IDC European Financial Services Xchange 2024 - France | International Data Corporation (IDC) | 17 November 2024 | Hôtel Nice Riviera, 3, avenue Jean Monnet 06230 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France

As AI and its use cases mature, the focus is shifting toward humanizing it. This means to harmonize, optimize, and improve the way machines integrate and interact with humans. This requires nothing less than a cultural revolution going far beyond technology, but has widespread social, environmental, ethical, cultural, and regulatory implications to ensure machines will augment, empower, and improve human experiences, not replace, discriminate, or threaten them. While this sounds like science fiction, these decisions and safeguards must be taken sooner rather than later – optimally in broad consensus between regulators, financial institutions, partners, other industries and most importantly staff and customers.

Despite the risks of AI, IDC is a firm believer in the potential of AI technology provided that this is managed with appropriate governance processes to ensure ethical deployment and regulatory compliance covering data protection, intellectual property, and civil rights. The conference will therefore focus on how financial institutions adapt to the rise of machines and generate business and operational value. We will look at use cases, risks, and successful strategies to implement AI to help deliver FSI business priorities and objectives as well as to brave the headwinds life throws at FSI. This applies particularly to risks that more powerful AI and GenAI pose to the industry, considering that they can be leveraged also by malicious actors enabling them to scale and execute new types of cyber-attacks that will be even harder to detect and defend.

Why Attend:
IDC community event that connects senior IT, data and business professionals from several industries and countries. IDCs analysts together with our advisory board aim to create the best-in-class independent content agenda based on insights from their research and close collaboration with industry executives, and thought leaders. By joining the community you will get the future industry trends, actionable recommendations, hands-on experience from external speakers and last but not least - a chance to connect and network with your peers from the biggest European companies.

2024 Speakers

ADVISORY BOARDS:

Sven Olaf Schmidt
Director, Head International Trade Finance Operations, Commerzbank

Angela Johnson de Wet
Director, Head of Engineering, Nat West

Margus Simson
Chief Digital Officer, Komerční banka

Tanja Tierie
COO, ING Italy

Alessandro Bonaita
Group Head of Data Science, Generali

George Papp
Digital Transformation consultant, Financial Industry

Daniel Szmukler
Director, Euro Banking Association (EBA)

Barbara Sacchi
Senior Product Manager Global Payment Solution Group Client Solutions, UniCredit

Ole Svenningsen
Group Data Management Officer & Strategic Business Risk Manager

Amit Vats
Global Lead - Future Value Proposition, Business Banking

Maria Agustina Cibran
Head of IT Architecture, Council of Europe Development Bank

SPEAKERS:

Thomas Zink
Research Director, Head of Financial Insights Europe, IDC

Roberta Bigliani
Group VP, Head of Insights, IDC

George Briford
Research Director for Financial Insights, IDC

Maria Adele Di Comite
Research Director, IDC Financial Insights

Davide Palanza
Research Manager, IDC