Apidays Hong Kong 2023

Mr. Richard Lord is a Managing Director and the Regional Chief Information Officer, Wholesale, ASP at HSBC.

Mr. Lord has extensive experience working with contemporary technologies to drive innovation and change, across a variety of industries. Prior to joining HSBC, he was Deputy Global CIO for a major advertising holding company. Before that, he was an entrepreneur, having founded one of the very first internet technology companies in Australia in the early 1990s.

Mr. Lord is a passionate advocate of innovation and leveraging technology to improve the experience and value provided to customers and colleagues. He has championed programs for co-creation and internal innovation and is active in engaging start-ups, fintechs and innovators across the region.

Mr. Lord is an active champion for equality and meritocracy in the workplace and sits as Co-Chair of HSBC's Balance Employee Resources Group for gender diversity and the HSBC Male Allies in Hong Kong.

Powering Modern Business Banking Through APIs

Capturing business value with API

Jonathan Cheung is the Director of Open Banking & API, Digital Banking from Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited. His role involves spread heading the open banking development for retail banking business in Hong Kong, ranging from Open API product development, ecosystem partnership collaboration, regulatory engagement to product development to facilitate business growth and digital transformation. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Jonathan had served various business development roles at TransUnion, IBM, Microsoft and a local family office. He acquired both his master and bachelor degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Open Banking Ecosystem – Development, Opportunities & Challenges

Worldwide digital technology executive with 20 years' experience leading multiple successful digital innovation and execution with large multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams in global corporations. Mr. Ho currently works in AXA Hong Kong & Macau as the Chief Technology Officer with full responsibility for IT including strategy, architecture, transformation, delivery, operations & cybersecurity. Before joining AXA, Mr. Ho worked in various IT leadership role from AIA, Sun Life, IBM and Accenture. Before working in Insurance industry, Mr. Ho is the trusted management consultant / lead architect stationed in APAC & EMEA countries for various digital and cloud transformation projects from strategy to execution in financial services sector. Mr. Ho holds an MBA degree from University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie School of Management in US. He is also a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect, IBM Certified Senior IT Architect - API Integration Specialization, IBM Certified Cloud Solution Advisor and Microsoft Certified Azure Cloud Specialist.

Digital Ecosystem enabled by API & Big data

Gary joins us as Chief Technology Officer from Morgan Stanley where he was Executive Director, Head of Digital and Platform Architecture for Private Wealth Management business, and prior to that he served as Head of Program Management and leading Agile Transformation (APAC) for major banks including HSBC and JP Morgan.

Gary brings 20 years of experience in leading large IT teams across APAC and various projects in Fintech products, including Trade Finance platform powered by blockchain, Wechat banking for corporate customers and international trade tracking app.

Banking & Open APIs

Mr. Martin Liu has over 10 years of working experience in the artificial intelligence industry. He is a seasoned IT professional with extensive experience in developing computer vision solutions and in-depth knowledge of product development. Martin currently is the associate director and was the AI technical lead of STP Platform, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP).

Before joining HKSTP, Martin led the system development team of an AI company in developing computer vision solutions for diamond-related technology, smart retails, and facial recognition technology. He is the inventor of 4 patents. He won the Red Dot Award for the patented diamond viewer with the algorithm for viewing nanoscale marking and specific 8A8H patterns on a diamond.

Martin holds a Master Degree in E-Commerce and Internet Computing, and a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Hong Kong.

The Open API Ecosystem

Critical Role of Data in Platform Economy

The API Trends and Beyond

Innovation and Impact - Adopting APIs for enterprise transformation

Serving Data as API

Clive has over twenty years of experience in technical consulting and business development. By working in a variety of technical roles for Systems Integrators and IT Vendors, Clive has gained robust and diverse experience in multi-vendor integration projects and architecture design for enterprise customers.

Clive has extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture and technology spanning from Secure multi-party computation, multi-cloud infrastructure, DevOps, distributed application and API security. In addition, he has personally been involved in designing and deploying many of the largest and most innovative enterprise infrastructures in Hong Kong and the Region.

Clive has worked at Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and F5 Networks. He holds a B.Eng. (Electrical & Electronics Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong.

Create Value and Insight Through Privacy-preserving Data Collaboration with Federated Learning

Data collaboration with Federated Learning

API Modernization with GraphQL

Attack API Architecture

APIs + Data integration capabilities as tools for building faster and adaptive digital solutions

Joey Wong is a technologist who has worked across multiple industries in Australia and North America, helping companies build new delightful customer experiences and creating new digital revenues.

Insights As a Service with APIs

Patrick Fan is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of beNovelty Limited - an award-winning API first company. Patrick is a recognized thought leader in API space and the Hong Kong organizer & representatives of APIDays - the world's Leading API Conference Series. He is an active participant & speaker of major API Developer Communities in different regions. Patrick is current an entrepreneur-in-residency (EIR) of a venture capital and providing API advisory to various local startups & enterprise across sectors to adopt API first strategy. With his exceptional knowhow in Open API domain, Patrick is part of the Hong Kong API Startup Registration Scheme workgroup and is appointed by HKQAA as an associate trainer in API Cybersecurity & Information Security.

Open Banking is an "How" and Embedded Finance is an "Why"

Dale is a senior Technology Engineer in IBM Client Engineering, responsible for working with IBM clients to create things using technology - with a particular focus on applying the IBM Garage Methodology to deliver innovative and transformational projects. He has a background in Apache Kafka and IBM MQ, and is a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the AsyncAPI standard.

Add your first asynchronous API to your app in 30 minutes

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

Evolving your APIs, a step-by-step approach

Jeremy is an experienced Product leader of over 14 years with a specialty in managing developer platforms and APIs at successful startups like Box and Tradeshift, building successful Platform and Product organizations from the ground up. He managed and expanded developer platforms to communities of tens of thousands of developers, and led high-profile integrations promoted by Salesforce and Google.

Jeremy is an advisor and mentor to startups and accelerators such as Alchemist, Acceleprise, Techstars, and Heavybit for Product and API strategy. He is also a Product Management course instructor and author of several publications on API strategy.

APIs for Scaling Enterprises: Setting and Applying API Standards

Sonal Rattan is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of eXate, which is now a multiple award-winning data privacy firm, that specialises in automating and applying privacy and security to sensitive data in the right place and in the right form.

Prior to starting eXate in 2015, Sonal held senior positions at global bank HSBC for over 5 years. In her previous roles as EMEA Markets Head of RegTech and later the Head of Digital Assets at HSBC, Sonal was tasked with processing information according to data privacy and financial regulations. Conscious that this was a challenge for other banks, Sonal Co-Founded eXate to tackle this challenge. It was in Sonal's interest to ensure that data privacy is easy for software developers so that there is no reason to not factor in data privacy.

Over the years Sonal has led a highly skilled team of developers and architects in helping build the eXate platform, successfully deploying the eXate solution. In addition to her work developing the data privacy platform.

Digital Transformation - Potential Pitfalls, Protection and PET's (Privacy Enhancing Techniques)

Giri is a Developer Advocate with extensive experience in various technical domains, including Integration and Master Data Management. He started his engineering journey in the classic EAI & B2B Integration space and has been a part of the Integration evolution culminating in modern EDA, Microservices, Spring, and other Low-code/no-code frameworks. He has a keen interest in building and promoting creative solutions and is a huge fan of open-source standards and applications. He is excited to identify and explore tools and frameworks to aid Businesses in their quest for achieving efficiency and increased productivity.

Event API Products: Maximizing the Value of Your Event-Driven Architecture

Why is API Gateway essential to business?

Uli has been working with data engineering & distributed systems since the early days of the internet. Previously with companies including Microsoft, Red Hat, Yahoo! and IBM, he has been covering open banking, healthcare, service providers, education, and media. Since 2020 he teaches DevOps at the National University of Singapore's FinTech programme.

Let's build an AI-powered API in 30 Minutes

As the Director of Developer Relations at Mindee, Frédéric Harper helps developers merge the physical and digital worlds using the magic of machine learning coupled with the ease of APIs. Fred has shared his passion for technology on the stage at dozens of events around the world. He's helped build successful communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit, and is the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication... and cat videos.

Developers Documentation: your secret weapon

Creating Great Developer Experiences with Metrics and Automation

Offensive API Penetration Testing

The truth about anomaly detection in API security

Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr by NetApp. For the last 5 years, Paul has been learning new open source technologies, building realistic demonstration applications, writing blogs, and presenting at international conferences including FOSSASIA, All Things Open and ApacheCon. Paul has extensive R&D, teaching and consulting experience in distributed systems, technology innovation, software architecture, and engineering, software performance and scalability, grid and cloud computing, and data analytics and machine learning. Previously he worked at UNSW, several start-ups, CSIRO, UCL, NICTA and ANU. He has an MSc in Machine Learning (1st Class Honours, Waikato).

Spinning Your Drones with Cadence Workflows and Apache Kafka

Motti served as a software developer in the Israeli Air Force, developing post-flight debriefing & training software. Before joining Aspecto, Motti worked in multiple startups and was responsible for building and scaling their infrastructure. Among them, was a Lead Software Engineer at Chorus. Currently, Motti is a software developer at Aspecto, a distributed tracing platform.

The State of Observability

Mary is a Java Champion and a passionate Streaming Developer Advocate at DataStax, a leading data management company that champions Open Source software and specializes in Big Data/NoSQL, DB-as-a-service, Streaming, and Cloud-Native systems. She spent 3.5 years previously as a very effective advocate at IBM, focusing on Java, Jakarta EE, OpenJ9, Open Source, Cloud, and Distributed Systems. She transitioned from Unix/C to Java around 2000 and has never looked back since then. She considers herself a polyglot and loves to continue learning new and better ways to solve real-life problems. She is an active tech community builder outside of her day job, and currently the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG), as well as a co-organizer for several IBM-sponsored meetup groups in the Greater Chicago area.

Leveraging Event Streaming to Super-Charge your Business Solutions

Derric Gilling is the CEO of Moesif, the leading API analytics and monetization platform. He enjoys working with both startups and large enterprises on launching and scaling an API-first strategy. Gilling is a frequent speaker at developer conferences, including API World, Developer Week, APIDays, and DevRelCon. Gilling has also authored various reports on APIs, including O'Reilly and Nordic APIs.

Best practices when monetizing APIs

How to Build and Leverage APIs Sustainably to Reduce Digital Waste

The API Landscape

The Story of OpenAI GPT3 - Improve Observability with Tracing

Enrique Goizueta leads Meniga's growth in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). Operating with a start-up mindset, Enrique is heading sales and business development efforts to continue expanding Meniga's presence in APAC, develop new channels, and contribute to the company's marketing and business strategies.

Founded in Iceland in 2009, Meniga is a global market leader helping Banks, FinTechs, Neobanks, eWallets, and Digital Challengers on a journey to support their clients developing healthier financial habits through fun personalized digital engagements.

Recognized as an Open Banking and Sustainability leader in Europe, financial institutions across Asia are implementing Meniga to launch Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) strategies that promote green banking solutions and enable environmentally conscious customers to become more sustainable.

Enrique has held several leadership roles in Madrid, London, New York, San Francisco, Mexico and now Singapore, delivering exceptional value to clients through business and technology transformations at Fujitsu, TIBCO, Sngular, or lately founding his own startup Buzziler.

Born in Spain, Enrique holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, and several executive programs from Chicago Booth and Wharton School of Business.

Matchmaking ESG & Sustainability with Open Banking APIs

Giovanni Lesna is the Head of Enterprise and Partnerships at API3 working with Fortune 2000 companies to make their Web 3.0 ambitions a reality. He has an MBA in Digital Business Transformation (UB), a Masters in Blockchain Technologies (UB) and is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC). Prior to Web3.0, his domain of expertise is in traditional financial and capital markets where he worked with the largest bank in Africa as a Consultant. Additionally, Giovanni has worked within 4th industrial revolution (4IR) technology verticals, passionate about 4IR and its ability to unlock human evolution.

Connecting to Web3 - DeFi and beyond

Pioneering Open Banking since February 2010, Simon is the CEO of TESOBE and founder of the Open Bank Project, the open source API platform for banks. Simon studied electronic engineering in Manchester in the early 80's where he focused on real time programming and digital systems - and he subsequently worked as a software developer, architect, sysadmin and DBA on numerous web / mobile platforms both large and small.

A hacker at heart, Simon is also a composer and enjoys interdisciplinary creative collaborations. Simon is a keen supporter of open source and open data believing they are a sustainable force for social good.

Transforming the Bank: API-driven banking beyond Open APIs

I have over 5 years in the technology industry, working originally in Technology Consulting (mainly with cloud solutions) and now shifted to IBM's Client Engineering practice. We work on short MVPs for client's to provide real-life proof that a specific service (or set of services) can match their needs. I'm originally an apprentice so went into the corporate world straight from college and it's been fantastic, and I'm very excited to share some cool tech walkthrough's with Dale at this session!

Add your first asynchronous API to your app in 30 minutes

Bob Brauer is the Founder & CEO of Interzoid, an API and data platform company focused on the next decade of APIs and Contextual Machine Learning for better data quality and highly usable Cloud data. Prior to Interzoid, Bob was the Founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Strategy Officer of StrikeIron (now part of Informatica), and prior to that, the Founder & CEO of DataFlux (acquired by SAS).

Cloud Databases, ELT, and APIs - A Perfect Storm?

Kenneth Cheung has over 20-year experience in the IT industry. Mission is to help enterprises transform with Digital First strategy. He has been one of the pioneers who brought Real-time Event Streaming, Big Data analytics and Data Discovery solutions to the APAC markets. For the last 10+ years, he has been focusing on educating Greater China markets with a change of the way we do business analysis and has successfully brought Data Discovery into numerous enterprises ranging from Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing. Largest project touches the hands of over thousands of users in a single enterprise. Prior to Business Analytics, Kenneth has spent over 5 years in the field of Information Security consulting where he secured many enterprises by delivering consultancy and audit services.

Data Mesh and Data API

Before I was in Data I was in the Devops/Automation field with heavy leanings in full stack automation. I now use these practices with Data in order to leverage the best of both worlds

Stream Processing with KSQLDB and REST API Queries

Jeffrey Lam is big data specialist, pre-sales and enterprise architect with 20+ year experience with global technology leaders, namely Confluent, Splunk, ServiceNow, IBM and Oracle. Jeffrey has solid consulting skills, able to drive technology thought leadership at C-level in multiple disciplines such as data streaming, big data strategy, MLOps, cloud, and enterprise architecture solutions.

Optimize Your API with Event-Driven Microservice Architecture

DeveloperSteve comes from a strong background as a developer and speaker with over 25 years industry experience. A lifelong technology enthusiast, learner and open source contributor, he loves getting hands on with new technologies to push it to its limits. DeveloperSteve continues to work closely with developer, security and cloud communities throughout the world to encourage knowledge sharing and contributing back.

Deploying and building SDKs as a service