AWS Financial Services Symposium Sydney

This session will dive into how Accenture help financial services organisations leverage generative AI and build a robust AWS technology foundation to drive innovation. Attendees will gain insights into Accenture’s strategic approach for integrating Generative AI into business models, learn about the end-to-end processes involved and talk through AWS infrastructure's role in fostering innovation. You’ll hear real-world case studies that will highlight the tangible impacts of Accenture solutions, with a comprehensive overview of how Accenture is shaping the future of business technology through advanced AI strategies and cloud solutions in partnership with AWS.

Speaker
Ian Pollari, Managing Director and Financial Services Lead for Accenture ANZ
Alasdair Gordon, Managing Director and Data & AI Financial Services Lead
Luke Higgins, Managing Director, Accenture

Microservices in banking are the flexible building blocks that enhance customer experience and streamline enterprise integration. They bring agility and speed, surpassing the limitations of static core systems while aligning with various business domains.

However, managing an expanding microservices ecosystem presents its own set of challenges. Balancing API sprawl, navigating the project vs product paradigm, maintaining bounded context granularity, and adhering to organisational principles like Conway’s Law can be daunting. Additionally, dealing with outdated language versions and deprecating open-source frameworks adds further layers of complexity.

Join us for a session where you'll discover how the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) offers a good starting point and standardised framework to rationalise, simplify, and modernise your API and microservices ecosystem. You'll gain valuable insights and practical patterns to bring clarity and renewed focus to your tech landscape.

Speaker
Yun Zhi Lin, Deloitte Engineering FSI Lead

PEXA, a world-leading ASX-listed digital property exchange platform and property insights solutions business, is pioneering the integration of generative AI to empower its workforce. In this session, hear how PEXA developed and implemented a production-ready AI assistant and knowledge base with internal RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) capabilities and are scaling this across their team. PEXA will challenge the concept of the AI-empowered workforce within the Financial Services industry and their approach to balancing productivity gains with fostering innovation.

Speaker
Fred Herselman, GM Enterprise Data, Decisioning and AI

From boosting performance of mission-critical workloads to optimising costs, NAB has been a pioneer in cloud transformation, finding agility in the cloud to underpin their exceptional banking services. In this breakout learn how NAB have driven cost optimisation across the business by adopting AWS Graviton processors at scale. Hear how this has not only led to improved price-performance of NABs cloud consumption, but also in turn increased efficiency and given greater scope for employees to innovate in the cloud.

Speaker
Harpreet Chopra, Head of Technology, Cloud, NAB

The growing complexity and scale of data within financial institutions can be a complex beast to handle. In this session, discover how ANZ Bank unleashed the power of data mesh to tackle this challenge, enabling their teams to develop and manage data products more efficiently. Learn how ANZ overcame the limitations of traditional monolithic data architectures and embraced contemporary data mesh principles to support their business outcomes and empower teams to own and share data seamlessly across the business. This session is for anyone looking to modernise their data management strategy for future data and AI initiatives.

Speakers
Helene Simitzis, Head of Technology for Institutional Data & Sales, ANZ Bank
Srinivasan Kuppusamy, Senior Cloud Architect Data, AWS
Jeejee Unwalla, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

In this session, hear the unique perspectives of NEOS Life CTO, David Huang, on NEOS Life’s generative AI journey and the impact this technology is having on the future of the insurance industry. David will share insights into how generative AI is revolutionising insurance processes, including underwriting pre-assessments, AI-assisted email triage and quality assurance. He’ll provide insights into how insurers can unlock new levels of efficiency, accuracy, and personalisation by harnessing the power of generative AI and future use cases he is exploring.

Speakers
David Huang, CTO, NEOS Life

With more than 70% of its technologies in the cloud, including over one thousand applications transformed to run on AWS, Macquarie Group continues to advance its cloud maturity.

In this presentation, you will learn how Macquarie's strong learning and customer-focused engineering culture has enabled its Commodities and Global Markets team to migrate a key trading application, Calypso, to the cloud, allowing its customers to leverage the benefits of cloud native services.

Speakers
Justin Buckland, Program Manager, Commodities & Global Markets Post Trade Technology, Macquarie Group
Craig Edwards, Domain Architect, Commodities & Global Markets Platform Strategy, Macquarie Group 

From digital payments to fraud solutions, fintechs are revolutionising traditional banking and finance with innovative solutions that meet the market's and consumers' changing needs. Through flexible, user-centric, affordable, and transparent solutions, fintechs are disrupting traditional financial services models. In this session hear from three Fintechs; FrankieOne, Tyro Payments and Rich Data Co, on how they’ve used cloud to innovate at scale and pioneered the adoption of bleeding edge technology.

Speakers
Hermia Leung, Investment Director, NAB Ventures
Gordan Campbell, Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer, Rich Data Co.
Aaron Chipper, CTO and Co-Founder at FrankieOne
Paul Thomson, Solution Architect, Tyro Payments