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Innovation has been the biggest drivers of disruption in the financial services industry. The speed at which technology has transformed user expectations and resultant business models is truly phenomenal. Let’s look at how the industry leaders are not just addressing but embracing the disruption to redefine the new normal post-pandemic.
Suranjan Som A key transformation opportunity for financial services, open banking gives users control over their data. This creates more personalized experiences and trusted security performance, and allows data to be exchanged in the financial ecosystem. Learn how banks are using APIs to meet regulatory requirements, provide better options to customers, and deliver an improved customer experience.
To manage data throughout its entire lifecycle, keep up with growing business demands, and protect the value in your data, you need modern solutions. Let’s explore approaches to build a secure, resilient, compliant global cloud infrastructure, and the services that will help differentiate your organization today and adapt to the needs of tomorrow.
Dark data – what is it and how is it different from big data? In this session, explore the world of dark data, the havoc it wreaks on the modern enterprise, how to manage it, and the immensely profitable results that can be achieved. Discover how tapping into dark data can unveil, unlock, and unleash hidden opportunities and true potential.
Dennis Versteeg In digital banking, the biggest indicator of a winner is the ability to move from a legacy mindset to a challenger mindset. This session explores that outlook: leadership and a culture that understands that digital customer loyalty is driven by speed, simplicity and empathy. We’ll consider the correlation between digital transformation and financial success, and how to inspire incremental innovation.
Jim Marous DataOps has created a lot of hype as a practice for agile and automated data management. See how it applies to financial services and how it can help you modernize your data fabric. Learn how DataOps makes data visible from edge to cloud, provides frictionless access to data, enhances data pipelines for faster AI, and automates and scales data governance.
Data can be powerful, but it can also be a major compliance risk. How do you break down data silos and get structure around unstructured data? How do you ensure data is properly collected, processed, and retained at speed and scale? We’ll discuss the top three ways to achieve a single point of truth and take control of your data.
AI is being widely adopted in financial services. Hear some of the most innovative use cases, key trends in the underlying technology and their implications, and the challenges that the industry faces in managing the transition to highly automated and autonomous AI-driven products and services.
In digital banking, the biggest indicator of a winner is the ability to move from a legacy mindset to a challenger mindset. This session explores that outlook: leadership and a culture that understands that digital customer loyalty is driven by speed, simplicity and empathy. We’ll consider the correlation between digital transformation and financial success, and how to inspire incremental innovation.
Jim Marous DataOps has created a lot of hype as a practice for agile and automated data management. See how it applies to financial services and how it can help you modernize your data fabric. Learn how DataOps makes data visible from edge to cloud, provides frictionless access to data, enhances data pipelines for faster AI, and automates and scales data governance.
Data can be powerful, but it can also be a major compliance risk. How do you break down data silos and get structure around unstructured data? How do you ensure data is properly collected, processed, and retained at speed and scale? We’ll discuss the top three ways to achieve a single point of truth and take control of your data.
AI is being widely adopted in financial services. Hear some of the most innovative use cases, key trends in the underlying technology and their implications, and the challenges that the industry faces in managing the transition to highly automated and autonomous AI-driven products and services.
Innovation has been the biggest drivers of disruption in the financial services industry. The speed at which technology has transformed user expectations and resultant business models is truly phenomenal. Let’s look at how the industry leaders are not just addressing but embracing the disruption to redefine the new normal post-pandemic.
Suranjan Som A key transformation opportunity for financial services, open banking gives users control over their data. This creates more personalized experiences and trusted security performance, and allows data to be exchanged in the financial ecosystem. Learn how banks are using APIs to meet regulatory requirements, provide better options to customers, and deliver an improved customer experience.
To manage data throughout its entire lifecycle, keep up with growing business demands, and protect the value in your data, you need modern solutions. Let’s explore approaches to build a secure, resilient, compliant global cloud infrastructure, and the services that will help differentiate your organization today and adapt to the needs of tomorrow.
Dark data – what is it and how is it different from big data? In this session, explore the world of dark data, the havoc it wreaks on the modern enterprise, how to manage it, and the immensely profitable results that can be achieved. Discover how tapping into dark data can unveil, unlock, and unleash hidden opportunities and true potential.
Dennis Versteeg In digital banking, the biggest indicator of a winner is the ability to move from a legacy mindset to a challenger mindset. This session explores that outlook: leadership and a culture that understands that digital customer loyalty is driven by speed, simplicity and empathy. We’ll consider the correlation between digital transformation and financial success, and how to inspire incremental innovation.
Jim Marous DataOps has created a lot of hype as a practice for agile and automated data management. See how it applies to financial services and how it can help you modernize your data fabric. Learn how DataOps makes data visible from edge to cloud, provides frictionless access to data, enhances data pipelines for faster AI, and automates and scales data governance.
Data can be powerful, but it can also be a major compliance risk. How do you break down data silos and get structure around unstructured data? How do you ensure data is properly collected, processed, and retained at speed and scale? We’ll discuss the top three ways to achieve a single point of truth and take control of your data.
AI is being widely adopted in financial services. Hear some of the most innovative use cases, key trends in the underlying technology and their implications, and the challenges that the industry faces in managing the transition to highly automated and autonomous AI-driven products and services.
In digital banking, the biggest indicator of a winner is the ability to move from a legacy mindset to a challenger mindset. This session explores that outlook: leadership and a culture that understands that digital customer loyalty is driven by speed, simplicity and empathy. We’ll consider the correlation between digital transformation and financial success, and how to inspire incremental innovation.
Jim Marous DataOps has created a lot of hype as a practice for agile and automated data management. See how it applies to financial services and how it can help you modernize your data fabric. Learn how DataOps makes data visible from edge to cloud, provides frictionless access to data, enhances data pipelines for faster AI, and automates and scales data governance.
Data can be powerful, but it can also be a major compliance risk. How do you break down data silos and get structure around unstructured data? How do you ensure data is properly collected, processed, and retained at speed and scale? We’ll discuss the top three ways to achieve a single point of truth and take control of your data.
AI is being widely adopted in financial services. Hear some of the most innovative use cases, key trends in the underlying technology and their implications, and the challenges that the industry faces in managing the transition to highly automated and autonomous AI-driven products and services.
Chief Operating Officer (COO) Europe, Railsbank
Louisa Murray is an experienced financial markets professional and cryptocurrency specialist who has enjoyed a varied career, having worked as a high-profile derivatives trader and director at Barclays as well as heading up a number of entrepreneurial start-ups in a range of sectors.
Louisa joined Railsbank as one of its first employees in 2017, and built the sales function from scratch, growing the sales and customer success teams. Acting as VP, Head of Sales, she developed the large customer base on which Railsbank has built its success. Louisa was recently promoted to COO Europe and in this role, Louisa combines her keen eye for making a profit with the ability to nurture and bring the best out of her team as Railsbank enjoys rapid international growth.
Prior to joining Railsbank, Louisa led fintech-focused start-ups Payrnet, an e-money platform, and Opus One Associates, a recruitment and search consultancy for the sector. A financial services pioneer, in 1994 Louisa joined Barclays as one of the bank’s first female traders. In 2020, she made the official ‘Rising Women in Crypto’ list, organized by Wirex in partnership with The Fintech Times.
Chairman of RegTech Innovation Board, ING
Dennis Versteeg leads the Compliance Innovation department at ING Bank where he is responsible for exploring regulatory challenges and finding, proving and implementing innovative solutions to improve these challenges. In his second role as chairman of the RegTech Innovation Board, which brings together RegTech demand and supply, his domain expands across the entire bank. Fuelled from priorities set by the demand members and supported by market knowledge and capabilities on the supply side, multiple RegTech solutions have successfully been rolled-out within ING over the last years.
Before joining ING, for over 20 years Dennis worked as a consultant in the Financial Services industry. His projects have taken him across the globe, working in 25 countries, usually in the role of Project/Programme Manager. Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the resulting regulatory tsunami, Dennis specialised in Regulatory topics (e.g., MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR, MMSR, BMR, SEPA, FATCA and PSD). After the implementation of MiFID II, he changed to his current RegTech role.
Chief Data Officer (CDO), Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
Brian Anthony is Chief Data Officer (CDO) of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, where he oversees the definition and delivery of MSRB's comprehensive data strategy, which includes data governance, data quality, data management and data analytics. He began his career at the MSRB as Director of Data Strategy and Management.
Prior to joining the MSRB, Brian served as Vice President, Senior Engineering Manager for Investment Data at T. Rowe Price. Brian has more than 25 years of Data and Information Technology experience of which 15 years are concentrated in information delivery in the financial services industry.
Brian holds an MBA degree from the University of Maryland University College.
GM, Digital Compliance & Governance, Veritas
Ajay Bhatia is General Manager for Veritas’ Digital Compliance (DC) business, leading product management, engineering, customer experience and business management for the comprehensive DC portfolio.
He has more than 20 years of strategy, business operations and product leadership experience in the domains of enterprise and cloud storage across global markets. Ajay joined Veritas from Seagate, where he was general manager of the company’s global Flash business, responsible for SSD and Flash products across the device and systems business units.
Prior to growing the Seagate Flash business by 3x over 4 years, Ajay was influential in shaping Wall Street’s perception of Spansion (Cypress) towards higher multiples with doubled shareholder value for SilverLake. Earlier in his career, he led product and marketing teams to launch high-performance products for automotive, consumer and cloud storage verticals.
Ajay holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, CA and an MS in Chemical Engineering from University of Southern California, CA. He is also a CFA Level III candidate.
Professional Services Lead, UK&I, Hitachi Vantara
David heads up Hitachi’s UK&I Service Solutions Team whose role is to define and build customer centric, service/value led propositions. Delivering across a range of industry verticals, David’s team develops complex solutions through establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges and delivers outcome-based services combining Hitachi solutions and offerings for its clients.
Senior Director, Advanced Analytics Enablement, Fannie Mae
Dr. Srini Krovvidy is a Senior Director and leads Advanced Analytics Enablement group at Fannie Mae helping analytic transformation journeys of various teams including data science applications. His experience includes leading large applications development, enterprise shared services such as business rules & BPM. He received multiple awards from AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) for development of innovative applications.
Srini received his PhD in machine learning and published 20+ articles in international journals, magazines and conference proceedings in the areas of machine learning and AI. He is a senior member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and member of AAAI.
VP, Industry Solutions & Value Management, Cloudera
At Cloudera, Cindy works with customers and partners leveraging analytics for current day business growth and exploring the usage of new data sources to drive innovation. She has over 25 years of finance, consulting and advisory services experience in the insurance, financial services and healthcare industries working with clients globally on their business strategy leveraging analytics and technology to further drive business results. Cindy is passionate about solving business problems and strongly believes today’s next generation business intelligence in the form of advanced analytics, machine learning and augmented computing will have a significant impact on driving new business insights. She is also a CPA.
Technology and Solutions Office, EMEA, Hitachi Vantara
Mark heads up the EMEA Technology and Solutions Office, driving innovation to harness the power of data and cloud to solve complex social and business problems. Bringing together Hitachi’s software product portfolio and services offerings in data and application modernization, his team is responsible for the design and implementation of complex digital solutions and is well positioned to face the changing needs of organizations.
Vice President, Head of Financial Services and Client Engagement Partner, Hitachi Vantara
Based in London, Suranjan applies innovation, industry expertise, and engineering to address some of the biggest challenges in the financial services world today.
Starting with the Big 4, Suranjan has over 20 years of experience in the Data and Analytics space, working exclusively with banks, insurers, and asset managers in the last decades. He architected some of largest Risk, Regulatory, and Performance Management solutions for some of the biggest banks in the world. This includes building the world’s first real-time risk solution for a large American bank to large middle-office regulation platforms for BCBS 239 and BASEL III compliance.
From "FinTech" to "RegTech", today he works with some of the largest names in the Financial Services space, looking at a wide range of solutions from Big Data, Blockchain, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence to solve implementation challenges for our Top Tier banking customers. Suranjan is responsible for the portfolio of Hitachi’s strategic financial services accounts across the globe.
CTO, Financial Services, Hitachi Vantara
Inderjeet Rana is focused on providing strategic direction for product and services offered by Hitachi Vantara. He creates technology solutions that can be shared within and across industry verticals for not only scale and performance, but for Hitachi’s vision of innovation as well. These strategic solutions are geared towards solving or delivering a flexible, scalable, and extensible platform to address some common but often complex business challenges and needs.
Prior to Hitachi Vantara, Inderjeet spent 25+ years in the banking and financial industry heading various infrastructure technology groups and services, from Merrill Lynch to Barclays and most recently at New York Stock Exchange.
Director, Product Marketing, Hitachi Vantara
Madhup Mishra is a Director of Product Marketing for Hitachi Vantara's big data and analytics software business including Lumada DataOps Suite and Pentaho. Before that, he was Vice President, Product Management for VoltDB, a DBMS company started in MIT where he led their product management and marketing function. Madhup brings over two decades of experience building and scaling new products around big data, analytics, governance, and cloud.
Financial Industry Strategist
Co-publisher, The Financial Brand, Owner and Publisher, Digital Banking Report
Named as one of the most influential people in banking and a top 5 Fintech influencer to follow, Jim Marous is an internationally recognized financial industry strategist, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and the owner and publisher of the Digital Banking Report. Marous advises on innovation, portfolio growth, customer experience, marketing strategies, channel distribution, payments and digital transformation within the financial services industry.
As a sought after industry speaker, author and recognized authority on disruption in the financial services industry, Marous has been featured by CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The American Banker, Accenture and Forbes and has spoken to audiences worldwide.
Jim has also advised the White House on banking policy and is a regular contributor and guest host for the Breaking Banks radio show on Voice America. He can be followed on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Senior Director, Financial Innovation Solutions, Hitachi Vantara
Saker is Head of Strategy and Growth for Hitachi Vantara's Financial Innovation Division, focused on corporate development and product strategy for innovation-led growth opportunities within North American FSI. Previously, Saker drove self-disruptive inorganic growth across 157-countries as the Global Innovation Leader of PwC, generating 8-figure revenues annually with brand-differentiating solutions and new business models. Earlier, Saker founded KPMG's FSI CIO Advisory and Google Enterprise Search practices, built and exited a payments fintech (now 20m+ customers), and was a major technical and product contributor at Apple, Yahoo, and Palm for the Mac OSX, iPod, Yahoo Search, and Treo. He is a 25-year veteran of the tech, new media, and financial services industries.
Managing Partner, Head of Financial Services, Advisory Practice, Hitachi Vantara
Kelly is a seasoned executive with 20+ years of experience working with Fortune 500® organizations on the development and execution of their growth strategies. Kelly has held leadership roles managing the P&L of multi-site businesses driving key transformations, digital integration, and strategic partnerships to improve customer experience and create competitive advantage.
Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara, Kelly’s corporate experience includes strategic planning, business development, and M&A with Wells Fargo & Co., Principal Financial Group, and Baton Global Advisory serving global markets. Kelly holds a B.S. from Purdue University, MBA from Drake University and Advanced Strategy, Economics from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
CTO, Financial Services, Hitachi Vantara
Thomas is a strategic, multidisciplinary technologist with a focus on business model innovation and leading-edge technology application.
With over twenty years of experience in financial services, his career spans senior roles in consulting firms Booz & Co and PwC, a venture backed FinTech in Silicon Valley and a number of leading banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Citi.
Thomas is active member of the FinTech community which includes being a founder member of Level39 one of largest FinTech hubs in world, as well as participating in several incubators and corporate venture programmes.
Prior to joining Hitachi Vantara as CTO for Financial Services, Thomas founded Digital Strategy Associates, where he consulted for a number of clients, which included FinTech’s, investment banks, Fortune 500s, challenger banks and venture firms undertaking projects to develop digital strategy and drive innovation.
Global Technology Advisor and Executive Analyst, Hitachi Vantara
At Hitachi Vantara, Tom Christensen focuses on the information technology and services industry. He has more than 30 years of skilled experience in modernizing the data center for infrastructure including computing and storage to Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud, Application Modernization, Solution Applications, DataOps, and Big Data Analytics. Tom is also a blogger and advocate for Social Innovation.
Head of Group IT Strategy & Solutions, RBI
Marek Chlebicki is Head of Group IT Strategy & Solutions at RBI, responsible for IT strategy development, Group technology transformation program, and new IT solutions. Marek has extensive experience in the banking industry as well as consulting across Europe including the CEE region. Previously, he worked as Director of Strategy & Operations consulting for the financial services sector at PwC Poland (responsible for Poland, CEE, supporting Global PwC assignments) and Head of Banking Operations Strategy & Productivity at Sberbank Europe Group.
Marek specializes in strategy definition and implementation, managing complex technology-driven transformations, operational excellence, organizational efficiency management, and using technology and data to transform business and operations.
Manager of Storage and Compute, Rabobank
Colin started off in IT as a programmer, administered VAX clusters and entered banking as a Database Administrator. He has managed teams in the financial industry for over 20 years during which time banking and IT have been turned upside down.
With a Rabobank strategy to migrate 80% of workload to the public cloud in the next 4 years, the challenge is to maintain a cost effective, always-on, compliant and automated environment that will fully satisfy the business in the meantime.
Colin’s current teams manage all European Compute, Storage and Data retention for Rabobank. Previously, life seemed simpler as a Database Administrator and simpler still writing code. Thinking back on that experience Colin wonders whether DevOPS might just be taking him back to his roots.