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2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference Nordics

The Nordic AI-volution: Advancing from practice to performance

March

7A Odenplan Norrtullsgatan, Stockholm
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Ciklum is a top-five global Software Engineering and Solutions Company. We deliver software engineering excellence to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organizations alike around the world.

Our 2500+ Developers located in the Delivery Centres across the globe, provide our clients with a range of services including Extended Software development teams, Quality Assurance, R&D, IoT, Big Data, Product development and Engineering Consulting.

For more information about us visit www.ciklum.com

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Cloudera is the only data and AI platform company that large organizations trust to bring AI to their data anywhere it lives. Unlike other providers, Cloudera delivers a consistent cloud experience that converges public clouds, data centers, and the edge, leveraging a proven open-source foundation.

Cloudera empowers organizations to apply AI and assert control over 100% of their data, in all forms–whether in Cloudera or anywhere in the entire data estate–improving security, governance, and real-time and predictive insights. The world’s largest organizations across all industries rely on Cloudera to transform decision-making and ultimately boost bottom lines, safeguard against threats, and save lives.

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Dataiku is the platform for Everyday AI, enabling data experts and domain experts to work together to build data into their daily operations, from advanced analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities at all scales and industries. Organizations that use Dataiku enable their people to be extraordinary, creating the AI that will power their company into the future.

Founded in 2013, Dataiku has proven its ability to continue to develop its founding vision for Everyday AI, and to execute on its growth.

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FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions.

FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency.

The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency.

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Puzzel is the modular, AI-native CX ecosystem that helps contact centres simplify complexity,
unify conversations, and deliver faster, more human service. Our platform brings every
channel, system, and stakeholder together – blending automation with real-time agent
empowerment to reduce manual work, unlock insights, and improve first-contact resolution.

Whether modernising legacy systems or scaling cloud-native setups, Puzzel adapts to your
needs with a flexible, future-ready design. Trusted by leading organisations across Europe,
we help businesses do more with less, boosting efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Customers report up to 278% ROI, proving the real value of smarter, people-focused customer
service.

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We help organizations make their data work for AI by transforming it into trusted, governed, and context-rich intelligence. Serving tens of thousands of customers worldwide, including 75% of the Fortune 500, Qlik delivers solutions across data integration, data quality, analytics, and AI. Our trusted data products, powerful analytics engine, and agentic experience work together to help customers reduce risk, control costs, and adapt as AI, data, and business needs continue to evolve—without locking them into rigid systems.

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SS&C Blue Prism fuels the world’s most complex businesses with agentic automation that’s trusted, tested and ready to run. Backed by SS&C Technologies, a $25 billion enterprise, we fuse advanced AI-driven software with deep industry expertise to turn agentic from idea to impact.

Our agents operate where it matters most: in high-stakes, high-compliance environments across banking, healthcare, insurance, asset management and 70+ other industries. With built-in governance, proven execution and a straight line to value, we help enterprises work faster, safer and smarter.
As our own “customer zero”, we power over $4 trillion of SS&C customer assets with the same engine we deliver to our customers.

We make agentic AI operational.

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Seismic empowers insurance companies to deepen client relationships, streamline sales processes, and drive growth through personalized, compliant content and modern enablement technology. Our platform equips agents and teams with the tools, insights, and training needed to maximize every client interaction, accelerate productivity, and deliver seamless, high-impact digital and in-person experiences.

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Smart Communications provides the platform that leading organizations trust to deliver personalized, consistent and compliant conversations across all touchpoints and channels. The Conversation Cloud™ helps over 650 enterprise organizations across the globe simplify and automate complex processes and deliver highly secure, frictionless experiences across the customer lifecycle.

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Software Improvement Group (SIG) empowers organizations to govern the software their business runs on. Through complete portfolio analysis and tailored strategic advice, SIG helps companies embrace AI with control, improve software quality and security by focusing strategic efforts across people, process, and technology.
Sigrid®—SIG’s software governance platform—analyzes over 400 billion lines of code across more than 30,000 systems and 300+ technologies, offering evidence-based insights to help organizations prioritize and manage their most critical IT initiatives.
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Amsterdam, SIG has offices in New York, Copenhagen, Brussels, and Frankfurt. The company complies with leading ISO/IEC standards, including 27001 and 17025, and co-developed ISO/IEC 5338—the new global standard for AI lifecycle management.
Combining expert consulting with over 25 years of industry-leading research, SIG is the global authority on software portfolio governance.

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Thomson Reuters® Confirmation, is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, and law firms to quickly and securely verify financial data. Confirmation invented electronic confirmations nearly 20 years ago, reshaping the audit confirmation process. Today, 1.5 million auditors, bankers, and financial professionals around the world trust Thomson Reuters® Confirmation to validate data and identify fraud. We can help you too.

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Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax, is the global leader in intelligent workflow automation solutions with a trusted legacy of 40 years, with a team of 2,200 employees in 32 countries, serving 25,000+ global customers. Our commitment to innovation and customer success has earned us industry recognition, including being named a Leader in IA, IDP and Process Orchestration by Everest Group, Leader in Unstructured IDP by IDC and Leader in Intelligent Automation by Zinnov Zones. We are trusted to help businesses gain unprecedented efficiencies and reduce costs through workflow automations that will propel their businesses into the future.

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Verint® Financial Compliance™ (VFC) is a comprehensive communications compliance solution that helps organizations capture, retain, manage, and analyze trade-related interactions across traditional and digital communication channels and platforms. Having pioneered a number of innovative, market-leading capabilities such as the capture of persistent chat in Microsoft Teams, this proven solution helps financial institutions adhere to complex financial regulations and avoid severe financial and legal penalties.

Verint Communications Analytics™, VFC’s own finance-specific, compliance-focused speech transcription and analytics offering helps financial services firms find the gaps in captured voice conversations. Among other features, it offers highly accurate multilingual transcription, diarization and speaker identification, automatic sentiment analysis, channel shift detection and more.

Building on Communications Analytics, VFC AI Insights™ (Conduct Risk, Activity Summary, Notes & Actions) help businesses proactively detect and prevent compliance and conduct breaches while improving operational efficiencies using secure and explainable AI across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployments – with full functional parity.

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Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate digital transformation. Vonage’s Communications Platform allows for integration of Video, Voice, Chat, Messaging, AI and Verification into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage’s fully programmable unified communications, contact center and conversational commerce applications are built from the Vonage platform and enable companies to transform how they communicate and operate – providing the flexibility required to create meaningful engagements. Vonage is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), and a business area within the Ericsson group called Business Area Global Communications Platform.

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Why attend?

Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Nordics 2026 brings together the region’s most senior executives to address:

How to move from AI pilots to production at enterprise scale.
How to operationalise compliance with the EU AI Act.
How to ensure audibility, ethics and trust in AI systems.
How to unlock real ROI from Generative & Agentic AI
How to build AI-ready organisations and workforces

If you are responsible for strategy, risk, technology, data compliance, operations or innovation, this is the Nordic meeting point you cannot afford to miss.

Who will you meet?

CIOs, CTOs, CDOs & Chief Architects
Heads of Data, AI & Digital Transformation
Chief Risk, Compliance & Security Officers
COOs & Heads of Operations
AI, Fraud & Automation Leaders
Fintech & AI Strategy Executives

From across Sweden, Norway, Denmark & Finland.

What you will learn

Across two strategic content streams, you will gain practical insight into:

Scaling AI in regulated environment
From proof-of-concept to production with full auditability and governance.

AI regulation & compliance
Preparing for EU AI Act, ethics, transparency and regulatory readiness.

Operational & Applied AI
Fraud prevention, financial crime, process automation and real-time detection.

Human + AI Transformation
Skills, culture, trust and workforce evolution.

Real ROI from Generative AI
Moving beyond hype to measurable business outcomes.

Don’t let this chance slip by; secure your place at the forefront of AI in finance. Register now and transform your AI challenges into opportunities with insights from the conference.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Gather expert insight from an impressive speaking faculty, 60% of which are director+ level from the biggest FS companies in the industry.
Discover the latest innovation and updates from a remarkable agenda, which covers both front-end and back-end themes.
Enjoy a day of invaluable networking opportunities.
Be part of timely and relevant conversations and hear about topics that are trending in the industry, including The future of AIoT in banking, creating GenAI roadmaps, responsible use of AI and more.

150+ Attendees	15+ Exhibitors	25+ Speakers	75% Attendees at Director+ level
150+ Attendees	15+ Exhibitors
25+ Speakers	75% Attendees at Director+ level

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Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Nordics 2025 highlights

Agenda

25 Mar 2026

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Streams

Stream one

STREAM A

Stream two

STREAM B

STREAM B: OPERATIONAL & APPLIED AI 

11 AM

Panel discussion: Can AI tackle financial crime: Strengthening defences across the fraud lifecycle

As financial crime grows more sophisticated, so must our defences. This panel explores how AI is transforming fraud detection and where its blind spots still lie. From real-time detection to post-payment forensics, we will examine how institutions can build resilient, end-to-end fraud strategies that balance automation with accountability.

Senior representative, Threatmark

11:30 AM

End‑to‑End Automation of Core Financial Processes

Senior Representative, Tungsten Automation

11:50 AM

Pragmatic AI demonstration

Speakers

Dag Øyvind Paulsen

Head of architecture, Bank Norwegian – a branch of NOBA Bank Group AB (publ)

Fredrik Hjortblad

AI Business Development & Analysis Manager, Bank Norwegian – a branch of NOBA Bank Group AB

12:10 PM

Pipelines, not pilots: Operational and applied AI in financial services

Senior representative, Ciklum

12:30 PM

Roundtable Discussions

What can we do vs what should we do? ESG, sustainability, and responsible AI
Anja Hannerz, Group head of sustainability, Nordea
How can AI-driven coding and model generation accelerate development cycles, enhance responsiveness and reduce dependency on tech staff?
What are the strategic implications of AI to the financial industry and what do we expect to see in the future?
TBC Senior representative, Puzzel AB
TBC Senior representative, Puzzel AB

1 PM

Lunch and Networking

STREAM B: TECHNOLOGY DEEP DIVE

1:50 PM

Agentic AI and Autonomous Finance: How Far Can We Trust the Machines?

The next frontier in financial innovation is agentic AI. This session explores how financial institutions are evolving from single-task GenAI tools to intelligent ecosystems that automate workflows end-to-end, transforming everything from reporting to decision-making.

Speakers

Lezgin Zilan

Chief Technology Officer, Qred

2:10 PM

The Path to Agentic AI Transformation

Step into the Future of AI from pioneering intelligent automation to unleashing the power of Agentic AI across the SS&C estate. Join us on our journey, where we are moving beyond automation to build AI agents that are driving change at scale with a digital-first mindset and governance-first approach. Walk away inspired, informed, and ready to lead your own transformation.

What you’ll take away:
• The story of our evolution—from automation to AI-led operations.
• How we’ve deployed agentic AI agents at scale, with governance at the core.
• Why experience, innovation, and trust matter when choosing your AI partner.

Speakers

Brian Halpin

Senior Managing Director – Automation, SS&C Blue Prism

2:25 PM

Session TBC

Senior representative, Verint

2:40 PM

Session TBC

Senior representative, Behavox

3:10 PM

Panel Discussion: Innovation & Fintech Collaboration

Speakers

Pankaj Chaudhary

Director, EQT Group

Mattias Forsberg

CIO, Futur Pension

Craig Beattie

Principal analyst, Celent (M)

7:45 AM

Closed-Door Breakfast Roundtable: Trends and Predictions Impacting Senior Leaders in Financial Services Harnessing AI

Invitation only

This closed-door roundtable brings together senior financial-services decision makers to hear from GlobalData’s research and analysis team , who will present key industry trends and predictions as surfaced through their proprietary data and intelligence, and how they will impact the use of AI across the Nordic banking, insurance and fintech sector. This Chatham House Rule environment will also facilitate the creation of senior peer-to-peer networks around the topic of AI adoption to support industry benchmarking and collaboration.

Speakers

Bartosz Golba

Director of research and analysis, GlobalData

8:30 AM

Chairman’s opening remarks and live audience poll

How mature is your organisation in harnessing AI?

8:40 AM

GlobalData address: Industry trends impacting 2026 and beyond for leaders in financial services overseeing use of AI

Speakers

Bartosz Golba

Director of research and analysis, GlobalData

9 AM

Case study: Real-world AI: Training and deploying a small language model on market data

Senior representative, Lead Sponsor

9:30 AM

Scaling AI responsibly: From proof-of-concept to production with auditability and control

As financial institutions move beyond experimentation, the challenge shifts from piloting AI to embedding it across core operations. This explores how to scale with proven use cases that are resilient, auditable, and trusted by stakeholders. It will consider what does successful scaling look like? What are the success metrics? How do we prepare for agentic AI and autonomous finance

Speakers

Karianne Sundahl

Head of Data and AI, Storebrand

10 AM

Trends 2026: Powering the Future of AI

To realize enterprise AI ROI, integration, analytics, and business leaders must rewire their approach. But with so many organizations invested - yet so few seeing a return - what needs to change? Centralize for control, or decentralize for innovation? How about both - and neither? It’s the classic “governance vs self-service” debate, revisited.

Speakers

Dan Sommer

Senior Director, Market Intelligence Lead, Qlik