Past Speakers Europe

Rebecca is a highly articulate senior agency leader with 20 years experience working at top tier London agencies. My experience covers many verticals including retail, financial services, telecoms, travel, connected products/IOT, automotive and charities.

She has an excellent track record in developing and implementing strategic new business plans, getting new products and services to market, managing ‘C’ level relationships and delivering significant financial growth to agencies. She understand the challenges facing agencies and can help equip agencies, their people, the processes and internal culture to be future-proofed for the rapidly changing landscape of agency/client world.

Richard has over 20 years of experience working across industries such as Mambu and Oracle. At Keyless he is responsible for all new and existing business in the EMEA markets, working with both national and international firms.

Venla is a business development and account management professional with experience in fintech and marine industries. She has ten years of experience from new business building, complex technology program management, top management consulting as well as product management for software solutions.

Maurice has spent the last 15 years, taking care of the transformation of customer-facing banks channels for the Italian and International market. He’s been leading the digital transformation process, initally in all the subsidiary banks ecosystem of Intesa Sanpaolo and currently in BPER Banca, defining and implementing the strategic path of the transition from a “traditional” bank environment to an up-to-date, modern environment able not only to cope with technological and innovation changes, but also to exploit those changes for creating a competitive advantage.

A passionate transformation and innovation addicted, he is present on the industry conferences, sharing his point of view and experience on the digital transformation journeys, evolving banking industry, digital strategy and customer experience.

Daniel Sechi is the Director Technology Strategy & Portfolio Management of Santander Bank in Germany. Before being appointed Director of Technology Strategy & Portfolio Management Daniel was leading Santander’s Digital Transformation unit for Digital Sales.

He’s a senior executive with +20 years of working experience at Banco Santander in multiple IT- and non-IT functions and is currently member of Santander Germany Senior Leadership team, overarching responsible for IT Strategy and Transformation

During his career, he has been driving Digital and Technology transformations as well as Post Merger Integration projects. His current focus is on IT transformation and the strategic evolution of legacy systems towards new cloud-based capabilities and new customer-centric technology stacks.

In parallel to his tenure in the Banking Industry, Daniel is holding teaching positions as tutor and assistant professor on Digital Transformation, Project- and Change Management as well as on Leadership and Communication.

Daniel has a degree in business administration and commercial law from the university of applied science Niederrhein, and an education in Banking and Finance from the chamber of commerce.

As Chief Innovation Officer, Patrick de Neef is responsible for the digital transformation of DNB’s supervisory divisions. This transformation requires innovation in terms of resources, attitudes and mindsets. From new data architecture to the straight through processing of all supervisory processes and, ultimately, the digital competences needed to derive maximum benefit from them. Patrick is also responsible for DNB’s digital platform that enables cooperation with the sector: the iForum. DNB’s overall digital innovation agenda, which includes central bank tasks and resolution, is driven by the DNB Digital Agenda Board, which Patrick chairs.

After starting his career at one of the major Dutch banks, Patrick made the switch to DNB in 2007, dealing in particular with banking supervision. He then moved into digitalisation, with a specific focus on European banking supervision under the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the European Banking Authority (EBA).

Jamilia leads Innovation and Digital Solutions at PA Consulting, focussing on managed solutions across Cyber Security, Financial Crime and Digital Banking and Ops.

Jamilia has over 16 years’ experience working in the global financial services sector, specialising in large scale regulatory transformation programmes and implementation of disruptive technologies. She has deep risk management and regulatory expertise and experience in dealing with the EMEA, UK and US regulators.

She has led numerous regulatory investigations and risk assessments, implemented remediation programmes and designed and led transformation programmes to implement new platforms and disruptive technologies globally.

Strategic leader for learning, development, and innovation with 15 years of experience in global businesses.

Since I moved into professional services I have been responsible for digital learning, innovation, and effectiveness in various large-scale, global projects. Built-up teams to deliver innovative digital learning solutions and took over global responsibility for transformation and learning workstreams. I am used to working in complex and matrix organizations and strive for excellence through wins and nominations for different awards (e.g. Brandon Hall, Learning Technologies).

I am passionate about driving people and projects to success by using innovation and creativity while working in strong teams and helping them to evolve.

Optimistic, energized and enthusiastic professional who profoundly believes in what people makes possible. Curious, ambitious, a very committed business woman, who firmly strives to drive change by joining each other forces and fully convinced that we all should challenge and act upon any injustice that seems not right to us. Empathy and allyship are at the top of my list.

Results driven and experienced Account Delivery Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the IT industry. Skilled in Account Management, Business Development, Business Process, Analytical Skills, Oracle Database, Business Process Design, Business Development and Customer Relationship Management.

Strong team leader with motivational management style and reputation for building and maintaining highly successful (Offshore, Onshore and Nearshore) teams of ICT Professionals, supporting and couching them to achieve anything we want.

As a Microsoft Ambassador for Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Equality, I truly believe that everybody has amazing and many different skills which are complementary and powerful enough to change and improve this world.

Katharina Paust-Bokrezion is an experienced banking and payment professional working in the industry for more than 20 years. She has been with Deutsche Bank since 2004.

In her current role as the Head of Payments Policy in the Political Affairs team she is responsible for establishing and executing the global advocacy strategy of the organisation covering developments in the areas of payments, crypto-assets and central bank digital currencies and engaging with political and regulatory representatives on these matters.

Katharina’s roots are in the capital markets and securities services sector where she was a relationship manager for institutional clients and their portfolio across the European markets. She then became a product manager for post-trade, clearing and custody services which included the expansion of the Deutsche Bank franchise into further regions globally.

Additionally, as a member of the global Diversity & Inclusion team of Deutsche Bank, Katharina contributed to establishing a diverse and inclusive work culture across the organisation including the implementation of the German gender quota law. She continues to be passionately engaged in several employee resource groups and initiatives, including being the “advisory-mother” in the network Fathers@DB.

Ana-Maria Vasile, CAMS-RM, IRMCert, has a broad expertise on Anti-Financial Crime and Enterprise Risk Management, with 15 years of practical experience in the financial services industry and bringing a specialized educational background in this respect. Currently, she is the Chief Compliance Officer at CEC Bank Romania, coordinating the overall Regulatory, Compliance Risk Management, AML/CTF and Sanctions Compliance activities within the bank.

As part of her experience, Ana was involved in the implementation of global policies and internal controls for the prevention of financial crime risks related to TBML, including the development of a one-of-its-kind in-house monitoring application for Trade Finance transaction monitoring within Commerzbank AG.

Prior to joining Commerzbank, Ana was a Manager in the forensic practice of Deloitte, her focus areas and responsibilities being related to delivering projects on the implementation of ML/TF risk management programs in financial institutions, targeted financial sanctions, FATCA implementation, fraud and money laundering investigations, fraud detection, transaction monitoring for various financial products, funds tracking, assessment of AML/CTF compliance activity within financial institutions and implementation and assessment of AFC/Sanctions/Ethics and Compliance programs.

Additionally, she also has extensive experience in the country risk assessment practice, as she was a subject matter expert in the ML/TF National Risk Assessments projects for Lithuania (2015) and Latvia (2016).

With more than 17 years of experience mainly in the financial services sector, Maria-Cristina has developed a great experience in working in changing environments.

She has been working in consulting for 12 years with 7 years working for KPMG Belgium. Throughout her career she was dealing with environment in transformation all the way from IT transformation to organisational & processes reviews.

She is now working for a digital bank in Belgium – Keytrade Bank and , as Head of Transformation, she has notably performed a major Agile transformation for the whole company. She is also dealing with the organizational aspects of the company and the management of the portfolio of technologically related initiatives. She is also performing the strategy coordination through the organization, in order to align the roadmap execution to the strategy. She joined the Executive Committee of Keytrade Bank in 2020.

Sabine has a purpose, passion and a strong belief in (digital) user experience. Impassioned to create that, she makes a long-term vision practical by achieving it in concrete measured st. A believer in data-driven experimentations with an agile mindset, she gathers and presents empirical facts during each step. In this way, her consumers, employees, and (DevOps) teams can participate and validate each change and improvement.