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 themed days of published banking sessions in Amsterdam, two rooms running in parallel throughout.

23–27 November 2026
Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Delegates seated at round tables during a previous Zenith Group event — Photograph from a previous Zenith Group event. Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026.

What the summit is

A five-day working programme on banking, held in one place and published before it happens.

Published in advance
All 89 sessions are on the official timetable with a time, a room and — where the programme assigns one — a named speaker and their organisation.
Two rooms, five days
Main Stage (Room A · strategy) and Innovation & Implementation (Room B · delivery) run in parallel for the whole 5 days, 23–27 November 2026, all times Central European Time (CET).
No claims beyond the source
No attendance figure, price, award or endorsement appears anywhere on this page, because none of them is verifiable from the official source.

Five routes through the programme

Five ways in, one per day. Each keeps the timetable's own session titles, times and rooms. Times are Central European Time (CET).

Day 1: AI & Trusted Finance

23 November 2026

14 sessions, two rooms

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

Day 2: Identity & Cyber Resilience

24 November 2026

16 sessions, two rooms

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

Day 3: Payments & Digital Assets

25 November 2026

20 sessions, two rooms

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

Day 4: Customer Growth & Platform Banking

26 November 2026

23 sessions, two rooms

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

Day 5: Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030

27 November 2026

16 sessions, two rooms

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

Sessions and experts

Four contributors, one from each of the first four days, each beside the session the official timetable puts them against. Nobody is ranked and nobody is placed at a height.

Rita Gnutti

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

AI governance & model risk

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

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

Corporate digital identity management

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

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

Instant payments and interoperability

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

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

Rudolf Stefanich

Senior Manager - Product Insights, Bitpanda / New Design University, Austria

Human-AI banking experience

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

Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria

The full roster of 65 speakers

Attendance

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

Registration and current conditions

Gallery

Photographs from previous Zenith Group events, in their own colour and uncropped.

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

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

Partnership

Sponsorship and exhibiting are arranged directly with the organiser. No package, price, stand, partner name or partner logo appears on this page, because the verified source publishes none of it.

Sponsor and exhibitor opportunities

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 and legal

Does the shape in the opening mean anything?

No. It is one composition and nothing else — not a chart, not a hierarchy, not navigation and not a logo. No speaker, day or session is placed at a height on it.

Why are the days called routes?

Only in the section heading, as a way of saying there are five ways through the programme. Each one is headed Day 1 to Day 5 and uses the timetable's own session titles unchanged.

What is published?

89 sessions across 5 days in two rooms, with 65 listed speakers from 31 countries. Times are Central European Time (CET).

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.

Where are the photographs from?

Previous Zenith Group events, all of them, each captioned as such. Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026 and has not happened yet.

Organiser of record

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

Company ID 02354357 · VAT CZ02354357

info@group-zenith.com · +420 778 647 921

Status of this page

An information page about Banking Frontier 2026. It takes no payment and holds no booking; registration, terms and official announcements are handled only on the official site.

Terms · Privacy

Banking Frontier 2026

What the summit is

Published in advance

Two rooms, five days

No claims beyond the source

Five routes through the programme

Day 1: AI & Trusted Finance

AI governance & model risk

Data, AI enablement & intelligent automation for bank operations

Scaling AI responsibly: leadership playbook for AI risk & compliance

Day 2: Identity & Cyber Resilience

Corporate digital identity management

Digital trust in AI-led banking · risk, audit and cyber oversight at board level

User centricity in cybersecurity · UX research and behavioural science

Day 3: Payments & Digital Assets

Instant payments and interoperability

The new payments landscape · instant, interoperable, invisible and built on trust

Digital wallets and biometric payments · customer experience and secure authentication

Day 4: Customer Growth & Platform Banking

Human-AI banking experience

AI-augmented service and product-led banking at scale

Present and Future of Digital Transformation in Islamic Banking