Past event | Banking Reimagined: The AI Imperative
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As part of SwissCham Singapore's AI Leadership Series, we explored how AI is moving from experimentation to a strategic imperative for financial institutions, transforming customer engagement, operations, decision-making and risk management.

Some key takeaways from the discussion:
- AI can play an important role in accountability, helping organisations strengthen processes, transparency and decision-making.
- The future of employment may require less focus on purely technical skills and more emphasis on business understanding, judgement and the ability to apply AI effectively.
- One of the biggest lessons from AI adoption is that people still hold a significant amount of knowledge that AI does not. Capturing, sharing and applying human expertise therefore remains essential.
The banking sector will need to balance innovation with regulation and trust as AI becomes increasingly embedded in financial services.
A big thank you to our moderator and speakers for sharing their perspectives and expertise:
- Michael Stanhope, Founder & CEO of Hubbis
- Deepak Sarda, CTO at Endowus
- Naren Gunawardana, Managing Director of Synpulse
- Petra Majdik, Head Digital Transformation GWM Singapore at UBS
- Thorsten Neumann (้พๆๆ), Head AI Research & Experimentation at Standard Chartered
Thank you to UBS for hosting us at UBS University and to everyone who joined us for this insightful evening.
In the meantime, registrations are still open for the remaining events of the AI Leadership Series taking place over the next two weeks. Check out the programme and sign up now!

