Opportunities in institutionalizing the digital frontier

Thursday, 12th October, 2023 | The Westin, Singapore

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Brought to you by Hedgeweek, the Hedge Fund APAC Digital Assets Summit is designed for operational, legal, investment and product specialists at APAC-based hedge funds to discuss key developments, trends, and issues driving the growth of digital asset strategies and funds.


This one-day event will explore a wealth of topics, including:

  • The case for investing in digital assets
  • Key legal and regulatory challenges
  • Custody, security and liquidity issues
  • Trading and investment strategies
  • Future developments and trends
  • Digital asset fund bootcamp for managers
  • The shifting sentiment of allocators toward digital asset funds

Join us for what promises to be an exciting and engaging event.

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REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

8:30 AM

Welcome from the Chair

8:55 AM

  • Aftab Bose, Senior Research Analyst, Hedgeweek
  • How hedge funds and their investors are capitalising on blockchain and crypto opportunities
  • Identifying the latest projects that offer ‘real world’ solutions through blockchain tech
  • How does one assess the viability, credibility, and profitability of these projects?
  • What are some of the best ways to get exposure and access to these assets?

Making it real: Turning crypto and blockchain innovations into investment opportunities

PANEL 1

9:00 AM

Speakers:

  • Kher Sheng Lee, Managing Director, Co-Head of APAC and Deputy Global Head of Government Affairs, AIMA (moderator)
  • Amar Singh Anand, Founder and CIO, Auroville Investment Management Limited
  • Deryck Graham, Founder and CEO, Portal Asset Management
  • Tom James, CEO & CIO and Co-founder, Tradeflow Capital

Fireside Chat

9:45 AM

In conversation: a leading hedge fund manager discusses how the digital assets industry is shaping APAC’s investment landscape and the regional nuances in investor appetite and sentiment.

  • Adrian Chng, Founder, Fintonia Group
  • Sunil Shah, Chief Operating Officer, Coincident Capital

Speakers:

Regulation: White knight or wolf in sheep’s clothing?

PANEL 2

  • Discussing the primary issues that digital assets hedge funds hope regulation will solve
  • Is it realistic to think world regulators can deliver a unified response to digital assets?
  • How can the funds industry ensure it has a voice during the development of regulation?
  • Assessing the risk regulation poses in stymieing innovation and progress of the asset class

10:00 AM

Speakers:

  • Steve Knabl, Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Swiss Asia Group (moderator)
  • Rutao Fan, CFO, Pythagoras Management Company
  • Ray Li, CEO and Co-Founder, MainNet Capital
  • Patrick Tan, CEO & General Counsel, Novum Alpha

NETWORKING BREAK

Coffee break and a chance to meet our experts

10:45 AM

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 1

11:15 AM

Roundtable A: The evolution of crypto prime brokerage

  • The latest challenges facing crypto primes – and how PBs are reducing counterparty risk for their clients?
  • How crypto managers are benefiting from Capital efficient trading?
  • What strategies we see returning the best results in this current low liquidity climate?
  • The innovations coming to the prime brokerage space in 2024?

Speaker:

  • Omid Zadeh, Global Head Of Prime Sales, Matrixport

Roundtable B: Products of the future – opportunities in crypto derivatives

  • What are the opportunities for fund managers in crypto options, futures, and perps?
  • The latest tools helping managers bridge the crypto and traditional derivatives markets
  • System requirements – can you leverage current systems for front/back office support?
  • Looking through the lens of infrastructure support and technology requirements

Speakers:

  • Ryan Burdick, SVP Global Sales, Amberdata
  • Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives, Amberdata

Roundtable C: The future of crypto and impact for fund managers

  • The biggest influences on long-term investor sentiment towards digital assets
  • To what extent will a convergence between crypto and traditional markets create value?
  • How are allocators thinking about the sizing of their investment in digital assets?
  • A view of the future, what to expect

Speakers:

  • James Carpenter, Senior Business Development Executive, LMAX Digital
  • Alan Soh, Director and Portfolio Manager, Presto Digital
  • Nick Strain, Director of Institutional Sales, LMAX Digital

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 2

Roundtable A: The evolution of crypto prime brokerage

Roundtable B: Products of the future – opportunities in crypto derivatives

12:00 PM

Roundtable C: The future of crypto and impact for fund managers

  • James Carpenter, Senior Business Development Executive, LMAX Digital
  • Alan Soh, Director and Portfolio Manager, Presto Digital
  • Nick Strain, Director of Institutional Sales, LMAX Digital
  • Omid Zadeh, Global Head Of Prime Sales, Matrixport
  • Ryan Burdick, SVP Global Sales, Amberdata
  • Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives, Amberdata

NETWORKING LUNCH

12:45 PM

One year on: The ramifications of and lessons learned from the FTX collapse

PANEL 3

  • How digital assets managers approach counterparty risk nearly 12 months on from FTX
  • To what extent do gaps still exist and how managers and providers addressing them
  • How do counterparty risks differ in DeFi and CeFi worlds? Is a DeFi failure feasible?
  • Looking ahead – assessing the new developments in the custody sphere

2:00 PM

Speakers:

  • Luuk Strijers, Chief Commercial Officer, Deribit (moderator)
  • John Gu, Founder & CEO, AlphaLab Capital Group
  • Takatoshi Shibayama, Head of Sales APAC, Copper.co
  • Darius Sit, Founder & CIO, QCP Capital

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 3

2:45 PM

Roundtable A: The evolution of crypto prime brokerage

Roundtable B: Products of the future – opportunities in crypto derivatives

Roundtable C: The future of crypto and impact for fund managers

  • Omid Zadeh, Global Head Of Prime Sales, Matrixport
  • Ryan Burdick, SVP Global Sales, Amberdata
  • Greg Magadini, Director of Derivatives, Amberdata
  • James Carpenter, Senior Business Development executive, LMAX Digital
  • Nick Strain, Director of Institutional Sales, LMAX Digital
  • Derek Wong, Portfolio Manager, SingAlliance

NETWORKING BREAK

Coffee break and a chance to meet our experts

3:30 PM

The road to institutionalisation: The contribution of traditional players and digital natives

PANEL 4

  • What are investment banks doing to help build the infrastructure around digital assets?
  • How the crypto offerings of traditional managers stack up against those of digital natives
  • The outlook for competition in the space – where is it coming from and how intense is it?
  • How will institutionalisation impact the selection of digital asset investments?

4:00 PM

  • Tuck Meng Yee, CIO, JRT Partners (moderator)
  • Thomas Barton, COO, Trovio
  • Sudeep Chatterjee, Head of Product, AsiaNext
  • Casper Johansen, Co-Founder, Spartan Group
  • Andrew Scott, Partner, Bach Option

Speakers:

NETWORKING

Connect with peers from around the industry over a glass of wine followed by the Hedgeweek APAC Digital Assets Awards

4:45 PM

EVENT CLOSES

8:00 PM

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Amar Singh Anand

Founder and CIO at Auroville Investment Management Limited

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Thomas Barton

Ryan Burdick

COO at Trovio

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SVP Global Sales at Amberdata

James Carpenter

Senior Business Development Executive at LMAX Digital

Sudeep Chatterjee

Adrian Chng

Head of Product at AsiaNext

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Founder at Fintonia Group

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Rutao Fan

CFO at Pythagoras Management Company

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Deryck Graham

Founder and CEO at Portal Asset Management

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Founder & CEO at AlphaLab Capital Group

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John Gu

Casper Johansen

Tom James

Co-Founder at Spartan Group

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CEO & CIO and Co-Founder at Tradeflow Capital

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Steve Knabl

Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Swiss Asia Group

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Ray Li

Greg Magadini

CEO and Co-Founder at MainNet Capital

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Director of Derivatives at Amberdata

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Tuck Meng Yee

CIO at JRT Partners

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Andrew Scott

Partner at Bach Option

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Sunil Shah

Chief Operating Officer at Coincident Capital

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Kher Sheng Lee

Managing Director, Co-Head of APAC and Deputy Global Head of Government Affairs at AIMA

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Takatoshi Shibayama

Darius Sit

Head of Sales APAC at Copper.co

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Founder & CIO at QCP Capital

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Alan Soh

Director and Portfolio Manager at Presto Digital

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Nick Strain

Director of Institutional Sales at LMAX Digital

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Luuk Strijers

Patrick Tan

Chief Commercial Officer at Deribit

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CEO & General Counsel at Novum Alpha

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Portfolio Manager at SingAlliance

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Derek Wong

Omid Zadeh

Global Head Of Prime Sales at Matrixport

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