Leadership Strategies for Building Futuristic Banks in MENA
7th Middle East Banking AI &
Analytics Summit 2024
Accelerating Innovation in Banking with Applied AI & Analytics Strategies
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With the advent of AI, there has been a significant structural shift in the banking industry, not only in the MENA region but across the globe. As technology evolves, the banking industry will likely see further advancements, with a focus on more sophisticated applications and a continued emphasis on improving customer journey, operational efficiencies, security & adherence to regulatory standards.
There awaits a huge potential for growth in AI & Analytics adoption across the banking sector and an enormous opportunity for those entities that choose to seize it. But there are certain challenges & a range of factors contributing to their relatively low AI maturity that hinders positive business outcomes.
This necessitates long term strategic collaborations, building viable partnerships, encouraging knowledge sharing, investing in talent development, community engagement and sincere commitment to building sustainable & futuristic banks of tomorrow.
The Middle East Banking AI & Analytics Summit 2024 caters to the needs of the banking sector by creating a favourable environment for seamless exchange of critical information to help banks & financial institutions to cut through the complexities & seize the opportunities by getting back to the fundamentals.
As these challenges are navigated, the banking industry can unlock the full potential of AI and analytics for growth and efficiency by identifying specific & practical uses cases of AI & analytics within their business operations.
Do you want to achieve your business objectives? Join us in illuminating the path to innovative and effective solutions!
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2024 Speakers
Arif Shaikh
Board Member, Senior Risk Advisor, Investor
Summit Advisor & Jury
Ellis Wang
Managing Director - Asia Gulf Synergy Ventures
Summit Advisor/Jury
Jamal Saleh
Director General
UAE Banks Federation
Saket Saith
Group Chief Technology & Data Officer
RAKBANK
Nitin Bhargava
Chief Operating Officer
Al Masraf
Ayman Alqudsi
Chief Information Officer
United Arab Bank
Srinivasan Sampath
Acting Group Chief Technology Officer
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Ray Richardson
Chief Data Analytics Officer
Emirates NBD
Ozkan Kosegil
Chief Information Officer, MENAT Wholesale Technology
HSBC
Chandler McCann
Field CTO
DataRobot
Fernando Plaza Lopez
Group Chief Digital Officer
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
George Harrak
Chief Information Officer
Al Hilal Bank
Mamoun Alhomssey
Chief Information & Technology Officer
Ajman Bank
Ruchi Batra
Sales Engineer MEA
Alteryx
Arun Mehta
Chief Data Analytics Officer
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Devid Jegerson
Chief Operating Officer
Invest Bank
Adil Belhouari
SVP, Head of AI, Data Science & Analytics
Riyad Bank
Zahoor UL Islam
VP - Head of Customer Engagement Technologies
Dubai Islamic Bank
Thomas Cherian
Chief Information Officer
Commercial Bank of Dubai
Zsombor Brommer
Chief Compliance Officer
United Arab Bank
Ken Coghill
Director, Innovation & Technology Risk
Dubai Financial Services Authority
Bechir Sellami
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Bank of Dubai
Ashraff Sankanal
Sr. Data Scientist
Altair
Geethy Panicker
SVP and Head of Risk Strategy and Risk appetite
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Samaneh Khaleghi
VP- Senior Enterprise Architect and API platform lead
RAKBANK
Sajid Iqbal
Vice President - Risk Management
Habib Bank AG Zurich
Hariprasad Chede
Chief Information Security Officer
National Bank of Fujairah PJSC
Sam Wilks
Regional Director
Jumio
Arsalan Shakeel
Principal Data Architect
Novigo Solutions
Aled Roberts
Vice President – Graph Analytics Practice
Novigo Solutions
Amin Sarieddine
Senior Enterprise Account Executive
Alteryx
Series Speakers
Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Independent Non-Executive Director, Advisory Board Member
Summit Advisor & Jury
Arif Shaikh
Board Member, Senior Risk Advisor, Investor
Summit Advisor & Jury
Arun Mehta
Head of Data & Analytics (CDAO)
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Sridhar Iyer
Group Chief Digital Officer
Gulf International Bank
Saud Al Dhawyani
Chief Technology Officer
Emirates NBD
Brian Byagaba
Head of Tech & Data Governance - FSRA
Abu Dhabi Global Market
Bartosz Pietruszka
Chief Data & Analytics Officer
HSBC
Dr. Yoonus C. Ahammed
Director, Data Science - Transaction Monitoring
Standard Chartered Bank
Krishna Kumar Nair
Chief Operating Officer
Emirates Development Bank
Srinivasan Sampath
Acting Group - CTO
First Abu Dhabi Bank
NITIN BHARGAVA
COO & Head of Digital
Al Masraf Bank
Rishi Saraswat
CTO
Al Hilal Bank
Jassem Mohamed AlBlooshi
EVP-Head of Organizational Excellence
Sharjah Islamic Bank
Lori Baker
VP, Legal & Director of Data Protection
DIFC
ZAHEERA AHMED
Data Privacy Officer
Leading Bank in UAE
Ali Imran
Chief Operating Officer
Commercial Bank of Dubai
Linoy Kidd
CIO- Markets & Securities Services MENAT
HSBC
DONGJUN (DJ) CHOI
Group Chief Customer Officer
RAKBANK
Amith Rajan
EVP- Head, Data, Analytics & Wholesale Digital
Mashreq Bank
Shahnawaz Ali
Program Director – Digital & Governance
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
Kris Kowalski
Chief Marketing & CX Officer
DT One
Deepak Chandran R
SVP, Head of Retail Assets & Cards
Emirates NBD
Zahir Moghal
CEO
Delma Exchange
Hariprasad Chede
Head of Information Security Risk Management
National Bank of Fujairah PJSC
Kelly Forbes
Founder & Executive Director
AI Asia Pacific Institute
Christian Kunz
Chief Strategy, Innovation & Ventures Officer
Dubai International Financial Centre
Abdul Rehman Parkar Ali
Head of Data Management and Advanced Analytics
Dubai Islamic Bank
Key Topics
Building Trust in the Era of AI-Powered Banking
Data Ethics in Banking: Navigating the Regulatory norms
Elevating Your Customer Journey: AI & Analytics to the Rescue
AI & Analytics: Game Changer for Security & Compliance in Financial Sector
Powering the Future of Banking: Navigating the Challenges
Pioneering a Way Forward: Digital Transformation for a Dynamic Financial Ecosystem in the UAE
Data & AI at the Core of Banking Transformation
Data Enablement for AI
2023 Summit Highlights
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
• Retail Banking
• Digital Banking
• Digital Transformation
• Consumer Banking
• Capital Markets
• Securities
• Private Banking
• Wealth Management
• E-Channels
• FinTech’s
• Digital Transformation
• Customer Experience & Business Intelligence
• Data Analytics, Modelling & Mining
• Innovation, Data Architects & Scientists
• Data Science & Predictive Analytics
• Risk Management & Data Analysts
• Sales & Marketing
• Technology & Operations
• Information Technology
• Online Services & Business Innovation
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February 29, 2024
Understand which processes can be quickly automated and how to use new tech, such as chatbots, to improve customer visualization and productivity and reduce human errors
Uncover the major impacts of AI, improving the customer experience and turbocharging data analytics.
Develop a robust business intelligence infrastructure, achieve data integrity and a 360-view of the customer.
Discover where and how AI is banking: highlighting the opportunities and challenges of commercializing AI and applications.
Identify and create business efficiencies for immediate gains.
Turn your organizations vision into reality through excellent planning and real time use case of contextual intelligence.
Deliver a seamless and connected customer experience by integrating new technologies into legacy systems to meet and exceed customer expectations with outstanding service, from onboarding and everything in between.
Build viable relationships through f2f meetings: Pre-event access to the delegate profiles to make the right selection of whom you would like to meet with and we then set up your meetings, and ensure they run smoothly onsite.
Brand Visibility: Deliver your unique message to this highly targeted group of decision makers, providing a highly qualified platform to build brand awareness. Sponsors receive significant brand exposure through pre-promotion of the event through print and digital exposure.
Pre-qualified end-user audience: We pre-qualify all attendees to ensure our audience is actively exploring or involved in implementing AI
Leadership exposure: The event will tackle key issues and challenges that AI adopters are facing. We tailor our agenda’s to answer these questions allowing end users to effectively deploy solutions.
Leading Edge Discussions: AI & Analytics Experts & Innovators: Hear success stories and initiatives from all the stakeholders and partners of the value chain. Forward-looking insights from the best in the business will help you plan future strategies. Inspiring Keynotes, Banking Case Studies, Reformative Panel discussions offering insights and valuable learning opportunities.
Social Breakout Sessions Your opportunity to customize your learning! Interact with your industry peers in a closed roundtable discussion. Choose the track that is most applicable to you, share your success stories, discuss your challenges, identify future trends- helping you to structure your event experience to your learning requirements.
Digital Age Tech Case Studies & Your Tech Zone Hear from leading AI & analytics organizations sharing their client's success stories and explore dedicated Tech Zones for new ideas & solutions and mapping your business/project needs.
Network & connect - The Hybrid Way Being in a room of people who are enthusiastic about sharing what they have learned and helping others enhance their knowledge and skills. Join your peers from across the MENA region in Dubai or meet & chat with them virtually.
The first of its kind and biggest independent MENA Annual Achievement Awards for AI & Analytics in Banking having its own team of expert judges and a programme of activities and events throughout the year including Showcase events.
MENA Annual Achievement Awards for AI & Analytics in Banking is the first and biggest global annual achievement awards for AI & Analytics. Our focus is to support the AI community within the MENA recognising the hard work and dedication of those working in the field which range from start-ups, established companies and individuals.
To find out more about the current awards, please fill the form mentioned below. If you would like to be a Judge or Sponsor see the details on the related pages.