2026 Speakers
Prof. Bob Wardrop
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RegGenome
Cambridge University & RegGenome
Robert (Bob) Wardrop is Founder and CEO of RegGenome, a regulatory data infrastructure company. RegGenome turns complex global regulation into structured data that retains the meaning and context of each requirement and stays traceable to its original source, supporting policy, supervision, risk and compliance.
Bob was Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, and founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance until 2020. His research studied innovation at the intersection of technological change and the global financial system, and in 2021 he received the CJBS Research Impact Award for his work applying AI to regulatory information in the field of computational regulation.
That research led to the founding of RegGenome, which has its origins at the University of Cambridge and is a founding member of the Regulatory Genome Project, an ongoing public-private initiative standardising how regulation is structured. RegGenome data and models are used by 100 regulatory organisations, and by three of the world's 29 globally systemically important banks.
Bob has held several advisory board roles with regulatory authorities and corporate directorships over the course of his professional career. He holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Speaking At
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2:30–4:00pmWed 28 OctPublic-Private RoundtablesShino & Mtirala Rooms, Level 1Open
Roadmap for AI and Quantum
Open Finance & AI: Where Regional Cooperation Can Move Fastest
Public-Private RoundtablesShino & Mtirala Rooms, Level 1Open
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Aleksandre GomiashviliChief Executive OfficerCreditinfo Georgia
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Aleksi KhoroshviliChief Executive OfficerSilk Bank
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Prof. Bob WardropFounder & Chief Executive Officer of RegGenomeCambridge University & RegGenome
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Giorgi AgladzeFounderKursi.ge
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Lotte Schou ZibellAdvisorRegGenome
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Oksana PakUnit Head, Private Sector Financial Institutions (Central and West Asia)Asian Development Bank
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Onur DoganSenior Vice President, Business Development ServicesMastercard
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Sandro RtveladzeDeputy Chief Executive Officer, Retail BankingTBC Bank
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Nenad PetrovićGeneral Manager of the Payment System DepartmentNational Bank of Serbia
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Tazo LezhavaCo-Founder and CEOQuissly
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Varlam EbanoidzeHead of FinTech Development & Innovation OfficeNational Bank of GeorgiaModerator
About this session
Hosted by NBG, this roundtable will bring together regulators, international organisations, financial institutions, fintech and regtech companies to explore how Open Finance and AI can reinforce each other and contribute to the next stage of Georgia’s digital financial ecosystem.
The discussion will explore how a trusted layer can be created for the future development of Open Finance and how connectivity with AI can provide an additional intelligence layer to turn financial data into better decisions, more personalized services and new business models -

