OpenAI
Intelligence at Work:
Finance 2026 - Sydney
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
9 AM – 1:00 PM AEDT
Sydney
An invite-only, peer-level gathering for financial services leaders turning AI strategy into governed, enterprise-scale impact.
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Why Financial Services leaders are attending
See how leading institutions are moving from AI experimentation to measurable business value
Learn how peers are deploying governed agents across expert work and core operations
Build a practical path to secure, enterprise-scale adoption in regulated environments
Speakers
Scott Mullins
Head of Financial Services
OpenAI
Scott Mullins leads go-to-market for OpenAI’s Financial Services segment, helping financial institutions apply AI to their most important business and operational challenges. Before joining OpenAI, he was Managing Director and General Manager of Worldwide Financial Services at AWS, where he led global strategy and worked with institutions and regulators to modernize critical systems. His more than 20-year career also includes leadership roles at Nasdaq, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, and Penson Worldwide, spanning equity trading, regulatory compliance, product strategy, and financial technology.
Dominic Grillo
Head of Technical Success
OpenAI
Dominic Grillo is the Head of Technical Success at OpenAI, where he leads a global team of customer-facing engineers and success managers helping organizations successfully deploy and scale AI solutions. Prior to joining OpenAI in 2023, Dominic held leadership roles at Retool, Stripe, and Box, where he focused on building high-impact technical teams that partner closely with customers to implement complex technology at scale.
Rowena Westphalen
Applied AI Architecture Lead, ANZ
OpenAI
Rowena Westphalen is the Applied AI Architecture ANZ Lead at OpenAI, where she leads the technical success team across the region. Previously, she was most recently the Senior Vice President of Innovation, AI & Customer Advisory at Salesforce, after serving as VP of Solution Engineering and VP of Innovation for APAC. Throughout her career, Rowena has helped organizations leverage emerging technology to solve their most critical business challenges.
Satya Tammareddy
Head of Go-To-Market for Australia & New Zealand
OpenAI
Satya is the Head of Go-To-Market for Australia & New Zealand at OpenAI, where she partners with organisations of all sizes - from startups to large enterprises - to drive AI adoption at scale and deliver measurable business impact. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Prior to OpenAI, Satya spent nine years at Stripe building and scaling high growth businesses across APAC, including building out the APAC SaaS Platforms business and expanding Stripe’s presence across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong.
Earlier in her career, she was Dropbox’s first hire in APAC, co-founded an online travel company, and began her career as an equity analyst.
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Agenda
OpenAI's keynote
Featuring Dominic Grillo, Global Head of Technical Success; Scott Mullins, Global GTM Lead, Financial Services; Rowena Westphalen, ANZÂ Applied AI Architecture Lead; and Satya Tammareddy, ANZ GTM Lead.
Main StageThursday, February 11, 2027
Focussed breakout sessions
Small-group discussions on the strategic priorities shaping AI in financial services: (1) Tokenomics and how organisations can build an efficient AI-native product development lifecycle, (2) Mitigating cyber risk with OpenAI Daybreak, (3) Learnings on how the OpenAI team deepens client relationships with frontier AI. Â
Friday, February 12, 2027
Leadership Q&A
A candid conversation with OpenAI executives on what is coming next for models, agents, and enterprise AI, and how financial services leaders can prepare.
Breakout Room 1Saturday, February 13, 2027
Executive Reception
Relaxed networking with peers and the OpenAI team to exchange insights, build relationships, and discuss real-world deployments.
Reception



FAQ
The Summit is designed for senior financial services leaders. Attendance is limited to keep the conversation focused and valuable.
Absolutely. An extended coffee break and post-event reception will provide opportunities for you to connect with peers and OpenAI leadership.
No. To foster open, candid discussions, we do not invite press or analysts to our Summit events.
Once you apply via the event’s landing page, we’ll review your application and will be in touch following our review. Upon approval, we will share the detailed agenda and logistical information.
You can reach out to our events team at events-australia@openai.com  for any additional assistance or clarification.
This exclusive event is limited in capacity. We encourage you to register as soon as possible.