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
"Summit At A Glance"
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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Why To Attend?
Speakers 2023

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

Kamran Ahsan
Sr. Director AI & Smart Data
e& enterprise

Peter Simon
MD, Financial Services Data Science
DataRobot

Prasanna Pendse
Head of Technology
thoughtworks

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

Dr. Shidan C. Murphy
Director of Data Analytics, APAC
Altair

DONGJUN (DJ) CHOI
Group Chief Customer Officer
RAKBANK

Amith Rajan
EVP- Head, Data, Analytics & Wholesale Digital
Mashreq Bank

Lina Chudnova
Head of MLOps Practice
ENFINT

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

York Walterscheid
MD for BFSI
Piano

Azizjon Azimi
Founder & CEO
zypl.ai

Hariprasad Chede
Head of Information Security Risk Management
National Bank of Fujairah PJSC

Anjan Pandey
AVP – Product Evangelist Group
BUSINESSNEXT

Kelly Forbes
Founder & Executive Director
AI Asia Pacific Institute

Jonne Heikkinen
Managing Director
thoughtworks

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.
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