Program

FINTECH & INSURTECH DIGITAL CONGRESS

08:30-09:00 Registration/morning coffee

9:00 – 12:05 Diversity as the new innovation

9:00 – 9:30 Opening by the Advisory Board Chairpeople
Diversity as the new discruption

Intro speech

• Marcin Petrykowski, Managing Director S&P Global, Chairman of the FinTech Digital Congress Advisory Board
• Małgorzata Szturmowicz, Banking&Fintech Industry Expert, Vice-Chairwoman of the FinTech Digital Congress Advisory Board
• Cezary Świerszcz, CEO, Bacca, Co-Chairman of the InsurTech Digital Congress Advisory Board

9:30 – 9:55 The essence of Digital Transformation - a practitioner’s view

Keynote speech

• Sonia Wedrychowicz-Horbatowska, Digital Transformation Practitioner and Thought Leader

9:55 – 10:50 Are women the next huge superpower on Fintech and Insurtech?
Diversity – efficiency – innovation

Debate

Introduction and moderation:

• Adam Sawicki, Senior Executive, Board Member & Angel Investor, TMT & Digital Transformation

Speakers:

• Magdalena Góra, Personal development trainer, business trainer, coach
• Joanna Izdebska, Global Sales & Marketing Director IPF Digital, brand hapipożyczki
• Karolina Marzantowicz, Board Advisor, A4BEE, Ambasador European Women Payments Network
• Anna Maj, FinTech Leader, PwC, Payments Visionary, Ambasador European Women Payments Network
• Katarzyna Wojdyła, Member of the Management Board, Link4

10:50 – 11:05 What does managing an innovative bank in a dynamically changing world mean?

• A look at an organisation through the prism of gender diversification. The role of women in building innovative banking services and its image. Women’s empowerment.

Speech

• Daria Gostkowska, Executive Director, Head of HR Area, BNP Paribas Bank Polska

11:05 – 11:20 Successfully scaling business

• Finances, knowledge of competences - what can bring the desired effect? Team diversity as a factor conditioning sustainable business performance

Video Speech

• Wojciech Kostrzewa, President of the Board, Billon Group

Presentation

• Andrzej Horoszczak, Founder & CTO, Billon Group

11:20 – 11:55 Is the world of fintechs and insurtechs shrinking or developing?

Debate

• Where are the biggest growth prospects?
• What types of fintechs are successfully developing globally and in Europe?
• Who disappeared from the market and why?
• How women make business and invest?
• What kind of businesses women sets and what investors are they?

Speakers:

• Marcin Kurczab, Director of the Innovation Lab, PZU
• Carlo Giugovaz, CEO, Supernovae Labs
• Joanna Zielińska, CEO, Black Swan VC Fund

Moderator:

• Małgorzata Szturmowicz, Banking&Fintech Industry Expert, Vice-Chairwoman of the FinTech Digital Congress Advisory Board

11:55-12:05 Successes story

Speech

• Mikaela Grännby, Executive Vice President Europe, Lendo

12:05-12:45 Let`s network!

12:45 – 14:35 Technology reality check

12:45 – 13:05 Why innovation is so important tool for the insurance industry?

Introduction

• Manjit Rana, InsurTech & Insurance Innovation Thought Leader, MD Corporate Innovation (InsurTech), Rainmaking Innovation

13:05 – 13:20 National Cloud - how to introduce innovations?

Speech

• Radosław Świerczyński, Sales Director, Operator Chmury Krajowej

13:20 – 14:35 Which technologies work and which are just buzzword? What implementations bring a return? How many of these technologies are really used?

Life-cases session

13:20 – 13:35 Using Artificial Intelligence to support the sale of financial products (Xsell)

Case 1:

• Krzysztof Gwardys, CEO, Promity

13:35 – 13:50 Will voice technology change the game rulse?

Case 2:

• Tomasz Buczak, Head of Asseco Innovation Hub, Commercial Banks Division, Asseco Poland S.A.

13:50 – 14:05 New applications for blockchain in the banking sector, including as a response to the EBAs outsourcing guidelines

Case 3:

• Grzegorz Prajzner, New Technology Development Director, Atende

14:20 – 14:35 What impact will the exponential development of technology have on your business?

Case 4:

• Maciej Stanusch, President of the Management Board, Stanusch Technologies

14:35 – 14:50 Mobility in banking

Case 5:

• Mariusz Gąsiorek-Tatarski, Training & Product Solutions, Senior Expert IM Division, Operator Channel, Samsung Electronics Polska

14:35 – 15:30 Financial reality check

14:35-15:10 What determines success or failure - competence in scalability?

Debate

• How to effectively finance fintechs/insurtechs in Poland? Where to look for capital?
• How did they scale to the largest? What is the determinant of success?
• Why are there so few large contracts signed in Poland?
• How funding rounds work. Funding difficulties in round A.
• Crowdfunding - why is it worth using this form of raising capital from pre-seed to early stage rounds?
• Conditions of cooperation between traditional entities and fintechs.
  • Capex and Opex – Do you know why banks don’t want to settle with you with monthly invoices?

Speakers:

• Manjit Rana, InsurTech& Insurance Innovation Thought Leader, MD CorporateInnovation (InsurTech), Rainmaking Innovation
• Tymon Zastrzeżyński, Co-Founder, Grupa LOANDO; Co-Founder & Board Member, Affiliate 44
• Ahmad Piraiee, Co Director, Startup Grind Warsaw

Moderator:

• Tomasz Danis, Partner, MCI Capital; VC/PE Fund; Fund Manager, Internet Ventures (VC) and MCI.TechVentures

15:10 – 15:30 How we obtained financing

Debate 1+1

• Anna Streżyńska, CEO, MC2
• Cezary Świerszcz, CEO, Bacca, Co-Chairman of the InsurTech Digital Congress Advisory Board

15:30 LUNCH