FinTechWeek Vienna Opening 2025

Agenda:

• Arrival (16:30 to 17:00)

• Opening Remarks (17:00 to 17:15)
  “Vienna Calling”
  - Enver Siručić, President Bankenverband, Deputy CEO & CFO BAWAG Group
  - Claudio Wilhelmer, Founder & Managing Director, Winventure
  - Special Guest, TBC

Part 1 (until break): Fintech in the Broad Sense — Global Perspectives from Leading Players

• Keynote & Fireside (17:15 to 17:40)
  “Banking & Beyond”
  - Christoph Kuban, General Manager, Revolut
  Moderated by Jakob Steinschaden, Trending Topics

• Panel (17:40 to 18:20)
  “Navigating Innovation & Regulation”
  - Enver Siručić, President Bankenverband, Deputy CEO & CFO BAWAG Group, TBC
  - Maurizio Poletto, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Platform Officer, Erste Group, TBC
  - Curt Chadha, Head of Strategy & Innovation, Raiffeisen-Holding NÖ-Wien
  - Christoph Kuban, General Manager, Revolut
  - TBC
  Moderated by Patricia Kasandziev, Österreichische Post
  
• Keynote incl. Q&A (18:20 to 18:40)
  "Money Without Borders”
  - Emmanuel Thomassin, CFO, Wise
  
• Break (18:40 to 19:00)

Part 2 (after break): Fintech in the Narrow Sense — Austrian Journeys from Start-Up to Scale-Up

• Impulses (19:00 to 19:15)
  “That (Austrian Fintech) Scene”
  - Aleksandar Vrglevski, Co-Initiator Fintech Week Vienna, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Fintech Austria
  - Special Guest, TBC
  
• Keynote incl. Q&A (19:15 to 19:35)
  “Paying The European Way”
  - Christian Pirkner, Co-Founder & CEO, Bluecode
  
• Panel (19:35 to 20:05)
  “I Am From Austria”
  - Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad, CEO, Bitpanda, TBC
  - Daniel Strieder, Co-Founder & CEO, Credi2
  - David Meyer-Heinisch, Co-Founder & CEO, Froots
  - Christoph Zemina, VP Strategy, Pliant
  - Markus Bernhart, Co-Founder & CEO, Ready2Order
  Moderated by Kambis Kohansal Vajargah, Wirtschaftskammer Österreich
  
• Fireside (20:05 to 20:25)-
  -Special Guest, TBC
  Moderated by Dejan Jovicevic, Brutkasten
  
• Closing Reflections (20:25 to 20:30)
  “The Sound of Fintech”
  - Claudio Wilhelmer, Founder & Managing Director, Winventure
  

Event Moderation: Miroslava Betinova, Banking Circle

• Networking

This event is organised by Claudio Wilhelmer & Maximilian Seifert
Event language: English & German