Turning AI Vision into Business Value

Doors open at 13.30. Registration and informal exchange before the programme begins.

Tokens are the new unit of financial productivity. This session covers the economics of AI inference, the rise of AI factories as core banking infrastructure, and how financial foundation models turn proprietary data into durable competitive advantage — securely and sovereignly.

The financial sector is rapidly shifting from early generative AI experimentation to deploying scalable, regulated solutions that drive tangible operational value. In this session, Dr. Richard Harmon explores Agentic AI and World Models, and introduces the framework of Engineered Trust for governing platform, model and outcome integrity.

How does a bank move from its first AI use case to a secure and scalable foundation for the future? Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft (FBG) shares the business drivers, architecture and governance behind its sovereign AI platform, why an on-premises approach was chosen, and what the team learned along the way. The session concludes with FBG’s roadmap from GenAI to Agentic AI, and the foundations required to scale AI securely, efficiently and with measurable business value.

The art market has spent four hundred years building trust out of reputation, relationships and paperwork — and is now watching AI test that system to its limits. Dr. Carina Popovici of Art Recognition, a company that authenticates artworks using AI, examines what happens when opinions stop being sufficient and institutions are forced to shift from “Do we have a story?” to “Do we have evidence?” A perspective on verification as infrastructure, and what banking can learn from a market where authenticity decides everything.