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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

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

Julia Koch , Markus Hacker

How do you securely scale AI for 200,000 banking employees? Discover how Finanz Informatik built a fully on-premise, agentic AI platform perfectly compliant with strict financial regulations.

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#1 about 4 min

Foundation of the Sparkassen digital ecosystem

Finanz Informatik provides digital infrastructure and multi-client services across four hundred legal entities in the German banking sector.

#2 about 3 min

Deploying AI assistance for banking employees

The on-premise SAI pilot aids hundreds of thousands of employees with email handling and daily workflow tasks.

#3 about 4 min

Automating client meeting preparation with AI

AI assistants aggregate sales figures and contact history across multiple applications to instantly prep consultants for customer appointments.

#4 about 3 min

Scaling agentic systems to fifty million customers

Agent-to-agent interactions integrate external ecosystems like ChatGPT with banking apps to provide intelligent search and transactional advice.

#5 about 3 min

Sovereign architecture for trustworthy banking AI

Operating inside sovereign domestic data centers ensures processes and data remain completely secure and trustworthy for financial institutions.

#6 about 2 min

Accelerating compute with focused developer tools

Libraries and frameworks like CUDA make it easier for developers to accelerate compute-intensive workloads without deep hardware expertise.

#7 about 2 min

Framing AI with the five-layer cake model

Applications sit at the crucial top layer to translate foundational models and hardware into actual business value.

#8 about 3 min

Advancing open source foundation and physical models

The shrinking capability gap between frontier and open-source releases drives investments in accessible model families like NeMo Tron.

#9 about 3 min

Localizing sovereign AI with national data sets

Curating language models on domestic cloud infrastructure ensures region-specific competencies and retains full sovereignty over future assets.

#10 about 4 min

Adapting autonomous agents for enterprise compliance

Enterprises in highly regulated sectors require specialized building blocks to safely construct autonomous systems that proactively manage tasks.

#11 about 3 min

Empowering employees with use-case driven transformation

Adopting agentic AI securely transforms everyday business workflows while allowing precise scalability corresponding to direct customer needs.

#12 about 1 min

Navigating DORA and the EU AI Act

Implementing new AI pipelines requires continuous alignment with the regulatory guardrails demanded by modern European banking compliance.

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Driving AI implementation for scalable customer support

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Reviewing key architectural decisions for federated AI computing

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Navigating regulatory compliance and data sovereignty in enterprise AI

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Why scaling AI is harder than traditional software

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