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
International Banking Summit
Banking Frontier 2026
- Dates
- 23–27 November 2026
- Venue
- Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers
- City
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Format
- 5 days, two rooms, 89 sessions
- Times
- Central European Time (CET)
An information page. Registration, payment and official announcements happen only on the official site.
Programme highlights
The five days as a broad timetable, three published sessions each, with real times, rooms and attributions. None of this detail sits inside the plates above. Times are Central European Time (CET).
AI & Trusted Finance
Day 1 · 23 November 2026
14 sessions, two rooms
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
Identity & Cyber Resilience
Day 2 · 24 November 2026
16 sessions, two rooms
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
Payments & Digital Assets
Day 3 · 25 November 2026
20 sessions, two rooms
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
Customer Growth & Platform Banking
Day 4 · 26 November 2026
23 sessions, two rooms
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
Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030
Day 5 · 27 November 2026
16 sessions, two rooms
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
Speakers
A horizontal sequence of four contributors, one from each of the first four days, each linked to the session the official timetable puts them against.
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
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
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
Delegate and online participation
In person
Both rooms run at Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam, for all 5 days, 23–27 November 2026. Times are Central European Time (CET).
Online
Online participation runs alongside the in-person summit. The official registration page is the only place that states the current passes, terms and any group conditions — none of them is reproduced here, because they change at the source.
Sponsor and exhibit details
Sponsorship and exhibiting at Banking Frontier 2026 are arranged directly with the organiser. This page lists no package, price, tier, stand, floor plan or partner, and shows no partner logo, because the verified source publishes none of it.
Organiser
Zenith-Energie International s.r.o.
Rezlerova 273/74, Petrovice, 109 00 Praha, Czechia
Company ID 02354357 · VAT CZ02354357
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)
Photo gallery
All 6 approved photographs, at a larger size, including the strip at the top of this page. Every one is from a previous Zenith Group event run by the same organiser; Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026 and has not happened yet.
Questions
Are the six plates showing figures?
No. Not one of them carries a number as a headline. Each is a link with a descriptive action label and a visible focus ring, and each goes to the official page that owns that information.
Is there a floor plan or a stand list?
No. The verified source publishes neither, so this page shows neither. Exhibiting is arranged directly with the organiser.
Are passes still available?
This page makes no availability claim. Passes, terms and any group conditions are stated only on the official registration page.
What is in the programme?
89 sessions across 5 themed days in two rooms — Main Stage (Room A · strategy) and Innovation & Implementation (Room B · delivery) — with 65 listed speakers.
Do the photographs show this summit?
No. All of them are from previous Zenith Group events and each is captioned as such. Banking Frontier 2026 takes place 23–27 November 2026.
Organiser and legal
Organiser of record
Zenith-Energie International s.r.o., Rezlerova 273/74, Petrovice, 109 00 Praha, Czechia.
Company ID 02354357 · VAT CZ02354357