Prague, the golden city of thousand spires has welcomed the banking and finance professionals from the major financial institutions all over Europe at the #IOB2019. Discussing the latest tech-innovations and best practices and case studies during both days of the conference - proved the success of our event, as one of the key meeting points in Europe.
IOB2019 was chaired by Davor Gasparac, Head of Group Corporate Division in Erste Group IT, doing a great job as a moderator, leading us for an inspirational and exciting event!
We kicked-off discussing the technology influence over the operational excellence in banks, with contributions from Appello, Nordea Asset Management, Unicredit and MeaWallet, which totatly deserved the attention from the audience! We continued with spot on presentations from Lloyds Banking Group, Sberbank & ABBYY, bringing us closer to the latest AI influence towards the Banking Industry. Following a great interactive lunch, we continued with Ceska Sporitelna and Danskebank, closing-up with B2B presentations from MonetaBank and Wultra.
Day II in the morning was dedicated to customer engagement, great insights by PwC and Zignsec. Another very attractive part of the Conference which caught the curiosity of the participants was the PSD2 session topic with the presentation named ‘What we have learned from this lesson?”. In this session topic, Czech National Bank presented his excellent discourse followed by Erste’s presentation.
We continued with great panel discussion on the challenges of regulation, implementation and recent formal ‘go-ahead’ step by the ECB. Given the interactive format, we had great contribution from the delegates who raised some very interesting discussion on the topic above! Thank you to SIA, Slovak National Bank and Komercni Banka for sharing insightful information.
Last but not least, Microsoft and ProFix ensured keeping the attention in the room with impressive presentations. The conference activities were summed-up with round table discussions on three different topics. The participants had the opportunity to interact in smaller groups, exchange the knowledge and ask the tightness details. The conference was closed with afternoon cocktail, celebrating the event’s success.
Great impressions, expressed recognitions and kindness words were spread at the Innovations on Banking Conference 4.0. Thank you to all the speakers attending, delegates being present in the room, and our trusted Partners Appello, MeaWallets, Abbyy, ProFix, PwC and Zignsec.
Looking forward to meet you ALL next year!