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DIGITAL Event | November 11, 2021
Having reached the fifth edition, IDC Financial Forum is the only IDC event dedicated to the financial services ecosystem in Romania.
Through our specialized insights and thought-leadership sharing from top executives, the Forum helps attending organizations, vendors, and customers alike, to better prepare for open, agile, and dynamic financial services. Join us on November 11th Online to hear industry-leading voices speak and immerse yourself in insight.
Alina Georgescu
CEE Sales Director & SEE Regional Director, IDC
Răzvan Savu
Country Manager, IDC Romania
Alexandra Lecompte
Industry Sr. Director Financial Services, Oracle
Alain Sanchez
CISO (EMEA), Senior Evangelist, Fortinet
Ştefan Baciu
Country Manager, Romania & Rep. of Moldova, SAS
Dan Popa
Territory Manager for Romania, Bulgaria and Albania, Veeam Romania
Pedro Porfirio
Global Head of Treasury & Capital Markets, Finastra
Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle developed the world’s first and only autonomous database and it has the industry’s broadest and deepest suite of cloud applications.
Oracle has 135,000 employees and 430,000 customers in 175 countries. In fiscal year 2020 it reached a 39bn annual revenue and has spent 70 billion dollars on R&D since 2004. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.
Fortinet
Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) makes possible a digital world that we can always trust through its mission to protect people, devices, and data everywhere. This is why the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and government organizations choose Fortinet to securely accelerate their digital journey. The Fortinet Security Fabric platform delivers broad, integrated, and automated protections across the entire digital attack surface, securing critical devices, data, applications, and connections from the data center to the cloud to the home office. Ranking #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide, more than 530,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. And the Fortinet NSE Training Institute, an initiative of Fortinet’s Training Advancement Agenda (TAA), provides one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry to make cyber training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.
SAS
SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative software and services, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence. SAS’s mission is to inspire companies to constantly improve their productivity by creating and using reliable data.
SAS has customers in 147 countries. Our software is installed at more than 83,000 business, government and university sites and almost 14 thousand employees.
Learn more: https://www.sas.com/
Veeam Romania
Throughout the years, Veeam® has pioneered innovative solutions that enable businesses to meet modern data demands, achieving the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry.
Veeam Cloud Data Management Platform is the most complete solution to help customers automate data management and ensure data availability. We have more than 375,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the Global 2000. Our customer satisfaction scores, at 3.5X the industry average, are the highest in the industry. Our global ecosystem includes 70,000+ partners; HPE, NetApp, Cisco and Lenovo as exclusive resellers. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com
FINASTRA
Finastra unlocks the potential of people and businesses by creating a dynamic platform for open innovation in the world of financial services.Formed in 2017 by the combination of two global Fintech leaders, D+H and Misys, Finastra builds and deploys innovative, mission-critical technology on their open Fusion software architecture and cloud ecosystem.
In an era of increasing choice and regulation, all customers – corporate, institutional and retail – are demanding greater value from financial services. They expect greater agility, innovation, integration and security than ever before.
Finastra brings deep expertise and unrivaled breadth and depth of pre-integrated solutions spanning retail banking, transaction banking, lending, and treasury and capital markets. With a global footprint and the broadest set of financial software solutions available on the market Finastra combines $2.1 billion in revenues, 10,000 employees and over 9,000 customers, including 48 of the top 50 banks globally.
In partnership with cosponsor:
Uni Systems
Uni Systems is a long-standing strategic ICT partner to financial institutions, public organizations, telecom operators, enterprises and institutions in the European region, providing integrated solutions and value added services. Today, the Company invests substantially in its European perspective and demonstrates a proven record of achievements in complex and critical IT projects in more than 25 countries through its subsidiaries in Belgium, Romania, Luxembourg, Italy and Spain. Uni Systems maintains a Gold level and strategic partnership with Microsoft and fully supports its vision to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Recently, Uni Systems earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization in Windows and SQL Server Migration to join the elite club of Microsoft’s technologically advanced partners, on a global scale.
Cleafy
We enable the largest banks and financial institutions worldwide to scale up their fight against online fraud. Thanks to our revolutionary technology, anti-fraud teams can detect, stop and prevent cyber-threats at scale, unlocking the optimal experience for the end-users and business growth. Cleafy introduced the full detection and response model in online fraud prevention. The first data-driven approach that combines: ▪️ the most comprehensive and advanced set of fraud detection technologies ▪️ tailored Threat Intelligence up-to-date data and insights ▪️ automation of pattern-based adaptive response mechanisms Finally, all in one central platform. That's how our customers stop attacks at scale, before they hit. Recognized as selected vendor for Online Fraud Detection in Gartner Market Guide (2018-2020), we today protect daily over 60M users of global top-tier retail and corporate banks. We are a team of fraud hunters, cybersecurity experts, data scientists, and software engineers that since 2014 share one mission only: making technology a safer place. Come to visit us at cleafy.com 🔵🟩
Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, is shaping the cloud-centric future with technology that is transforming the way people and organizations operate. Our mission is to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life. We help address the world's greatest security challenges with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, analytics, automation, and orchestration. By delivering an integrated platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of partners, we are at the forefront of protecting tens of thousands of organizations across clouds, networks, and mobile devices. Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. For more information, visit www.paloaltonetworks.com.
Xerox
For more than 100 years, Xerox has continually redefined the workplace experience. Harnessing our leadership position in office and production print technology, we’ve expanded into software and services to sustainably power today’s workforce. From the office to industrial environments, our differentiated business solutions and financial services are designed to make every day work better for clients — no matter where that work is being done. Today, Xerox scientists and engineers are continuing our legacy of innovation with disruptive technologies in digital transformation, augmented reality, robotic process automation, additive manufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things, and cleantech.
Salesforce
Salesforce is the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, internet of things, artificial intelligence, voice and blockchain—to create a 360° view of their customers. Learn more about Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com
We build each edition of the Forum starting from a dialogue with the business leaders. The scope is to create a community of industry-recognized experts that drive and shape the event content by selecting the most relevant topics and giving us guidance prior to the event.
Meet the Advisory Board Members of the 2021 edition!
Răzvan Sighinaş
CIO & Deputy CEO, ING Bank
Bogdan Popa
COO - Vice President, Raiffeisen Bank
Valentin Vancea
COO, Member of the Management Board, Patria Bank
Bogdan Pipernea
IT Executive Director, Raiffeisen Bank
Marian Ignat
Executive Director - Head of Retail Distribution, BCR
Constantin Mareș
Executive Director IT, PMO & Transformation Office, OTP Bank
Gabriel Herbei
CTO, First Bank România
Eduard Bîsceanu
Chief Information Security Officer, CEC Bank
Octavian Hera
Marketing Director, Libra Internet Bank
Gabriel Pralea
Network Director, CEC Bank
Registration details:
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The fifth edition of IDC Financial Forum in Romania will be hosted on an all-in-one live online events platform where attendees can learn, interact, and connect with people from anywhere in the world.
Reception
We will welcome you at our Digital Reception area where we will showcase the event schedule and our partners. We will guide you for a great time & a lot of exciting digital touchpoints.
Stage
You will get inspired by the professional stories shared by industry pioneers and IDC analysts. Our keynotes experts will answer questions, propose provoking online polls, take part in the chat, and comment on what is happening. Everything is done live.
Sessions
Learn about proven best practices through real-life case studies in moderated digital breakout sessions. This intimate experience is an opportunity to gain a clearer understanding of current organizations challenges.
Networking
Meet with peers to discuss common challenges and share concrete experiences thanks to our Networking feature using your webcam for up to 3 minutes.
Expo
Visit interactive booths leveraging digital content allowing you to explore key trends or discover more about innovative products.
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