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The North Africa Future Banking Forum 2016 brings together global banking leaders, key stakeholders and decision makers to focus on the rapidly evolving digital banking landscape in the region and discuss the future of the African banking industry.
Cairo: The North Africa Future Banking Forum 2016 kicked off on Monday at the Nile Ritz-Carlton in Cairo, Egypt. The high profile banking event witnessed top banking leaders, key decision makers and stakeholders come together and stage a dialogue on driving innovation in banking through digital and business transformation.
The forum flagged off with a keynote presentation titled 'The impact of digitization in banking environment' by Frederic de Melker – Head of Retail Banking & Wealth Management Retail Department at Emirates NBD(Event Partner), which was followed by a session titled 'Digital enterprise – A future proof foundation for digitization' by Arashdeep Sandhu – Principle Sales Consultant at Oracle Financial Services (Gold Sponsor).
Digital Transformation in an Omni-Channel World', was explained by Mohamed El Sabban – Head of Digital Banking at Commercial International Bank Egypt while Jiang Yu, FSI Solution Director at Huawei Technologies(Silver Sponsor), conducted a Cast Study on Fuel your Digital Transformation with Huawei.
The CXO panel elaborated on the latest trends in banking innovation and was moderated by Khaled Sherif – Co founder & Chairman of the board at Cequens The panelists included Khaled Hamada – CIO at Banque du Caire, Slim Mezghenni – CIO at Taysir-microfinance, Medhat El Leighty – Former Senior Consultant at Commercial International Bank Egypt and Mohammed Abdel Malek – Former Head of IT InfraDriving innovation with North African Future Banking Forumstructure & Communication at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank-Egypt.
Badr Soliman – Senior Digital Channels Manager, AVP at Barclays Egypt, elaborated on the Business Transformation: Empowering the Analyst for successful delivery, in his presentation, while Faris Mesmar – VP Sales and Business Development at InfoFort (Silver Sponsor) and Roy Zakka – CEO & Founder of Ubanquity (Silver Sponsor) addressed the issues on Globalization & Data flows and Managing Customer Experience respectively. Kannan Ramasamy – CEO at Vayana (Silver Sponsor), focused on Embarking on a CEM Journey with new technology.
Special emphasis was made on attempts of Payment Technologies, economic inclusions by Khaled El Attar – Undersecretary at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. Speaking about the evolving banking landscape, Khaled El Attar said “In a digital age of anywhere and anytime connectivity, big data and customer service expectations exploding new structures, new arrangements & new partnerships need to be established re-configuring & changing the relationships between societal actors & challenging every aspect of our traditions & social constraints. Banks and key players in the banking sector’s ecosystem need to collaborate to modernize the payment environment and understand the impact of contactless technology, with all of its challenges and innovations.”
The Fintech Showcase was an interesting session, where major fintech companies showcased their latest solutions to the participants at the event. The session was joined by
- Abdallah Djedid – Business Manager at NetGuardians (Fintech Partner)
- Fighting banking fraud in a multi-channel environment
- Steve Fogue – CEO and Co-founder at Particeep (Fintech Partner)
- Digitization of Banking Industry: Trends, Challenges and Use Cases
- Vijay Jaswal – CTO at Software AG (Associate Sponsor)
- Creating a 360° channel experience for customers by using Software AG solutions
- Karim Zaki – Director of Products at Cequens (Official SMS Partner)
- Omni-Messaging solutions tailor made for the banking industry.
Today, the second day of the conference will witness exclusive sessions from UBS Switzerland, Banque Du Caire Compliance Alert SARL, Arab African International Bank, Banque Misr, Arab Investment Bank, MarchNetworks(Associate Sponsor) and many more.
Highlights of the day include Hard Talk: Interview with Abeer Khedr, Information Security Director at National Bank of Egypt; Case Study on Risk management by Hesham Hamdy, Former CRO of Alexbank and Arab International Bank and the live Hacking Session demonstrating risks associated with traditional 2-factor authentication, conducted by Anupam Ratha, Co-Founder & CTO at EZMCOM (Associate Sponsor).
The concluding session of conference includes the North Africa Future Banking Speaker Awards 2016. Among other participating sponsors, the conference was also supported by Sybrin (Gold Sponsor), Aperta (Networking Sponsor) and SUSE (Associate Sponsor).
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