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Executive brochure · 2026

Silicon Valley
Executive Immersion

Four focused conversations at the intersection of fintech infrastructure, artificial intelligence and innovation execution.

October 12–16, 2026 Silicon Valley

Explore the program

Program overview

Where Vietnam’s fintech ambition meets frontier innovation

This executive immersion is designed for VNPAY leadership to examine how leading technology and fintech organizations turn emerging capabilities into scalable products, resilient infrastructure and measurable business value.

Across four targeted sessions, the delegation will explore open banking, enterprise AI, fintech ecosystems and merchant intelligence—with a consistent focus on execution.

Key themes

Open Finance Infrastructure

Turn secure data connectivity into products, partnerships and measurable customer value.

AI at Enterprise Scale

Move from promising experiments to disciplined production, adoption and measurement.

Fintech Innovation

Find strong market signals and create repeatable pathways from startup pilot to scale.

Merchant Intelligence

Use payment data to deliver actionable insight, personalization and SMB growth.

4CURATED SESSIONS

4GLOBAL LEADERS

10.5HOURS OF DISCUSSION

4STRATEGIC THEMES

The program

Four conversations.
One connected agenda.

Select a session to explore its learning goals, discussion focus and practical takeaways.

OCT 12
9:00–11:00 AM

OPEN BANKING · DATA CONNECTIVITY

Open Banking & Data Connectivity

A practical examination of how financial-data connectivity becomes scalable infrastructure—and creates measurable value for customers and businesses.

SESSION WITHSimran Singh

Head of Financial Institutions, Plaid

DISCUSSION FOCUS

Move beyond the concept of open banking to examine what it takes to operationalize financial connectivity at scale—from API integration and data quality to customer onboarding, compliance, bank relationships and product-market fit.

What VNPAY will learn

The fintech use cases that generate the fastest path to ROI.
How to scale integrations while maintaining data quality, reliability and security.
How products move from pilot to integration to full deployment.
The regulatory and bank-partnership challenges across different markets.

About PLAID

Plaid connects consumers’ financial accounts with the fintech applications and services they choose to use. Its platform supports data connectivity, identity verification, payments, lending and other financial use cases.

Participating organizations

Where we’re going

Four category leaders opening distinct perspectives across financial infrastructure, enterprise technology, innovation ecosystems and applied AI.

PLAIDOPEN BANKING

AMAZONAI

PLUG AND PLAYFINTECH

GOOGLEAI

Speakers & faculty

Voices of the program

PLAID · DAY 1

Simran Singh

Head of Financial Institutions, Plaid

A practical examination of how financial-data connectivity becomes scalable infrastructure—and creates measurable value for customers and businesses.

AMAZON · DAY 2

Raj Menon & Amazon Epic Leadership Team

Customer Success Leader | Agentic & AI-First GTM

A practical look at how Amazon approaches innovation and moves AI initiatives from experimentation toward scalable business applications.

PLUG AND PLAY · DAY 3

Sara Torabi & Executive Fintech Team

Plug and Play

A window into the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem and how corporations identify, evaluate and work with startups to bring emerging technology into the enterprise.

GOOGLE · DAY 4

Joana Carrasqueira

Product & Special Projects Lead, Google DeepMind

Explore how AI can transform payment and merchant data into actionable insights, smarter targeting and new growth opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses.

SVIC · On-site Program Lead

Ommeira Fakhri

Silicon Valley Innovation Center

Ommeirafakhri@svicenter.com +1 (510) 566-2407