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Join us in NYC on September 28-29 for Digital Banking USA.
Don’t miss this opportunity to come together with likeminded industry professionals looking to learn from industry front-runners how to exceed and create a positive experience for your customers.
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Key highlights of the upcoming agenda
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DIGITIZATION AND DIGITAL
Assessing the challenges of transitioning to the next generation of digital
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FINTECH COLLABORATIONs
Understanding the importance of collaboration between legacy banks and fintech digital only banks
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CHATGPT/GENERATIVE AI
Reviewing the use of Generative AI to enhance the banking sector
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OPEN B1233
Managing how open banking can be used as a tool in digital environments
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CBDC, STABLECOINS AND DIGITAL ASSETS
Overview of the CBDC landscape, who will be driving adoption and who CBDCS will be made available to
- REAL-TIME PAYMENTS
Anticipating how the real-time payments landscape will continue to grow over the next year
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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Enhancing customer experience to compete with digital banks and big tech organizations
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FRAUD & CYBER SECURITY
Improving controls and staying ahead of fraudsters in a digitally enhanced environment
Hear from subject matter experts and industry front-runners

An engaging and interactive agenda across 2-days
Participate in a comprehensive exploration of the topics at hand via presentations, panel discussions, and live Q&As to facilitate learning and engagement.

Subject matter experts and highly-regarded practitioner speakers
Our line-up of 30+ knowledgeable and experienced practitioners speakers bring the highest standard within the industry, offering fresh perspectives and insights for you to return to your department with.

7+ hours of available networking opportunities
Continue conversations from inside the auditorium over coffee, lunch, and at our complimentary drinks reception. Make meaningful career-long industry connections to use to your professional advantage.
Key speakers for the 2023 Congress

John Stewart
Global Head of Commercialization
Bank of America

Thomas Sullivan
Managing Director
Societe General

Rohan Doctor
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Sunil Challa
Managing Director, Global Head of Payments Architecture and Strategic Solutions, Group CTO
Credit Suisse

Jonas Vernon Ng
COO Laurel Road, a division of KeyBank
KeyBank

Jeremy Balkin
Global Head of Innovation & Corporate Development, Payments
JP Morgan

Dr. John Rares Almasan
Senior Managing Director, Head of ClienTech and AI
TIAA

Lottie Fordham
US Head of Strategy Initiatives
HSBC

Allan Rayson
EVP, CTO, Chief Innovation Office
Encore Bank

Curt Queyrouze
President
Coastal Bank, Coastal Financial Corporation
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Session previews and related insights
Get an insight of what to expect from the Summit with our past and present speaker session previews.
Managing models in a recession environment and proactive identification of changes
Managing models in a recession environment and proactive identification of changes George Soulellis, Chief Enterprise Model Risk Officer, Freddie Mac Below is an insight provided by Shawn ahead of his 2023 session at Advanced Model Risk USA. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+our+2024+Advanced+Model+Risk+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fadvanced-model-risk }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as
Collaboration of 3 LoD for effective model risk oversight
Collaboration of 3 LoD for effective model risk oversight Shawn Tumanov, Director, Data & Analytics Governance, BMO Financial Group Below is an insight provided by Shawn ahead of his 2023 session at Advanced Model Risk USA. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+our+2024+Advanced+Model+Risk+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fadvanced-model-risk }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an
Weaving AI and ML into customer experience
Weaving AI and ML into customer experience Paul Mullins, former Managing Director, HSBC Below is an insight into what can be expected from Paul's participation at CeFPro's Customer Experience Summit. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Customer+Experience+Europe&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fcustomer-experience-europe%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed to
Balancing digital implementation whilst retaining customer relationships
Balancing digital implementation whilst retaining customer relationships Yawar Choudhry, Head of Client Services Proposition, Legal & General Below is an insight into what can be expected from Yawar's participation at CeFPro's Customer Experience Summit. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Customer+Experience+Europe&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_background=%23001c64&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Fcustomer-experience-europe%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not attributed
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Agenda
9:00 – 9:35
DIGITIZATION AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Challenges of transitioning from legacy infrastructure to the next generation of digital
- Executing between transformation strategy and initiatives execution across the business
- Reducing the cost and time it takes to make change
- Ensuring process is made easier for the customer when digitally transforming
- Enhancing digital infrastructure to better integrate with partners
- Understanding how AI and ML is being used for digitization
- Ensuring governance is carried out correctly to identify potential new risks
- Aligning transformation targets across an institution
- Transforming digital service to compete with digitally and tech focused companies
- Improving connectivity of online and in branch technology
- Adhering to regulations when digitally transforming
- Effectively managing technical debt when transforming digitally
- Developing digital transformation at an enterprise level
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Lottie Fordham, US Head of Strategy Initiatives, HSBC |
9:35 – 10:10
INFRASTRUCTURE/ARCHITECTURE
Leveraging technology to bridge the gap between legacy systems and new technology infrastructure systems
- Leveraging microservices to augment existing legacy systems
- Converting from a legacy bank to a new digital infrastructure
- Adapting infrastructure to drive more holistic consistency across an institution
- Complexities with enhancing a banks infrastructure to a new technology
- Funding challenges with transitioning away from a legacy system
- Overcoming legacy systems in order to compete with digital banking competitors
- Optimizing digital infrastructure footprint as data continue to grows
- Using AI to move traditional infrastructure to newer digital technologies
- Interoperability challenges of legacy and new technology
- Utilizing the full potential of new digital systems or partnerships
- Improving reliability and ease of digital use with an enhanced infrastructure
10:10-10:40
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:40 – 11:25
FINTECH COLLABORATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
- Assessing what lessons legacy banks can learn from fintech digital only banks through collaboration and partnerships
- Regulatory disparities between legacy and digital banks
- Assessing how firms partner with the best fintechs and solutions for the customers benefit
- Analyzing competition for customer experience between banks and big tech companies
- Partnering with fintechs to create journey based experiences
- Sharing data and experience to build digital relationships with fintechs
- Adapting strategies to compete with seamless customer experience of bigetchorganizations
- Reviewing how fintechs are leveraging AI to create products and protect against fraud
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Benjamin Maxim, Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer, MSU Federal Credit Union |
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Rodrigo Suarez, Chief Banking & innovation Officer, Piermont Bank |
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Curt Queyrouze, President, Coastal Bank, Coastal Financial Corporation |
11:25 – 12:25
CHATBOTS WORKSHOP
Improving an institutions chatbots to enhance customer experience
- Managing experience expectation from customers
- Optimizing existing chatbots with newer advanced technologies
- Use of generative AI to improve function
- Challenges of developing out chatbots with the use of AI
- Enhancing chatbots for greater capabilities across the bank
- Reviewing the change in customer behavior with the use of chatbots
- Enhancing operational efficiency and automation
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Miguel Navarro, SVP, Business Technology Executive – Conversational AI Enterprise Delivery, KeyBank |
12:25-1:25
Lunch break and networking
1:25- 2:10
CHATGPT/GENERATIVE AI – PANEL DISCUSSION
Enhancing generative AI tools for use within the banking sector
- Safety, ethical challenges and responsibilities with the use of ChatGPT
- Understanding how large language models can support and enhance a user’s journey
- Use of large language models whilst adhering to regulatory requirements
- Understanding and overcoming bias challenges
- Need for large volumes of accurate data
- Improving the precision of generative AI for certain tasks
- Reviewing areas of a bank that generative AI can be used to improve services
- Digitizing manual process through the use of large language models
- Demonstrating transparency and trust with generative AI models
- Assessing the accuracy of generative AI output
- How will the use of ChatGPT continue to evolve within banking?
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Dr. John Rares Almasan, Senior Managing Director, Head of ClienTech and AI, TIAA |
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Miguel Navarro, SVP, Business Technology Executive – Conversational AI Enterprise Delivery, KeyBank |
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Stan Yakoff, Head of Americas Supervision, Citadel Securities |
2:10- 2:45
OPEN BANKING
Reviewing how digital environments are preparing for or already using open banking as a tool
- Leveraging open banking to benefit retail sector and institutional clients
- Overcoming the challenge of aggregating bank accounts
- Enhance security when aggregating bank accounts to ensure protection of customer’s data
- Lessons learnt to effectively implement and manage open banking
- Legacy issues when it comes to implementing open banking
- Applying AI and Machine learning to open banking and open data
2:45- 3:20
AI AND MACHINE LEARNING
Use of AI and ML to conduct predictive analytics on data and bring new products to the market
- Importance of accurate data for AI and Machine Learning
- Carrying out required due diligence on AI solution providers
- Ensuring digital data is applied in a appropriate way
- Leveraging AI to improve digital experiences
- Reviewing current and future capabilities of AI within a institution
- Optimizing current process with AI to enhance a customers experience
- Building predictive analytics on top of available data
- Discussing how AI and Machine Learning will be regulated within firms
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Rohan Doctor, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs |
3:20-3:50
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:50- 4:25
TECHNOLOGY
Keeping up with the pace of technological advancements
- Upskilling workforce to keep ahead of technological developments
- Ensuring technology is built out correctly and capabilities fully utilized
- Assessing usage patterns to understand best practice and improve new technology adoption
- Assessing the investments within tech whilst anticipating a recession
- Improving efficiencies in operations with latest technologies
- Assessing developments in cloud technologies
- Assessing the technological capabilities of quantum computing
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Jeremy Balkin, Global Head of Innovation & Corporate Development, J.P. Morgan (TBC) |
4:25- 5:00
CBDC, STABLECOINS AND DIGITAL ASSETS
Reviewing which firms will be driving CBDC adoption and who CBDCs will be initially made available to in the US
- Incorporating digital assets into the online digital experience
- Anticipating regulatory expectations on digital assets
- Understanding how stablecoins and CBDC would enter the digital assets space
- Understanding new risks introduced with stablecoins and CBDC
- Reviewing privacy concerns of using CBDC
- Transfer of CBDC ownership across borders
- Tracking the ownership and also the usage of a digital currency across users
- Impact of CBDC on monetary policies for countries
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Sunil Challa, Managing Director, Global Head of Payments Architecture and Strategic Solutions, Group CTO, Credit Suisse |
5:00- 5:35
BLOCKCHAIN
Leveraging blockchain technology to build new market infrastructure
- Reviewing the use cases of blockchain technology within financial institutions
- Use of blockchain to enhance real time settlement between businesses
- Need for regulatory clarity on blockchain use within firms
- Lack of maturity of blockchain and the challenges it poses
- Working with regulators to define right roadmap and adherence
- Incorporating risk and compliance to protect client
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Thomas Sullivan, Managing Director, Societe General |
5:35-5:45
Chair’s closing remarks
5:45
End of day one and networking drinks reception
9:00- 9:45
REAL-TIME PAYMENTS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Anticipating how the real-time payments landscape will continue to grow over the next year
- Shifting real-time payments out of siloed applications and viewing holistically
- Complexities of real time payments across jurisdictions
- Digitizing and automating treasury operations to enhance real-time payments
- Challenges and opportunities with the increased use of real-time payments
- Collaboration with European firms to enhance real time payments
- Ensuring risk controls are in place for real-time payments
- Operational risk of keeping up with real-time payments
- Preventing heightened fraud risk due to shortened life cycle of real-time payments
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Allan Rayson, EVP, CTO, Chief Innovation Officer, Encore Bank |
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Barry Baird, Head of Payment, TD AMCB, TD Bank |
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Jim Maimone, SVP, Senior Enterprise Payments Platform Product Manager, Citizens Bank |
9:45- 10:20
TREASURY
Reviewing how technology has become an enabler to fully digitize treasury operations
- Understanding how digitized treasury operations can enhance liquidity management
- Leveraging real-time payments to enhance a customer journey
- Importance of partnering with the right technology partner
- Demand for IT capacity for integration
- Leveraging technology to enhance connectivity of treasury departments globally
- Importance of creating a central data lake used for multiple functions
- Improving efficiencies from a treasury perspective through digitalization
- Ability to integrate granular treasury data into different systems
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:50- 11:25
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Enhancing customer experience to compete with digital banks and big tech organizations
- Addressing how AI can assist with improving a customers experience
- Requirements on data and technology to provide a seamless experience
- Enhancing the front and back end process to improve the customers experience
- Breaking the cycle of customer relationship fragmentation
- Improving customer’s experience with increased partnership with non-financial services
- Using intelligent targeting to better understand and anticipate the customers need
- Overcoming pushback from senior leadership in CX funding and buy in
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Sean Albertson Head of Client Experience Measurement & Analytics, Charles Schwab |
11:25- 12:00
USER EXPERIENCE & CUSTOMER JOURNEY
Improving the customer onboarding process and removing any unnecessary friction
- Enhancing user experience across different providers
- Understanding how internal silos can limits seamless customer journey
- Cost to create and improve digital experiences
- Ensuring customer data privacy is adhered to on your platform
- Blending digital and in-person channels to enhance the user experience
- Crafting a seamless digital journey based on core experiences
- Reliance on data and infrastructure for an efficient digital journey
- Use of middleware to improve digital experiences
- Understanding various customer behavior to enhance a customers journey
- Managing a lack of tolerance from customers
- Enhancing experience through using journey mapping and UX analytics
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Amresh Mathur, Head of Digital Acquisitions and Customer Experience, Citizens |
12:00- 12:35
PERSONALIZATION
Leveraging digital platforms to better personalize and offer products in a more efficient way
- Understanding individuals’ behavior in order to tailor unique services
- Security concerns of having increased data for personalization
- Use of generative AI to enhance personalization
- Enhancing data use to better personalize products
- Personalization competitions with BigTech company’s such as Amazon or Netflix
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John Stewart, Global Head of Commercialization, Bank of America |
12:35-1:35
Lunch break and networking
1:35- 2:20
DATA – PANEL DISCUSSION
Leveraging accurate data for a deeper insight on merchants, consumers and customers
- Use of data to understand and improve a customer’s experience
- Leveraging use of real-time data to enhance a banks strategy
- Ensuring customer/client data is effectively protected
- Re-engineering systems to improve data management
- Assessing how AI and technology can enhance the management of data
- Technology advancements dependent on accurate data
- Connecting data systems together in order to view it holistically
- Importance of developing a harmonized data platform
- Understanding business processes and overlaying different types of data
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Fiona J Deroo, Managing Director, Global Head of Product Launch & Commercialization Groups, Bank of America |
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Alethea Avatara, SVP, Product & Business Transformation, Wells Fargo |
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Matthaeus Sielecki, Co-Head, Merchant Solutions, Deutsche Bank |
2:20- 2:55
FRAUD & CYBER SECURITY
Staying ahead of fraudsters in a digitally enhanced environment
- Anticipating increased risk for digitally transformed banks
- Utilizing institutional knowledge to better understand and mitigate fraud risks
- Understanding how fraudsters overcome compliance protocols in place
- Increased mobile use and the potential fraud risks associated with this
- Monitoring customer behavior to anticipate fraudulent behavior
- Ensuring identity of the people you are doing business with
- Ensuring risk controls are in place for enhanced digital systems security
- Preventing reputational risk with sufficient cyber security controls
- Combatting the increase of cyber and ransomware attacks
- Enhancing cyber protection on digital and mobile banking apps
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Jonas Vernon Ng, COO Laurel Road, a division of KeyBank, KeyBank |
2:55-3:25
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:25- 4:00
HOLLISTIC RISK MANAGEMENT
Managingchanging nature of riskin digital environments and how risk management needs to evolve
- Overview of traditional risk management approaches
- How does this need to be adapted?
- Regulatory and customer response to evolving risks
- Amplification of risk as a result of the power of social media
- Transformation levers for modernizing your risk management process
- Understanding what a robust risk management program could look like
- Key challenges and best practice
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Rahul Agarwal, SVP, Product Management, Wells Fargo
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4:00- 4:35
VOLATILE MARKETS
Understanding how recent bank failures impact the evolution of digital banking and customer trust
- How are volatile markets going to shake up and change the fintech landscape in a down market
- Assessing how the downfall of SVB has impacted customer loyalty
- Ensuring resilience and stability in volatile times
- Effectively managing rates and creating new products to attract new depositors
- Ensuring customer confidence throughout volatile markets
- How can digital banks adapt the client experience in a volatile interest rate environment
- Impact of mergers and acquisitions on clients and their experience
- Overcoming reputational implications of recent banking failures
- Digital banks competing with traditional firms in a down environment
4:35-4:45
Chair’s closing remarks
4:45
End of Congress
Speakers

Sean Albertson
Head of Client Experience Measurement & Analytics
Charles Schwab

Sean Albertson
Sean Albertson is the Head of Client Experience Measurement & Analytics at Charles Schwab. Sean and his team provide analysis and actionable insights to leaders within the Investor Services, Advisor Services and Digital Services business units. In addition to traditional survey and research, Sean drives journey & text analytics strategies across Schwab’s contact channels.

Dr. John Rares Almasan
Senior Managing Director, Head of ClienTech and AI
TIAA

Dr. John Rares Almasan
Biography Coming soon

Rahul Agarwal
SVP, Product Management
Wells Fargo

Rahul Agarwal
Biography Coming soon

Alethea Avatara
SVP, Product & Business Transformation
Wells Fargo

Alethea Avatara
Biography Coming soon

Barry Baird
Head of Payment, TD AMCB
TD Bank

Barry Baird
Biography Coming soon

Jeremy Balkin
Global Head of Innovation & Corporate Development
J.P. Morgan (TBC)

Jeremy Balkin
Biography Coming soon

Sunil Challa
Managing Director, Global Head of Payments Architecture and Strategic Solutions, Group CTO
Credit Suisse

Sunil Challa
Biography Coming soon

Fiona J Deroo
Managing Director, Global head of Product Launch & Commercialization Groups
Bank of America

Fiona J Deroo
Fiona is Head of Global Product Launch and Commercialization for Global Transaction Services (GTS) at Bank of America. She oversees the critical multi-dimensional function of a streamlined an effective go-to-market framework, moving solutions from build through commercialization. Ensuring thoughtful channel distribution and increasing speed to solution delivery for our clients. Partners with key stakeholders to focus rapidly changing technology, risk, improve margins and strengthen organizational effectiveness. Her extensive experience spans Global Banking and Markets businesses, including Global Transaction Services and Global Operations. Fiona has built a career based on curiosity and a deep understanding of balance sheet.

Rohan Doctor
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs

Rohan Doctor
Biography Coming soon

Lottie Fordham
US Head of Strategy Initiatives
HSBC (TBC)

Lottie Fordham
Biography Coming soon

Jim Maimone
SVP, Senior Enterprise Payments Platform Product Manager
Citizens Bank

Jim Maimone
Jim Maimone, CTP, SVP, Senior Payment Hub Product Manager, has over 25 years of commercial payments experience in a variety of roles from ACH to Integrated Payables to Commercial Cards, and now Real Time Payments. Jim is currently responsible for developing and implementing payments strategies to help clients achieve the benefits of Invoice-to-Pay solutions. A graduate of UMass Boston, Jim holds a BA in Economics and a MS in Finance from Boston College. Jim resides in Stoneham, MA and enjoys coaching and playing ice hockey.

Amresh Mathur
Head of Digital Acquisitions and Customer Experience
Citizens

Amresh Mathur
Biography Coming soon

Benjamin Maxim
Chief Digital Strategy & Innovation Officer
MSU Federal Credit Union

Ben Maxim
Ben Maxim joined MSU Federal Credit Union in 2007 and currently serves in a dual role as Chief Digital Strategy and Innovation Officer for MSUFCU and as Chief Technology Officer for MSUFCU’s wholly-owned CUSO Reseda Group. He is responsible for assessing emerging business trends and technologies, providing strategic direction for existing and future digital channels, and facilitating innovation throughout the Credit Union including leading their innovation center The Lab at MSUFCU. He is also responsible for the technology and product pillars of Reseda Group and its subsidiaries. Maxim began work initially as a Web Developer and in 2014, he became E-Commerce Manager before moving into roles including Assistant Vice President of Software Development. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and a professional certificate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship from Stanford University. Maxim was honored as Finopotamus’s 2022 Tekkie Awards Technologist of the Year.

Miguel Navarro
SVP, Business Technology Executive – Conversational AI Enterprise Delivery
KeyBank

Miguel Navarro
Born and raised in Philippines, I first started developing in the 5th Grade, thanks to Ramon (my brother) for teaching me Turbo Pascal to create our first game together. From there, he started teaching me Visual Basic and PowerBuilder. Moved to the US in 2001 and from there, I started learning C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc. When Apple announced that people will be able to develop and publish their own Mobile Apps, I downloaded XCode and got my hands dirty with Objective-C and then Swift. I started NMigMa Entertainment and created a few apps for both iOS and Android because it was fun and started monetizing my love for End to End Mobile app Development and Product Management. My past role in TD Bank was the Head of Voice and Emerging Platforms and currently a Business Technology Executive, Conversational AI External Delivery in KeyBank. Outside of work, I am swimming in everything Conversational AI and Web3 (more NFTs and metaverse) while I experience as much awesome times with my family.

Curt Queyrouze
President
Coastal Bank, Coastal Financial Corporation

Curt Queyrouze
Curt Queyrouze joined Coastal Community Bank in 2022 and currently serves as the President. Mr. Queyrouze has a background with expertise in credit, risk management, and financial technology.

Allan Rayson
EVP, CTO, Chief Innovation Officer,
Encore Bank

Allan Rayson
Allan is an accomplished banker and leader with a twenty year track record as a commercial banker and market executive in the commercial banking and specialty finance space. Allan is also former CEO and Co- Founder of PaidUp, a financial technology company designed to support youth sports clubs. Allan and his co-founders launched the startup in Austin, TX where they supported youth sports clubs across the domestic U.S. Applying what he has learned in FinTech and banking, Allan is now Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Technology Officer at an entrepreneurial bank called encorebank.
After earning his undergraduate marketing degree, Allan earned his MBA from Texas Tech University in 2000. In 2014, Allan also earned his Certified Private Wealth Advisor designation through the Investment Management Consultants Association (“IMCA”) and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Austin, TX is home to Allan along with his three active boys, Will, Alex and Sam who enjoy spending time together outdoors; wake surfing, boating, cycling, and enjoying live music.

Matthaeus Sielecki
Co-Head, Merchant Solutions,
Deutsche Bank

Matthaeus Sielecki
Matt is a Director in the Cash Management Business of Deutsche Bank in New York, where he heads the Structuring function. In his role, he is responsible for advising corporate clients on treasury transformation, solutioning and incubating new growth opportunities from digital transformation. In his functions, Matt is leads the business development of DB’s new platform business and marketplace payment solution globally,
Matt is an experienced industry expert in the international payments and FinTech space and has worked for Deutsche Bank since 2003, where he has carried out a number of leadership roles in various departments across technology, business development, sales, working capital advisory and product development internationally.
Matt holds an MA in Business Administration and Technology and a PhD in economics.

John Stewart
Global Head of Commercialization
Bank of America

John Stewart
John Stewart is the Global Head of Product & Client Commercialization for Bank of America Global. John is responsible for developing and leading commercialization programs that increase client engagement, product adoption and revenue for Global Transaction Services across payments, FX, receipts, corporate cards, liquidity management, trade and supply chain finance. In this role John leads digital content and experience management programs that transform client engagement and drive sales efficiency and effectiveness by delivering personalized content to prospects and clients.
Prior to this role, John held leadership roles in marketing, corporate strategy and operations for BNY Mellon, Thomson Reuters, Citigroup and State Street.

Rodrigo Suarez
Chief Banking & innovation Officer
Piermont Bank

Rodrigo Suarez
Biography Coming soon

Thomas Sullivan
Managing Director
Societe General

Thomas Sulivan
Thomas will be speaking at CeFPro’s Digital Banking Congress

Jonas Vernon Ng
COO Laurel Road, a division of KeyBank
KeyBank

Jonas Vernon Ng
Jonas Ng currently serves as COO for Laurel Road, KeyBank’s fast-growing Fintech subsidiary. In this role, he leads acquisition, onboarding, credit/underwriting, risk management, quality control, and sales/servicing.
Previously, Jonas served as Head of Commercial Digital for KeyBank, driving strategic direction of digital properties/capabilities for KeyBank’s Commercial and Payments businesses. He also ran the Financial Wellness Product and Strategy Teams, bringing Financial Wellness to market for KeyBank’s Consumer Bank.
Prior to KeyBank, Jonas worked at Nationwide, Discover, Enova Financial, MBNA, and seven start-ups and consulting boutiques. He has had leadership roles in Marketing, Product, Finance, Operations, Strategy, Business Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Application Development, and Innovation.

Stan Yakoff
Head of Americas Supervision
Citadel Securities

Stan Yakoff
Stan is the Head of Americas Supervision at Citadel Securities covering trading, technology, and risk management, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law teaching Trading, Risk Management & Market Structure Regulation. Stan previously worked at Marshall Wace architecting the US compliance program and scaling globally to EU and APAC. Prior to that he worked at Knight Capital Group focusing on algorithmic trading, market structure, and surveillance. He holds a J.D. in Law from Fordham University School of Law where he was an Associate Editor on the Journal of Corporate & Financial Law, and additionally holds an M.Eng. in Engineering Management, M.S. in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering, and M.A. in Technology, Policy & Ethics from Stevens Institute of Technology. When not lecturing on regulatory trends, product development, and technology, Stan can be found on the tennis courts.
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