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      Tahir Zafar

      Tahir Zafar

      Head of AI Strategy, APAC

      JPMorganChase

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      Tahir Zafar is the Head of AI Strategy for APAC at JPMorgan Chase, where he leads the firm’s regional innovation agenda to scale responsible and strategic AI across business lines and functions. He leads efforts to translate rapid advances in AI into enterprise scale opportunities – commercializing value and positioning AI as a strategic growth driver and competitive advantage.

      Based in Singapore, Tahir works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and regulation, partnering with senior leaders to shape the firms AI priorities and embed AI into the fabric of the organization, delivering business value and balancing innovation with trust. He also engages with regulators, policymakers, academia, and the wider technology innovation ecosystem on the responsible development and adoption of AI in financial services.

      Prior to JP Morgan, Tahir served as the International Head of AI Strategy at Nomura, where he helped shape and scale the firm’s AI Centre of Excellence and global AI agenda. Earlier in his career, he held senior leadership roles at PwC and Accenture, advising a range of top-tier investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, and Barclays, on AI, data, regulatory change, and digital transformation.

      A recognized thought leader, Tahir has worked across London, Madrid, New York, and Singapore, bringing a global perspective to the region. He is a regular speaker at global conferences and industry summits, sharing his insights on AI strategy, responsible and ethical innovation, and the future of financial services.

      Tahir holds a degree in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

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      • 4:00–6:00pmMon 16 NovLaunchpadLaunchpad RoomOpen

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        Spotlight on AI: Driving Trust and Transformation: Building AI in Financial Services - Powered by JPMorganChase

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        About this session

        How can financial institutions scale AI while maintaining trust, managing risk and establishing clear accountability?

        Drawing on more than a decade of AI deployment, JPMorganChase’s inaugural Insights2040 policy forum brings together regulators, policymakers and industry leaders to explore what responsible AI adoption looks like in practice.

        With a focus on Asia Pacific, the forum will examine how policy, regulation and industry collaboration can support innovation while addressing model risk, governance and oversight. Discussions will explore the move from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, including AI literacy, workforce readiness and the safeguards.

        Attendees will also receive a limited preview of the Agentic Assurance Initiative, a collaboration exploring a standard way to demonstrate an AI agent’s reliability. The forum will offer perspectives on scaling adoption, governing agentic AI and strengthening cooperation between the public and private sectors.

        4:00pm - 4:05pm

        Welcome & Opening Remarks

        Speaker: Daniel Wu, Executive Director, AI & Data Policy, Asia Pacific, JPMorganChase

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        4:05pm - 4:15pm

        Keynote: Driving Trust and Transformation: The Future of AI in Finance, Banking, and Beyond

        AI transformation now touches every corner of the firm. What began as an experiment to put AI tools in people’s hands has become a company-wide ecosystem. This scale has afforded the firm insights on what it takes to enable the collective success of enterprises, economies, and communities to benefit from AI adoption and diffusion. This keynote will share the firm’s perspective on the path forward, the unique role for the financial sector to shape AI policy and regulation, and a call to action for our shared AI future.

        Speaker: Deep Thomas, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, APAC, JPMorganChase

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        4:15pm - 4:45pm

        Fireside: The Past, Present, and Future of AI Policy and Regulation

        This fireside chat brings together regulators to discuss the fast-evolving AI policy and supervisory agenda. Reflecting on key documents such as the Financial Stability Board Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence, speakers will reflect on the converging expectations around consistent and demonstrable governance – clear accountability, model risk management, data provenance, and ongoing monitoring – against the evolving technology, deployment, and risk management landscape. Speakers will also offer a systemic view on how to understand and remain updated on the opportunities and risks of AI, and respond with the appropriate adoption strategy and guardrails without constraining future innovation.

        Speaker(s): Sunayna Tuteja, Former Chief Innovation Officer, Federal Reserve System, Amy Lee, Head of Fintech Hub, Bank of England, Christine Graham, Head of AI & Data Regulatory Affairs, JPMorganChase (Moderator)

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        4:45pm - 5:30pm

        Panel: Governed to Grow: How to Make Speed and Safety a Force Multiplier

        Speed and safety work together, and the organizations that get the balance right will build a lasting competitive advantage. This session covers the full life cycle of AI, with practical insights for those who build, supervise, and rely on these systems. Panelists will also take up the questions business and technology leaders are asking now: how to build in governance and trust from the start, how to scale, how to drive adoption and raise AI literacy, and how to drive and scale collective success across the ecosystem.

        Speaker(s): Gautam Gorki, Chief Analytics Officer, APAC, JPMorganChase, Vijay Jairaj, Head of Strategic AI Governance and Enablement (SAIGE), APAC, JPMorganChase, Tahir Zafar, Head of AI Strategy, APAC, JPMorganChase (Moderator)

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        5:30pm - 5:50pm

        Presentation: Limited Preview of Agentic Assurance Initiative

        This session will offer attendees a preview of a joint collaboration between JPMorganChase, MLCommons, and AI Verify Foundation on an AI agent assurance initiative to provide a standard way to evidence an AI agent’s reliability. This session will share early findings and outline the path toward completion.

        Speaker(s): Mike Hsu, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency, MLCommons, Lee Wan Sie, Executive Director, AI Verify Foundation

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        5:50pm - 5:55pm

        Closing Remarks

        Speaker: Daniel Wu, Executive Director, AI & Data Policy, Asia Pacific, JPMorganChase