Learn the latest technologies the financial institutions are transforming the way they do business to increase effectiveness, efficiency and business growth, while reducing risk.
Tim Hogarth
Chief Technology Officer, ANZ
Past Discussion Leaders
Tim has currently been promoted and appointed in the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer at ANZ. He was previously the bank’s Chief Architect.
As chief architect, Tim spent a year-and-a-half leading ANZ’s Centre of Excellence for architecture and engineering, which focuses on maintaining applications and engineering standards.
Prior to his time at ANZ, Hogarth was the vice president for innovation framework strategies at TD Bank based in Canada. He also worked for the Commonwealth Bank in a variety of role for ten years, including head of customer engagement architecture and application platforms.
A senior technology professional in financial services with a strong track record of thought leadership and delivering pragmatic, value-added IT strategy and solutions. Tim Possesses a global perspective and a deep understanding of current and emerging technologies, with the ability to understand key implications of complex problems and opportunities to empower decision makers and drive superior outcomes.
Jason Latham is CIO and CTO of Shaype Group, the Australian headquartered, global fintech. In this role, he has been responsible for leading the design and development of the Shaype as a Service (HaaS) cloud-native embedded finance platform, which provides financial and non-financial businesses with access to a full suite of pure microservices. HaaS’s accelerator program is capable of taking customers live in as little as 10 days. Jason has previously held technology leadership roles with Marshall Wace, one of Europe’s largest hedge funds, and UK specialist bank Shawbrook.
Leon Hagopian is a senior director who has more than 15 years of global experience with successful delivery across a diverse number of industries including Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation. He is currently the Regional Head of Emerging Solutions, APAC team for UBS, with teams situated in Singapore, HK and Shanghai. The team delivers F2B AI solutions for the firm across the entire APAC region.
Leon is passionate about transforming the way established teams work via digitisation, transformation, automation and delivering agile as a service. Having lived and worked in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong, he has succeeded in delivering high-performance teams, across a diverse set of cultures, which are highly certified and motivated in driving successful digital outcomes.
As a father of 2 daughters, Leon heavily focuses on delivering diversity in the workplace. He achieves and celebrates this through the implementation of a digital mindset culture. Whether it is empowering his team or simply providing the platform that ensures staff know they are able to shine, Leon has delivered a culture of enablement that guarantees his team deliver the quality and outcomes that are desired by the client.
Leon’s other passion is developing emerging technology solutions for Armenia.
Chantal has more than 20 years’ experience in the Data & Analytics industry across France and Australia, covering a broad range of areas including products, channels, customers, payments, financial crime, and remediation.
As a consultant with BT Global Services, SAP BusinessObjects, eVolition and Oakton Consulting, Chantal has always been most comfortable straddling the line between the Business function and Technology, and she speaks both languages fluently.
Her skillset broadened with her roles at Suncorp, CBA and Westpac, and she has managed everything from projects & programs, IT strategies, data governance initiatives to Analytics implementations.
Chantal is passionate about implementing the right solutions through Agile practices and has an unshakeable belief in the awesome things we can achieve by promoting an inclusive culture where colleagues are engaged and highly effective.
In her diverse career Chantal has often offered coaching and mentorship and has a passion for self-development. She has been part of the Females in IT & Telecommunications (FitT) mentoring program, has spoken at the Girl Geek Dinners and the inaugural FemeTech Revolution event, was a mentor in CBA’s Women in Entreprise Services mentoring program, an abiding host for the Customer Remediation Shadowing program at Westpac and a Women of Westpac Executive Committee member.
When she is not delivering great outcomes for the Financial Services industry or inspiring high performing & diverse teams, you can find her down the beach with her husband and sons, watching every single Rugby Union match possible, or recounting scuba diving stories from around the world.
Florence is a data & analytics senior leader with 15-year experience in consulting and financial services overseas and in Australia. Energetic and passionate, she is a trusted advisor and thought leader in connecting Data, Technology, and Business Operations in a collaborative and agile fashion, as a fast track to meaningful progress for organisations.
Actively involved in the Women in Data community, Florence believes gender diversity in a data-driven world moderates the creator bias engendered in analytics solutions. In 2017, she contributed to the launch of “Data Girls” in Australia encouraging women to explore career opportunities in data. In 2018, she developed the first data program for GoIT Girls promoting students from a disadvantaged background to pursue their uni curriculum in STEM.
Nicholas is a seasoned Digital Technology Executive with broad experience spanning digital transformation, leading edge architecture development, program delivery, solution design/engineering leadership as well as global IT & Cyber delivery remits underpinned by a strong customer focus ethos.
He has extensive leadership experience with previous Digital strategy, architecture, execution and product engineering roles at Macquarie Bank, News Corp, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and PwC Consulting with a track record for developing engaged & highly performing internal and external teams.
He holds a Masters in Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is an Air Force Pilot graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Sam is currently the Head of Global Information Security for Fidelity International. Based in Hong Kong since 2011, Sam oversees information security, technology risk, cyber security and cyber defense operations.
Sam has over 10 years of experience in the security and technology field. Prior to his current role, Sam was the Information Security, Senior Manager for Asia Pacific where his role focused on governance, risk and compliance as well as supporting operational security across the region. Previous to that, Sam was part of Fidelity International’s Corporate Security function where he was involved in internal investigations, background vetting and due diligence activities associated with security assurance.
Sam started his career in Sydney Australia in 2003 and held a number of system support and administration roles before joining Fidelity International in 2005.
Sam holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from The University of Western Sydney. He is also CISSP and CISA certified.
Jia is currently leading the data science team at Grab in Singapore, developing AI technologies in fraud detection, identity verification, user safety, financial risk and personalizing ride hailing experience.
His interests are exploring the frontiers of AI technologies, extracting meaningful insights from data and creating social and business values. His focus is to make systems WORK.
Jia previously worked at Lenovo’s Machine Intelligence Lab, the first and now the largest AI lab in Huawei - Noah’s Ark Lab, and mobile ads team in Baidu. He have also co-founded two AI start-ups, one in generic AI solutions and the other one in computer vision.
He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from HKUST and bachelor in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University.
Dr. Adrienne Heinrich received her M.Sc. degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, and subsequently joined Philips Research in 2006. She obtained her PhD degree at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands in 2015.
From 2012 to 2020, Adrienne has been leading AI and Machine Learning use cases for personal health and connected care products and services at Royal Philips. In 2020, she was appointed head of the AI Center of Excellence at UnionBank of the Philippines and is supporting UnionBank’s digital transformation journey.
Lito Villanueva is presently the Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Inclusion Officer for Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC). Mr. Villanueva is also concurrently Chief Digital Transformation Advisor for the Yuchengco Group of Companies. Under Mr. Villanueva’s leadership, RCBC received five global digital awards during the pandemic and was recognized as the Philippines’ Best Digital Bank. Mr. Villanueva also created and launched DiskarTech – the country’s first and only Taglish inclusion super app with over 3 million app downloads in three months from launch. Mr. Villanueva was formerly with The Economist Intelligence Unit, Visa, Smart Communications, International Finance Corporation, and Voyager Innovations covering PayMaya, and FINTQnologies as its Managing Director.
Mr. Villanueva is the Philippines’ leading and award-winning thought leader on digital transformation and inclusive digital finance. He has over 20 years of experience in banking, telecommunications, payments, development finance, and financial technology. He is merited with over 50 global and regional awards, including being one of the Top 100 FinTech Leaders in Asia. For his efforts in scaling digital innovations and financial inclusion, he is the first and only Filipino, thus far, to be included in the list. BizNews Asia magazine also named him “Mr. FinTech of the Philippines”.
He is also Founding Chairman of FinTech Alliance.ph and has released various publications including the award-winning three-volume Inclusive Digital Finance Report and the Uncharted Beyond: The Taxonomy of FinTech in the Philippines.
Micky Lo joined BNY Mellon in July 2013 as Chief Technology Risk Officer APAC. He is leading the regional team with the mission to enable business solutions while proactively protecting BNY Mellon from information risks in a balanced control environment. He oversees and govern the implementation of the bank wide information risk roadmap in the region with particular focus on IT regulatory compliance.
He has over 30 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audit.
Before joining BNY Mellon, Micky was the Head of IT Security APAC and Head of Technology Greater China for Deutsche Bank. Micky has held various management positions in IT management, IT Security/Risk management and Audit with JPMorgan and Citibank.
Micky serves as industry advisor of the Bachelor of Management Science and Information Management Programme of Hang Seng Management College.
Micky received a Bachelor of Mathematic degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from University of Western Ontario (Canada). He is also a Certified Information System auditor.
