9:00 am to 9:10 am BST
Chair's Opening Remarks
9:10 am to 9:30 am BST
Client led, Industry changing Innovation
- HSBC is the largest international trade bank in the world, leading the way in driving innovation for the benefit of its clients
- This presentation is a case study in translating client insight into global change – relevant for anyone responsible for transformation and strategic change
- The speaker will share a strategic approach to developing and driving change with practical application
- And will talk about how to get the best out of technology and people to deliver a step change in CX and cost efficiency (yes, at the same time)
Jonathan Moore is the Head of Client & Transaction Services for HSBC’s Global Trade & Receivables Finance business, responsible for the global implementation of GTRF’s transformation programme alongside delivering best in class client experience for HSBC’s international clients.
Previous roles are varied across Risk, Retail, Wealth and front-line Commercial Banking, most recently including the Chief Operating Officer for Commercial Banking and a Senior Executive in Group Strategy & Planning following his return from Hong Kong where he was Global Head of Business Banking.
Jonathan joined HSBC from university, having studied Banking, Insurance & Finance as part of HSBC’s sponsorship programme. He is married with three children, a keen musician and a poor golfer.
9:30 am to 9:50 am BST
Effective Risk Management of AI Applications
- How do you apply existing model risk management approaches to applications of AI?
- Top tips to balance the need for speed and the need to be well controlled
- The importance of ‘human in the loop’ in AI applications to manage risk
- How to bring the voice of the consumer into risk management
Dan has over 20 years of experience building, maintaining and governing model-based solutions for consumer credit (including a range of complex Machine Learning techniques). As a Data Scientist he has built Machine Learning applications encompassing the whole customer cycle from marketing to application risk assessment to customer management, covering a range of geographies. In his current role Dan is responsible for all Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Stewardship for the Capital One UK business, leading a team of over 80 highly-skilled data professionals. Dan is a regular conference speaker on the topics of pragmatic data science and building successful analytic teams. He also has close links to academia through the University of Nottingham and his team currently have multiple joint research projects in flight.
9:50 am to 10:30 am BST
Panel Session - How Big Tech Innovations are Transforming Customer Experience and User Experience
Kshitija Joshi is currently Vice-President in-charge of Data Management, Information Insights and Analytics for EMEA region at Nomura. Based out of London, Kshitija leads the ideation and development of data products and information/analytics solutions to strengthen data governance, stewardship and data monetization across Nomura. With a Ph.D in Economics, Kshitija holds the distinction of having worked across three distinct sectors -corporate, academia & government over her 21 years of experience. Her corporate experience is mainly focused on the verticals of Financial Services, Commodities Trading & Retail spanning across GE Capital, Amazon & Aditya Birla Group among others. In her academic & government experience, she has been as faculty of Economics at India Institute of Science (one of the top-ranking universities in India) & the Reserve Bank of India (Central Bank for India). She has close to 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals & a book to her credit published by Cambridge University Press.
I have recently started as CDO at FBN Bank (UK) with remit to enhance the business capabilities in the bank to manage the data and improve use of the data to make business decisions and streamline operational effectiveness. Before FB Bank I spent over 2 years at Europe Arab Bank in a similar capacity (as a Lead Architect and Head of MI & Data). Prior to that I was Head of Business Insight Centre in UK’s ECA (UK Export Finance) where I built a data function and delivered technical and business solutions to enhance data management, analytics and automated some of the elements in the data ecosystem to reduce overall costs and mitigate operational and regulatory risks.
Kshitija Joshi is currently Vice-President in-charge of Data Management, Information Insights and Analytics for EMEA region at Nomura. Based out of London, Kshitija leads the ideation and development of data products and information/analytics solutions to strengthen data governance, stewardship and data monetization across Nomura. With a Ph.D in Economics, Kshitija holds the distinction of having worked across three distinct sectors -corporate, academia & government over her 21 years of experience. Her corporate experience is mainly focused on the verticals of Financial Services, Commodities Trading & Retail spanning across GE Capital, Amazon & Aditya Birla Group among others. In her academic & government experience, she has been as faculty of Economics at India Institute of Science (one of the top-ranking universities in India) & the Reserve Bank of India (Central Bank for India). She has close to 25 papers in peer-reviewed journals & a book to her credit published by Cambridge University Press.
I have recently started as CDO at FBN Bank (UK) with remit to enhance the business capabilities in the bank to manage the data and improve use of the data to make business decisions and streamline operational effectiveness. Before FB Bank I spent over 2 years at Europe Arab Bank in a similar capacity (as a Lead Architect and Head of MI & Data). Prior to that I was Head of Business Insight Centre in UK’s ECA (UK Export Finance) where I built a data function and delivered technical and business solutions to enhance data management, analytics and automated some of the elements in the data ecosystem to reduce overall costs and mitigate operational and regulatory risks.
10:30 am to 11:00 am BST
Networking Break & 1-2-1 Business Meetings
11:00 am to 11:20 am BST
How Emerging Technologies are Disrupting Financial Institutions and Key Trends
- Implementing AI and Blockchain as emerging technologies
- Why moving towards Green Technology is a key trend across financial institutions
Deepak is currently working as Director of AI Research and Product Management at JP Morgan where he is responsible for deploying innovative research as products across JP Morgan’s financial products and services. Previously as Senior Product Manager at Microsoft, he built an innovative human facial expression recognition product that shipped to millions of users with fantastic customer reviews.
He has a proven record of accomplishment of over 18 years of experience across 3 continents across 6 companies spanning both Enterprise and Consumer companies in designing, developing, and deploying AI, ML, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehouse and Predictive systems.
11:20 am to 11:40 am BST
Bringing AI to Equity Capital Markets
- Introducing BofA PRIAM TM – an artificial intelligence system that helps optimize demand for equity offerings.
- Using a network of supervised machine learning algorithms to understand relationship trends between ECM deals and investors.
- Combining human insight and advanced analytics to achieve optimal execution for clients.
- Responsible AI – governance via an independent review process and constant monitoring to ensure safe deployment and transparency while aiding decision making.
Anita Patel is a Senior Data Scientist in Global Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB) & Sales Technology at Bank of America. She has been with the bank for over 8 years and has helped build several predictive models ranging from natural language processing to time series based models. One of her most impressive projects to date is developing the model behind Bank of America’s Predictive Intelligence Analytics MachineTM (BofA PRIAMTM), which is an artificial intelligence system that helps to optimize demand for equity capital market transactions, including IPOs. The product has won a number of external industry awards, including Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Award and Waters Technology’s AFTA for Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative. Anita was named Data Science Professional of the Year by WatersTechnology in 2020.
11:45 am to 12:30 pm BST
Sponsored Roundtable Discussions
Round Table 1: What’s next in Cybersecurity?
Protecting the assets of the financial institution and its clients is becoming harder. As organisations migrate to modern infrastructure and cloud services, bad actors have extended their skills and capabilities to achieve their missions. This is compounded by the fact that more financial and payment vehicles are going virtual. Risk and security leaders are thus constantly reassessing the landscape — are there blind spots in our security protocols? Is my customer information secure and protected? How can I spot inconsistent system behaviour and potential adversaries seeking to obtain this information? Even the slightest breach can result in fines and reputational harm.
So what can financial services institutions do to stay secure in 2022 and beyond? In this panel we will discuss
- New and emerging challenges in cybersecurity
- Steps to create a tech stack for the future
- How to go beyond detection to continuous monitoring
- Ways to stay competitive in the cyber talent race
- Tips to make cybersecurity a team effort in your organisations
Speaker: Brandon Mavleos – Principal: Financial Services: Elastic
Brandon Mavleos is Principal, Product Marketing at Elastic, where he leads the strategy & positioning for the Financial Services Vertical. Prior to Elastic, Brandon has held various roles across financial institutions and financial technology providers including Datasite, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and American Express. He holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town and BS in Finance from Villanova University.
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm BST
1-2-1 Business Meetings & Networking
1:00 pm to 1:45 pm BST
Lunch Break
1:50 pm to 2:15 pm BST
What is Innovation and why do we Need to Innovate?
- How emerging technology can unlock new products and services
- Sharing our innovation approach:
- Innovation Models
- Building Business Cases for Innovation
- Innovation Foundry process overview
- Horizons of innovation
- Some examples of Innovations in Zurich UK
- Some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way
Mark Budd has been in insurance and banking and for over 20 years having worked at HSBC, Aviva and now Zurich. Mark currently heads up Innovation for Zurich in the UK and has a wealth of experience of working with start-ups, new technologies and testing new propositions. Mark was Insurance Post’s Digital and Insurtech “Insurance Technology Leader of Year” in 2018 and his team have won numerous awards since the Innovation Foundry was established just over 3 years ago.
2:15 pm to 2:45 pm BST
Improving Customer Journeys while Navigating the Cloud
- Exploring the journey to the cloud and agile environments
- Discussing the challenges and benefits of moving to the cloud
- The importance of data when utilizing customer insights
Brandon Mavleos is Principal, Product Marketing at Elastic, where he leads the strategy & positioning for the Financial Services Vertical. Prior to Elastic, Brandon has held various roles across financial institutions and financial technology providers including Datasite, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and American Express. He holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town and BS in Finance from Villanova University.
2:45 pm to 3:05 pm BST
Managing Risk Culture in Cyber Security: Leadership, Behaviours and Measurement
- Importance of a healthy risk culture in Cyber Security and defining it to understand associated behaviours;
- Driving positive culture change through executive and business support, and measuring culture for continuous improvement;
- Tangible actions and programmes that can build an inclusive and constructive risk culture in cyber security.
As Standard Chartered’s Global Head, Cyber Partnerships & Third Party Security Risk Oversight, Nina is committed to building strong and sustainable public-private partnerships to address cyber risks more efficiently. In liaising with, amongst others, regulators, industry associations and law enforcement, she seeks to enhance all parties’ understanding of the critical role each plays in securing cyberspace for global communities. She is experienced in the creation of organisational cyber strategies to support business objectives, Board, Executive and Regulatory reporting on cyber risk, and strategic intelligence. She sits on the Board and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security which, with its Royal Charter, is dedicated to raising the standard of professionalism and the diversity and inclusivity of the information security industry. Nina spent over a decade at the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), leading European, multi-site teams in the UK and abroad to fight organised crime; encouraging international colleagues to join forces to better protect victims of crime.
3:05 pm to 3:45 pm BST
Panel Session - The Importance of Using Ethical Data in Finance
Dan has over 20 years of experience building, maintaining and governing model-based solutions for consumer credit (including a range of complex Machine Learning techniques). As a Data Scientist he has built Machine Learning applications encompassing the whole customer cycle from marketing to application risk assessment to customer management, covering a range of geographies. In his current role Dan is responsible for all Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Stewardship for the Capital One UK business, leading a team of over 80 highly-skilled data professionals. Dan is a regular conference speaker on the topics of pragmatic data science and building successful analytic teams. He also has close links to academia through the University of Nottingham and his team currently have multiple joint research projects in flight.
Over 20 years delivering transformational change empowered by emerging technologies and a creative flair. Helen is an experienced technologist, influencer and innovative leader. Helen leads the digital skills agenda and the introduction of emerging technologies. Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021, Winner of Above and Beyond.
Dan has over 20 years of experience building, maintaining and governing model-based solutions for consumer credit (including a range of complex Machine Learning techniques). As a Data Scientist he has built Machine Learning applications encompassing the whole customer cycle from marketing to application risk assessment to customer management, covering a range of geographies. In his current role Dan is responsible for all Data Science, Data Analytics and Data Stewardship for the Capital One UK business, leading a team of over 80 highly-skilled data professionals. Dan is a regular conference speaker on the topics of pragmatic data science and building successful analytic teams. He also has close links to academia through the University of Nottingham and his team currently have multiple joint research projects in flight.
Over 20 years delivering transformational change empowered by emerging technologies and a creative flair. Helen is an experienced technologist, influencer and innovative leader. Helen leads the digital skills agenda and the introduction of emerging technologies. Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021, Winner of Above and Beyond.
3:45 pm to 4:15 pm BST
Networking Break & 1-2-1 Business Meetings
4:15 pm to 4:35 pm BST
Re-thinking Cyber
Many companies have evolved their cyber capabilities around urgent tactical requirements, which often results in an overload of outdated or inappropriate cyber-bling supported by a whack-a-mole approach to detect and respond, invariably leading to escalating costs and inefficiencies just to maintain an existing risk profile. This session looks at the challenges of
- Taking a more risk based strategic approach to cyber
- Getting to grips with cyber-bling overload
- Transitioning from an old school SOC/SIEM to a more SOAR/XDR approach
- Shifting the emphasis from detect/respond to prevent
- Putting the cyber-horse back in front of the cart
Ian has over 20 years of Information & Cyber Security experience at all levels, is a published author, magazine & journal article writer and a keynote speaker & thought leader at international conferences on the subject of information & cyber security. Ian holds various security certifications and memberships and has extensive knowledge and experience of all aspects of Information Security, from the technical through to strategic and compliance. He is currently Director of Cyber Security for BGL Insurance, one of the country’s largest InsureTech businesses, providing a range of motor, home & life insurance products in partnership with leading financial brands.
4:35 pm to 4:55 pm BST
Securities Lending & the CDM: Embedding Industry Best Practice into Technology
- Introduction to ISLA
- Background of and drive behind the Common Domain Model (CDM)
- ISLA’s work to add securities loans to the CDM including a use case
David joined ISLA as a consultant in 2020 to lead the pilot study of a securities lending transaction through a Common Domain Model (CDM).
The success of this initial study has led to a strategic focus by ISLA into the future digitisation of our industry and David joined the team as a permanent member of staff in January 2021 to lead these efforts.
As part of Regulation, Digital & Market Practice team, David is responsible for the development and implementation of a Securities Lending Common Domain Model, digital infrastructure, and the ongoing transformation and monitoring of the digital landscape of the Securities Lending market.
Prior to joining ISLA, David held roles in technology and infrastructure at State Street, Barclays and UBS.
4:55 pm to 5:15 pm BST
Building Finance Function for the Future
- Building an Insights Strategy for future
- Create an Operating Plan to move from ‘Process driven’ to ‘Insights driven’
- Changing culture and mindset of Finance community
Jerome is a transformation leader and a strategist, focused on building CFO functions for the future through process efficiencies and insights. Jerome passionately believes that along with modern advancements in tech architecture and data analytics, a creative, collaborative and inclusive user community is also important to any transformation agenda.
With 20+ years industry experience, Jerome is currently leading a Finance Digitalisation programme for Shawbrook Bank to align the Bank’s ambitious growth prospects and Fin-tech strategy. Prior to working at Shawbrook, Jerome has run Finance transformation programmes at HSBC, Direct Line Group and IBM.
Jerome also has a first-class honours degree in Finance and Financial Information Systems from University of Greenwich.
5:15 pm to 5:20 pm BST
Chair's Closing Remarks
7:30 pm to 10:30 pm BST
End of Event Drinks and Networking
9:05 am to 9:10 am BST
Chair's Opening Remarks
9:10 am to 9:30 am BST
Digital Money: Threats and Opportunities
- The emergence of digital money and changes in customer behaviour
- What does it mean for traditional financial services providers?
- What does it mean for non-bank providers?
- What role is there for regulators to play to enable innovation and at the same time ensure safety?
Ross is Head of Regulatory Developments at NatWest Group, where his responsibilities include assessing the regulatory landscape and identifying any implications for the bank’s strategy and operations. He has been with NatWest Group for 15 years, holding senior roles across Economics, Strategy and Communications. Prior to his current role, Ross was responsible for providing strategic communications advice to the Group CEO. Ross is also a member of the CBI Financial Services Council and regularly represents the bank with trade associations and other key stakeholders.
9:30 am to 9:50 am BST
Future Innovations and Implementation
- Why it’s important to know about future innovative and implementation
- What future Innovations and implementation methods are here and upcoming
- How you can leverage what’s upcoming
- Quick steps to set you up for success
Ange is responsible for Governance and Compliance for Lloyd Banking Group’s Cloud Enabled Business Transformation Programme. Before her current role, Ange was Head of Cloud and Technology Change Risk.
Prior to working at Lloyds, Ange led transformation teams and programmes at Deutsche Bank including: Cloud Security, Risk and Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime Analytics, Data Quality People Change and Money Markets Finance, Risk and Regulatory Reporting.
Before joining Deutsche Bank, Ange worked as a Senior Manager at EY across Asia Pacific and EMEIA within the Financial Services Organisation focusing on Corporate Banking and Capital Markets transformation and business, technology and programme advisory. Ange started her career at IBM in Australia working as a developer, tester, designer and then business analyst and project manager.
Ange has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics / Robotics) and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
9:50 am to 10:30 am BST
Panel Session - The Future of Banking: New Technologies and Innovations Beyond 2022
Stuart is a Risk, Strategy and Innovation expert with over 15 years’ service in UK Financial Services. Stuart is experienced in credit, operational, and financial crime risk management, in small, medium and large organisations. Stuart is Head of Innovation at Aldermore Group, working in the Risk Function and focused on using innovative approaches to improve the management of risk. He is passionate about new approaches to solve problems, driving better decision making within organisations. He is always open to conversations on emerging tech opportunity, behavioural insights and psychology, new tools and ways of working, and the power of experimentation.
Swagatam is a senior AI researcher and data evangelist with wide range of experience of designing and productising data science solutions within BFSI domain. He is currently leading the R&D Innovation team for Compliance Analytics globally within HSBC. Prior to that he has served in a variety of leadership roles within Fraud and Compliance divisions of the bank. He is passionate about using rational and data driven approach to solving complex problems as well as helping others with similar goals.
Nadeem Haque is the Head of Emerging Payments for Barclays’ Global Transaction Banking business, where he is responsible for defining and implementing solutions through the use of new technologies and partnerships, that drive the payments agenda forward. Prior to that, Nadeem was the business lead for the implementation of PSD2 and Open Banking. He is a career payments evangelist and has had various leadership roles at several institutions, such as HSBC and ABN AMRO, prior to joining Barclays in 2011.
Stuart is a Risk, Strategy and Innovation expert with over 15 years’ service in UK Financial Services. Stuart is experienced in credit, operational, and financial crime risk management, in small, medium and large organisations. Stuart is Head of Innovation at Aldermore Group, working in the Risk Function and focused on using innovative approaches to improve the management of risk. He is passionate about new approaches to solve problems, driving better decision making within organisations. He is always open to conversations on emerging tech opportunity, behavioural insights and psychology, new tools and ways of working, and the power of experimentation.
Swagatam is a senior AI researcher and data evangelist with wide range of experience of designing and productising data science solutions within BFSI domain. He is currently leading the R&D Innovation team for Compliance Analytics globally within HSBC. Prior to that he has served in a variety of leadership roles within Fraud and Compliance divisions of the bank. He is passionate about using rational and data driven approach to solving complex problems as well as helping others with similar goals.
Nadeem Haque is the Head of Emerging Payments for Barclays’ Global Transaction Banking business, where he is responsible for defining and implementing solutions through the use of new technologies and partnerships, that drive the payments agenda forward. Prior to that, Nadeem was the business lead for the implementation of PSD2 and Open Banking. He is a career payments evangelist and has had various leadership roles at several institutions, such as HSBC and ABN AMRO, prior to joining Barclays in 2011.
Stuart is a Risk, Strategy and Innovation expert with over 15 years’ service in UK Financial Services. Stuart is experienced in credit, operational, and financial crime risk management, in small, medium and large organisations. Stuart is Head of Innovation at Aldermore Group, working in the Risk Function and focused on using innovative approaches to improve the management of risk. He is passionate about new approaches to solve problems, driving better decision making within organisations. He is always open to conversations on emerging tech opportunity, behavioural insights and psychology, new tools and ways of working, and the power of experimentation.
Swagatam is a senior AI researcher and data evangelist with wide range of experience of designing and productising data science solutions within BFSI domain. He is currently leading the R&D Innovation team for Compliance Analytics globally within HSBC. Prior to that he has served in a variety of leadership roles within Fraud and Compliance divisions of the bank. He is passionate about using rational and data driven approach to solving complex problems as well as helping others with similar goals.
Nadeem Haque is the Head of Emerging Payments for Barclays’ Global Transaction Banking business, where he is responsible for defining and implementing solutions through the use of new technologies and partnerships, that drive the payments agenda forward. Prior to that, Nadeem was the business lead for the implementation of PSD2 and Open Banking. He is a career payments evangelist and has had various leadership roles at several institutions, such as HSBC and ABN AMRO, prior to joining Barclays in 2011.
10:30 am to 11:00 am BST
1-2-1 Business Meetings & Networking Break
11:00 am to 11:20 am BST
Risks in Innovation / Innovation in Risk
- Innovation in the back office as a differentiator
- Risk’s role in organisational innovation, as well as driving innovation in its own regard
- The biggest enemy to innovation in your organisation, and what to do about it
Stuart is a Risk, Strategy and Innovation expert with over 15 years’ service in UK Financial Services. Stuart is experienced in credit, operational, and financial crime risk management, in small, medium and large organisations. Stuart is Head of Innovation at Aldermore Group, working in the Risk Function and focused on using innovative approaches to improve the management of risk. He is passionate about new approaches to solve problems, driving better decision making within organisations. He is always open to conversations on emerging tech opportunity, behavioural insights and psychology, new tools and ways of working, and the power of experimentation.
11:20 am to 12:00 pm BST
Panel Session - Adopting Emerging Technologies to Enhance Digital Transformation
Manuela is the Innovation Manager at Banco Santander. Based in London, she is responsible for driving new business models and implementing novel emerging technologies for the Group.
Prior to banking, Manuela was heavily involved in the fin-tech space running a blockchain start-up and closely working with regulators, investors, and incumbent financial institutions to develop new more collaborative approaches to rethinking financial services.
Over 20 years delivering transformational change empowered by emerging technologies and a creative flair. Helen is an experienced technologist, influencer and innovative leader. Helen leads the digital skills agenda and the introduction of emerging technologies. Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021, Winner of Above and Beyond.
Anita Patel is a Senior Data Scientist in Global Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB) & Sales Technology at Bank of America. She has been with the bank for over 8 years and has helped build several predictive models ranging from natural language processing to time series based models. One of her most impressive projects to date is developing the model behind Bank of America’s Predictive Intelligence Analytics MachineTM (BofA PRIAMTM), which is an artificial intelligence system that helps to optimize demand for equity capital market transactions, including IPOs. The product has won a number of external industry awards, including Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Award and Waters Technology’s AFTA for Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative. Anita was named Data Science Professional of the Year by WatersTechnology in 2020.
Manuela is the Innovation Manager at Banco Santander. Based in London, she is responsible for driving new business models and implementing novel emerging technologies for the Group.
Prior to banking, Manuela was heavily involved in the fin-tech space running a blockchain start-up and closely working with regulators, investors, and incumbent financial institutions to develop new more collaborative approaches to rethinking financial services.
Over 20 years delivering transformational change empowered by emerging technologies and a creative flair. Helen is an experienced technologist, influencer and innovative leader. Helen leads the digital skills agenda and the introduction of emerging technologies. Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021, Winner of Above and Beyond.
Anita Patel is a Senior Data Scientist in Global Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB) & Sales Technology at Bank of America. She has been with the bank for over 8 years and has helped build several predictive models ranging from natural language processing to time series based models. One of her most impressive projects to date is developing the model behind Bank of America’s Predictive Intelligence Analytics MachineTM (BofA PRIAMTM), which is an artificial intelligence system that helps to optimize demand for equity capital market transactions, including IPOs. The product has won a number of external industry awards, including Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Award and Waters Technology’s AFTA for Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative. Anita was named Data Science Professional of the Year by WatersTechnology in 2020.
Manuela is the Innovation Manager at Banco Santander. Based in London, she is responsible for driving new business models and implementing novel emerging technologies for the Group.
Prior to banking, Manuela was heavily involved in the fin-tech space running a blockchain start-up and closely working with regulators, investors, and incumbent financial institutions to develop new more collaborative approaches to rethinking financial services.
Over 20 years delivering transformational change empowered by emerging technologies and a creative flair. Helen is an experienced technologist, influencer and innovative leader. Helen leads the digital skills agenda and the introduction of emerging technologies. Women in Technology & Data Awards 2021, Winner of Above and Beyond.
Anita Patel is a Senior Data Scientist in Global Corporate Investment Banking (GCIB) & Sales Technology at Bank of America. She has been with the bank for over 8 years and has helped build several predictive models ranging from natural language processing to time series based models. One of her most impressive projects to date is developing the model behind Bank of America’s Predictive Intelligence Analytics MachineTM (BofA PRIAMTM), which is an artificial intelligence system that helps to optimize demand for equity capital market transactions, including IPOs. The product has won a number of external industry awards, including Gartner’s Eye on Innovation Award and Waters Technology’s AFTA for Most Cutting-Edge IT Initiative. Anita was named Data Science Professional of the Year by WatersTechnology in 2020.
12:05 pm to 12:50 pm BST
Sponsored Roundtable Discussions
Round Table 1: What’s next in Cybersecurity?
Protecting the assets of the financial institution and its clients is becoming harder. As organisations migrate to modern infrastructure and cloud services, bad actors have extended their skills and capabilities to achieve their missions. This is compounded by the fact that more financial and payment vehicles are going virtual. Risk and security leaders are thus constantly reassessing the landscape — are there blind spots in our security protocols? Is my customer information secure and protected? How can I spot inconsistent system behaviour and potential adversaries seeking to obtain this information? Even the slightest breach can result in fines and reputational harm.
So what can financial services institutions do to stay secure in 2022 and beyond? In this panel we will discuss
- New and emerging challenges in cybersecurity
- Steps to create a tech stack for the future
- How to go beyond detection to continuous monitoring
- Ways to stay competitive in the cyber talent race
- Tips to make cybersecurity a team effort in your organisations
Speaker: Brandon Mavleos – Principal: Financial Services: Elastic
Brandon Mavleos is Principal, Product Marketing at Elastic, where he leads the strategy & positioning for the Financial Services Vertical. Prior to Elastic, Brandon has held various roles across financial institutions and financial technology providers including Datasite, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and American Express. He holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town and BS in Finance from Villanova University.