Speakers

David G. W. Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. He is an international keynote speaker and recognised thought leader  whose books on digital identity and digital money have been widely praised. David is Principal at his advisory practice 15Mb Ltd. and Global Ambassador for Consult Hyperion, the consulting arm of Fime. A Senior Research Fellow at King’s College Business School in London, he is Non-Executive Chairman of Digiseq Ltd and holds a number of other board-level advisory roles with companies in Europe and the USA including OneID, PaymentWorks, Au10tix and KYP – Know Your Partner. His most recent journal papers cover agentic finance, payment system resilience and non-human customers.  Once named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information (Wired magazine) and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking (Financial Brand), he created one of the top 25 “must read’ financial IT blogs and was found to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators, along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson (PR Daily). Ranked one of 2022’s global top 30 fintech influencers, he is one of the top three most influential people in London’s FinTech community (City A.M.) and rated Europe’s most influential commentator on emerging payments (Total Payments).  David is a Senior Research Fellow in the Qatar Centre for Digital Finance at King’s Business School in London, a Forbes contributor and a columnist for Financial World magazine. He has also written for publications ranging from the Parliamentary IT Review to The Financial Times. He also wrote a column in The Guardian for many years. A media commentator on electronic business issues, he has appeared on BBC television and radio, Sky and other channels around the world.