British internet technologist, journalist, author and broadcaster

Ben Hammersley

Ben Hammersley is one of the most thought-provoking futurists of our time and has been addressing audiences around the globe for over 10 years. He brings a practical, proactive approach to future technologies—inspiring audiences to be PRESENT now to be PREPARED for the future.

More details on Ben can be found on his website: https://www.benhammersley.com/

Dentons

Tracy Molino

Tracy Molino is Counsel in our Corporate group. Tracy has extensive experience with payments law and technology, bank regulatory and policy matters, and consumer protection issues. She has particular interest in FinTech, PayTech and other innovative technologies. Her combination of private sector and regulatory experience allows her to offer practical insight as to how companies from around the world operating in Canada can best achieve their business objectives.

Prior to joining Dentons, Tracy worked as a director at Payments Canada, where she supported ongoing efforts to modernize Canada’s national payments systems, as well as legal and policy frameworks. She has also worked as Senior Counsel at the Bank of Montreal.

Toronto Financial Services Alliance

Jennifer Reynolds

Gemic

Johannes Suikkanen

Johannes Suikkanen is co-founder of global growth strategy agency, Gemic, and oversees teams in New York, Toronto and Helsinki. He works globally with senior executives from top-tier firms ranging from technology to financial sectors.

Breaking from traditional modes of consulting, Johannes prompts businesses to step outside corporate comfort zones and to rethink the fundamentals of their value propositions. With an astute eye for people, technology, culture and society, Johannes mobilizes these lenses to provide unique business solutions that respond to and shape the current zeitgeist. Addressing the most pressing business challenges of our time, Johannes champions the human sciences as the portal to producing to culturally-resonant, future-proofed business solutions.

Johannes holds a Master’s degree in Business & Culture Studies from Copenhagen Business School, and has studied at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.

ScotiaBank

Dubie Cunningham

Clinc

Jason Mars

Dr. Jason Mars is the co-founder and CEO of Clinc, the company that created the most advanced conversational A.I. platform in the world. Recently recognized as one of the ten most innovative CEOs in banking by Bank Innovation, he is also a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan where he directs Clarity Lab, one of the best places in the world to be trained in A.I. and system design. He is an active part of the IBM Watson Conversational System Research Center and participates in ongoing collaborative research with Intel and the National Science Foundation. Jason has devoted his career to solving difficult real-world problems with A.I., computer vision, and natural language processing at scale. Prior to The University of Michigan, Jason was a professor at the University of California San Diego. He also worked at Google, Intel and IBM. Jason’s work building the world’s first open-source platform for constructing large-scale A.I. and deep learning-based Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) has been recognized globally and continues to have a significant impact on industry and academia. Jason holds a PhD in computer science from University of Virginia.

Product Owner @George Labs, Erste Group Bank

Mario Brkic

TD Bank

Paige Dickie

Paige joined TD’s family in January 2017, coming from McKinsey & Company where she spent just under three years consulting for fortune 100 clients, globally, across a variety of industries. Prior to this, Paige raised funding for the development of an app surrounding her patented mobile touch screen technology, which she filed for during the second half of her Masters. She received her MASc in Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and her BSc in Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University. In her spare time, Paige keeps busy with her second startup, which is based around her three pending energy generation technology patents. At TD, Paige focuses on defining their digital strategy, driving innovation, and realizing AI technology integrations.

Interac

Debbie Gamble

Debbie Gamble is the VP Digital Products and Platforms at Interac responsible for the delivery of the digital commerce and faster payments strategies.  With over 35 years of experience, Debbie has been involved in early iterations of the digital economy including crypto currency, mobile commerce, electronic cash, prepaid, EMV, contact and contactless solutions on an international scale.  Previous roles include co-founder and SVP Product and Strategy at Dexit Inc. and Head of North America for Mondex International (a subsidiary of MasterCard).  She is currently a Fintech Advisor at MaRS, a member of the FINCA Advisory Board and is one of Canada’s most influential and leading authorities on digital payments, speaking passionately on fintech and innovation in payments and business transformation.

Beneplan

Yafa Sakkejha

Yafa Sakkejha is the CEO of Beneplan, a group insurance co-operative. Yafa is responsible for the digital disruption of the business, and also oversees HR, business development, underwriting, and customer success. Yafa has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, National Post, and has started companies in the wellness and tourism fields. Yafa holds a B.Comm (Hons) from Queen’s University.

Stack

Ranjit Sarai

As the Chief Product Officer at Stack, Ranjit is responsible for developing the product strategy and roadmap at one of Canada’s most exciting fintechs.

Prior to his role at Stack, Ranjit was the Head of Digital Strategy and Innovation at President’s Choice Financial (PCF). At PCF, Ranjit was responsible for spearheading an enterprise wide digital transformation program as well as launching several digital initiatives including Canada’s first mobile wallet and Loblaw’s PC Insider program, an innovative digital subscription program geared towards young families.

Previous to PCF, Ranjit was the Director of Mobile Banking at CIBC. As the mobile banking evangelist, Ranjit was instrumental in helping position CIBC as a leader in the space with the launch of several key mobile first initiatives such as remote cheque deposit and mobile/tablet banking.

Ranjit frequently speaks at Fintech conferences and has chaired international working groups on mobile financial services. Ranjit has also co-authored whitepapers on mobile wallet, mPOS and advises fintech startups in navigating the emerging payments landscape.

Ranjit holds a Software Engineering (BEng) from Concordia University in Montreal as well as a MBA from the Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario.

Finn.ai

Jake Tyler

Jake Tyler is Co-founder and CEO at Finn.ai, an award-winning AI powered personal banking
and financial management assistant. Finn can regularly can be found featured in the likes of
USA Today, VentureBeat and Bloomberg, or on stage at Money20/20, Finovate and VivaTech
Paris. Originally from Australia, he has worked and lived in five countries in the last decade.
Prior to founding Finn, Jake was a Director at Brook Intelligence, as well as an M&A Strategy
Consultant at PMSI Consulting (London). MBA at IE Business School.

BMO

Sumit Sarkar

Sumit Sarkar is Director Strategy, Innovation and Customer Experience within Personal and Business Banking Marketing at BMO. He received his MBA (Masters of Business Administration) degree from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) from University of Delhi, India. Over the past 10 years, he has been leading strategy and transformation initiatives across technology, financial services and telecommunications industries. His experience spreads across international borders with significant exposure to Europe and the US. His recent work involves launching Canada’s first personal banking chatbot – BMO BOLT^TM via Facebook Messenger. BMO BOLT^TM helps customers get answers to over 250 FAQs anytime, anywhere and on any device.

TD Bank

Tae Moon

Tae is currently a Sr. Manager of TD Bank’s Emerging Capabilities team leading the strategy and initiatives on Artificial Intelligence and ChatBot. He has over 12 years of experience working for consumer electronics R&D center, telecommunication labs, startup in Silicon Valley, and financial institution in North America and abroad.

interac

Grace Jung

Grace Jung, Director, Mobile Software and Services at Interac, is responsible for bringing mobile debit payments to the Canadian marketplace. Grace manages the software and services integrated and adopted by OEMS and Issuers to enable INTERAC with Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay and Issuer Proprietary Wallets. With over 20 years in the payments industry, Grace continues to shape and drive the evolution of card to mobile experiences with world-class assets that help accelerate strategy to execute mobile payment initiatives.

Kasisto

Sasha Caskey

Sasha Caskey, CTO and Co-founder of Kasisto, has over 15 years of experience inventing and transitioning breakthrough technology into applications and products, and has spent the entirety of his career continually teaching computers to better communicate with humans. At Kasisto, Sasha drives the architectural direction and software development of the company’s KAI platform – integrating its industry-agnostic, full stack AI technologies with prepackaged banking knowledge. Before founding Kasisto, he was a member of the IBM TJ Watson research team, The MITRE corporation and Speechworks Intl. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and M.A. from Columbia University.

Deloitte

Christine Robson

Christine is a manager in Deloitte’s corporate strategy practice. Christine joined Deloitte with the acquisition of the Monitor Group in 2013. Christine’s primary focus is Financial Services, and she has worked with banking, insurance, and wealth management clients across North America on customer strategy and experience design, digital strategy, business model design, and growth strategy. Christine also has experience working with leading financial institutions in Canada and the United States and with the public sector on regulatory reform and strategies for Fintech development.

In 2016, Christine led the Disruptive Innovation in Financial Services project at the World Economic Forum and was the lead author on the Forum’s 2016 report ‘A Blueprint for Digital Identity’. She is a regular speaker on this topic and has presented to industry groups and governments around the world.

Christine holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.

BMO

Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh, Senior Manager – Strategy & Innovation (Personal and Business Banking Marketing) at BMO, is responsible for designing and executing the innovation agenda to push the boundaries of marketing effectiveness at BMO. Most recently, he led the launch of Canada’s first-of-its-kind chatbot, a project  he managed from drawing board to execution. BMO BoltTM was conceptualized with the objective to improve customer experience by providing BMO customers the ease of access in the channel of their choice.  Previously, he has been involved in developing transformational strategies to achieve sustainable growth – spanning across Retail, Consumer Goods and Consumer Durables industries. He was also involved in developing and launching a motorcycle brand at the start of his career. He received his MBA from Queen’s University and his B.Engg from Punjab University, India.

CaixaBank

Jordi Guaus

Jordi Guaus is a Telecom Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and also holds a degree in Business Administration from the Open University of Catalonia.

He joined CaixaBank in the year 2000, having worked at Vodafone for 5 years as the in-charge of Corporate Market Services Development, prior to that. At CaixaBank, a leading retail bank in Spain, Jordi has worked in Mobile Financial Services, developing services including the first Mobile Internet Banking.

While working as the Head of Mobile Payments, Jordi leaded the NFC & Remote Payments related initiative at CaixaBank. Where, he was focus on Mobile Payments in collaboration with the Cards Unit of CaixaBank. Moreover, he was the Project Manager of the mobile NFC pilot in Sitges, Spain (“Mobile Shopping Sitges 2010”), the first NFC payment trial in Spain. Later, he worked in the deployment of CaixaBank’s mobile payment services.

In 2014 Jordi joined the CaixaBank’s Marketing Department as a Digital Marketing Director to give transversal support to all marketing team and to focus on innovative projects. Some of the more relevant projects managed by Jordi during this period are the launch of imaginBank, first mobile only bank in Spain, the creation of the Payment Innovation Hub together with Samsung, Visa, Arval and Global Payments, and the opening of the imaginCafe, a physical place for the millennials.

In addition, from 2008 to 2015, Jordi was member of the Mobile Channel Working Group of the European Payments Council (EPC) working on establishing the necessary standards and business rules related to the initiation and receipt of credit transfer, direct debit and card payments through mobile devices under SEPA (Single European Payment Area).

Jordi also joined the Mobey Forum’s Board of Directors in the year 2009, and he was appointed as Chairman of the Board in 2013 leading the association since them. Mobey Forum is a non-profit making, global, financial industry-driven forum, with a clear mission to encourage the use of digital/mobile technology in financial services. Furthermore, Jordi has also been coleading several expert groups within Mobey, as for example the last one, the Open Banking Expert Group, and he has participated in the publishing of several white papers as a result of that.

ESADE university

Luis Rodriguez

Sensibill

Jan-Lukas Wolf

Jan-Lukas (pronounced: Yann-Look-Us) is a strategist who supports strategic partnerships at Sensibill, and facilitates the continual growth of the company. He has a banking background and previously held a range of positions at RBC, spanning strategic planning, product management, business development and risk governance.