Exploring the new leadership styles, business innovation strategies and models necessary to face the upcoming innovations.
This keynote discussion session will discuss how the Financial Technology landscape has changed over the last year; exploring how the sector has dealt with an immensely challenging times and how different areas of the market have been affected. It will also consider the wider backdrop of cultural change, from ongoing digital disruption, and the drive for increased diversity and collaboration.
An entrepreneur, Scale Up coach, and a digital evangelist
A digital evangelist you may ask? Essentially, this is when you leverage your position to preach the good gospel of the digital world and its many cutting edge attributes. Ken is somebody who has harnessed these cutting edge attributes and built a business empire out of them.
Ken founded Cellulant 18 years ago, and has steered the ship to becoming a digital payment infrastructure giant, connecting consumers and business to more than 120 banks, 40 mobile network operators in a network allowing for interoperability. The firm operates in 33 markets and has offices in 18 countries across Africa.
Dynamism, leadership and innovation, these words do not sum up Rose’s professional record, but they come pretty close.
Rose is an experienced digital financial services and financial technology professional with a demonstrated history of working with dynamic teams in different regions in Sub Saharan Africa. She has a well proven track record in leadership, strategy, product and service innovation, market expansion and financial inclusion.
The grand aesthete to the narrative surrounding, and encompassing emerging technologies in Kenya, and the entire world.
Ali Hussein is like the grand master in a chess game. He knows the moves that are about to be made, he knows what is coming next, what is being thought about, and in which direction the play will unfold. Only now, that the chess game is the world of technology, and the players are major companies within the tech landscape.
He is a C-Level Executive, with extensive experience in strategy, marketing, new media, business development, start ups and turn around situations.
The grand aesthete to the narrative surrounding, and encompassing emerging technologies in Kenya, and the entire world.
Ali Hussein is like the grand master in a chess game. He knows the moves that are about to be made, he knows what is coming next, what is being thought about, and in which direction the play will unfold. Only now, that the chess game is the world of technology, and the players are major companies within the tech landscape.
He is a C-Level Executive, with extensive experience in strategy, marketing, new media, business development, start ups and turn around situations.
Allow us to introduce to you, the virtuoso of facilitating the integration of the virtual world into the physical world- the master digital transformation strategist.
Think of the difference between walking into a bank to request your balance and the ability to pull up that information in real-time on your phone and you’ll have a good idea of FinTech’s impact. This impact is something that is not always easily conveyed in a manner that is consumable, unless it is Lanre Bamisebi’s segment.
Lanre, apart from being a brilliant orator, is a highly experienced senior technology and banking Operations leader with proven results in driving transformation, digitizing operations for efficiency and seamless customer experience, creating business value from solutions that impact the bottom line, a trans-formative and visionary business leader with a proven track record of helping companies leverage technology to drive real business value.
A FinTechpreneur who is an accomplished and deeply knowledgeable banker
Aristarichus is a highly sought after tech player, whose experience transcends through relationship management, credit, ecosystems and value chain analytics and credit. He has a great understanding of all things FinTech blended with traditional banking which led to the development and delivery of a digital lending solution for short-term working capital requirements for dealers and distributors.
What’s the correlation between innovation and digital transformation? How do they impact on consumer satisfaction, investment in advanced technology, and the FSIs bottom-line? While technology may enable the disruption required, how should financial institutions prepare for the future of banking and the challenges facing the industry? Are there any secrets of successful disruption? What are qualities of a disruptive leader? How should one change existing cultures? And where should they start?
Armed with the incremental knowledge to create working strategies for your digital transformation
Anita is an experienced Project Management expert with a bias building and implementing digital products & services with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy development and execution, product development, digital marketing, DevOps, team management, and leadership.
Strong digital products development and delivery professional with a Master of Science (MSc) focused in Organizational Development from United States International University and completed course work in Digital Disruption strategies from the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.
Without proper regulatory incentives, traditional banks are likely to act with short-term insights to keep their balance sheets profitable.
Since FinTechs build business models based on existing data repositories by generally starting with customer pain points in a nation; How are today’s regulatory changes incentivizing or even influencing banks to cooperate with the Fintechs? Are Fintechs all out to unbundle the traditional banks?
What’s the progress in regulating the FSI landscape in regional East African markets? Which areas of the market should be regulated in the next three years? How do we ensure durability and growth in online transactions?
The initiative of APIs are a critical part of modern applications and have increasingly become a target for attackers. How are APIs being changed to enhance their security? What are the risks of exposing APIs and how are they targeted for malicious intent?
Financial services and insurance firms are increasingly adopting cloud services that offer operational benefits like faster deployment and seamless scalability, while being incredibly cost-efficient and user-friendly. Unfortunately, these improvements in productivity and efficiency come with serious security concerns that are often over-looked.
What your responsibilities are in a shared security mode? How are security policies being enforced internally and externally? Which threat vectors are cybercriminals most likely to exploit? How can FSIs monitor their cloud platforms effectively to proactively mitigate cloud risk?