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.

All Hedgeweek Summits operate under Chatham House Rule. This means that attendees are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed. Recording of the panels and roundtables is strictly prohibited.

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REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

8:30 AM

Welcome from the Chair

8:55 AM

• 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 Office, Coindient Capital

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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:

• Rutao Fan, CFO, Pythagoras Management Company
• Steve Knabl, Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer, Swiss Asia group

NETWORKING BREAK

Coffee break and a chance to meet our experts

10:45 AM

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions. Delegates register in advance for 4 of 5 topics.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 1

Roundtable A: Benchmarking a nascent asset class

11:15 AM

• What are the key factors the industry must keep in mind when building a crypto index?
• Is the digital assets data available robust and sufficient?
• What more can be done? How do crypto indices benefit investors and managers in the space?
• The challenges and concerns regarding crypto indices and gaps in the market

Speaker:

• Derek Wong, Portfolio Manager, SingAlliance

Roundtable B: 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 C: Using innovation to drive market – and business – growth

• Exploring how the latest trading features and tools support market expansion
• Is the industry doing enough to leverage AI to improve the investor experience?
• What role do liquidity pools play in the market and what is their impact on pricing?
• Fluctuating trading volumes – to what extent do they affect investor sentiment?

Roundtable D: 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 mute alpha?
• How are allocators thinking about the sizing of their investment in digital assets?
• How managers’ operational innovations can help mitigate investors’ primary risks

Speaker:

• Alan Soh, Director and Portfolio Manager, Presto Digital

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions. Delegates register in advance for 4 of 5 topics.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 2

Roundtable A: Benchmarking a nascent asset class

Roundtable B: The evolution of crypto prime brokerage

Roundtable C: Using innovation to drive market – and business – growth

12:00 PM

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

• Derek Wong, Portfolio Manager, SingAlliance

• Alan Soh, Director and Portfolio Manager, Presto Digital

• Omid Zadeh, Global Head Of Prime Sales, Matrixport

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:

• John Gu, Founder & CEO, AlphaLab Capital Group
• Kevin Ho, Partner & COO, Pilgrim Partners Asia
• Luuk Strijers, Chief Commercial Officer, Deribit
• Takatoshi Shibayama, Head of Sales APAC, Copper.co
• Patrick Tan, CEO & General Counsel, Novum Alpha

Roundtables take place as repeated parallel sessions. Delegates register in advance for 4 of 5 topics.

ROUNDTABLE ROUND 3

2:45 PM

Roundtable A: Benchmarking a nascent asset class

Roundtable B: The evolution of crypto prime brokerage

Roundtable C: Using innovation to drive market – and business – growth

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

• Omid Zadeh, Global Head Of Prime Sales, Matrixport

• Stephanie Rhea Erev, ESG & IR Advisor, FSN Capital

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, Partner and Co-Founder, Spartan Group
• Andrew Scott, Partner, Bach Option

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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

Thomas Barton

Sudeep Chatterjee

COO at Trovio

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Head of Product at AsiaNext

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Adrian Chng

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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John Gu

Founder & CEO at AlphaLab Capital Group

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Kevin Ho

Partner & COO at Pilgrim Partners Asia

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Tom James

CEO & CIO and Co-founder at Tradeflow Capital

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Casper Johansen

Steve Knabl

Partner and Co-Founder at Spartan Group

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Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer at Swiss Asia group

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Tuck Meng Yee

CIO at JRT Partners

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Andrew Scott

Sunil Shah

Partner at Bach Option

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Chief Operating Office at Coindient Capital

Kher Sheng Lee

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

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Takatoshi Shibayama

Head of Sales APAC at Copper.co

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Luuk Strijers

Alan Soh

Chief Commercial Officer at Deribit

Director and Portfolio Manager at Presto Digital

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Patrick Tan

CEO & General Counsel at Novum Alpha

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Portfolio Manager at SingAlliance

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Global Head Of Prime Sales at Matrixport

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Derek Wong

Omid Zadeh

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Electronic Devices

Dress code for this event is business casual.

We kindly ask attendees to please keep electronic devices on silent during panels and roundtables.

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