#CFS2025 Agenda

SCHEDULE DETAILS Agenda of Event

9:00 - 10:00

Welcome Coffee, Registrations, Networking

10:00 - 10:05

Opening Speech by CEO of XValley Technologies (Organiser)

Andreas Livadiotis

10:05 - 10:10

Opening Speech by CEO of novusalpha (Organiser)

Andreas Orphanos

10:10 - 10:30

Keynote Presenation - The Changing Fintech and Payments Landscape: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities

Panagiotis Kriaris

10:30 - 10:40

Keynote Presentation - Inside the Fast Lane: How Professional Racing Drivers Build, Manage, and Activate Global Brand Partnerships On and Off the Track

Robin Rogalski

10:40 - 10:50

Keynote Presentation - CYPRUS: A Regional Hub for Fintech and Innovation Excellence.

Theodoros Loukaidis

10:50 -11:00

Keynote Presentation - Fuel innovation with Generative AI on AWS

How AWS is powering financial institutions to adopt increasingly complex use cases for generative AI, leveraging agentic workflows and integrating generative AI into customer-facing applications.

Thanasis Patsakas

11:00 - 12:00

Panel 1: AI and the Trust Economy: The Future of Fintech Marketing.

Ron Gilo - Moderator

Garen Meserlian

Andria Phiniefs

12:00 - 12:30

Panel 2: AI at Market Speed: How Boltzmann Research Uses AWS to Predict the Future of Finance

This panel brings together Boltzmann Research, Parsectix, and AWS to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping quantitative finance. From day one, Boltzmann built its platform entirely on AWS, leveraging the cloud’s GPU-powered infrastructure, AI and ML services, and low-latency global network to run predictive models close to major stock exchanges, where every millisecond counts. As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, Parsectix has been the trusted enabler behind this journey, designing and optimizing the architecture that empowers Boltzmann to transform massive datasets into real-time market intelligence and a competitive edge in financial innovation.

Pavlos Kleanthous

Thanasis Patsakas

Chariton Christou

12:30 - 14:00

Break for Networking & Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Panel 3: Europe’s Fintech Landscape in 2025: Regulatory Pulse & Innovation Trajectory

Explore the evolving regulatory frameworks shaping the European fintech scene, including MiCA, PSD3, and AI regulations. How can Cyprus position itself as a compliant yet agile hub? 

Katerina Malioti - Moderator

Nassos Paltayian

Nikolas Xenophontos

Antonia Michail

Andreas Roussos

15:00 - 16:00

Panel 4: Fintech Meets AI: Disruption or Evolution?

AI is not just a tool—it’s reshaping financial services. From underwriting to fraud detection to robo-advisors, where does the synergy between fintech and AI lead? 

Samee Zafar

Marios Anastasiou

Sherine Kabesh

Dimitris Litsikakis

9:15 - 10:15

Welcome Coffee, Registrations, Networking

10:15 - 10:30

Keynote Presentation - The Future of Digital Assets Under MiCA: From Regulation to Innovation

Andreas Mathikolonis

10:30 - 11:30

Panel 5: Embedded Finance & Open Banking: The Next Phase of Financial Integration

Overview: 
After a turbulent funding winter, VCs are cautiously returning to fintech. This panel explores funding trends, investor sentiment, and what startups must do to stand out in 2025.

Anna Maj

Theodosis Mourouzis

Isidoros Mezopoulos

11:30 - 12:30

Panel 6: Marketing Copyright AI or Not? 

Alexis Lontos Leonidou

Céline Khattar

Alex Rohloff

Maryna Barysheva

12:30 - 14:00

Break for Networking & Lunch

Digital assets are transitioning from speculation to structured finance. Institutions are testing the waters in tokenization, custody, and DeFi integrations.

14:00 - 15:00

Panel 7: Digital Assets, DeFi, and the Institutional On-Ramp

Anton Golub

Daniel Elsawey

David Kimberley

Stanislav Galandzovskyi

Andrey Kostyuk

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