Valérie is JP Morgan's Executive Director AI & Data Policy EMEA. She joined the firm in March from Commerzbank AG in Brussels, where she had been Head of European Affairs, managing the organization’s advocacy strategy and relationship with policymakers on EU level.
Before joining Commerzbank in January 2024, she held different roles in the Public Affairs team at Deutsche Bank AG, covering a variety of policy areas: from sustainability and retail financial services to innovation and anti-money laundering. In 2021, she became Head of Digital & Anti-Money Laundering Policy for Deutsche Bank, responsible for the bank’s strategic positioning on issues including AI, cloud, data, and cybersecurity in a global capacity. Over the last years, she has been an active member of various industry associations and public-private fora on national and international level.
Prior to her time at Deutsche Bank, Valérie also worked in Internal Audit at Gen Re on German and international matters.
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The geopolitical case for European digital sovereignty is clear. The practical reality is harder. Across cloud infrastructure, AI models, data residency and application layers, European financial institutions are making decisions today about what to keep within the EU and how to structure arrangements that satisfy DORA, the EU AI Act and GDPR simultaneously. This session brings together the architects of the Financial Tech stack to ask the honest questions: what sovereignty is technically achievable, what it genuinely costs, and where the gap between regulatory requirement and operational reality remains dangerously wide for financial services.