Day 1 - 12th May, 2020
Creating opportunities
08.00
Registration & refreshments
09.00
Welcome address
09.05
Chair's opening remarks
David Parker, Founder & CEO, Polymath Consulting
09.10
Getting creative when faced with obstaclesGuest speaker
Introducing open banking may mean overturning existing cultures, dealing with legacy systems and fierce competition to win market share. Gain creative inspiration from how social engineer Jenny gets through (and around) any barriers blocking her from her goal.
09.30
New approachesKeynote armchair chat
Our Chair speaks to leading innovators on what attitudes, characteristics and approaches have worked for them so far and what they think are the most important attributes for success in the Open future.
Ali Niknam, Founder & CEO, bunq
Paul Schooley, Chief Commercial Officer, Cashplus
09.50
Open banking progress in UK and Europe: Facts, figures & forecastsKeynote
Quantifying progress so far using the data now available. Highlighting the trends, trajectory and likely accelerants; forecasting progress in the next 18 months.
10.00
Old banks, new ambitionsKeynote Panel
- How some traditional banks are substantially changing their approaches
- Targets and timeframes
Julia Holzgreve, Director, Open Banking & Ecosystem Partnerships, Keen Innovation AG
Carlos Figueredo, CEO & Founder, Open Vector
10.30
Setting targets: The banking metrics to achieveKeynote
10.45
Networking refreshments break
11.10
Unlocking payment innovation (and scale opportunities)Keynote Panel
- Liability, exemptions and transaction risk analysis issues in open banking.
- How pre and post PSD2 payments pioneers have dealt with these issues.
- User perspectives on different payment methods in an SCA world.
Charles Damen, SVP Payment Strategy, Worldpay
Paul Rodgers, Chairman, Vendorcom
Nilixa Devlukia, CEO, Payments Solved
11.40
Consumer acceptance: Pilots and programmes from the front lineKeynote Panel
- PISP, instant payments, QR codes…obstacles and opportunities
- Reimagining customer relationships
Nick Kerigan, Managing Director, Future Payments, Barclays
Andrew Hogwood, Digital Director, Financial Services, Sainsbury's Group
12.10
What is better for the consumer? Open banking or scheme based approaches?Keynote
- PSD2 v. PEPSI
- EPL or SEPA API
Arturo González Mac Dowell, President & CEO , Eurobits Technologies
12.30
Chair's morning observations
David Parker, Founder & CEO, Polymath Consulting
12.35
Networking lunch
Afternoon streams
Stream 1
1a: Winning Corporate & SME accounts
13.40
Chair's welcome
Lana Abdullayeva, Payments Innovation & Policy Director, Lloyds Banking Group
13.45
Winning with SMEs
- Modernising invoice payments
- Cash flow management
- SME lending
Pamela Novoa Ralli, VP Product - Worldwide Payments & Banking, Sage
14.15
Real-time information and data for global cash management
14.35
Extending corporate banking capabilities through API partnerships
Oliver Prill, CEO, Tide
Edward Berks, Executive General Manager for Financial Partnerships, Xero
15.05
Networking refreshments break
1b: API management & delivery
15.45
The challenge of API management and delivery
- DevOps approaches
- Resilience & reliability
- Security
- Analytics
- Creating solid foundations to support innovation
- Different ways to deliver connectivity
Markus Henschel, Co-founder & CEO, Jade Eli Technologies
David O’Neill, CEO, APImetrics
Alexander Ali, Director, Blacksmiths Technology
16.15
API strategies to resolve internal data management challenges
- Internal data management headaches
- Unlocking siloed data
- Risks and costs
16.45
API Security & ecosystem risks
17.15
Chair's afternoon observations
Stream 2
2a: Monetisation: The reality
13.40
Chair's welcome
Ghela Boskovich, Head of Europe, Financial Data & Technology Association
13.45
Promising propositions and scale opportunities
- Premium APIs (and beyond)
- Pricing models with promise
- Where open banking went wrong: Fixes and developing best practice
- Legacy vs. BaaS. Caught in the middle?
Ghela Boskovich, Head of Europe, Financial Data & Technology Association
Biju Suresh Babu, Managing Director, Banking & Financial Services, Fiorano
14.15
The facts and figures behind our proposition
14.35
Open Banking business models: Strategic merits, and expected returns, of the different approaches
15.05
Networking refreshments break
2b: Jumping ahead: Emerging best practices
15.45
Global perspectives on progress and future direction
- Is the right functionality enabled by the current legislative frameworks? And if not what next?
- How much should the market decide?
- Is TPP growth booming as it should?
- Global interoperability considerations for your strategic play
Don Cardinal, Managing Director, Financial Data Exchange
Maciej Kostro, Board Advisor, Polish Bank Association
Chris Michael, Head of Technology, Open Banking
Hervé Robache, IT Architect, STET
16.15
How Latin America is embracing open banking
- How is open banking being implemented across the region
- What are the advantages of the differing approaches?
- What lessons are being learnt?
- What benefits are predicted and over what timescales?
Carlos Figueredo, CEO & Founder, Open Vector
Bruno Diniz, Co-founder, Spiralem
Mariana Velazquez, former Mexican regulator
Jonathan Garzon, Head of Digital Business & Innovation, Cecoban
16.45
From physical to digital: How an ATMs deployer is helping to push ahead Open Banking in Brazil
- TecBan’s value proposition as an enabler for Financial Institutions and Fintechs
- The Brazilian Open Banking proof of concept
- Status of Open Banking in Brazil
Tiago Aguiar, Head of New Platforms, TecBan
16.55
Advancing social & financial inclusion: Good for the economy, good for society, good for business
Rafe Mazer, Director, Innovations for Poverty Action
17.25
Chair's afternoon observations
Drinks reception & networking
17.30
Featuring...The Battle of the banks!
Traditional bank v. challenger bank: which will be the biggest winner in the open banking world? An entertaining (and enlightening) 15 minute debate and vote.
Day 2 - 13th May, 2020
Open Future - Laying the foundations for the open future and your role in it
08.00
Registration
09.00
Welcome
09.05
Chair's opening comments
Liz Brandt, Co-founder & CEO, Ctrl-Shift
09.10
Digital identity in the 2020sGuest speaker
- Why digital identity is a priority and why the pressures for change are mounting
- Why banks are well placed to develop the new infrastructure
- Why open banking provides banks with a catalyst to a new business
David Birch, Author, Adviser, Commentator
09.30
The drivers & blockers for delivering a federated digital ID for open financeKeynote Panel
- Creating an identity ecosystem to augment open finance
- Drivers & blockers
- Approaches for driving consumer adoption
- Use cases
- Predictions for digital ID development & adoption in the next 2-3 years
Harry Weber-Brown, Digital Innovation Director, The Investing & Saving Alliance (TISA)
Emma Lindley, Co-founder, Women in Identity
Charlotte Sadd, Personal Banking Strategy & Innovation Manager, NatWest
10.00
Open data: Informed consent, meaningful ethics and achieving trust Keynote Case Study
- What “meaningful” consent looks like
- Consent codification
- Data Ethics
- Key implementation considerations (eg metrics)
Nathan Kinch, CEO, Greater Than X
Miles Cheetham, Head of Propositions, Open Banking
10.20
Building Open Finance? A regulators perspective Keynote
- Where are we today with Open Finance?
- What benefits does a regulator see?
- What are the key challenges to building a successful model?
- Initial thoughts following the recently concluded Open Finance Call for input
- What next?
Alex Roy, Head of Consumer Distribution Policy, Financial Conduct Authority (UK)
10.40
Networking refreshments break
11.10
Building the open future - now and nextKeynote
11.30
Creating lifestyle services ecosystems Keynote Panel
- Example ecosystems being modelled today
- Pricing models being investigated
- What are the benefits of an ecosystem approach?
Liz Brandt, Co-founder & CEO, Ctrl-Shift
12.00
Taking stock of your dataKeynote Panel
- Understanding where your data opportunities and risks lie.
- What possibilities are enabled that we haven’t explored yet?
- What scope for processing data for other purposes (eg training algorithms)?
- Who owns derivative data?
- Cross sector data flows
- Reciprocity of data – when (voluntary or compelled?), what (and for what purpose?)
Xavier Gomez, Co-founder & COO, INVYO
Peter Jackson, Director of Group Data Sciences, Legal & General
12.30
Chair's morning observations
Liz Brandt, Co-founder & CEO, Ctrl-Shift
12.35
Networking lunch
Afternoon streams
Stream 3
How Open will change your industry
13.40
Chair's welcome
Hakan Eroglu, Global Open Banking Lead, Advisors, Mastercard
13.45
How we’re moving beyond banking into Open Finance
- Reaching new customers (eg thin file)
- Cutting costs, increasing margins
- Use cases: mortgages, insurance, wealth
- Open finance v. embedded finance
Will Mason, Director of Digital, UK&I, Experian
14.15
Amazing open API partnership models: The art of the possible...
14.35
Advancing towards open telecoms
15.05
Networking refreshments break
15.25
Tearing up the rule book. Leaders in sector innovation discuss the future
15.55
Prepare for launch
Open Banking progress so far has been likened to a Tsunami warning bell…
When open data reaches your company, your sector, what will be the effect on you and how can you prepare now to ride the wave?
Hakan Eroglu, Global Open Banking Lead, Advisors, Mastercard
16.15
Chair's closing remarks
Stream 4
Creating a winning value exchange
13.40
Chair's welcome
13.45
The pace of change: When did other slow burn initiatives (eg contactless) take off and what lessons can we learn?
Dan Dickinson, CIO, Equitable Bank
Paul Rodgers, Chairman, Vendorcom
Laura McGortey, Director, Strategic Partnership Solutions, BNY Mellon
14.15
An end to the poverty premium? A win:win situation for all
14.35
What value exchanges are likely to work. How do you communicate them effectively?
15.05
Networking refreshments break
15.25
Managing Friction
- SCA
- API reliability/ease of user experience
15.55
Changing financial, and data, behaviours – the role we all need to play
Uttiyo Dasgupta, Ex Head of Strategy, Innovation, Partnerships & Open Banking Commercialisation, HSBC UK, Senior Independent Adviser
16.15
Chair's closing remarks
One for the road...
16.20
Please join us for a ‘great to meet you, see you next time’ drink (and parting gifts)
17.00
End of Congress
