Agenda 2023

Registration

Opening Remarks

Comprehending the African FSI Ecosystem to Get an Elaborative Rundown into the Future

• Defining a clear roadmap for digital transformation of the FSI sector in Africa
• Digital banking and FSI provisions for SME’s to further financial inclusion of the excluded population across Africa
• Aiding proliferation of digitech & fintech competencies within FSI institutions to achieve sustainable economic growth in Africa

Enacting Digital Transformation At Large To Unlock the Noted Potential of Kenya’s FSI Sector

• Developing extensive digital framework to achieve the Kenya vision 2030 for FSI sector
• Navigating through regulatory hurdles arising as a result from evolving policies during digital transformation journey
• Help forging partnerships among diverse FSI enterprises to deepen the financial impact and benefits to the Kenyan economy

Cloud Banking: Driving Agility with Fastened Service Delivery and Adapting to Changing Needs of Customers

• Getting away with the problems of legacy infrastructure and application sprawl through cloud migration
• Cloud-based services allowing banks to create new business models, products, and services
• Addressing cloud benefits and concerns: applications, risks, security and governance

Buy Now Pay Later: The BLIK Case Study

• Be Introduced to Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) type of financing, how it compares to other traditional forms of credit and the challenges and trends of this market.
• Get insight of a real case of BNPL implementation, including the project challenges, activities, and milestones
• Understand major risk best practices to address and mitigate some risks of BNPL, including Machine Learning, Early Warnings Signs processes and Scoring models validation.

Data Analytics and Data Centric Decision Making for a Data Driven World

• Integrating marketing and customer data to create targeted, real-time offers and better decision making
• Understanding data-driven decision-making and how IT can help to make strategic business decisions that align with your company’s goals, objectives and
• initiatives
• Application of data science for creating new processes, models and changing the face of the banks

Networking Break

Open Banking Ecosystem: Moving Away from A Monolithic Banking System to A Multi-Layered One

• Overcoming integration challenges such as API performance & reliability and that of identity management
• Ensuring secure & faster access to user data to support vast array of consumer use cases
• Overcoming issues of seamless data sharing and eliminating banking ‘silos’

Fortifying Security: Measures to Counter the Evolving Cyber Security Threats in A Digital Era

• Data privacy concerns: How to protect yourself and your clients?
• Strategies and tools to protect customers and prevent financial phishing and cyberattacks
• Challenging the deceptive techniques in social engineering and imbedded malwares

Building an AI Powered Bank: Unlocking the Potential of Smarter Banking

• Strengthening customer relationships and lowering costs by using AI to guide customer engagement
• Leveraging AI to combat fraud: Fighting transaction fraud for banks and credit card companies
• What are the opportunities and challenges when integrating AI solutions in a financial enterprise?

Exploring the Role and Use Cases Of AI, ML and Robotics in Financial Services

• AI-bank of the future: Can banks meet the AI challenge?
• The growing impact of AI and ML in financial Services
• Adoption of hyper automation in enhancing operational efficiencies in banking and financial sectors

Future Focus: Evaluating the Scope & Practicability of Modern Fintech Innovations

• Calibrating the extensibility of fintech solutions in Kenya
• Reaching scale and profitability in the fragmented African markets
• Addressing the challenge of finite resources, time, money and people in Africa to sustain growth

Lunch Break

Delivering Next- Gen User and Customer Experience for the Customers of The Digital Transformation Era

• Revamping CX and UX towards a seamless and personalized accessibility to financial services
• Developing multiple access points for all the financial services being offered
• Acquainting the unacquainted: Promoting digital products amongst the unfamiliar

Embracing Low-Code, No-Code Platforms to Improve Speed, Agility and Collaboration for the FSI Sector

• Key factors for FSI firms to consider for successful low-code, no-code app development
• Applications of low-code no-code tools in for a simplified digital transformation journey
• Keeping pace with ever-increasing customer expectations from the digital experience

Revolutionizing Digital Partnerships in Banking & Finance for Mutual Headways and Success in an Ever-Transforming Innovation Landscape

• What are the must-have elements for a successful digital banking partnership?
• Are banks and fintech’s working collaboratively or directly competing? Does the answer lie in synergetic partnerships?
• Closing the gap: Forging digital partnerships to compliment the bank’s core business

Neo-Banks - The Next Evolution of Banking in the Banking Space

• How to inculcate digitally less aware audience to Neo-banks?
• Achieving speed, convenience, cost savings to reduce dramatic overhead expenses incurred
• Reorienting consumer confidence while venturing into a 100% Digital and paperless business model

Closing Remarks

After Party