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.
Banking 4.0 – „how was the experience for you”
„So many people are coming here to Bucharest, people that I see and interact on linkedin and now I get the change to meet them in person. It was like being to the Football World Cup but this was the World Cup on linkedin in payments and open banking.”
Many more interesting quotes in the video below:
