Revolutionizing Financial Services and Markets Through FinTech and Blockchain

Kiran Mehta (Ph.D.) is an educator, trainer, consultant, and researcher. She has almost twenty years of experience. She has published several research articles in a variety of international publications, including Emerald, Taylor & Francis, and Sage. She is the author of "Financial Services," a text book published by CENGAGE. She has created study materials for a number of Indian institutes. Her areas of interest include climate finance, sustainable business, portfolio management, stock market efficiency, technology and education, entrepreneurship, and venture capital.

Renuka Sharma is a Professor (Finance) at Chitkara Business School at Chitkara University in Punjab. She has over 18 years of teaching and research experience (more than ten years post-doctoral and eight years before to obtaining her PhD). She has authored numerous research papers, a few of which have been published in international/national journals (Taylor&Francis, Emerald, Sage, Inderscience, etc.) and the rest have been presented at international/national conferences (IIM Bangalore, Shillong, Calcutta, Indore, and Kozhikode, among others), with numerous papers selected for Best Paper Awards. She also serves as a reviewer for numerous prestigious journals published by Emerald, Elsevier, and Inderscience, among others. Currently, she is guiding two PhD scholars and has successfully defended five others. She has been a consultant for several start-ups and MSMEs. She is the author of two textbooks for Cengage Pub. and Vikas Pub. Additionally, she has developed study materials for a variety of business-related courses for prominent Indian universities and institutions She has served as a resource person for several MDPs and FDPs related to research and finance. She is an entrepreneur too.

Poshan (Sam) Yu is a consultant, adjunct professor, keynote speaker, research award winner, editor, author, ad-hoc reviewer and venture capitalist. He also serves as a guest financial news commentator on more than thirty media platforms in China. Sam lectures at the International Cooperative Education Program of Soochow University (China). He is also an external professor of financial technology and finance at SKEMA Business School (China), a visiting professor at Krirk University (Thailand) and a visiting researcher at the Australian Studies Centre of Shanghai University (China). Besides, Sam is a regional partner (China) at FasterCapital (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), a vice president at Tinbowah Investment (Beijing), an honorary vice president at Belt and Road Blockchain Association, a business mentor of AIC RAISE (Coimbatore, India) and University College London. His research interests include public-private partnerships, financial technology, regulatory technology, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, start-ups, intellectual property, art finance, wine and China's "One Belt One Road" policy.