Financial Services

• Building Resilient Banks Through Real‑Time, Trusted AI Decisioning
  
  Banks are navigating a period defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical tension, and shifting customer expectations, all of which are reshaping risk and growth priorities. Against this backdrop, AI in banking is emerging as a stabilising force, enabling real‑time insight and trusted decisioning that help institutions stay resilient in a rapidly changing environment. 
  
  Presenter: 
  
  Anselmo Marmonti, Vice President – Risk, Fraud & Compliance Solutions, SAS

• Banking on Trust: AI Governance and Trusted Decisions
  
  AI governance is no longer just about compliance. It is what enables banks to deploy AI-powered decisions safely, consistently and at scale. By establishing the right by establishing the right oversight, accountability and controls, organisations can accelerate innovation while maintaining customer trust and meeting regulatory obligations. This presentation explores how banks can move from fragmented oversight to governed AI, delivering transparent, auditable and reliable decisions across the enterprise.
  
  Presenters: 
  
  Terisa Roberts, Global Director & Head of Initiative: Risk Modelling, Decisioning & Governance, SAS
  
  Jonathan Butow, Head of Innovation, SAS
  
  
• From Siloed Fraud Controls to Unified AI Defence
  
  AI has accelerated the evolution of fraud, enabling increasingly sophisticated attacks that strain siloed systems, inflate operational costs, and erode customer trust. This presentation explores how a unified, AI driven fraud framework empowers financial institutions to break down those silos, integrate new data sources, strengthen governance, and transform compliance into intelligent decisioning that protects both banks and their customers.
  
  Presenter:
  
  Pranav Gupta, Head of Fraud & Financial Crime, Australia & New Zealand, SAS
  
  
• From Scenarios to Decisions with AI-Driven Balance Sheet Insight
  
  AI driven scenario modeling transforms stress testing into a real time decision engine, instantly showing how shocks, macro shifts, and real world events ripple through capital, liquidity, funding costs, and returns. By turning the balance sheet into a dynamic, insight rich system, Treasury and Risk leaders gain the power to move from scenarios to decisions with unprecedented speed and clarity.
  
  Presenters:
  
  Christopher Schaub, Head of Risk Solutions, Australia & New Zealand, SAS
  
  Nishit Shah, Global Lead, AI in Risk Solutions, SAS

Public Sector

• Data you can trust: scaling AI with governance and control
  
  Learn how public sector agencies adopt AI and advanced analytics responsibly, keeping human judgement, accountability and public trust at the centre.
    
• Panel Discussion
  AI and advanced analytics are increasingly supporting government decision-making, helping agencies improve citizen services, detect fraud, fight crime, improve health outcomes and protect public funds. But the question is not simply how quickly these capabilities can be adopted. It is how they can be used in a way that is ethical, explainable, transparent and able to withstand public scrutiny. This session draws on practical public sector examples to show how agencies can adopt AI and analytics with confidence, while keeping decisions accountable and human judgement at the centre.
  
  Lorraine Finlay, Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
  Lukas Watts, Senior Intelligence Manager, Victoria Police
  Paul Kingdom, Head of Strategy and Intelligence - Public Sector, SAS
  Moderated by: Milica Gallardo Petkovich, Data Science & AI Lead – Public Sector, SAS
  
  
• A practical guide to putting governance to work: Learn from these examples how a culture of trust can translate into working systems, including data foundations, human-in-the-loop controls and governance frameworks that make AI and analytical outputs defensible in live operations.
  
  Paul Kingdom, Head of Strategy and Intelligence - Public Sector, SAS
  
  
• Ethical and explainable analytics in policing and intelligence
  A practical demonstration of how AI and analytics can support policing and intelligence functions, including operational intelligence, person of interest management and complex investigative environments. This segment explores what governance must be in place, why explainability and transparency matter and why human judgement cannot be delegated.
  
  Joshua Davies, Head of Intelligence, Investigations and Fraud Innovation - Public Sector, SAS 
  Lukas Watts, Senior Intelligence Manager, Victoria Police
  Francis Olle, Senior Project Officer, Data & Analytics Team, Victoria Police
  
  
• AI governance in health
  Insights on how governed AI and analytics can reduce administrative burden, improve access to critical services and apply policy consistently, enabling auditability, traceability and transparency at every stage.
   
  Milica Gallardo Petkovich, Data Science & AI Lead – Public Sector, SAS
  
  
• Next steps
  A recap of today's themes and an introduction to SAS' AI governance models and self-assessment tools to help you advance your AI governance journey.
   
  Paul Kingdom, Head of Strategy and Intelligence - Public Sector, SAS