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# From AI Assistance to Agentic Systems: Scaling Sovereign AI in Banking


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 9, 2026
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 7
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100070-from-ai-assistance-to-agentic-systems-scaling-sovereign-ai-in-banking)

## Description

AI is no longer defined by experimentation, it is defined by expectations.
Customers expect intelligent guidance, employees expect real relief in their daily work, and regulators expect transparency, control, and accountability.
In this joint keynote, Julia Koch (Finanz Informatik) and Markus Hacker (NVIDIA) share how AI transformation evolves when it’s built for everyday impact, sovereign operation, and agentic capabilities at scale. Building one of the largest AI implementations worldwide in the financial sector, Julia shares insights from the transition from AI assistants to agentic AI systems that proactively support complex processes across highly regulated, large-scale ecosystems. 
The session focuses on three decisive factors of effective AI transformation:
•	Use-case-driven value creation, ensuring AI delivers measurable benefits for customers and employees
•	agentic architectures, enabling AI systems to reason, orchestrate, and act within clearly defined boundaries
•	and sovereignty, providing full control over data, models, and infrastructure as a prerequisite for trust, compliance, and scalability.
Attendees will gain insights into how Finanz Informatik builds and operates a fully sovereign and 100% on-prem AI platform for the Savings Banks Finance Group, scaling AI assistance and agentic capabilities across 341 institutions, 200,000 employees and 50 million customers. NVIDIA complements this perspective by showing how accelerated computing and modern AI architectures enable sovereign AI factories to run reliably, efficiently, and sustainably at enterprise scale.
This session shows how AI becomes a growth engine when organizations move from pilots to platforms, from tools to systems, and from innovation promises to everyday impact.

## Speakers

### [Julia Koch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@julia-koch)

Executive Director, CTO and CCO of Finanz Informatik
### [Markus Hacker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@markus-hacker)

Senior Regional Director Enterprise DACH at NVIDIA


## Related talks at this congress

- [The Missing Layer Between Enterprise Data and AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1328-the-missing-layer) — Jannis Eickenroth, Sebastian Klenke
- [Managing Sovereign AI Infrastructure: MLOps and LLMOps in Highly Regulated Banking IT](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1143-managing-sovereign) — Daniel Evenschor, Matthias Kordt, Lars Langerbein
- [Agentic employees in world's most downloaded FinTech app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1133-agentic-employees-in) — Sasa Fajkovic
- [Keeping Your AI Software Supply Chains Sovereign in the Age of Commercial Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1139-keeping-your-ai) — Franz Kiraly