FinTech Summit Africa 2024 | FinTech Summit Africa | 25 June 2024 | Hilton Sandton, 138 Rivonia Rd, Sandown, Sandton, 2196, South Africa

This year we are going by the main theme humanising banking in the digital age:

How can financial institutions retain the human element in the digital age? Understanding the needs, changing consumer preferences, and communicating consistent and personalized messaging across different channels is important. This year’ s summit will look at digital banking inclusion and the penetration of FinTech in Africa, the crypto regulatory landscape AI and ML in financial services and risk management in open finance era among other themes.

• Digital payments and digital inclusion
• Embedded Finance in Emerging Markets
• Re-humanizing banking with technology
• Gaining Consumer trust in the FinTech and Crypto currency industry
• Central Banking Digital Currencies (CBDC)
• Banking As a Service (BaaS) Outlook
• FinTech and Investment opportunities in Africa
• AI and the future of banking
• AI in Investment Management
• AI-driven Customer Experience in Fintech
• Open Banking in Africa
• Decentralization and Democratizing Fintech with Blockchain
• Compliance Challenges for Financial Services Firms in Africa (the crypto industry)
• Market Surveillance and Monitoring Tools
• The Future of RegTech
• Artificial Intelligence and Identity & Access Management
• Crafting a mitigation plan to prevent data breaches
• Cybersecurity and Risk management in open finance era
• BFSI Cybersecurity Trends

2023 Past Speakers

Prof Johan Steyn
Smart Automation & Artificial Intelligence (AI) thought leader and management consultant

Lee Naik
CEO of TransUnion Africa

Paula Haamaundu
FinTech Lead Information Security Officer, MTN Mobile Money Zambia

Sandy Rheeder
CIO, Mukuru

Wesley Blake
Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer at Chronicle Labs

Fulufhelo Malada
Director, Legal and Regulatory Affairs, MFS Africa

Jason Wang
Strategy and Research Manager, PASA

Steven Robson
Head for Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citibank

Anel Parkin
Account Director at MoData

Yilebes Addis
CEO, EthSwitch

Tshepang Molefe
CTO, Good Governance Africa

Gabriel Swanepoel
Country Manager, Mastercard, Southern Africa

Faith Burn
CIO, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd

Umar Bagus
Partner, McKinsey & Company

Alan De Waal-Smit
Regional Account Manager, ITR Technology

Neo Tebo Tshiamo
Manager, Product Development, Botswana Savings Bank

Bhavin Gohil
Lead Consultant - Technical Sales

Kelvin Chelenje
RPA and Emerging Technologies Lead, NMB Bank Zimbabwe

Dirk Findeisen
Managing Partner, msg Rethink Compliance

Hannes Wessels
Country Head, South Africa, Binance

Thato Mashigo, CFA
Deputy President of CFA South Africa

Benson Mukandiwa
Customer Experience & CS Expert, Service Quality Institute

Dickson Nsofor
CEO, Kora

Varsha Ramesar
Head of Data Management and Monetisation, Mettus

Chris Gatsi
IT Risk Practitioner, Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

Andrew Weinberg
CEO, AKELO Group | CEO at Retail Engage

Callan Abrahams
Global Solutions Ambassador, Enlabeler

Dr. Sizwe Gwala
Head of Data Governance: Group Compliance, ABSA Group

Dirk le Roux
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SprintHive

Tania du Toit
Head of Partnerships, SprintHive

Thuso Segopolo
Chief Growth Officer, SprintHive

Dean Baker
BFSI Industry Lead, SADC & East Africa

Orediretse Molebaloa
Head of Solution Engineering, Infobip

Kaluba Chikonde
Data Engineering Lead at Teraflow.ai

Simon Katende
Sales Engineer , Machine Learning and AI Specialist at Teraflow.ai

Mothibi Ramusi
CIO, National Lotteries Commission

Oscar Stark
Chief Strategic Enterprise Architect, Liberty Group South Africa

Carel van Wyk
Founder of CryptoQR Payments

Neré Jansen Van Vuuren
Regional Sales Director at C&R Software

BRENTON NAICKER
Principal & Head of Growth, CV VC Africa

Peter Mureu
Marketing Director at Yellow Card Financial

Thomas Nyika
Specialist: Banks & Payment Providers Supervision at FSCA

Luke Machowski
Head of Regulatory Products at Synthesis

Steve Jump
Director, Strategist, Coach and Mentor

Naledi Mosieane
Founder of Oviedo Media

Quintin Van der linde
Senior New Business Developer: E-Commerce & Omnichannel at Ecentric Payment Systems

Stephen McCullah
CEO at KnoxWire

Lavina Ramkissoon
Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, Executive Board Member at Global AI Ethics Institute