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10 Essential IBM TechXchange 2024 Sessions for Financial Services Professionals

By Aly Farooqui posted Tue October 01, 2024 05:56 PM

  
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If you are attending the IBM TechXchange 2024 Conference on October 21-24, 2024 in Las Vegas, NV, you are likely trying to choose which of the 1300+ sessions to attend.

To save you some time, we’ve identified 10 must-attend sessions tailored specifically for financial services professionals. These sessions will provide actionable strategies on the latest innovations, regulatory challenges, and emerging technologies, helping equip you to navigate the complexities of today’s digital landscape.

Register and build your schedule at: https://ibm.biz/BdKU6C

NOTE: All sessions, schedules, and speakers are subject to change. Please refer to https://ibm.biz/BdKU6C for current session information.

AI Governance in Banking
[2575] Wednesday, Oct 23, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

As the adoption of AI in Banking picks up momentum with the

advancements in Generative AI, it is imperative that there exist

proper governance and risk management to ensure that there is

adequate oversight on all AI activities and that AI-related risks

are properly assessed and mitigated across the AI System Lifecycle.

These requirements become even more critical due to the development

and enforcement of various AI-related laws and regulations around

the world. Setting up a robust AI Governance program for oversight

and risk management requires a tight integration of the appropriate

people, processes, and tools within an organization. In this talk,

we will be going over some of the key considerations in

operationalizing AI Governance across the Enterprise.

Aditya Anne, Director of Data Science, CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE-CA

Citizens Bank: A Journey to API Management Modernization,
an API Connect Upgrade & Modernization Story

[2197] Thursday, Oct 24, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens Financial Group,

Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial

institutions. We have been using IBM API Connect since v5 of the

product and recently have completed the upgrade to v10.0.5. We are

running a hybrid cloud deployment with gateways running in a variety

of clouds including on-prem, and a control plane running in a single

central location. This session will go through our journey,

challenges and successes covering how we worked with our business

and IBM to make it the best experience possible.

Matthew Eaton, Product Owner, CITIZENS BANK N A-US

Chris Phillips, IBM CP4I SWAT Global Lead Architect, IBM

AI-powered Support Desk Assistant with IBM Watsonx: A Global Payments

POC Experience [2410] Wednesday, Oct 23, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

In this session, Global Payments team will share their POC

experience for one of their GenAI use cases with IBM Wastonx

platform. This POC focuses on developing a conversational AI chatbot

for support desks using IBM Watsonx Assistant and integration with

generative AI models. The chatbot will utilize natural language

processing (NLP) capabilities to understand user inquiries and

provide informative responses or efficiently route complex issues to

human agents. You'll hear the details on the use cases, findings,

and lessons and learns.

Lovell Saunders, Director, IT Business Services ‚ BTS EUROPEMANAGEMENT, Global Payments

Reema Singh, Director, Applications System Development- AI Enablement and Governance, Global Payments

Framework to scale AI in regulated industries: Based on the experience
of a large global financial institution 
[3196] Thursday, Oct 24, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Join SMEs from Banco do Brasil and IBM to explore the building blocks to scale AI in regulated industries.

The session will deep dive on: (a) use case patterns/requirements, (b) frameworks, strategies and infrastructure,

(c) challenges & opportunities and (d) how IBM helps address the challenges.

Suraksha Vidyarthi, Product Manager (GPUs & AI Infrastructure), IBM

Is your hybrid cloud solution prepared to survive a ransomware attack?
[3192] Tuesday, Oct 22, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

With the average cost of data breach skyrocketing year after year

and the wide-spread of ransomware attacks across the globe, a Cyber

Resilience strategy is must. In addition, many countries and

geographies are adopting regulations (e.g., DORA in Europe) that

require compliance to controls for cyber resilience. Join our

session to learn how to harness the flexibility of the cloud to

support a Cyber Resilience strategy and provide an isolated cyber

recovery environment for your critical applications. The session

will cover:

1. Protecting and securing your environments against ransomware

2. Implementing cyber recovery environments with security, compliance
     and automation through Deployable Architectures

3. Supporting Operational Resilience regulations through continuous compliance

Alexandre Kubisztal, Group Cloud COE Lead Architect, BNP PARIBAS

CELSO SIBUYA, IT Manager, Banco Bradesco

Ana Biazetti, Distinguished Engineer, Industry Cloud, IBM

Machine Learning in the Wild: Revolutionizing Digital Asset Compliance
[3481] Thursday, Oct 24, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT


As cryptocurrency and distributed digital ledger adoption soars, so

does the need for robust anti-asset laundering (AAL) measures.

Blockpliance, a leader in ledger-compliance solutions and IBM

Fintech Partner, will showcase how advanced machine learning

algorithms are transforming AAL processes in the digital asset

space. Attendees will gain insights into unique challenges, how ML

models can detect complex patterns, case studies demonstrating the

power of AI in compliance, the technical architecture behind a

modern crypto-compliance platform. Whether you're a financial

institution looking for solutions, or a curious technologist looking

to explore an emerging field, this session promises to teach you

something new and provide ideas to overcome your technical challenges.

Don Patterson,  CTO, Blockpliance

Navigating the Future of Payments: Disruption or Opportunities?
[3193] Tuesday, Oct 22, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

As Payments remain a complex but critical part of the banking world,

it is increasingly important to understand the concepts and terms

that underpin this vital sector. While real-time payments are

becoming mainstream, bank executives are challenged to balance a

range of considerations: customer experience, technology disruption,

and evolving regulation. Join our session to learn how to harness the

flexibility and security of the cloud to adjust to the changing

check, cross-border, instant payments market while protecting

customer data privacy and enhancing client experience.

Ana Biazetti, Distinguished Engineer, Industry Cloud, IBM

Amanda Merchàn, Business Controller & Technical Integration Head, CLAI payments

Modernizing security hardening with Ansible at Itaú Unibanco
[2265] Wednesday, Oct 23, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Operating system policies compliance is a vital part for the overall organization security! Ensuring the 

operating systems are always protected and under compliance with the guidelines is a real challenge,

especially on a large environment. Come with us for this session where we will be sharing our experience

about how Ansible Automation helped us to ensure security compliance on a multi-platform environment

with AIX and Red Hat Linux OS and different architectures (Power and x86).

Vivian Toito, Senior Platform Engineer, Itau Unibanco

Rodrigo Xavier De Souza, System Consultant, IBM


Responsible App Modernization: Banco Santander’s case
[2632] Wednesday, Oct 231:30 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

In this session, you will hear from my experiences at leading Banco

Santander’s app modernization efforts. My team and I have been

working to accelerate the modernization of our banking core with the

help of IBM Modernization Tools and I would like to share with you

what we have learned and achieved so you can succeed too.

Franco Pablo Quintero, Project Leader, Santander Argentina

Serve and Govern third party AI external models with watsonx
platform: insights from Intesa Sanpaolo
[2554] Tuesday, Oct 22 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT

This talk aims to demonstrate how IBM watsonx platform enables

collaborative development and deployment of analytical assets and

generative models by integrating models trained and developed on

third party platforms, within the dynamic landscape of Intesa

Sanpaolo. A focal point of the discussion will be the automation of

serving logics through watsonx.ai, showcasing the efficiency gains

and enhanced agility achieved in model deployment. Emphasis will be

placed on the tracking analytical assets capability via AI

Factsheet, and the process of promoting assets through the various

stages of an AI project lifecycle.

Marco Barbiero, Lead Data Scientist, IBM

Sofia Ruggeri, Data Science Engineer, Intesa Sanpaolo

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