Unleashing Strategic Tech Advantage through Innovations like Generative AI and Blockchain
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Familiarize yourself with the latest developments in blockchain ledger technologies, open banking platforms, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and cloud computing.
Yes I am very interested, but is this course for me?
This program is aimed at all middle and senior managers in the financial/banking sector, as well as well as IT providers or consultants wanting to gain a deeper understanding of Finance Technology trends.
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Leading with Technology in Finance
5-day Executive Education program
Date: October 7-11, 2024
Location: EPFL Campus, Lausanne, Switzerland
Price: 4'900 CHF
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Getting to know each other is a crucial part of the program.
Participants will not only share the joys and challenges of this program, but will also learn from each other.
At the end of the program, our participants meet in South Africa, to combine and apply all the learnings in a practical setting, and work with a young, dynamic company or organization in the Cape Town area, to help solve a current business challenge facing the company.
This allows them to experience how diverse cultural influences impact businesses.
Leading with Technology in Finance
5-Day Immersion Program at EPFL, Switzerland
As a middle or senior manager in the finance sector, do you recognize yourself in one or more of these situations?
Leveraging new technologies in your organization
With course material adapted to a business audience, you will gain a unique overview of the complex technologies directly from EPFL professors who are world experts in these areas. Experienced practitioners will illustrate how these technologies have been leveraged in their banks or Finance Technology and what are the important factors to be considered, including security aspects and applicable regulations.
By the end of the week, you will have become a competent partner in expert discussions when assessing new technology or partnership opportunities, you will have mastered the jargon and you will be confident about how to successfully leverage new technologies in your organization.
- You are concerned about the rapid digital transformation of the financial services industry and its potential to disrupt traditional banking models.
- You experience the changes brought by the new technologies firstly as a stress, as constraints to be managed, rather than concrete solutions and opportunities (what it should be).
- You also worry about your professional future: for the decisions you have to make as in your company, as well as for your own career development.
- Simply said: you are afraid of missing the digital bandwagon with the Finance Technology shift.
Welcome to EPFL Executive Education, where the worlds of finance and digital transformation blend harmoniously. We invite you to join us on this course that will equip you with invaluable insights to strengthen your competitive edge in asset and wealth management by exploring the potential of generative AI, DLT, Cloud Computing, and Open Banking – foundational elements that are reshaping the finance landscape.
Join us to bridge the gaps in your knowledge and become better equipped for the great digital shift. By embracing this challenge, you are positioning yourself in the ever-evolving world of technology and finance.
We have created a new Executive Education program in the form of a 5-day immersion experience. It has been custom-designed for managers in the banking and financial sector, who are confronted with digitalization to improve efficiency and identify new growth opportunities.
FinTech: Disrupting Finance is not another online program. By taking place in the EPFL campus, it will offer you a real immersion in the EPFL start-up landscape!
Key benefits
- Familiarize yourself and demystify the financial technologies (blockchain, AI, cloud, etc.), learn the advantages and key challenges in integrating the new technologies into your organization.
- How to improve your business model and ROI. Acquire knowledge of the tools and structures used by Finance Technology entrepreneurs to turn their companies into unicorns, and enable participants to use key tools that support them in their transformation journey in their own businesses; using of bespoke canvases that facilitate the development of business cases.
- Open new revenue streams through a business transformation. Analyze the role of senior leadership to successfully implement these cases in their own company setting and understand the challenges which digital business models offer in terms of cultural changes needed.
- Brings strategy into practice by way of our experts who are industry practitioners.
This 5-day training is not overly theoretical nor technical; it is practical and actionable in your organization.
The value of this program is far greater than a cumulative learning of modules you could find elsewhere online!
You will study at EPFL in an exceptional learning environment, engage with world-class professors & leading industry experts, and build a unique professional network.
Leading with Technology in Finance
Your 5 days Executive Education program at EPFL:
October 7-11, 2024
Course speakers
Gain a deeper understanding of this pivotal moment in the digital world, and explore your own interest in the dynamic field of Finance Technology
Leading with Technology in Finance
5-Day Immersion Program at EPFL
Our program brings together a select group of highly experienced digital innovators from the banking and Finance Technlogy industries, as well as top academics who specialize in technology research and education. Participants will be fully immersed in the world of innovation, technology, finance, and start-ups, with access to one of the best finance institutes at EPFL's College of Management and the Innovation Park.
Our approach goes beyond simply explaining what new technologies are - as many other courses do - and places a major emphasis on their practical use-cases. We believe that it is critical to understand not just the technologies themselves, but how to use them effectively!
One of the key differentiators of our program is that we devote two full days to discussing how to successfully implement these technologies in a banking environment. This involves a deep understanding of your client, as finance technlogies have shown that the user experience (UX) is a key factor in their success. Additionally, we will help you understand the culture of your IT/Finance Technology partner - including concepts such as "agile" and "scrum" - and how to define your innovation strategy. We will also provide guidance on selecting the right finance technology partner (or deciding not to partner with one), finding the best location for your company to grow, managing change during a digital transformation in a bank, and remaining mindful of regulatory considerations.
How do we differentiate from all the other Finance Technlogy executive education courses?
The 12 take-aways of your 5-days immersion program at EPFL:
Judge how traditional key institutions have adapted to the digital transformation of the financial services industry.
Feel comfortable discussing the technologies that have started disrupting the banking world in recent years.
Identify what machine learning can do with data available in your organization.
Classify the main crypto assets and their particularities.
Learn how the cloud can be used as an enabler for technology and how to ensure data remains protected and secured.
Experience the client-centric approach that has made many FinTech firms so successful.
Use the right technical jargon and buzzwords to increase your impact in the decision-making process.
Understand the regulatory landscape to exploit maximal innovation while respecting the law.
Know the tools to strengthen your leadership role and successfully implement new ideas in your institution.
Become an enabler of successful implementations by using modern processes.
Determine how your organization can build a systematic “entrepreneurial” capability by identifying technology-enabled growth opportunities.
Get a feeling of what technology has in store for the next decade and how a future banking world might look.
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Professor at EPFL specialized in multimedia signal processing, with a special interest in deepfake technology. He is also the executive chairman of RayShaper SA, a Swiss start-up company active in computational vision and its applications. He is the convener of the JPEG standardization committee.
Touradj Ebrahimi
Marc Gruber
Academic Director for Executive Education and full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL where he holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization. Marc is co-author of the book “Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering Your Most Valuable Market Opportunities”.
Andreas Fuster
Professor at the Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL and research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. He conducts research in the area of financial intermediation, with a focus on Finance Technology and household credit markets.
Karl Aberer
Professor of distributed information systems at EPFL working on semantic interoperability, information retrieval and social networks. He is also co-founder of LinkAlong, a start-up providing open source document analytics.
Pierre Vandergheynst
Professor of electrical engineering and computer and communication sciences. He is also the academic director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and was EPFL’s vice-president of education from 2017 to 2021.
Professor at the University of Cape Town and holds the South African Reserve Bank Research Chair in financial stability studies, convener for the MPhil in Financial Technology at UCT where he teaches courses on "Finance Technology and cryptocurrencies".
Co-Pierre Georg
Louise Muhdi
Professor of innovation and strategy at IMD with a holistic understanding of business ecosystems, dynamics, drivers and challenges as well as customer, partner and stakeholder requirements and needs.
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Representative roles of past participants include:
- COO, CDO, CFO, CPO and CSO
- Head of investment specialist, funds operations, investment risk, risk and compliance
- Head of product management, platform manager, product owner, product manager, head of digital solutions, head of hybrid banking
- Head of management office, VP, head of strategy, innovation or technology, transformation
- Chief of staff, HR
- Head of back-office, operations team lead, cash manager
- Head of account management, head of regional sales, head of market
- Senior consultant
Prof. Marc Gruber
Academic Director
Prof. Andreas Fuster
Academic Director
Some of the Industry speakers for the 2024 course
Mr. Baptiste Ancey – Head of innovation & digital transformation at Indosuez Wealth Management
Mr. Pierre Bongard – Chairman of the supervisory board of Mirabaud SCA
Dr. Andrea Dunbar – Head of the Edge AI and vision group at CSEM
Mr. Lino Finini – COO of Swissquote
Dr. Florent Garcin – Head of data and analytics at Pictet Asset Management
Mr. Mike Hofmann – Driving the open finance platform “ bLink ” at SIX
Mr. Jérôme Kehrli – CTO of Netguardians
Dr. Maxime Monod – Founder of Twist Lab
Mr. Paul Such – Founder and director of Hacknowledge
I chose to participate to update myself on the latest technologies and trends in the Finance Technology environment in Switzerland, to network with other banking players, and finally, to benefit from concrete examples of implementation projects carried out by banking players and the feedback they received.
This course is unique in its kind. To my knowledge, there is no other course on the European market that can be compared to this one in terms of content and approach. The format of the course (1 week) was ideal, it facilitated the networking with the other participants. The atmosphere between the participants and the speakers was very good and stimulating.
They did the course, what they say:
Morgane Lequand
Head of Transformation - Corporate Banking Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
Gil Fontannaz
Chief Product Officer Azqore
I was very enthusiastic about participating in this course. As someone who works in the field of Finance Technlogy, I have learned a lot on the job, but I was interested in sharing my experiences with others and learning more about the academic side of this field.
This course made me realize that we don’t have much choice: we have to adapt and transform the mode of organization of our company to be more agile, more product-oriented than project-oriented. We were able to share our experiences with our colleagues and reassure others that it is not just theory, but in practice the tech world in finance operates in this way.
Ana Caldas
Program Coordinator
Mike Hofmann
