CANADA FINTECH FORUM 2024
September 10-11
WELCOMING WORDS
Sebastian Boisjoly, Vice-president, FinTech and Technological Innovation, Finance Montréal
OPENING ADDRESS
Phil Murphy, Governor, State of New Jersey
THANKED BY
Jacques Deforges, CEO, Finance Montréal
DAY INTRODUCTION
Dave Henderson, President, Intelligent Solutions and Innovation, CGI
PANEL
Shelby Austin, Co-Founder and CEO, Arteria AI
Yannick Lallement, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Scotiabank
Kevin Levitt, Director, Global Industry Business Development – Financial Services, NVIDIA
Mara Reiff, CEO (Interim) and Chief Customer Officer, Freshbooks
MODERATOR
Kris Hansen, Chief Technolgy Officer, Sagard
PANEL
Antoine Amend, Senior Technical Director, Financial Services, Databricks
Yannick Lallement, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Scotiabank
Parinaz Sobhani, Managing Director & Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sagard
MODERATOR
Yara Elias, Canada Senior Manager, AI Risk, Risk Consulting, EY
PANEL
Simona Gandrabur, Principal Director, Conversational AI Lead, Cloud Contact Center, National Bank of Canada
Bill Johnston, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
David Ouellet, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology, Data and Operations Officer, PSP Investments
MODERATOR
Conor Delanbanque, CEO and Founder, Strategio
INTRODUCTION
Balinder Ahluwalia, Senior Vice President & Group Head, Market Development, Mastercard
SPEAKER
Jeet Bhatti, Co-Founder and CEO, Fathom4Sight
PANEL
Jonathan Durocher, President, National Bank Financial Wealth Management (NBFWM)
Vincent Fraser, President and CEO, Croesus
Simon Leroux, Founder, Optionality, Founder & CEO, Optionality
Rheia Khalaf, Director of Partnerships, MILA
MODERATOR
Saloua Benkhouya, VP, Private Equity and Impact Investing, Fonds de solidarité FTQ
PANEL
Philippe Daoust, Vice-President and Managing Director, NA Ventures, National Bank of Canada
Ioan Iacob, Cofounder and CEO, FlowX.AI
Jeri Larsen, Chief Customer Officer, LoanPro
MODERATOR
Debby Cordeiro, Senior Vice-President, Communications, Public Affairs and ESG, National Bank of Canada
PART I - BUILDING DIGITAL ASSETS
SPEAKER
Roham Gharegozlou, Co-Founder and CEO, Dapper Labs
MODERATOR
Steph Choo, Partner, Portage
PART II - THE CHALLENGE: BUILDING TRUSTWORTHY, SCALABLE GENERATIVE AI
SPEAKER
Julie Lévesque, EVP, Technology & Operations, National Bank of Canada
Johanne Duhaime, Executive Vice-President, Technology and Projects, Desjardins
MODERATOR
Jean-Philippe Desbioles, Managing Director Financial Services & Generative AI EMEA Leader, IBM
OPENING WORDS
Jacques Deforges, CEO, Finance Montréal
WELCOMING WORDS
Eric Girard, Minister of Finance, Québec
INTRODUCTION
Hamed Harbabi, Founder and CEO, VoPay
GUEST SPEAKER 1
Dax Dasilva, Founder and CEO, Lightspeed
GUEST SPEAKER 2
Darryl White, CEO, BMO
CHAIR
Paul Desmarais III, Chairman and CEO, Sagard
OPENING WORDS
André Gagné, CEO, GFT
PANEL
Hannah Melton, Responsable Banque et Expansion, Amérique du Nord, Wise
Jil Macdonald, Chief Operating Officer, Walnut Insurance
Andrew Moor, President and CEO, EQ Bank
Mathieu Staniulis, VP Products, Solutions and Digital platforms and Chief Transformation Officer, Personal Services, Desjardins
MODERATOR
Edith Hitt, Partner, Advisory Services, KPMG
PANEL
Chris Ferron, Head of Digital Partnerships & Fintech, Visa Canada
Hanna Zaidi, Vice President, Payments Strategy & Chief Compliance Officer, Wealthsimple
MODERATOR
Alex Vronces, Executive Director, Fintechs Canada
INTRODUCTION
Abraham A. Tachjian, Director - Financial Services - Head of Open Banking, PwC
PANEL
Franck Descubes, Vice-President, Business Consulting, Digital transformation and strategy, CGI
Saba Shariff, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy, Product & Innovation Officer, Symcor
MODERATOR
Corey B. Davis, Managing Director, Investment & Corporate Banking Technology Group - Head of Fintech, BMO Capital Markets
CONFÉRENCIER
Peter Misek, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Framework
INTRODUCTION
Alexie Amyotte, Associate, Fasken
PITCHES
Géraldine Jippé, Co-Founder, COO-CMO, Assets Waves
Khushboo Jha, Co-Founder, Founder & CEO, Buy Properly
Jennifer Schell, CEO, Finliti
Elham Kheradmand, CEO, Lucid Axon
Laura McDonald, Co-Founder & CEO, Flora
Daria Subach, Co-Founder & CEO, Argentium
Emmanuelle Tavernier, Founder & CEO, Oxia Initiative
MODERATOR
Elsa Vande Voorde, Innovations and Technologies Specialist, Finance Montréal
PANEL
Shane Murphy, CEO, Ownr
Andrea Kando, Chief Payments & Strategy Officer, Touch Bistro
Chris Poshni, Head of Sales, Wix POS, Wix
MODERATOR
Marc Hollenberg, Chief Operations Officer, Moneris
PANEL
Sean Merat, Co-Founder and CEO, Owl.co
Melisa Muraca, Vice President Technology Product, Sun Life USA
Alexis Smirnov, Co-Founder & CTO, Dialogue
MODERATOR
Laviva Mazhar, Principal, Luge Capital
SPEAKER
Harley Finkelstein, President, Shopify
INTERVIEWED BY
Talia Abramowitz, Managing Partner, Deloitte Ventures, Deloitte
CLOSING WORDS
Jacques Deforges, Chief Executive Officer, Finance Montréal