About Our Presenters
Valiant
Valiant is an experience and orchestration platform that powers embedded finance programs, from origination to settlement. Valiant
has proven AI implementations across their business products. Their
platform integrates with a wide array of lenders, systems, and
workflows, giving them the real-world data and context AI needs to
deliver meaningful results.
Ritchie Cotton
Ritchie is Co-founder and CTO at Valiant,
Australia’s leading business finance marketplace. An economist by
study, investment banker by trade, but software engineer and designer by
passion, Ritchie is responsible for all things engineering, product and
design at Valiant.
Ritchie’s a “eureka moment on the bus” person and thrives on uncovering
asymmetric product opportunities and believes things can always be
better.
Ping Du
Ping is VP Product at Valiant, responsible for tech product development and data. Together with Ritchie, Ping spends big chunk of his week working on Valiant's
AI roadmap and implementation. With a background in financial
econometrics and a certified data scientist, Ping has developed and
operationalized AI strategy for Fortune 500 businesses across financial
and telecom sectors over the past 5 years