Event Agenda
My Agenda
Day 1
(25 Nov 2025 | Tuesday)
- 09:40
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- 09:50
- Opening Remarks
- Olena Gryniuk (CEE Director at SME Banking Club)
- 09:00
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- 09:10
- Welcome Note
- OLENA GRYNIUK (CEE Director at SME Banking Club, Poland)
Panel 1. Transforming SME Banking with AI
- 09:50
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- 10:05
- Presentation: Adoption of AI among financial organizations in the CEE region
- Wojciech Nowak (Software Delivery Director at Asseco Poland)
- 10:05
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- 10:20
- Presentation: Turning SME Engagement into Long-Term Value
- Mohamad Khalili (Sales Director for CEE at Backbase, Netherlands)
- 10:20
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- 10:35
- Presentation: AI Agents in Action: The Future of Lending Has Arrived
- Máté Jendrolovics (CEO at Intuitech, Hungary)
- 10:35
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- 11:15
- Panel Discussion: Moderator – Diederick van Thiel (CEO at Advicerobo, Netherlands)
- Marta Mróz-Sipiora (Asseco Poland), Mohamad Khalili (Backbase, Netherlands), Máté Jendrolovics (Intuitech, Hungary), Paweł Jaszewski (Customer Lifecyle Tribe at BNP Paribas Bank Polska)
Panel 2. Personalization of SME Offer
- 11:15
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- 11:30
- Presentation: How to grow Customer value by providing unique experience to SMEs?
- Milan Pištalo (Sales Director at NF Innova, Serbia)
- 11:30
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- 12:00
- Panel Discussion: Moderator – Olena Gryniuk (CEE Director at SME Banking Club)
- Živana Domazet (NF Innova, Serbia), Andras Rung (Ergomania, Hungary), Luis Rodriguez (Strands, Spain)
- 12:00
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- 12:20
Coffee break
Panel Discussion 3. Seamless Onboarding: Digital Identity and Authentication in SME Banking
- 12:20
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- 13:00
- Panel Discussion: Moderator – Kamila Wincenciak (Banking & FinTech Expert, Poland)
- Václav Mladěnka (Monet+, Czechia), Joanna Więcek (ING Bank Poland), Wojciech Widenka (ING Bank Poland), Benia Sereda (Santander Bank Poland)
- 13:00
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- 14:00
Lunch
Panel 4. Digital SME Lending & Risk Management
- 14:00
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- 14:15
- Presentation: Building digital SME lending procees
- Sergii Demchuk (CEO & Co-founder at Novalend, Poland)
- 14:15
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- 14:30
- Presentation: AI Application in digital SME lending process
- Christian Ruehmer (Co-Founder at Q-Lana Inc, USA)
- 14:30
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- 14:45
- Presentation: Lending in the AI Era: More Human, Not Less
- Tim Mussche (Area Vice President – EMEA at nCino, Sweden )
- 14:45
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- 15:00
- Presentation: Real-time Risk Assessment for SMEs – Data-Driven and Automated
- Kamil Gosławski (Head of Banking & Insurance at CRIF Poland)
- 15:00
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- 15:40
- Panel Discussion: Moderator - Michał Pawlik (Executive MBA lecturer at Warsaw University of Technology Business School, Poland)
- Sergii Demchuk (Novalend, Poland), Christian Ruehmer (Q-Lana, USA), Tim Mussche (nCino, UK), Kamil Gosławski (CRIF Poland), Julija Varneckienė (CapitalBox, Sweden)
Panel 5. Embedded SME Lending
- 15:40
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- 16:20
- Panel Discussion: Moderator - Katalin Kauzli (Co-founder & Business Development Director at PartnerHUB, Hungary)
- Jan Lastuvka (Lemonero, Czechia), Sanja Vuković (Raiffeisen banka a.d. Beograd, Serbia), Raul Risnita (Banca Transilvania, Romania), Milan Pištalo (NF Innova, Serbia)
Panel 6. SME Service Model
- 16:20
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- 16:30
- Presentation: Optimizing Bank's Value Proposition (use case by WiseRabbit and Millennium bank in Poland)
- Rafal Neska (Co-founder at WiseRabbit, Poland), Magdalena Jaskóła (Head of Current Accounts at Bank Millennium, Poland)
- 16:30
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- 16:55
- Panel Discussion: Moderator – Olena Gryniuk (CEE Director, SME Banking Club)
- Rafal Neska (Co-founder at WiseRabbit, Poland), Dan Emilian Croitoru (Erste Group Bank, Austria), Thorsten Seeger (SME Bank, Lithuania), Magdalena Brzozowska-Tomczyk (Bank Millennium, Poland)
- 16:55
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- 17:00
Closing Remarks
Panel Discussion 7. Embedded SME Finance
Panel Discussion 8. Open Finance
- 16:40
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- 17:00
Coffee break
- 18:00
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- 22:00
- CEE SME Banking & Tech Awards 2025
- 19:00
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- 21:00
- Cocktail Reception
Day 1
(25 Nov 2025 | Tuesday)
- 09:00
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- 10:00
- Registration & Welcome Coffee
- 10:00
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- 10:10
- Welcome Note
- OLENA GRYNIUK (CEE Director at SME Banking Club, Poland)
- 10:10
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- 10:50
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - Klaudia Archimowicz (Head of Operations at Verita HR & Magazyn Rekruter, Poland)
- Bartłomiej Wegner (Director, Office of Transformation Projects and Programs at Bank Pekao, Poland), Philippe De Brouwer (Head Independent Model Review Krakow and Regulatory Compliance at HSBC)
- 10:50
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- 11:05
- Presentation
- Wiktor Jaszczak (CEE Regional Manager at Facephi, Poland)
- 11:05
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- 11:20
- Presentation
- Enrique Caballero (EMEA Sales Director at Aware-Biometrics, USA)
- 11:20
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- 12:00
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - Kamila Wincenciak (Head of Innovation and Fintech Department at Alior Bank, Poland)
- Enrique Caballero (EMEA Sales Director at Aware-Biometrics, USA), Wiktor Jaszczak (CEE Regional Manager at Facephi, Poland), Wojciech Widenka (Director of Centrum Client Onboarding at ING Bank Poland), Paweł Jaszewski (Tribe Leader - Customer Lifecycle Tribe in SME & Corporate Banking at BNP Paribas Bank Polska)
- 12:20
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- 12:35
- Presentation
- 12:35
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- 12:50
- Presentation
- Katalin Kauzli (Co-founder and Business Development Director at PartnerHUB, Hungary)
- 12:50
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- 13:30
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - Olena Gryniuk (CEE Director at SME Banking Club, Poland)
- Katalin Kauzli (Co-founder and Business Development Director at PartnerHUB, Hungary), Maciej Sałata (Consulting Director/Corporate and SME Digital Banking at Comarch, Poland), Nelson Wootton (CEO and Co-Founder at SaaScada, UK), Filip Jaskuła (SME Tribe Lead at Santander Bank Polska)
- 14:30
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- 14:45
- Presentation
- Federico Avellán Borgmeyer (Chief Partner Officer at efcom, Germany)
- 14:45
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- 15:00
- Presentation
- Karol Leszczyński (Product Manager at Comarch Factoring Platform, Poland)
- 15:00
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- 15:40
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - Simon Peterman (CEE Factoring Coordination Manager at Raiffeisen Factor Bank, Austria)
- Federico Avellán Borgmeyer (Chief Partner Officer at efcom, Germany), Cristian Ionescu (CEO and Founder at Instant Factoring, Romania), Karol Leszczyński (Product Manager at Comarch Factoring Platform, Poland), Łukasz Adamczyk (Head of Process, Product & IT at ING Commercial Finance Poland)
- 15:40
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- 15:55
- Presentation - Digital Transformation using a Low-Code-Platform
- Christian Ruehmer (Co-Founder at Q-Lana, USA)
- 15:55
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- 16:10
- Presentaion
- Marcin Woch (CEO at Algolytics Technologies, Poland)
- 16:10
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- 16:50
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - Michał Pawlik (Vice-President of Business Development for CEE at Nethone, Poland)
- Kamil Gosławski (Senior Key Account Manager at CRIF Poland), Christian Ruehmer (Co-Founder at Q-Lana, USA), Marcin Woch (CEO at Algolytics Technologies, Poland), Alexis Faulkner (Digital Banking Manager at BKS BANK)
- 17:05
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- 17:20
- Presentation
- Jevrosima Zogovic (Head of Sales at Logate, Montenegro)
- 17:20
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- 18:00
- Discussion Panel: Moderator - tbd
- Ivica Tatar (Founder and Strategy Lead at Logate, Montenegro), Onur Gul (Head of Digital Sales and Marketing at ING Business Banking Turkey), Tomasz Gąsiorowski (Commercial Director at Monevia, Poland), Piotr Mieczkowski (CPO SME at Santander Bank Polska)
- 18:15
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- 19:00
- CEE SME Banking & Tech Awards Ceremony
- OLENA GRYNIUK
- 19:00
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- 21:00
- Cocktail Reception
