FICO names Sol Rashidi keynote speaker for World 2026

FICO announced that Sol Rashidi will deliver a keynote address at FICO World 2026. The company described Rashidi as the world's first Chief AI Officer for Enterprise.

Rashidi is a Senior Fellow at Harvard and a former executive at AWS and other Fortune 100 companies. According to FICO, she helped IBM launch Watson in 2011 and has led more than 200 AI deployments.

Her appearance adds another high-profile speaker to FICO's annual customer and industry gathering, focused on artificial intelligence, decision intelligence, fraud prevention and risk management. The event is expected to draw more than 1,500 business leaders from more than 50 countries.

Nikhil Behl, President of Software at FICO, tied Rashidi's experience to the company's focus on financial services use cases.

"Sol Rashidi has led over 200 AI deployments, helping businesses worldwide launch and scale AI," Behl said. "Her experience will bring an invaluable perspective to our discussions on how to swiftly and safely use AI for growth in financial services."

Event focus

The agenda will cover four main themes: AI-powered enterprise transformation, enterprise risk management, customer growth strategies and operational excellence.

Under the AI track, sessions will examine how organisations move from early experimentation to broader business use of AI and decision intelligence tools. The risk track will focus on credit and fraud across the wider risk lifecycle.

Another set of sessions will cover customer growth, including tailored communications, contextual customer management and real-time engagement. A fourth track will address operating models, ecosystem integration and the use of shared intelligence across the business.

The programme will include case studies from banks and financial services groups including Wells Fargo, Scotiabank, Santander, Regions Bank, Absa Bank, Banco Santa Cruz, Bank of America, BCP, Ceska Bank and Financiera Oh. Dozens of industry and technology specialists are also expected to contribute strategic insights.

Broader push

The event agenda reflects broader pressure on banks and other financial institutions to show measurable returns from AI investment while keeping tighter control of fraud, credit exposure and customer service costs. Across the sector, vendors have increasingly framed AI tools around decisioning, automation and risk oversight rather than broad consumer-facing applications alone.

That context has become more important as financial institutions weigh how to deploy AI in regulated environments. In areas such as lending, fraud prevention and customer management, firms face scrutiny over model governance, bias, explainability and operational resilience.

FICO has long positioned itself around analytics and decision management in those markets. Founded in 1956, the company is best known for the FICO Score in the US credit market, while its software business spans fraud detection, credit risk and customer management across a wider range of sectors.

FICO says businesses in more than 80 countries use its products, and that its technology helps protect 4 billion payment cards from fraud.

Alongside Rashidi, the event will feature a keynote from mentalist and author Oz Pearlman. FICO has positioned the wider programme as a forum for discussing applied uses of AI and decision intelligence in financial services operations.

Rashidi's presence may also help underline a practical message at a time when many buyers are trying to separate operational use cases from broader market hype. As presented by FICO, her career spans cloud, enterprise technology and executive leadership roles, giving the company a speaker whose experience bridges strategy and implementation.