Victor Hjalmarsson
Head Of E- Commerce Gaston
Dr. Martin Diehl is Head of Financial Market Infrastructure Analysis at Deutsche Bundesbank, where he focuses on developments in payments, financial market infrastructures, and the future of digital money. With extensive experience in central banking, he works on topics including payment innovation, market infrastructure resilience, financial stability, and emerging technologies shaping the payments ecosystem. His work provides valuable insights into how central banks, financial institutions, and market participants can navigate the evolving landscape of digital and increasingly autonomous transactions.
Shaje Ganny is Group Director of Digital Transformation for Europe at the world’s largest FMCG company, where he has spent two decades at the sharp end of digital commerce: eCommerce operations, Amazon data strategy, eContent, and joint business planning with Europe’s largest retailers. He has seen first-hand how every shift in the commerce stack, from marketplaces to retail media to AI, lands on the shelf, the cart, and conversion. He is also President and co-foudner of the Swiss AI Academy Association, a Geneva-based nonprofit dedicated to AI literacy and human-centric AI education.
His current focus is the question now confronting every retailer and brand: when AI agents can discover, decide, and transact, who holds decision authority, and how do we keep humans in charge? He is the creator of the Bionic Context Protocol (BCP), a framework for human sovereignty in AI systems launched at Davos in January 2026, and sole author of an accepted, peer-reviewed IEEE paper on digital transformation with human-centric AI.
Shaje is the author of “AI Won’t Bite,” an Amazon bestseller published in English, French, German, and Italian, and teaches a master’s-level course on AI for business leaders. A regular voice on agentic commerce, he has spoken at Agentic Commerce London and TEDx Berlin, was named in the Top 100 Global Innovative Leaders 2026, and chairs the Education Sub-Committee of the IEEE Global AI Systems Well-being Initiative.
Anton Kornilov is a global payments executive and advisor with over two decades of leadership experience at Mastercard and American Express, where he worked across cross-border, account-to-account, cards, and instant payment models in Europe and global markets. He now runs his own advisory practice, Kernel Acumen, supporting banks, PSPs and fintechs on payments commercialisation, regulatory change and operating-model evolution.
Throughout his career, Anton has worked at the intersection of strategy, regulation and commercial execution, helping organisations translate policy and market change into practical payment propositions and scalable operating models. Alongside his work in payments, he is a Board Director at Volleyball England and an active coach, bringing a strong belief that payments, like sport, are a team effort — reliant on trust, clear roles, interoperability and coordination across many participants.
