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Audience Breakdown
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Geography
Seniority
Banks
Solution Providers
Associations / Credit Unions / Others
APAC
CEE Region
Local Market & Rest of Europe
CIS countries
MEA
C-Suite
Directors / Department Heads
Senior Managers / Product Owners
Other
On-site Delegate List
* Bankers, invited on a complimentary basis
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CEO
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CTO
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CIO
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CFO
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CDO
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CISO
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Director: Innovation, Technology, Architecture
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UX Director
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Director/Head of FinTech Partnerships
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Payments, Transaction Banking Director
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Director Retail Banking, Corporate Banking
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Director of IT & Security, Cyber Security
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CRO
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Innovation / Strategy Director
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Chief Data Officer
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Director Blockchain, Emerging Tech, Experimentation
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Head of / Director of AI
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Board Member
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Advisor to the Board
Agenda
30 - 31 October 2025 | Thematic Modules
Banking and
the World
How to Effectively Manage Geo-Political Crises and Economic Uncertainty
Building banking resilience: lessons from recent crises. Future-proof strategies that really work
Crisis preparedness: integrating scenario planning and stress testing
Current and Future Trends & Challenges
Strengthening operational and financial resilience against global shocks
Global and EU Regulatory Outlook 2025-2026
Implementation status of key regulations — DORA, MiCA, Basel IV, Genius act, the AI Act, and more — what early enforcement reveals
Banking 2030: What — if anything — will fundamentally reshape banking in the next decade? Will the core of banking really change that much?
How will evolving customer expectations redefine banking products and services globally?
Is there a mindset, governance model, or institutional culture that builds true resilience — even when the next crisis is unknown?
Building a Future-Proof Bank
Beyond Digital Transformation
What's Beyond Digital Transformation?
The Myth of “Cloud-First” — What Banks Learned the Hard Way
What slowed us down, what no one tells you about integration, and what finally turned the corner
Platform Thinking That Works – Rewiring for Agility Without Replacing the Core
Modular APIs, cross-functional delivery, and ecosystem orchestration in action
How banks use platform logic to launch new products without legacy replacement
Microservices in the Real World – Lessons from a Bank That Didn’t Collapse Under Its Own Complexity
What we’d do differently today if we started from scratch
Rip & Replace vs. Adaptive Modernization – What’s Actually Working in 2025?
What are the true cost and risk of full core replacement?
What hybrid models are emerging that allow banks to modernize without breaking everything?
How are boards and regulators reacting to long-term transformation roadmaps?
Banking for
People
Invisible, Intuitive, Addictive:
Designing Banking That Doesn’t Feel Like Banking
How the best fintechs use psychology, behavior loops, and micro-interactions to create addictive financial experiences
What a "3-second user journey" really means
Has self-service UX gone too far? Are humans making a comeback?
Why frictionless UX sometimes hurts engagement (and how to balance it)
Case studies: using behavioral science to create sticky daily habits
We Rewired Our UX Around Emotion, Not Features – Here’s What Changed:
A radical rethinking of the bank app — based on emotion mapping, not tech trends
Engagement metrics pre/post shift: login frequency, NPS, product cross-sell
Designing for Loyalty When Your App Is Their 5th Finance Tool
How to stay relevant in a multi-app world where customers don't think about their bank — until it fails
Why Banking Still Feels Cold – Can Design Save Customer Loyalty?
Banking for All Generations
Payments
Brand Loyalty Is a Payment Experience – Whether You Like It or Not
What Starbucks, Apple, and Revolut teach about turning transactions into trust
Liquidity in the Fast Lane: Managing Risk in an Always-On World
Beyond the Payment: How Embedded
Finance is Displacing Traditional
Revenue Models
Banks as enablers vs. owners: what happens when payments disappear from view?
Real-Time Payments, Real Margins: Can Banks Still Win the Race They Started?
Are real-time rails reshaping the economics of banking — or just raising the cost of staying relevant?
AI and Machine Learning in Payments Through the Hype Lens
The Future of Digital Identity in Banking: Navigating EUDIW Integration
When Fraud Thinks Faster Than You: The Dark Side of AI in Payments
Stablecoins, Fragmented Money & the Fight for Monetary Power
Wero Takes Off: Leading the Way in Payment System Conversion
Fraud, Crisis Management, and Cybersecurity
RISK RECODED: Anticipating the Unthinkable, Acting Ahead
Designing Fraud Resilience Into the Business – Not Just the Tech
How we embedded dynamic risk thinking into product, marketing, and frontline ops
Why risk must sit in product sprints, not just audit committees
Real-world cross-functional response playbook (fraud incident case)
From Synthetic to Signal: How We’re Detecting the Undetectable
Why device, behavioral, and network telemetry are replacing legacy authentication
Beyond Risk Management — Building a Culture of Resilience Across the Bank
Deepfakes & Synthetic Everything: Are We Building Systems for Criminals?
Why customer education isn’t enough — and what must change
Innovation and Banking Tech
Platform or Partner? How We Transformed into an Ecosystem-Oriented Bank
Strategic lens: when to build, when to embed, when to walk away
The Infrastructure Behind the Curtain: Building Secure, Scalable, Monetizable Embedded Finance
Architectures that support plug-and-play finance without sacrificing control
The compliance and trust layer: why embedded ≠ unregulated
Banking the Invisible: Winning When You’re Not the Brand the Customer Sees
Who’s Shaping the Future of Banking Better? A live debate between experts and AI
What is the #1 mistake banks are making in their technology strategy today?
What banking function is most likely to be fully automated by 2030?
THE RISE OF AGENTIC AI: When Machines Start Making Moves
Data & AI
Beyond the Black Box: Designing Auditable, Accountable, and Agile AI Systems
Balancing automation with human oversight in high-stakes decisions
The Prediction Bank: How We’re Using Data to Anticipate, Not React
The biggest cultural shift: trusting the signal over the instinct
AI at Scale: From Sandbox to Systemic Transformation
Our enterprise AI blueprint: teams, governance, use cases
Avoiding ‘pilot purgatory’: how we industrialized our most successful models
AI vs Human Judgement: Who Do You Trust with High-Stakes Decisions? And When Do We Pull the Plug?
A customer is denied a mortgage by AI model. The score is low, but the reason isn’t fully explainable. Do you override it? Who gets the
final say — and what happens when regulators ask why?
Lending
Eliminating Bias at Scale – How We
Rebuilt Our Credit Models for a Post-
Bureau World
The case for ditching legacy rulesets:
The challenge of regulatory transparency vs. model complexity
Lending in 3 Clicks: How Embedded
Finance Redefined the Speed-Risk
Equation
How banks can reinsert themselves into value chains they've been cut
out of
When the Models Break: What Rising Rates Taught Us About Real Resilience
Lessons from turbulent markets: who paid, who defaulted, and what models were wrong
What indicators now matter more than income or repayment history?
Credit Models Are Dead – What’s Replacing Them, and Who’s Actually Doing It
Forget theory. Who has already deployed real-time underwriting using behavioral or contextual data — and
what happened?
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