Open Banking Expo Digifest
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24-26 November 2020
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Welcome
Until we can meet again, we continue to do what we love most; create game-changing events that enrapture the Open Banking and Open Finance communities. Unsurprisingly we’ve had to go digital this year, but this isn’t just a webcast, this is a 100% immersive virtual event!
As you now expect from us; content and speakers you’ve never seen or heard before, innovators, disruptors and visionaries that you have, but with their latest foresight and knowledge, unique content delivery to keep you awake at your desk(!), AI powered-networking to make up for the chance meetings you got at the face to face event, and so much more!
Build your own schedule and dip in and out across the three days; with live access to chat, question or video call fellow delegates, speakers and partners.
2019 Event Highlights
COMING SOON TO YOUR DESKTOP THEATRE
Renowned news anchor Natasha Kaplinsky OBE uncovers the latest predictions, opinions and insight from our industry visionaries.
OPEN BANKING EXPO KITCHEN LIVE
An industry first as our Suited Chef cooks up a storm in the kitchen with global fintech luminary Dr Ruth Wandhöfer. Available to Virtual Free pass holders.
Powerhouse debates
C-level innovators take their place on our not-to-be-missed panel debates. Get inside their minds while you sit back and relax. Available to Virtual Premium Access pass holders only.
Our Digital Agenda
Access free or paid-for content across three days of unique content. Build your own agenda to cover off what matters to you most.
WELCOME FROM OPEN BANKING EXPO & HEADLINE PARTNERS
MORNING KEYNOTE: Digital transformation and the key to unlocking opportunity post Covid-19
SHOWCASE: Will the consent-based model of Open Data deliver real value?
The shift to a more balanced data sharing model is set to challenge traditional credit risk methods. Scott Zoldi and Olly Betts will look to the future discussing the impacts of Open Data, consumer contributed information, machine learning, and advanced analytics. With examples of the early innovations that showcase how consumers and lenders are embracing the benefits of Open Data – the journey to the future has already begun.
SHOWCASE: The Future of Banking as a Service
EVENT TINDER
THE KAPLINSKY INTERVIEW: Realising the Open Finance dream
CLOSING REMARKS
PANEL DEBATE: The race to payments supremacy
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This session is showered with expert views on the future of payments. With Open Banking payments more prevalent than ever, we’re asking; who are the runners and riders, but more importantly, who will emerge victorious? Now more than ever consumers are craving more personalised products and they want them yesterday. How do we meet demand at scale without compromising data security and product superiority?
Moderated by: Anna Maj, Fintech Leader & Advisor, Senior Lecturer CFTE
FIRESIDE CHAT: The global window of opportunity with a fintech veteran and experienced founder
Independant speaker and strategic advisor, Lana Adbullayeva, sits down with industry stalwart, Nigel Verdon of RailsBank. His views are far-reaching, he champions fintech innovation and believes Banking as a Service (BAAS) is the game-changer we’ve been looking for. Here we step inside his world as delegates are promised inspiration from his previous ventures in the fintech space, as well as a unique outlook into the future of banking.
Hosted by: Lana Abdulleyeva
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
PANEL DEBATE: Payments Punch Up Part II – the road to recovery
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A popular addition to the 2019 Expo, the Punch Up returns! We check in with the innovators from the incumbents, the digital experts disrupting the payments ecosystem and those championing best practice and emerging innovations. A Covid world has seen payments innovation gather pace and Open Banking payments soar – what’s next? The panel will also dive into what we can expect over the next 24 months with the ever changing payments landscape and their dynamite predictions to help you shape your future strategy.
PANEL DEBATE: Open Banking to Open Finance to Open Life
Taking stock with first movers in in the UK and beyond. We get to grips with the last 12 months, nail down predictions for the future and then look even further afield to see how Open Banking principles might be applied to everyday living. Open Banking was delivered as part of the CMA order, but through innovation – and now necessity driven by a global pandemic – its true value is only just being realised.
Moderated by: Meital Raviv, EVP, Head of Digital Strategy & Fintech Innovation at Bank Hapoa
THE KAPLINSKY INTERVIEW: Natasha opens up the regulator and industry watchdog on the move to Open Finance
This unique interview brings together the expertise on those who have kept a watchful eye on Open Banking implementation, with one eye always on the path to Open Finance. Kaplinsky puts the questions the industry is asking to those overseeing the transformation to uncover the lessons learned from Open Banking so far, and these will shape a better future for Open Finance.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
PANEL: How to win customers and influence them
Building consumer trust and winning the consumer adoption battle has and continues to be the arch nemesis for all financial services when it comes to data sharing. However, is now the most critical time to explore turning up the heat on the value exchange? In the current climate consumers are crying out for new ways to engage with digital products to help them with everyday life – so we’re asking; are there now less barriers to market? Is now the window of opportunity to make Open Banking mainstream, and ensure it’s more widely accepted?
PANEL DEBATE: A European marathon, not a sprint
Since PSD2 went live across Europe, the success of many firms working within the new framework has spiralled, but for some they were already ahead of the game. We catch up with some of Europe’s digital trailblazers as they reveal their secrets for success and a future outlook on Open Finance and Open Banking payments in the European marketplace.
Moderated by: David Parker, Founder and Director, Polymath Consulting
FIRESIDE CHAT: New business models in the European Open Banking ecosystem
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
USE CASE: Successfully partnering in Europe to deliver Open Banking
WELCOME FROM OPEN BANKING EXPO & HEADLINE PARTNERS
OPEN BANKING EXPO KITCHEN LIVE!
An industry first as our Suited Chef cooks up a three course meal whilst uncovering the secrets to global fintech visionary, Dr Ruth Wandhöfer’s success. Get ready to hear Ruth’s predictions for the short, medium and long term.
The Suited Chef, Zacchary Falconer-Barfield
SHOWCASE: Session delivered by Yolt Technology Services
EVENT TINDER
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: Fintech is dreaming big – where do you feature?
2020 saw Government announce its complete review of the UK FinTech sector that will further strengthen the growth and prosperity of the sector. Innovate Finance will play a crucial role in supporting the review and here we get to grips with why it was needed and what we can expect.
LIFE’S A PITCH
Our panel of industry experts grill the next cohort of rising stars in the fintech space – who will come out on top?
Click here to find out more and enter: openbankingexpo.com/digifest/lifes-a-pitch
Speaker(s) to be announced shortly
CLOSING REMARKS
PANEL DEBATE: A shot in the arm for SME Finance
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Even before a global health crisis, Open Banking was starting to creep into more and more business strategies here on UK shores. Now the time is mission critical for Open Banking to help haul the economy through the current recession. Here we have handpicked industry expertise to dissect the current landscape, lay bare their predictions for the market and answer the questions keeping you up at night.
FIRESIDE CHAT: Escape to victory – the real success of business banking
HOT OFF THE PRESS! Off the back of their recent BCR win in partnership with ClearBank, we sit down with Tide Chief Executive Officer, Oliver Prill. As a business, on the face if it, Tide is innovating at scale and quietly going about its business. On the flipside, critically it’s building market share and helping SMEs navigate their way through Covid-19 by enabling access to advanced technology from its fintech ecosystem. Get the kettle on, sit back and listen to a true innovator.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
PANEL DEBATE: Open Finance: Smarter the data, greater the benefits?
Open Finance is transforming financial services at pace but what are the risks of innovating without ensuring the data at the heart of Open Finance is complete, accurate and without biases? Does better quality data deliver better products and customer outcomes as well as competitive advantage? This panel of Open Finance experts will discuss whether maximising the benefits of Open Finance for consumers and SMEs is dependent on ensuring that the quality of the data used is robust. Hosted by Open51, the panel will also explore how best to eradicate the gender data gap and data biases so that Open FInance can benefit all consumers.
Speaker(s) to be announced shortly
PANEL DEBATE: Cometh the hour, cometh Open Banking
Since 2018 Open Banking has offered innovation on a scale never seen before, both in the UK and globally. Open Banking for Good reports that as many as 12.7 million people in the UK could be financially squeezed. Covid-19 has magnified this to an extent never before seen in our generation. How can Open Banking start to make a long lasting positive influence on consumer rehabilitation? How can we reach levels of adoption to make a real tangible impact? We sit down with our panel of experts to put Open Banking on the agenda for ALL.
FIRESIDE CHAT: Opening up the future
Chris Gorst has led the Open-up challenges in recent years and his experience connects up the public, commercial and social impact sectors and interactions between the three. Here Chris will speak openly about the transformative power of Open Banking, financial inclusion and (barriers to/the importance of) innovation. Chris will also speak in detail about the most recent Open Up Challenge, the industry winners and how they’ve responded to the Covid crisis to help consumers get onto of their money.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
When traditional and neo banks collide
Group Personal Banking Director at Virgin Money explores the challenges that lay ahead for both the high street and digital banking market. Years gone by have seen challenges present themselves in different ways, however, a pandemic has meant the re-evaluation of many business strategies. Never before has the term ‘fail fast’ been more prevalent as financial institutions of all sizes continue to deliver innovation at pace whilst playing in unchartered waters. Organisations that once operated in parallel universes could now be on collision course to fight the same challenges together.
PANEL DEBATE: Regulation: What’s working, what’s not, and what’s next?
We sit down with a carefully selected panel made up of regulatory specialists and innovators from across Europe as we look at how regulation and innovation can collide to create the perfect storm. How has regulation played its part in the market to date whilst taking a look ahead to future incoming regulation and how your business can prepare.
USE CASE: The Open Banking journey for Raiffeisen: Open APIs – beyond the hype
- PSD2 reality check
- Impact of the Open API economy on banks’ value chain
- Strategic responses
- Operational challenges
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
EUROPEAN KEYNOTE: The ING view on PSD2 and SCA compliance – Exploring the challenges and opportunities of the future
WELCOME FROM OPEN BANKING EXPO & HEADLINE PARTNERS
SHOWCASE: Session delivered by Equifax
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SHOWCASE: Session content TBC
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EVENT TINDER
CLOSING REMARKS
PANEL DEBATE: The key to driving Open success
Speaker(s) to be announced shortly
FIRESIDE CHAT – It’s more than just a name… ‘Beyond Open Banking’
Bud really is delivering beyond Open Banking as its tagline suggests. Its Chief Executive Officer, Ed Maslaveckas, has championed the Open Banking space since day one, but now it’s time to turbo charge those principles towards Open Data and here we find out how. The CMA are already consulting on the movement towards Open Finance along with both OFCOM and OFGEM considering the benefits too. Ed provides some deep insight into the Bud journey to date, explores the creation of new data services and suggests that whilst Open Banking is helping people to understand the potential value in their own data, on its own it is not enough.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
A true digital trailblazer… from the streets of Monzo to the front line of property
Here we grab a virtual coffee with former Monzo engineer and now co-founder of Fronted on how he and the team are changing the face of the rental property market using Open Banking data.
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
FIRESIDE CHAT – The Starling Journey
Open Banking Expo sits down with Felim O’Donnell, Chief Operating Officer at Starling International at Starling Bank and dives into how the bank is driving value across its customer base using Open Banking and a broader fintech offering. Starling Bank is leading the charge when it comes to product innovation, customer experience and customer advocacy. Felim will take us on a journey to find out how they’re doing it.
LiFE’S A PiTCH
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Our panel of industry experts grill the next cohort of rising stars in the fintech space - who will come out on top? Available to Virtual Free pass holders.
BUiLD DYNAMiTE CONNECTIONS
We might not be able to be in a busy room to network this year, but we’ll all be online! Our virtual event platform offers AI powered networking so you won’t miss out on the chance meetings you enjoyed at the physical event! Have in-depth conversations and build valuable industry connections. Available to Virtual Premium Access pass holders only.
Our Partners
Thank you to our partners for coming on our virtual event journey with us. Be sure to meet them in our virtual exhibit hall during the live event dates, you can book in meetings ahead with them all or hop on video calls.
