Policy Officer Fintech & AI

Der Nederlandsche Bank

PANEL: Meet the Regulators

Frans is a Policy Officer working at DNB, is areas of focus include: -Artificial intelligence -Blockchain, cryptocurrencies, DeFi and CBDC -Cybersecurity -Cloud computing and data storage -FinTech and RegTech -Quantum computing He is also a PhD Candidate.

Strategy & Innovation Manager

Natwest

PANEL: What to Prioritise in Your AI Strategy?

Ronan is a Strategy & Innovation Manager at NatWest, with an academic background examining potential inequality outcomes from widespread “AI” adoption. He has previously helped break ground on AI Model Risk Governance, Emerging Technology Strategy, and Platform Business Models within Financial Services.

Lead Data, DevOps & Cloud Engineer

NatWest

Changing Legacy Mindsets Around AI

Adam McMurchie is the Lead Cloud Data Engineer at NatWest. He was previously the leader in DevOps and an AI expert working in the bank's SAO platform at the forefront of technology development in finance. With broad exposure to a range of technologies, Adam drives an ethos of simplification, Cloud agnosticism and specialises in spotting the next trends in fintech.  Additionally, Adam also has a background in science with a physics degree specialising in NeuroComputing and is a polyglot linguist & seasoned translator. Adam has pooled these skills to deliver full-stack novel solutions from tensor flow-driven mobile apps, to personalized banking chatbots. Adam also develops apps designed around the ethos of Social Utility, including Flood/Storm reporting, EV Vehicle bay monitoring and preservation of endangered languages.  

Head of MLOps

LV= General Insurance

The Future of Financial Services - Enabling 
Competitive Advantage through MLOps

Jonathan Fry is the Head of MLOps at LV=General Insurance. He has been a part of LV= for 12 years and has been on their Data Science team since its inception nearly 5 years ago. Before joining the LV= Data Science team, he was in a variety of other technical data roles. Jonathan also has an MSc in Information Systems and an MSc in Data Science.

Lead Senior Data and Machine Learning Engineer

HSBC

Dr King has a passion for grand challenges. He began his career in the field of advanced nuclear materials, for civil fission and fusion power systems, but has since transitioned to finance. Currently, he is using machine learning (ML) to combat fraud for HSBC UK. Here, he leverages his past experience in software development of his internationally recognised scientific software Alloy Search and Predict, and quantum mechanical modelling of physical systems to develop, optimise and productionise ML models, at large scales.

Group Head of Analytics & Data Science

Pepper

Vice President - Model Risk Management

Principal Product Manager

SumUp

As a Principal Product Manager in SumUp, Yev is driving the vision and strategy for the Machine Learning Platform in SumUp for financial use cases in close collaboration with data science, engineering, and product teams to deliver ML-powered products that customers love.

Director, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Mastercard

Director Data & Analytics

Auxmoney

Marius holds a Diploma in Business Mathematics and an M.Sc. in Data Science. Over the course of his more than 12-year career, he has taken on diverse roles, working as a management consultant for KPMG and zeb in areas such as risk management, supervisory reporting, and process optimization. He has also served as a consultant to the head of the corporate client division of the largest German cooperative bank, and as an analyst for and team lead of the BI team at auxmoney. Currently, he holds the position of Director Data & Analytics at auxmoney, where he is responsible for overseeing BI, Data Infrastructure, and Data Science.