Microsoft Envision: Breakthrough business insights in financial services
Global digitization combined with unprecedented changes to the financial services business model is mandating transformation. What’s your plan for digital transformation? How will you transform and perform in this new environment, satisfying clients and shareholders alike?
Join us at Microsoft Envision from April 4-6, 2016 in New Orleans. Microsoft Envision brings together the most forward thinking minds in business and technology. Learn how your peers are transforming, with insights and thought-provoking conversations from industry visionaries.
During Envision, we’ll host the following Financial Services sessions, complemented by innovation from other industries, and cross-industry lessons from business visionaries like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, PayPal President & CEO Dan Schulman, top industry analysts, and thought leaders from around the world as they provide unique perspectives on the future of business and technology. The event is packed with opportunities to network and build relationships with peers and experts, within and beyond your industry.
Tuesday April 5: 9.00-10.15am
Digital Disruption in Financial Services
A digital transformation is shaking the financial services industry, putting a wider gap between winners and those striving to keep up. From micro-loans and micro-payments, to business analytics providing deeper information on risk, clients and prospects, to mobile and cloud-based transactions, every corner of the industry is open for transformation. Listen to this discussion among the following speakers, ask questions, and learn about the trends that both threaten and offer a way forward for financial institutions.
Jim Marous, Owner and Publisher of the Digital Banking Report
David Brear, Think Different Group
Matt Foran, CEO & Founder, evosure
Dan Latimore, SVP Banking, Celent
Karen Cone, General Manager WW Financial Services, Microsoft
Tuesday April 5: 1.00-2.00pm
The Digital Bank: Reimagining the customer experience and empowering a high-quality, committed workforce
Today, people have more financial options available to them than ever before, leading to less reliance on and engagement with traditional banks. At the same time, globalization and regulatory complexity is driving a continued need for simplification and automation. In this session we’ll showcase how banks are delivering new value to drive increased relevance, loyalty, and profitability – while enabling their employees to work and collaborate as a team from anywhere, on any device, with modern productivity tools that provide seamless access to data, to innovate faster.
The Digital Insurer: Unlocking digital customer and employee experiences
Faced with high product saturation and growing demands from a new generation of customers, insurance carriers are seeking to improve the quality of customer interactions to drive retention and organic growth. In this session we’ll show how insurance carriers are unlocking digital customer and employee experiences with omni-channel delivery, customer insight, and employee digital workstyle solutions to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and create compelling customer experiences across all channels.
Financial Services and Cloud: A Regulator’s Perspective
In this session, we will explore the unique perspective financial regulators and industry experts hold about the adoption of cloud technologies by financial services companies, as well as their thoughts on the evolving regulatory landscape in this space. Our panel of former regulators and industry experts will help us identify the trends and market opportunity, explore the current regulatory guidance, as well as offer thoughts on how cloud regulation in financial services will likely evolve in the coming years.
Tuesday April 5: 2.30-3.30pm
The Digital Bank: Garnering critical business insight with advanced analytics
With risk modeling and analytics calculation volumes projected to accelerate 10 times in the next three years, financial institutions that best manage and monetize data will be on a path to stronger risk management and improved operational efficiency. In this session we’ll showcase how financial institutions are capitalizing on advanced analytics to derive powerful, timely insight into business risk, customer insight, and operational models to support regulatory pressures.
The Intelligent Insurer: Liberating data and democratizing analytics to empower decision-making.
With an increasingly stringent regulatory environment, fierce competition, and the need to price policies more effectively, insurance carriers are seeking deeper business and risk insight from internal and external data. In this session we’ll showcase how insurance carriers are liberating data and democratizing analytics to empower decision-making across all business lines to identify new market opportunities, reduce churn, develop differentiated products and services, and improve risk insight.
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The brightest minds in the industry will be in New Orleans in April. Make sure you are one of them – register today for Microsoft Envision!
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