ASIAN Financial Services Congress
Building Resilient Finance In The Age of Intelligence
16 July 2026 | Frasers House Singapore
The ASIAN Financial Services Congress 2026 brings together the region’s most influential technology, data, risk, and business leaders to navigate one of the most transformative periods in the industry’s history. As AI, GenAI, and emerging agentic AI reshape lending, wealth management, risk assessment, and customer engagement, financial institutions are rapidly redefining how they operate and compete. By 2026, automation, intelligent decisioning, and AI-driven advisory will become core capabilities, making it essential for leaders to understand how to scale these technologies responsibly and effectively.
At the same time, ASIAN’s financial landscape is being reshaped by major structural shifts from the rapid growth of cloud-native modernisation and the rise of embedded finance and super apps, to the acceleration of blockchain-enabled tokenisation, digital assets, and multicurrency settlement. Regulatory expectations around cybersecurity, operational resilience, and AI governance are intensifying, while financial inclusion and ESG have become central to business strategy and long-term value creation.
This Congress provides a highly interactive forum for leaders to gain IDC-backed insights, share real-world experiences, and collaborate on strategies that prepare their institutions for what’s next.
IDC ASIAN Advisory Council 2026
Dr. Sekar Jaganathan
Group Chief AI Strategy Officer
Kenanga Group
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David Wirawan
Chief Technology Officer
PT KB Finansia Multi Finance
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Christopher Lim
Deputy General Manager & Chief Operating Officer
Raiffeisen Bank International AG
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Dr. Yuhui Yao
Group Chief Data Officer
FWD Insurance
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David Tan
Chief Data Officer
Income Insurance
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Mohit Tandon
Chief Operations Officer, Technology and Head of Strategic Delivery Office
Prudential
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Dr. Sekar Jaganathan
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:50 am
Panel Discussion: Building the Adaptive Bank: Creating Resilience Through Digital Agility and Intelligent Operations
This panel explores how leaders are building adaptive operating models, strengthening digital resilience and leveraging data, AI and automation to create more agile, responsive and future-ready financial institutions.
David Wirawan
David Wirawan is a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience in Information Technology across the FMCG and Financial Services industries. Throughout his career, he has led technology modernisation, digital transformation, data and analytics, cybersecurity, customer engagement, and operational excellence initiatives, helping organisations navigate change and deliver sustainable business value.
David is passionate about the intersection of business, technology, and people. He believes that the role of technology leadership extends beyond systems and infrastructure to enabling better decisions, stronger customer experiences, and long-term organisational growth. His areas of interest include digital transformation, artificial intelligence, data-driven decision-making, leadership development, and the evolving role of technology leaders in an increasingly dynamic business environment.
Known for his pragmatic and business-oriented approach, David advocates for aligning technology investments with meaningful business outcomes. He frequently shares perspectives on transformation, innovation, and leadership, with a focus on how organisations can harness emerging technologies while building resilient teams and capabilities for the future.
His leadership philosophy is simple: sustainable transformation happens when technology, people, and purpose move forward together.
Christopher Lim
Dr. Yuhui Yao
- PhD on Neural Network with solid statistics knowledge and intensive hands-on analytical modeling experience
- 25 years data analytical experience in FWD, PingAn, Autodesk, Cisco, IBM, and UOB to provide informative & actionable business insights through customer segmentation, market research, predictive modeling, machine learning, competitive study, dashboard reporting and forecasting.
- Experienced on modern Data Platform and AI Application.
- High business buy-in from sales, marketing, channel, and finance teams
- Chairman/speaker at analytics conference and forum
Specialties: Big Data, Digital Marketing, Database Marketing, CRM Strategy and Implementation, Machine Learning, Digital Analytics, Business Intelligence, Market Intelligence
David Tan
David Tan is the Chief Data Officer at Income Insurance, where he leads enterprise data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and capability development. He works with business and technology leaders to harness data and AI to drive transformation, strengthen operational effectiveness, and support sustainable growth.
David has extensive experience in technology strategy and transformation across the banking and insurance sectors in Asia Pacific. His experience across distribution, marketing, risk management, operations, and strategy enables integrated, enterprise-wide data and AI transformation. He was named CIO/CDO of the Year 2024 by IDC Asia Pacific in recognition of his leadership.
Beyond his organisational role, David contributes to industry efforts in AI adoption and governance. He co-led Project MindForge Phase 2 with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and served on the steering committee for the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) GenAI Job Transformation Map.
David has lived and worked across multiple markets in the region and holds a Bachelor of Business Systems from Monash University, Master of Science in Applied Neuroscience from King’s College London, and is also a CFA Charterholder.
Mohit Tandon
Digital Disruption | Transformation & Change Delivery | Technology | Risk Management | Lean Six Sigma
Transformation leader with proven track record of streamlining business operations & driving change across countries, cultures and organisations. Bring comprehensive domain knowledge and fresh thinking to rapidly evolving fields of technology, operating model design and risk management.
Hands-on experience in executing business target operating model redesign (TOM), strategic outsourcing & leading re-engineering programs to improve cycle time, customer acquisition and service capability.
Wide exposure and expertise in Asian regional markets with both broad and deep understanding of this region’s complex regulatory, business and cultural operating environments, gained through group-level and country roles in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and India.
An effective communicator with successful track record of leading multi-cultural teams covering Technology, Process re-engineering, Six Sigma and Risk Management.
Expert Perspectives
Hear from thought leaders, visionary CIOs, and celebrity speakers redefining technology, leadership, and innovation across APAC.
Accelerating Asia’s Rise as a Global Financial Hub: Technology Strategies Powering the Future of Finance
Asia is rapidly emerging as a key player in the global financial ecosystem, driven by strong economic growth, increasing cross-border activity, and a dynamic digital landscape led by regional hubs such as Singapore and Tokyo. As financial institutions navigate rising competition and evolving regulatory and risk environments, technology is becoming central to enabling agility, resilience, and customer-centric innovation. This keynote will explore how financial institutions across the region can leverage these technology strategies to strengthen global competitiveness, unlock value from data and AI, and build future-ready, resilient financial systems that support sustainable growth in an increasingly complex environment.
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall | IDC
Vice President, Financial Insights
Dr. Christopher Lee Marshall
Dr. Chris Marshall is Program Vice President for IDC Asia Pacific, responsible for the Analytics, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence practice. Dr. Marshall’s core research coverage includes the development of Data Analytics and Machine Learning competencies and their implications – the threats and opportunities facing organizations as they seek to augment and automate their knowledge-based work.
Previously, Chris was a senior executive in IBM Watson Financial Services where he led their AI-enabled risk and analytics practice in Asia. Before joining IBM, he held senior business development and management roles in big data and analytics at KPMG, Oracle and UBS.
- MA in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University.
- MBA from University of Chicago
- Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School
- Professor of Computer Science at National University of Singapore.
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Program for Research in Intelligent Systems
- Co-Founder and Director of NUS Risk Management Institute
- Author of widely used textbook on Operational Analytics
- Frequent speaker, presenter and moderator at industry conferences
Event Sessions
One Day Event 9:50 am
Panel Discussion: Building the Adaptive Bank: Creating Resilience Through Digital Agility and Intelligent Operations
This panel explores how leaders are building adaptive operating models, strengthening digital resilience and leveraging data, AI and automation to create more agile, responsive and future-ready financial institutions.
One Day Event 9:20 am
Welcome Address
One Day Event 9:25 am
Accelerating Asia’s Rise as a Global Financial Hub: Technology Strategies Powering the Future of Finance
Asia is rapidly emerging as a key player in the global financial ecosystem, driven by strong economic growth, increasing cross-border activity, and a dynamic digital landscape led by regional hubs such as Singapore and Tokyo. As financial institutions navigate rising competition and evolving regulatory and risk environments, technology is becoming central to enabling agility, resilience, and customer-centric innovation. This keynote will explore how financial institutions across the region can leverage these technology strategies to strengthen global competitiveness, unlock value from data and AI, and build future-ready, resilient financial systems that support sustainable growth in an increasingly complex environment.
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Meet Our Valued Partners
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Camunda
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BlueCat Networks
We’re helping organizations build the Intelligent Network of the Future!
The outside world is changing, fast: more users, devices, and regions; soaring customer expectations; exploding cloud complexity; and rapidly evolving threats.
But your network is standing still. The core services connecting data centers, cloud, and branch networks make that change feel painful—manual, error-prone, high-risk, and hard to fix.
The faster you can adapt core services to meet new requirements, the faster your business can accelerate.
BlueCat provides a unified Intelligent NetOps suite making discovery, provisioning, intelligence, observability, automation and security easier, faster, and more thorough, streamlining complexity for a resilient, performant network that gets ahead of change.
BlueCat is known for helping organizations unify their DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) for unparalleled visibility and control.
Box | Netpoleon
About Netpoleon
Netpoleon Solutions is a Singapore-headquartered value-added distributor specializing in cybersecurity and networking solutions. Since 2000, the company has built a strong presence across Asia-Pacific, partnering with leading technology vendors to deliver best-of-breed solutions and technical expertise to channel partners. As part of the Macnica Group, Netpoleon continues to empower organizations to strengthen cybersecurity and accelerate digital transformation.
Digital Realty
Digital Realty une empresas y datos a través de soluciones integrales de colocation e interconexión en sus centros de datos. PlatformDIGITAL®, la plataforma global de centros de datos de Digital Realty, proporciona a los clientes un espacio de encuentro seguro y una acreditada metodología Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) para impulsar la innovación, desde la nube y la transformación digital hasta tecnologías emergentes como la inteligencia artificial (IA), gestionando eficazmente los retos que plantea el efecto Data Gravity. La red mundial de centros de datos de Digital Realty proporciona acceso para sus clientes a comunidades de negocio interconectadas en más de 300 centros en más de 55 ciudades de 30 países en seis continentes. Para más información, visite digitalrealty.com o síganos en LinkedIn y X.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation, from cloud and digital transformation to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 55+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Venue
Frasers House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Singapore
Grand Ballroom, Level 2
80 Middle Rd, Singapore 188966
Dive into a world of heritage and class at Frasers House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Singapore, in the bustling Bugis district. Explore interiors inspired by heritage artistry, close to the cultural hubs of Arab Street and Kampong Glam. Settle into ultimate relaxation in our elegant hotel rooms and suites, or upgrade to our stunning Heritage Rooms or Presidential Suite, full of luxurious amenities.