At a time of transition and great uncertainty, Frankfurt Digital Finance gathers key participants in the European digital finance ecosystem. Launched in 2019, Frankfurt Digital Finance Conference has grown into one of the most pre-eminent events of its kind in Europe.
Putting quality over quantity, we bring together top-executives, entrepreneurs, investors, academics and policy makers on a single platform to discuss the topics shaping the future of the financial industry.
We enable exchange of ideas and foster collaboration – helping disruptive companies find corporate partners and investors to scale up faster, and established financial services providers to innovate their business models.
After more than one year of virtual meet-ups, we are more than excited that Frankfurt Digital Finance will return as a live event on February 2, 2022.
Join us.
Meet the speakers who will share their perspectives and insights.
Founding Partner, FDF Conferences
Corinna Egerer is a Founding Partner of FDF Conferences, the organiser of the Frankfurt Digital Finance conference. She has more than 15 years of experience in the targeted contentual development and design of business events as well as the presentation of events for various industries, mostly fintech and finance. After years of working in the area of communications and events for various international companies from finance and industry, she attends to a variety of businesses and institutions today. In addition, she is a member of the alumni board of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
Senior Managing Director, Accenture
Dr. Markus Hamprecht is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and heads Accenture’s Financial Services Business in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Russia. He oversees the business and strategy development of the overall project portfolio for Banking and Insurance Clients and holds responsibility for the operational delivery and management of large client projects. Markus has been working in consulting for over 20 years with deep experience in the areas of digitization, business transformation and innovation. His goal is to jointly with clients unlock potential in an industry which has been experiencing unprecedented market dynamics and changing customer behavior. Markus blogs regularly about industry trends and developments on LinkedIn and the Accenture Banken Blog.
Oliver is a veteran in the banking and insurance industry. He started his career at McKinsey where he specialized in credit risk management and Solvency II economic capital calculation. In 2006/2007 he was part of the turnaround team at Converium reinsurance. He is co-founder of more than 10 fintech and insurtech startups. In the last 2 years Oliver has been working for wefox, first as CEO for ONE Insurance, wefox’s risk carrier. From June 2020 he was responsible for all wefox operations including the distribution and koble businesses. Oliver is very close to the European fintech and insurtech scene and supports many CEOs with their fundings and exits.
Chairman, Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain
Andreas Lukic is founder and managing director of ValueNet-Capital-Partners GmbH, Frankfurt/Munich, a family office investment and advisory firm. He was previously with Bain (London, Munich) in the Private Equity Group and started his career with Mitchell Madison Group (New York, Frankfurt) in investment advisory. He is member of several mid-cap supervisory and advisory boards and serving as Chairman of the Business Angels FrankfurtRheinMain e.V. and other startup/investor community building associations, like AIinFS e.V., as well as initiator of the German Fintech Award.
Vice President "AI in Financial Services e.V.", Board Member EU Horizon 2020 project "FIN-TECH"
Dr. Jochen Papenbrock has a 15 year consulting and entrepreneurial background in the financial services industry, where he works at the intersection of AI, quantitative modeling, business, IT, risk management and regulation. His clients include some of the largest banks, asset managers, insurers and regulators across Europe. He works for NVIDIA as Financial Technology Customer & Partner Relationship Manager - EMEA.
Jochen is a financial data scientist and received his degree and PhD in Financial Business Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) with a short stay at Stanford. He supports his thought leadership role in the industry through an international academic network and publishing activities, such as a recent series of publications with the reinsurer Munich Re on the next generation of AI in asset management, which received worldwide attention. In this work they creatively combined innovative approaches such as explainable/responsible AI, graph theory, synthetic data generation, evolutionary optimization and data visualization.
Jochen shapes the ecosystem around 'AI in Financial Services' including public lectures as well as panel/moderator activities and social media impact. He is also a board member of the EU Horizon 2020 project 'FIN-TECH', specialty chief editor (Co) at Frontiers 'AI in Finance', member of the advisory board of Springer's 'Digital Finance' and vice president of the association 'AI in Financial Services'. He recently got involved in the Financial Big Data Cluster of GAIA-X, the European Cloud Project.
Head of Blockchain Center, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner is head of the Blockchain Center at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management. He was ranked as a “Top 30” economist by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and belongs to the “Top 40 under 40”,a ranking by Capital (German business magazine). Philipp´s expertise includes blockchain and distributed ledger technology, crypto assets, Euro-on-Ledger, ICOs, security tokens, digital transformation and entrepreneurship. He is member of the Fintech Council (FinTechRat) of the Federal Ministry of Finance and also engaged in the EU Blockchain Observatory. He is founding member of the German Blockchain Association, the International Token Standardization Association and the Multichain Asset Managers Association.
CEO, Penta
Markus is Penta’s CEO and a proven expert in digital business models and platform economy. He has 20 years of experience in developing corporate strategies and has been responsible for numerous product innovations. Prior to joining Penta, Markus worked in various management positions for Deutsche Bank AG, most recently as a member of the Executive Board of DB Privat- und Firmenkundenbank and as Chief Digital Officer. He started his career at McKinsey Company.
Member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Bundesbank
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wuermeling took office as a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank on November 1, 2016. He is responsible for the Directorates General Banking and Financial Supervision, Information Technology and Risk Control. Prior to taking on his current position, Mr. Wuermeling, who has a PhD in Law, held a variety of executive-level posts in the financial and insurance industries as well as in politics. From 2011 until his departure for the Bundesbank, Mr. Wuermeling was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Sparda-Banken in Frankfurt am Main. Prior to that, he was a member of the Executive Board of the German Insurance Association for around three years. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Wuermeling was State Secretary for European affairs at the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology, where he was also responsible for coordinating European policy matters. Prior to this, he was a member of the European Parliament (CSU) from 1999 to 2005.
At Frankfurt Digital Finance, we combine breadth and depth with a focus on the key topics transforming the industry.
Here are three reasons to be part of Frankfurt Digital Finance 2022: a diverse list of world-class speakers, high-quality and inspiring content, unequalled networking opportunities,
Frankfurt Digital Finance brings together the people and companies shaping the future of the finance industry. Broaden your network and share ideas with others in your field, meet your future business partners, or seek advice from leading experts, senior executives, entrepreneurs and investors in a familiar atmosphere.
At Frankfurt Digital Finance you really get your money’s worth. Enjoy one day packed with high quality educational content allowing you to bring back valuable skills to your office. Watch and learn from a diverse list of select speakers across key industry branches through keynotes, panels and interactive workshops.
Our conference will give you plenty of opportunity to make new contacts and collect solid leads that convert into valuable business relationships. Engage with top executives from established European financial institutions, innovative technology companies and service providers in round tables and one-on-ones.
Our aim is to connect the key players in the European Digital Finance ecosystem under one roof: corporates, start-ups, investors, academia, regulators and policy makers. We are proud that the first two editions of Frankfurt Digital Finance seem to have achieved just that. Read some of our past attendees' testimonies:
Europe is becoming a global tech powerhouse - and it's events like Frankfurt Digital Finance that help promote European tech.
The digital transformation of the financial system is in full swing. Europe needs a competitive digital financial ecosystem while ensuring an up-to-date regulatory framework. Frankfurt Digital Finance offers a great platform to absorb the needs and view points of different market participants.
The conference offers a great mix of people to engage with. The audience is phenomenal from banks to young companies. It is a great place to share our vision and connect with new partners.
Frankfurt Digital Finance is the hub event where innovative tech companies and solution providers meet decision makers from large financial institutions. We need more events like this.
Frankfurt Digital Finance is the first real community ecosystem- event in Frankfurt
It is important for young companies to come together with established players to create dialogue and a mutual understanding. For at the end of the day it is not fintech vs. traditional banks but partnerships of mutual benefit. This conference is the right form and the right format to have this kind of exchange.
For us as a company from Finland, the conference is a great opportunity to meet decision makers from all the different financial institutions. You cannot miss that.
I have enjoyed the conference very much. It is very diverse, it gathers many different people, addresses many different topics. At ING we always try to to figure out new business models and look out for partners. So this is the perfect place to do this.
It is very important for us to network – not only with our peers but also with people from the wider community. Having a format like this really helps to foster that dialogue. It is very efficient because you do not have to set up 100 meetings, I like that.
Frankfurt Digital Finance is ideal for startups to meet the relevant players under one roof. We have had a number of startups from our accelerator and it was amazing to see how many contacts they made in one day – work that normally takes us 3 months. I encourage international startups to attend and present themselves.
Frankfurt Digital Finance is made possible through generous support of our partners and sponsors. Get in touch if you, too, would like to sponsor FDF2022.
Join us and the community we have missed for so long.