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Vilhjálmur Alvar Halldórsson is the head of digital development and open banking at Arion bank. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and an executive MBA degree. Vilhjalmur has over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, including managerial experience in digital banking and transformation in both Arion bank, Íslandsbanki and Glitnir. Vilhjálmur has been deeply involved in pushing Arion Bank towards digital transformation and...

Machine learning engineer with a demonstrated history of working in artificial intelligence and numerical modeling. He is highly skilled in Python and Matlab/GNU Octave. Additionally, Martin has a strong scientific background with a PhD in Oceanography and a Master’s Degree focused in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Université de Liège....

Mary Alcantara is the Head of Startups at MKB Fintechlab, Hungary's first fintech investor and innovation lab owned by MKB Bank. Fintechlab's mission is to transform Budapest into the fintech capital of the CEE region. At Fintechlab, Mary leads the incubation program, manages a portfolio of 26 startups, organizes periodic meetups and hackathons, and brokers bank partnerships with startups and scaleups. She is passionate about...

Klement A. Rasmussen is Global Head of Fraud Strategy & Execution at Danske Bank. Together with a diverse mix of strategists, communicators and project managers – he plays a key role in setting and directing the strategic agenda for Danske Bank’s fraud prevention and detection activities. Before joining Danske Bank, he advised LEO Pharma A/S on digital business models and innovation strategies Ph.D. from Copenhagen Business School...

John Erik Setsaas has been working with identities for more than 20 years. He has in-depth knowledge in the areas of security and identity management. His current role is Identity Architect at Signicat AS, working with identity assurance, authentication, digital signatures and seals. Before joining Signicat, John Erik worked as chief development architect for SAP Identity Management. He has been presenting at international conferences, like SAP...

Vanja is an IT Banking Expert who helps teams in Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) Group across CEE find meaning behind the Agile hype, focusing on improving communication and fostering collaboration between Business and IT and delivering meaningful results to RBI Group. Vanja currently works in the Advanced Analytics and Intelligence Transformation Tribe as Agile Coach and leads the RBI Group Community for Data Science. Before this switch,...

Orest Dubay has more than 10 years of industrial experience in the development of risk management models and systems. Currently he is a Head of AI Modelling, Nordea Bank Abp Orest’s background is theoretical physics, he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computational Materials Science. Orest spent most of his career designing and implementing mathematical models, analytical tools and methodology for risk management – covering areas like stress...

Jaime studied Agricultural Engineering and has developed a career of more than 25 years’ experience in asset- and wealth- management. Jaime has led several initiatives to help develop the FinTech industry. His fine leadership skills and ability to embrace change spread across the entire TechRules team through being not only competitive in a FinTech world driven by change, but also by keeping ahead of the...

DreamQuark develops software (Brain) to increase the sales and customer engagement in banking and insurance with explainable and trusted deep learning AI. In 2017, DreamQuark has won the Fintech of the Year price by Finance Innovation as well as the Best Cognitive Platform award by Bank & Innovation. The multi-award winning company has been given 5 out of 5 s...