Last week’s Resilient Intelligence: Governing, Defending & Scaling Agentic Financial Services event turned into something more than just another industry meetup for our team at Kodershop.
Beyond being an excellent networking session, the event became a space for unfiltered conversations around AI in financial services. Somewhere between the introductions and discussion tables, we found ourselves right in the middle of it.
Most notably, Lesya Berbeka, our AI/Quantitative Research and Analytics Lead, was elected as a moderator and later stepped in as a speaker, “an unexpected but incredibly rewarding moment” that enabled Kodershop to participate in and shape the conversation.
Representing Kodershop in the Right Room
The event, hosted by Financial Technology Frontiers through its Hi2AI community, brought together a focused group of leaders across AI, risk, security, and fraud in banking, insurance, and fintech.
This wasn’t a typical conference setting. It was a tight, high-signal room where people showed up ready to share experiences, challenge ideas, and dig into what’s working and what isn’t.
For us, it was the right environment to be in.
Stepping into the moderator role meant guiding conversations across discussion tables filled with professionals from different backgrounds, many of them engaging with these topics for the first time. With noticeable openness in the room, people weren’t holding back.
From Participant to Contributor
Being invited to speak gave us the chance to bring Kodershop’s perspective into the conversation.
Lesya shared insights shaped by hands-on experience working with businesses navigating complex systems, integration challenges, and digital transformation. The focus wasn’t theoretical. It was grounded in what it actually takes to implement and scale technology in environments where risk, compliance, and operational pressure are constant.
What stood out most was how relevant those perspectives were to the discussions happening in the room.
The Event
A few themes came up throughout the event:
- How AI agents are being applied in real financial workflows
- The growing need for governance frameworks that can keep up with autonomous systems
- What “best practices” actually look like when regulation and innovation collide
- And most heavily, fraud detection in banking systems
That last topic sparked some of the most engaged and, at times, heated discussions of the day.
There’s a clear tension emerging. AI is making fraud detection faster and more effective, but it is also enabling more sophisticated attacks. Financial institutions are being pushed to rethink not just their tools, but their entire approach to resilience.
What made this event stand out wasn’t just the content. It was the format.
Hi2AI isn’t built like a traditional conference. There is no stage-first approach or overly polished presentations. Instead, it’s designed to bring people into conversation. That made it easier to connect, contribute, and walk away with insights that actually feel applicable.
For Kodershop, it also reinforced something we already believe: the most valuable conversations happen when people are willing to share what’s really going on behind the scenes.
What’s Ahead
This event builds on a growing series of Hi2AI sessions focused on governance, payments, and now security, risk, and resilience in AI.
As the space continues to evolve, one thing is becoming clear: To adopt AI into our everyday practices, we need to ensure we are doing it in a way that is secure, resilient, and grounded in real-world applications.
We’re glad to have had the chance to contribute to the conversation surrounding AI.