AI Governance, Risk and RegTech

📅 Date: 16 September 2026
🕒 Time: 2:30 PM
📍 Venue: SAP Berlin

## About the Event

Join technology leaders, financial services executives, regulators, AI practitioners, founders, investors, and policymakers in Berlin as we connect live to the Africa AI Finance Executive Dialogue Series.
This edition focuses on AI Governance, Risk and RegTech in Africa's financial sector and explores how financial institutions, regulators, and technology leaders can build trusted frameworks for responsible AI adoption across the continent.
As AI transforms banking, payments, insurance, and financial inclusion, effective governance and regulatory approaches will be critical to ensuring innovation, resilience, compliance, and public trust.
Hosted from Berlin, the dialogue also serves as a platform for strengthening collaboration between Africa and Europe, bringing together expertise, investment, policy perspectives, and innovation ecosystems to support the future of AI-powered financial services in Africa.

## Why Attend?

• Gain insights into AI governance and regulatory developments shaping financial services in Africa.
• Understand emerging approaches to AI risk management, compliance, and oversight.
• Explore how RegTech can support trusted AI adoption across African financial institutions.
• Connect with leaders from Africa and Europe across finance, technology, policy, and innovation.
• Identify opportunities for cross-continental collaboration, investment, and knowledge exchange.

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## 💡 Executive Keynote

Speaker to be announced

### 🎙️ Executive Dialogue

AI Governance, Risk and RegTech: Building Trust in AI-Powered Financial Services
How can financial institutions innovate with AI while ensuring trust, transparency, compliance, and resilience?
This executive dialogue brings together industry leaders, regulators, legal experts, and technology practitioners to discuss practical approaches to governing AI systems, managing risk, strengthening regulatory readiness, and enabling responsible AI adoption across Africa's financial sector.
Moderator
🗣️ Chinenye Umunna, ACA, FIMC
Finance & Strategy Leader | Chartered Accountant | Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria
Executive Speakers
Speakers to be announced

### 🎤 Hosted by

Awuor Odongo
Narrative Strategist | TV & Radio Producer, KTN & Spice FM | Co-Founder, Take Six Africa

## Programme

14:30 – Registration & Networking
15:00 – Executive Keynote
15:40 – Executive Dialogue
16:30 – Berlin Executive Networking Dialogue
17:10 – Event Ends

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