CEE23 SME Banking Conference

Agenda

November 29-30

Krakow & Remote

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November 29

The Conference will start on November 29 (pre-conference day) at 15.00 CET with several workshops designed for the participants interested in learning specific topics in detail.

Workshops will be available only for participants registered for in-person attendance (if you haven’t registered yet, please register here).

Please choose the workshop you’d like to attend

Digital Factoring

  • Speakers & Mentors:
  • Chief Partner Officer and Member of the Management Board at efcom, Germany
  • Best use case:
  • Implementation of digital factoring platform in Raiffeisen Factor Bank (Austria), S-Factoring Erste Group (Slovenia), PB Factoring (Deutsche Postbank AG, Germany)
  • Let’s discuss how to make money with digital factoring. Which ingredients and tools are required
  • 15.00 – 18.30 CET
  • Room No 1
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The Roadmap for Digital Transformation of SME Finance

  • Speakers & Mentors:
  • CEO and Co-Founder at Qlana, USA
  • Best use case:
  • Bank of Kigali (Rwanda), ECDC (South Africa), ABC (Luxembourg)
  • Plan a logical and realistic roadmap to transform your SME Business into a customer-centric, digital-first environment. Develop the first tools during the workshop
  • 15.00 – 18.30 CET
  • Room No 2
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How to implement
e-invoicing for SME customers

  • Speakers & Mentors:
  • Business Development Director and Co-founder at PartnerHub, Hungary
  • Best use case:
  • Implementation of integrated e-invoicing for SMEs with OTP Bank (Hungary), Budapest Bank (Hungary), Banca Transilvania (Romania)
  • Receive enhanced insights on the latest e-invoicing implementations and knowledge how to implement it in the bank
  • 15.00 – 18.30 CET
  • Room No 3
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Workshops

All workshops will be held in parallel sessions and will last till 18.30 CET.

All the workshops will take place in the Conference venue:

ICE Kraków Congress Center (address: Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków).

Networking

At 19.00 CET, we will welcome all attendees at the Manggha restaurant for the Networking Dinner located in the Museum of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha, with a great view of Wawel Castle.

The restaurant is 8 min walking distance from the conference venue.

Location

The Main Conference Day – November 30 – will start at 9.00 CET with the Registration and Welcome coffee in the Conference venue – ICE Kraków Congress Center

(address: Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków).

November 30

The beginning
Panels and presentation will start at 10.00 CET in the Conference room, and online – on smebanking.tv. Please register here to receive full online or in-person access to the conference and materials. Olena Gryniuk – CEE Director at the SME Banking Club, and Conference Host – will open the conference and will welcome speech and announcement of the conference lineup.
First panel

The very first panel will be devoted to the topic of How Artificial Intelligence changes the Financial Industry. It is the 4th year this topic is discussed during CEE SME Banking Conferences. This year Klaudia Archimowicz (Head of Operations at Verita HR & Magazyn Rekruter, Poland-UK) will moderate the discussion, looking into the case studies from the banks and AI future. Bartlomiej Wegner (Director of the Office of Transformation Projects and Programs at Bank Pekao, Poland) and  Philippe De Brouwer (Head of Model Risk in the service center at HSBC) will share their practices and thoughts during that discussion.

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Second panel
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The next panel will be devoted to the topic of Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds in digital customer journeys, which will be led by Kamila Wincenciak (Head of the Innovation and Fintech Department at Alior Bank, Poland). Kamila will discuss with the panelists the latest trends in digital (business) customer onboarding, the role of biometrics in enhancing digital identity verification, the possible influence of deep fakes on businesses, and what banks and businesses should do to protect themselves. Panelists contributing to that discussion: Enrique Caballero (EMEA Director at Aware Biometrics, USA), Wiktor Jaszczak (CEE Director at Facephi Biometrics), Wojciech Widenka (Customer Onboarding Director at ING Bank Poland) and Pawel Jaszewski (Customer Lifecycle Tribe Leader at BNP Paribas Bank Poland).
Third panel
After that discussion, the topics will switch to the creation of SME Ecosystems – as the business models making possible to implement embedded finance, integrate beyond banking services (like e-invoicing, online accounting), use this data to sell and cross-sell banking products, and also make the usage of it convenient for SMEs (actually in one ecosystem). What is the role of banks and fintechs in that? And how to benefit from it. Olena Grinyuk will moderate that discussion, featuring the following panelists: Katalin Kauzli (Business Development Director and Co-founder at PartnerHub, Hungary), Maciej Salata (Consulting Director/Corporate and SME Digital Banking at Comarch, Poland), Nelson Wootton(CEO and Co-founder at SaaScada, UK), Filip Jaskula (SME Tribe Lead at Santander Bank Polska, Poland).
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Fourth panel
The next panel will be devoted to the topic of Digitalization of factoring and receivable finance products for SMEs.  Simon Peterman (CEE Factoring Coordination Manager at Raiffeisen Factor Bank, Austria) will moderate that discussion, and together with the panelist will discuss how digital tools, data (among others, integration of the e-invoicing data) and new business models can speed up and accelerate access to the factoring/invoice finance service. Panelists contributing to that discussion: Federico Avellan Borgmeyer (Chief Partner Officer and Member of the Management Board at efcom, Germany), Cristian Ionescu (CEO at Instant Factoring, Romania), Karol Leszczyński (Product Manager at Comarch Factoring Digital Platform, Poland) and Łukasz Adamczyk (Head of Process, Product and IT at ING Commercial Finance, Poland).
Fifth panel
During the next, Panel Michal Pawlik (Vice-President of Business Development for CEE, Co-founder at SMEO) will lead the discussion on How to approach and accelerate digitalization of SME lending, how to automate credit risk process for SMEs, considering best practices in the region and how to offer SME loans in the context of customer business. The following panelists will take part in that discussion: Kamil Goslawski (Senior Key Account Manager at CRIF Poland), Christian Ruehmer (CEO and Co-Founder at Qlana, USA), Marcin Woch (CEO at Algolytics, Poland).
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Sixth panel
The next topic that will be discussed is the Digitalization of Sales to SMEs. To that topic will contribute Jevrosima Zogovic (Sales Lead) and Ivica Tatar (Co-Founder and Strategy Lead) from Logate (Montenegro), Onur Gul (Head of Digital & Remote Sales and Marketing, Business Banking at ING Bank Turkey), Tomasz Gasiorowski (Commercial Director at Monevia, Poland) and Piotr Mieczkowski (CPO SME Customer & Digital Area at Santander Bank Polska, Poland). They will discuss digital sales and service models for micro and SME customers, and how to create real omnichannel customer experience. The Panel will be moderated by Simon Koci.
Awards ceremony
At 18.00 CET, Olena Gryniuk will announce the CEE SME Banking & Tech Awards Ceremony open!
Awards
ceremony

Awards banks and fintechs

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Every year SME Banking Club awards banks and fintechs for the best digital solutions for Micro and SME customers in the following categories:

Also, this year you will choose The Best Tech Solutions in the CEE region in the following categories:

SME Banking Club is an association of business bankers aimed to provide relevant information on what banks and financial companies are offering for entrepreneurs, micro-, small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

Contact us: cee@smebanking.club

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  • Federico Avellán Borgmeyer
  • Chief Partner Officer at efcom (Germany)
Live stage

With nearly 30 years banking technology experience, i.e. transaction and payment processing, credit card personalization, payment and other transaction terminals, Artificial Intelligence applications in finance, cryptography, Distributed Ledger Technology and factoring solutions in different “C” positions in Business Planning, Finance, M&A, R&D, Marketing & Sales, Operations and After-Sales with World Card International, DataCard Corporation, Gemplus/Gemalto, FidelioNetworks, FirstData Corporation, Postbank POS Transact, Tech4Fin Deutschland and Factoring Blockchain Solutions, Federico is the strategic architect and now executer for efcom’s new global marketing & sales approach.

Federico is also Senior Partner at the Amontis Consulting Group, Executive Board Member at Sevar AG, Board Member at Meshed Systems, Sales Partner at Asteria AB and holds an MS from Technische Universität Berlin, MBA Visiting Scholarship from University of Illinois and lectures Entrepreneurship at the Computer Science Department at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He has lived and worked in the Americas, EMEA, Mainland China and speaks Spanish, English and German.

  • Takes part
  • 13:20
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  • 13:35
  • Presentation 1
  • 13:35
  • -
  • 14:15
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Factoring for SMEs
  • Christian Ruehmer
  • Co-Founder at Q-Lana Inc
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • Day 1
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 18:30
  • Workshop: The Roadmap for Digital Transformation of SME Finance
  • Day 2
  • 15:40
  • -
  • 15:55
  • Presentation – Digital Transformation using a Low-Code-Platform
  • Day 2
  • 16:10
  • -
  • 16:50
  • Discussion Panel: How to approach and accelerate digitalization of SME lending
  • Katalin Kauzli
  • Co-founder at Partner HUB (Hungary)
Live stage

Katalin Kauzli is a co-founder of Partner HUB Ltd, the developer of a white label digital invoice management solution for banks. Charlie-India is the core IT platform for the BUPA and OTP eBIZ solutions.

  • Takes part
  • Day 1
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 18:30
  • Workshop: How to implement e-invoicing for SME customers
  • Day 2
  • 12:35
  • -
  • 12:50
  • Presentaion
  • Day 2
  • 12:50
  • -
  • 13:30
  • Discussion Panel - Creation of SME Ecosystems: the role of banks and fintechs
  • Maciej Sałata
  • Consulting Director/Corporate and SME Digital Banking at Comarch
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 12:20
  • -
  • 12:35
  • Presentation
  • 12:50
  • -
  • 13:30
  • Discussion Panel - Creation of SME Ecosystems: the role of banks and fintechs
  • Klaudia Archimowicz
  • Head of Operations at Verita HR & Magazyn Rekruter
Live stage

Klaudia has been leading teams delivering projects for banking clients at Verita HR since 2017. Her particular focus is on delivering human resources solutions to financial services and technology clients within Poland. Working mainly with Polish, Chinese, British, and U.S. clients with businesses and teams based in Warsaw and Krakow. Klaudia and her teams are also located in these financial and technological hubs. Klaudia attends and speaks at some of the leading Fintech and Banking events in Europe and the U.S., both in person and online. She is a specialist in all things blockchain, Web3 and digital assets. As well as specializing in working with quantitative and fixed income professionals within investment banking. Additionally, Klaudia works as the Digital Lead at Disruption Banking and Magazyn Rekruter. Ensuring that clients receive the most important stories affecting financial services and organizational development. These stories are driven by data. And they use the most effective storytelling and the most engaging visuals.

  • Takes part
  • 10:10
  • -
  • 10:50
  • Discussion Panel: How Artificial Intelligence changes the Financial Industry
  • Bartlomiej Wegner
  • Director, Office of Transformation Projects and Programs at Bank Pekao
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 10:10
  • -
  • 10:50
  • Discussion Panel: How Artificial Intelligence changes the Financial Industry
  • Philippe De Brouwer
  • Head Independent Model Review Krakow and Regulatory Compliance at HSBC
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 10:10
  • -
  • 10:50
  • Discussion Panel: How Artificial Intelligence changes the Financial Industry
  • Kamila Wincenciak
  • Head of Innovation and Fintech Department at Alior Bank
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 11:20
  • -
  • 12:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds in digital customer journeys
  • Wiktor Jaszczak
  • CEE Regional Manager at Facephi
Live stage

Wiktor leads the Central Eastern Europe region at FacePhi, working with clients across various
verticals on streamlining eKYC processes, applying biometrics in different use cases and fighting
fraud.
He has been involved in the digital finance and banking for almost 7 years. Prior to FacePhi, Wiktor
was at LexisNexis Risk Solutions as the main expert at EMEA level helping banks and fintechs in
automating cross-border payments. During this time, he was able to share his knowledge to the
wider audience on banking and fintech events in Zurich, Riga, and Tashkent.
With a strong background fintech, digital transformation and UX, Wiktor focuses on securing
compliance and anti-fraud systems with simultaneous attention on improving customer experience in front-end channels.
Wiktor is a strong advocate of co-creating the product with customers and enjoys working on
projects that require inter-team cooperation in order to deliver value for the project.

  • Takes part
  • 10:50
  • -
  • 11:05
  • Presentation
  • 11:20
  • -
  • 12:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds in digital customer journeys
  • Wojciech Widenka
  • Director of Centrum Client Onboarding at ING Poland
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 11:20
  • -
  • 12:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds
  • Simon Peterman
  • CEE Factoring Coordination Manager at Raiffeisen Factor Bank
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 15:40
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Factoring for SMEs
  • Cristian Ionescu
  • CEO and Founder at Instant Factoring
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 15:40
  • Discussion Panel: Digitalization of factoring and receivable finance
  • Łukasz Adamczyk
  • Head of Process, Product & IT at ING Commercial Finance Poland
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 15:40
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Factoring for SMEs
  • Kamil Goslawski
  • Senior Key Account Manager at CRIF Poland
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 16:10
  • -
  • 16:50
  • Discussion Panel: Digitization of SME Lending
  • Marcin Woch
  • CEO at Algolytics Technologies
Live stage

Marcin Woch, CEO of Algolytics Technologies, is an experienced expert, practitioner, and Data Science manager with twenty years of experience gained in consulting and implementation projects for leading telecommunications, financial, and e-commerce companies.

He is also a co-creator of the DSML platform, focusing on machine learning and MLOps. Since 2018, he has been developing Algolytics Technologies – a company providing a comprehensive DS/ML platform equipped with generic models for managing the risk of consumer and company insolvency, as well as for fraud detection.

  • Takes part
  • 15:55
  • -
  • 16:10
  • Presentation
  • 16:10
  • -
  • 16:50
  • Discussion Panel: How to approach and accelerate digitalization of SME lending
  • Nelson Wootton
  • CEO and Co-Founder at SaaScada
Live stage

Nelson Wootton is the co-founder and CEO of SaaScada. Nelson has held many senior technology and business roles over the last 20 years, including several CTO and CIO roles delivering global projects.

Nelson is a cloud evangelist, having worked on and in cloud (and nothing but cloud) since 2006. His extensive experience and huge passion for technology and its ability to transform business processes, coupled with a track record of delivery, has enabled transformational changes in numerous businesses over the years. He has led, scaled and exited two technology businesses. As a huge technology enthusiast, Nelson still gets excited by the possibilities!

  • Takes part
  • 12:50
  • -
  • 13:30
  • Discussion Panel: SME Ecosystems: the role of banks and fintechs
  • Filip Jaskula
  • SME Tribe Lead at Santander Bank Polska
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 12:50
  • -
  • 13:30
  • Discussion Panel: Creation of SME Ecosystems: the role of banks and fintechs
  • Jevrosima Zogovic
  • Head of Sales at Logate
Live stage
Jevrosima Zogovic is the Fintech Sales Lead at Logate. She possesses in-depth knowledge of banks’ needs and frustrations in the modern banking environment, having worked directly with some of the largest banks in the Balkans. At the CEE23 SME Banking Conference, she will take the stage to present different paths to great customer relationship management. Jevrosima spoke on banking topics at Technobank conference, Central Bank of Montenegro’s Fintech conference, and events organized by Association of Serbian Banks.
  • Takes part
  • 17:05
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  • 17:20
  • Presentation
  • Ivica Tatar
  • Founder and Strategy Lead at Logate
Live stage
Ivica Tatar is the Strategy lead and co-founder of Logate, a software empowerment company from Montenegro that delivers solutions for banks and telecoms and CEO of Poslovna inteligencija Podgorica, DWH solutions provider. Thanks to his strategic thinking and collaborative mindset, Ivica built a reputation of a problem solver among the banking circles in the Balkans region. In the past 15 years, Ivica managed to expand Logate’s business to 11 European countries, servicing the clients such as Magenta Austria, Telekom Srbija, United Group, Erste Montenegro and many others. Ivica will participate in a panel discussion where he will showcase the role of software vendors in the changing banking industry.
  • Takes part
  • 17:20
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  • 18:00
  • Digitalizaion of SME Sales
  • Onur Gul
  • Head of Digital Sales and Marketing at ING Business Banking Turkey
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 17:20
  • -
  • 18:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digitalizaion of SME Sales
  • Tomasz Gasiorowski
  • Commercial Director at Monevia
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 17:20
  • -
  • 18:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digitalizaion of SME Sales
  • Piotr Mieczkowski
  • CPO SME at Santander Bank Polska
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 17:20
  • -
  • 18:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digitalizaion of SME Sales
  • Olena Gryniuk
  • CEE Regional Director at SME Banking Club (Poland)
Live stage

Olena Gryniuk is responsible for the development of the SME Banking Club in the CEE region. Before getting involved in the SME Banking Club activities, Olena was in charge of SME products and sales in Raiffeisen Bank and Eurobank groups.

About SME Banking Club
The SME Banking Club was established by a team of former SME bankers in 2010 as a professional network of bankers to exchange information and experiences in the segments of micro, small and medium-sized businesses. The SME Banking Club organizes regional SME banking conferences and webinars that bring together financial institutions, technology companies, and development finance institutions to share knowledge, spur innovation and promote the growth of SMEs in the region. Moreover, it provides its members with access to detailed analytical market reports and annual studies. SME Banking Club’s main activities are concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe. 

  • Takes part
  • 10:00
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  • 10:10
  • Welcome Note
  • 12:50
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  • 13:30
  • Discussion Panel: Creation of SME Ecosystems: the role of banks and fintechs
  • 18:15
  • -
  • 19:00
  • CEE SME Banking Awards Ceremony
  • Enrique Caballero
  • EMEA Sales Director at Aware-Biometrics (USA)
Live stage

Enrique Caballero works at Aware Inc, as Sales Director EMEA, for the Biometrics division. His areas of function include evangelizing Aware’s Biometrics and Digital Identity solutions and their impact on transforming the government and private sectors landscape.

  • Takes part
  • 11:05
  • -
  • 11:20
  • Presentation
  • 11:20
  • -
  • 12:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds in digital customer journeys
  • Pawel Jaszewski
  • Tribe Leader - Customer Lifecycle Tribe in SME & Corporate Banking at BNP Paribas Bank Polska
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 11:20
  • -
  • 12:00
  • Discussion Panel: Digital Customer Onboarding, biometrics, and prevention of frauds
  • Karol Leszczyński
  • Product Manager at Comarch
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 14:45
  • -
  • 15:00
  • Presentation
  • 15:00
  • -
  • 15:40
  • Discussion Panel: Digitalization of factoring and receivable finance
  • Michal Pawlik
  • Head of Process, Product & IT at ING Commercial Finance Poland
Live stage
  • Takes part
  • 16:10
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  • 16:50
  • Discussion Panel: Digitization of SME Lending
  • Šimon Kočí
  • Co-founder at Everly.eu
Live stage
Simon is an innovation, user experience, and marketing lover, and a co-founder at Everly.eu – online magazine oriented on innovative Challenger banks and fintech.
  • Takes part
  • 17:20
  • -
  • 18:00
  • Discussion Panel: Moderator - Šimon Kočí (Co-founder at Everly.eu)