Our speakers
Meet the diverse lineup of speakers who are leaders, innovators, and disruptors in the banking and payments industry. Gain insights from their expertise and be inspired by their vision for the future.
Dr Francesca Carlesi
Taylan Turan
Joe Heneghan
Saif Malik
Andrew Ellis
Pierre-Antoine Vacheron
Jorissa Neutelings
Philippe Coue
James Allan
Vinita Ramtri
Natalie Invernizzi
Jason Clinton
Klaus Baader
Kilian Thalhammer
Riaan Dreyer
Frances Haque
Joshua Ting
Solange Dive-Chamberlain
Mark Willis
Jit Ng
Sebastian Burnside
Richard Davies
Jinhong Brejnholt
Jinhong Brejnholt
Jinhong is a highly skilled cloud and platform architect, with a strong passion for DevSecOps practice and cloud-native technologies. She holds an MSc. in Software Development and Technology, and is certified as a Kubernetes application developer, administrator, and security specialist. Currently serving as the Chief Cloud Architect & Global Head of Cloud and Container Platform Engineering at Saxo Bank, Jinhong works to bridge the gap between platform and application teams, with a focus on strengthening infrastructure platform offerings, improving the developer experience and maximizing productivity. She is a strong advocate for sustainable and secure ways of developing and managing applications and integrations. Jinhong’s passion for open source technology and community building has led her to become the organizer for the Kubernetes Community Days and Cloud Native Copenhagen groups, where she helps to spread awareness of open source technologies and grow the cloud-native community in Denmark.
Yash Morar
Pekka Suomalainen
Joel Perlman
Lyndsey Edgar
Dara Sosulski
Bhavna Saraf
Rory Tanner
Conrad Ford
Kåre Kjelstrøm
Kåre Kjelstrøm has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and +25 years of industry experience working in Denmark, Canada, and the United States as a software engineer and manager. His resume includes work at Uber, Cloud Kitchens, Concordium, and at the consulting company Silverbullet which he co-founded and where he helped digitize the Danish Public Sector for 10 years.
Anders Berg Jensen
Raghu Narula
Phillip Mind
Bianca Zwart
Giorgio Andreoli
Romi Savova
Tamara van den Ban
Jackie Kingham
Emma Mansfield
Mark Mullen
Rebecca Shao
Simon Broadley
Dante Jackson
Alex Mollart
Christian Luckow
Christian Luckow
Christian Luckow leads the Core Payments Tribe and Payments Center of Excellence at Danske Bank. Christian has 25 years of experience in the cross-over between business and IT, including as CEO of a working capital company in Australia that specialized in embedded finance solutions for small and medium enterprises. He joined Danske Bank in 2019 where he is leading the transformation of the bank’s core payments systems across all markets, ensuring that they are fast, secure, and compliant with the latest regulations and standards. He is also responsible for engaging with industry and sector partners to foster innovation and collaboration in the payments space. |
Joy Adams
Sabine Schmidt
Tina Hughes
Hetal Popat
Vijay Mitra
Michael Knetsch
Helen Bierton
Ben Ashwell
Nick Fahy
Veronique Constans
Jessica Ramos
Roger Berger
Gurminder Bhagrath
Stuart Doignie
Justin Brearley-Smith
Simone Poon
Taner Ackok
William Boocock
Paul Szumilewicz
John Penberthy-Smith
Ana Climente
David Solans Vinagre
Hannah Bernard
Ankur Sisodia
Jonas Brännvall
Vaidotas Kaukenas
Michael Conville
Cristian Cengher
Howard Rawstron
Rita Bullivant
Philip Haglund
Gimi – a gamified educational mobile banking app for families, delivered to banks using open banking. |
Carmela Gómez Castelao
Erwin Kulk
Nick Bennett
Jennifer Lloyd
Monica Carlesso
Steven Robson
Diederik Bruggink
Oliver Hanmer
Stephen Wright
Giorgi Kintsurashvili
Saira Khan
Saira Khan is the Head of Innovation and Partnerships for First Direct Bank(HSBC), was recognised in Innovate Finance ‘Women in FinTech Powerlist 2023 & 2022’. Having led the creation of innovation teams and centres in the United Kingdom, Asia, and the United States, while building and testing data management and open banking through global hackathons, she has developed a unique vision and reputation for being a catalyst for transformation around the world on leading deliveries with commercial impact. She is known as a key connector and championing moves towards a digital-first culture, enabling greater collaboration and connectivity between startups and corporations with proven results. While her passion and advocacy for change sets her apart from her peers in the finance sector, it is her work mentoring and supporting global talent in Africa, Asia, and the United States that drives Saira as she focuses and champions efforts around diversity, inclusion, education, and sustainability.
Dan Axelsson
Lee McNabb
Jehangir Byramji
Sabih Behzad
Tim Lord
Annet Steenbergen
Bio Annet Steenbergen After many years working in international border management Annet co-founded/co-initiated the Aruba Happy Flow project in 2013 that created the world’s first seamless passenger facilitation uniting the public and private stakeholder at the airport in one identity management system using a single biometric token. Ever since digital Identity and innovation for the travel eco-system have been at the centre of her work. She is currently a consultant for the travel and tourism industry and works on projects with focus on implementing digital identity and digital travel credentials to create true Seamless Travel while preserving data privacy and data protection. She is a participant in the EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium. Annet has been actively involved in IATA OneID working groups and task forces and in 2020 she was awarded the Women in Biometrics Award. She is also often asked as a public speaker and moderator.
Claire Askham
Neil Evans
Shaun Gardner
Luca Piezzo
I had the chance to work in different industries (Retail, Manufacturing, Banking and Insurance mainly), coping with several challenges of complex IT transformation programs as Executive and Advisory. Since 2016 I’m sharing my experience and vision on Cloud Computing, helping Medium and Large Enterprises on their journey. Strongly convinced that IT should enable business, enhancing the potential of the underlying technology stack that must be a commodity.
Jamie Renehan
Colin Whitmore
Louis Blackburn
Nicholas Carlton
Adela Shikhiyeva
Christoph Berentzen
Prashant Malik
Claire Maillet
Idorenyin Obong
Felix Hughes
Michael Anyfantakis
Helene Panzarino
Helene Panzarino
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.