North America's most influential banking and payments event

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Originally a Commercial Banker, Helene is an Associate Director with the Centre for Digital Banking and Finance in LIBF, an experienced FinTech Programme Director, exited entrepreneur, educator and author. Her career boasts a number of ‘firsts’, including the creation of the FinTech Scale Colab Programme for Rainmaking, the Inaugural Programme of Education and Events for Innovate Finance, the FinTech on the Entrepreneurship Masters’ for UCL. Board and advisory roles include the Spanish digital identity scale up, Biid, the UK safeguarding RegTech, Kalgera, and the SME payments company, TomatoPay.  Helene was named on the Computer Weekly 100 Women in Tech Award, the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Power List, and the Fintech Magazine 100 Women in Fintech list. She was also part of the FCA 2020 Data Sprint on SME Lending, and the recipient of the FT/Google Digital Pioneer Award. Her new book ‘Reinventing Banking & Finance: Frameworks to navigate global fintech innovation’ (Kogan) came out in November 2020, and was named the number one banking book for 2021 by Investopedia.

Carlos Kazuo Missao is Head of Innovation, Americas, at GFT, where he guides some of the world’s leading banking, finance, and insurance companies through large-scale digital transformation journeys. Missao’s work spans the complete overhaul of legacy architectures and full cloud migrations to the adoption of advanced technologies and introduction of open banking frameworks.

Ryan Cox is the Senior Director & Co-Head of Artificial Intelligence, at Synechron in London, UK and is an expert in leveraging Artificial Intelligence to tackle complex business problems. He has served in several roles within Synechron since joining in October 2018 and, as an engineer by trade, he has delivered an array of successful technology programs. He is a technology and Artificial Intelligence specialist with more than 20 years of experience within the global financial services/technology industry.

Chris Tapley is Vice President and the North America FS Consulting Leader at EPAM. He is an accomplished Management Consultant and Banking Executive with a focus on financial services technology and data. Chris has a proven track record of strategy development and program delivery for leading U.S. banks and FinTechs.

Jody brings deep operating experience in financial services – managing direct channels, launching digital ventures, and leading digital transformation programs. He was previously a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he helped financial institutions define and execute digital transformation programs to drive customer growth and operating efficiency. Jody also served in senior digital operating roles at U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, and Providian. In these positions, he led digital sales and service functions and direct to consumer businesses to deliver organic growth and enhanced customer experience. Jody has an MBA from Northwestern University and a BS in Computer Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Chris Howell is a Vice President of Business Solutions Group in Temenos; with over 20 years of experience in technology focused on consumer engagement, Chris specializes in onboarding and origination at Temenos and helps banks and credit unions grow through customer acquisition. Chris has worked with several startups – QLink Technologies (acquired by Adobe Systems), a company focused on intelligent forms powered by workflow, and Avoka Technologies, a customer experience platform acquired by Temenos that helps FI’s create differentiated onboarding journeys.  Chris has expanded his mandate to include Loan and Account origination and leads a team of experts that evangelize the need for banks to innovate their channel solutions.