2026 Speakers
2026 Distinguished Speakers
Laksh Gangwani
Chief Growth Officer
ViewTrade
Laksh Gangwani serves as Chief Growth Officer for ViewTrade
As the first exec hire in the region, he has played an instrumental role in Viewtrade’s expansion in APAC and Middle East, including setting up of offices in Singapore, Australia, Thailand, Dubai, and India (IFSC).
Laksh combines regional market insights with a global perspective to architect scalable capital markets and wealth management solutions for banks, brokers, fintechs, and wealth managers.
Prior to ViewTrade, Laksh built and scaled Symphony’s award-winning wealth management proposition from scratch helping wealth managers save millions of dollars lost to inefficient processes and communication.
In 2021, for his work in the Wealth Management industry, Laksh was recognized as the Leading Individual by WealthBriefing Asia.
As a passion project, Laksh also hosts Digijanus (Asia’s largest chatshow focussed on Digital transformation), where he invites fellow industry leaders to discuss ways to transform & grow the financial industry. The chat-show is followed by 80,000 people across social media platforms.
Prior to this, for over a decade, Laksh has launched and scaled businesses in APAC for firms such as Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, Threatmetrix, and Symphony.
Speaking at
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3:00–4:15pmTue 24 MarPublic-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 2Open
Securing the Future
[Roundtable] Where’s the Real Value? Investing Beyond Hype in the Next Economy (Quantum, AI, Tokenization, Green Infrastructure)
Public-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 2Open
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Alvinder SinghHead, Innovation Acceleration OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Drew BradfordChief Executive OfficerMacropod
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Josh PhillipsChief Executive Officer and Co-founderClearAI
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Laksh GangwaniChief Growth OfficerViewTrade
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Lisa SchroederAssociate Managing DirectorQAI Ventures
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Sebastien PicardFounder & Chief Executive Officerxcube.co
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Tetiana GeorgeCo-Chair / CEOInsurtech Australia / Curium
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Dr. Jo HawkinsHead of Research Translation and COOInternational Centre of Radio AstronomyModerator
About this session
The “next economy” is already here (but not evenly distributed) with AI in everyday services, new digital markets through tokenisation, quantum-driven security upgrades, and green infrastructure powering modern compute. But not all growth stories are sustainable, and bubbles do happen (is AI due for a reset? Is Quantum finally ready?). That leaves a simple question for everyone—from mums and dads, VCs and family offices to Australia’s super funds:
What does this mean for savings, wealth, retirement and the kind of economy we’re building?
This roundtable brings together investors, technologists and researchers, regulators and practitioners to separate durable value from hype, and to define what high-return, responsible investing looks like under real uncertainty.
We also ask the hard questions: if some jobs disappear or shift, how do large funds still deliver for members and the broader economy—not just short-term winners? -

