AI Safety in Finance: Invite-Only Tech Forum
AI Safety in Finance: Invite-Only Tech Forum
From 2 August 2026, the full high-risk obligations of the EU AI Act will apply to banks — with credit scoring explicitly included.
DORA has been directly applicable since January 2025. Implementation is the next step — and that's exactly what this evening is about.
This Tech Forum opens the Tech Event Trilogy 2026: Mastering AI Challenges in Financial Services — three invite-only evenings, each tackling a different AI challenge facing financial services today.
We start with the one that sits on every risk team's desk: safety and regulation.
Event Details
📅 Tuesday, 26 May 2026 | Registration 17:30 · Programme starts 18:00 · Ends ~21:00 CET
📍 HoFT Berlin HQ, Saarbrücker Straße 36, 10405 Berlin
👥 ~50 attendees | Max. 2 people per company | Invite-only
🗣️ Language: German
Speakers
Keynote — Sascha Dewald, Chief Growth Officer at DKB
Impulse — Josefine Spengler, Partner at Annerton (Regulatory perspective)
Impulse — Maximilian Riege, CRO at Hawk & Co-CEO at Berlin Finance Initiative (Tech & Risk)
Moderation — Markus Lehleiter, CPO at HoFT
Programme
17:30 — Registration & welcome drinks
18:00 — Opening & framing: Where does the German financial industry stand on AI? (HoFT)
18:10 — Keynote: Growth through safe AI — how DKB connects innovation and supervisory law (Sascha Dewald, DKB)
18:30 — Impulse 1: EU AI Act from August 2026 — what banks need to implement now (Annerton)
18:35 — Impulse 2: Explainable AI in production & open-source AI safety (Maximilian Riege, Hawk)
18:40 — Panel & Q&A: Secure AI Infrastructure — Regulation × Open-Source × Enterprise
19:10 — Open discussion & networking over drinks and snacks at the HoFT Space
21:00 — End
Who it's for
Compliance and risk officers preparing for the EU AI Act
Bank innovation and technology leads deploying AI systems
Fintech founders deploying AI systems
Anyone accountable for AI governance in a financial institution
Format: Tech Forum
Key question for the evening: How can financial institutions reconcile AI innovation with regulatory requirements — without slowing innovation to a crawl?
🎟️ Registrations: Registrations are subject to approval.