Agenda Day 1
Opening
8:50 am - 9:00 am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Leaders Morning
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Keynote Address from AUSTRAC: Regulatory Updates & Insight
Brendan Thomas -
Chief Executive Officer,
AUSTRAC
•Understanding the evolving nature of financial crime: insights into the threats AUSTRAC is currently monitoring
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: Financial Crime is a Business Risk, Not a Compliance Problem: Reshaping Ownership at the Top
Jeremy Leong -
Chief Risk Officer, Head of Risk and Compliance,
Taishin International Bank
Anthony Hope - Group Head of AML, CTF and Fraud Risk, NAB
Mandy Green - Group Head of Financial Crime - WIB and BWD, Westpac
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Speed Networking
Fast, focused, and energising — speed networking is your chance to meet fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations with your metabolic healthcare professionals
10:15 am - 10:45 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: Breaking the Coordination Bottleneck: How Leading Institutions Are Operationalising Cross-Functional Financial Crime Response
Brian Yeung -
General Counsel & Director of Compliance, APAC,
Interactive Brokers
Shiv Toor - Head of Financial Crime Compliance and MLRO, ING Australia
Penny Chai - VP, Sumsub
10:45 am - 11:00 am
Fighting the Good Fight: Mankind vs. Machine
Maryam Saeed -
Global Head of Expansion,
Sardine
Fraud has gone industrial. AI, autonomous agents, and bots now let fraudsters launch attacks at a scale and speed no human team can match manually — probing, adapting, and multiplying faster than traditional defenses can react. The only way to fight machine-speed fraud is with machine-speed defense. This session explores how fraud and risk teams are turning the same AI and agentic tools fraudsters use into their strongest weapon, closing the gap between attacker and defender in real time.
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Morning Recharge in the Expo
Interactive Group Discussions
IDG
11:30 am - 12:50 pm IDG A: Preventing Fraud and Scams Before the Point of LossDiscuss how technology, automation, and AI can enhance workforce capability, efficiency, and cross-team collaboration.
Explore how to transform fragmented risk data into meaningful insights that drive faster investigations and informed decision-making.
Break
12:50 pm - 1:50 pm
Networking Lunch & VIP Hosted Lunches
ComplyAdvantage Hosted VIP Lunches - Invisible Money, Visible Risk: Rethinking Financial Crime in a Post-Rails WorldComplyAdvantage Hosted VIP Lunches - Invisible Money, Visible Risk: Rethinking Financial Crime in a Post-Rails World
Tracks
1:50 pm - 2:20 pm
Case Study: Unifying fragmented data, workflows and decision points across the enterprise
Krzysztof Lyson -
Senior Director, Risk and Compliance,
Torrens University Australia
2:20 pm - 2:35 pm
Telco Intelligence: A New Way to Assess Identity & Intent. And why it matters in the fight against scams and fraud
Graham Dixon -
General Manager, Scam, Fraud and Identity,
Quantium Telstra
- Fraud outcomes aren't improving — because we're missing the right signals.
- Every fraud decision comes down to identity and intent — and both are getting harder to determine.
- Telco intelligence introduces a new behavioural signal to answer those questions earlier, and with more confidence.
- Real impact only happens when banks and telcos work together at scale.
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm
Orchestrating and Agentic Automation of the Investigation Ecosystem
Igor Kadinski -
General Manager Investigations,,
commonwealth
Davinder Kundan - General Manager Threat Intelligence, Commonwealth
• Orchestrating unified data into Agentic skills to be used as scalable profiling intelligence for all signals
3:05 pm - 3:20 pm
One customer, one risk view: Connecting onboarding and monitoring to detect fraud in real time
Andrew Davies -
Global Head of FCC Strategy,
ComplyAdvantage
Break
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
Technology Demonstration Drive & Afternoon Recharge in the Expo
Fuel up, connect, and explore—your chance to grab a coffee, meet solution partners, and spark new conversations across the Australian Financial Crime community.
Scams, Fraud & Identity Abuse: Early Detection & Intervention
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: Stopping Losses Before They Happen: The Infrastructure Behind Proactive Fraud Response
Jason Rohloff -
Head of Compliance,
Sokin
Sarah Roberts - Head of Customer Protection, MyState Bank
Ben Scott - Head of Industry, Government and Relationship Management, Australian Financial Crimes Exchange
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Compliance Checklist vs Compliance That Works: Rethinking How We Train Financial Crime Teams
Sharon Thorpe -
Chief Operating Officer, Financial Crime Compliance,
Commonwealth Bank
Stefanie von Westphalen - Head of Financial Crime Compliance Advisory, Bank of Queensland
- Meeting AML/CTF Act training requirements as the foundation, and where most institutions fall short of genuine capability, not just compliance
- Developing judgement in grey areas: training teams to find the right answer for the business, not just follow the rule
- Building cross-functional influence and operationalisable advice: how financial crime teams earn a seat at the table with the board, senior management, and Line 1, without overwhelming the Ops team
Closing
5:00 pm - 5:10 pm
Chairperson's Closing Remarks
5:10 pm - 6:10 pm
Australian Financial Crime Summit Drinks Reception
Join the AFC community for a relaxed evening of networking, drinks, and canapés. It’s the perfect way to unwind after a big day of learning and connection—reconnect with peers, meet new contacts, and toast to the conversations shaping the future financial crime defence in Australia
