The team responsible for this year’s conference discuss the exciting themes, formats and speakers that will bring the Sibos 2020 programme to life.</p> </div> Sibos conference programme</strong></h5> Rachel Lindsay, Head of Event Content and Marketing, SWIFT & Sibos</em></strong></h4> We have an excellent and diverse line-up of senior level speakers from the worlds of finance, technology and fintech at this year’s Sibos. Ranging from global CEOs and industry leaders to topic specialists and technical experts, our speakers come from many different business backgrounds and financial fields. </p> As every year, the conference will explore important topics such as central bank digital currencies, the future of payments, new technologies, cyber security, financial crime compliance, and more. But this year we’ll also be exploring the impact of COVID-19 on our industry and looking in particular at the resilience of financial services and its ability to adapt to periods of intense change and upheaval.</p> The conference programme also includes a banking for humanity sub-theme, as financial organisations are increasingly focusing on important societal topics such as sustainable banking, ethical investing, financial inclusion, and the human element of banking as the industry becomes ever more digitised. </p> With Sibos going digital this year, the new format allows us to experiment with new ways of delivering content and engaging with the community. Following the Sibos week in October, we are planning regular monthly updates, starting from November, with new conference sessions aimed at informing and inspiring the community through to Sibos 2021. We will continue to deliver the Sibos experience that the community has come to expect - a forum that facilitates the exchange of views and sharing of ideas and experiences. </p> SWIFT Innotribe </strong></h5> Innes Macleod, Innovation Manager, SWIFT</em></strong></h4> As this year’s SWIFT Innotribe programme goes digital we’ll be focused on doing what we always do – delivering exceptional content. We’ll continue to shine a spotlight on collaborative innovation, the future, technology, society, trust and currency. Inevitably some conversations will be a little different as speakers ponder the current environment, but our core objective remains to dissect the future of innovation.</p> Our programme is designed to inspire and will make full use of creative concepts to deliver incisive content. New formats this year include a gamified digital session, with participants responding to a series of ethical dilemmas posed by experts, a session hosted in the format of a pirate TV broadcast and a virtual Pub Quiz where attendees can pit their financial wits against their peers. </p> The conference sessions will challenge current conceptions and bring in views from outside of the financial services industry to tackle some of our most pressing questions. We’ll take the pulse of the industry and fact-check its progress on status, for example around full digitisation. We’ll challenge the industry to learn, both from its successes and its mistakes, so that it can innovate more effectively in the future. </p> Most importantly, SWIFT Innotribe will be about community. The fintech and innovation sectors are vital parts of the financial services ecosystem. Bringing these industry players together to foster collaborative innovation in financial services is more important than ever before.</p> Sibos Academy </strong></h5> Peter Ware, Director, SWIFT Institute</em></strong></h4> 2020 sees the launch of the Sibos Academy, a new programme curated by the SWIFT Institute providing expert, educational and community focused content to inspire dialogue and diversity of opinion. During the four-day Sibos event in October and the monthly sessions that follow from November, the Academy will take an in-depth look at topics shaping the future of the global financial services industry.</p> In October we will provide a sneak preview of SWIFT Institute funded research projects through two sessions. The first explores the challenges of transaction monitoring for suspicious client behaviour and evaluates emerging new approaches including the role of privacy enhancing technology (PET). The second defines what a central bank digital currency actually is, and whether it would mean the same thing and have the same social impact across different economies around the world. </p> We’ll also showcase a new book, The Technological Revolution in Financial Services</em>, and interview the authors of various chapters. Meanwhile, the fifth annual SWIFT Institute Student Challenge will feature four university student finalists pitching their ideas on how to raise the level of cybersecurity to protect applications and data.</p> The monthly Sibos Academy sessions commencing in November will take a look at digital identity, a regulatory view of the payments industry landscape in five years and beyond, how to improve gender diversity, tokenised assets and quantum computing (among other topics).</p> In these unprecedented times, we’re proud to continue bringing the Sibos community a programme full of lively debate and unmissable insights.</p>