Senior Vice President, General Manager of Asia Pacific, TiDB, powered by PingCAP
Davis Zhu currently serves as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific at PingCAP Pte. Ltd., the company behind TiDB. Before that, he established a SaaS business and co-founded another data intelligence company. While at Intel China Region as Managing Director, he spearheaded game-changing strategies, resulting in unprecedented annual revenues surpassing 3.3 billion US dollars. Davis expanded his expertise by living and working in the USA, driving global Big Data strategies, and exploring diverse industries as Vice President of Sales for Disney. He holds a Master's in Computer-Aided Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an Executive MBA from the China Europe International Business School. In his free time, he indulges in reading, hiking, and embarking on expeditions to distant corners of the world, including Antarctica and Africa.
Roundtable Room 3, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
Invite-Only
Both digital trade and digital finance are frequently cited as key to solving the trade finance gap and more generally the financial inclusion gap. Although there are examples of instances where fintechs have helped to expand financial inclusion, the trade finance gap and the problems of financial inclusion continue to grow. The bulk of finance, technology and digital trade innovation– particularly in the past year where focus has been on the use of AI– have focused on making current processes faster and more efficient, without making a real dent on inclusion.
This roundtable seeks to recentre the inclusion discussion on the collaboration that digital trade and digital finance advocates must undertake to create real pathways – not just rhetorical ones – towards financial inclusion. Among the key discussion items will be:
- Creation and sharing of data from trade processes into finance
- Tokenization of real world and financial assets to solve deep tier/upstream access
- Partnership with Multilateral Development Banks and policymakers to drive private sector action
- The role of CBDCs and payments
Working with the audience, the roundtable seeks to outline a number of actions that can be taken collaboratively towards closing the inclusion gap and making real progress, bearing in mind the need to strike a better balance between the need for commercial viability of innovation and the need to solve inclusion issues and secure future prosperity.
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