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FinovateFall
September 8-10, 2025
The Marriott Marquis Times SquareNew York

Abhishek Bhattacharya
CEO & Co-founder at The Impact Wave
Speaker

Profile

Abhishek has been a 3x entrepreneur focused on FinTech and BlockchainTech. He's a Forbes 30 under 30 Asia honoree, a 3-times Author, and an Ethereum Foundation Fellow and a UNDP INSPIRO Fellow. While at Brú Finance, he brought Blockchain to farmers to save their income, covering 1,400 warehouses & 20,000+ farmers and US $300 Million in committed TVL and connected them to global DeFi lenders, supported by United Nations Development Programme, IIM Ahmedabad and MassChallenge USA. He's also a Blockchain Educator and has taught 8,000+ faculty, PhDs, and students globally. He recently delivered talks at SmartCon ’22 in New York, DEVCON in Bogota, cNFTCon ’22 in Las Vegas, CITC Conference by Ministry of Communication and IT in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at ETHSingapore and the Fintech Festival Asia in Thailand in Sep '23, ETHKL in Kuala Lumpur in Oct '23, and the Singapore Fintech Festival in late ‘23.

Agenda Sessions

  • Special Address: Lending in emerging markets with blockchain technology, NFTs & decentralized finance

    10:30am