

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.
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
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 - 09:45
Leading Banking Digital Transformation in 2022
As an industry, we have been in the digital business for about 10 years. Most low hanging fruits have been addressed. Most banks already have a mobile presence and does web banking. Most banks have made sizable investment into BI etc. How do we reimagine digital transformation in 2022, taking advantage of competitive talent landscape, cloud technologies and elevating leadership to provide sustained value creation for our customers? In this keynote speech, John will share a few insights from Comerica bank’s new digital journey to open a discussion on digital reimagined.
09:45 - 10:25
Customer Centricity: Going Beyond the Call of Duty
Customer expectations are rising on a global scale, as is the need to meet them. Rapid innovation through digital is enabling financial institutions to meet these demands. Whilst digital may be the answer, there are multiple factors to be considered and the journey is a time-consuming and expensive one. As we transition, cost optimization, partner ecosystems and calculated investments are imperative to ensure successful delivery and ongoing ROI. Banks and financial institutions need a laser-focused, highly considered and relentless approach to aid future success and customer demands need to be at the heart of decision making in order to become truly customer centric.
10:25 - 11:15
Track 1: Risk in 2022: Data-Driven Predictions in a Time of Constant Change
Track 2: The Role of AI in Driving Innovation, Resilience and ESG
Track 3: The Future of Banking & Finance: Innovating to Drive Competitive Separation
11:17 - 11:27
11:35 - 12:15
Track 1: Why Banks Can’t Drive Digital Disruption Without Low-Code DevOps
Banks around the world are turning to low-code SaaS platforms to achieve their digital transformation goals — from end-to-end personalization to omni-channel engagement to customer trust.Low-code cloud software platforms empower more people to build digital systems more quickly. But as these solutions scale across application development, complexity scales along with it. And this creates a massive need in the marketplace for rigor, training, and tools. Join Copado’s Andrew Davis — author of the award-winning handbook Mastering Salesforce DevOps — for a 30-minute masterclass on low-code DevOps and the financial services industry.
Track 2: Balancing Act: Fairness, and the Evolving Fraud Landscape
The pace in which fraudsters and money launderers innovate and attack is exhausting. Financial institutions have been forced to stack point solution on point solution to quickly respond to new threats resulting in a plethora of data for fraud modelling and fraud detection. The power of data is invaluable, but how can you derive outputs that are ethical and unbiased?
Join this future-forward discussion to learn about:•Recent media coverage where AI / ML went wrong•Ramifications of bias•Where bias comes from•Ensuring fairness and preventing bias in model decisioning
Track 3: Technology Driving Culture Change in Banks: Lessons for the Field
The world of banking is changing fast and banks are facing difficult choices. How do they personalize the customer experience? How can they “be in the moment” along a customer’s digital journey? Conversely, do they step aside and become a commodity provider of transaction services - with tech giants owning the customer.A new way is emerging where bankers directly access data to model their customers, to combine targeted product and services from low-level APIs and personalize each customer's journey. In this session, two of Ab Initio’s most experienced banking experts will discuss the trends we are witnessing and explore potential paths to digital engagement success.
12:17 - 12:47
The Journey to Optimizing your Digital Transformation
Did you know that 69% of customers say that they will spend more with a company offering good customer experience? Join us to hear how you can digitally transform your operational structures, processes, and customer engagement models to better align with shifting needs. Learn how you can deliver scalable services that increase productivity and create a modern, compelling service experience for all employees. Get inspired about an employee experience that works and naturally extends to an optimal customer experience.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
The Rise of Varo – Digital Banking with Financial Inclusion and Product Innovation at the Soul of Operations
In 2020, Varo became the first U.S. consumer fintech company to receive a national bank charter, allowing it to offer FDIC insurance and expand its banking services. Fast forward 13 months and the bank has doubled its customer accounts to 4 million and tripled revenue.In this Keynote, Pepe Porrata, COO at Varo Bank, will be exploring how he is leading the organization to improve customer experience while establishing effective initiatives, managing business risk, and helping to bring financial inclusion and banking innovation to the forefront during the digital era.
09:42 - 10:22
Executing Innovation Focused Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is no new concept for financial institutions anymore and the majority of large banks have been on a digital journey of some sort over the past few years. Millions of dollars are spent every year on technology programs within financial services but the impact of this investment is often unclear.There will always be uncountable priorities for banks. The key is to understand core priorities and expand on these - looking to build on partner ecosystems to execute transformation in other areas.
10:22 - 10:32
10:40 - 11:30
Track 1: Risk in 2022: Data-Driven Predictions in a Time of Constant Change
Track 2: The Role of AI in Driving Innovation, Resilience and ESG
Track 3: The Future of Banking & Finance: Innovating to Drive Competitive Separation
11:32 - 12:02
AI in Action to Accelerate ESG & Climate Change
As the importance of environmental and social responsibility gains momentum, the financial services industry is stepping to the forefront. With the pandemic and associated economic dislocation, heightened social unrest, and continued climate change, the need for action on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topics by FIs has never been higher. In this Innovation Exchange Keynote, Sarah Chapman will be exploring how AI can be used to create a more sustainable future, for example through advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in products and services, and managing climate-related risk.
12:05 - 12:35
Better Together: How Agent Assist Technology Delivers Superior Experiences For Call Centers
Let's discuss some of the top call center and customer experience challenges and have a conversation around blending AI capabilities and live agents together to deliver the next generation of CX.Learn why AI is the key to unlocking agent productivity and better customer experience and how to implement an AI-assisted agent experience and elevate service experiences for extraordinary business outcomes.
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 - 09:40
09:45 - 10:25
Revenue Generation in the Fintech Era
With the impending changes to overdraft fees, many banks are looking at a significant decline in fee income and struggling to figure out how to generate more revenue. Financial institutions will need to adapt their mindsets to be open to Fintech innovations in order to embrace these developments and keep their customers. So, how do we stay profitable with the emergence of new, UX heavy fintechs? What can we do to stay on top of our game and maximise revenue?
10:27 - 10:37
10:37 - 11:37
11:37 - 12:07
Mastercard's AI Journey
Many factors need to be considered when implementing AI. Is AI trustworthy? Is it safe? Will my customers’ data be protected? Mastercard has developed five pillars to implementing AI where ethics and inclusivity are as important as growth and efficiency. An innovator in artificial intelligence driven products, services, operations and system improvements, Mastercard is building on more than a decade of AI experience to bring a thoughtful, strategic approach to AI implementation. Rohit will discuss how Mastercard balances building trust in technology while also fostering AI innovation.
12:10 - 12:45
CX From the Top: Building a Customer-Centric Banking Culture
As consumer and business banking habits and needs continue to shift, customer experience has become more important than ever. Beth Johnson, Chief Experience Officer at Citizens, believes that to truly meet customer expectations, particularly during a time of digital transformation, CX must be prioritized across the business and integrated into the work of all banking leaders.In her role, Beth is responsible for leading Citizens’ efforts to improve the customer experience by advancing the bank’s overall capabilities in customer analytics and digital. In this keynote presentation, Beth will elaborate on the business imperative for CX and how to build an organizational culture and leadership structure that enables and influences CX.
12:45 - 12:55
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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.
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
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.