Next Bank Asia 2012

We’re delighted to be supported by a company as important as HP, and by Scott Draeger as a speaker at NBA.

Scott has been accessory to the murder of tens of millions of trees in the name of banking communication, but he’s trying to mend his ways. Starting with mortgage statements in the 90s, he was an active force in using data to improve print communications to better suit the needs of both businesses and consumers. He helped banks move from coupon books to transpromo statements, and then he helped move from black toner to full-colour ink. Now, he’s helping businesses align their communication projects to improve electronic customer experiences in a hashtag-rich world.

Scott recently moved halfway around the world to become HP Exstream’s Customer Communication Strategist for the Asia Pacific region. Previously, he managed Product Strategy for HP Exstream. During his time in the Product Management group, the HP Exstream portfolio retained its leading market position, and moved to the top position in most analyst assessments in a field of aggressive competitors. He did this by listening to the business, service, and regulatory challenges of the world’s major banks and insurance providers.  Scott knows that with innovation comes great sacrifice and tough trade-offs. He understands that large enterprises cannot change direction rapidly, and he works hard to help target their innovations to best support their growth in a changing world.

He generally hides the fact that he holds a BA in English Literature with a French Minor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He thinks it hurts his street cred with software engineers. He’ll always mention that he has an International MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. He is recognized by Xplor International as one of 11 Master Electronic Document Professionals in the world. He was also Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2006.

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Certainly to many of us will be familiar with the name of Yodlee. It’s a huge pleasure to have them associated with our event.

Yodlee created the industry’s first financial cloud for global money management. Powering services for 7 of the top 10 financial institutions and more than 30 million consumers in 9 countries, Yodlee removes the friction from financial management, making it a more insightful, interactive, and actionable experience for consumers while delivering retention, engagement, and revenue for financial providers. Yodlee is driving the new era of digital banking – anywhere, anytime, on any device. Yodlee is headquartered in Redwood City, California with offices in India & UK. For more information, visit www.yodlee.com.

Welcome Yodlee!

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We’re happy to announce the addition of the local Singaporean creative agency Chemistry to the sponsor list.

Here’s how they describe themselves:

“Established in 2000, Chemistry is an award winning multi-disciplinary creative agency. We are driven by a passion to solve real world problems and working with our clients to generate surprising new ideas and solutions in the domain of service and product design to enhance customer experience.
 
This is the space where business meets creativity, we apply a rigorous and structured Design Thinking process to arrive at the results, pulling together people insights, technology, systems and processes and then churn this through our bespoke innovation toolkit to break out of the predictable and the impossible. We have done this for big and small companies, including Dell, Philips and Siemens to name a few.
 
We’re excited to flex our creative muscles at NBA and work with the amazing people who are attending the conference.”

And we’re very happy to have you guys involved! Thanks and we look forward to working with you.

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Yep we’ve announced our agenda for the first Next Bank Asia.

Visit www.NextBankAsia.com/agenda

Its taken a while – we wanted to get it right, with the right balance – but we’re pleased with how its come out. Let me walk you through the structure over the few days.

Whats happening the night before Day 1?
On the night of Tuesday May 8th, before day 1, we’ll be hosting a few invitation only events for some of our VIP and top attendees. We’ll also be hosting a BarCampBank. What’s a BarCampBank? It’s the new style of conference called ‘unconference’, where anyone can attend, anyone can present, and any topic on banking and financial services is allowed. You can bring along your crazy wild theories and hypotheses, mockups or prototypes of your new ideas, a problem you need the crowd to help you solve, or something you’ve just built to show off. Free drinks of course. Stay tuned for more details and registration options.

What are the 7 topics of presentation across the 2 days?

  1. The innovation imperative
    How all organizations in Asia must innovate and be innovative to ensure they take advantage of the huge growth and opportunities ahead
  2. The evolving consumer & marketplace
    How the Asian consumer and markets are evolving, changing, and how you need to react to these changes
  3. The big shift in banking
    How the industry is under going a fundamental transformation that will impact every player
  4. The growing dominance of digital & mobile
    How the digital revolution affects banks and banking customer experience more than many other industries
  5. The power of design
    How design can create meaningful and powerful customer experiences and business returns
  6. The future organizational culture
    How large banks and other organizations need to change their workplace design, culture and approach to a new innovative mix
  7. The booming technology opportunity
    How the industry is on the verge of a landslide of new technological possibilities as the internet, big data and interactive technologies become mainstream

What else will we see?
We’ll also have 4 sessions of demos, each with 3 companies showing their product or service in action. This we hope will contrast against the more conceptual or case study material in the speakers presentations

How can I interact with the speakers?
You’ll be able to ask them questions via our live Q&A tool, Pigeonhole Live, and you can also vote for other questions to ask. At the end of each talk we’ll ensure we put the speakers under the spotlight! There’ll also be other structured and unstructured ways to meet and chat with the speakers across the 2 days – stay tuned.

How can I interact with other attendees?
There will be of course many breaks and chances to chat, as well as various tools and spaces for you to use in discussion and debate. We’ll also have a range of social events at the end of each day to give you time to relax and meet some new people.

Let us know what you think!

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It’s a privilege to add INSEAD and Dr Bruno Lanvin to the speaking roster at Next Bank Asia.

Since September 2007, Dr Lanvin has been the Executive Director of INSEAD’s eLab, managing INSEAD’s teams in Paris, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. From 2000 to 2007, Bruno Lanvin worked for the World Bank, where he was inter alia Senior Advisor for E‐strategies, and Regional Coordinator (Europe and Central Asia) for ICT and e‐government issues. He was also heading the Capacity Building Practice of the World Bank’s Global ICT Department, and Chairman of the Bank’s e‐ Thematic Group.

From June 2001 to December 2003, he was the Manager of the Information for Development Program (infoDev). In 2000, Mr. Lanvin was appointed Executive Secretary of the G‐8 DOT Force. Until then, he was Head of Electronic Commerce in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, and occupied various senior positions including Chief of Cabinet of the Director General of the United Nations in New‐ York, Head of Strategic Planning and later Chief of the SME Trade Competitiveness Unit of UNCTAD/SITE. He was the main drafter, team leader and editor of ‘Building Confidence: electronic commerce and development’, published in January 2000.

Since 2002, he has been co‐authoring the Global Information Technology Report, (INSEAD ‐ World Economic Forum). He holds a BA in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Valenciennes (France), an MBA from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in Paris, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I (La Sorbonne) in France. A frequent speaker in high‐level meetings, he advises a number of global companies and governments, and is a member of numerous boards, including that of the Tallinn E‐government Academy.

Welcome Dr Lanvin!
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