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Keynotes, panels, and lectures on payments, AI governance, open banking, and enterprise transformation.
- Chris B. Kennedy and Simon Griffin - live webinar Chris B. Kennedy, MD Strategic Technology and AI (Regions Bank), and Simon Griffin, Lead SofiUSD Crypto Distribution (SoFi), discuss stablecoin and tokenized-deposit industry changes and trends.
- AI Ownership and Accountability in Enterprises
- Chris B. Kennedy and John D'Agostino - The Consumer Finance Podcast A guide to community and regional bank boards on emerging strategies tied to Fintechs and tokenized deposits.
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Measuring AI by Enterprise Value
Why operating leverage — not activity, pilots, or productivity — should be the measure of AI value and success.
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In this CXO Dispatch spotlight, Chris B. Kennedy discusses what separates banks that get real value from AI from those that stall at proofs of concept: an operating model built for scale, a disciplined link between AI spend and financial return, and governance that holds up to regulatory and model-risk scrutiny. The conversation draws on his work leading enterprise payments and transformation at a leading U.S. regional bank and his teaching at Duke and UNC.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are my own and do not represent the views, positions, or opinions of my employer or any affiliated organization. This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, financial, legal, tax, or other professional advice, or a recommendation, offer, or solicitation regarding any security, digital asset, financial product, or service. Consult appropriate professional advisers before making financial or investment decisions.
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Reimagining the Bank for an AI-First World
How banks move beyond isolated AI use cases to enterprise-wide, AI-first reinvention.
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For most U.S. banks, AI is no longer a question of pilots and proofs of concept — it's a question of how to turn isolated experiments into enterprise capability that moves the financials. This session maps the path from AI POC to enterprise AI: what has to change in the operating model, data foundation, and governance when intelligence moves from the edges of the organization into the core of banking, payments, risk, and customer engagement.
The discussion is organized around four shifts that separate leaders from the rest. First, moving from AI POC to enterprise AI — productionizing and scaling what already works. Second, moving beyond productivity to enterprise value — tying AI to revenue, margin, and return rather than activity. Third, secure and responsible AI — deploying in ways that hold up to regulatory, risk, and model-governance scrutiny. And fourth, tokenomics and AI financial optimization — managing the economics of compute so AI spend is metered, concentrated on the highest-leverage use cases, and run like a disciplined investment.
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Governing AI At The Speed of Change | Episode 11 (w/Chris B Kennedy)
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A conversation on capturing AI's value while managing risks that evolve at software speed. Chris argues AI cannot stay a technology initiative: it needs shared understanding and accountability across the board, executive leadership, business lines, risk, and technology.
Four considerations for governing AI — speed, human-equivalent controls, software-speed execution, and exponential complexity — and why fit-for-purpose agents with clearly bounded authority let organizations innovate while keeping risk understandable. Adoption and productivity metrics are not the finish line; value shows up as revenue, lower cost, faster product development, and stronger customer experience.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are my own and do not represent the views, positions, or opinions of my employer or any affiliated organization. This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute investment, financial, legal, tax, or other professional advice, or a recommendation, offer, or solicitation regarding any security, digital asset, financial product, or service. Consult appropriate professional advisers before making financial or investment decisions.
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Executive Panel on AI Assurance
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This session focused on AI assurance amid the ever-increasing evolution of AI capabilities — agentic and autonomous software, AI assistants for executives, and a reduced human-in-the-loop.
Key topics included a framework for governance — human controls, velocity and tempo, and exponential complexity — and the drive to build a culture of learning and challenge that drives outcomes.
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