How will disruptive forces radically transform the industry?

Adi is the founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain, a fast-growing team of blockchain and zero knowledge proof architects and developers based in London. He is the co-inventor and designer for a number of patents in the world of blockchain and mobile payments.

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Zitah’s career has spanned working for one of the world’s largest advertising agencies on large, global accounts, to the largest UK Government Department; she’s been on the executive of the UK financial regulator and run a group of financial services companies in Europe for a large Private Equity firm.  What all these organisations had in common was they were undergoing a period of transformation and often difficult change, and this theme runs through her career choices.

More recently, Zitah founded her first venture, Predictive Black.  The intention being to disrupt the world of cash flow forecasting with forecasts rooted in the reality of the sector economics.  As a founder, and leader of a regulated fintech company, she has first hand experience of how fast the financial services landscape is changing and the emerging opportunities and risks for leaders in this sector.  Zitah was a Non-Executive Director for Zopa Peer to Peer until the end of 2021, and more recently joined Sprout, a fintech which aims to democratise investment access to high performing asset classes with VCs, as a Board Advisor.

Outside of work, Zitah drives her family crazy by forgetting English words and dropping in the Welsh one hoping they don’t notice.  The dogs never seem to mind when she does it to them.

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Ankit leads Apex Group’s pioneering Digital Banking services, delivered to corporates and asset managers via their EDB subsidiary. He joined Apex Group from QIC Global (part of Qatar Insurance Company) where he was Head of Investments and Treasury. Through his experience of over 15 years in the financial services industry, Ankit brings a wealth of experience in Treasury, Banking, Investment Management and Fund Operations. Prior to QIC, Ankit held various roles at AXA Investment Manager, UK Capital Investments Group and Grant Thornton. Ankit is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds ACCA.

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Andrew Hill is senior business writer at the FT and consulting editor, FT Live. He is a former management editor, City editor, financial editor and comment and analysis editor. He is the author of ‘Leadership in the Headlines’ (2016), a collection of his columns, and ‘Ruskinland’ (2019), about the enduring influence of Victorian thinker John Ruskin. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as New York bureau chief, foreign news editor and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

Andrew was named Business Commentator of the Year at the 2016 Comment Awards and Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.

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