The Innovation Briefing. All things digital and innovation for businesses and Entrepreneurs.

The Innovation Briefing - Liz Oakes - Executive Vice President at Mastercard

Liz Oakes is a Executive VP at Mastercard. She has been a disrupter and change agent in many organisations over her career, matching her business expertise with acumen in dealing with senior executives, customers and governments.   Our conversation goes into transformational change, neobanking, payments, identity and what it takes to disrupt any business or business model. Background Liz has more than 25 years’ experience in designing central clearing and settlement systems and bank payments systems, globally.  This includes the governance and functional design of SEPA, Faster Payments and Bacs systems in the UK, and real-time payments systems strategy and design for national payments infrastructure operators in Australia, India, Pakistan, P27, Singapore, Sweden, and the USA

The Innovation Briefing - Maarten Ectors - Chief Innovation Officer at Legal & General

Maarten has more then 20 years' experience working for innovative technology companies and a disrupter whereever he works.  His currently role is to help L&G innovate new products and services and disrupting the insurance model. He always makes executives think hard about change and innovation and digital transformation. Background Maarten is an award-winning former disruptive innovator who was involved in Cloud, IoT, BlockChain and AI before most knew about them. He changed from the high-tech industry to insurance, investment and pensions to help solve millions of life-changing customer problems in innovative ways; open the doors for other innovators to come and help so the industry gets disrupted from within.

The Innovation Briefing - Roberto Maranca - VP, Data Excellence at Schneider Electric

Robero Maranca - VP, Data Excellence at Schneider Electric. He has been working as senior executive, and in data for over 25y. Roberto is a disrupter and change agent for large enterprise and always works with senior executives to drive transformation, driven by data in every company in which he has worked. Background With more than 25 years of experience in the world of IT and Data, Roberto has spent most of his working life with General Electric in their Capital Division, where, since 2014 as Chief Data Officer for their International Unit he has implemented Data Governance Quality and Advanced Analytics, spanning from supporting risk model validation to enabling divestitures and leading their regulatory reporting initiatives. After a year as Group Chief Data Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, shaping a new Data Strategy and dividing his time between the BCBS 239 and GDPR programs, he has joined Schneider Electric as Data Excellence VP delving into the cultural and methodological aspects of becoming a data driven company. Roberto has got a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from “Federico II” Naples University. Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rmaranca Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertomaranca The Innovation Briefing website: https://www.theinnovationbriefing.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/innovatebrief

The Innovation Briefing - Patrick Bangert, Head of AI, Samsung SDS

The application of technology is transforming our society, work, play and culture. Navigating to find the right path for your business, or individually is getting more confusing and complex, rather than knowing the obvious path. We here all the buzz words: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, Cloud, Industry 4.0, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Cognitive, Quantum Computing, Finding the way through the confusion is one of the most important things we want to do with this podcast. To help you navigate this rapidly changing world, the Innovation Briefing will bring together individuals who are influential in business, society, government and art, to give you clear insights and paths to your transformation. If you have something amazing to talk about and have insights into helping others in their transformation, please get in touch.