Ripple to Host Swell: The Future Is Here
By FF Newsroom · 25 August 2017
Featuring Keynote Addresses From Chairman of the Federal Reserve System (2006-2014) Dr. Ben Bernanke and Inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Monday, October 16, 2017 - Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Toronto, Ontario
WHAT: Swell by Ripple: The Future Is Here Swell, hosted by Ripple, is attracting leaders from banking and blockchain who are committed to changing the way the world moves money today. The program brings together a roster of payments experts and industry luminaries to discuss trends, success stories of blockchain implementations and real-world blockchain use cases to meet changing customer demands for global payments. ATTENDING SPEAKERS: Keynote Speakers:- Dr. Ben Bernanke, Chairman, The Federal Reserve System (2006-2014) to be interviewed by Gene Sperling, National Economic Council Director and National Economic Advisor under Presidents Clinton and Obama (1996-2001, 2011-2014)
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web
- Brad Garlinghouse, CEO, Ripple
- Stefan Thomas, CTO, Ripple
- Dilip Rao, Managing Director of APAC, Ripple
- Kristen Michaud, Managing Director, Treasury Operations, GE Capital
- Dr. Arak Sutivong, Head of Strategy, Siam Commercial Bank
- Takashi Okita, CEO, SBI Ripple Asia
- Nobuo Ando, Representative Director, SBI Remit Co., Ltd.
- Ed Metzger, Head of Innovation, Banco Santander
- Amit Sethi, President and CIO, Axis Bank
- Rahul Pai, COO, UAE Exchange
- Dharmesh Desai, Group EVP, Yes Bank
- Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director, The Hyperledger Project
- Marwan Forzley, CEO and Co-Founder, Veem