Speaker Bio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjm5v4F8nZs&t=4s
Interview with RT at Davos WEF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bI66clF3P0
Introducing Vitalik Buterin to India at IIT Bombay 2017

Arifa Khan is the architect of Fund Management Layer, a new modular primitive for Capital Markets (published July 2025), and founder of FundFabric, a foundational protocol revolutionizing asset management through mathematical primitives and zero-knowledge proofs. With a Wharton MBA and deep expertise in finance, capital markets, web3, cryptography and AI, Arifa Khan is pioneering the concept of "zero-risk AI integration" for financial systems. She is the pioneering author of Decentralising Capital Markets white paper 2017. She has spoken at over 100 global conferences, about blockchain, AI etc.

Previously, Investment Banker, PE/VC, Ethereum. Currently building the infrastructure layer that will power the next 50 years of finance, with a focus on making advanced AI accessible without compromising security.

Arifa Khan contributes to open-source ZK security tools and has pending research publication on AI-powered vulnerability detection in cryptographic systems. When not architecting the future of finance, she is building AI agentic flows, organises Frontier AI Summits in London.