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.

Demetrio is passionate about blockchain, innovation, change, startups, technologies, paradigms, paradoxes, languages, cultures and diversity. He built his experience starting from the information technology industry, converting to finance/insurance in one of the most dynamic and complex Italian banking and insurance groups. He is the classic "early adopter“ so it's likely that he's got already that “new weird thing“ that you saw the other day on a Chinese website. Serial innovator, he's luckily left with that “sense of precariousness" typical of those who have worked with immature technologies for a long time, so he tends to test everything by himself before promoting a solution or a technology. His hobby is to develop IOT projects with Raspberry and Arduino, unleashing the good old C (even though he recently took a crush for Python)Head of Blockchain Program at Banca Mediolanum, lecturer on "Digital & Social Enterprise", "Digital Transformation" and "Innovation management" in Venice Ca'Foscari university, of which he is also Business Unit Manager for the Educational Area DEL. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the MIP smartworking observatory and contributes to the implementation of the IDC European Digital Summit as Advisory Board Member. Lecturer for the Ninja Academy's on the Digital Marketing Professional Diploma. He is on the board of directors of the incubator VareseNEXT and on the board of directors of AssoFintech, the Italian Fintech Association. He is part of the jury of several Awards, among others the Efma-Accenture Innovation Awards. Keysnote speaker and co-author of "CIOs and the Digital Transformation - A new leadership role“ Ed. Springer.

Forward thinker Advisor | Enterpreneurial-manager | Digital business transformer | Top marketer | Change maker | Business innovator | Business Growth, Scale-up and turn-around maker | Startups advisor, accelerator, incubator, angel | Writer I Speaker Former Chief Digital and Innovation officer Banking group. Former Awards winner Digital Multichannel Bank General Manager. Former Procter and Gamble Mktg Director.Author of the book: Fintech Era (2017), L'Era del FinTech (2016, F.Angeli).FinTech and digital banking thought leader: Listed in WSJ's Financial News 2016 and 2015 Top40 Fintech powerpeople in Europe, and in 2017, 2016 and 2015 Power 50 digital banker in European digital financial services from Digital Banking Club London.Scaled up and turned around to profit CheBanca!, best digital bank in Italy and one of the most successful challenger banks worldwide. First bank in Europe to launch a BTC Robo-Advisor.From Procter & Gamble school (former P&G EMEA Mktg director).Former Western Europe Marketing Director at Procter&Gamble.MSc degree in Public Policy at the University College of London (UCL). Wide International senior executive experience across markets, with focus on growth, business innovation digital transformation and marketing.

Jaroslav has been leading the investment team of Neulogy Ventures, with a focus on SaaS and digital media. He has been working with early-stage companies for over ten years. He is one of the founders of StartupAwards.SK and Future Now Conference, the largest startup event in Slovakia. He previously worked at Neulogy as a technology transfer consultant for several research institutions. He currently serves as an external expert of the European Commission for the Horizon 2020 initiative. Jaroslav has a degree in Management and Finance from the Rotterdam School of Management.

Martin has over 12 years of experience in designing digital products. He worked as a Head of UX Design at the SCR agency. He has participated in the research, design and testing of innovative solutions for various verticals including energy, technology, telecommunications and financial services with top Slovak players. Currently, he is involved in creating prototypes of user-oriented products, improving user interfaces and focusing on consistency in multichannel design.

Since majoring in Software Engineering at FEI STU (the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Slovak University of Technology) in Bratislava, he has served at various leading IT positions including the ones in Toronto, Canada, where he worked as Senior Architect and Project Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, as well as IT Director and Head Architect at Vikara Ltd. After rising up to other leadership challenges at Hewlett Packard and mTrust, in 2016 he joined a relatively young VIAMO company, where he is currently working not only as Chairman of the Board of Directors, but is actively running the company as its CEO.

Daniel Gusev is a seasoned entrepreneur in financial services innovation space, starting and chairing several successful labs and design-driven project offices in leading banks in CEE, Europe and the UK since 2009. He is a mentor with several accelerators in the UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand, reads lectures for Imperial College London Fintech Program and advises several international start-ups. He has also contributed in various founder and executive roles to 3 startups and had experienced the joy of 1 exit.Daniel graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in History and did postgraduate studies in Banking with Financial University

Responsible for building the cooperation models between banks and FinTech start-ups and partners, particularly with regard to the open banking projects as well as driving innovation in the European payments ecosystem. Translating future-oriented ideas into a viable digital value proposition. Anna has 18 years of experience in the banking and payments industries in Poland and CEE (incl. Citigroup, T-Mobile, mBank). She was also the CEO of one of the leading Polish payment institutions and acquirers. Particular expertise in the field of innovative digital payment solutions, acquiring and digitally enabled financial products (consumer banking, e-commerce, open banking, chatbots), acquired in the strategy, innovation, product management, and sales-related roles. Introduced one of the first online payment gateways in the CEEMEA region as well as the first digital wallet and the mobile payment platform. Managed the implementation of the first local mobile banking apps and the first local mobile payments initiative. Expert member of the Jury at the EU European Innovation Council (Horizon 2020 SME Instrument). Featured in the “TOP 20 Women in FinTech” Report (Institute of Innovative Economy, March 2017). Speaker at numerous FinTech & Digital & Payments conferences and events.

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.

Mirco joined Intesasanpaolo in 2002, after more than 20 years experience in IT Service Providers companies. Currently Mirco is the Head of IT Governance in Intesa Sanpaolo Group from 1 June 2018, after different management roles, focused mainly on the support of Intesasanpaolo IT Strategy deployment in International Subsidiary Banks of ISP Group.Mirco served as also Head of Global ICT in Direzione Sistemi Informativi , being responsible to manage IT solutions for International Branches, part of Corporate & Investment Banking Division until 2014.From august 2010 until 2014 he served also as Senior Vice President and Chief Operation Officer of Servitia SA, a fully owned ISP company based in Luxembourg.Mirco has over 30 years of outsourced services experience. He has worked to deliver large-scale applications, business process and infrastructure technology outsourcing services, consulting and support to clients around the world. Before joining Intesa Group, He was formerly Country Service Sales and Marketing Director for Digital Equipment, Compaq and HP.

Sante Cusimano has been serving as COO of CIB Bank Zrt. from March, 2018. He is responsible for Back office & Payments, Information Technology, Security & Business Continuity departments. He is member of the Management Board. Sante strongly believes that a key factor in transformation, either digital or not digital is the power of the team, people who trust and love what they do. As a team, our aim is to support business in our digital transformation, speeding up the account opening, tripling all new personal loan disbursement, via our mobile application and having a Bank website that looks like a modern retailer webshop, in one word a new “banktech” boosted by the Group expertise.He has been putting his “hands-on expertise” in implementing key change management initiatives in order to enhance the organization and achieve strategic objectives of the company in which he works.Sante has been working at Intesa Sanpaolo Group from 2012. From 2012 to February 2017 he was the COO of Alexbank, Egypt. Then, until February 2018, he was the Head of Group Companies Compliance Governance & Controls Head office department in Turin. Before that he was Manager at Credit Agricole Group – Cariparma in Parma and Manager at Bain & Company, Inc. in Milan.He holds an university degree ”cum laude” in mathematics from Catholic University, Brescia, Italy and an MBA from Polytechnic of Milan, Italy.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Tamás Ákos has been working at CIB Bank Zrt. from 2014 as the Head of Retail Division. During his leadership, the retail business has been renewed and CIB became the competence centre of the digital banking services’ development in the ISBD division. He is the member of the Management Board.Prior to his carrier in CIB Bank Zrt., dr. Tamás Ákos worked as Retail Board Member in Budapest Bank (GE Capital subsidiary), Hungary for two years and as Retail executive Director in MKB Bank, Hungary for four years.Between 2001 and 2005 dr. Tamás Ákos served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in Budapest, New York and Sydney offices. He holds an university degree from Budapest University of Economic Sciences and from Pázmány Péter University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

John Winkler is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Financial Services practice. He has over 18 years of management consulting experience in Central Europe and CIS, and 12 years working experience in industry. John has previously held practice and leadership positions at AT Kearney and Deloitte. His clients include the largest banking groups in Central Europe and he has also consulted to a number of large international companies from the production, energy and telecommunications industries in his past consulting practices.

Joined Banca Intesa Sanpaolo 7 years ago as responsible for strategic innovative projects in Foreign Bank Division.Since 2017 in Innovation Department, scouting suitable alliances in Fintech and Insurtech Arena to develop a consistent ecosystem around Banca Intesa Sanpaolo.Internationally experienced business executive with a successful track record, achieved mainly across Financial (Banking and Insurance), Media (Broadcast and Telco) and Logistics sectors.Conceiver and leader of key strategic international innovative initiatives, partnering the world's largest and most valuable institutions and often interacting even with Local Authorities, in order to establish new business rules from scratch, in different markets.A visionary and creative “out of the box” thinker, delighted to challenge complex environments, but keeping a pragmatic approach in timely and precisely targets achieving.A passionate leader of leaders, I always sought to inspire and motivate my teams and business units to perform beyond expectation. I had been working in several geographies, EU and US, and successfully managed multi-cultural teams, creating, lot of times, my “dream teams”.

Francesca Sciani is Head of International Corporate Affairs Office for Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. In this role, she leads the team in charge of all legal aspects of international corporate transactions. She is also responsible for legal aspects on Digical Project, aiming at migrating transactions from traditional to digital channels among the foreign banks within Intesa Sanpaolo Group. A corporate lawyer with more than 15 years of experience in international, corporate, banking, commercial, real estate, competition and data protection law, as well as out-of-court settlements, Francesca has previously worked with national and international law firms. From 2003 to 2007 she was associate in MCAlex, a leading Italian law and tax firm. From 2001 to 2003 she was senior consultant in Professionisti Associati, a law and tax firm, member of the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu network. From 1998 to 2001 she worked in Brussels – Belgium in the EU and competition law department of Bogaert & Vandemeulebroeke, the Belgian law firm associated with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and in the European Commission, Directorate General for Competition (Antitrust Unit – IT, Internet and Consumer Electronics). Francesca holds a degree in law, major in international law, from the Catholic University of Milan. She was admitted to the bar of Milan in 2001. She is based in Milan - Italy.

A comprehensive career in ICT domain, from technical background to customer and business.Working experiences in industry, banking and services, mainly in worldwide company. Remarkable experience in outsourcing.Successful project management in wide and international projects (banking transformation in particular). Goal orientation, resources optimization, service quality, customer orientation and innovation are my strong points and my passions.Five exciting years (2012-17) as Chief Operating Officer, Member of the Board of Directors and DCEO of CIB Bank ZRT, the Hungarian bank of IntesaSanpaolo Group. Enabling and supporting the full digitalization of the bank (best mobile APP in 2016, best loan process in 2017) with a “dual speed bank” concept, upgraded the core banking system and designed an innovative frame for business intelligence.Since January 2018 appointed IT Coordinator for all foreign banks of IntesaSanpaolo: transformation and digitalization is not an option!

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.

Natália has more than 15 years of experience in finance, Telco and FinTech in an international environment. She is an expert in implementing sales and marketing strategies, and innovation focused on improving customer experience. In the past, she worked in companies such as Diebold Nixdorf, Telefónica Digital and First Data in London. Natália Krištinová took the position of Director of Multichannel department 1st of March 2018 to improve the user experience and digital services of the bank.

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.

Tomas Hornicek has more than 10 years experience in IT architecture positions in telco and finance area. Now he is responsible for IT architecture department. He has designed solution for PSD2, and is specialized in API management area. Tomas is committed to the principles of openness, innovation, cooperation and knowledge sharing.

Michal has over 8 years of experience working on IT solutions on various projects and in various roles mostly in banking industry. Currently he works for VUB as solutions architect for multichannel domain responsible for design of sales and servicing processes and development of banks FE solutions.

Miroslav works in the field of Information Technology and has many years of experience in the banking. He has participated in development and implementation of many banking solutions for the bank and the banking industry. His focus is the Data Architecture, primary domain are applications for risk, accounting and controlling, as well as applications necessary for the Enterprise.

Tomáš has 15 years of experience in Banking and Telco. Currently working at the position of Head of Front-End development and Head of Innovation Lab in VUB. Responsible for designing and delivery of solutions in areas of Digital Banking, CRM and process optimalisation.

Roman is working in area Banking Operations in VUB ( ISP Group) and is responsible for Payments Operations for VUB SK and VUB CZ. He has 20 years’ experience with Banking in area Backoffice and Payments ( Treasury BO, Loan Administration , Payments....).As a nominate of Slovak Banking association he is a member of Board of European Payment Council ( EPC ) in Brussel where he work active to present Slovak Banking Community projects and ideas.

Martin has an extensive experience in helping Telco and Finance institutions on the digital journey and reaching their clients via direct channels. Currently Martin is a member of VUB IT management and heading the Architecture department with a focus on requirements management, process management and application landscape.

Alberto has more than 16 years of experience in IT Projects’ Business Analysis, development, delivery and Application Maintenance, particularly within SAP / ERP delivery programmes / projects with wide international exposure. Alberto started his career at Accenture at the beginning of 2000s, helping big enterprises to improve their technologies and internal processes as well as to implement a new state-of-the-art technological landscape. During the past 7 years, he has been working and living in Stockholm for 5 years first, and in Berlin for more than one year at a later stage, in multicultural and challenging settings, covering the role as IT Senior Project Manager and Team Leader. Having moved back to Italy about 2 years ago, he started at Intesa Sanpaolo Group Services as IT Service Manager, supporting multiple internal Business Owners. Among those, it’s worth to mention the Innovation Centre, where Alberto had the opportunity to approach a number of new technologies and IT trends (e.g. DL, blockchain, chatbot, AI, Fintech, etc.) and supported our colleagues to set up various projects aiming at experiencing these new technologies on the field. Alberto has recently moved to the Transformation & Strategic Projects Dept. where he is supporting the Big Data Engine Programme. Alberto has a Ph.D. in Business Administration and also worked in the Academia for about 10 years as International Marketing Assistant.

Michele has more than 15 years of experience in IT project analysis and development especially in Service Level Management complex environment. He is an expert in implementing innovative IT solution in open environment and Business Intelligence platform. Actually Michele is in charge of Service Level Management sub-department under Incident Management and Monitoring Department with a specific focus on Business and Process Key Performance Indicator definition and measure. In this specific area he has managed a number of strategic projects in witch more and more often the fruition of monitoring and service level management dashboards takes place through a multi-channels approach and through different devices. He has been involved as a mentor in a different IT recruiting events within Italy. He firmly believes in the importance of information technology as a support, enabler and accelerator of the banking business.

Roberta Profeta has recently moved to Milan, Italy after having spent 5 years in London. She joined the Multichannel Office for Intesa Sanpaolo International Subsidiary Banks Division, working across E. Europe and Egypt.In London she led the activities of the Innovation Center London Hub for the Group Chief Innovation Officer.Roberta is passionate about digital transformation, fintech and insurtech, and actively engages with the ‘innovation ecosystem’. Through the years she has been on the Advisory Board of Startupbootcamp Insurance London, Startupbootcamp FinTech London, Startupbootcamp FinTech Singapore and Chaperone for Accenture FinTech Lab London.She launched the London-based and, previously, the Milan innovation activities for the Corporate & Investment Banking Division of Intesa Sanpaolo. Roberta has also worked for the European Commission – DG Research (Brussels) as Policy Officer, and earlier as Relationship Manager for US Large Corporates at Banca Intesa (Milan).

Marko is a software architect at Banca Intesa Beograd. In 2016 he was a part of the team that released e-banking loans application. With a university background, he is also a teacher at a local IT school, and enrolled in a phd programm at University of Belgrade.

Roman Vransky is Senior Manager at Accenture Technology Solutions, with 20+ years of management consulting experience, providing value-added strategic and tactical decision support for transforming enterprises in Eastern Europe. Over the years worked in different consulting roles for leaders in media, energy, utilities, chemical, banks and telco industries. Recently Roman is playing the key role in shaping the digital vision for clients, leveraging extensive experience in project / programme management and in-depth experience in implementing large-scale digital solutions as part of digital transformation projects. He is also active in proving thought leadership via lecturing, participation on conferences as well as via publishing articles in both business and IT newspapers.

Csaba has got wide banking sector experience. He started his career in 1994 at OTP Bank IT department. He joined Citibank in 1997 where he managed application technology department, execute implementation of complex projects with multiple systems involved, across several functions. He joined CIB, the Hungarian member of Intesa Sanpaolo Group in 2011. He was first responsible to manage Application Support department. He managed an IT department full assessment project. After preparation of the action plans, contributed in the creation of the new IT Strategy and executed the activities according to the roadmap. Since 2015 Csaba manage IT division in the role of CIO. Csaba holds an BSc in Business Information Systems from Corvinus University of Budapest.

Julian has over 8 years of experience working in the field of Information Technology. Currently he works as a lead software architect at Intesa Bank Albania. He has designed and implemented many in-house solutions for the bank, including various enhancements and integrations of the Internet and Mobile Banking platforms.He is passionate about learning new and innovative technologies, tools, and techniques to solve software problems as well as developing robust software architecture and writing maintainable quality code.

Inga is a software architect on reporting systems and administration applications for digital banking multichannel solutions.Her main interest is in the area of business intelligence and machine learning.

Domagoj has more than 5 years of experience in software development, working on various projects mostly in finance and telco industry.Currently he works in Privredna banka Zagreb as a software architect and lead developer on digital banking multichannel solutions for Intesa Sanpaolo.

Mauro Sabatino is a member of IT team in Intesanpaolo Group from 2 may 2016.He is part of the team that develops open banking API in Intesanpaolo Group.He has a great passion for coding in particular web and mobile technologies.He thinks that coding is creativity and so he teaches this to the new generations in Coderdojo.Before joining Intesasanpaolo group he was a student of computer science, but with a great attention to the startup world and the innovation.

She is a Communication and Service Designer and after the graduation in Service Design at Politecnico di Milano, she has started to work in the International Subsidiary Banks Division of Intesa Sanpaolo. Her daily job is to apply Service Design methodology in the bank environment, in order to focus on creating optimal service experiences, that required an holistic view of all the related actors and their interactions. The purpose of Service Design methodologies is to design according to the needs of customers, to obtain services and process that are user-friendly, competitive and relevant to the customers. Her job is also to always taking in mind that people are at the centre of the process and to understand the users by using research methods and to make all the insights tangible. Develop Service Design means to promote business transformation and to design the best customer experience possible.

Giuliano is a Software Engineer with several years of experience in producing software for Banking Industry. He has great experience in enterprise web technologies as well as in IT architecture. He was part of the Digital Factory in Intesa Sanpaolo with the role of tech lead during the development of the new Trade Finance product for Corporate and Investments Division. Currently he is member of the Intesa Sanpaolo International Talent program, an initiative to empower talent by enhancing international middle Management community”(currently ~100 employees involved), through tailored training programs and career paths.