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Global Economy & Banking

Financial Tech

Open Banking & Data Governance

Blockchain & Digital Assets

E-commerce

Tech Talent & Investment

Global Economy & Banking

  • Restoring economic growth in the region – recommendations on how businesses and governments can collaborate more effectively on a new economic agenda that enhances productivity, sustainability and shared prosperity in 2022
  • Strengthening the financial and monetary system – the assessment of the current health of the financial system, potential emerging financial risks and reflections on how industries and governments can work together to make key financial institutions more resilient in 2022
  • Banking with a purpose – banks as vital engines of growth in the global economy. How can they help address global challenges?
  • State of the economy in Poland and the CEE region – macro and micro trends
  • 2022 banking outlook: strengthening resilience, accelerating digital transformation
  • How should banks navigate the waters in times of geopolitical uncertainty and constant regulation? – How to adapt business models to the changing needs of clients?

Financial Tech

  • How the pandemic dramatically increased our dependency on digital technology, increasing the vulnerability of individuals, businesses and governments to cyberattacks? What policies and practices are needed to prevent a cyber pandemic?
  • Digital customer engagement – how to fully realize the digital promise in the front office?
  • Creating an optimal mix of digital and human interactions, using data intelligently and establishing novel partnerships
  • From a risk-based approach to data governance to ethically designed AI tools. What approaches are needed to harness the full value of data and accelerate the benefits of AI for society?
  • The three cloud megatrends of the year 2022
  • Combining technologies – the interplay of AI, cloud and machine learning. How can these technologies work together to create future opportunities?
  • Foundational digital infrastructures to support national digital strategies in a post-pandemic world: digital identity and trusted data exchange. Use cases
  • Harnessing emerging technologies – how can emerging technologies further boost productivity, expedite the growth transition and reinforce resilience to future shocks to meet pressing challenges?

Open Banking & Data Governance

  • How is Open Banking being implemented across the region? How fast will it grow and the challenges
  • Unlocking payment innovation and scale opportunities – Open Banking monetization approaches. Case studies
  • Where Open Banking went wrong – fixes and developing best practice
  • The challenge of API delivery and management
  • Extending business banking capabilities through API partnerships
  • Challenges of data governance practices and regulatory compliance
  • The current legislative frameworks – is the right functionality enabled?
  • Liability and transaction risk analysis issues in Open Banking. How much should the market decide?
  • The shift from Open Banking to Open Finance
  • Reimagining customer relationship – pilots and programs from the front line
  • Open data: informed consent, meaningful ethics and achieving trust – Cross-industry use cases – who will reap the benefits of Open Banking data?

Blockchain & Digital Assets

  • The impact of blockchain technology on financial services. Where are we seeing tangible impacts of blockchain across FS?
  • How do the costs of large-scale blockchain implementation stack up against the real-world benefits?
  • Can any lessons be learned from blockchain use cases in other sectors?
  • The rise of digital currencies – are Central Bank Digital Currencies the money of tomorrow?
  • What are the technical challenges in implementing blockchain infrastructure to support digital currency being formally accepted by the National Banks?
  • How has Covid-19 helped the case for cryptocurrencies?
  • What challenges are still holding back widespread crypto adoption? – What’s next for crypto regulation?
  • How would technologies, particularly AI and machine learning, impact the future of cryptocurrencies?
  • Can bitcoin be used as a hedge against inflation?
  • What’s the environmental impact of cryptocurrency?
  • Where next for crypto and digital currencies? How will things change in the next 3-5 years?
  • The Token Economy: Digitizing Real-World Assets

E-commerce

  • Ten e-commerce trends in 2022 you need to know
  • Remapping the customer experience: redefining customer needs, journey, satisfaction and loyalty
  • Touchless retail: robotics and automation as key drivers minimalizing human intervention in purchasing and delivery processes
  • Logistics and omnichannel supply chain excellence – digitalisation, shortening the supply chain, DTC and contactless deliveries
  • Consumer analytics and the need for hyper-personalization in the new retail digital customer journey. How to be more competitive?
  • Dynamic pricing – react in real time
  • Social commerce 2022 trends – tactics and tools to grow e-commerce strategy through social media
  • How sustainability is changing the retail landscape?
  • Data driven marketing – what are the tools needed to optimize advertising campaigns, customer acquisition and retention?
  • Future of cashless payments in a post-pandemic world. Case studies on the impact on the economic growth
  • Experimental technologies creating frictionless, connected commerce payments

Tech Talent & Investment

  • Skilling the global workforce – policies, practices and partnerships needed to meet the challenge of skilling, reskilling and upskilling
  • Delivering the reskilling revolution – how businesses and governments can work together to retrain workers and redeploy them towards jobs of the future
  • Investor priorities – impact of pandemic on fintech valuations and investments. What to look for in 2022?
  • Founder strategies and tactics for survival and growth
  • Looking for fintech investment hotspots – fintech by segment and the winning and losing categories
  • Capital markets and cross-border investments
  • Transformative potential – enhancing cooperation between incumbents and new market entrants. Examples of success and failure