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Sebastien Picard
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
xcube.co
Sebastien Picard is Founder and CEO of xcube.co, a fintech venture studio operating across ASEAN and GCC markets from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bahrain. His work sits at the intersection of innovation, venture building, and institutional capital allocation, giving him a practitioner's view across the full lifecycle of company creation, from ideation through investment structuring to portfolio governance.
Before founding xcube, Sebastien spent over a decade in academic research and management education. He holds a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and ESCP Business School, with peer-reviewed research on how financial institutions actually implement regulation, navigate ethical complexity, and exercise corporate power.
He now applies that analytical discipline to a question the venture capital industry has largely avoided: whether new models of company creation can withstand the scrutiny that institutional capital demands.
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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)
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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? -
