North America's most influential banking and payments event

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Robert Turner is the Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Financial Services at Kyndryl. Over the past 26 years, Robert has held various C-level positions as a customer of Kyndryl across banking and financial institutions including CapitalOne, MUFG, The Federal Reserce, The Clearing House and Dollar Financial Group. 

Prior to being named leader of the US Financial Services market at Kyndryl, Robert led the U.S. Cloud and Applications, Data, & AI practices where he brought a customer-first approach to the solutions Kyndryl brings to market. 

Robert received a bachelor’s in business administration from Averett University, with a minor in Electronics Engineering Technology through JTCC. Robert received the Top 100 CIO of the Year Award in 2010, InfoWorld Project Award and ITIL Project of the Year Award in early 2000’s and IBM Circle of Champions Award. Robert was recently appointed by Governor Youngkin to the IT Advisory Council for Virginia Information Technology (VITA). 

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.