Named as one of the most influential people in banking and a top 5 Fintech influencer to follow, Jim Marous is an internationally recognized financial industry strategist, co-publisher of The Financial Brand and the owner and publisher of the Digital Banking Report. Marous advises on innovation, portfolio growth, customer experience, marketing strategies, channel distribution, payments and digital transformation within the financial services industry. As a sought after industry speaker, author and recognized authority on disruption in the financial services industry, Marous has been featured by CNBC, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, The American Banker, Accenture and Forbes and has spoken to audiences worldwide. Jim has also advised the White House on banking policy and is a regular contributor and guest host for the Breaking Banks radio show on Voice America. He can be followed on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Maurice works at the crossroads of Intesa Sanpaolo foreign banks where business strategy, technology, consumer marketing and service design get together and he deals with defining the entire Banking Digital strategy and coordinating the implementation of multichannel projects across the International Subsidiary network of 10 countries. He collaborates with different Banking Innovation communities within European area.

Bianca is an owner and Chief Identity Officer at BioConnect, as well as a public & Keynote speaker. Relentlessly motivated from a young age, Bianca immigrated to Canada from Brazil at the age of 17. Before joining BioConnect, she began her journey as an entrepreneur, starting and selling two businesses - one in trades and one in software, all before the age of 27. She is refreshingly vocal (and REAL) with just about every topic of conversation. From talking about some of the tougher aspects of being an entrepreneur to why mentorship and self-awareness are two things she attributes to her success - and won’t give up as her career progresses. Bianca leads BioConnect’s Cloud Business (BioConnect ID). She is responsible for business development, product development and marketing. With the bold task of redefining identity globally, she and her team are developing strategic global partnerships in multiple verticals, currently fast-growing on Banking, FinTech, Blockchain and Technology. A massive and proud geek, she is a tremendous supporter of education. Bianca has advanced degrees in Politics, Finance & Mathematics and is obsessed with the idea of technology being used for better insights and as a pattern predictor for stronger decision-making. She spends countless hours studying how to redefine identity through biometrics, AI and machine learning. Bianca continues to see the growing necessity for biometrics as channels converge and the world communicates in a constantly evolving omni-channel capacity to connect the unconnected world.

Nicolo started his FinTech journey as Product Lead for the launch of the MEDICI platform and soon migrated into a partnership role first in the US and then in Europe. He currently leads the business expansion in EMEA. Prior to MEDICI, Nicolo developed a strong corporate finance background working for a leading Italian boutique consulting firm and he led the APAC expansion of his pharma distribution company. Nicolo's passion is building things and bringing to market world-changing products. Nicolo Petrone is an international Economist with a BA degree in Economics from one of the top Italian Universities, Federico II which is also the world’s second-oldest university. Nicolo continued his education with an MA degree in International Business from Hult International Business School (San Francisco), the 13th best school ranked for Masters in Management Worldwide (The Economist) and he recently completed a specialization in Business Analytics at the Wharton Business School.

Matteo has over 20 years of expertise and deep connections amongst global banks executives, startups and investors. One of the most recognised faces in FinTechglobally with plenty of accolades; Matteo is Italian by birth, but its truly a global executive, conducting business in Italian, English, French and Spanish. He holds an University degree in Computer Science (University of Genova) and a Post graduate in Financial Transactions (Solvay Business School). Matteo spent 13 years as a key executive of SWIFT, Where he held various positions from sales to global account management. In 2007, he founded swiftcommunity.net. This was built on top of the experience accumulated from designing italiansonline.net, the world largest Italian expat portal that came to life in 2003, way before Facebook was born, In 2008, he Co- Founded Innotribe, the innovation arm of SWIFT. This is where Matteo launched the Innotribe Startup Challenge, the first global challenge for FinTechentrepreneurs, as well as the Enablers group, a cross industry group mentoring Innotribe and SWIFT on strategy and financial trends. Matteo was also an investor andPartner in SBT Venture Capital( 2013-15) one of the first funds (100m USD) solely dedicated to FinTech investment (Series A). Financial News has nominated( 2014-16) Matteo as one of the “40 most influential FinTech executives in Europe” and Bank Innovation named him one of the “30 Innovators to watch shaping the industry” in 2014.From 2015-17, Matteo was a Senior Advisor for Omidyar Network, the organisation founded by Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder) investing globally in the FinancialInclusion & Digital Identity Division. In 2015, Matteo created and Co-founded www.FinTechStage.com, a platform for Investors, Innovators and start-ups to foster FinTech innovation globally.

Alexander Resch became the new Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of VÚB Bank on 1 October 2013 returning from Albania where he managed Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania from September 2012. Alexander Resch has worked for Intesa Sanpaolo Group throughout his entire career. Before becoming Chief Executive Officer of VÚB Bank, he also held the position of Member of the Management Board and Chief Risk Officer of the Bank in the period from 2008 to 2012. Mr Resch firstly arrived to Slovakia in 2004 to coordinate the acquisition of the TatraCredit Group by VÚB Bank, which was subsequently transformed into Consumer Finance Holding, VÚB’s sales finance subsidiary. Alexander Resch studied economics at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and he also holds a double Executive MBA degree of University of Minnesota-Carlson School of Management and Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Laszlo Sziraki has been a member of CIB Bank’s Retail Management since 2014, currently responsible for Digital Banking. Dynamic leader with sound experience in retail banking, especially in business development, sales management, CRM and digital banking. He has a track record of successfully driving complete business reorganizations and introduction of new sales channels, divisions. Laszlo has a strong drive for excellence and a structured, implementation-oriented approach.

Natalia Kristinova took the position of Director of Multichannel department 1st of March 2018. Ms Kristinova joined VUB Banka in 2016 at the position of Head of Sub-department Customer Interaction. Ms.Kristinova has over 15 years of experience in Finance, IT, Telco and FinTech within international companies: Diebold Nixdorf, Telefonica Digital and First Data in London, the United Kingdom.

Responsible for the strategy definition and managing business development and maintenance of Bank’s Multichannel solutions, she has managed a number of projects within the bank including launch of the mobile banking. She has been involved as a jury member and mentor in a number of events within Albania promoting young entrepreneurs. Having over 15 years of experience in the banking industry, Xhilda strongly believes that the best results comes from cooperation, will and ability to embrace & drive change and surely the positive attitude.

Zorana Brankovic is Head of Multichannel in Banca Intesa Belgrade, leading bank on Serbian market. She has over 14 years of expirience in digital banking and is one of the pineers of e-banking in Serbia. Spent first 12 years of banking expirience in IT and during that time successfully led numerous projects in digital banking area. She introduced first Mobile banking app on Serbian market in 2010 and first Digital wallet in 2016. She has strong IT bankground and wide bussiness knowledge. She is also a member of e-government associsation and works actively with other professionals from banking and corporate world on digitalization of Serbia.