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Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference – Chicago

The Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference brings together senior leaders from financial institutions, compliance and risk functions, law enforcement, and leading technology providers for a focused, practical examination of how artificial intelligence is reshaping financial crime risk management. Criminals are already using AI to scale fraud, automate attacks, and develop increasingly sophisticated methods of evasion. Institutions that fail to modernize risk defending against tomorrow’s financial crime with yesterday’s detection methods.
That reality is accelerating the need for financial institutions to adopt AI capabilities of their own. AI is no longer an emerging technology sitting on the sidelines of compliance; it is already being applied across AML, fraud, sanctions, KYC, investigations, transaction monitoring, and operational decision-making. At the same time, agentic AI is introducing a new level of autonomy, complexity, and governance risk. The question is no longer whether organizations will adopt AI, but how they can deploy it responsibly, effectively, and defensibly.
Through four substantive panel discussions and multiple workshops, the conference will tackle the questions financial crime leaders are being forced to answer now:
- Where is AI delivering measurable value today, and where is the hype outpacing reality?
- What should effective AI governance and model risk management look like as systems become more autonomous?
- How can institutions evaluate, select, and implement AI vendors without creating new compliance, operational, or regulatory risks?
- What does it take to build AI-enabled financial crime programs that are explainable, auditable, defensible, and capable of withstanding regulatory scrutiny?
The conference is designed to move beyond high-level discussions about the future of AI. Attendees will hear directly from practitioners who are implementing, governing, testing, and overseeing these technologies in real-world environments. Expect candid conversations around governance, human oversight, model risk, explainability, validation, vendor due diligence, implementation challenges, regulatory expectations, and the practical realities of moving AI initiatives from pitch to production.
The Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference is where financial crime, risk, compliance, and technology leaders come together to separate what is possible from what is practical—and define what responsible AI deployment should look like as the industry enters its next phase.
Agenda
Moderator
Mike Jones
Chief Compliance Officer, SRA Consulting
Panelist
Ken Triemstra
AML & Sanctions Executive, Compliance, Block
Dr. Lubomira Minkovsky
SVP, Head of Model Development & AI, Northern Trust Corporation
Peter Sweeney
Head of GTM Strategy, Footprint
Christopher Phillips
Director of Financial Crime Industry Engagement, Flagright
Moderator
Jennie Jonas
SVP, Global Head, Financial Crimes Advisory, AML Rightsource
Panelist
Thephil Russelliah Roby
VP, Risk & Compliance, Onbe
Ashish Aggarwal
Managing Director, Data, Analytics & Gen AI Transformation
Carrie Gilson
SVP, EFCC FIU Director, U.S. Bank
Michelle Koper
Director, Global Transaction Monitoring, BMO
Moderator
Robert Reed
Chief Operations Officer, International Bank of Chicago
Panelist
Noordin Tharani
Chief AML Officer (interim), Interactive Brokers
William Eisenmenger
AML Transaction Monitoring Lead, Google
Richard Paskis
Director, U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit, BMO
Larry Massen
Director, Financial Crimes Risk Management, AML Market Integrity, Charles Schwab
Moderator
Patrick Bowe
Head of Product, Solytics Partners
Panelist
Paulina Peters
Deputy BSA Officer, Old National Bank
Mark Szott
Head of AML Models & Rules, Meta
Iskra Sbraccia
Head of Sanctions Screening Operations, Google
Kathleen Bell
Director of AI/ML & AML Model Development, BMO
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Flagright provides a unified, AI-native operating system for financial crime compliance, trusted by banks and fintechs globally. The platform centralizes real-time transaction monitoring, watchlist screening, and case management into a single, audit-ready infrastructure that dramatically slashes false positives.
SRA Consulting supports more than 200 mid-market banks across the United States, delivering award-winning, end-to-end AI risk governance, monitoring, and third-party AI certification solutions. The firm has also developed an agentic platform designed to continuously monitor AI risk, including model drift, data leakage, and hallucinations.
AML RightSource is the leading technology-enabled managed services firm dedicated exclusively to fighting financial crime. Combining over 4,000 global compliance experts with advanced AI tools, the firm delivers tailored transaction monitoring, KYC onboarding, and robust regulatory advisory solutions.
Footprint is an end-to-end AI agent for risk operations and financial crime. Its platform enables risk and compliance teams to investigate every relevant case at scale, with greater efficiency, visibility, and auditability.
Solytics Partners is a global RiskTech100 analytics firm helping financial institutions transform financial crime compliance, risk management, AI governance, and data analytics. Recognized as a Category Leader in AI Governance by Chartis, Solytics combines deep domain expertise with advanced technology to support transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, model validation, customer risk, and enterprise AI governance across traditional models, GenAI, and agentic AI.
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