Technology continues to reshape how financial institutions operate, compete, and serve customers. This conference examines the key technology trends influencing banking—from infrastructure modernization and digital platforms to cybersecurity and innovation strategy. Attendees will gain a broader understanding of how banks can evaluate, implement, and govern technology solutions that support both operational efficiency and long-term growth.
Technology has disrupted banking systems for years, but never has our industry faced more disruptive and confusing technologies converging at once. Artificial intelligence, stablecoin, digital assets, open and fintech banking, with data security and privacy mandates all converge to create the perfect technology opportunity or storm. Attend this session to understand technologically where we have been and where banks need to go to stay relevant moving forward. Cyber implications are discussed to help leaders understand and plan for technology innovations across all departments of your bank.
Dr. Kevin Streff
Bringing digital assets into banking requires confronting new technologies and processes that many banks are unfamiliar with. In this session, we will dive into the foundational technologies involved with digital assets and walk through how to integrate these into existing banking platforms, including banking cores, digital banking and compliance tooling. You will walk away from this session with a clear understanding of the important technology pieces in a digital asset offering and how they fit together.
Alex Treece
AI/Machine Learning: From Copilot to Autonomous: How Governed Agentic AI Is Reshaping Banking Operations. AI is certainly the technology hot topic of the year, and is reshaping every department in the bank. Learn some of the examples of simple implementations, as well as more sophisticated uses as Agentic AI promises to reshape banking delivery systems.
Tony Zirnoon, CISSP
Europe has long implemented open banking, as more than 70 percent of citizens in the United Kingdom already leverage open banking systems. Data and APIs are at the core of these integrations. Attend this session to learn more about open banking, data management, and the application programming interface best practices to augment your traditional banking system into the integrated and open systems of the future.
Christopher Vincent Hussain
This session focuses on measurable cycle-time reduction, compliance confidence and operational scale. Our approach combines structured workflows with AI-assisted validation to deliver improvements in document handling, review efficiency and defensibility – while building toward scalable growth without proportional cost increases. Standards or best practices are shared with bankers to jump-start digital infrastructure transformation.
Michael Zimits
Data privacy is the next big investment financial institutions need to make, including developing and implementing an Information Privacy Program. The foundation of that program is data management: what data do you have on a consumer, and what systems and processes it is used in. Without knowing this information, your institution cannot conduct a privacy assessment, determine incidents for the incident response plan, identify controls to look for in vendors, etc. Attend this session to understand what data management is and how to build a data management program. The webinar demonstrates tools that do the data scanning of a financial institution’s network and build a repository of information that serves as the foundation for your Information Privacy Program. It will demonstrate the only privacy solution that maps your data systems without collecting any customer data and show how to use that data for a privacy risk assessment.
Many banks are piloting artificial intelligence projects, learning about how this advance can benefit customers and improve bank performance. But what about enterprise wide AI projects? How can your bank do AI at scale to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence? Attend this session to learn more about enterprise wide AI opportunities, and best practices in deploying AI solutions at scale across your institution.
Mark Ritcey
The rapid advancement of quantum technologies (QT), encompassing computing, communication, and sensing, marks the arrival of a transformative new era. The conversation has shifted from the theoretical "if" to the strategic "when" and "how" of enterprise adoption. This presentation provides a comprehensive, forward-looking overview for organizations to assess their preparedness and successfully navigate the journey into the quantum economy. The session will first delineate the imminent commercial opportunities presented by QT, focusing on high-impact sectors such as finance (risk modeling, portfolio optimization), life sciences (drug and material simulation), and logistics (complex optimization). The core of the discussion will then center on achieving Quantum Readiness—the necessary organizational posture to generate and retain value from this technology. The session will analyze the current challenges to widespread adoption, including hardware limitations (decoherence and scalability), the complexity of error correction, and the need for standardized quantum technology readiness levels (QTRLs) across the industry. Attendees will leave with a clear, actionable phased adoption journey—a strategic imperative to future-proof their business and ensure they are positioned to capture the competitive advantage of the emerging quantum market.
Bill Genovese
Banks are increasingly exposed to sophisticated cyber threats, including AI-driven fraud, deepfakes, and scams using QR codes or AI bots. Banks are investing heavily in cybersecurity, fraud detection, and AI-driven monitoring to protect customer assets and maintain trust, with over 80% of banks actively piloting or deploying AI for these purposes. Is your cybersecurity program ready to handle the complexities and nuances of stablecoin, AI, data privacy, and open banking? Dr. Streff will explore these topics to ensure your information security program matures and you are ready for your next IT examination.
Dr. Kevin Streff
Round 1 of fintech banking failed, while round 2 appears successful. What changed with fintech banking now that seems to generate value for the Fintech, the bank, and the consumer? A Fintech banking model is explored with the technology components highlighted by a long-time banker focused exclusively on Fintech banking for a $3.5 billion operation. Attend this session if you are interested in learning more about Fintech partnerships to grow your bank and achieve your strategic goals.
Josh Hofer
Hailey Windham
Scott McCormack
For fifteen years I have been telling entrepreneurs that a decentralized network processing more transactions per second than Visa or Mastercard was not possible. Recently, after one request too many, I spent sleepless nights asking whether I was actually right. ProxCell is what came out of those nights: a payment architecture inspired by how 5G mobile networks route traffic through cell proximity, applied to the problem of decentralized settlement. In this session I will walk through why the conventional answer has been "no," what changes when physical location becomes a security primitive, and why I now think the answer might be yes.
Roberto Capodieci
Shelli K. Trung
Josh Hofer
Roberto Capodieci
Dr. Kevin Streff
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