Banking 4.0, November 2024 edition: second day panels, video

Panel 1 – What are the key tech drivers in the 3-5 years strategic horizon for retail financial services and how should banks think about responding to them?

Speakers:
Gabriela Nistor – CEO Salt Bank
Stefan Marcu – Managing Director CEE & director of the global board at Kearney
Panagiotis Kriaris – Head of Business Development at Unzer

Moderator: David Birch

Panel 2 – Conversational banking & Customer engagement trends

Speakers:
Carmen Staicu – Addiko Bank
Alec Balasescu – Anthropologist
Ben Sauer – design leader

Moderator:Florian Teleaba – Principal, Business Development Lead, Kearney

Panel 3 – Digital identity for all – next evolution

Speakers:
Valentina Dragomir – Country Manager Evrotrust
Adrian Dinculescu – CEO Namirial
Wouter Vanderheere – itsme
Dan Tusaliu (PXL Vision)

Moderator: Nic Balaceanu – co-founder Sunt.io

Panel 4 – The fintech (associations) perspective of a better banking

Speakers:

Ralf Ohlhausen – Chair of the European Third Party Providers Association

Filip Mutafis – Board member of Bulgarian Asociation of Software Companies
Nicola Skoric – Founding member of Croatia’s Association for Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies, 

Rostyslav Dyuk – Chairman Of The Board at Ukrainian Association of FinTech and Innovative Companies

Moderator: Nic Balaceanu – board member Rofin.Tech

Panel 5 – Cyber security: from NIS2 to quantum computing

Speakers:

Mihail Guranda – Senior Manager of Regulatory Division from Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate
Rob Woods – Director International Market Planning; Financial Services SME at LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Amnon Samid – CEO Bitmint
Vladimir Ghita – CEO of FORT

Moderator:
Sergiu Zaharia

Panel 6 – How to build a new (neo)bank

Speakers:
Richard Caven – Lead EMEA Banking Specialist at Amazon Web Services
Eliad Saporta – CEO of Coriunder
Ionut Hrinca – Chief Architect ING Bank Romania (tbc)

Adam Glodek – Client Executive Director, CEE – GFT Technology
Madalin Staniu – Managing Partner Black Bullet

Moderator: Lidia Cirstei – Chief of Staff & Business Transformation, FintechOS

Panel 7 – Scaling gen AI in Banking: choosing the best operating model

Speakers:

Dan Cristea – Lead AI Innovation BCR
Arjun Vir Singh – Arthur D. Little
Tolga Banyocu – Deputy General Manager Garanti BBVA Romania
Dan Toderici – Development Line Manager Finshape

Moderator: Lucian Daia – CTO Zitec

Here is the official Banking 4.0 channel on youtube, where you can subscribe and find all video from the event.