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NG Banking Innovation Digital Summit

Banking is facing a barrage of new challenges including regulation, digital payments and the impact of the pandemic.

Join 70+ senior Banking leaders on business-critical challenges and disruptive technology and drive your industry forward collaboratively.

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9 Hrs

Industry Insights

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Senior Executives

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Michael W Heimkes

Assistant Vice President, CX & EX Systems

Raj Velmurugan

SVP IT & CIO

Jamie Broadbent

Head of Digital & Innovation

Raja Rajamannar

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and President Healthcare Business

Luvleen Sidhu

co-Founder and CEO

Jim Duggan

Vice President, Client Engagement, Global Service Delivery

Anne Plese

Senior Director, Product Marketing

Raman Veezhinathan

Sr Client Partner & Global Financial Services Leader

Cheryl Chiodi

Solutions Marketing Manager, Financial Services

Russ Malz

General Manager, Americas GTM

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Why Attend

Connect with 70+ senior Banking leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward. Our summits are designed to help you:

Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders

Stay current with emerging business trends

Understand the impact new technology can make

De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights

Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships

Downloadable and actionable takeaways

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Event Agenda

Day one

Day two

Day three

09:00 - 09:20

Opening Remarks

09:20 - 09:50

Keynote

The complementary relationship between traditional banks and fintechs

Luvleen Sidhu co-Founder and CEO, BM Technologies

09:55 - 10:35

Workshop

A Practical Path to Reducing ERP Operating Costs to Drive Business Critical Initiatives & Innovations

Looking to drive more self-funding projects? Automate business processes? Fuel business critical initiatives and innovations? This session exposes practical ways to remove hidden costs that come with running and maintaining ERP applications

Jim Duggan Vice President, Client Engagement, Global Service Delivery, Rimini Street

Anne Plese Senior Director, Product Marketing, Rimini Street

10:35 - 10:45

Insight Break

10:45 - 11:45

Roundtables

Track 1: The Balancing Act – Achieving omnichannel excellence

Steve Lucas Digital Strategy Director, Bank of America

Track 2: Innovating with data – your strategic growth asset

Raman Veezhinathan Sr Client Partner & Global Financial Services Leader, Toptal

Track 3: From transition to transformation - what's next for your innovation strategy?

Cheryl Chiodi Solutions Marketing Manager, Financial Services, ABBYY Software

Russ Malz General Manager, Americas GTM, Hyperscience

11:50 - 12:20

Closing Keynote

Digital Transformation: Accelerating innovation through real time understanding and empathy

Michael W Heimkes Assistant Vice President, CX & EX Systems, U.S. Bank

Michael Hanson Head of Banking and Financial Services, Quantum Metric

09:00 - 09:05

Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:40

Keynote

Payments Innovation: Revolutionary? Or Evolutionary?

While payments have evolved rapidly over the years - are these evolutions really as revolutionary as we think? Asif Ahmed discusses the breadth of what drives innovation from what’s old as well as true revolutionary ideas emerging in the global payments landscape

Asif Ahmed Senior Global Product Strategy Leader, Discover Global Network

09:45 - 10:25

Workshop

Getting serious about customer centricity

10:25 - 10:35

Insight Break

10:35 - 11:35

Roundtables

Track 1: The Balancing Act – Achieving omnichannel excellence

Steve Lucas Digital Strategy Director, Bank of America

Track 2: Innovating with data – your strategic growth asset

Raman Veezhinathan Sr Client Partner & Global Financial Services Leader, Toptal

Track 3: From transition to transformation - what's next for your innovation strategy?

Cheryl Chiodi Solutions Marketing Manager, Financial Services, ABBYY Software

Russ Malz General Manager, Americas GTM, Hyperscience

11:40 - 12:10

Closing Keynote

How Digitization is Driving Bank M&A and Improving Performance

Bank integrations are inherently challenging and create uncertainty. Leaders are on the hook for synergies and cost savings and revenue growth goals. Employees want to know how ways of working and career paths will evolve

Gregory Kanevski Global Head of Banking, Servicenow

Paula O’Reilly Managing Director, Accenture

09:00 - 09:10

Opening Remarks

09:10 - 09:40

Keynote

Securing your future in cloud

As one of the most highly regulated industries, financial institutions have always had to balance a security-first operating model with evolving digital transformation imperatives

Adrian Ludwig Chief Trust Officer, Altassian

09:45 - 10:25

Workshop

Transforming Transunion: A Digital Innovation Story

10:25 - 10:35

Insight Break

10:35 - 11:35

Roundtable Review

Raman Veezhinathan Sr Client Partner & Global Financial Services Leader, Toptal

Cheryl Chiodi Solutions Marketing Manager, Financial Services, ABBYY Software

Russ Malz General Manager, Americas GTM, Hyperscience

Steve Lucas Digital Strategy Director, Bank of America

11:40 - 12:10

Closing Keynote

Leadership Innovation and Banking of the Future

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Audience Interaction

Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.

Live Polling

The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.

Audience Q&A

Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.

Interactive Quizzes

Interactive quizzes to gamify your session

Thought Leadership

Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most

FAQs

What does it cost to attend?

There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Is this event right for me?

Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.

If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
What’s the application process?

Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
What types of speaking slots are available?

On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A

Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
What media partnership packages are available?

We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.

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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.

William Hendrickson, Managing Director, Dupont Sustainable Solutions

If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.

Ryan Waymire, Senior Vice President, FabFitFun

I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years

Cynthia Richardson, Senior Director, Global Logistics & Merchandising, 7-Eleven Global

Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.

Christina Alexander Alexandropoulou, Four Seasons Hotels

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