International Banking Summit

Banking Frontier 2026

Name: Banking Frontier 2026
Start: 2026-11-23
End: 2026-11-27
Location: Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers

Five days in Amsterdam, each one published under a single theme, with 89 sessions running in two rooms.

Dates: 23–27 November 2026
Venue: Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam
Scale: 89 sessions, 5 days, two rooms

Delegates seated at round tables during a previous Zenith Group event

Day 1 — AI & Trusted Finance23 November 2026 · photograph from a previous Zenith Group event Day 2Identity & Cyber Resilience 23–27 November 2026Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam Day 4Customer Growth & Platform Banking

A full seminar room of delegates facing a presenter at a previous Zenith Group event

Day 5 — Future-Proofing Banking 2027–203027 November 2026 · photograph from a previous Zenith Group event

The five days, opened out

Each day keeps its own proportion. Three published sessions are shown per day with real times, rooms and attributions. Times are Central European Time (CET).

AI & Trusted Finance

Day 1 · 23 November 2026 · 14 sessions

AI-native banking, governance, model risk, data foundations, and the path from pilots to enterprise value.

AI governance & model risk
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rita Gnutti · Head of Internal Validation and Controls · Intesa Sanpaolo · Italy
Data, AI enablement & intelligent automation for bank operations
09:30–10:00 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Gladson Baby · VP & Director of Data & AI Enablement · Fifth Third Bank · US
Scaling AI responsibly: leadership playbook for AI risk & compliance
10:00–10:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Frans Vanbruggen · Werkgebied Lead · AI Coalitie 4 Nederland (AIC4NL) · Netherlands

Identity & Cyber Resilience

Day 2 · 24 November 2026 · 16 sessions

Digital identity, fraud prevention, authentication, cyber resilience, and real-time trust across banking journeys.

Corporate digital identity management
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Stephan Wolf · Chair of the Board · Verifiable.Trade Foundation · Germany
Digital trust in AI-led banking · risk, audit and cyber oversight at board level
09:30–10:00 · Room A · Main Stage
Dr. Björn Lenzmann · Member of The Supervisory Board · DenizBank · Turkey
User centricity in cybersecurity · UX research and behavioural science
09:30–10:00 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Nazima Kadir · Global Head of UX: Cybersecurity · J.P. Morgan · UK

Payments & Digital Assets

Day 3 · 25 November 2026 · 20 sessions

Instant payments, wallets, tokenization, Open Finance, digital assets, and the future of money movement.

Instant payments and interoperability
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Domenico Scaffidi · CEO & Founder · DS Payments Ltd · UK
The new payments landscape · instant, interoperable, invisible and built on trust
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Paul Walvik-Joynt · VP Commercialization Real-Time Payments · Mastercard · Norway
Digital wallets and biometric payments · customer experience and secure authentication
09:30–10:00 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Mihai Draghici · Founder & CEO · PayByFace · Romania

Customer Growth & Platform Banking

Day 4 · 26 November 2026 · 23 sessions

Omnichannel journeys, AI-assisted service, smart branches, SME banking, and platform-based growth.

Human-AI banking experience
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria
AI-augmented service and product-led banking at scale
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Speaker TBC
Present and Future of Digital Transformation in Islamic Banking
09:30–10:00 · Room A · Main Stage
Wan Halim · Head of Shariah Governance (Global) · Crédit Agricole CIB · UAE

Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030

Day 5 · 27 November 2026 · 16 sessions

Post-quantum readiness, sovereign AI, and the technologies shaping banking to 2030.

Systemic Risk in European Banking 2027–2030: Geopolitics, AI and Structural Vulnerabilities
09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage
Ulf Holmberg · Functional Lead and Senior Analyst · Swedbank · Sweden
Preparing banks for systemic threats: cyber, geopolitical disruption and operational concentration risk
09:00–09:30 · Room B · Innovation & Implementation
Naji Freiha · Risk Appetite, Strategy and Governance · Konsilium · France
Systemic threats and stress testing · post-quantum readiness
09:30–10:00 · Room A · Main Stage
Christoffer Kok · Head of Division, Stress Test Experts · European Central Bank · Germany

The complete 89-session agenda

Speakers, beside their sessions

A narrow biography block on the left; on the right, the session that person is published against and the programme's own description of it.

Rita Gnutti

Executive Director, Internal Validation and Controls, Group Chief Risk Officer Area

Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy

Track: Compliance & Risk

AI governance & model risk

Day 1, 23 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

Define what trusted AI-driven finance means for banks in 2027–2030.
Link customer value, transparency and control to scalable AI adoption.
Address model risk, explainability and governance guardrails.

Rita Gnutti · Head of Internal Validation and Controls · Intesa Sanpaolo · Italy

Stephan Wolf

Chair of the Board, Verifiable.Trade Foundation; Leadership Team, LEI Worldwide

LEI Worldwide / Verifiable Trade Foundation, Germany

Track: AI & Risk

Corporate digital identity management

Day 2, 24 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

Position digital identity as core banking infrastructure, not a back-office utility.
Explore wallet-based identity, verified credentials and organisational identity.
Support cross-border onboarding and trusted customer access.

Stephan Wolf · Chair of the Board · Verifiable.Trade Foundation · Germany

Domenico Scaffidi

CEO and Founder / Independent Consultant, Global Payments Innovation Practice

DS Payments Ltd, United Kingdom

Track: Payments

Instant payments and interoperability

Day 3, 25 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

Frame the payments, wallets and digital-assets agenda.
Link market infrastructure, regulation and customer expectations.
Set priorities for payment leaders and banking executives.

Domenico Scaffidi · CEO & Founder · DS Payments Ltd · UK

Rudolf Stefanich

Senior Manager - Product Insights

Bitpanda / New Design University, Austria

Track: Digital Assets

Human-AI banking experience

Day 4, 26 November 2026 · 09:00–09:30 · Room A · Main Stage

Show how AI changes service, sales, operations and advice journeys.
Define where humans remain essential for trust and empathy.
Explore AI agents, decision intelligence and workflow redesign.

Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria

The full roster of 65 speakers

Attending

In person
Both rooms run at Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam, across all 5 days, 23–27 November 2026.
Online
Online participation runs alongside the in-person conference. Current passes and terms appear only on the official registration page.

Registration and current conditions

Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers

Venue: Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers
Address: Hoogoorddreef 66a, 1101 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nearest station: Bijlmer ArenA · 4-min walk
From Schiphol: Train Schiphol → Bijlmer ArenA, approx. 15 min
Parking: P1 ArenA · paid, on-site
Accessibility: Step-free access; accessible WCs on every floor
Registration desk: Ground floor lobby, signposted on arrival
Published times: Central European Time (CET)

Travel and access details

The photographs, uncropped

The two images cropped into the opening, shown here in full, plus one more. All three are from previous Zenith Group events; Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026 and has not happened yet.

Scene from a previous Zenith Group event — Photograph from a previous Zenith Group event. Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23-27 November 2026.

Sponsor and exhibitor information

Sponsorship and exhibition at Banking Frontier 2026 are arranged directly with the organiser. This page lists no package, price, stand or partner, and shows no partner logo, because none of that is published in the verified source.

Sponsor and exhibitor opportunities on the official site

Organiser

Zenith-Energie International s.r.o.
Rezlerova 273/74, Petrovice, 109 00 Praha, Czechia

Company ID 02354357 · VAT CZ02354357

info@group-zenith.com

Questions

Do the coloured rectangles at the top hide anything?

No. Each one is a labelled link to the day it names, and every day it links to is spelled out in full further down this page.

Which pictures are real?

All of them, and all from previous Zenith Group events. Two appear cropped inside the opening and both appear again uncropped in the gallery below.

What is on each day?

AI & Trusted Finance, Identity & Cyber Resilience, Payments & Digital Assets, Customer Growth & Platform Banking, Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030 — one theme per day across 5 days in two rooms.

Can I attend online?

In-person and online participation are both available. Current passes, terms and any group conditions are shown on the official registration page.

Who organises the conference?

Zenith-Energie International s.r.o., Rezlerova 273/74, Petrovice, 109 00 Praha, Czechia. Company ID 02354357, VAT CZ02354357.

Contact the organiser

Banking Frontier 2026

The five days, opened out