Fintech Week Vienna Opening Event 2025

Join us for the Opening Event of Vienna Fintech Week 2025 — kicking off on 17 November 2025

Agenda:

• Arrival (16:30 to 17:00)
  
• Welcome (DE) (17:00 to 17:15)
  - Claudio Wilhelmer, Founder & CEO, Winventure
  - Enver Siručić, President Bankenverband & Deputy CEO & CFO BAWAG Group
  
• Opening (DE) (17:15 to 17:25)
  - Martin Kocher, Governeur, Österreichische Nationalbank
  
• Spotlight (DE)(17:25 to 17:50)
  “Banking & Beyond”
  - Christoph Kuban, General Manager, Revolut
  Moderated by Jakob Steinschaden, Co-Founder & Editor in Chief, Trending Topics
  
• Panel (EN) (17:50 to 18:30)
  “Navigating Innovation & Regulation”
  - Enver Siručić, Deputy CEO & CFO BAWAG Group
  - Maurizio Poletto, Chief Operating Officer & Chief Platform Officer Erste Group
  - Mariana Kühnel, Executive Director, FMA Finanzmarktaufsicht Österreich
  - Curt Chadha, Head of Strategy & Innovation, Raiffeisen-Holding NÖ-Wien
  - Christoph Kuban, General Manager, Revolut
  Moderated by Patricia Kasandziev, former Executive Board Member, Bank99; Finance Expert, Österreichische Post
  
• Keynote (DE) (18:30 to 18:45)
  “Transforming Cross-Border Payments Together”
  - Manuel Sandhofer, General Manager, Wise
  - Matthias Dekan, Head of Payments & Daily Banking, Raiffeisen Bank International
  
• Keynote (EN) (18:45 to 19:00)
  “How Voice AI is Redefining Customer Connection”
  - Robin Thi Stoinski, GTM Director, ElevenLabs
  
• Keynote (EN) (19:00 to 19:15)
  “Why a Bank's Digital Asset Future Depends on Self-Custody”
  - Kasper Luyckx, Head EMEA and Financial Institutions, Ledger
  
• Break (19:15 to 19:30)
  
• Austrian Market (DE) (19:30 to 19:35)
  “That (Austrian Fintech) Scene”
  - Aleksandar Vrglevski, Co-Initiator Fintech Week Vienna, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Fintech Austria
  
• Spotlight (DE) (19:35 to 20:00)
  “The Way We Pay”
  - Christian Pirkner, Co-Founder & CEO, Bluecode
  Moderated by Dejan Jovicevic, Co-Founder & CEO, Brutkasten
  
• Panel (DE) (20:00 to 20:40)
  “Leading Fintech Voices on Founding, Funding & Scaling in Austria and Beyond”
  - Philipp Bohrn, Managing Director, Bitpanda
  - Daniel Strieder, Co-Founder & CEO, Credi2
  - David Mayer-Heinisch, Co-Founder & CEO, Froots
  - Christoph Zemina, VP Strategy, Pliant
  - Markus Bernhart, Co-Founder & CEO, Ready2Order
  Moderated by Kambis Kohansal Vajargah, Wirtschaftskammer Österreich
  
• Reflections (20:40 to 20:45)
  - Claudio Wilhelmer, Founder & Managing Director, Winventure
  
• Networking

This event is hosted by Winventure and organized by Claudio Wilhelmer and Maximilian Seifert, in cooperation with Fintech Austria, Bankenverband, and Wirtschaftsagentur Wien.
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