Middle East Banking Innovation Summit 2023 | Event Always | 16 May 2023 | Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Sheikh Zayed Rd - Trade Centre - Trade Centre 2 - Dubai - UAE

The 14th edition of the Summit (MEBIS) brings together 400+ senior bankers from across the Middle East & North Africa region all under one roof to explore advances in banking, fintech, network and drive business conversations.

With the banking and financial services industry in the MENA region serving a population of nearly 450 million people, advancing digital maturity to embrace new technologies and transformations is a strategic imperative to address customer needs and take pole position in an evolving digital landscape.

Covering the biggest and most disruptive trends as part of the conference agenda like Banking as a Service (BaaS), Islamic Finance, Digital Lending Platforms, Next-Gen Core Banking, Omni-Channel Customer Touchpoints and Digital Trade Finance; they represent strategic areas of technology investment for regional banks and this prestigious gathering hosted across two days brings together MENA senior bankers and fintech leaders for educational case studies, enlightening panel sessions and the very best networking opportunities filled with face-to-face business discussions.

2023 Speakers

Jamal Saleh
Director General, UAE Banks Federation

Shaker Zainal
Chief SMEs, EDB (Emirates Development Bank)

Ahmad Abu Eideh
Chief Executive Officer, Invest Bank, UAE

Srinivasan Sampath
Acting Group Chief Technology Officer, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Soumaya Hissoussi
Senior Vice President and Private Banker, Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd

Vikram Sandhu
Senior Vice President - Head of Digital Transformation, Emirates NBD

Dongjun Choi
Group Chief Customer Officer, RAKBANK

Sean Langton
Chief Information Officer, ADCB

Nidal Khalifeh
Chief Innovation Officer, Jordan Ahli Bank

Somnath Sarkar
CISO - Group Head of Information Security, Mashreq Bank

Ayman Alqudsi
Chief Information Officer, United Arab Bank

Bart Pietruszka
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Wholesale Data, Analytics and CRM, HSBC - UAE

Abdelrahman Ahmed
Chief Strategy Transformation Officer, Arab National Bank - KSA

Zsombor Brommer
Chief Compliance Officer, United Arab Bank - UAE

Noman Rasheed
Chief Information Officer, Dubai Islamic Bank

Kaushik Kadayam
COO Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank

Adel Alrajhi
GM Cards and Payment, Alinma Bank - KSA

Abbas Bou Diab
Executive Director - Head of Compliance & AML, BLOM Bank Qatar LLC

Tristan Brandt
EVP - Head of Design and Innovation, Rakbank

Mehreen Zakaria
Director, Head of Cash, Treasury and Trade Solutions - UAE, Citi

Anand Krishnan
Director - Head of Technology, Emirates Investment Bank UAE

Mahmoud Ibrahim
Head of Transaction Banking & Escrow, Wholesale Banking, Ajman Bank

Abhishek Pratap Singh
Head of Information Security Governance and Risk, Bank Muscat - Oman

Atul Chandorkar
Head of Data Science, Qatar Islamic Bank - Qatar

Sri Lakshmi Bannigol
Vice President, Head of Analytics and AI, UAE

Mai Momani
Head of Client Experience, Invest Bank, UAE

Saad Toma
General Manager, IBM - Middle East and Africa

Liaquat Parkar
Executive Partner - Banking, IBM

Alex Bak
Head of Customer Experience, Transformation and Innovation, Commercial Bank International

Ashwani Arora
Senior Vice President, Nucleus Software

Andrés Bernad
Payments Leader, Core Banking & Payments, IBM Consulting

Wan Norhaziki Wan Abdul Halim
Head - Global Shariah Governance, Crédit Agricole CIB - UAE

Sid Bhatia
Vice President and General Manager – Middle East and Turkey, Dataiku

Frieda Kleinmert
Director of Security, IBM - Middle East and Africa

Alexey Sidorov
Data Management Director, Chief Evangelist, Denodo

Anand Sampath
Executive Director & Head - Global Payments, Collections & Client Implementation, Global Cash Product Management, GTB, First Abu Dhabi Bank

Bishu Panigrahi
Partner - Market Leader, IBM Consulting

Liam Leahy
Managing Director, Sales, Thought Machine

Puneet Chhahira
Head - Product Management and Marketing, Infosys Finacle (Edgeverve)

Abhra Roy
Sr. Product Line Manager and Head, Infosys Finacle

Dmitrii Illonov
Finance Account Executive, Data.AI

Sunath Kolazhi
Vice President Sales, Settlemint

Soren Benfeldt
Director, Kyndryl Client Technical Architect

Motaz Ghazi
Sales Manager, Kyndryl

Yasir Siddiqui
Sales Director, Snowflake

Bharani Subramaniam
Head of Technology, Thoughtworks

James Harvey
EMEA CTO, Cisco AppDynamics

Deepak Arora
Vice President – Product Management, Panamaxil (Mobifin)

Gaurav Mathur
Chief Executive Officer, SafeGold

Bhavya Kumar
Managing Director and Partner, BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

Andrea Gay
Partner, BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

Ernesto Giralt
Chief Commercial Officer, Strands

Marcello Baricordi
Senior Advisor, Strands

Tim Jennings
Global Data & Analytics Practice Head, Synechron

Abhishek Saha
Head - Cards, Retail Banking Group, ADCB

Gyan Prakash Srivastava
Group Head Data Management & Analytics, Mashreq Bank

Dr. Jelena Janusevic
Associate Professor in Finance, Head of Accountancy, Economics, and Finance, Heriot Watt University

Rajat Prakash
Enterprise Account Executive, Dataiku

Haroon Durrani
Head of Cards Payments & Direct Banking, Commercial Bank of Dubai

Dr. Ullas Rao
Assistant Professor of Finance, Heriot Watt University

Rajeev Chalisgaonkar
Head of Business Banking, Mashreq

Vikram Lal
Vice President - Investments, Mashreq Bank

Dr. Zakiya Abdul Samad
Assistant Professor, Heriot Watt University

Tomasz Bortnik
Head of Wealth Management Products, Citibank UAE

Eli Taranto
Director, EQI Bank

Adeel Mirza
Head of AML & KYC, Arab Bank for Investment & Foreign Trade (Al Masraf)

Noman Chaudhry
Financial Crime Compliance, Habib Bank Ltd - UAE

Mohamed Nazih Rashad
Head of Trade Product, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

Imran Kannuti
Head, Ops Digitalization and Transformation, Banque Misr

Adnan Fasih
Group Head SIRAT, Habib Bank AG Zurich

Bruno Ascencio Bautista
Data and Analytics Principal, WIO Bank

2023 Sponsors and Partners

OFFICIAL SUPPORTING PARTNER:
• UAE Banks Federation

STRATEGIC PARTNER:
• EDB

TITLE SPONSOR:
• IBM

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Nucleus Software

POWERED BY:
• Data iku

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Denodo
• Thought Machine
• Infosys Finacle
• Data.ai
• SettleMint
• Kyndryl
• Snowflake
• Thoughtworks
• Cisco AppDynamics
• MobiFin

PREMIUM INNOVATION PARTNER:
• SafeGold

SILVER SPONSORS:
• BCG
• Strands
• Synechron

LANYARD SPONSOR:
• Informatica

PHOTO BOOTH SPONSOR:
• USP

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• StorIT
• NetBrain
• Evam
• AQM
• Hitachi Payment Services
• Financial Spectra
• Profile Software
• Nagarro
• Intellect Design
• ManageEngine
• Wolters Kluwer
• Lovesys
• Pelatro
• Fineksus
• Evalueserve
• Couchbase

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Vegapay
• EDC
• Aspire Infotech
• Guardsquare
• Trejhara
• Jocata

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PARTNER:
• AIESEC

OFFICIAL RESEARCH PARTNER:
• OBG

OFFICIAL MAGAZINE PARTNER:
• The Finance World Magazine

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Banking CIO Outlook
• FINTECH
• Financial IT
• MenaFN
• SiliconIndia
• News Affinity
• Coinpedia
• ICO Holder
• Fintech Times
• UAE Fintech
• Fintech Power 50
• ZEX PR