Future of Financial Services 2023 - New Zealand | FST Media | 21 June 2023 | Chuan Spa at Cordis, Auckland, 83 Symonds Street, Grafton, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

This event is proud to bring together the region’s most renowned thought leaders and executives to explore the tech trends shaping NZ’s financial services sector. Joined by experts in IT, retail banking, digital, security, customer experience, data, payments and platforms, our annual conference investigates the innovation in artificial intelligence (AI) set to empower the NZ industry and continue the trajectory of connectivity and building bigger and better financial ecosystems.

Key Themes:

• Sustainability – Importance of digital leadership in sustainable performance
• Reposition for Agility at Scale – Ability to swiftly pivot technologies, cultures and team structure as required aka Composability
• Financial literacy – Current and future use of management of money
• API Plug and Play – Increasing competition and innovation through partnerships
• Payments Landscape – Future of Frictionless Payments and the Adoption of ISO 20022
• NZ’s Open Banking – How the Upcoming Consumer Data Right is Anticipated to Strengthen and Support Aotearoa’s open banking regime
• Cybersecurity Threats and Defense Strategies – Covering the latest trends in cybersecurity threats and defense strategies, including ransomware, phishing, and social engineering

Featured Topics:

• Digital Transformation
• Customer Experience (CX)
• Digital Identity and Access Management
• Cloud Transformation
• Cybersecurity and Resilience
• Payments Revolution
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Data Analytics
• Mobility and Device Security
• Open Banking

2023 Speakers

Dr. John Small
Chair, Commerce Commission

Bora Arslan
Former Chief Data and Analytics Officer, ASB

Simone Labady
CEO, Aioi Nissay Dowa New Zealand

Perrin Rowland
Chief Experience Design Officer, Westpac New Zealand

Andrew Rickard
Chief Operating Officer, Chubb Life

Adrian Smith
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder, BlinkPay

Steve Wiggins
Chief Executive Officer, Payments New Zealand

Martin Bleakley
Chief Information Security Officer, Laybuy

Anna Tarasoff
General Manager Data, Bank of New Zealand

Astrud Burgess
General Manager Data, Marketing & Customer Experience, ANZ

Matthew Haigh
Head of AI and Machine Learning, Westpac New Zealand

Jody Bullen
Head of Open Banking, ANZ

John Paul Sikking
Head of Cyber Protection, Bank of New Zealand

Eli Hirschauge
Head of Information Security, ANZ

Darren Beattie
Head of Information Security, Tower Insurance

Ole Turvoll
Head of Engineering, CommBank iQ, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Heidi Badgery
Managing Director, ANZ, Alteryx

Ashley Kai Fong
Head of Financial Crime, Bank of New Zealand

Jens Claassen
Head of Solution Architecture, ASB Bank

Alex Smart
Head of Digital, Southern Cross Travel Insurance (SCTI)

Cameron Church
Director, Fraud & Identity – Threatmetrix, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Doug Kamo
Master of Ceremonies, (MC)

Liam Dann
Business Editor-at-Large, NZ Herald

Malcolm Macnaughtan
Head of Financial Services Sales - APAC, Amdocs

David Stewart
Director, Financial Services, SAS

Andrew Walker
Co-Founder and CEO, Nano Home Loans

Janet Chenery
Co-Founder, Regtech NZ

Vicki Bendnjacic
Sales Director, Smart Communications

Thomas Kohlenbach
Senior Product Specialist, Nintex

2023 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSOR:
• SAS

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Smart

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Alteryx
• NANO
• Nintex
• LexisNexis
• SnowFlake

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Backbase
• Clearpoint
• Elastic
• Flashpoint
• MOXO
• Newgen
• 10x

DINNER SPONSOR:
• SAS

COFFEE SPONSOR:
• Salesforce

PANEL SPONSOR:
• Stellar Elements

ROUNDTABLE SPONSOR:
• Stellar Elements