IMPACT FINANCE'22 THEMATIC TRACKS
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IMPACT FINANCE'22 THEMATIC TRACKS
Take your business and skills
to the next level
Global Economy & Banking
- If we were to design the world of finance from scratch, how would we go about it? How would we interact with money?
- What the embedded-finance and banking-as-a-service trends mean for financial services?
- What are the principles of ethics we should agree on and adhere to when building and distributing financial products? How do we protect the interests of our customers, while maintaining the necessary pace for growth and returns to shareholders?
- Perspectives on building a digital bank: what a truly digital bank means from a customer perspective and some of the key principles that we are using to build one
- 2022/2023 banking outlook: strengthening resilience, accelerating digital transformation
- State of the economy in Poland and the CEE region – macro and micro trends
- Strengthening the financial and monetary system. The assessment of the current health of the financial system, potential emerging financial risks
- What else can be done in monetary policy to curb inflation faster?
- How do we compete in highly consolidated industries?
- How should CBDCs be designed and what function should they perform to become a trusted medium for payments? What will be their impact on the economy and for consumers and are CBDCs the future of cash?
Financial Tech
- Becoming a data driven organisation
- AI driven transformation. How to leverage AI in multiple streams: user experience, process automation to increase controls, to detect frauds and to predict future
- Creating an advantage with quantum computing today. How and when will our day to day lives be affected by quantum computing?
- Cloud-based banking infrastructure: not “if” but “how”
- The shift towards biometrics: how biometrics present banks with opportunity amid need for better identity verification integration?
- The state of cybersecurity in financial services: threats, challenges and solutions. What policies and practices are needed to prevent a cyber pandemic?
- How do the costs of large scale blockchain implementation stack up against the real-world benefits?
- What challenges are still holding back widespread crypto adoption? What’s next for crypto regulation?
- DeFi application and adoption
- 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
- Tech’s environmental impact and what we can do about it
- What will it take to attract and empower tomorrow’s talent?
- Skilling the global workforce – policies, practices and partnerships needed to meet the challenge of skilling, reskilling and upskilling
Open Banking & Data Governance
- Open Banking opportunity: where Open Banking is set to thrive?
- Why cloud is essential for Open Banking?
- Identifying new revenue opportunities in the Open Banking ecosystem: what new value and growth does cloud enable? From data monetisation to commercialising open APIs and beyond
- Where Open Banking went wrong: fixes and developing best practice
- Challenges of data governance practices and regulatory compliance
- The current legislative frameworks: is the right functionality enabled?
- The shift from Open Banking to Open Finance: building the digital marketplace of tomorrow with TPPs, and slick integration to create personalised omni-channel experiences that drives consumer engagement
- Cross-industry use cases: who will reap the benefits of Open Banking data?
E-commerce
- How personalised is it possible to make a retail experience?
- The future of retail is connected. How to effectively combine offline and online channels?
- AI, ML, 5G, biometrics, voice assistants .. – what technologies does retail need now?
- How can you turn a payment from a moment of transaction into a relationship? How to build loyalty with customers?
- If we were designing payments rails for the next era of finance, where would we start and what would we need to do?
- From in-store payments to cloud commerce
- E-commerce: q-commerce, live commerce, social commerce
- One client, different data – omnichannel analytics challenges, omnichannel client profile
- How to effectively manage costs in e-commerce
- How to maximize profits on marketplaces with the help of AI
- How to create a need for regular buying in e-commerce?
- Consumer – retailer – supplier and sustainable development. How to build a brand-consumer relationship together in accordance with the principles of sustainability?
- Remapping the customer experience: redefining customer needs, journey, satisfaction and loyalty
- Logistics and omnichannel supply chain excellence – digitalisation, shortening the supply chain, DTC and contactless deliveries
Investments
- If we were to create a formula for identifying the advantageous partnerships of the future, what would it look like?
- How can we discover unexpected partnerships?
- When should you partner with a competitor and how do you make that partnership work?
- Stock exchanges: are they still relevant in the new economy? How to manage the ongoing demands of the modern economy, including adapting to the changing needs of issuers and investors and the fast pace of technological change, and how will ESG drive the activities of the stock exchanges?
- Investor priorities: impact of pandemic on fintech valuations and investments. What to look for in 2022/2023?
- Founder strategies and tactics for survival and growth
- Looking for fintech investment hotspots: fintech by segment and the winning and losing categories
