BFSI INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT
Australia
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Co-Creating the Future of Finance: From Legacy to Living Systems
- 15th April 2026
- 08:30 AM - 05:00 PM
- SOFITEL, SYDNEY
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ABOUT BFSI IT SUMMIT 2026
Accelerated technology adoption and the rise of Fintech have been playing a pivotal role in re-shaping the BFSI sector in Australia.
As the BFSI industry continues to drive innovation, technology leaders find themselves looking for new ways to redefine their strategy comprehensively, outgrow competition and remain resilient. Customer-centric approaches, digitization, automation of processes and data security continue to be top of mind for IT leaders.
The 33rd Edition of the BFSI IT Summit by Exito is an in-person conference bringing together 120+ top technology leaders from the community. The summit is a learning and networking platform curated to deep dive into the imminent challenges faced by the BFSI sector and identify best practices to overcome the same.
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Australia’s BFSI Market
23 million
Customers served by Australian Banks and 242,000 jobs created
$1.1 billion
The value of neo banking in Australia projected to reach by 2026
$159 billion
Value of Australia’s customer-owned banking sector
$422.9bn
Estimated BFSI Industry revenue in 2024
SPEAKERS 2026
Mary Delahunty
Chief Executive OfficerAssociation of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited (ASFA)
Simon Reiter
Chief Technology OfficerCareSuper
Daminda Kumara
Chief Information Security OfficerCommonwealth Superannuation Corporation (Australian Federal Government agency)
Nicholas Tan
Chief Technology OfficerMonoova
Krishna Bagla
Manager Cyber Security Operations and ImplementationNSW Government
Bernard Leung
Head of Enterprise ArchitectureGreat Southern Bank
Ankita Gupta
Head of Distribution Channel AnalyticsNAB
Paul Sassella
Head Of Information TechnologyCHU Underwriting Agencies
Amar Poddatooru
Head of Technology and DataFocus Partners Australia
Jason Sandery
Head of Cloud ServicesCommonwealth Bank
Kristopher Lopez
Head of Artificial IntelligencePetSure
Ash Nair
General Manager - Data Analytics Automation and AIicare NSW
Elie Shuggi
Chief Product Officer (CPO)IR
Matthew Hardman
Vice President for Technical Sales, Asia-PacificHitachi Vantara
David Rajkovic
Managing Director for Australia & New ZealandRubrik
Sajal Dubey
Partner & DirectorNagarro
Anthony Rees
AI Solutions EngineerAiria
Saleshni Sharma
APAC CISOBerkley Insurance
Why Attend ?
Our events bring together the latest technology advancements and real-world innovations driving transformation across the BFSI sector. We connect industry leaders, technology experts, and solution providers to explore how emerging tech is reshaping banking, financial services, and insurance.
Learn & Grow
Elevate your professional growth with engaging discussions and collaborative workshops that are shaping the industry.
Explore the Latest Innovations in BFSI Sector
Gain valuable insights from renowned Innovation & Technology experts, including pioneers and leaders from the region, as they share real-world use cases and practical perspectives.
Collaborative Partnerships
Collaborate with industry peers to collectively shape the future collectively and exchange experiences.
Connect with Trusted Technology Partners
Connect and meet one-on-one with potential global partners who can provide tailored guidance to help you achieve your critical business objectives.
Maximized ROI
The BFSI IT Summit is a time-saving, highly informative, accessible, and professional business platform designed for experienced technology professionals and digital experts.Featured Discussions
18 Million reasons to get this right: Building collective cyber and financial crime resilience in super
This keynote will explore how increasingly connected financial systems are reshaping the nature of cyber and financial crime risk, and why a coordinated, system-wide response is essential. Drawing on ASFA’s work through the Superannuation Cyber and Financial Crime Coordination (SC3) framework, it will outline how the superannuation sector is strengthening resilience through collaboration and information sharing, and the role this plays in protecting the retirement savings of more than 18 million Australians.
Replatforming BFSI – Building a Composable, Cloud-Native Digital Core
- Strategies for transitioning legacy cores to modular, API-first platforms.
- Designing hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures for resilience and agility.
- Leveraging containerization, Kubernetes, and serverless computing for scalability
- Embed security into CI/CD pipelines for continuous compliance.
- Managing regulatory expectations (APRA, ASIC) in a cloud-native world.
From Digital to Autonomous Banking: A Playbook for AI-Native Financial Institutions
For over a decade, BFSI organizations have focused on digital transformation to enhance customer experience and efficiency. However, as AI reshapes the speed and complexity of decision-making, digital alone is no longer sufficient. The next frontier is autonomous banking where systems not only execute but continuously decide, adapt, and optimize in real time.
In this keynote, Nagarro presents a pragmatic playbook for building AI-native financial institutions. The session will highlight how banks can embed intelligence across core processes, shift to AI-driven operating models with human oversight, and build scalable, governed AI foundations. The future of banking is not just digital, it is autonomous, adaptive, and continuously learning.
The Data Fabric Imperative – Turning Real-Time Data into Actionable Value
- Unifying data from silos through a data fabric architecture.
- Enabling real-time analytics for risk, fraud,and personalization.
- Implementing data lineage, cataloging, and metadata automation.
- AI/ML integration for predictive and prescriptive decision-making.
- Cloud-native data management frameworks for compliance and scalability.
- Secure data in motion and at rest across hybrid environments
Congratulations on your AI POC, get ready to fail.
An AI POC is not a fast pass to an organization’s AI strategy. Too many times a POC, run in an isolated environment, does not match the conditions or regulations that a true enterprise environment demands, and without understanding or navigating this, you not only set your organization on a journey to failure, but also introduce massive risk. In this session we will explore three essential areas, that all AI implementations must consider when moving from POC to Production, the business problem, the data management, and the technology foundation.
The MVB Strategy: Defining and Defending the Minimum Viable Business
The MVB Blueprint: Strategically identifying the absolute essential services required to maintain member trust and meet regulatory obligations during a recovery event. The Identity Anchor – Preventing Recovery Gridlock: Why protecting and rapidly restoring the “keys to the kingdom” (Identity and Authentication Platforms) is the non-negotiable first step in any resilience strategy.
Prioritising the Restoration Path: Shifting from “bulk recovery” to a modernised, tiered approach that aligns IT restoration with critical business outcomes and CPS 230 principles. Operationalising Trust: How a shared focus on the concept of a Minimal Viable Business bridges the gap between Security and IT Operations, turning resilience into a unified business language.
GenAI for BFSI – Driving Smart Operations, Experiences & Decisions Conversation
- Practical AI use cases:customer service automation, claims, and credit decisions.
- Building AI copilots for internal teams and compliance workflows.
- Enhancing personalization using generative and conversational AI models.
- Establishing AI governance frameworks and explaining ability standards.
- Balancing innovation speed with ethical deployment and data integrity
- Protect AI models from misuse, bias,and data leakage
The invisible Risk: Why ecosystem visibility is critical in the age of AI
As agentic AI moves from pilot to production in financial services, the defining question is no longer ‘can we automate this?’, it’s ‘how much should we trust AI to act?’. For banks and financial institutions, the stakes are high. A misstep in a payment rail or a failure in mission-critical communications is a regulatory event, a reputational crisis, and a cost that can average USD $1.8 million per hour.
In this session, Elie Shuggi, Chief Product Officer of global observability company IR, explores why deep ecosystem visibility and intelligence — real- time, multi-vendor visibility across UC&C and payments infrastructure — is emerging as the critical foundation that gives regulated enterprises the confidence to scale AI tools autonomously and safely. Elie will share insights for AI readiness that go beyond adoption speed to ask: are your systems visible enough to be trusted?
Out of the Shadows: A Strategic Framework for AI Governance in Financial Services.
The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence tools across financial institutions has created a critical governance challenge: the emergence of shadow AI – unauthorized AI applications operating outside sanctioned channels and oversight frameworks. As financial services organizations embrace AI-driven innovation to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive competitive advantage, they simultaneously face escalating risks from uncontrolled AI deployments that can expose sensitive financial data, compromise regulatory compliance, and undermine institutional security protocols.
Monetizing Connectivity – APIs as the Growth Engine of BFSI
- Designing API architectures that enable OpenFinance beyond Open Banking.
- Enabling real-time consent management and secure data exchange
- Building fintech partnerships and digital ecosystems for new revenue
- Leveraging APIs to deliver Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and embedded finance.
- Governance models for API security, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- Prevent API abuse and ensure secure customer identity flows
The 90-Day Governance Uplift: A Practitioner’s Guide to Pivoting from "Policy" to "Code"
Traditional data governance models are structurally broken. Policy documents sitting in SharePoint are not controls; they are intentions. This session offers a frank, practitioner-led look at why governance frameworks fail in complex financial services organisations, and what it actually takes to fix them in 90 days.
Drawing on real-world breach analysis across the Australian market and a proven 12-strategy uplift framework, Amar will walk delegates through how to shift from manual, audit-driven compliance to automated, evidence-by- design governance where controls live in code, not in documents. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to prioritise high-risk data, eliminate governance debt, and build an integrated model that fuses security, privacy, and data governance into a single unified playbook.
Replatforming BFSI – Building a Composable, Cloud-Native Digital Core
- Strategies for transitioning legacy cores to modular, API-first platforms.
- Designing hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures for resilience and agility.
- Leveraging containerization, Kubernetes, and serverless computing for scalability.
- Embed security into CI/CD pipelines for continuous compliance
- Managing regulatory expectations (APRA, ASIC) in a cloud-native world.
The Data Fabric Imperative – Turning Real-Time Data into Actionable Value
- Unifying data from silos through a data fabric architecture.
- Enabling real-time analytics for risk, fraud,and personalization.
- Implementing data lineage, cataloging, and metadata automation.
- AI/ML integration for predictive and prescriptive decision-making.
- Cloud-native data management frameworks for compliance and scalability.
- Secure data in motion and at rest across hybrid environments
GenAI for BFSI– Driving SmartOperations, Experiences &Decisions Conversation
- Practical AI use cases:customer service automation, claims, and credit decisions.
- Building AI copilots for internal teams and compliance workflows.
- Enhancing personalization using generative and conversational AI models.
- Establishing AI governance frameworks and explaining ability standards.
- Balancing innovation speed with ethical deployment and data integrity
- Protect AI models from misuse, bias,and data leakage
Monetizing Connectivity – APIs as the Growth Engine of BFSI
- Designing API architectures that enable OpenFinance beyond Open Banking.
- Enabling real-time consent management and secure data exchange.
- Building fintech partnerships and digital ecosystems for new revenue
- Leveraging APIs to deliver Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and embedded finance.
- Governance models for API security, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- Prevent API abuse and ensure secure customer identity flows
Enterprise Orchestration – Building an Adaptive BFSI Technology Stack
- Build internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Streamline CI/CDto meet operational resilience
- Enhance observability and compliance reporting
- Automate security and audit controls acrossmulti-cloud platforms
The Next Frontier – Harnessing Emerging Tech for BFSI Differentiation
- Quantum computing in financial modeling and portfolio optimization.
- The role of 5G and edge computing in instant, real-time financial experiences.
- Integrating next-gen infrastructure into cloud and data strategies.
- Preparing for early adoption: skills, investments, and pilot programs
- Adopt post-quantum encryption and edge protection strategies
INDUSTRY FOCUS
WHO WILL YOU MEET ?
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Chief Information Security Officer
- Chief Digital Officer
- Directors/ VPs/ GMs/ Heads of IT
- Directors/ VPs/ GMs/ Heads of Digital Solutions
- Directors/ VPs/ GMs/ Heads Digital Transformation
- Directors/ Heads of Cyber Security
- Head of IT Infrastructure
- Heads of Information security
Partners 2026
Platinum Partners
Gold Partners
Silver Partners
Bronze Partner
Coffee Partner
Media Partners
Series Partners
Media Coverage
WHAT CLIENTS SAY ?
Testimonials
I enjoyed the event and found the delegate profiles and presentations very informative. I had productive conversations with potential customers and prospects, and I believe we will generate a decent list of leads for our company. The venue, food, and crowd were all excellent, and I had many interesting conversations and gained a lot of knowledge. We will definitely consider sponsoring DTS in the future.
I had really good conversations today with the number of delegates coming from the region and other places. Quite likely we we will consider it for the next year or your next city. The overall conversations were really good probably some of the really interesting conversations in change management and practical side of it and were really interesting.
I would rate the event a 9 or 10 out of 10. It was well put together and we received fantastic feedback and had high-quality conversations with delegates. It has been one of the best events we have participated in, with a good return on investment and leads generated. The audience was perfect and their interactions and participation in the event were excellent. The panel discussion was also very informative and useful for my presentation.
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