The ZOIS Executive Summit 2025 took place in Vienna bringing together over 300 top-level professionals – including industry leaders, financial experts and decision-makers – for an event set to shape the future of IT security and beyond. This year’s summit focused on resilience, risk mitigation and the critical role of security across all pillars of the Zero Outage Industry Standard (ZOIS) – people, platforms, processes and security.
The event program was packed with an engaging lineup of keynotes, interactive breakout sessions and high-level discussions addressing today’s most pressing IT security challenges. Attendees also enjoyed networking opportunities and gained fresh strategic insights to help their organisations navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Panel: The New Currency: Trust, Technology, and Resilience in Finance
11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Ian Salmon
Ian Salmon, Business Development at Exactpro, moderated a panel titled "The New Currency: Trust, Technology, and Resilience in Finance." He was joined by:
- Dietmar Böckmann, Vorstand, BKS
- Laura Hauser, CTO, OeKB CSD
- Scott Minneman, CISO and Head of Risk, Zero Hash
- Regina Melzer, Head of IT Projects & Development, Wiener Börse
Introducing AI into ZOIS Platforms Stream
15:30 - 16:00 CEST
Iosif Itkin
As part of the Platforms breakout session, Iosif Itkin, CEO and Co-founder of Exactpro, delivered a presentation on ‘Introducing AI into the ZOIS Platforms Stream’.
Thanks to everyone who joined our executives during the event to discuss how Exactpro’s AI Testing approach can help enhance the quality, reliability and operational resilience of financial systems globally.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada, and Italy, and a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.
The new Currency: Trust, Technology and Resilience in Finance
Ian Salmon
Business Development
In an era of accelerating digital transformation, financial institutions face increasing pressure to deliver secure, uninterrupted services while navigating a minefield of cyber risks, regulatory requirements, and evolving customer expectations. From traditional banks to cutting-edge fintechs, building resilient IT infrastructures has become a core strategic imperative.
This high-level panel brought together leaders from across the financial ecosystem—banking, clearing, cybersecurity, and financial software—to discuss how resilience is redefined in a digitized and decentralized world. The conversation covered:
- How traditional institutions like BKS Bank are adapting their systems and strategies to meet resilience challenges.
- The intersection of regulatory oversight and technology, as seen through the lens of Österreichische Kontrollbank’s CTO.
- Risk management in digital-native environments: the view from fintech disruptors like ZeroHash. Quality assurance and stress testing of financial platforms at scale, with insights from Exactpro’s managing director.
The discussion dived into resilience-by-design, cyber risk frameworks, supply chain robustness, and the role of cloud, AI, and automation in strengthening financial IT systems.
Attendees experienced a thought-provoking exchange between institutions with decades of history and digital-native challengers, uncovering common goals, divergent tactics, and shared threats.
Introducing AI into ZOIS Platforms Stream
Iosif Itkin
CEO & Co-Founder, Exactpro
Technology platforms are the foundation on which all IT services are delivered. They require detailed architecture policies to guarantee the levels of resilience, security, availability and performance required to support the Zero Outage quality goals – all of which is well-covered by the Zero Outage Industry Standard. The Standard also redefines the traditional ‘run’ activities as ones able to ‘anticipate and prevent issues before they disrupt a production environment’.
But…
- Where does formal testing come in, and is its fundamental contribution to system resilience obvious from the Standard?
- Is the Standard comprehensive enough to cover complex distributed systems exhibiting non-deterministic behaviour?
- Is the Standard AI-ready, and how can AI literacy and awareness of intelligent system mechanisms inform the full cycle of enterprise-level software delivery?
As part of the Platforms breakout session, Iosif Itkin, co-CEO and co-founder of Exactpro, delivered a presentation at the ZOIS Summit on ‘Introducing AI into the ZOIS Platforms Stream’.