Program

1. Futuristic vision of the sector (Future of CEE New Economy)

• Can Central and Eastern Europe become a hub for technological talent?
• What will make new initiatives in the region?
• How can young people be encouraged to implement innovations and to implement their ideas? How can they be helped at both business and government levels?
• How can Digital Global Economy work for the benefit of society as a whole?

2. Megatrends. Big Techs and their impact on the industry

• Pressure from big technology players and their presence on the local market. Are we ready for new financial services? GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon). Technological oligopolies.
• Learn from the best. Fintech and insurtech on the Chinese market
• Finsurtech - a new model
• Fintech for retail & ecommerce. How will we develop payment technologies? A lot remains to be done to ensure trouble-free, secure payments as the most important element in customer service.
• Insurtech for e-commerce. Risk insurance for digital retail

3. Mindset change – Mindset pivot

Pivoting as a broader view of transformation and pivoting as a survival skill

• How to manage a company to adapt to changing needs and a transforming ecosystem? Change management and flexible thinking.
• How do changes in other industries translate into changes at Fintech? Where will technological progress go and how to implement it in our financial and insurance ecosystem?
• Technology best practice sharing of banking sector:
  • Banks from Poland offer one of the most modern mobile solutions in the world - how can other industries benefit from their experience?

4. Think global – Go global

• Image of the sector from a global perspective. Innovation and technological progress as a challenge for modern business and entering the global market
• How to scale insurance/insurtech businesses?
• How to create a Polish unicorn?
• What is the determinant of success on the global market? How should CEE think about its business globally?
• How to identify market trends that will add value to international expansion?
• Do we always have to Think Global? Successes of Polish companies on the Polish market.
• How to finance startups during the incubation period? CEE early stage.

5. Finance technology trends 2020

AI as a growth accelerator

• Increasing business processes, management and security
  • Predictive analysis in financial services - using data and predicting what will happen next, what customers will buy

Cloud

• The practical side
• How to effectively use cloud tools?

6. Examples – a practical approach

(Success story/failure story)

7. Moving away from verticals. Let’s look at the horizon.

The global business market provides many opportunities for all types of enterprises. Vertical market providers focus on specific goods and services that meet the needs of a niche customer group. These markets are the opposite of horizontal markets that sell their products and services in many industries, with a broader relationship between different companies and business segments.
(Speech/small panel)

8. Transformation of a fintech business

• Benefits of the implications of technological solutions
• Which implementations brought the expected return, which fintechs won and what did not work?
• Fintech start-ups as partners of the banking sector?

9. Future will be open (Open Banking & Open Data Economy)

• Will Open Banking go forward? Lesson from the UK
• Opportunities in the context of the PSD2 directive and their impact on the consumer market
• CCD – Consumer Credit Directive
• Open Data Source
• Open Data Economy – examples from India & Australia
• API Technology – Banking Technology
• Evaluation of activities and their real effects in the area of improving the licensing of financial activities
• Access to information on the AIS payment account
• Automated processes in practice

Additional topics

10. Debts and debt collection

• Tools enabling independent monitoring of payments and effective recovery of receivables
• Debtor identification systems, process automation and improvement of debt collection strategy
• Solutions for field debt collectors
• The use of technology to collect debts. Global perspective
• Factoring solutions

11. Finance technology trends 2020 c.d.

• Robotic Process Automation
  • Innovations/solutions based on RPA shaping financial reality
  • Examples of implementations

12. Fintech for Retail & E-commerce

• Invisible Payments for the sake of customer care or industry development?
• E-commerce - personalization and automation
• Sales transformation - online payment systems
• Autonomous stores in cooperation with technology companies
• Technologies for Soft POS

13. Fintech for Consumer Finance

• The evolution of business models on the Consumer Finance market - the organization’s adaptation to changes in the environment
• Reaching channels adapted to online and offline as basic distribution channels
• Mobile as the future of the CF market

14. Future of Fintech in Capital Markets

• The impact of technology on the Capital Market
• Development of capital markets in the financial services ecosystem. Stimulating innovation
• How can cooperation with FinTech transform investment banking? An outlook