Banking Frontier 2026

What the programme actually says

Four things the published timetable supports, and nothing it does not.

• Two rooms, every day

  Main Stage (Room A · strategy) and Innovation & Implementation (Room B · delivery) run in parallel for all 5 days, so a strategy session and a delivery session are always on at the same time.

• One theme per day

  The programme does not mix subjects. Each day is published under a single theme, and the sessions inside it stay on that theme.

• Every session is attributed

  Of the 89 published sessions, each talk carries the name, role and organisation of the person giving it, exactly as the official roster states them.

• Thirty-one countries on the roster

  The 65 listed speakers come from 31 countries. No attendance figure is published here, because none is verified.

Speakers and the sessions they give

Name, role and organisation, then the session that person is published against — three lines, no inference.

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  Rita Gnutti

  Executive Director, Internal Validation and Controls, Group Chief Risk Officer Area, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy

  AI governance & model riskDay 1, 23 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

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  Stephan Wolf

  Chair of the Board, Verifiable.Trade Foundation; Leadership Team, LEI Worldwide, LEI Worldwide / Verifiable Trade Foundation, Germany

  Corporate digital identity managementDay 2, 24 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

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  Domenico Scaffidi

  CEO and Founder / Independent Consultant, Global Payments Innovation Practice, DS Payments Ltd, United Kingdom

  Instant payments and interoperabilityDay 3, 25 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

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  Rudolf Stefanich

  Senior Manager - Product Insights, Bitpanda / New Design University, Austria

  Human-AI banking experienceDay 4, 26 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

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  Ulf Holmberg

  Functional Lead and Senior Analyst, Swedbank, Sweden

  Systemic Risk in European Banking 2027–2030: Geopolitics, AI and Structural VulnerabilitiesDay 5, 27 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

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  Gladson Baby

  Vice President & Director of Data & AI Enablement, Fifth Third Bank, United States

  Data, AI enablement & intelligent automation for bank operationsDay 1, 23 November 2026 · 09:30–10:00 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation

The full roster of 65 speakers

Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam

Venue

Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers

Address

Hoogoorddreef 66a, 1101 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands

Nearest station

Bijlmer ArenA · 4-min walk

From Schiphol

Train Schiphol → Bijlmer ArenA, approx. 15 min

Parking

P1 ArenA · paid, on-site

Accessibility

Step-free access; accessible WCs on every floor

Registration desk

Ground floor lobby, signposted on arrival

Travel and access details