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Ivan

Welsh

Head of Product Strategy and Development

Symcor

Ivan Welsh is the Head of Product Strategy & Development at Symcor, where he leads product strategy across the company's portfolio of financial technology solutions. With nearly two decades at Symcor, Ivan has held leadership roles spanning software development, enterprise architecture, digital delivery, IT, and product, giving him a unique perspective on transforming technology organizations into product-led businesses. Today, Ivan is focused on building ecosystem-driven products that bring competitors together to solve shared industry challenges, including fraud prevention and open banking. Passionate about product transformation, he specializes in aligning technology, business strategy, and customer value to drive innovation in highly regulated industries. His experience leading large-scale organizational change and platform strategy makes him a respected voice on product leadership, ecosystem thinking, and the future of financial services.

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13 November 2026 11:00 - 11:45

Panel: Governance without killing innovation

AI is moving faster than most governance models can handle. Too much control slows teams down. Too little creates risk. The real challenge is building systems that protect trust without blocking speed. This panel explores how product leaders are redesigning governance for the AI era—shifting from gatekeeping to enabling, and from process-heavy approval chains to intelligent, embedded guardrails. In this session, you will learn: - How governance is evolving in AI-native product organizations - How regulation can be used as an advantage - How to enable fast delivery without sacrificing trust, compliance, or quality

13 November 2026 13:15 - 13:45

Building ecosystem-driven products

The next generation of market leaders won’t win by building everything themselves—they’ll win by creating ecosystems that unlock value across customers, partners, and even competitors. But building products across multiple organizations requires a fundamentally different approach to strategy, governance, and execution. Drawing on real-world lessons from fraud prevention and open banking, this session explores what it takes to build products that thrive beyond the boundaries of a single company. In this session, you will learn: - How to design products that create value across an entire ecosystem, not just one organization - What it takes to align competitors, partners, and customers around a shared product vision - The lessons product leaders can apply from building large-scale collaboration platforms in highly regulated industries