Nigeria WFIS 2023

Agenda

We’ve got it all.

The agenda is specially curated to bring out the most pressing topics from the industry.

08:00 – 09:00

Registration & Coffee

Savor the coffee while making new business connections and growing your network

09:00 – 09:10

OPENING REMARK

9:10 AM – 9:25 AM

Delivering Financial Innovations: Enterprising Technological Developments to Drive Greater Impact and Financial Inclusion in Nigeria

  • Championing modern financial technology to advance responsive and accommodative credit to aid economic stability
  • Mechanisms in staging a coherent and consistent fintech policies for greater financial & economic inclusion of people and enterprises alike
  • Securing Digital Citizens and Financial Institutions for a resilient Nigeria

9:25AM - 9:40AM

Digital Partnerships: Strengthening Financial Inclusion Through Integrating Varied Market Stakeholders  

  • Enabling customer targeting and banking transactions for users through cross-platform integration
  • Initiating innovation in banking platforms through unit modernization
  • Exploring best mutual approaches in familiarizing customers to digital modes of banking

9:40AM - 10:00AM

Customer Acquisition & Management Through Cutting-Edge Tech Solutions to Ensure Scalability and A Steady Marketplace

  • CMS and CRM Devising cost-effective customer onboarding and lead generation
  • Orchestrating fitting Customer Acquisition Strategy through right media mix or omnichannel campaigns
  • Evaluating the right set of automation tools for methodical customer acquisition and long-term customer retainment

10:00AM - 10:20AM

Cloud Banking: Driving Agility with Fastened Service Delivery and Adapting to Changing Needs of FSIs

  • Getting away with the problems of Legacy infrastructure and application sprawl through cloud migration
  • Cloud-based services allowing banks to create new business models, products, and services
  • Addressing Cloud concerns: Risks, Security and Governance

10:20AM - 11:00AM

Panel
Discussion

Panel Discussion
Digital Payments Revolution: Crossing the Borders Beyond Countries, Internal Business Units and The FSI Ecosystem

  • Establishing the potential of offline payment mechanism for backward or remotest regions of the country
  • Securing frictionless payments by ensuring zero downtime and robust dispute management process
  • Coming up with last mile strategy to avail the option of digital payments to every citizen
Nigeria WFIS 2023

11:00AM - 11:30AM

Networking Break

Visit Exhibition Lounge

11:30AM - 11:50AM

Digital Acceleration in Retail Banking Solutions to Drive Sustainable Business Growth and Empower New-Age Customers

  • Creating retail banking modules that can provide a comprehensive view of customer, financial and business data to the retail bankers
  • Enriching customer loyalty with apt relationship and engagement management solutions
  • Availing Integrated solutions for retail banking through enterprising Core-Banking systems (CBS)

11:50AM - 12:10PM

Open Banking: Unlocking the Vault of Financial Services Through Interconnected Banking Ecosystems

  • Putting in place the right regulatory framework between FIs and non-bank third parties to safeguard customers data
  • Developing a well-built system of identifying and tracking users across open banking applications
  • Addressing the integration challenges that come with open banking with respect to building composite applications

12:10PM - 12:30PM

Banking on Artificial Intelligence to Power Banks with Hyper-Automated Processes

  • Changing dynamics of automated banking process to achieve high accuracy at low cost
  • Widening Digital Assistance: RPAs for facilitating operational efficiency and scalability
  • Crafting a winning AI strategy for cross Business units to capture unseen opportunities

12:30PM - 12:50PM

Low-Code No-Code: Simplified Digital Transformation in Banking for Greater Agility, Reduced Time, And Cost of Change

  • Creating speedy and easier Applications with Low-Code Platforms
  • Achieving deployment flexibility through customized internal tools in a seamless way
  • How to manage, maintain and scale these apps, while minimizing infrastructure and storage costs associated

12:50PM - 13:10PM

Modernizing Conventional Banking Products in A Digital World

  • Expansive implementation: Enabling modern banking services for the tech-savvy segment of the society
  • Banking disruption: Reforming traditional banking methods with ever evolving core banking solutions
  • Heightening the uptake of digital banking products among a digital risk-averse population
Nigeria WFIS 2023

13:10PM - 14:00PM

Lunch Break

14:20PM - 14:40PM

Panel
Discussion

Panel Discussion
Digital Transformation: Reshaping Future of Banking Strategy to Enable Innovation and Adaptability for New-Age Customers

  • Modernizing the Core Banking Platforms with strategic planning to enable and support the future ambitions of the bank
  • What is the future of multi-channel banking, mobile Innovation & core system integration?
  • What will the connected, customer-centric digital ecosystem of the future look like?

14:40PM - 15:00PM

Building on The Power of Interoperability: The Good, Bad and Ugly About Application Programming Interface (APIs)

  • Navigating through the technological complexities of cross-platform integration
  • Exploring secure code sharing practices to prevent data breach and hidden trackers
  • Strategizing In-house API stack to deliver services to internal and external customers, and open new revenue streams

15:00PM - 15:20PM

Full-Suite Mobile Banking: Pushing Boundaries to Achieve Financial Inclusion and Integration

  • How can mobile payments be used to facilitate financial access for the unbanked population in Nigeria?
  • Reengineering banks with core banking solutions for a sound mobile ecosystem
  • What are the must-have features for an innovative and future-ready banking app?

15:20PM - 15:40PM

Neo-Banks – The Subsequent Chapter Within Digital Banking Ecosystem

  • Leveraging the mobile-first approach to meet the demands of a tech-savvy generation
  • Distinguishing Neo-banking products & services with that to Traditional banking
  • How can Neo-Banks Penetrate into Rural Segments and Further Financial Inclusion?
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Networking Break
& end of Day 1

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Registration & Coffee

Savor the coffee while making new business connections and growing your network

9:10AM - 9:25AM

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): Establishing the Foundation of a New Monetary Architecture in a Digital Format

  • Challenges in revamping the current financial system with its legacy infrastructure in favor of CBDCs
  • How unbalancing can the rise of cryptocurrencies be to the prospect of CBDCs and can the both coevolve?
  • Probing interoperability for cross-border payments and reliability of the architecture for anti-lawful financial activities

9:25AM - 9:40AM

Fostering Growth and Innovation: Infusing Digital Tech in Alternative Lending and Microfinance Institutions

  • How is technology and Innovation enabling access to micro finance for inclusive growth?
  • Micro-financing small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) and role of Fintech in aiding it
  • Ascertaining Risks of Lending and Fraudulent Claims with Greater Certainty with Automation in Underwriting

9:40AM - 10:00AM

Metaverse Banking – Transforming the Banking Experience in the Metaverse

  • What is Metaverse Banking and how it could redefine the banking experience
  • The Metaverse Revolution and challenges banks could face
  • How Does Metaverse transform the relationship between banks & their customers?

10:00AM - 10:20AM

Internet of Things (IoT): A New Kind of Interplay Between Humans and Hyper Connected Devices

  • Integrating Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in banking to ensure seamless and secure financial transactions
  • Optimizing customer experience through AI driven Smart branches and IoT powered ATMs
  • Gaining holistic insights into customers financial behavior through IoT enabled solutions

10:20AM - 11:00AM

Panel
Discussion

Panel Discussion

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Future of Data Analytics: Looking Beyond Traditional Data Management Practices and Shifting Towards Modern Solutions with the Adoption of Emerging Technologies

  • Building a promising and apt customer intelligence suite and optimization platform
  • Digital solutions for engaging customer in regular feedback loops and surveys
  • How to exceed expectations and gathering actionable user & customer insights to diagnose and manage understanding gaps
Nigeria WFIS 2023

10:10AM - 10:30AM

Networking Break

Visit Exhibition Lounge

11:30AM - 11:50AM

Securing the Cyberspace in The FSI Sector: Tackling Evolving Cyberthreats And Security Landscape

  • Remediating vulnerabilities in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in agile manner and in shortest time duration
  • To what extent can ransomware and social engineering be prevented through new-age banking methods?
  • Evaluating and testing security through Software composition analysis (SCA), Static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST)

11:50AM - 12:10PM

Identity Screening and Customer Verification: Enhanced Standards in Authentication Process to Avoid Digital Defrauding

  • Evolution in eKYC instruments and onboarding process for secure banking engagements
  • Monitoring financial crimes in real time and creation of Digital ids through eKYC
  • Challenges stemming from eKYC regulations and strict Data protection

12:10PM - 12:30PM

BIOMETRICS: Re-Inventing the Connection Between People and Technology

  • How do new biometric technologies focus on balancing security with user experience?
  • Biometrics – strengthening authentication and security processes in a digital environment
  • Increase Efficiency against Data Breaches, Biometric Bias, False Positives and Inaccuracies techniques

12:30PM - 12:50PM

Reshaping Traditional Insurance: InsurTech Providing Convenience, Security, Choice, And Comparison to Their Customers

  • Providing new ways to measure, control price risk, engage with customers to reduce cost, improve efficiency.
  • Establishing Fraud Prevention & Tech framework with advanced automation and analytics
  • Developing affordable pricing and personalized products to low-income groups for greater rural participation through InsurTech

12:50PM - 13:10PM

RegTech: Helping Financial Institutions Meet Their Regulatory Requirements

  • Providing new ways to measure, control price risk, engage with customers to reduce cost, improve efficiency.
  • Establishing Fraud Prevention & Tech framework with advanced automation and analytics
  • Developing affordable pricing and personalized products to low-income groups for greater rural participation through InsurTech
Nigeria WFIS 2023

13:10PM - 14:10PM

Lunch Break

14:10PM - 14:50PM

Panel
Discussion

Panel Discussion
With Big Data Comes Big Responsibilities: Deriving Unseen Opportunities from The Stockpile of Data Available

  • Segmenting data for hyper-personalized and hyper-contextualized engagement with Customers
  • Making sense of unstructured Data and driving Business Value through it
  • Predictive Data analytics to gauge consumer preferences to offer apt financial products and services

14:50PM - 15:10PM

Setting the Context Right: Demystifying Blockchain Technology for FSI Sector

  • How to conjugate Centralized Traditional finance with Decentralized finance?
  • Comprehending the use-cases, interoperability and scalability of Blockchain
  • Running down through the security and regulatory pitfalls in adopting Blockchain Technology

15:10PM - 15:30PM

Bolstering Tech Talent Reserves to Meet the Needs of the Digital Financial World

  • Simplifying the whole hiring process and finding the perfect candidate through AI powered recruitment approach
  • Gaining essential recruitment & performance metrics of the candidates
  • Configuring the workforce in an organizational manner for greater productivity
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Networking Break
& end of Day 2

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