Brief Agenda

15 September, 2026

08:00 am

08:30
08:30
Registration & Morning Networking
08:30
08:50
Conference Chair’s Welcome Remarks

Senior Executive

TBC

09:00 am

09:00
10:00
Panel 1: Opening Panel: Agentic AI in the Wild — From Hype to Early Wins
  • Where does agentic AI really stand in financial services today?
  • Why are financial institutions taking this seriously now?
  • What has fundamentally changed in the last 12 months?
  • Who moves faster here - incumbents, challengers, or big tech?
  • Are Nordic and European financial institutions moving fast enough?
  • Where are the first real production use cases emerging?
  • Which banking functions are seeing the fastest adoption?
  • What early wins are delivering measurable business value?
  • What is holding most institutions back today?
  • Where are financial institutions still not ready to trust AI?
  • What will define the winners over the next 24 months?

Senior Representative

Available for Central Bank

James Chalk

Google

Senior Representative

Available for Central Bank

Senior Executive

Available for Platinum Sponsor

Senior Consultant

Moderator

10:00 am

10:00
10:20
From AI Pilots to Agentic Execution: Who Scales First
  • Most financial institutions are experimenting but who is moving into production?
  • Where does agentic AI deliver value first operations, risk, servicing, or growth?
  • Why governance, trust, and operating models now matter more than models alone?
  • What separates institutions scaling agentic AI from those stuck in pilots?

Senior Executive

Available for Title Sponsor
10:20
10:40
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
10:40
11:00
Trusting AI to Act: The First Decisions Financial institutions Are Letting Machines Make
  • Which decisions still require humans and which no longer do?
  • Where AI is already influencing operations, servicing, and risk?
  • How financial institutions balance autonomy, accountability, and control?
  • What boards and regulators are asking before AI goes live?

Galina Alova

HSBC

11:00 am

11:00
11:30
Morning Networking Break/ Pre-Arranged Meetings (30 minutes)
11:30
11:50
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?

Senior Executive

Available for Gold Sponsor
11:50
12:35
Panel 2: Beyond Workflows: The Rise of Autonomous Operations
  • Which banking workflows are closest to autonomous execution?
  • Where is AI delivering operational impact today?
  • What still breaks when AI meets real operations?
  • Can legacy systems support agentic operations at scale?
  • How are financial institutions redesigning workflows around AI?
  • What decisions still require human intervention?
  • How do you scale autonomy without losing control?
  • Who owns agentic transformation inside the financial institution?
  • What does operational ROI actually look like today?
  • What operating models will define the next winners?

Richard Davies

Allica

Kevin Albrecht

Resurs

Senior Executive

Available for Central Financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for Central Financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for Panel Sponsor

Senior Consultant

Moderator

12:00

12:35
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?

Senior Executive

Available for European Inst.

13:00

13:00
14:00
Networking Lunch/ Pre-Arranged Meetings (60 mins)
Round Tables x 2
T1: Buy, Build or Partner? Making the Right Agentic AI Bets
T2: Agentic AI in Action: Real Use Cases Delivering Measurable Value

14:00

14:00
14:40
Panel 3: When AI Starts Moving Money: Who Owns the Future of Commerce?
  • Who leads agentic commerce—financial institutions, merchants, fintechs, or big tech?
  • Will AI agents change how consumers discover, choose, and pay?
  • If AI chooses the payment rail, who owns the customer relationship?
  • Will cards remain dominant in an agent-led commerce world?
  • Can merchants trust AI to optimize checkout in real time?
  • What happens when AI starts negotiating price, credit, and payment terms?
  • Will embedded finance become invisible in agentic commerce?
  • Who carries liability when AI initiates a transaction?
  • Can regulation keep pace with machine-led money movement?
  • Who wins the next 24 months—financial institutions, retailers, PSPs, or platforms?

Senior Executive

Available for Financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for Merchant / Enterprise / Retail

Senior Executive

Available for PSP / Payments Fintech Sponsor

Independent consultant

Moderator
14:40
15:00
Beyond Hype: Operationalizing Agentic Payments
  • Which parts of the payment stack need redesign first?
  • Where do orchestration, fraud, and real-time decisioning collide?
  • How do financial institutions and merchants scale autonomy without adding risk?
  • What capabilities will define payment leaders over the next 24 months?

Senior Executive

Available for Silver Sponsor

15:00

15:00
15:20
Building Intelligent Payment Ecosystems
  • Where is AI improving payment orchestration, treasury, and client experience?
  • What changes when payment decisions become real-time and machine-led?
  • How do institutions scale innovation without increasing operational risk?
  • What early lessons are shaping the next generation of payment infrastructure?

Head of Payments Innovation

Available for SEB
15:20
16:00
Networking Break/ 1-2-1 Meetings (40 mins)
Round Tables x 2
T1: Fraud, Identity and Trust in an AI vs AI World
T 2: Proving ROI: When Does Agentic AI Actually Pay

16:00

16:00
16:40
Panel 4: 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?

Radoslav Jovanovic

Nova Bank

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for Panel Sponsor

Senior consultant

Moderator
16:40
17:00
Fighting AI with AI
  • Are fraud teams ready for synthetic identities and machine-led attacks?
  • Where does human investigation still outperform machine intelligence?
  • How do institutions balance speed, trust, and false positives in real time?
  • What will define the next generation of fraud defense?

Senior Executive

Available for sponsor

17:00

17:00
17:30
Closing Panel: Scaling Agentic AI Without Losing Control
  • What does a true control layer for autonomous finance look like in production?
  • What breaks first when AI moves from pilots to enterprise scale?
  • 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?
  • Can data governance keep pace with autonomous decision-making?
  • Are regulators ready for machine-led financial decisioning?
  • What will define AI-ready institutions over the next 24 months?
  • Who will scale faster—those building models, or those building control?

Gustav Hagberg

Finansinspektionen

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for financial Inst.

Senior Executive

Available for Panel Sponsor

Senior Consultant

Moderator
17:30
Conference Chair’s Closing Remarks

Nicholas Clark

Partner & Associate Director at BCG (Conf. Chair)
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