AWS Financial Services Symposium Sydney
4 August 2026 | Ilumina Sydney | Thank you for your interest in the AWS Financial Services Symposium Sydney. At this time registration is closed.
FSI Sydney 2026: Keynote
Executives from leading organisations join John Kain, Head of Financial Services Market Development at AWS, to share how they are harnessing AI to become more secure and resilient, improve the performance of their mission-critical applications, and seize new growth opportunities. Learn how AI is enabling financial institutions to fundamentally rethink how they operate their business, how they modernise their core systems, and how they connect with their customers.
Experience FSI Symposium Sydney
The AWS Financial Services Symposium is an exclusive, in-person event designed for executive leaders in the Financial Services industry seeking new strategies to drive business transformation.
Attendees will learn how resilient applications, high-performance core systems, modern data platforms, and AI agents are collectively reshaping how institutions operate their business, make informed decisions, and personalize customer experiences.
Speakers
John Kain
Head of Financial Services Market Development, AWS
Andrew McMullan
CDAIO, Westpac
Tim Whiteley
CIO, ASX
Angela Howie
CSM Lead, AWS
Paul Johnston
CEO, Tower Insurance
Kenny Bae
Executive VP, Hyundai Card
Michael Baumann
Executive GM of Customer, Digital and AI, CBA
Ted Bowler
Partner, PwC
Nicholas Harman
CISO, Eightcap
Abigail Holman
AI & Data Partner, Deloitte
Adam Julian
CTO, Barrenjoey
Mukesh Pilania
CEO, Techcom Life
Rajiv Rajah
Executive of Strategy, Tech Modernisation & AI Architecture, NAB
Yuushi Saito
Assistant GM, Mizuho
Ravindra Senaratne
Chief Information, Operations & AI Officer, Techcom Life
Rada Stanic
Chief Technologist, AWS
Tatsuto Fujii
Executive Officer, Head of Digital Strategy, Chief AI Officer, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Junya Ueda
Managing Executive Officer, CISO, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc
Expo Zones
AWS Financial Services Symposium invites you to explore our dynamic expo area packed with live demos, expert conversations, and cutting-edge innovations across cloud, AI, and industry-specific solutions. Explore the available zones below:
Expo Zones
Open allExplore how AI and cloud-native infrastructure are accelerating decision-making across the trade lifecycle, from research and execution through to reconciliation, surveillance, and client advisory. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how capital markets firms and wealth managers are using AWS to distill actionable insights from vast data sets, automate complex operational workflows, and help professionals deliver personalised client outcomes at scale.
Explore how AI, agentic automation, and cloud-native services are transforming retail banking and lending, from the first customer conversation through to ongoing care. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how leading financial institutions are using AWS to reimagine the home loan journey, strengthen fraud and scam defences, streamline compliance, and deliver compassionate customer outcomes at scale.
Explore how agentic AI, modern cryptography, and cloud-native infrastructure are reshaping the payments landscape, from how consumers pay and merchants onboard, to how organisations detect fraud and process invoices. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how financial institutions and fintechs are using AWS to modernise payments rails, embed intelligence into every transaction, and prepare for a future where AI agents transact autonomously on behalf of customers and businesses.
Explore how financial institutions are deploying agentic AI at scale while maintaining the control, auditability, and regulatory compliance that prudential and conduct-risk frameworks demand. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showcasing how AWS enables provable policy enforcement, governed agent-to-agent communication, continuous quality assurance, and automated evidence generation, so you can move from AI experimentation to production with confidence.
See agentic AI in action across the insurance value chain, from underwriting and document processing through claims, customer service, and catastrophe response. In this zone, you'll experience live demos showing how AWS helps insurers automate complex decisions, run intelligent operations end to end, and stay connected to policyholders even when disaster strikes, powered by Amazon's satellite and logistics network.
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