eXellerator lab powered by SC Ventures

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures unit. Focused on “rewiring the DNA in banking”, SC Ventures aims to develop an innovation culture and mindset, deepen capabilities and experiment with new business models through an open platform and network of people and partnerships.

We provide platforms and catalysts for staff, businesses, FinTechs, clients and partners across the bank's global markets.

What can you expect at the Standard Chartered Lab Crawl?

We have an exciting line-up of solutions, FinTech partners, pitch sessions, talks, panel discussions and networking sessions. Our themes for this year are:

1. Sustainable finance
2. Exponential technologies - reinventing ourselves
3. New models - creating optionalities
4. Platforms

Who will be at the Standard Chartered Lab Crawl?

Here is your chance to meet our partners and learn more about their journey working with the bank. Startups include Digital Reasoning, Metaco, DLT Ledger, Symphony Communications Services and Sage amongst others. Immerse in an interactive experience, engage with our internal talents and learn more about our capabilities.

Choose your time slots and register now.

14 & 15 November with 4 sessions on each day

• 10:30 - 12:00 (session 1)
• 12:30 - 14:00 (session 2)
• 14:30 - 16:00 (session 3)
• 16:30 - 18:00 (session 4)

14th November speakers

10.45am - 11.05am

Standard Chartered & Sage Partnership : Collaborating to help Asian SMEs to prosper

Sage- Arlene WherettNisha Goklaney ,

Sujay-KS, Standard Chartered Global Head,Business Banking Trade & Partnerships

11.10am - 11.30am

FinFabrik: Shaping the future of Private Markets with Blockchain

Alex Medana, co-founder and CEO of FinFabrik

11.40am - 11.50am

Blockchain in Practice: How Geora has changed Agriculture supply chains for good

Rene Michau – Head of FinTech Client Advisory, Standard Chartered, Bridie Ohlsson – Co-Founder/CEO, Geora

12.45pm - 1.05pm

Standard Chartered and Blackrock’s Ready to Trade BOT (RTT) - the Best Cross- Community Partnership award at Symphony Innovate

Matthew Gager, Senior Program Manager, Investors Onboarding

Ally Wang, APAC Account Director, Symphony

1.10pm - 1.30pm

Quantexa- Standard Chartered / Sharing experiences

Praveen Jain, Head, FCC Controls, SAIL & Innovation

1.40pm - 1.50pm

My journey as an entrepreneur at Standard Chartered

Amith Rajan,Lead, Mobile and Emerging Tech

2.45pm - 3.05pm

Ethereum Blockchain usecases in corporate world by Consensys

Daren Frankel, Strategy & Innovation Leader

3.10pm - 3.30pm

CryptoBLK: Atlas, a supply chain finance blockchain solution

John Ho - technical sales manager

3.40pm - 3.50pm

Silent-Eight: The path from POC to investment with Standard Chartered

Martin Markiewicz, CEO

4.45pm - 5.05pm

Digital Reasoning : Exponential Technology

Tim Estes, President & Founder

5.10pm - 5.30pm

Investing for a sustainable bank: technology and cost optimization

Paul Beresford, Global Head, Technology, RB Products

5.40pm - 5.50pm

From intrapreneur to entrepreneur at Standard Chartered

Saim, Yeong Harng, SC Ventures

15th November speakers

10.45am - 11.05am

Standard Chartered & Sage Partnership : Collaborating to help Asian SMEs to prosper

Sage- Arlene Wherett, Nisha Goklaney

Sujay-KS, Standard Chartered

11.10am - 11.30am

Wave: a showcase of innovative technology and the intelligent application of data. From customer discovery to rapid prototyping and accelerated deployments – a successful story of collaboration and partnership between Standard Chartered and Refinitiv Labs

Sanjna Parasrampuria, Refinitv, Head - Applied Innovation| Data & Innovation Catalyst

Alexis Callas, Standard Chartered, MD,Global Head,Investment Strategy & Advisory, WM

11.40am - 11.50am

Digital Reasoning: Exponential Technology

Tim Estes, CEO

12.45pm - 1.05pm

aXess and Open Banking

Dr Sebastian Wedeniwski, Standard Chartered, CIO Technology Strategy & aXess

1.10pm - 1.30pm

Silent8-Standard Chartered / Sharing experiences

Martin Markiewicz, CEO

1.40pm - 1.50pm

COOL platform

Hemanth Prabakaran, Standard Chartered, Head of Data, Business Integration & Analytics

Sathyasivam Sivaraj, Standard Chartered, Business Analyst

2.45pm - 3.05pm

Digital Bancassurance Platform launch

Vineet Vishal, Agile Delivery Coach

3.10pm - 3.30pm

Metaco : Digital Asset Custody - Best Practices

Adrien Treccani, CEO

3.40pm - 3.50pm

Standard Chartered Aggregated Liquidity Engine (SCALE) – How to access Bank FX Liquidity via API

Kelvin Liang – Director, Digital Solutions Sales, SCALE

4.45pm - 5.05pm

Datarobot Overview & Usecases

Colin Priest, VP AI Strategy

5.10pm - 5.30pm

Project Open Banking Asia: How Open API policy is shaping Payments across Asia, and the EPAA Agenda for 2020

John Ryan and Camilla Bullock – Co-Director Generals, Emerging Payments Association of Asia

5.40pm - 5.50pm

Swimming upstream: Being a woman in the FinTech (and Banking!) Ecosystem

Danielle Szetho – Region Lead, FinTech Client Advisory, GCNA and Advisory Board Chair, EPAA