User Conference 2016
b-next User Conference 2016
b-next’s User Conference 2016 was yet another highlight of an incredibly successful year. Delegates from prestigious global financial institutions gathered in Frankfurt to discuss the latest trends in market surveillance and compliance. Experts from our valued partners Thomson Reuters and Verint, explored Data Coverage and Voice Analytics respectively. We were also delighted to welcome IsItYou, who provided a fascinating insight into Biometric Face Recognition technology. While our own experts gave a preview of the innovations we can expect from b-next in the near future. And so, with heightened expectations, we look forward to another successful year to come and to hosting b-next’s User Conference 2017.
Dr. Benjamin Levy
CEO, IsItYou
There has always been a chasm between innovations in technology and in delivering technological innovations that actually benefit people. Bridging the gap between the new and the useful has been Benjamin‘s focus over the last twenty-five years. His latest venture, IsItYou, brings effective face recognition authentication to the mobile world, turning a staple of science fiction into a reality that can benefit millions. Benjamin has worked in fields as varied as market research, telecoms, consumer applications, smart-cities (IoT), and biometrics. What brings together these disparate fields has been a sustained focus on useful innovation and a particular affinity for finding ways to get complicated, cumbersome projects off the ground.
Olesja Pauls
COO, b-next
Olesja Pauls, COO of b-next, is responsible for ensuring the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s business activities. She has been with the b-next since January 2013, helping to develop and implement business strategies, plans and procedures. Her main responsibility is to set the right course for sustainable and profitable company growth. In addition to her role as COO, Olesja is in charge of talent management at b-next. She received her Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Optimization and Simulation from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in 2013.
Nathan Attrell
European Business Manager, Thomson Reuters
Nathan is European Business Manager, Enterprise & Risk, looking after Thomson Reuters’ big data and strategic text-based datafeed solutions in Europe, namely Machine Readable News, News Analytics sentiment scoring of News, and Intelligent Tagging. Nathan is the European business lead for customer engagement with regard to the Market Abuse Regulation, which requires both News and historical tick and orderbook data analysis to meet that regulation. Prior to this role Nathan worked as European business manager of Thomson Reuters’ prop trading and hedge funds – a first-mover area which has witnessed the rapid shift from manual to automation and consumption of vast and diverse datasets in the quest for alpha generation and event-risk management.
Stefan Queck
Business Development Manager, b-next
Stefan Queck is responsible for Business Development at b-next, where he leads product and customer initiatives. He joined b-next holdings in 2006, bringing a wealth of experience from a long and distinguished career at two prestigious German banking institutions. Since joining b-next he has played a key role in next-generation product development as well as the company’s international expansion. Mr Queck is a graduate in business management with an emphasis on banking.
Andy Davies
Head of Global Financial Compliance, Verint
Andy Davies heads up Global Financial Compliance at Verint. Responsible for Verint’s global compliance recording and analytics business for trading floors, including Verint’s global OEMs, partnerships and product strategy. He started in the Eyretel in 1998, with subsequent positions in Witness System and NICE followed by Verint for the last 10 years. Over the last three years, Andy has been focused on the strategy and partnerships required to meet the growing market requirement for trade surveillance. In particular, how Verint’s expertise in recording and multi-lingual transcription can be used to uncover valuable business insight into the trading floor voice communications, especially when combined with solutions such as the b-next CMC suite.
Olaf Hansen
Director of Sales, Verint
Olaf Hansen has a long and varied career in call center technology extending back to 1995. He moved in 1999 to one of the world’s leading providers of workforce optimization (WFO) solutions, opening along with several colleagues the German branch of Verint and assuming responsibility as the new branch’s technical director. Today he is Director of Sales, advising Verint’s key clients in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Mr Hansen has extensive expertise in such aspects as call recording, quality monitoring, speech and text analysis, desktop analysis, and customer engagement analytics, as well as the issues and challenges which typically arise in this rapidly changing environment.
Wolfgang Fabisch
CEO, b-next
Wolfgang Fabisch, as co-founder and CEO of b-next Group, has overall strategic and operational responsibility for its businesses. With over 25 years of professional and management experience in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) for the financial sector, he is a respected industry executive who regularly lectures on these topics. Before founding b-next in 1989, Mr Fabisch held senior positions at IBM and Reuters. He holds a university degree in business administration.