Date
28 – 30 October 2025
Location
Kigali, Rwanda
28 – 30 October 2025
Kigali, Rwanda
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping every industry, and financial services is no exception. From front-end customer engagement to middle and back-office operations, AI is transforming how banks operate, compete, and create value. The Banking Academy invites senior management of banks, digital banks, financial institutions, fintech platforms, and technology providers to join this essential AI in Banking Bootcamp in Kigali, Rwanda, on 28 – 30 October 2025.
AI will force banks to rethink every aspect of their business — from technology systems, security, customer interfaces, and product design, to workforce mobilisation and risk frameworks. With advances in generative and agentic AI accelerating, the industry urgently needs clear roadmaps to navigate this fast-evolving landscape. Over the next 12–30 months, leadership teams will face critical decisions that will shape their institution’s competitive edge and resilience.
This bootcamp provides an exclusive forum for industry peers and experts to engage in practical discussions, scenario planning and guided exercises. It will help banking leaders develop a strategic mindset and actionable frameworks for managing AI-driven transformation.
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Shape executive strategies for future banking
Lead technology-driven transformation
Strengthen decision-making and governance
Design customer-first product innovations
Manage data, ethics and trust
Drive organisational change
Expand peer networks across the region
Banking in an intelligent economy
Evolving technology architecture
Data governance and cybersecurity
Customer engagement and new products
Leadership and talent strategies
Fairness, ethics and trust
Regulatory models and public policy
The bootcamp sessions will comprise:
Chairmen and board members of traditional and digital banks
CEOs and senior management
Heads of strategic planning, innovation and business development
Heads of AI, data, analytics, cybersecurity, channels and distribution
Senior managers driving AI adoption across banking functions
Regulators and policymakers shaping AI governance in financial services
18:00 – 20:00
An opportunity for participants to meet fellow attendees, faculty and guest speakers. The session includes an introduction to the bootcamp, key themes to be explored and how to prepare for the discussions ahead.
06:00 – 07:00
07:00 – 08:30
08:30 – 10.00
This session examines how banks must anticipate changes in demographics, technology and economic structures and adapt for long-term relevance. It connects macro trends with banking strategy, helping leaders align their institution’s vision with the evolving marketplace.
Key Learning Points:
With discussion papers and structured dialogues.
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:30
With rapid breakthroughs in generative AI, robotics and quantum computing, banks must develop clear strategic roadmaps to stay ahead. This session helps leaders identify priorities, sequence initiatives and allocate resources for both immediate wins and long-term transformation.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues
11:30 – 12:30
Agentic AI will transform how customers interact with banks and manage financial relationships. This session explores how banking apps and platforms must evolve to meet new expectations and examines the shifting role of embedded finance in everyday life.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:30
AI is reshaping how bank technology is created and maintained, and how data is procured, stored and processed. Many IT vendors are still struggling to adapt. Banks need their own mental map of what to build, what to buy and how to manage vendor relationships. These are now CEO-level decisions that must return to the board before moving forward. This session helps leaders plan a clear architecture strategy for the future.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:30
AI will transform every banking function, from advisory to claims processing to payments and fraud detection. Banks must rethink how to organise talent, structure teams and develop new capabilities. This session explores how development teams, business units and operations should work together to drive AI adoption across the organisation.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
17:30
18:30
06:00 – 07:00
07:00 – 08:30
08:30 – 10.00
AI systems can amplify bias, compromise privacy, and damage trust if not properly governed. Banks must embed ethics and integrity into algorithms and organisational culture. This session uses real scenarios to explore how to build transparency, fairness, and accountability across AI-enabled services
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:30
AI is creating new cybersecurity threats at unprecedented scale. At the same time, banks must navigate evolving regulations while building secure, trusted AI-driven services. This session examines how to manage these risks, engage with regulators and help shape future policy. Recommendations from this session will be published as a white paper for participants to share with their regulators.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:30
AI is redefining what banks can offer to customers. From personalised mortgages to crypto and IoT-driven services, product innovation must keep pace with new technologies and evolving customer lifestyles. This session challenges participants to think beyond current offerings and explore what will create real value in the intelligent economy.
Session includes discussion papers and structured dialogues.
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 17:30
AI will reshape how banks measure performance, both financial and non-financial. This closing group exercise helps participants translate their learning into practical strategies and metrics. Teams will develop an AI transition roadmap for their organisation and critique each other’s approaches, to sharpen thinking and foster cross-learning.
Final Words
17:30
The programme is anchored and delivered by some of the most experienced professionals in the industry.
US$5,000
Early bird US$3,800 (till 12 September 2025)
*Excludes airfare, visa fees, airport transfers and dinners