Deep dive into a Swiss insurance use case for software testing, where we will highlight the challenges, explore the solution and discuss the lessons learnt.
Aldo Lamberti
Founder
Syntheticus
This roundtable will explore the technical, governance and cultural elements of PET vendor selection and organizational preparation that lead to successful and profitable PETs integration.
Alan Cross
Chief Commercial Officer
Diveplane
Karen Silverman
CEO and Founder
The Cantellus Group
Karen is a leading global expert in practical governance strategies for AI and other frontier technologies. As the CEO and Founder of The Cantellus Group, she advises Fortune 50 companies, startups, consortia, and the public sector on how to manage cutting-edge technologies in a rapidly changing policy environment. Her expertise is informed by more than 20 years of practice and management leadership at Latham & Watkins, LLP where she advised global businesses in complex antitrust matters, M&A, governance, ESG, and crisis management. Karen chairs the board of a public benefit corporation developing complex content moderation tools. She is an SME for the Business Roundtable's Responsible AI Initiative, and a World Economic Forum Global Innovator and Karen sits on its Global AI Council. She serves on the boards of Krunam, AI.EDU, Legal Momentum and Not For Sale.
Secure data collaboration, made possible by PETs, is changing the face of fraud detection processes in banking and insurance - allowing for more comprehensive and efficient searches for suspicious activity, without ever exposing personal data. In this workshop, Xtendr will explore how tailored collaborations focused on fraud detection can best meet the needs of the financial industry.
- Deep-diving into fraud detection use cases from both banking and insurance, assessing the existing applications of data collaboration.
- Exploring financial fraud detection processes in more detail, discussing how collaboration solutions can grow and adapt to meet them.
- Answering questions about stress testing, implementation, outcomes, and data security.
Miranda Overett
Head of Communications
Xtendr
Pavle Avramović
Emerging Tech & Research
Financial Conduct Authority
Pavle leads the Emerging Technologies Hub at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He focuses on providing insights and thought leadership on how emerging technologies could impact financial services markets, consumers and regulators. His areas of focus include quantum computing, privacy enhancing technologies, synthetic data and distributed ledger technologies.
Previously he was closely involved in FCA’s efforts across RegTech and SupTech, including the TechSprint work programme. He also leads the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) Horizon Scanning Workstream and is a member of the World Economic Forum Quantum Security Working Group.
He holds a MSc in Digital Innovation and Information Systems from the London School of Economics and is an Industrial Fellow at the University of East London. He has co-authored papers for the Harvard Data Science Review, Alan Turing Institute and other organisations, including presenting at major conferences and research seminars.
Kirby Brendsel
Vice President ESG and Sustainability Director
Flagstar Bank
Kirby Brendsel is Flagstar Bank’s VP, Environmental, Social, & Governance (ESG) and Sustainability Director, where he leads Flagstar's strategic sustainability and initiatives and the company's goal to be a recognized global sustainability leader. He is coming from Welltower Inc.’s (a real estate investment trust) where he headed their award-winning strategic sustainability and ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Welltower in 2019, Mr. Brendsel worked at Nuveen as a Director of Responsible Investing. Before Nuveen, he served as Associate Director of Sustainability for Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide, where he supported the strategy, integration and management of Starwood’s sustainability program and worked collaboratively with the community programs/Starwood Foundation team on CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) strategy and reporting. Previously, Mr. Brendsel consulted for Deloitte where he assisted in the creation of Deloitte’s Federal Sustainability practice and Diversity & Inclusion program. Mr. Brendsel’s other past roles include active-duty service as a Military Intelligence Corps Major in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Brendsel graduated with distinction and honors from the College of William and Mary with a B.A. in Business and the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University with an M.B.A. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (PMI), U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED Green Associate (GA), and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Mr. Brendsel was recently recognized as an Honoree for 2020 by Environment + Energy Leader’s annual "best of" list of environment and energy professionals - the E+E 100.
Mr. Brendsel is active in his local community, where he has served on the Board of Directors of the Aspetuck Land Trust and Lachat Town Farm Commission as well as on the Town of Weston’s Sustainability Committee, Historical Society, and Conservation and Parks & Recreation Commissions.