Disruption Forum Fintech. Top experts on the future of the industry.

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Learn what’s next for payments, and how to leverage robots, API and design to boost your product

Trends that will dominate payments for years to come
How to leverage APIs to grow your business?
Where to source innovation ideas from?

Key talking points

Design Trends and Ethics. Learn major trends that will dominate the finance industry and if there is an ethical limit to design
Payments Disrupted. Learn about new ways of payments, crypto currencies, and when BNPL serves companies and users best
Open Innovation. Get to know how to leverage ecosystem of APIs, platforms and fintechs

A quick peek of our recent Disruption Forum Event in this video. Enjoy!

Disruption Forum Speakers

Meet our experts:

Andrés López Josenge
VP of Design at VISA Europe
Nivin Al Kuzbari
Head of Design at Société Générale
Sven Dörfel
VP of Product - Online Payments & Risk at SumUp
Paulina Skrzypińska
Chief Innovation Officer at BNP Paribas Polska
Savitri Bishnath
Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures
Charley Ma
General Manager of Fintech at Alloy
Jakub Czerwiński
VP CEE at Adyen
Julian Grigo
Co-Managing Director of the Digital Assets at Solarisbank
Shelley Armstrong
Head of Design at Finastra
Olov Eriksson
Chief Product Officer at Pleo
Richard Banfield
VP of Design Transformation at InVision
Nicolas Knecht
Co-Managing Director of the Lending Unit at Solarisbank
Isabel Woodford
Fintech Journalist at Sifted
Adam Bialy
Chief Product Officer at OpenPayd
Luke Furnell
Product Manager at Starling Bank

Disruption Forum Fintech: Agenda

Contents

Please check back here for agenda updates and other exciting announcements as we get closer to the event.📍The event is hosted on Hopin.to.

🚀 Main Stage

Grab a Brew and Log in - Registration and Networking

5:30-6:00 PM CET
Take your time to look around

What’s Next for Product Design - Trends for 2021 and Beyond

6:10-6:50 PM CET

Speakers: Andrés López Josenge, VP of Design at VISA Europe; Shelley Armstrong, Head of Design at Finastra; Nivin Al Kuzbari, Head of Design at Société Générale. Moderator: Richard Banfield, VP of Design Transformation at InVision.

Commodifying Crypto. What's to Expect from DeFi and Blockchain?

6:55 PM - 7:10 PM
Speaker: Julian Grigo, Co-Managing Director of the Digital Assets at Solarisbank. Moderator: Filip Sobiecki, Relationship Manager at Netguru.

Payments Innovation - The Way We Pay is Changing Fast

7:35 PM - 8:10 PM
Speakers: Sven Dörfel, VP of Product - Online Payments & Risk at SumUp; Olov Eriksson, Chief Product Officer at Pleo; Adam Bialy, Chief Product Officer at OpenPayd. Moderator: Tomasz Grynkiewicz, Senior Editor at Netguru.

Buy Now, Pay Later

8:15 PM - 8:45 PM
Speakers: Luke Furnell, Product Manager at Starling Bank; Jakub Czerwiński,VP CEE at Adyen, Nicolas Knecht, Co-Managing Director of the Lending Unit at Solarisbank. Moderator: Filip Sobiecki, Relationship Manager at Netguru.

The Innovation Trap: Tensions and Successes of Bank and Fintech Interplay

8:50 PM - 9:30 PM
Speakers: Savitri Bishnath, Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures; Charley Ma, GM of Fintech at Alloy; Paulina Skrzypińska, Chief Innovation Officer at BNP Paribas Polska. Moderator: Isabel Woodford, senior reporter at Sifted

🤯 Expert Sessions

A new way to look at retail finance customers, by Nucoro

6:00 - 6:20 PM CET
In this session, we will delve into three potential audiences and suggests ways that financial services can understand their customers in order to re-engage, retain and delight them. Speaker: Nikolai Hack, Head of Strategy and Partnerships at Nucoro

Fintech growth through client engagement, by Opus Una

6:00 - 7:00 PM CET
Interactive Q&A session discussing key techniques & methodologies for Fintechs to most effectively engage with institutional clients. Speaker: Sharmil Patwa, Founder at Opus Una

Reimagining Customer Experience In Financial Services, by VONAGE

7:00 - 7:30 PM CET
Focus of the session is to showcase the importance of customer experience within digital channels and how APIs can help financial services better meet customer needs and stand out from the competition. Speaker: Steven Giuffre, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Vonage

Better CX Through Better Communication: Driving Digital Transformation in Finance, by INFOBIP

7:00 - 8:00 PM CET
We will show you how financial institutions can leverage communication to increase customer experience, which leads to higher revenue. Speaker: Toni Gerovac, Cloud Solution Architect at Infobip

How to Transform Your Business with Blockchain & Fintech, by Fintech Advisory Services

7:30 - 8:30 PM CET
Learn how to transform your business operations wisely and ask a question on how to apply emerging technologies to your company. Speakers: Elena Obukhova, CEO and Founder at FAS and Sergey Ivanov, Founder at FAS

Who is this event for?

We would like to invite:

Executives responsible for Strategy, Innovation
& Digital Transformation
Heads, Directors, and Leads from Design Teams
Managers and practitioners responsible for developing payment solutions
Data, Payments, Experts from enterprises and fast-growing companies

The consequences of a rapidly changing financial landscape impact banking entities of all kinds. Traditional banks need to innovate more dynamically to compete with fintech startups. Startups encounter hurdles to their further development, such as regulations that don’t allow for AI and big data most innovative solutions. It seems now is the time for banks and fintechs to cooperate to achieve higher customer satisfaction.
Konrad Jarociński
R&D Lead at Netguru