Current Speakers Americas

Jeff has worked in Financial Crime Compliance with over 13 years of experience in AML, Sanctions, Fraud, AB&C and Tax Evasion at HSBC. Jeff has held US and global roles covering Correspondent Banking/Multi-National Corporate Customer groups as well as Wholesale Payments/Transactional Banking product lines. His responsibilities included support and oversight to the regional FC Product Advisory teams and Global Product Managers in his global roles as well as support to Relationship and Product Managers in his current domestic role. More recently, Jeff is directly supporting the HSBC Bank USA’s Embedded Banking (Banking as a Service) proposition with Oracle/NetSuite and actively supporting the transition to ISO 20022. When not working, Jeff likes to spend time with his wife and daughter. Whenever there is a free moment (few and far between) he also enjoys Fishing.

Diana Meditz is an accomplished AI Product Manager with a proven track record of steering commercially impactful solutions through the application of AI. With a keen focus on scalable implementations, Diana seamlessly bridges the gap between cutting-edge technology and real-world applications, ensuring successful deployment of models to production. In her role, Diana leads the firm’s generative AI efforts, taking charge of educating business partners on this technology. She also plays a crucial role in enhancing existing governance processes, addressing potential risks, and developing solutions in a risk-controlled manner.
Beyond her core responsibilities, Diana serves as an invaluable internal consultant to senior leadership and key stakeholders. Her expertise lies in decoding complex business challenges and architecting advanced digital strategies. With over a decade of experience, Diana brings a wealth of knowledge to strategic development, initiative execution, and technology prioritization, contributing significantly to the organization’s innovative AI endeavors.

Accomplished Technology Leadership & Management Professional with a wealth of experience driving delivery of global digital transformation programs involving Model development, Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Privacy, Anti Money Laundering(AML), Regulatory Compliance, IT/Technology Strategy, Software/Application Delivery, Business Process Management(BPM), IT Infrastructure and the Cloud.

With a proven track record of solving complex business issues using technology to enhance speed to market, build scalability and deliver an improved stakeholder experience, skilled resource allocation to achieve all deliverables, Develops & deploys robust processes which achieve operational excellence, leading business and technology change initiatives, results-driven change agent creates a shared vision and leads from the front to build, empower and motivate multi-cultural, cross-functional teams to achieve goals and expectations.

Engineer with 20+ years of experience leading business, and digital transformation in banking. Passionate about technology, innovation, talent development, diversity, inclusion and equity. Proficient in digital strategy, product and UX design, agile, mobile / web, project management and data-analytics . Fluent in English and Spanish

Marcia is thought leader in emerging payments with over 15 years of experience in the financial services and payments industry, and 5+ years in fraud and identity. She has led international, cross-functional teams to build and deliver secure products and solutions. Marcia has worked at industry leaders such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Visa, FIS Global, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions. She excels in creating a vision, connecting people to ideas, and bringing game-changing solutions to  market.