Head of Fraud Prevention
Al Etihad Payments
Splunk Security Specialist
Splunk
Vice President -Threat and Compliance Management
Emirates NBD
Head of Compliance Monitoring and Assurance
Ajman Bank
Security Leader
GBM
Regional GBM Security Practice Manager
GBM
Executive Vice President, Head of Fraud Prevention & Intelligence | CXC-Fraud Prevention & Intelligence Division
Mashreq
Group Head One Data and Analytics
Mashreq Bank
Chief Information Security Officer
National Bank of Fujairah
Head of Cyber Security & IDM
First Abu Dhabi Bank
Vice President - Head of Information Security
Commercial Bank International
Head of Corporate Governance
Head of Credit
Invest Bank
Group Head of Compliance Systems
Emirates NBD
Regional Head, Client Connectivity
HSBC
Head of Risk
ruya
Chief Information Officer
Reem Finance
EMEA Head of Mule and First Party Fraud Risk
HSBC
Senior Director - Head of Information Technology
Emirates Islamic Bank
Managing Director and Country Head of UAE
Network International
Team Leader - Cybersecurity
Ajman Bank
Chief Business Officer
Mbank
Sr. Manager - Global Compliance Financial Intelligence Unit, Office of Law Enforcement and External Partnerships
Western Union
Digital Client Director
e& enterprise
In a world where cyber threats are evolving faster than ever, resilience and intelligence have become the backbone of modern banking. The Security & Analytics: Threat Prediction and Operational Optimisation event brings together leading minds from the financial sector to explore how data-driven insights and AI-powered security can redefine operational excellence across banking.
This exclusive morning session will dive deep into security transformation, AI-driven analytics, and proactive defense strategies designed to help banks and financial institutions strengthen their digital foundations while unlocking the full potential of their data.
Join MEA Finance, GBM, and Splunk as we explore how security and analytics together can empower financial institutions to predict threats, optimize operations, and elevate customer trust in an increasingly complex digital era.
| 08:00 | Registration & Networking |
| 09:00 | Welcome address |
| 09:05 | Driving Security Transformation Across Banking |
| 09:20 |
Fireside Chat: Security Transformation in Action |
| 09:45 |
Open Discussion: Transforming Banking Security & Maximising Data Potential How can banks and financial institutions best transform their security and intelligence to both ensure optimum cyber security and cyber resilience? How can they also make the best of accumulated analytics to achieve premium level outcomes in terms of customer experience and client satisfaction, and commercially intuitive data collection, analysis and interpretation? Importantly, how can banks and FIs balance the needs and requirements of both these imperatives to gain optimum performance for both? |
| 11:15 | Presentation: From Detection to Proactive Defense |
| 11:30 |
Open Discussion: Driving Operational Excellence Through Threat Intelligence With the consequences of errors and security breaches, plus fraud and scamming activity growing in magnitude and impacting at high speed, how can banks and financial institutions IT managers and leaders best use AI to successfully monitor today’s increasingly complex computing environments? Can such events be predicted and thus headed off before much or any service interruption or damage is done? How does the application of IT Service Intelligence actually and also promise to not only secure banks and FIs in a threat rich world, but simultaneously enhance customer service and overall institutional performance? |
| 12:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 12:35 | Lunch & Networking |
