Elizabeth Rossiello is the CEO and founder of global fintech AZA Finance (previously BitPesa). She founded the company in Nairobi, Kenya, to bring digital currencies to the African market. Elizabeth is committed to expanding access to financial technologies, co-chairing the World Economic Forum's Council on Blockchain in addition to sitting on the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s Global Advisory Board. She was recently named as a 2021 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst.

Ville currently leads Ericsson’s strategy and solutions practice in Mobile Financial Services. As a 20+ year veteran in financial technology and payment space, he is an established expert in development of digital financial services. Before joining Ericsson, he was creating next generation digital services at Nordea Bank as the Head of Emerging Technologies. Ville is also a member of the European Central Bank Digital Euro Market Advisory Group since 2021. In his spare time he co-hosts the Fintech Daydreaming podcast.

Gareth is SVP Commercial at BVNK, a blockchain industry-leading, next-generation payment platform, where he is responsible for driving volume and revenue growth and growing a quality client base. Since joining BVNK three years ago, under his commercial tenure, Gareth increased the company revenue by x75.Gareth is an entrepreneurial leader experienced in operating and growing businesses from the ground up. In 2019, he joined BVNK, a start-up with the ambition to revolutionise banking. Here, Gareth set up BVNK’s commercial department, creating and implementing their go-to-market strategy, and hiring and training the teams whilst ensuring all his sectors are constantly analysed to ensure profitability and progression.

Pierre-Antoine Vacheron is the CEO of BPCE Payments Holding, the payments services arm of BPCE, 5th retail banking in Europe .

BPCE Payments brings together all the Groupe BPCE’s expertise in payments, with the mission to building better payments every day. Natixis Payments is major player in processing for financial institutions, Merchant acquiring solutions, and Benefit and rewards prepaid products. It offers card and account-based payment solutions across the board

Pierre-Antoine Vacheron joined Natixis in January 2018 after having led the Retail and payments services business of Ingenico Group since 2009.

Pierre-Antoine Vacheron is an alumnus of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (1994) and a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1990). He also holds Master’s degrees in business law and European and international law from Université de Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (1988).

Cristiano Betta is Founder and CPO of cloud payment orchestration platform Gr4vy. He is an experienced technology and fintech entrepreneur with 15 years of experience working in financial services and developer experience. Cristiano has worked to deliver improve developer experiences at PayPal, Braintree, Twitter, Barclays, Amadeus, and many more. In recent years Cristiano has been passionate about building a new wave of payments infrastructure services at Gr4vy.