Agenda Day 2
Opening
8:50 am - 9:00 am
Chairperson's Opening Remark
AML, KYC & Risk Operations: Strengthening Core Capabilities Under Pressure
9:00 am - 9:30 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: From Manual to Managed: Accelerating the Shift to Intelligent AML Operations
Siddhant Sahai -
Senior Financial Crime SME - Strategic Projects,
The Star Entertainment Group
Chethana Goestiawan - Head of AML, CTF and Fraud Risk Steward-Personal Bank and USBank, NAB
Zachary Lu - Regional of Anti-Money Laundering, Compliance Director Financial Crime Complianc, Interactive Brokers
Souveek Halder - Senior Manager & Head of Data Science, Analytics & Intel Reporting - Financial C, Westpac
Zachary Lu
Regional of Anti-Money Laundering, Compliance Director Financial Crime CompliancInteractive Brokers
Souveek Halder
Senior Manager & Head of Data Science, Analytics & Intel Reporting - Financial CWestpac
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: Two Decades of Financial Crime Compliance: What We Got Wrong and What We Must Change
Tess Ogle -
Head of Financial Crime Risk Stewardship,
HSBC
Nathan Newman - Group MLRO and Chief Financial Crime Officer, NAB
Key Takeaways:
- Examining the assumptions that have gone unchallenged for 20+ years and whether they still hold true in today's threat environment
- Where the industry has been running the same playbook on loop, and the blind spots that has created for regulators, institutions, and customers
- Moving from compliance-as-habit to compliance-as-strategy: what better financial crime practice looks like in the next decade
10:00 am - 10:30 am
PANEL DISCUSSION: From Capability to Control: Making Financial Crime Technology Actually Work
Katie Lourey -
Head of Risk and Compliance,
Gold Bullion Australia
Marlene Sadhai - Senior Manager Enterprise Compliance - Financial Crime (Fraud & AML Officer), Aware Super
Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Morning 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.
Incident, Response, Escalation & Internal Readiness
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Proving You Did Everything Right: Building an Audit-Ready Trail Before the Regulator Asks
Robert Colquhoun -
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Tax and AML,
Australian Financial Market Association
- Capturing decisions, actions and rationale in real time—not after the fact
- Designing systems and workflows that support defensible audit trails
- Aligning operational response documentation with regulatory expectations
- Turning post-incident reviews into control and process improvements
Robert Colquhoun
Chief Operating Officer and Head of Tax and AMLAustralian Financial Market Association
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: Mobilising the Right People Fast: The Operational Design of Cross-Functional Incident Teams
Marlene Sadhai -
Senior Manager Enterprise Compliance - Financial Crime (Fraud & AML Officer),
Aware Super
Marlene Sadhai
Senior Manager Enterprise Compliance - Financial Crime (Fraud & AML Officer)Aware Super
Break
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch
Join us in the expo hall for a relaxed networking lunch with the full AFC community—connect with peers, explore the exhibition, and recharge for the afternoon ahead. For invited guests, exclusive VIP lunches will run concurrently—bringing senior leaders and select partners together for high-impact conversations in a more intimate setting.
Problem-Solving Labs: Real Scenarios, Real Pressure. Real Solutions
Problem Solving Lab
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm A Coordinated Scam Attack Is Moving Across Banking, Telco and Social Channels – What’s Your First Move?Problem Solving Lab B
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm A Regulator Has Flagged Inconsistent Suspicious Matter Reporting Across Your Business UnitsProblem Solving Lab C
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Your Real-Time Transaction Monitoring System Just Missed a $20M FraudProblem Solving Lab D
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Your Board Demands a 90-Day Plan to Reduce Financial Crime Costs by 20%A high-intensity, small-group format where participants work through real-world financial crime scenarios under time pressure. Guided by expert facilitators, these labs push teams to think critically, collaborate fast, and develop actionable solutions—mirroring the urgency and complexity of live investigations and compliance challenges.
