Day 1 · 23 November 2026
AI & Trusted Finance
AI-native banking, governance, model risk, data foundations, and the path from pilots to enterprise value.
Banking Frontier 2026
International Banking Summit. Five days of published banking sessions in Amsterdam, open to anyone who registers.
- Dates
- 23–27 November 2026
- Venue
- Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam
- Programme
- 89 sessions across 5 days, two rooms
Day 3 · 25 November 2026
Payments & Digital Assets
Instant payments, wallets, tokenization, Open Finance, digital assets, and the future of money movement.
Day 5 · 27 November 2026
Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030
Post-quantum readiness, sovereign AI, and the technologies shaping banking to 2030.
What this forum is, in plain terms
A five-day working programme on banking, published in advance, with every session attributed to a named person and organisation.
Who the programme is written for
Session titles and descriptions address risk, compliance, identity, payments, customer operations and bank technology leadership. The published attributions name the people speaking and the institutions they work for.
What is on the record
89 sessions, 5 day themes, 65 named speakers from 31 countries, and two rooms running in parallel: Main Stage (Room A · strategy) and Innovation & Implementation (Room B · delivery).
What is not claimed here
No attendance figure, no price, no endorsement and no testimonial appears on this page, because none of those is verifiable from the official source.
Where the authority sits
Zenith-Energie International s.r.o. organises the forum. Registration, payment and official announcements happen only on the official Zenith site; this page informs and links, nothing more.
The five-day programme
One theme per day. Three sessions are reproduced from each day below; the complete timetable is published on the official site. Times are Central European Time (CET).
AI & Trusted Finance
Day 1, 23 November 2026
14 sessions
AI-native banking, governance, model risk, data foundations, and the path from pilots to enterprise value.
AI governance & model risk
Rita Gnutti · Head of Internal Validation and Controls · Intesa Sanpaolo · Italy
Data, AI enablement & intelligent automation for bank operations
Gladson Baby · VP & Director of Data & AI Enablement · Fifth Third Bank · US
Scaling AI responsibly: leadership playbook for AI risk & compliance
Frans Vanbruggen · Werkgebied Lead · AI Coalitie 4 Nederland (AIC4NL) · Netherlands
Identity & Cyber Resilience
Day 2, 24 November 2026
16 sessions
Digital identity, fraud prevention, authentication, cyber resilience, and real-time trust across banking journeys.
Corporate digital identity management
Stephan Wolf · Chair of the Board · Verifiable.Trade Foundation · Germany
Digital trust in AI-led banking · risk, audit and cyber oversight at board level
Dr. Björn Lenzmann · Member of The Supervisory Board · DenizBank · Turkey
User centricity in cybersecurity · UX research and behavioural science
Nazima Kadir · Global Head of UX: Cybersecurity · J.P. Morgan · UK
Payments & Digital Assets
Day 3, 25 November 2026
20 sessions
Instant payments, wallets, tokenization, Open Finance, digital assets, and the future of money movement.
Instant payments and interoperability
Domenico Scaffidi · CEO & Founder · DS Payments Ltd · UK
The new payments landscape · instant, interoperable, invisible and built on trust
Paul Walvik-Joynt · VP Commercialization Real-Time Payments · Mastercard · Norway
Digital wallets and biometric payments · customer experience and secure authentication
Mihai Draghici · Founder & CEO · PayByFace · Romania
Customer Growth & Platform Banking
Day 4, 26 November 2026
23 sessions
Omnichannel journeys, AI-assisted service, smart branches, SME banking, and platform-based growth.
Human-AI banking experience
Rudolf Stefanich · Lead UX Researcher · Bitpanda · Austria
AI-augmented service and product-led banking at scale
Speaker TBC
Present and Future of Digital Transformation in Islamic Banking
Wan Halim · Head of Shariah Governance (Global) · Crédit Agricole CIB · UAE
Future-Proofing Banking 2027–2030
Day 5, 27 November 2026
16 sessions
Post-quantum readiness, sovereign AI, and the technologies shaping banking to 2030.
Systemic Risk in European Banking 2027–2030: Geopolitics, AI and Structural Vulnerabilities
Ulf Holmberg · Functional Lead and Senior Analyst · Swedbank · Sweden
Preparing banks for systemic threats: cyber, geopolitical disruption and operational concentration risk
Naji Freiha · Risk Appetite, Strategy and Governance · Konsilium · France
Systemic threats and stress testing · post-quantum readiness
Christoffer Kok · Head of Division, Stress Test Experts · European Central Bank · Germany
Expert contributors
Five of the 65 listed speakers, one from each day of the programme, with the session each is published against.
Rita Gnutti
Executive Director, Internal Validation and Controls, Group Chief Risk Officer Area
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy
Stephan Wolf
Chair of the Board, Verifiable.Trade Foundation; Leadership Team, LEI Worldwide
LEI Worldwide / Verifiable Trade Foundation, Germany
Domenico Scaffidi
CEO and Founder / Independent Consultant, Global Payments Innovation Practice
DS Payments Ltd, United Kingdom
Rudolf Stefanich
Senior Manager - Product Insights
Bitpanda / New Design University, Austria
Taking part
In person
Both rooms run at Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Hoogoorddreef 66a, 1101 BE Amsterdam, Netherlands, for the full 5 days, 23–27 November 2026.
Online
Online participation runs alongside the in-person forum. Passes, terms and any group conditions appear only on the official registration page.
Venue and access
- 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
- Step-free access
- Step-free access; accessible WCs on every floor
- Registration desk
- Ground floor lobby, signposted on arrival
- Published times
- Central European Time (CET)
Event scenes
Both photographs below are from previous Zenith Group events. Nothing here shows Banking Frontier 2026, which has not happened yet.
Questions
What is Banking Frontier 2026 and when does it run?
It is the International Banking Summit, held 23–27 November 2026 at Holiday Inn Amsterdam – Arena Towers, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
How is the programme organised?
One theme per day across 5 days, with two rooms running in parallel — Main Stage (Room A · strategy) and Innovation & Implementation (Room B · delivery) — and 89 sessions in total. Times are Central European Time (CET).
Are the speakers on this page confirmed?
Every name, role and organisation shown here is taken from the official roster of 65 speakers. Where the timetable itself says a slot is not yet assigned, it reads "Speaker TBC" and this page repeats that unchanged.
Can I take part online?
In-person and online participation are both available. Current passes, terms and any group conditions are shown on the official registration page.
Do the photographs show this forum?
No. Every photograph here is from a previous Zenith Group event and is captioned as such. Banking Frontier 2026 has not taken place yet.
Who is responsible for the forum?
Zenith-Energie International s.r.o., Rezlerova 273/74, Petrovice, 109 00 Praha, Czechia. Company ID 02354357, VAT CZ02354357. Enquiries: info@group-zenith.com.