Senior Payment Expert at the Deutsche Bundesbank specialised in Real-time/Instant Payments and Cross-border Payments.

As the Managing Director and Global Head of Merchant Solutions - Fintech and Platform Sales at Deutsche Bank, Kilian Thalhammer is responsible for driving the growth and innovation of the bank's issuing and acceptance business worldwide, particularly with FinTech, Marketplace, and platform clients. He has over 15 years of experience in the payment industry, leading teams and projects in product management, business development, key account management, sales, and consulting. He also has a strong track record of delivering value-added solutions for customers and partners, leveraging his expertise in FinTech, crypto, blockchain, DeFi, DLT, loyalty, risk management, outsourcing, customer management, CRM, and e-commerce.

Chris has 17 years+ experience in international B2B sales, business development, key account and partner management for SaaS products 
in the European Financial Industry

Björn is Adviser at the BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre. Previously he worked for more than 20 years at the Swedish central bank. His areas of expertise are payments and financial market infrastructure. For the last ten years the focus has increasingly been on innovation, new technologies, central bank digital currency and the cashless society. He acted as editor for the early reports on Swedish CBDC and has participated in several BIS/CPMI working groups and ESCB committees. Björn has a Ph.D in Economics.

CEO of Fraudio, a VC backed scale up from Amsterdam fighting complex fraud and money laundering in payments with what really is the only SaaS product in the market that has a truly top tier Artificial Intelligence behind it.

With more than fifteen years of experience in the academia and industry, he acquired deep knowledge during his PhD studies in Artificial Intelligence and worked in the telecom, cyber security and payments industries before starting Fraudio.

João is currently further developing his business and leadership expertises as a candidate at the University of Amsterdam's MBA in Big Data & Business Analytics.

After years of building AML, Fraud and KYC teams in TransferWise and Skype, Taavi decided to put his years of experience into practise and founded his own tech company Salv and joined forces with fellow crime fighters around the world. And today they are a well-funded company by the top VC’s of Europe.

Georgi dedicates his efforts to fight Money Laundering and Financial Crime within the digital world.

Christopher specializes in international development organizations, with over ten years of experience in key account management, sales, and business development.

Alia is a qualified risk and compliance practitioner working with global regulated institutions and financial services companies, advising on financial crime risk prevention and regulatory compliance processes to deliver scalable and innovative financial crime control solutions.

As part of the Global Regulatory Affairs team at ComplyAdvantage, Alia acts as a financial crime domain expert to support the product, engineering and commercial teams build the world’s leading financial crime detection technology and provides thought leadership across the sector and leading industry events.

Diana is a Manager at Deloitte Consulting based in Zurich leading the Business Operations Sustainability in Payments initiative. Her expertise lies in supporting wealth and asset management clients in overcoming their Payments and Sustainability challenges. Prior to Deloitte, Diana was at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C., and holds a graduate degree from Johns Hopkins University.

Luka is an entrepreneur, a startup lawyer, and a startup geek with a knack for compliance.

Innovative and passionate business professional with comprehensive experience in working
with entrepreneurs and innovation departments in Healthcare, Mobility, Insurance and Telco industries.
Proven in working in cross-functionally teams in a highly collaborative environment.

Christoph Urschel is specialist in ​​risk intelligence. Christoph has been dealing with topics relating to sanctions, AML, KYC, PEPs for more than 10 years. His current focus is on payment screening, digital onboarding and identity verification.

Rüdiger Vogt is passionate about shaping the future and making customers successful. Leading Giesecke+Devrient's business with Fintechs, neobanks, and payment aggregators, he focuses especially on digitalization, individualization, sustainability, and eco-innovation in payment. G+D, founded in 1852 in Germany, has grown to a leading global paytech. Today, they engineer trust to secure everyday life: in payment, connectivity, identities, and digital infrastructures. Prior to his current role, he has enjoyed working in several senior and executive positions in sales, marketing, and business development in the semiconductor and mobile security industry.

As a marketing manager at G+D, a global leader in security and digital solutions, Christiane empowers clients to transform their payment experience with innovative and accessible products and services. She collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop and execute marketing & sales actions, strategies, and initiatives that drive customer engagement and retention.