The fourth set of speakers for this year’s Global Government Fintech Lab 2025 can be revealed today.
Global Government Fintech’s in-person event – to be held in Dublin on Wednesday 11 June – is for government departments, public sector agencies and authorities looking to capitalise on the possibilities of technology to transform their operations and the services they deliver.
Eva Selamlar-Leuthold (Switzerland), Laura Körber (Germany), Pietro Stroia (Italy) and Peter Oakes (Ireland) are the latest confirmations to speak at the event, which is taking place for the fourth time.
The2025 agendaincludes keynote speeches, panel sessions and plenty of opportunities for international networking, reflecting our spirit of knowledge-sharing across borders.
Free to attend for those in the public sector, session titles include ‘Governments and fintech: comfortable bedfellows?’, ‘Government finance: which (fin)technologies have the most potential?’, ‘Super supervisors? How well are financial regulators engaging with innovative technology?’ and ‘Who goes there? Exploring digital ID schemes and fintech-enabled innovation’.
The Lab is being organised in partnership with Ireland’s Department of Finance, which also hosted the Global Government Fintech Lab in 2024 and 2023.
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Speaker line-up taking shape
Selamlar-Leuthold, Körber and Stroia are making their Lab debuts while Oakes is making his third Lab appearance.
Selamlar-Leuthold is head of the Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (FIND), an independent unit within Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance that helps companies and acts as a central public hub for all financial innovation matters. She was voted ‘Top 10 Women in Tech to Follow’ in Switzerland by Women in Tech Switzerlandin 2024.
Körber is a policy officer in Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance’s Digital Finance, Payment Services & Cybersecurity Unit. Her responsibilities include regulation of cryptoassets, digital identities in financial markets and monitoring developments in the fintech market.
Stroia is head of technology at PagoPA, a company wholly owned by the Italian state, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, that operates a platform for e-payments to the public administration, as well as a growing number of other platforms/services. He has been actively involved in the development and refinement of PagoPA’s digital wallet, a project that explores and anticipates the European Union (EU) Digital Identity Wallet.
Oakes is well known in the Lab host nation’s fintech community, having established the free Fintech Ireland network – which promotes, supports and maps the indigenous and international fintech ecosystem – in 2014. He is also a non-executive director of numerous global fintech companies in the investment services, e-money/payments and cryptoassets sectors. He has previously held senior roles at regulators including the Central Bank of Ireland, the (now) UK Financial Conduct Authority and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
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Speakers already confirmed
Twelve speakers have already been announced, including four from Ireland, two from the UK and two from Latvia. The host nation’s quartet are: Brian Corr, Ruth Kennedy, Barry Lowry and Miriam Dunne; the UK duo are Lee Edmonds and Alexandra Bloomfield; and Dina Buse and Marine Krasovska are both representing Latvia.
Corr is head of the Lab host nation’s Department of Finance’s international financial services unit; Kennedy is Ireland’s Revenue Commissioner; Lowry has been chief information officer for the Irish government since 2016; and Dunne is head of innovation strategy and policy at the Central Bank of Ireland. All four are making their Lab debuts
Edmonds is head of payments services – financial services at the UK’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS). He will be making his second appearance at the Global Government Fintech Lab,having spoken on the event’s ‘Payments’ panel last year. Bloomfield is assistant commercial director – financial services/payments at the UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). She is making her Lab debut.
Buse is representing Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, where she is deputy director of the financial market policy department and head of the credit institution and payment services policy division. She is making her third appearance at the Lab. Krasovska, who is making her fourth appearance at the Lab, is head of the Fintech Supervision Department at Latvijas Banka (central bank).
The further speakers already confirmed are Alessandro Moricca (Italy), Maria Tereza Cavaco (Portugal), Ros Lynch (Isle of Man) and Valentina Ion (representing event knowledge partner Microsoft).
Moricca has been chief executive of PagoPA for just over two years (he also spoke at the Global Government Fintech Lab in2024). Cavaco is head of the payments system department at Banco de Portugal (central bank). Lynch is head of supervisory practices, innovation and IT at the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority. Ion is Microsoft’s director – public finance strategy (and also spoke at our 2022 and 2023 events).
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Ireland’s new fintech minister
Public servants across the world with an interest in innovative technology, as well as those who supply tech solutions to the public sector, are encouraged to register to attend the event.
At the 2024 Lab, Ireland’s minister of state with responsibility for financial services, Neale Richmond, gave his first formal public remarks on fintech after taking up the role, hailing the opportunities for the public sector to capitalise on the ‘digital transition’ and collaborate with private-sector fintech suppliers.
Ireland has held a general election (29 November 2024) since the last year’s Lab, with Richmond since being appointed to the role of minister of state for international development and diaspora. Robert Troy was a couple of months ago (29 January 2025) named as his successor at the Department of Finance.
The EU member state’s government published a whole-of-government ‘Ireland for Finance’ strategy almost six years ago (in April 2019). An update was published in 2022. ‘Fintech and digital finance’ is one of the five themes, alongside sustainable finance; diversity and talent; regionalisation and promotion; and ‘operating environment’.
Theinaugural Lab was held in Estonia’s capital city, Tallinn, in June 2022in partnership with the Estonian government.
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