2024 SPEAKERS

Taner Akcok is a serial entrepreneur, intrapreneur and investor. He works at Deutsche Bank as Head of API Banking and is also an advisor at Boston Consulting Group Digital Ventures. He has 2 exits and is listed as Forbes 30 under 30 in Europe.Taner started his career at Microsoft and after 4.5...

Bessem is a seasoned innovation strategist with a strong background in driving digital transformation in large corporations through open innovation and partnerships with startups. With experience in the aviation industry and management consulting, Bessem has helped numerous organizations to develop ...

Robin Binder, founder and CEO of NAO, started his career in corporate banking at UniCredit.Later, together with an entrepreneurial family, he setted up a single family office in Berlin.As Managing Director of the family office, he was responsible for strategic asset allocation as well as building...

I am a financial executive with broad experience in banking and asset management, especially in operations, risk and IT management, specializing in process re-engineering, agile development and lean organization. I started my career in financial markets and asset management, transitioned to...

Experienced Leader in Financial Crime Risk Management, specialising in Fraud and Anti-Bribery & Corruption across Financial Services - Previously led Fraud Functions at Revolut, Aldermore Bank and Worldpay.   

Em is on a mission to make innovation happen in Insurance. A past as entrepreneur and management consultant, he covered several roles as Project, Programme Manager and Head of PMO across Europe with a focus on Operations, Technology and Product Development. After co-funding the Innovation Lab for a ...

Thomas Courtois is the CEO of the fintech Nickel. He joined Nickel from BNP Paribas, where he held various roles in the marketing and audit teams, before being promoted to lead several subsidiaries within the BNP Paribas group. He takes his position within Nickel as a unique opportunity to combine...

  With over 11 years of experience in digital marketing, I am currently the Global Digital Marketing Manager for Philips Hue at Signify, the world leader in lighting solutions. I've lead and execute omnichannel marketing strategies for web, app, SEO, and paid media channels, adapting the brand ...

As the Chief Digital and Data Officer at Íslandsbankie, with over 20 years of experience in software implementations and business change, Riaan plays a pivotal role in the integration and advancement of AI technologies in the banking sector. Riaan's extensive background encompasses a variety of ...

Silke Finken is Professor of Innovation Management at ISM and gives keynotes and workshops on topics related to innovation and strategy. Before becoming a professor, she set up and headed the Innovation and Consulting Management for the Transaction Banking at DZ BANK and was responsible for a...

Christiane Fritsch has been Head of Digital Leadership at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank's digital strategy and, among other things, for expanding the digital touchpoints with customers. Previously, Ms. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING...

Alexey is an accomplished technologist with a wealth of financial services experience. With a background in software development and architecture, Alexey has held senior roles at a range of companies, from early-stage startups to large multinational banks. Before joining Kroo, he led the...

Anuvrat Gaurav, also known as AG has 17 years of diverse experience in different business sectors. AG started his career in India with ITC Ltd. working on new projects in Retail. He then moved to UAE in 2008 to work with the Sharaf Group. Al Futtaim was next in 2012, where he spent the next 8 years ...

He takes a vision and makes it reality through sound strategy development. He intuitively sees the threads of opportunity that wind through an organization, brings them together into a coherent whole, helps others extend their thinking, and drives material business advantage. He is an inspirational ...

Alex is a visionary within the world of commerce. He has more than 20 years of experience analyzing business trends and providing valuable insights to business leaders through his articles and books, including the industry benchmark, The E-Commerce Book which has become a standard work in the...

Jakob Horn is Managing Director of brokerize GmbH, a fintech connecting online brokers and financial platforms via a multi-brokerage API, allowing investors to trade securities on third-party applications. At brokerize, he is in charge of partnerships and sales. Jakob Horn has more than ten years...

Nivedh Iyer has varied experience in Financial Services with a career spanning over circa 19+ years’ experience in Financial Services across multiple countries with a majority of this in Assurance, Advisory and Consulting.   Nivedh has held many leadership roles, most recently for a UK based...

Chris Jones, Managing Director​ Chris Jones manages PSE Consulting’s business and is well known in the UK and EU for his regular insights into payments innovation.   He has spent the last 20+ years leading assignments for major clients during his time at PSE and Accenture.  His particular...

Chris is the Global Head of AML Prevention at Citi. He is responsible for Citi’s Global KYC, AML Product Risk and Digital Risk programs including Citi’s coverage of Digital Assets from an AML perspective. Prior to Citi, Chris served in multiple senior private and regulator roles, including as CCO...

Hello, I´m Thomas Kirst, founder at moneygarden. I am passionate about developing AI tools that make financial decision-making easy and accurate. My software helps analyze financial data and predict future cash flows to help people and businesses manage their finances better. As an experienced...

FOUNDER & CMO | SABRINA KRAFT 99 % der Unternehmen haben kein transparentes Bild über den Online-Markt und Wettbewerb. Das hat Sabrina Kraft 2023 dazu inspiriert, ein revolutionäres E-Commerce-Tool zu entwickeln. Einen „Joystick“, mit dem man die Kontrolle darüber hat, welches Unternehmen mit...

Maria Kristalinskaya is Head of Retail Media at Kleinanzeigen. She's responsible for developing retail media working with sales, marketing and product teams. Before stepping into her role at Kleinanzeigen, Maria worked as Country Manager at idealo. She was also working at BBDO Group with major...

Julia Kruslin is the founder of beatvest, an investment app aimed at beginners. With a focus on education and empowerment, Julia leads the product team, advocating for user-centric design. beatvest's mission is to make investing accessible, helping users confidently build diversified portfolios ...

Marius Smith, an early Finoa employee, leads strategy and growth efforts across custody and staking suite.He was previously with Google and N26. 

Leading online grocery in Italy, with a strong focus on operations and business model R&D.

André Moeller In Payments since 2007Lead Operative Payments experience from areas like E-mobility & charginge-CommerceGamesTV & Media Lead and build up the payment infrastructure at e.g. elli – brand of Volkswagen Group and in charge of all payment ev & charging Business for the...

AML Country Head, Santander Bank Polska. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the Warsaw University of Technology. In  2020 completed Postgraduate Studies at the Leon Koźmiński University in the field of AML and Compliance. Since 2011, directly involved in the field of anti-money...

Marcel Neumann is Managing Director at Campingfreunde Assekuradeur GmbH and, as CSO & CPO, a member of the management team at OCC Assekuradeur GmbH. He has been working in the insurance industry for over 15 years and has gained in-depth experience in the development and implementation of target ...

Privatier | Fintech & Data Science | CBDC | Lecture & Speaker & AuthorMr Nymand-Andersen has over 27 years of Central Banking Experiences and was part of creating and developing the European Central Bank from scratch. Per has developed his expertise in Banking, Financial...

16+ years in Cards Payments

Thomas Präßler is COO at Billie, a B2B payment provider. He joined the Berlin-based fintech in early 2019 where he built and scaled-up the Operations Department. Prior to joining Billie, Thomas was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company where he worked with a wide range of clients from...

As the managing director of Media-Saturn Marketing, Boris Prondzinski leads the Retail Media business within MediaMarktSaturn on the international scale and expanding across Europe. In addition to his expertise in Media and Marketing, Prondzinski has an exceptional background in international...

Multi-cultural professional with a strong background in business and solutions development for large accounts. Extensive experience building and managing high performance teams across different countries, specialised in financial services. Eric's expertise also includes global deal management...

Nina Pütz is the CEO of Ratepay. With more than 17 years of experience in e-commerce, Nina was most recently CEO of the online shopping club brands4friends and spent 15 years in various leadership roles at the online marketplace eBay. She is also involved in the advisory board of the textile...

Co-founder of consalty | Expert for regulatory payments requirements | KYB and KYC | Process design

Dirk Schrade is Deputy Director General of the Payments & Settlement Systems Directorate at the Central Office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. After school and finishing his studies of business administration at the Bundesbank University of Applied Sciences he worked for many years in...

Fredrik Thuring leads Operational analytics in Tryg Insurance - the largest non-life insurance company in Scandinavia. His responsibilities cover development and implementation of machine learning algorithms for claims, UW and other internal processes. He holds an Ms.c in engineering physics and a...

I am an Anti-Money Laundering expert, who started to fight against international financial crime back in 2010. For the last 6 years I have been working in the banking industry for international Nordic Banks: Nordea – I was leading AML and Sanctions Screening in Finland, SEB – I was leading...

Christian Trumm is an accomplished Fintech & Web3 Advisor with a strong track record in Payments, Stablecoins, CBDC and Trade Finance between Asia and Europe.A strong believer in the global scalability of world-class tech from Asia, Christian has learned that products and solutions can and need ...

Stephen Voss started his professional career at Allianz AG in Frankfurt. After graduating in business management in 1997 he worked for the Deutsche Bank AG and for the Halifax-Bank of Scotland in Luxembourg for more than 10 years. After several other stations of his career he acted as General...