to students in engineering and Business School.
From 2019, his principal focus at Axway is to help the organizations to drive the transformation of their business towards Amplify Platform, Hybrid Integration Platform (HIP) and API Management bringing value into UX, central governance and optimize the new products time to market.
Founder of Alaaser Aljadeed Digital Partners
I'm a seasoned transformational executive with a proven track record delivering technology, digital and cultural change in large organisations in the United Kingdom, Northern Europe and the Middle East.
I have just finished my role as Chief Transformation Officer at Sohar International Bank based in Muscat, Oman, leading the transformation agenda, including information technology, digital, programme management, marketing, fintech, innovation, customer experience and process re-engineering.
Before this, I was Chief Digital Officer at Nordea Bank, one of the largest systemically important banks in Northern Europe, based in Denmark. I was responsible for conceiving and driving the bank's 3-year transformation plan. The Nordics is amongst the most digital savvy environments on the planet and the disruption was coming thick and fast so it was a fascinating experience to both develop and lead the bank's digital transformation.
Chief Solution Officer at APIIDA
Maurizio is an all-round talent in the IT industry, with specializations in web and API Management and security, as well as backup and restore solutions. He has a great expertise, especially in OpenBanking, and takes the lead at APIIDA for OpenBanking solutions. With his experiences of previously working for companies, like Layer7 and CA Technologies, he is a real Industry veteran. Now, at APIIDA he is working with customers around the globe, advising them on the implementation of their API strategy.
Developer Advocate at Solace
Giri is a Developer Advocate with extensive experience in various technical domains, including Integration and Master Data Management. He started his engineering journey in the classic EAI & B2B Integration space and has been a part of the Integration evolution culminating in modern EDA, Microservices, Spring, and other Low-code/no-code frameworks. He has a keen interest in building and promoting creative solutions and is a huge fan of open-source standards and applications. He is excited to identify and explore tools and frameworks to aid Businesses in their quest for achieving efficiency and increased productivity.
Chief Business Officer at Fintech Galaxy
Founder & Partner at Mingzulu
Senior banking & Big 4 advisory leader, putting clients at the centre of everything I do. Digital evangelist, passionate about great experiences enabled via technology. Excellent communicator, operating at board to delivery team level, with a strong consulting, P&L & stakeholder management background. Motivated by an entrepreneurial culture & building successful teams....leading to long term business partnerships & happy customers.
Subject matter expertise: Financial services sector - digital strategy & execution, BaaS, fintech ecosystem, Open Banking, ventures, merger & technology modernisation, operating model definition & execution, disruptive technology (i.e Blockchain, Digital assets -NFTs) & payments.
Developer Advocate / Architect at Axual BV
I'm the Developer Advocate for Axual.
Basically I'm the person that explains what the Axual Platform is capable of and how you can use it.
I also write blogs and articles about event streaming, Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Connect and other related technologies and architectural principles.
Head of Design and Innovation at RAK Bank
I am a senior financial services, technology and consulting leader with more than 20 years’ experience of leading business transformations and digital strategy. I am especially adept at interfacing between technology professionals and the business, translating commercial imperatives into workable processes, procedures and systems.
I thrive in complex and rapidly changing environments and I possess a robust track record of establishing new businesses and teams which outperform their KPIs, solving strategic roadblocks and delivering exceptional long-term results.
Throughout my career, I have gained skills and knowledge which only come with hands-on experience. This has given me a comprehensive knowledge of client and macro drivers and I align product and client services with innovation to elevate the quality of the overall customer experience. This has given me an outstanding network, alongside a detailed understanding of a range of relevant sectors.
CEO at Infinitech Ltd.
Business Head - MENA at M2P Solutions
Retail banking professional, with experience in various aspects of business management, including Sales & Distribution management, Relationship management, Product development and Operations. Have experience working in a start up environment (viz., setting up the business in Dunia Finance in the UAE, and Ajivasan) as well as in established corporates (viz. Citi)
I have a strong focus on execution and making things happen - a bias for perfection and excellence.
Regional Sales Manager Business Application Platform at Apigee
Experienced Principal Presales Consultant, Team leader and Manager with over 15 years of customer facing and consultative selling experience helping many customers to reach their digital destinations and taking part in large transformation projects impacting customer experience on a daily basis.
Through these years I was exposed to many different technologies and solutions like SOA, ESB, BPM, Event Processing, BAM, API Management, Big Data, Analytics and Streaming Analytics, In-Memory Data Grid, IOT, PAAS, containers, iPAAS from top vendors including TIBCO, IBM, and Oracle.
CEO at Trescon
I'm Naveen, a YOUNG LEADER with 14+ years’ corporate experience encompassing partnerships, divisional leadership, new market/business development, and full-cycle event production & management (ideation to execution).
In my quest to learn and do new things, I took the risk of leaving my comfort zone (B2B events industry) and joined Spire Solutions, Middle East & Africa's leading value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions where I currently lead marketing, strategic alliances and go-to-market strategies as the Chief Growth Officer.
Technical Support Team Lead at APIMatic
Absar Ahmed is a developer relations expert at APIMatic, who has years of experience in API development. With a passion for helping developers succeed, he is dedicated to making the world of APIs accessible and easy to use.
Senior Software Engineer at APIMatic
Wajahat Iqbal is a Developer Experience enthusiast who has helped many API programs in language idiomatic and clean code generation. He simplifies software integration and streamlines the use of SDKs for seamless integration.
Founder & Chairman of apidays
ABOUT
Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.
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