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Jannah Patchay
Executive in Residence & Board Member
Global Digital Finance
Jannah is the founder of Markets Evolution, advising firms on identifying and capitalising on innovation opportunities, and crafting and executing strategies within highly regulated environments. She is passionate about shaping the financial markets of the future by leveraging frontier technologies to create innovative financial services and products that drive social and environmental impact while expanding access to financial services. Her current focus areas include the evolution of digital asset markets, the development of new forms of digital money, including stablecoins, and sustainable financial systems. A long-standing contributor to the development of domestic and global financial policy and regulation, Jannah has played a key role in shaping organisations that drive the regulatory agenda for digital assets and digital currencies, both in the UK and globally, with respect to digital money and assets, most recently as an Executive in Residence and Board Member at Global Digital Finance, and co-founder and Executive Director of the Digital Pound Foundation (now part of Innovate Finance).
Speaking at
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11:15–11:55amWed 25 MarSummit StageWinthrop HallOpen
Next-Gen Transactions
Regulation as Enabling Infrastructure - Trust, Interoperability & Investment-Ready Markets
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Jag FooChief Security and Policy OfficerSafeheron
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Jannah PatchayExecutive in Residence & Board MemberGlobal Digital Finance
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Nina SkewesPrivacy Deputy CommissionerOffice of the Information Commissioner WA
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Steve VallasChief Executive OfficerBlockchain APACModerator
About this session
The next economy will be built on rules, standards, supervision & cross-border interoperability that make innovation safe to scale. This session reframes regulation as enabling infrastructure by reducing uncertainty, protecting consumers, preventing systemic failure & unlocking capital. Attendees leave with greater clarity on what “investment-ready” markets require in the next 12–24 months.
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1:30–2:45pmWed 25 MarPublic-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 2OpenModerator
Next-Gen Transactions
[Roundtable] Cutting the Costs of Cross-Border Trade – Modern Digital Money in Practice
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Alvinder SinghHead, Innovation Acceleration OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Amy-Rose GoodeyChief Executive OfficerDigital Economy Council of Australia (DECA)
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Belle LouFounderBloom Fintech
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Prof. David Lee Kuo ChuenChairmanGlobal Fintech Institute
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Effie DimitropoulosChief Executive OfficerAUDD Stablecoin
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Prof. Kadambot SiddiqueHackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and DirectorThe UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia
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Laura DinneenHead of Product MarketingZodia Custody
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Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology OfficerDigital Finance CRC
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Michael PrendivilleChief Executive OfficerJellyC
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Dr. Andrzej GwizdalskiCo-founder & ChairmanWestern Australia Web3 AssociationModerator
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Jannah PatchayExecutive in Residence & Board MemberGlobal Digital FinanceModerator
About this session
Western Australia’s economy is highly export-driven. With exports over $240 Billion, it makes nearly half of the total Australian goods exports. Yet cross-border payments still carry potentially avoidable friction such as settlement delays, layered fees, FX spreads, manual exceptions & compliance overheads, costs that hit SMEs hardest & compound across large trade flows.
This session is a practical, industry-first discussion focused on one question:
How can WA reduce the costs & friction of cross-border export payments & safely adopt modern, regulated digital settlement tools where they deliver clear benefits while maintaining strong compliance, consumer protection, operational resilience & effective supervision? -
