TechConnect 2026

09:00 - 09:30 Grand Opening. Adam Pustelnik, Dominik Stöttner, PhD Marek Gajowniczek

09:30 - 09:45 Will Innovation Take Away Our Joy? Grzegorz Sztandera, Commerzbank

09:30 - 10:00 Splitting LLMs Across Serverless GPUs: The Project That Won an International Google Hackathon. Michał Wojewódzki, Commerzbank

09:45 - 10:15 Tomorrow Starts Today: The Future Won't Reward What We Know. So What Will Matter? Karolina Brzozowska, Małgorzata Kapral

10:00 - 10:30 Data-to-AI Journey. Jakub Skuratowicz, Google

10:15 - 11:00 Discussion Panel: The Canvas of Skills - How Do We Prepare Today's Workforce for AI-Driven Business? Edyta Sikorska, Alessandra Dolfetti, Karolina Bioch-Spicola, Aleksandra Grzelak, Łukasz Belica. Moderator: Barbara Michalak

10:30 - 11:00 From Integration to Intelligence: How MCP Is Reshaping Banking Technology. Ivanka Stoyanova, Mariya Stoyanova, Commerzbank

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00 Microsoft Keynote: The Art of the Frontier Firm. Michał Furmankiewicz, Microsoft

11:30 - 12:00 From Cloud-Native to Autonomous Operations: How Modern Azure Architectures Enable SRE Agents. Laurenz Frost, Commerzbank

12:00 - 13:00 Discussion Panel: The Portrait of Banking: How Can AI Transform Banking Operations and Customer Experience in the Future? Dominik Stöttner, Robert Buda, Agnieszka Belowska-Gosławska, Sandra Flavia Fensterseifer, Przemysław Koper. Moderator: Agata Słubik

12:00 - 13:00 Discussion Panel: The Circles of Progress: Are Modern IT Architectures Truly Innovative or Just Reinterpretations of Existing Patterns? Krzysztof Zalasa, Mateusz Witkowski, Andrzej Chodorowski, Jakub Kołczynski. Moderator: Konrad Orzechowski

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30 Stablecoins, Digital Euro and Tokenization -> Blockchain in European Banking. Dominik Zyskowski, Espeo

14:00 - 14:30 How Innovation Actually Happens: Why Most Companies Get It Wrong. Daniel Garcia, Yotpo

14:30 - 15:00 Quantum Computing and the Future of Banking: From Security Risks to Quantum Resilience and New Opportunities! PhD Mirosław Sopek, Makolab

14:30 - 15:00 How Distributed Innovation Bridges the Space Between Strategy and Reality. Marta Krysińska, Jakub Wężykowski, Sylwester Głowacki

15:00 - 15:45 Discussion Panel: The Moral Palette: How Do We Balance Rapid Technology Growth with Corporate Accountability? Bartłomiej Szymański, PhD Magdalena Wróbel-Lachowska, Igor Savic, PhD Marek Gajowniczek, Prof. Dominika Kaczorowska-Spychalska. Moderator: Aleksandra Kaźmierczak

15:00 - 15:30 A Case Study in Applying Machine Learning in the LLM Era. Vojtech Kotous, Commerzbank

15:45 - 16:15 Banking of Tomorrow: Between Trust and Algorithms. Ariel Zgórski, ING

15:30 - 16:00 Beyond Patching Systems: How Innovative Architecture Eliminates Entire Classes of Vulnerabilities. Mateusz Lach, Commerzbank

16:15 - 16:30 Thank You to Patrons & Partners

16:00 - 16:30 The Self-Proving Bank: Cybersecurity for the Agentic AI Era. Michał Krauze

16:30 - 17:00 Closing Speech. Marek Gajowniczek, Commerzbank