ePay Summit GCC 2020
2 December 2020 – 3 December 2020
The GCC E-Payments and Online Banking Summit 2020 (ePay Summit) is a senior conference and exhibition series on payments and online banking, bringing together decision makers from banking, e-commerce, retail and telecom in the GCC. The 2020 edition was held as a virtual event on 2-3 December, broadcast online to web, smartphones and tablets, with a theme covering consumer-centric offerings, AI, cross-border payments, digital currencies, real-time analytics, digital identity and challenger banks.
12 sessions · 23 speakers
Organiser (1)
Media Partners (9)
Financial IT · Payments & Cards Network · FF News · Biometric Update · Banker Middle East · Mobile ID World · Gulf Insider · Oxford Business Group · FindBiometrics
Sponsors (11)
BBK (Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait) · Bahrain Commercial Facilities Company · Central Bank of Bahrain · Ithmaar Bank · Al Baraka Group (ABG) · Kuwait Finance House · CrediMax B.S.C · Arab Financial Services · Jumio · BENEFIT · SICO
Exhibitors (2)
SADAD Bahrain · Arihant Intelligence
Knowledge Partners (2)
Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) · Oxford Business Group
Supporting Partners (4)
Bahrain Bourse · Netinfo · Tamkeen (Labour Fund) · Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (Bahrain)
Speakers (23)
- Ho Chang Chief Executive Officer, BioID GmbH
- Abdulkareem Bucheery Chairman, Bahrain Bourse
- Adnan Ahmed Yousif President & Chief Executive, Al Baraka Banking Group
- Kamal bin Ahmed Mohamed Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications
- Khalid Al Hamad Executive Director of Banking Supervision, Central Bank of Bahrain
- Abdelkarim Abu Jaber Territory Sales & Channel Manager, Microsoft Middle East Cluster (Bahrain & Oman)
- Nabilah Annuar Content Strategist, Tradesocio
- Ramy Kheder Director, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Middle East & Africa, Mastercard
- Nina Mohanty Talent Beyond Boundaries
- Mohammed Ali Yusuf CEO, Fuze
- Malak Alsaffar Co-Founder, The Elevate Collective
- Cynthia El Khoury VP - Country Manager Lebanon & Iraq, Mastercard
- Essa Sayyar Regional Director - GCC, EastMed
- Abdulhakeem Yaqoob Alkhayyat Managing Director & CEO, Kuwait Finance House - Bahrain
- Ahmed A. Seyadi Chief Executive, CrediMax
- B. Chandrasekhar Chief Executive Officer, Arab Financial Services (AFS)
- Dr. Jassim Haji President, Artificial Intelligence Society Bahrain
- Guil Rodrigues AVP Customer Experience and Design Lead, Payit by FAB
- Meliksah Utku General Manager, Al Baraka Turk Participation Bank
- Tarek Ghobar Co-Founder, PointCheckout
- Abdulwahed AlJanahi
- Ahmed Mansour Fintech & Blockchain Expert and CIO, Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait
- Amit Agarwal MD, Global Business Head – Cross Border Payments, Citi
Agenda
- Keynote address: Abdulkareem Bucheery 2 December 2020
- Welcome Keynote 2 December 2020
- Keynote Speech: Khalid Al Hamad 2 December 2020
- Keynote Speech: H.E. Kamal Bin Ahmed Mohamed 2 December 2020
- Keynote Speech: Adnan Yousif 2 December 2020
- AI in Payments
- INTERVIEW: The increase in digital and contactless transactions since COVID-19
- Fireside Chat: 2021 and beyond: the GCC cross border payments roadmap
- CEO Panel
- Building Trust to prevent online fraud
- Build trust with risk solutions for the payment's ecosystem
- Alternative payment method trends shaping future e-commerce in the GCC