Future of Financial Services 2024 - Sydney | FST Media | 23 October 2024 | ICC Sydney, 14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Step into this event – where innovation meets inspiration in the heart of Australia’s banking and financial landscape. As the unrivalled flagship event and a powerhouse in the Southern Hemisphere, we’re your go-to hub for the latest tech trends and financial innovations. For almost two decades, FST Media’s forum has brought together an exciting crowd of technology, digital, and business leaders from banks, insurers, fintechs, and wealth managers nationwide and worldwide. Join 1,000+ financial services trailblazers, and 50+ speakers and connect with 40+ cutting-edge technology solution providers, witness the industry’s rising stars, and unite with leading futurists, strategists, and influencers.

In this year’s edition, This event will explore key themes such as identifying macro-trends that continue to shape the future of technological advancements and harnessing the ability to swiftly pivot these technologies, cultures, and team structure as required aka composability. These topics will cover the whole landscape from the revolutionary shift in payments, and regulatory amendments to promoting agility at scale within financial institutions.

Sub-themes:
• Sustainability and Impact Measurement
• Organisational Resilience and Change Management
• Digital Banking and Customer Experience Enhancement
• AI Adoption, Governance, and Infrastructure
• Modernising Core Systems and Platform-Based Approaches

2024 Speakers

Sanjoy Sen
Managing Director & Group Head, Consumer Banking, DBS

Brendan Hopper
Chief Information Officer for Technology, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

David Walker
Group Chief Technology Officer, Westpac Group

Ed Santow
Director of Policy & Governance, UTS Human Technology Institute | Australian Government’s AI Expert Group | NSW AI Review Committee

Sean O’Malley
Group Executive, AMP Bank

Anders Sorman-Nilsson
Futurist and Founder, Thinque

Dan Jermyn
Chief Decision Scientist, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Anthony Brown
Chief Executive Officer, NobleOak

Mandy Mannix
Chief Executive Customer, Challenger

Gerald Marion
Chief Officer - Member Experience, Digital and Data, HCF Australia

Amy Cunningham
Head of Digital, ING

Kate Carruthers
Chief Data & Insights Officer, University of New South Wales

Jamie Twiss
Chief Executive Officer, Beforepay

Chris Cockburn
Chief Strategy and Merger Integration Officer, NGM Group

Scott Wall
Chief Transformation Officer, Bank Australia

John Kim
Chief Data Officer, Zurich Insurance

Pieter Vorster
General Manager Data Platforms, Westpac Group

Greg Nichelsen
Chief Data Analytics Officer, Teachers Mutual Bank Limited

Charles Pizzato
EGM Information Technology Infrastructure, Suncorp Group

Kasey Kaplan
Chief Product Officer, Beforepay

Sharmaine Salis
Director of Product, Customer Platforms, Macquarie Group

Navaid Khatib
Country Head, Product Management, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC

Nicolas Parfait
Chief Information Officer, Avenue Bank

John Heaton
Strategy and Innovation, Alex

David Gee
CIO, CISO, Board Advisor, NED and Author, Macquarie Bank (Former)

Pankaj Arya
Head of Technology - Digital Workplace, ANZ

Rahul Verma
Head of Technology Strategy, Architecture, Transformation & Commercials, Pepper Money

Dr Mahendra Samarawickrama
Director - AI Assurance and Responsible AI, Centre for Sustainable AI

Rajiv Pushparajah
Head of Data Platforms, Credit Risk, Westpac Group

Kavita Paradesi
Head of Technology Risk and Resilience, Allianz

Aruna Pattam
Head of AI Platforms, Zurich Insurance

Nick Munro
Head of Automation & Digitisation - Artificial Intelligence, Robotic and Digital Channel Experiences, Westpac Group

Tushant Nayyar
Head of Data Services, QBE

Annie Tran
Head of IT and Information Security, DBS Bank

Marieke de Ruijter
Executive Manager Process Mining & Transformation, Westpac

Conor Brady
General Manager Transformation & Digital Product Leadership, Rabobank

Scott Draeger
SVP Product Marketing and Vertical Solutions, Smart Communications

Rama Raju
Co-Founder & CEO, Pennant Technologies

Sireesh Patnaik
Chief Product and Technology Officer, Pennant Technologies

Jonas Katzellenbourg
(Acting) Managing Director & Partner, Australia, Concentrix

Luke Hannan
Master of Ceremonies (MC)

Shantell Williams
Chief Technology Officer, Tiimely

Ivan Peric
Head of Global Artificial Intelligence R&D, Synechron

Vihan Patel
Principal Consultant (AI & ML Engineering), Mantel Group

Malcolm Macnaughtan
Head of Financial Services Sales - APAC, Amdocs

Ashwani Arora
SVP - Head of Global Customer Success Team, Nucleus

Satish Wadhwa
Growth Advisor & Partner, Pennant Technologies

Manzur Ali
Senior Director – Head APAC, EdgeVerve

2024 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Nutanix
• Smart Communications
• Solar Winds
• Thought Works

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Sourced
• Concentrix
• Edge Verve
• Google Cloud
• Nucleus Software
• Pennant
• Synechron
• Whatfix
• Mongo DB

BRONZE STAND SPONSORS:
• Altis
• Ave Point
• Camunda
• Chatti
• Costum D
• Data Iku
• Dye & Durham
• Fresh Works EXG
• Happiest Minds
• Personetics
• Hylands
• Profusion
• Record Point
• Surge Digitally Driven
• TATA Consultancy Services

EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR:
• AWS

WHO'S WHO DINNER SPONSOR:
• Walk Me

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• FIS