Joeri Van den Bergh gives over 60 speeches a year on NextGen & Trends in more than 30 countries. He is co-founder, managing partner and NextGen expert and has extensive experience of all aspects of branding, marketing and advertising to kids, teens and young adults. His clients include global customers such as eBay, Coca-Cola, Spotify, Danone, Red Bull, Heineken, Converse, Nestlé, AXA and Unilever for whom he has provided research and advice on how to target the youth market.

He is an awarded global thought leader and marketing author on the impact of Millennials and Generation Z on marketing and business. His best-selling marketing book “How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation Y and Z” has been awarded several times (a.o. The American Marketing Association Berry-AMA Book Prize).

Vanaf 2015 Head of Fintech bij ING. Inmiddels werkt hij samen met zo’n 65 fintech partijen – bedrijven waarvan vaak gezegd wordt dat ze banken uiteindelijk zullen wegvagen.

Zelf ziet hij dat anders: ‘We bundelen onze krachten’. Ondernemer met meer dan 20 jaar ervaring in de transformatie van diverse areas bij banken (Investment Banking, Traditional Retail Banking, Private Banking and Direct Banking) in 5 verschillende landen (Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Poland en Singapore)

Liisa is a passionate and committed driver for superior customer experience and new business models for payment services based on regulatory, technological and other market changes. She has wide experience ranging from cash management to pioneering mobile financial services business leadership and product development. She has the ability to combine fast strategic thinking to deep knowledge, business analysis, excellent communication and execution skills and wide personal contact base, resulting to understanding what the trends mean for us here and now.

Globally recognized public speaker and contributor to industry discussion. Visionary strategy leader understanding the industry drivers with ability to get things accomplished. Proven stragic leadership in a complex cross-industry virtual team environment.

Specialties: Ability to quickly combine strategic thinking to deep technical and business knowledge, excellent communication skills and wide personal contact base. Ability to quickly find the core essentials of new proposals. Ability to shorten and simplify complex issues. Independent but communicative decision maker and fair leader.

Knowledge areas: PSD2, Open Banking, Digitalisation, FinTech-Bank collaboration, Mobile payments

Laura Diez Perez works at the Consumer Protection, Financial Innovation and Payments Unit of the European Banking Authority (EBA) as Retail Banking Expert since January 2016.

The EBA regulates credit institutions, payment institutions, electronic money institutions and other financial institutions across the 28 EU Member States. At the EBA, Laura is responsible for the development of various sets of Guidelines under Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (PSD2), including on Authorisation and Registration, on Operational and Security Risks and on Incident Reporting.

She also leads various aspects of the EBA’s innovation monitoring work. Previously, Laura held roles across the private and public sectors, with Garrigues Law firm, Bank Santander, CaixaBank and the Spanish General Secretariat of the Treasury and Financial Policy.