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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Eva Selamlar-Leuthold
Co-CEO / Chairwoman
Think&Do Tank for Financial Innovation / KYC Spider
Eva Selamlar is Co-CEO of Eurospider Information Technology AG, an ETH spin-off headquartered in Zurich, where she heads the RegTech division KYC Spider (www.kyc.ch). She is a founding member and co-chairs the newly established Think & Do Tank, a non-profit organization accelerating financial innovation in Switzerland. As an Ambassador to the Swiss AI Summit, she champions proactive AI adoption and strategic capacity building to help ensure a future-fit Swiss financial sector.
In 2023, Eva Selamlar built the Swiss government's pilot platform for financial innovation, winning "Most Innovative Government Financial Services – Switzerland" (Global Banking & Finance Review 2025). The project — featuring SwissHacks, Switzerland's first government-backed fintech hackathon — became permanent within the State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF).
In 2021, she founded the non-profit organization PEPPERMINTAS (www.peppermintas.com), which inspires girls and their families to pursue STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). In 2024, she was selected among the Top 10 Women in Tech to Follow in Switzerland.
She studied at Columbia Law School (LL.M., Fulbright Scholar) and HSG (lic.iur.HSG). She is admitted to both the New York Bar and the Zurich Bar Association.
Speaking at
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12:00–1:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Roadmap for AI and Quantum
Governing AI Applications in Financial Services
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André VellozoChief Executive OfficerDrumwave
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Eva Selamlar-LeutholdCo-CEO / ChairwomanThink&Do Tank for Financial Innovation / KYC Spider
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Fred SunHead of EuropeTencent Cloud International
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Isabelle RocciaManaging Director, EuropeIAPP
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Dr. Joseph BreedenChief Executive OfficerCALM XAI
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Konstantin KotullaFounderPorters
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Dr. Nino LandererDeputy Director General Strategy & InnovationDeutsche Bundesbank
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Thiébaut MeyerDirector, Office of the CISOGoogle Cloud
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Prof. Chia Tek YewAdjunct ProfessorNUS - Asian Institute of Digital FinanceModerator
About this session
From autonomous agents to the management of LLM and other generative AI technologies, artificial intelligence disrupts conventional understandings of data governance, particularly within financial services. This disruption is engendering new trade-offs that policymakers, regulators, and financial institutions have to grapple with, including:
- Reducing digital dependencies vs engaging the realities of a borderless market
- Preserving stability and building internal capabilities while optimising for speed and innovation
- Managing regulatory divergence without sacrificing operational coherence across markets
As AI agents become increasingly empowered to execute transactions on behalf of individuals and businesses, and institutions become increasingly reliant on models developed by a concentrated pool of Big Tech players, how can governments, financial infrastructure operators, and financial institutions balance competing objectives? This session aims to develop a set of principles for governing the use of AI and data within financial services, capturing insights from across the ecosystem.
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