The Reinventing Financial Services vision
Reinventing Financial Services is an IBM program dedicated to connecting the industry’s leaders through intimate, peer-to-peer events and digital content. We have the ideas, tools, and tactics to solve this ever- changing industry’s biggest challenges. With industry-leading media partners, we co-host an annual event in New York. Throughout the year in major U.S. cities, we hold focused roadshow events and we share boldest ideas digitally.
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Attend the 2019 Event
Join us on May 21, 2019, in New York City for Reinventing Financial Services 2019.
Digital transformation is picking up pace in financial services – whether in the partnerships with insurtechs and fintechs for best-in-class customer experience, moving to an open banking infrastructure, or implementing new hiring and training philosophies.
Reinventing Financial Services 2019 looks at how leaders of the top banks and insurance companies innovate at scale. In a mix of interactive session formats – keynotes, panels, and breakouts – we’ll tackle big ideas for future-looking technologies and their implications. We’ll also cover tactics for building platforms that reinvent experience, empower employees and create technical agility.
Agenda and speakers
8:00 am
Registration and breakfast
8:45 am
Welcome and opening remarks
Dino Trevisani
General Manager, Financial Services Market, IBM
Brian Kelly
Editor and Chief Content Officer, U.S. News & World Report
9:00 am
Keynote: 1% Finished with David Brear, Chief Executive Officer
In the ever-changing financial services industry with the emergence of Fintechs and new technologies, it has become more important than ever for incumbents to make the right strategic decisions to retain their place in the ecosystem and keep growing. Financial services are still only 1% finished and the opportunities right now and in the coming years are huge. Understanding what truly digital capabilities mean, the jobs to be done, what it takes to deliver a truly digital proposition to market that your customers actually want (Minimum Lovable Product), are all key aspects of taking the right decisions moving forward, and a simple recipe to success for big incumbents against the Fintech threat.
David Brear
Chief Executive Officer, 11:FS
9:30 am
Panel: The C-suite imperative: Technology leadership & innovation at scale
The digital economy requires total transformation from the firms that hope to succeed in the next decade. This panel will consider top transformation projects in some of the industry’s leading firms and hear from their chief digital and technology officers about their visions for the future.
Panel moderator: Sameer Keshore
General Manager, Financial Service, Global Technology Services, IBM
Panelist: Jeremy Balkin
Head of Innovation, HSBC
Panelists: Julie Dilman
Global Head of Operations, Chubb
Panelist: Cefe Quesada
Managing Director, Global Technology Services, State Street
Panelist: Luvleen Sidhu
Co-Founder, President & Chief Strategy Officer, BankMobile
10:15 am
Coffee Break
10:35 am
Keynote: A Look at Bradesco’s Digital Transformation
How does one of Brazil’s top incumbent banks become a disruptor? Bradesco's digital transformation has helped the bank serve millions through new digital channels, its open banking strategy, and the launch of its digital bank, Next. Harnessing Cloud and AI technologies, Bradesco has been able to understand each customer better, use analytics to enable a digital strategy, and grow channels exponentially. This flexible architecture has laid the foundation for Bradesco as a platform, opening the bank to integrate with new applications and FinTech, securely.
Walkiria Schirrmeister Marchetti
Chief Information Officer, Bradesco
11:00 am
Panel: Talent strategies for the future-ready institution
In today’s tight labor market, recruiting and retaining the digitally savvy talent required for success can be a struggle for financial services firms. This panel of cross-functional innovators will discuss how their methods go beyond the HR function for talent acquisition, retention and management of multiple generations of employees now in the workplace.
Panel moderator: Deb Bubb
Vice President, Human Resources & Chief Leadership, Learning & Inclusion Officer, IBM
Panelist: Sarah Mineau
Vice President, Operations – Human Relations, State Farm
Panelist: Jennie Sparandara
Head of Workforce Initiatives, JPMC
Panelist: Julia Trujillo
Senior Vice President, Chief Talent & Workforce Development Officer, MetLife
Panelist: Yvette Vargas
Executive Vice President, Head of Development, Citizens Financial Group
11:45 am
Networking lunch
1:00 pm
CEO panel with Robert Reiss
As financial services become increasingly competitive in our digital world, the winners will have models to help them connect with customers of the future. In this session you’ll learn directly from transformative leaders about how to create world-class cultures that deliver exemplary customer service. Topics they will discuss include:
- The difference between good and remarkable customer engagement
- Innovative technologies and how digital will transform financial services
- Best practices to build an agile and aligned culture
Panel moderator: Robert Reiss
Chief Executive Officer, The CEO Forum Group
Panelist: Chad Borton
President, USAA Federal Savings Bank
Panelist: Tina Edmundson
Global Brand Officer, Marriott International, Inc.
Panelist: Caroline Feeney
President Prudential
Panelist: Jennifer Fitzgerald
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, PolicyGenius
Panelist: Dino Trevisani
General Manager, Financial Services Market, IBM
2:00 pm
Breakout timeslot #1
Open banking: Strategy at the tipping point
When banks open their platforms to customers and third parties, innovations are unleashed that create enormous opportunity (and some threats). Under PSD2, European regulators have required banks to implement standard interfaces for payments and account authentication. In the U.S., it's more of a free for all. Open Banking interfaces are enabling new partnerships and functionality, creating transformative customer experiences, and leading banks into new markets and business models which can empower customers way beyond basic financial transactions. How can bank business leaders maximize their return on digital investments? How should CIOs prioritize the capabilities and technologies needed to enable this transformation? Our panel of industry experts will discuss how to respond to the Open Banking imperative, starting now.
Panel moderator: Gil Brodnitz
Partner, Digital Banking and Financial Markets, IBM
Panelist: Holly Hynes
Senior Vice President, Brand Strategy & Innovation, Huntington
Panelist: Lowell Putnam
Head of Strategy, Plaid
Panelist: Tara Welkley
Managing Director, Head of Open Banking, Citi Consumer Banking
Rethinking the organization
How does an incumbent innovate at the speed of a startup, but at scale and with enterprise governance? The answer may be in reorganizing, and perhaps around small, cross-functional, agile teams. This breakout session explores organizational strategies that empower employees to innovate at enterprise scale, and different ways to deploy them.
Mike Sha
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SigFig
Peter Fishman
Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Investment Solutions, Citizens Bank
2:40 pm
Breakout timeslot #2
Rethinking risk & compliance: opportunities in the new RegTech era
RegTech has ushered in a new era of optimism for financial institutions. Fines, penalties, increased regulatory capital and enormous compliance teams no longer have to be the cost of doing business. There is a significant opportunity to rethink risk and compliance. This session will highlight how leveraging RegTech can allow firms to combine data, technology innovations like AI, and new methodologies to augment the ability of their risk and compliance teams to do their jobs more efficiently.
Panel moderator: Elizabeth McCaul
Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group
Panelist: Scott Essex
Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer, Citizens Bank
Panelist: Melissa Koide
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, FinRegLab
Panelist: Jason Richards
Head of Head of Financial Crime & Compliance, HSBC
Beyond the technology: AI maturity and readiness
"You can't have AI without IA—information architecture" — the right data is foundational to making AI work. But it goes beyond just data. Transformative AI deployments must incorporate new organizational strategies, a vision for process innovations, and ways to combat bias.
Stuart Sackman
Corporate Vice President, Head of Shared Services, ADP
3:20 pm
Coffee break
3:45 pm
Keynote: Accelerating the enterprise-wide transformation with cloud
What does it mean to financial services institutions to move mission critical systems to the cloud? It means new opportunities to optimize work, improve customer interactions, and launch new business models. In this session, Arvind Krishna will share his thoughts on the planned IBM acquisition of Red Hat and explain how we have entered the next chapter of cloud — a chapter where flexibility, consistency and control are unleashing digital reinvention at enterprise scale.
Arvind Krishna
Senior Vice President, Cloud and Cognitive Software, IBM
4:15 pm
Panel: Data & the intersection of privacy
The global spotlight on how companies collect, store, use and protect their customers’ data has never been hotter. With GDPR showing its teeth, a lengthening list of U.S. states proposing their own rules, and Apple’s Tim Cook acting as the conscience of the industry, what to do about data has become one of the year’s biggest questions.
Panel moderator: Christian Ward
Chief Digital Officer, Source Media
Panelist: Leigh Feldman
Managing Director, Promontory Financial Group
Panelist: Tanya Madison
Chief Privacy & Cybersecurity Counsel, TD Bank
Panelist: Sheryl Ann Yamuder
Global Chief Privacy Counsel, First Data
5:00 pm
Closing keynote: A call for the future-ready enterprise.
Bob Lord
Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications, IBM
5:30 pm
Closing remarks and cocktail reception
Venue information
Convene Conference Center is conveniently located in Midtown West. There are a number of hotels nearby.
Please make your own reservation at any of these hotels.
Convene Midtown West
117 West 46th Street (at 6th Avenue)
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 888-730-7307
Event FAQs
What is Reinventing Financial Services?
Reinventing Financial Services is a one-day event in New York City, offering a compelling mix of visionary ideas, best practices and roundtable discussions with America’s leading financial services executives.
Who will attend?
This invitation only event will be attended by c-level executives: primarily CEO, CIO, CTO, and COO, focused on the transformation initiatives underway at their organizations.
Who are the creators of the event?
Reinventing Financial Services is brought to you by IBM, American Banker, and Digital Insurance.
When and where?
Reinventing Financial Services will be held May 21, 2019, at Convene Midtown West in New York City. Click for location details.
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See how the transformation imperative is now the imperative of the entire enterprise. The challenge to leaders of top financial services firms is to build operating models that are ready for anything.
Bridget van Kralingen | Keynote: Architecting the Future-Ready Enterprise
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Panel | Paradigms for the future: 5 technologies and how they’ll change business
Sameer Kishore, IBM General Manager - Financial Services Market, GTS North America, moderates a panel on the major technological shifts and their impacts to financial services institutions, with Shari Van Cleave, Head of Digital Labs, Wells Fargo; Kathryn Guarani, Vice President of Research, IBM; and Michael Scyphers, CIO Markel Corporation.
Panel | Talent Reinvention: Right talent, right skills, right now
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Mark Foster | The Cognitive Enterprise
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