Overview

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Enterprise Singapore and the National Research Foundation (NRF) today announced that the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) and the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology (SWITCH) would come together as SFF x SWITCH to synergise across the themes of FinTech and Deep Tech. SFF x SWITCH will run from 11 to 15 November 2019.

SFF x SWITCH will bring insights from global thought leaders, showcase innovative solutions, and engage entrepreneurs, investors and innovators from around the world.  It will also provide rich networking opportunities for participants to collaborate on technological innovation across five key sectors – FinTech, Urban Solutions and Sustainability, Health and Biomedical Sciences, Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering, and Digital Services.

Participants can gain access to the three-day Conference & Exhibition of both events, which will take place from 11 to 13 November 2019 at the Singapore Expo. The Conference will feature for the first time the theme of sustainability, and cover Financial Services; Industry 4.0 – Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cloud and Cybersecurity; Financial Inclusion; Green Finance; and Technology Beyond Finance. The Exhibition will feature country pavilions, industry exhibitors, financial industry showcase booths, and a startup zone.

There will be three Competitions for the global innovation community:

• Global FinTech Hackcelerator, which matches innovative startup solutions to address industry’s problem statements;
• SLINGSHOT 2019, an international startup pitching competition; and
• FinTech Awards, which recognises innovative financial technology solutions.

Finalists from the competitions will showcase their solutions at SFF x SWITCH.

Investors and companies can have access to two Deal-Making Platforms:

• Deal Fridays, curated deal-making sessions for facilitating investment into startups, that will run every Friday from 21 June to 25 October 2019; and
• TechInnovation, a technology-to-industry matching marketplace which facilitates business matching within the industry, seeds licensing opportunities and fosters open innovation collaborations.

On 14 and 15 November 2019, workshops and events designed for the tech industry and an expanded Innovation Lab Crawl will take place at various locations across the island.