Brief Agenda

15 September, 2026

08:00 am

08:30

08:50

Registration & Morning Networking

08:50

09:00

Conference Chair’s Welcome Remarks

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX

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?

Barak Chizi

KBC Bank & Verzekering

James Chalk

Google

Dr. Oliver Maspfuhl

Deutsche Bank

Senior Executive

Available for Platinum Sponsor

Henrik Göthberg

DAIRDUX ( Moderator)

10:00 am

10:00

10:25

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

10:25

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

Asset Management is a data- and knowledge-driven business, making it a natural fit for AI not just for efficiency, but for measurable commercial impact. This keynote explores practical, near-term applications of AI in investments that move beyond experimentation into production, and explains the operating model required to scale them: prioritising the right opportunities, building reusable data and tooling foundations, and tracking outcomes across revenue, productivity, and time-to-market.

Galina Alova

HSBC

11:00 am

11:05

11:35

Morning Networking Break/ Pre-Arranged Meetings (30 minutes)

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?

Senior Executive

11:55

12:40

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

Prerit Ahuja

DNB Carnegie

John Skov

Nordea

Karoliina Kettukari

OP Pohjola

Senior Executive

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?

Senior Executive

Available for Bank

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

14:40

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?