Antwerp Acceleration Day

Get ready for an exclusive matchmaking between fintechs and traditional finance industry players hosted by Fintech Belgium, inspired by the spirit of Antwerp!

On January 30th, prepare for a remarkable experience at the Antwerp Acceleration Day. In this innovative format, a select group of leading banks and insurance companies will take the spotlight to present their business challenges, needs, and requirements directly to a curated audience of startups and scale-ups.

Our goal is to spark collaboration between established companies and new startups, helping both grow and innovate together. This initiative lets startups meet real industry needs while giving larger businesses faster access to fresh, cutting-edge solutions.

Why You Should Join? Here’s What You’ll Gain:

Unlock Innovative Solutions: Uncover cutting-edge ideas and technologies that meet the evolving needs of banking and insurance sectors.

Expand Your Network: Connect with promising entrepreneurs and visionary thinkers, exploring potential collaborations that can enhance your institution's offerings.

Empower the Local Ecosystem: By engaging in the growth of Antwerp's startup landscape, you’re not only advancing your goals but also reinforcing the city’s status as a vibrant innovation hub. The ripple effect? It benefits the entire region.

Discover the Challenges: 

AI Agentic Applications with BNP Paribas Fortis

Focussing on low level tasks that can be automated by agents or supported with a smart assistant.

CHALLENGE A: KYC Automation
Enhance Know Your Customer (KYC) processes with automation, improving compliance, reducing manual workloads, and ensuring seamless customer data management.

CHALLENGE B: Credit Origination
AI agent helping us to divide a long process into different “simple” tasks with AI agent interaction but with the possibility of a human in the loop as well and no linear process (directed Acyclic Graph or Cyclic graph for improvement).

CHALLENGE C: Agentic RAG

AI agent helping to interact with our customer to retrieve the correct answer with the wording corresponding to our customer and fact and figures related to them (API call, ...).

CHALLENGE D: Mail Routing

AI agents to transform mail routing in banks by automating and optimizing the flow of customer and internal communications, ensuring efficient handling and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Read more on the challenges page

Programme:

• 08:30 Open Doors & Welcome Coffee

• 09:30  Welcome word by Fintech Belgium - Patricia Boydens and Raf De Kimpe

• 09:40 Keynote AI by Antonio Giordano - Sailpeak

• 10:00 Introduction by Toon Vanagt - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fintech Belgium and Welcome word by City of Antwerp - Schepen Koen Kennis

• 10:15 Reverse Pitching Session Introduction - BNP Paribas Fortis  - Manuel Piette and  Amalesh Vemula 

• 10:30 Coffee Break

• 10:50 Fintech Pitches to BNP Paribas Fortis

• 12:50 Networking Lunch

This event is generously powered by the city of Antwerp