French Tech After Hours - AI in Finance and Trading
Join us for French Tech After Hours: AI in Finance & Trading, an evening bringing together founders, fintech leaders, traders, product builders and AI practitioners. This edition explores how AI agents, automation, payments infrastructure, and next-gen trading systems are transforming financial operations across Hong Kong, the GBA, and global markets.
What to expect: High-impact industry talks, an exclusive advanced technical workshop, and interactive round-table discussions led by experts across payments, treasury, Web3, private markets and cross‑border trade.
Language: English
Location: 16/F, Compass Offices, Lee Garden 2, 28 Yun Ping Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Event Schedule
18:00–18:30 | Registration & Welcome Networking
18:30–18:45 | Opening Remarks & Sponsor Welcome
18:45–19:15 | Keynote Talks (Part 1) | Invest Hong Kong & Women in Web3
19:15–20:00 | Keynote Talks (Part 2) | Theseus Solutions, System in Motion, AWS
20:00–21:00 | Parallel Interactive Tracks:
Track A: Advanced Technical Workshop (Pre-registration required)
Track B: Expert-Led Round-table Discussions
Track C: Open Networking & Drinks
Keynote Speakers & Sessions
Fintech Landscape and AI Opportunities in Hong Kong & the GBA
Peggy Kwok — Senior Vice President, Invest Hong Kong
The Scoop: Discover the macro trends shaping fintech growth in the region. Peggy maps out the priority verticals where AI adoption is accelerating, details government sandboxes and funding programmes, and shares practical cross-border opportunities for founders and investors.
Bridging TradFi and Web3: Compliance, Custody, and Hybrid Architectures
Melizza Anievas — Co-founder, Women in Web3 Hong Kong
The Scoop: As traditional finance and Web3 converge, how do we build infrastructure that satisfies both? Melizza explores hybrid architectures, advanced custody models, and how AI and blockchain coexist to enable secure, compliant, and scalable digital asset operations.
Optimising Group Payment Flows: Automation, Controls, and Scalable Architecture (with Case Study)
Nicolas Michaux — Founder, Theseus Solutions
The Scoop: Explore how organisations can streamline multi‑bank, multi‑entity and multi‑currency payment flows through automation, strong internal controls and scalable architecture. This session walks through the journey from manual reconciliation to full automation, highlights key governance and compliance considerations, and shares practical strategies finance and treasury teams can apply to modernise their operations and improve reliability.
The Issue with Agentic Commerce? Your Agent Needs Its Own Credit Card
Stéphane Monsallier — CEO & Founder, System in Motion
The Scoop: As autonomous agents begin to negotiate, purchase and execute tasks on behalf of users, new challenges emerge around trust, identity and payments. This session explores how buyer and seller agents establish trust, why agents may require their own payment credentials, and what new protocol layers are needed on top of existing payment schemes.
Trust at Scale: Engineering Reliable AI Agents for Financial Services
Dexter Chan — Solutions Architect, AWS
The Scoop: AI agents can automate complex financial workflows but finance doesn't tolerate "mostly right." This session introduces a practical framework for engineering agents that are deterministic, traceable, and controllable enough to satisfy the financial industry and ship to production.
Advanced Technical Workshop (Parallel Session)
Building an AI Agent for Trading: Architecture, Evaluation, and Production
Facilitator: Jason Xu — Co-founder, Lunatechs (Ex-Google, Alibaba, Nansen)
An intensive, hands-on masterclass tailored for advanced users. Bring your real-world technical bottlenecks and map out architectural solutions directly with a veteran AI product executive.
Strictly Limited: Maximum 12 participants.
Requirement: Advanced-level practitioners only.
Apply for a Workshop Seat Upon Event Registration
Expert Round-Tables (Parallel Session)
Grab a drink and join a highly interactive, closed-door discussion on a burning industry topic:
Treasury Transformation: Structuring Teams, Tools & Governance
Led by: Nicolas Michaux (Founder, Theseus Solutions)
Agent-to-Agent Payments: Building Safe and Auditable Systems
Led by: Stéphane Monsailler (CEO & Founder, System in Motion)
Solving the ‘Unbankable’ Challenge in Cross-Border Trade
Led by: Tom Leung (Partnership Manager, PingPongX)
Leveraging Generative AI & AI Agents for Due Diligence in Private Equity
Led by: Raphaël Mansuy (CTO, Gateway Private Markets)
Partners & Sponsors
Venue Sponsor: Compass Offices
Food & Beverage Sponsors: System In Motion, Theseus Solutions, AWS
Community Partners: Women in Web3 Hong Kong, DF Group, Lunatechs
Hospitality Partner: FB Solution
About La French Tech Hong Kong - Shenzhen
Founded in 2019 as a not-for-profit organization registered in Paris, La French Tech Hong Kong - Shenzhen is a vibrant community of entrepreneurs, innovators, and leaders. As official ambassadors of Mission French Tech and run entirely by volunteers, we connect France's cutting-edge tech ecosystem with the opportunities of the Greater Bay Area—Asia's leading innovation hub.