Piia-Noora Kauppi has been the Managing Director of Finance Finland since 2009. She is an highly regarded expert in financial affairs, with a thorough knowledge of the European financial sector and a broad experience in international banking, insurance and the securities markets. She is a board member at UPM Kymmene plc, Sulava Oy and Finnish Financial Ombudsman Bureau. She was a Member of the European Parliament 1999–2008 and Head of the Finnish Delegation in the EPP-ED Group 2004–2008. 

Antti has over 10 years of experience from financial markets. He has worked in several research positions regarding macroeconomics, investment strategy and equity research. Last year, Antti was ranked as the highest valued banking & insurance equity analyst by the Finnish institutional investors (Sifo Prospera). Antti is currently leading cross-asset research functions of OP Markets. Prior OP, Antti worked for Swedbank and eQ Bank.

Morten is the COO of Lunar Way, the Danish neobank, that secured a banking license in August 2019. He’s been in the company since the beginning, and have spearheaded the license application, open banking projects, and the Nordic rollout. Prior to Lunar Way, he was the Head of Strategy and M&A at 3rd largest Telco and Energy Company in Denmark.

Kathy Chang is Senior Strategic Partnership Manager at DNB, focusing on collaborations with Fintechs. Previously, Kathy worked with establishing payment and logistics infrastructure in 7 countries for Shopee, the biggest e-commerce platform in South East Asia. Kathy has a Master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.

Petter has spent most of his professional career building strategic partnerships with leading internet companies like Facebook, Google and Tencent, working for corporates like Telenor Group and DNB Bank. He has a Master of Science degree from NTNU. After his study he co-founded his own internet startup in Germany and he has also been part of several of other startups. Today Petter holds the title as Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Partnerships at DNB.

Marek is an experienced entrepreneur with a passion for proptech & fintech. Currently, he is reinventing property finance at EstateGuru, one of the leading European platforms for real estate-backed loans. During his 15 year career in property business, he noticed that banks were often unwilling to lend money, even though there was a solid business plan and mitigated risks. To tackle the issues in the financial world, Marek co-founded Estateguru. Today, the platform has 27 000 investors from 106 countries and has disbursed loans of over €135 million in six countries. Marek is also a highly valued public speaker, and is regularly invited to flagship events and conferences to share his views and experiences about property finance transformation.

As the founder and CEO of enkla.com, Alexander has grown the business from a start-up to what is today the most well-known online mortgage issuer in Sweden. With a background in software engineering at Lund University, Alexander’s first experience with financial technology was in 2004 with the global investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Frankfurt, Germany. He then applied his software development skills in government and the private sector before returning to fintech as the founder of the mortgage broker Lånbyte in 2012. That business transitioned to enkla.com which launched in 2018 as a revolutionary financial technology institution specializing in digital mortgage origination.

Hans van Grieken is the EMEA Technology Research & Insights Leader and part of Deloitte’s global Emerging Tech Executive Council. He joined Deloitte in August 2016 coming in from Gartner where he was a VP of Research. In this role he helps shape Deloitte’s global research agenda in addition to identifying & driving a number of EMEA research initiatives. Hans is the lead or co-author of a number of recent Deloitte global and regional digital transformation research papers.

Sundareswaran Devarajan enjoys 17 years of banking experience, including 7 years in the middle east and the rest in UK/Europe regions. His expert knowledge in retail & corporate finance has earned him a role in Temenos as a Principal Presales lead consultant. Mr. Devarajan began his career in 2002 as a developer, before angling his career toward implementation services to focus on creating solutions and strategies for various client deployment. In his current role he is involved in designing proof of concepts for emerging fintech trends like Distributed Ledger Technology, Open Banking etc. He holds a Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, a diploma in Networking systems and an MBA from the University of Leicester. He is also a certified Data Scientist.

Paul is old enough to be called an industry veteran with more than 35 years of IT experience. He worked with Fintech customers for more than 20 years, has worked as Chief Solution Architect for Skandiabanken and also consulted for several major companies in Telco and Manufacturing. Paul works now as the Senior Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where cloud security is the highest priority and customer’s data center and network architecture are built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.

Andreas Björk draws on his deep experience in the tech sector to help ensure that Enfuce meets today’s requirements of fast time-to-market with high quality at all times. Enfuce is the world’s first PCI DSS–Level 1 compliant cloud-based payment service provider approved by the Finnish FSA and Andreas works between the business, tech and compliance domains when launching new services, products and on-boarding new customers. Andreas was also responsible for Enfuce’s PCI-DSS–Level 1 certification.

Jouni is the acting CEO of OPR Finance, a leading consumer and business credit provider company founded in 2005. Jouni has 25 years of international business and IT & Digital experience mainly focused on Banking. His passion is to continuously drive innovation and improvements. Jouni has a doctor’s degree in Business Administration from St George University.

Juha Volotinen is an experienced IT director who is currently the CIO of Aktia Bank. Juha was the Program Director for Core Bank Replacement at Aktia, which was the first successful core banking system renewal in the Nordics. Juha has prior experience from SEB and Danske Bank.

With more than two decades of rich experience in strategy & operations with global consulting leaders, Dipanjan brings deep expertise in high performance enterprise solutions and value architectures to the table. Dipanjan has extensive experience in large global bundled outsourcing programs including acquisition and integration of large globally distributed teams across Europe, NA and APAC. He has played Enterprise Architect role in complex enterprise scale platform development, process and cognitive automation, cloud architecture, On-Demand Service Utility models, Global ERP rollout. He served as an active member and frequent speaker at the top engineering and business schools in India, as well as NASSCOM and IEEE

“I began my career in banking, acquisitions and financial management, working at companies such as Merrill Lynch and Kone. Invesdor was started in 2012 and soon blossomed; I became a full-time entrepreneur in 2013.
Entrepreneurship has taught me so much. I have learned a great deal about the importance of marketing and about managing and leading professionals. I’m still learning new things every day, aiming to grow as a leader who can foster a secure and confident atmosphere in his team.
Invesdor was started from scratch by a group of friends. Seven years later, we have people in five countries, offices in three, and a foothold on the international market. We’ve come a long way and will keep building a great digital financing ecosystem on an international level.”

In addition to experience within the financial field, Antti is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first company at the age of 17.

Sami Honkonen is the CEO of Tomorrow Labs. Tomorrow Labs is a Digital product studio behind the digital housing trade platform DIAS. Sami started speaking at conferences in 2010. Since then he has presented hundreds of times all over the world. He is also the host of Boss Level Podcast and a death metal singer.

Hasan Malik is a tech entrepreneur and the founder of Cloudasset, a privately held R&D company that develops cloud technology for digital payments, water & resources management, cyber readiness and smart environments for governments, banks, and enterprises. During his career, Hasan has held leading technology & business development roles at British Telecom, Hewlett Packard and AGT International in Europe and the Asia Pacific. Cloudasset is working on creating domestic digital payment eco-systems in emerging markets working closely with governments and central banks.