CEE Anti-Fraud FORUM FORUM

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Opening Welcome Address by Karolina Aleksandrova, Founder & CEO ProMoney, Alex Movchan, President of ACFE Baltic Chapter, Zsolt Jasku, President, ACFE Hungary Chapter, CFE, Katarina Garai, Vice President at ACFE Austria & ACFE Slovakia

Keynote Delegate

Verify. Govern: Making Agentic AI Work Against Fraud

Speaker: Katarina Garai, CFE, Anti-Fraud Advisor | Lector | Vice President at ACFE Austria & ACFE Slovakia

Opening Panel Discussion «Regulation vs. Reality: Are Anti-Fraud Frameworks Ready for 2026?»

Moderator: Dome Scaffidi (UK)

• - Bank of England – Standard Advisory Panel Member
• - DS Payments Ltd UK CEO & Founder
• - Independent Consultant Global Payments Innovation Practice
• - SAPA Africa - Global Lead & President

Invited Experts:

• - Jorge Rosal Cosano, head of operational team in the Cybercrime Centre of Europol
• - Janis Vemanis, CAMS, Director at EY | Forensic & Integrity services
• - Evelina Kvedaravičiūtė, Lead for Financial Market Development Strategy and Governance Department, Bank of Lithuania

Discussion Focus:

• - Are anti-fraud frameworks ready for real-time fraud risks?
• - How to balance regulatory overload with operational efficiency?
• - How will the AML Package, AI Act and privacy rules impact anti-fraud work?
• - Are supervisory expectations aligned with real fraud risks?

SESSION 1

Strategy, Fraud Governance & Collaboration

Keynote Fraud as a Board-Level Risk

What Senior Leadership Should Expect in 2026

Speaker online: Francis Marinier, Economic Crime Compliance Director, Practice Lead EA Moody’s (France)

Fighting Cross-Border Fraud

The Role of Global Payment Networks and Industry Collaboration

Speaker: Tanja Wesen, Vice-President Business Development Security Solutions Mastercard

Networking Coffee Break

SESSION 2

Fraud in Action — Real Cases & Lessons Learned

Keynote

“Dangerous Innocence”

Speaker: Michele Poffo, CIA, CFE, CISA, Head of Internal Audit VAT Group (Switzerland), Member of the Board ACFE Italy Chapter

Two Sides of Fraud: Investigative Insights from Large-Scale Financial Schemes and Victim-Targeted Scams

Speaker:Anatoly Livshits Team Lead, SAI, Global Financial Crime and Customer Protection PayPal

Keynote

Building Resilient Ecosystems Against Emerging Fraud

Speaker:

• - Piotr Wojewnik, PhD Member of the Management Board BIK| AI, Product & Risk Strategy, Digital Fingerprints S.A

Fireside Chat “Governance over AI Anti-fraud solutions”

Moderator: Alex Movchan, CFE, President of ACFE Baltic Chapter

Experts:

• - Katarina Garai, CFE, Anti-Fraud Advisor | Lector | Vice President at ACFE Austria & ACFE Slovakia
• - Marcin Dublaszewski, Founder & Managing Partner, ASD-MD Internal Audit | Governance | Risk | GRC, Vice President of IIA Poland

Networking Lunch

PANEL DISCUSSION “Can Technology Outsmart Fraudsters?”

Moderator: Anna Pavlovska, CEO “OKEO”

Invited Experts:

• - Francis Marinier, Economic Crime Compliance Director, Practice Lead EA Moody’s (France)- online
• - Taavi Tamkivi, CEO & Co-Founder Salv
• - Migle Dewsbury, Compliance Professionals Association
• - Anatoly Livshits Independent Expert, Co-founder, Member of the Board European Team Lead, SAI, Global Financial Crime and Customer Protection PayPal

Discussion Focus:

• - Generative AI used by criminals
• - Explainable AI & regulatory scrutiny
• - Build vs. buy fraud technology

Anti-Fraud Hub

Cross-Sector Cooperation Against Payment Fraud: Ukrainian Case Study

Speaker: Olena Kyrychenko, Head of Anti-Fraud Analytics at Ukrainian Interbank Payment Systems Members Association “EMA”

Interactive Master Class “The Fraud Detective Experience”: Learn hands-on skills to power your anti-Fraud strategy:

Outsmart the criminals, Follow the Money, and Resolve Before it Hurts.

Host: Nigel Iyer: Fraud detective with over 30 years of experience, in 30+ countries (International)

Follow the Money to London: Turning Foreign Judgments into Real Recovery

Speaker:Marta Grieve, Partner Sherrards Solicitors (UK)

Networking coffee break

Annual General ACFE Baltic chapter Members meeting (hybrid)