Conference opening

Ben & Sarah will open our Fall 2022 event – our last event for 2022!

Ben & Sarah will outline the event’s agenda and present the main themes for the day.

• Ben Pelled (Conference Organizer) Founder & CEO @ FinTech Junction by People & Computers
• Sarah Podlinski (Conference MC) Account Manager @ Naviteq

At IBM, we do more than work. We create. We create as technologists, developers, and engineers. We create with our partners. We create with our competitors. If you’re searching for ways to make the world work better through technology and infrastructure, software and consulting, then we want to work with you.

Fintech expertise with focus on embedded financing/open banking. Product management skills. Initiate and create new products using the state of the art technology.

Deep understanding in payments (bank to bank, immediate payments, ACH, RTGS, Swift, Request for pay, confirmation of payee), Open banking, core banking, corporate banking, FX, platforms).

Whilst almost two decades in IT, Roman has driven an extensive track of business and technology transformation projects for the US and Middle East clients. With a strong technical background and product management skillset, Roman leads IT consulting, advisory practices and large-scale projects for emerging and enterprise markets by delivering high-value services. Roman’s hands-on experience in shaping the operational excellence to tackle business challenges helps tech innovators and Fortune 500 companies deliver excellent products and services for billions of users across the globe.

Open banking is here to stay, and is expanding every year, creating vast opportunities to financial companies. But using the open-banking standard can be challenging, as it is a new concept in both business and technology. For those who want to keep focus on business, we have created a starter-kit that will provide a fast track to the open banking community and help to keep up with the future standard and regulation changes. The fast track users will lean on our end-to-end connectivity solution and base their business innovation on it.

During our presentation, we will be discussing how crucial it is for the finance industry to adopt cloud-native infrastructure for core banking products and services, especially during this time of intense digital transformation.

We will cover the following topics:
-The new necessities finance companies are facing today
-Why is it important for the finance industry to adopt this infrastructure
-What are the benefits of a cloud-native infrastructure?

Tomer Michaeli is an entrepreneur who co-founded Fundbox, a fintech unicorn, and now is a partner a Viola Fintech – a fintech fund that co-invests in global fintech leader side by side with leading global fintech investors.

FinTech in Turbulent Times: while 2022 was a tough year for fintech, we believe there are still numerous opportunities for fintech companies to thrive in the “new normal”. In my talk I’ll discuss areas of opportunities such as vertical and embedded fintech, fintech for SMB, Insurtech 2.0 and more.

Sonja Kohn has vast multi-disciplinary experience as a serial entrepreneur, who has founded successful companies in partnership with Italian banking giant Banca Intesa (now Intesa Sanpaolo) to form FundsWorld, a first-mover online funds platform, and with UniCredit Bank Austria, Austria’s largest bank. She has also served as an advisor to the Vienna Stock Exchange and to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, and was awarded the Great Medal of Honor of the Government of Austria.

Moderator: Ziv Gafni, Head of Digital Strategy Fintech & Markets Innovation @ J.P. Morgan

Speakers:
• Hadar Siterman Norris, Partner @ Team8 Capital
• David Feldman, Principal @ Flint Capital
• Dror Shaked, Senior VP BD @ Wix.com
• Pavel Livshiz, General Partner @ Hetz Ventures

Moderator: Benjamin Haddad, MD, Technology Innovation @ Acccenture

Speakers:
• Roi Ben Daniel, Founder & CEO @ Received
• Roman Pavlyuk, VP, Digital Strategy @ Intellias
• Sarah Podlinski, Account Manager @ Naviteq
• Ornit Shinar, Global Head of External Innovation and Venture Investing @ Citi Innovation Lab
• Mickey Bozer, Open Banking Business Owner @ Matrix

Moderator: Hernan Arber, Founder @ Arber Tech

Speakers:
• Adam Benayoun, Founding Partner @ Collider Ventures
• Shlomit Wagman, Faculty Associate @ Harvard University
• Odelia Torteman, Global Digital Transformation & FinTech Specialist @ The World Bank
• Tomer Niv, Crypto Investor @ Entrée Capital
• Meirav Harel, Founder & CEO @ MHfintechs

• Noam Izhaki, Co-Founder & CEO @ Ballerine
• Roi Maman, Head of Integrations @ Israel Interactive Trading
• Omri Yacubovich, Co-Founder & CEO @ Lama AI

Enjoy lunch with fellow attendees in a collaborative environment

The Main Event will end at 15:00.

IBM Startup Event will start at 15:00.

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