Supervision Innovators Conference 2026

Onsite: Registration and coffee

Fireside chat

Speaker: Boris Vujčić, Vice-President, European Central Bank

Chair: Pedro Teixeira, Director General, SSM Governance & Operations, European Central Bank

Keynote speech

Cristina Caffarra, Chair, EuroStack Industry Foundation

Panel discussion I
Digital Innovation: From Automation to Intelligent Systems

Chair: Daniela Schackis, Deputy Director General, SSM Governance & Operations, European Central Bank

Panellists:

• Peter Nathanial, Programme Director, INSEAD

• Dominik Schmidt-Kiefer, Head of Risk Process Innovation, Deutsche Bank

• Cordula Thamm, Strategic Advisor, Alexander Thamm

• Leonard Schreij, Vice President EMEA, Legora

Coffee break & SupTech gallery walk

Sprints: SupTech and Beyond

Moderator: Lukasz Kubicki, Head of Technology & Innovation Division, European Central Bank

When AI becomes part of everyday work: how AI helps remove complexity and boost productivity

Ann-Christin Feyh, Associate Partner, IBM Deutschland

When AI becomes a source of insight: how AI helps identify risks, patterns and opportunities that would otherwise be difficult to detect

Markus Schmaus, Managing Director, S&P Global Ratings

When AI becomes embedded across the organisation: how organisations adapt when AI moves beyond isolated use cases

Yaw Tan, Head of SupTech, Monetary Authority of Singapore

When AI becomes critical infrastructure: how organisations deploy AI securely, responsibly and at scale

Nadja Baulecke, Director Financial Services & Insurance, Schwarz Digits

SupTech Innovation Award: Fit for the Digital Age

Moderator: Victor Morilla, Deputy Head of Supervisory IT Services Division, European Central Bank

Jury:

• Eleftheria Amilitou, Head of Data Analytics Domain Services Division, European Central Bank

• Karla Chaman, Head of Internal Communications, International Monetary Fund

• Jan Hendrick Schmidt, Senior Advisor, DG Horizontal Line Supervision, European Central Bank
• Wijnand Nuijts, Head of Department, De Nederlandsche Bank

Lunch break & SupTech gallery walk

Speech
Reimagining Supervision: Building on What Works for What’s Next

Mary Elizabeth McMunn, Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Ireland

Panel discussion II
Digital Resilience: Continuity in Times of Disruption

Chair: Torsti Silvonen, Deputy Director General, DG Horizontal Line Supervision, European Central Bank

Panellists:

• Boris Augustinov, Senior Policy Officer, European Commission
• Carlos Casas, Global Head of Engineering, BBVA
• Simonas Krėpšta, Executive Board Member, AMLA
• Jermy Prenio, Principal Advisor, Financial Stability Institute of the Bank for International Settlements

Coffee break & SupTech gallery walk

Panel discussion III
Digital Skills: The Human-Technology Partnership in an Agentic World

Chair: Eva Murciano, Director General, DG Human Resources, European Central Bank

Panellists:

• Karla Chaman, Head of Internal Communication, International Monetary Fund
• Andreas Gschwenter, Chief Operating Officer / Chief Information Officer, Raiffeisen Bank
• Rūta Merkevičiūtė, Head of Digital Finance Unit, European Banking Authority 
• Markus Trost, Partner, Odgers

SupTech Innovation Award ceremony 

Peter Nathanial, Programme Director, INSEAD

Closing remarks

Pedro Teixeira, Director General, SSM Governance & Operations, European Central Bank

End of conference day 1

Eliza Demo - One platform for building and governing AI solutions at scale

• Laurens Meulman, Director of Product Management, BNY Mellon
• Rachel Zahra, Chief Operating Officer, BNY Mellon
• Sreelatha Purushothaman, Global Head of Enterprise AI and Data Governance, BNY Mellon

SSM Cockpit - One platform for all supervisory applications & dashboards

• Alexandros Pantazopoulos, Supervision Analyst, Technology & Innovation Division, European Central Bank
• Marcello De Rosa, Supervision Analyst, Technology & Innovation Division, European Central Bank

KBC’s Kate Control Room - From risk monitoring to actionable insights

• Lies Liermann, General Manager Operational Resilience, KBC Group

Bank Chat - Transforming how we access knowledge

• Brian Dillon, Head of IT Strategy, Partnering and Architecture, Central Bank of Ireland
• Aidan Wade, Senior Data and AI Engineer, Central Bank of Ireland

Transaction Monitoring Transformation - AI-powered AML surveillance for better detection, productivity and risk management

• Alessandro Baradi, AI Officer, UniCredit

Regulatory Helper - An agentic tool to help navigate the regulatory landscape

• Henri Forss, Senior AI Specialist, FIN-FSA

Lunch break

Comoto - AI-acceleration of committee work in the Austrian National Bank

• Florian Köhl, IT Project Manager and DMS System Administrator, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
• Roland Ramp, Lead of the Competence Center for Artificial Intelligence, Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Athena - Your AI companion for supervisory work

• Maia Köhler, Team Lead, SupTech Analytics Section, European Central Bank

• Hendrik Brakemeier, Team Lead, IT Application Development, European Central Bank

Nexus - Visualizing financial interconnections through networks

• Emeline Bagoris, Data Scientist, Innovation Division, ACPR - Banque de France

Athena AI Assistants - Purpose-built agents for every supervisory task

• Jakob Kruse, Supervision Analyst, European Central Bank
• Luis Ruiz Valero, IT Application Development Specialist, European Central Bank

End of conference