Brief Agenda

15 September, 2026

08:00 am

08:30
08:50
Register, grab a coffee, and catch up with familiar faces while meeting new ones.
08:50
09:00
Opening Remarks

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX (Conf. Chair)

09:00 am

09:00
10:00
Panel 1: Opening Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild — From Hype to Early Wins
  • What forces are making the agentic economy work differently?
  • How is this changing the way businesses operate?
  • What will distinguish the winners over the next two years?
  • Where will the biggest competitive advantage come from?
  • How can Agentic AI create material business value?
  • How do we move beyond simply adding more use cases?
  • How can financial institutions accelerate the move from new to normal?
  • How can payments and e-commerce actors do the same?
  • What happens when technology invention moves faster than business absorption?
  • What must we change in leadership, organisation and execution to emerge as winners?

Barak Chizi

KBC Bank & Verzekering

James Chalk

Google

Mattias Fras

Nordea

Dr. Oliver Maspfuhl

Deutsche Bank

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX (Conf. Chair)

TRACK 1

Agentic Automation in Finance Nordics Summit

10:00
10:25
Agentic AI in production: key lessons for Financial Services & surprising sources of added value
  • Lessons from Agentic AI in production
  • Expectations vs. real-world outcomes
  • From proof of value to production
  • Surprising sources of added value
  • What financial services need to consider

Dr. Bartosz Gonczarek, PhD

VSTORM
10:25
10:45
From Experimentation to Execution: Where Agentic AI Is Creating Real Business Value
  • Which AI use cases are moving beyond pilots today?
  • Where financial institutions are seeing the earliest operational and customer impact?
  • What failed, what scaled, and what changed along the way?
  • How leadership teams decide where AI is trusted to act first?

Asko Mustonen

If Insurance
10:45
11:05
From Prototype to P&L: Commercialising AI in Investment Management
  • Data- and knowledge-driven foundations for AI
  • AI beyond efficiency: Driving commercial impact
  • Unlocking value through intelligent investment decisions
  • Scaling AI for measurable business outcomes

Galina Alova

HSBC

TRACK 2

Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit

10:00
10:05
Conference Chair’s Welcome Remark

Anton Kornilov

Kernel Acumen Ltd (Chairperson)
10:05
11:05
Morning Power-Hour Panel Discussion – Setting the Stage
  • What is the current state of agentic commerce across industries?
  • Are we at a genuine inflection point for agentic commerce, or are we still in the experimentation phase?
  • Where are the earliest real-world wins and production-scale use cases emerging today?
  • What ROI and business outcomes are organisations seeing from agentic commerce initiatives?
  • Which sectors and companies are leading adoption—and what are they doing differently?
  • What are the biggest barriers preventing agentic commerce from scaling further?
  • Are retailers building their own agents, partnering with technology providers, or relying on platforms such as OpenAI and Google?
  • How does agentic commerce change customer discovery, decision-making, and purchasing behaviour?
  • Are retailers at risk of losing control over customer relationships and product discovery to AI agents?
  • What will define the winners in the next 24 months?

Mikael Meijer

Apoteket AB

Giulia Wutz

Tiktok

Charlotte Wahlgren

Shopify

Stephan Erne

Evolvarion

Anton Kornilov

Kernel Acumen Ltd (Chairperson)
11:05
11:35
Morning Networking Break/ Pre-Arranged Meetings (30 minutes)

TRACK 1

Agentic Automation in Finance Nordics Summit

11:35
11:55
From Automation to Autonomy: Redesigning Financial Operations for the AI Era
  • Automation improved workflows - agentic AI is now changing decisions?
  • Why operational scale demands more than isolated AI pilots?
  • Where financial institutions are embedding AI across servicing, onboarding, and risk?
  • What separates enterprise transformation from automation theatre?

Linda Gausland Christensen

DataSnipper
11:55
12:40
Beyond Workflows: The Rise of Autonomous Operations
  • Are autonomous banking operations already real, or still sophisticated automation?
  • What is the most autonomous workflow working successfully in production?
  • Where is AI delivering measurable operational impact today?
  • Which decisions no longer need routine human approval?
  • What evidence is needed to safely reduce human checks?
  • What is the biggest obstacle: technology, data, regulation, or organisation?
  • Can agents be added to existing processes, or must workflows be redesigned?
  • Who owns an agentic workflow across business, technology, risk and compliance?
  • Which metric best demonstrates genuine ROI to a skeptical CFO?
  • By September 2028, which banking activity will be far more autonomous than expected?

Richard Davies

Allica

Kevin Albrecht

Resurs

Prerit Ahuja

DNB Carnegie

John Skov

Nordea

Ben Longstaff

Alteryx (Moderator)
12:40
13:00
When Automation Starts Thinking: The Next Operating Model for Financial
  • Automation removed tasks - agentic AI is now reshaping decisions?
  • Why workflows, data, and governance matter more than models alone?
  • Where financial institutions are trusting AI with higher-value actions?
  • What it takes to scale autonomy without losing control?

Tuhin Chakrabarty

Nordea

TRACK 2

Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit

11:35
11:55
Agentic payments – the view from a central banker.
  • What does agentic commerce mean for retailers today?
  • How are AI agents reshaping discovery, conversion, and loyalty?
  • How can retailers protect margins and maintain brand control?
  • What capabilities must retailers build to stay competitive?

Martin Diehl

Deutsche Bundesbank
11:55
12:15
Making Agentic Commerce Work: Real Use Cases, Real Impact
  • Which agentic commerce use cases are delivering measurable results today?
  • What does it take to move from pilot to production?
  • What are the biggest challenges in scaling AI-driven commerce?
  • How can retailers turn early wins into long-term growth?

Rajendra Prasad Kola

Ericsson
12:15
13:00
Panel 2: Payments for Agents: Redefining Checkout, Control & Economics
  • What does checkout look like when there is no traditional user journey?
  • How do you authorise payments and capture consent in autonomous transactions?
  • How are spending limits, controls, and safeguards defined for AI agents?
  • Who ultimately controls the payment decision: the consumer, the agent, or the platform?
  • Are wallets becoming the default control layer for agent-driven payments?
  • How do you balance frictionless execution with fraud prevention and risk management?
  • Will autonomous payments shift power toward wallets, PSPs, merchants, or Big Tech and what must
  • The ecosystem solves first to enable payments at scale?

Paul Asiimwe

Uber

Thomas Ørnstrup Bergmann

Circle K

Johan Schmalholz

Sveriges Riksbank

Yurda Leylak

IDEMIA Secure Transactions

Anastasiia Tsarenko

Awolve AB (Moderator)

13:00

13:00
14:00
Networking Lunch/ Pre-Arranged Meetings (60 mins)

TRACK 1

Agentic Automation in Finance Nordics Summit

14:00
14:20
Agentic Automation Needs a Trustworthy Foundation: Why Document AI + On-Prem Control Wins in Finance
  • The agentic AI promise vs. the reality in finance?
  • Why documents are the bottleneck for agentic workflows The on-prem/hybrid trust layer for regulated industries?
  • Finance use cases: Invoice/AP, KYC and loan/mortgage processing ?
  • ABBYY x OptoSweden: intelligent and deployable agentic automation?

Carlos Alvite

ABBYY
14:20
15:00
Panel 3: When Fraud Starts Thinking: Can Financial Institutions Stay Ahead?
  • How is AI changing the fraud landscape across financial services?
  • Are institutions prepared for synthetic identities and AI-driven deception?
  • Can traditional fraud models still survive in real-time environments?
  • Where is AI already outperforming human investigators?
  • What new risks emerge when AI systems start making financial decisions?
  • Who owns trust when AI gets a transaction wrong?
  • Can regulation keep pace with AI-driven financial crime?
  • Are we entering an AI vs AI arms race?
  • What will separate trusted institutions from vulnerable ones?

Charles Phiri

JPMorganChase

Dmitry Shipilov

Nordea

Barak Chizi

KBC group

Dr. Oliver Maspfuhl

Deutsche Bank

Khalid Alizai

Danske Bank (Moderator)

TRACK 2

Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit

14:00
14:20
From AI Pilots to Agentic Growth – Scaling Agentic AI in a Regulated Digital Business
  • What is real today?
  • Moving from pilot to production?
  • Trusted autonomy?
  • Who will own the infrastructure layer behind AI-driven transactions?

Lokesh Taneja

Evoke
14:20
15:30
Who Owns Discovery? Visibility, Relevance & Control in Agentic Commer
  • How does product discovery change when AI agents become the primary interface?
  • Will brands compete for shelf space, search rankings, or agent recommendations?
  • What role will APIs play in ensuring product and service visibility?
  • How can organisations optimise catalogues, pricing, and inventory for AI consumption?
  • Will marketplaces gain more power—or lose relevance—in an agent-driven ecosystem?
  • How can brands maintain differentiation when agents optimise purely for relevance and value?
  • Who ultimately controls discovery: merchants, marketplaces, AI platforms, or agents themselves?

Luba Weissmann

Epiroc

Mira Korhonen-Low

FORENOM

Nelson Diotto

Google

Michael ven Breg

InnovationAIQ

Steve Webster

Barbour (Moderator)

15:00

15:00
15:30
Afternoon Coffee Break/ 1-2-1 Meetings (30 mins)

TRACK 1

Agentic Automation in Finance Nordics Summit

15:30
15:50
FireSide Chat: Organizational Readiness and AI Adoption
  • How does readiness change across AI value horizons from personal productivity to new business models?
  • How can organizations prepare for workflows that continuously change?
  • How must risk, control and compliance evolve for agentic AI?
  • How can we optimize end-to-end value rather than isolated functions?
  • Can AI adoption be rolled out or must it emerge?
  • How do we steer business value when future workflows are unknown

Mattias Fras

Nordea

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX
15:50
16:30
Closing Panel: Scaling Agentic AI Without Losing Control
  • What does a true control layer for autonomous finance look like in production?
  • Biggest barrier to scaling Agentic AI today? Technology, data, governance or organisational readiness?
  • Can legacy architecture support autonomous decision-making at scale?
  • How are institutions rethinking data governance for agentic AI?
  • Who owns control—technology, business, risk, or the board?
  • How are institutions balancing speed, control and regulatory expectations?
  • Are regulators ready for machine-led financial decisioning?
  • What does success look like over the next 24 months?
  • Who will scale faster—those building models, or those building control?

Gustav Hagberg

Finansinspektionen

Vanessa A

Microsoft

Martin Clough

Swedbank

Ula Antonkiewicz-Kotla

Citi

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX
16:30
Conference Chair’s Closing Remarks

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX

TRACK 2

Agentic Commerce & Payments Summit

15:30
15:50
Agentic Commerce from the Retail Frontline: What’s Real, What’s Next
  • What makes a business discoverable to AI agents?
  • How should APIs evolve for agent-driven interactions?
  • What role does structured data play in visibility and ranking?
  • How can organisations prepare for an API-first commerce ecosystem??
  • What does autonomous finance look like by 2030?

Jay Mohan Kaul

Sanofi
15:50
16:10
The End of SaaS? Welcome to the Agentic Enterprise

Nader Mikhail

Elementum AI
16:10
16:30
Winning Product Discovery in Agentic Commerce: How to make AI Agents Recommend Your Products

Vojtech Oravec

Ranketta
16:30
16:45
When software is the buyer: building the money layer for agents

Viggo Stenseth

SolvaPay
16:45
Conference Chair’s Closing Remarks

Anton Kornilov

Kernel Acumen Ltd (Chairperson)
Cheers with Peers – Evening Drinks Reception!
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