Mattias Forsberg is CIO at Futur Pension, one of Sweden’s leading life insurance companies, where he drives digital transformation and the strategic use of AI to enhance efficiency and customer experience.

With over 25 years in technology leadership, including roles as CTO at Qliro and Head of Strategy & Software Engineering at SEB, Mattias has led major cloud, data, and agile transformations across financial services, fintech and telecom.

A passionate promotor for innovation and high-performing teams, he believes AI will redefine how financial institutions create value and serve customers in the months and years ahead.

Karianne Lien Sundahl is an experienced senior leader in the field of data, analytics, and AI. She is currently the Head of Data and AI in Storebrand. Karianne holds a Master of Science in Industrial Mathematics from NTNU and has worked with data and insights for leading Norwegian companies, such as Telenor and Vipps before joining Storebrand.

Alexander Schneevoigt is an experienced leader in the insurance and reinsurance sector, with a strong focus on legacy solutions in the Nordic markets. Currently serving as Senior Portfolio & Business Development Manager at DARAG Group, he brings over two decades of leadership in claims management, business development, and strategic operations across leading firms including Crawford & Company, Sedgwick, and Van Ameyde.

With a background in law and business administration from Copenhagen Business School and executive education from INSEAD, Alexander combines a deep operational understanding with a strategic mindset. He is particularly interested in how AI and digital transformation are reshaping the future of financial services in the Nordic region.

Bartosz Golba is Research Director, Financial Services at GlobalData, providing robust data and actionable insights to a number of world’s leading financial services organisations, not least related to disruption caused by evolution of technology. A former wealth manager, Bartosz has more than 10 years of experience in dealing with changing behaviours and expectations of both FS providers and their customers.

Lezgin is a technology leader in the techcnical forefront with experience within innovation, security, architecture and a passionated problem solver. He had the OpenAI GPT-3 model on the radar 2 years before chatgpt release. Besides that he have a year of agentic development experience and is currently rolling out agentic way of working for the compan

Kristine Bjørnstad is SVP Technology & Insight Commercial at Gjensidige. She leads overall digitization strategies for Nordic B2B customers, heading interdisciplinary agile teams and translating technology into measurable business value. Previously, she served as CEO of NoA Ignite Norway, an agency specialized in digital services and customer driven growth. She has also held leadership roles at Microsoft in product management and public‑sector sales, and has previous board experience. Bjørnstad’s focus areas include governance models, value driven modernization programs, and building effective team structures.

Sofia Magnusson is an AI strategist, entrepreneur and City Lead for Women in AI Gothenburg. She works at the intersection of business transformation, AI adoption and human-centred change, with a strong focus on how organisations build skills, trust and leadership capability alongside emerging technologies.

With a background as a tech founder and digital strategist, Sofia has over a decade of experience working with digital transformation and value creation in technology-driven businesses, including building and scaling ventures with external capital. Today, she focuses on AI education, internal capability building and practical use of AI tools, while driving competence development through initiatives such as workshops, hands-on sessions and hackathons.

Klas Malmén is Senior Advisor at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. He holds a government mandate to represent Sweden in the EU AI Board’s subgroup on financial services. Klas coordinates the authority’s work on AI supervision and leads preparations for the implementation of the upcoming AI Act. He also served as an appointed expert in the Swedish Government’s inquiry on national legislation related to the AI Act.

• Fredrik Hjortblad manages the AI Business Development and Analysis department for Customer Operations at NOBA Bank Group. Over the past six years at NOBA Bank and Nordax Bank, he has led projects focused on continuously improving the customer journey, driving development both internally and directly towards customers of the banks under the NOBA umbrella.

In the past year, he has served as the project leader of the small, team together with tech lead Dag Øyvind Paulsen that has built NOBA Assistant, which supports 700+ employees and two million customers getting answers to their questions related to Bank Norwegian, Nordax and Svensk Hypotekspension.

Dag-Øyvind Paulsen is Head of Architecture at the Bank Norwegian branch of NOBA Bank Group. From his 19 years in Bank Norwegian, Dag-Øyvind has extensive experience in developing and connecting internal and external software systems and has worked closely with the key software vendors in the Nordic financial industry for many years.

For the past year he has been part of the small team that has built NOBA assistant which supports 700+ employees and two million customers getting answers to their questions related to Bank Norwegian, Nordax and Svensk Hypotekspension. Dag-Øyvind holds a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

I work at the intersection of financial services technology, enterprise architecture, and advisory. As Principal Architect & Technology Advisor at Celent (part of GlobalData), I support research, advisory, and consulting work across financial services — helping clients and teams make sense of complex technology landscapes in practical, grounded ways. My background includes platform modernisation, data and architecture strategy, and the adoption of emerging technologies in regulated environments. I’m particularly interested in advisory work, research, and speaking that helps senior leaders navigate complexity, where technology choices intersect with organisation, risk, and long-term strategy.

Gregory Jordan is the Regional Vice President of Sales Engineering for international markets, where he works closely with customers to help them drive measurable business outcomes through more effective go‑to‑market execution. He leads teams that partner with buyers to align technology, insight, and enablement strategies to real commercial challenges.

Gregory brings a customer‑first approach to every engagement, focusing on how organizations can improve seller productivity, create more compelling buyer experiences, and accelerate decision‑making across complex sales cycles. He is known for helping customers simplify complexity—translating advanced capabilities into clear, executive‑level value that resonates with both business and technical stakeholders.

With deep experience supporting global organizations, Gregory is passionate about building trusted partnerships, sharing practical insight, and helping customers turn strategy into action at scale.

Brian Halpin, Senior Managing Director - Automation, leads SS&C’s deployment of Blue Prism Digital Workers across the SS&C business. Over the last 3 years SS&C has deployed over 3500 digital workers into every division of it's business and delivered over $200m of run rate savings. This largescale digital workforce now serves as the foundation for the roll out of Agentic AI capabilities. Prior to Blue Prism, Brian was Managing Director, Global Automation at HSBC where he delivered a large-scale global automation program that resulted in tens of millions in run rate cost reduction. He also established RPA as a strategic operational capability for the Bank of Ireland. He has hands on experience of many use cases across large scale cost reduction, customer experience improvement and risk reduction.

Lukáš is a passionate fraud fighter with years of hands-on experience working alongside dozens of banks across Europe. As the Lead Principal Solutions Consultant & Fraud Expert at ThreatMark, he specialises in decoding the psychology of fraud to help financial institutions stay ahead of evolving threats.

His ability to "think like a fraudster" allows him to detect, disrupt, and dismantle the kill chain of modern attacks. Working daily with fraud analysts to strengthen defence mechanisms, he ensures banks can stop malicious intent in real-time without impacting the user experience.

With a background in Telecommunications Engineering, Paolo has focused on distributed technologies and large-scale software architectures for over a decade. Since 2019, he has worked on the practical adoption of Data Mesh across major enterprises, guiding both the organizational transitions and the technical foundations required for sustainable decentralization.

This hands-on experience led Paolo to co-found Witboost, where he is the CTO. Under his technical leadership, the platform has become a key enabler for Data Product Management and computational governance, helping global organizations manage and scale their data ecosystems effectively.

Today, he remains committed to advancing Data Product practices, helping teams transform complex data architectures into manageable, high-quality assets through automation and modern governance.

Jesper Jønsson is an experienced Global Product Director with 10+ years of experience in SaaS, where he has worked at the intersection of customer needs, business strategy, and complex technology. Throughout his career, Jesper has focused on building user-friendly products and scalable solutions—turning advanced technology into intuitive experiences that create real value for both users and organisations. With a strong foundation in product and service management, go-to-market strategy, UX design, and user research, he brings a structured, insight-driven approach to product development, combined with an innovative mindset. Jesper has extensive experience working in stakeholder-heavy environments across multiple markets, making him particularly relevant for the Financial Services & Insurance sector, where security, compliance, and legacy systems add complexity to digital transformation. As a speaker, Jesper is known for translating complexity into clarity, offering practical perspectives on how organisations can successfully build trusted, customer-centric products in regulated industries—while aligning technology, people, and business priorities.

"Genady Chybranov heads a dedicated BFSI Centre of Excellence, leading a specialist team with deep financial‑services expertise. He brings 20+ years of hands‑on experience designing and operating data and AI systems in regulated environments, with a sharp focus on agentic AI, model risk and controls, and enterprise architectures that are compliant by design (AI Act, DORA, NIS2).
Genady has held senior technology roles at Barclays and served as CTO for Financial Services at Hitachi, where he built and scaled production systems across banking and insurance. He is an active member of the Open Finance and Smart Payments working groups at the European Banking Association, where his current work explores Agentic Finance—from customer‑owned agents to machine‑to‑machine transactions and the governance patterns that make them safe.

Monika Rappe is Head of Tech at SPP, where she drives the company’s evolution to a fast‑moving, tech‑driven organisation. With roots in product management at Siemens and nearly a decade as management consultant at McKinsey, Monika brings a mix of strategy and execution. Since joining SPP, she has held roles spanning Product, Operations and Innovation leadership. Today she focuses on scaling modern engineering, responsible AI, and rapid experimentation to unlock new growth.

Marie Grønkjær van Es, Partner within digital transformation and leadership; specialises in driving digital transformations in regulated contexts across the Financial Services & Pharma – translating strategy into practice and embedding new ways of working at scale.

With 14+ years of experience, she has led complex, global change programmes focused on the human side of digital change: building ownership across executives, managers, frontline teams, and shifting behaviours and culture to enable adoption.

In recent years, Marie has worked particularly with AI transformations and is currently focused on AI in leadership: what it requires of leaders to unlock AI’s transformative potential. In Marie’s experience, embedding AI responsibly and effectively demands clarity of direction, trust by design, and leadership that clears structural and cultural barriers to scale.

Andras has over 12 years of experience in Software sales, with four years in ERP sector, and eight years’ within the Financial Services Industry. Andras is working now as an Account manager for the Verint Financial compliance product line, covering Nordics, Benelux, and Eastern Europe.

Over the years, he participated closing several Tire1 bank deals, and contributed generating business in the mid-market area as well, specifically with Microsoft related products. He also built a strong partner network in these regions and continues progressing in these territories.

Jonathan is a Strategic Advisor at Ab Initio, helping organisations design and run data ecosystems from first principles to create measurable value. With over 35 years in senior technical and transformational leadership roles, he has built durable, scalable capabilities at Experian, Sony PlayStation and Direct Line, spanning data engineering, data science, platform architecture, agile delivery and organisational strategy. A long-time Ab Initio practitioner and former customer for two decades, he has led teams delivering metadata‑driven applications and frameworks that enable adaptive analytics and reliable deployment into single‑customer‑view decisioning. He speaks on the operating disciplines, architectures and leadership needed to turn data platforms and pipelines into valuable outcomes.

For financial institutions, the "gold rush" of AI experimentation is meeting the "brick wall" of the EU AI Act. As organizations move from internal pilots to customer-facing production, the critical question is no longer just about model accuracy - it’s about Governance. How do you track every prompt, redact PII in real-time, and manage skyrocketing token costs without slowing down your developers?

In this session, SEB and Kong share a blueprint for leveraging a dedicated AI Gateway - a centralized "control plane" that decouples AI innovation from regulatory complexity.

With more than two decades experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent industry speaker, blogger, and columnist on the topic of BI, analytics, and data integration. He is passionate about data literacy, supporting data-driven cultures, and tracking trends in the industry. Prior to joining Qlik, Dan was a Director of Research at Gartner.

Zach Damasco is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Dataiku, where he specializes in enabling FSI organizations to scale their AI initiatives across both technical and less technical teams. He has a hands-on background in heavily regulated environments, having built and deployed sophisticated AI solutions for fraud detection, classification, and more across the insurance, telecom, and healthcare industries for some of the world’s largest companies.

Previously, Zach served as an AI Solutions Engineer at Convoso, and Solutions Architect within the Global Innovations Team at Cigna. He is also the former founder of Sweden-based Asentio, where he developed novel NLP to uncover genuine human intent. Zach’s unique experience bridging entrepreneurial innovation with enterprise-grade solutions allows him to provide a blueprint for how to rapidly, but cautiously, adopt AI within the financial sector.

Jim Jensen is Strategic Accounts Director for Financial Services at Elastic, where he helps banks and financial institutions across the Nordics and beyond turn underutilized data into tangible business value. With a background spanning enterprise technology and financial services, Jim specialises in building the data foundations that make AI work in practice — across use cases from fraud detection and AML to real-time payments and customer experience. Jim brings a pragmatic, results-driven perspective to the intersection of data, search, and AI, shaped by years of working closely with some of the industry's most data-intensive organisations.

Christer Hedström is Regional Sales Director Nordics at OutSystems, with more than 25 years of experience working closely with banks and financial institutions across the Nordics. Throughout his career, he has been driven by a genuine passion for helping clients navigate change and unlock new opportunities through technology.

Before joining OutSystems, Christer spent four and a half years as Country Manager at Anaplan, partnering with organizations such as EQT, NOBA Bank, and OP Bank. He also held the role of Director of Financial Services at Nets, where he worked with leading banks including Handelsbanken, SEB, Swedbank, Nordea, Resurs, and Skandiabanken. Earlier, at IBM, he was responsible for the Nordea account as Client Executive.

Today, Christer focuses on helping organizations move beyond simply running their business—empowering them to innovate, improve customer experiences, and drive meaningful transformation through automation and AI.

Ritesh is the Regional Account Director Nordics at Verint Systems, bringing over 20 years of experience in IT sales and business development. He helps organizations across the Nordics accelerate digital transformation by delivering both Customer Experience (CX) automation and Verint Financial Compliance solutions. Working closely with C‑level stakeholders, Ritesh focuses on aligning innovative technology with strategic business goals to enhance customer engagement, improve operational efficiency, and meet regulatory requirements. At Verint, he leads strategic discussions with enterprise customers, shaping tailored strategies that support seamless adoption of the Verint Open Cloud Platform. Driven by a passion for innovation and collaboration, Ritesh is committed to empowering organizations to unlock their full potential and achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes.