ABOUT THE EVENT

Banking In The Digitalization Era Virtual Conference provides you with the unique opportunity to discover the latest challenges and opportunities of Digital Banking and meet Senior Representatives, professionals and experts in their field.

It is a great platform to learn from renowned experts in Banking Industry, share practical insights, exchange opinions, and expand the network.
During the Conference, there is the possibility to participate in interactive Q&A sessions followed by dynamic Panel discussions with our keynote speakers.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Digital & Mobile Banking
Digital Strategy
Digital Transformation
Open Banking
Product Design
Money Laundering
Cyber Security
Digital Wallets
Emerging Payments
Retail Banking

Corporate Banking
Consumer Banking
Capital Markets
Private Banking
Wealth Management
Customer-Centered Banking
FinTech
Digital Channels
Digital Engagement & Experience

OUR SPEAKERS

Marc Ashworth, Chief Information Security Officer of First Bank, USA

Respected professional with 25+ years of experience in wide-ranging aspects, specifically at this time: Public speaker, author, Business And Departmental Strategy, Cyber And Physical Security, Virtualization, Risk Management, IT and Security Architecture, Budgeting, And Project Management.

He has a strong background in system/network design and implementation along with application development. His technical background as well as his sales and customer service background allows for better communications to end users, management and technical staff.

Strategic thinker, able to clearly analyze the needs of a department/organization and develop a viable road map to achieve objectives. Organized and results-driven. Talent for bridging communication channels to interact across ranks with end users, team members, executives, clients, and investors (owners).

TOPIC: Utilizing Threat Intel Data to Develop a Security Strategy

Tracy Drakebly | Head of Digital & Special Projects | BLOM BANK s.a.l., Lebanon

Tracy Drakebly, joined BLOM BANK in 2004 as Retail Planning officer, responsible for product development. In 2005, she got promoted to Head of Retail Planning. In 2013 she shifted to become Head of Strategy and then moved on to become Head of Digital & Special projects in 2017. She is also a member of the Digital Board committee.
Mrs. Drakebly has played an active role in several strategic projects within BLOM including HSBC Lebanon acquisitions as well as the launching of many mobile banking services and Retail cards/products. She launched the Digital Platform for Corporate and SME clients in 2018.
Mrs. Drakebly holds a Masters in Management (Mastère Grandes Écoles) from ESCP (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) with emphasis on International Financial Markets and an MBA from ESA (École Supérieure des Affaires – Beyrouth). She also holds a Civil Engineering degree from ESIB (École Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth).

TOPIC: Finding Balance With Personalization and New Digital Business Models

Vid Hribar | Blockchain Hub at Raiffeisen Bank International AG, Austria

Vid Hribar is part of the Blockchain Hub at Raiffeisen Bank International AG. His main responsibilities include initiating, managing and steering of blockchain projects and PoCs and collaborating with different business lines in order to prepare blockchain strategy for the group. He has legal background and previous experience from various departments of the bank, especially operations.

TOPIC: The Future of Money & Digital Currencies

Roots Event Guest speaker - Craig Hughes |Vice President Of Architecture | Emirates NBD

Craig Hughes | Vice President Of Architecture | Emirates NBD, UAE

Over 20 years Craig Hughes has played a significant part in large digital transformations across several banks.

His working life in the financial service sector has followed a technical path from developer, through designer, development manager, and architect. Along the way, he has gained extensive knowledge and experience in retail banking, agile methodologies, core transformations, API integrations and event-driven architectures.
He is a specialist in web-based technologies - he believes this stack provides the ability to deliver powerful and loosely coupled architectures.

2019-2022 he was the Chief Enterprise Architect at Danske Bank. Reporting into the SVP of IT strategy, Craig was responsible for breaking the core banking systems into logical business domains. By creating channel agnostic interfaces, Craig has saved Danske Bank an estimated 7.7M and months in development effort.
Since April 2022 Craig Hughes is Vice President Of Architecture of
Emirates NBD ·

TOPIC: Does lipstick work (consequence of digital failure - case study)

Daniela Simona (Anghel) Bobocea | Chief Digital Officer | Eximbank, Romania

Daniela Simona Bobocea | Digital Tribe Lead& Head of Project Management, MBA, CDPO, PMP, Scrum Master, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, CSSMBB

Daniela Bobocea is leading the Digital Transformation of Eximbank Group Romania since 2018, and she Is responsible for the IT and Digital Strategy, Digital transformation of the Group entities, Digital Platform implementation. Prior to this, she had led for 10 years the Regional IS Audit & Consultancy Services Division of Eurobank Group Greece, delivering assurance and consultancy services with a digital twist in Eurobank’s European subsidiaries. She has 20+ years’ international experience in the financial-banking services, working for several major European Banks (Raiffeisen Bank, Unicredit, Alpha Bank. Eurobank).

Before engaging in the Banking career, Daniela’s debut was in Artificial Intelligence Lab Bucharest. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

Daniela holds MSc in Computer Science from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania and MBA in Finance (Summa Cum Laudae) from HEC Montreal, Canada.

Topic: Blame It on Compliance ․
( leveraging the partnership with RegTechs and Fintechs for building trust and enhancing the Customer experience. )

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