AI is rapidly reshaping financial services—but trust, talent, and governance have not kept pace.
This executive‑level panel brings together leaders from financial services, regulation, academia, and technology to confront one of the sector’s most pressing challenges: how to deploy AI at scale while protecting trust, managing risk, and building sustainable internal capability.
Using Africa as a powerful lens—with global relevance—the discussion will explore why AI failures are rarely technical, and more often rooted in talent shortages, opaque decision‑making, weak governance, and over‑reliance on external vendors. Panelists will examine real‑world use cases across banking and insurance, including credit, fraud, underwriting, and claims, and unpack what regulators, boards, and customers increasingly expect from AI‑driven decisions.
Attendees will gain clear insight into:
- How to move from AI experimentation to board‑governed, regulator‑ready capability
- Why talent and ethics are now core risk controls, not soft issues
- How AI can expand financial inclusion without creating new forms of exclusion
- What boards and executives must decide in the next 12–24 months to remain competitive and trusted
This is not a technology discussion—it is a leadership conversation about the future of trust, value, and sovereignty in financial services.