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Opening
Aparna Pande & Shriya Ravishankar, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Co-Chairs

Panel: Digital Payments
Caecilia Chu, Founder and CEO of YouTrip
Varun Mittal, Partner and Head of Global Emerging Markets and FinTech at EY
Lindsey Grossman, Director of Product (North America) at Wise (FKA TransferWise)
Clay Wilkes, Founder and CEO of Galileo
Maju Kuruvilla, CTO of Bolt

Moderator:
Shriya Ravishankar, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Co-Chair

Keynote: Mastercard
Ajay Banga, Executive Chair and former CEO of Mastercard

Moderator:
Simon Johnson, Head of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and former Chief Economist at International Monetary Fund

Panel: FinTech in Emerging Markets
Stefan Möller, Founder and CEO of Klar
Jitendra Gupta, Founder and CEO of Jupiter Money
Varun Bhandari, Country Manager for Thailand at Funding Societies
Yaëlle Boquet, CFO of Prisma Medios de Pago
Adrian Vermooten, Chief Innovation Officer of Standard Bank
Matthew Davie, Chief Strategy Officer of Kiva

Moderator:
Mahesh Uttamchandani, Practice Manager for Financial Inclusion, Infrastructure, and Access at The World Bank Group

Panel: Credit and Alternative Lending
Ryan Graciano, CTO of Credit Karma
Rohit Mittal, CEO of Stilt
Gilles Gade, CEO of Cross River Bank
Ali Hamed, Managing Partner of CoVenture
Kendra Tolley, Director of Retail Product Management at nCino

Moderator:
Srijan Maulick, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference VP of Content

Panel: Blockchain and Consumer FinTech
Surojit Chatterjee, CPO of Coinbase
Alex Adelman, CEO of Lolli
Sandra Ro, CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council
David Shwartz, CTO of Ripple
Mathias Imbach, Founder and Group CEO of Sygnum

Moderator:
Mitzi Chang, Partner and Co-Chair for FinTech, Digital Currency, and Blockchain Technology at Goodwin Law

Keynote: Jackie Reses
Jackie Reses, CEO of Post House Capital and former Head of Capital and Executive Chair of Square

Moderator:
Jonathan Parker, Co-Director of MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy

Startup Pitch Competition Session 1
8 Finalist Teams pitch for the FinTech Conference Startup Pitch Competition Grand Prizes

Judges:
Alexa von Tobel, Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital
Jake Gibson, Founding Partner of BTV and Co-Founder and former COO of NerdWallet
Sooah Cho, Principal at Underscore VC
Jillian Cohn, Partner at Mouro Capital
Nathaniel Abrams, Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Richie Serna, Founder and CEO of Finix

Host:
Olu Adabonyan, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference VP of Marketing

Special Topics in FinTech: Lightning Talks
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit, Chief Financial Services Officer of SafariCom and Interim CEO of M-PESA Africa

Moderator:
Tavneet Suri, Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management

Sponsor Spotlight: Envel
Steve Le Roux, CEO of Envel

Keynote: Vlad Tenev
Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder and CEO of Robinhood

Moderator:
Taylor Facen, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference VP of Operations

Panel: Venture Capital and Investors in FinTech
Sia Houchangnia, Partner at Seedcamp
Ben Savage, Partner of ClockTower Technologies
Jake Gibson, Founding Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures
Amanda Cotterman, Founder and Managing Partner of Equalife and Value Creation Specialist at IFC
Connie Deng, Senior Associate at Emerson Collective

Moderator:
Aparna Pande, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Co-Chair

Startup Pitch Competition Session 2
8 Finalist Teams pitch for the FinTech Conference Startup Pitch Competition Grand Prizes

Judges:
Alexa von Tobel, Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital
Jake Gibson, Founding Partner of BTV and Co-Founder and former COO of NerdWallet
Sooah Cho, Principal at Underscore VC
Jillian Cohn, Partner at Mouro Capital
Nathaniel Abrams, Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Richie Serna, Founder and CEO of Finix

Host:
Olu Adabonyan, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference VP of Marketing

Special Topics in FinTech: Lightning Talks
Lance Braunstein, Head of Aladdin Product at BlackRock

Moderator:
George Eliades, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Co-Director of Content

Panel: FinTech, Money, and Policy
Sheila Warren, Head of Blockchain and Data Policy at World Economic Forum
Christian Catalini, Chief Economist at and Creator of Diem (FKA Libra)
Thomas Curry, Partner at Nutter and former Comptroller of the Currency
James Cunha, Senior Vice President of Secure Payments and FinTech at Boston Fed

Moderator:
Neha Narula, Director of Digital Currency Initiative at MIT Media Labs

Closing
Aparna Pande & Shriya Ravishankar, 2021 MIT FinTech Conference Co-Chairs