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AI in Finance - London GMT

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AI in Finance - London GMT
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08:00 - 09:00
Registration & Welcome Networking
09:00 - 09:05
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:05 - 09:40
Panel: Gaining the Ultimate AI Advantage by Achieving Scale at Speed
  • Discussing how tech leaders can move beyond the low hanging fruit of call centres and fraud detection and deploy AI at scale across all core business units.
  • Exploring the benefits and trade-offs of building custom tools with open-source versus investing in high-performing proprietary models, and how each approach impacts the speed of AI transformation.
  • Exploring practical methods to fast-track AI scaling, such as adapting workflows for AI compatibility and leveraging repeatable solutions that deliver value across multiple departments.
  • Tim Mason - Managing Director, Artificial Intelligence, Deutsche Bank
  • Greig McEwan - Chief Technology Officer, Funding Circle
  • Andrew Boyagi - Customer CTO, Atlassian
09:40 - 10:00
Fireside Chat/Presentation: From Legacy to Leading Edge: How AI is Accelerating Core Modernisation
  • Exploring how financial services organisations can modernise their core to enable AI to scale at the edge
  • Detailing strategies for balancing speed with responsible adoption when scaling AI projects and platforms
  • Evaluating how to effectively upskill workforces, ensuring a seamless transition from legacy processes to AI-driven workflows.
  • Neil Brown - Tech Strategy & Transformation Partner, Deloitte UK
10:00 - 10:35
Panel: The Blueprint for Exceptional AI-Powered Customer Experience
  • Evaluating how tech teams are leveraging data, review analysis, and open banking insights to ensure tools and features are designed to meet customer needs.
  • Exploring how to address the remaining technical deployment challenges including enhancing reliability, ensuring sufficient reasoning, and installing continuous monitoring.
  • Analysing the competitive advantage exceptional customer experience offers in today’s landscape and whether customer-facing tools should take precedence over back-office applications.
  • Rob Oddy - Managing Director & Head of Enterprise Architecture, Bank of America
  • Tom Leitch - VP Engineering, Monzo
  • Roxanne Howdle-Rowe - Managing Director & Group Head of Data Product & Marketplace, Lloyds Banking Group
Interactive Session Block 1
Showing 5 of 5 Streams
10:35 - 11:05
One to One Meeting Slot 1
10:35 - 11:05
The Future of AI Governance – What Needs to Be Prioritised Moving Forward?
  • Catarina Souza - Head of Model Development and Review Division, Bank of England
10:35 - 11:05
How to Define AI Value & Measure ROI
10:35 - 11:05
Progressing More Projects Beyond the Proof of Concepts Stage
  • Rukmi Sarmah - Head of Performance, Metro Bank UK
10:35 - 11:05
Empowering All Employees to Become AI Champions
Interactive Session Block 2
Showing 5 of 5 Streams
11:05 - 11:35
One to One Meeting Slot 2
11:05 - 11:35
A Guide to Building Impactful AI Tools Internally
  • Saheed Lasisi - Executive Director - Principal Architect, JPMorgan
11:05 - 11:35
Driving More Data-Driven Decision Making in Banking
  • Andy Thornley - Head of Regulatory Affairs, Innovate Finance
11:05 - 11:35
How to Develop Game Changing AI on a Budget
11:05 - 11:35
Leveraging AI for Improved Cross-Departmental Collaboration
11:35 - 11:55
Presentation: Reimagining Complex Banking Processes with AI
  • Assessing how banks can take the next step in their AI transformation and begin to integrate AI into the most complex business areas such as trading and credit risk.
  • Analysing key learnings from early AI implementation projects and how these can be applied to help scale AI in more complex business areas.
  • Focusing on how AI accuracy and reliability can be increased to enable deployment in more high-risk business operations.
11:55 - 12:30
Panel: Overcoming the Next Workforce Hurdle: Empowering All to Harness AI Effectively
  • Now that many banks have achieved mass adoption, how can they build literacy and inspire a workforce to use AI optimally for maximum productivity gains?
  • Examining how to introduce impactful training, fully leverage usage data and champion networks to create a team of AI superusers.
  • Evaluating effective ways to turn curiosity into experimentation and encourage teams to proactively engage with and deepen their understanding of AI.
  • Morgane Peng - Managing Director, Global Head of Product Design & UK AI Lead, Societe Generale CIB
  • Gareth Hughes - Managing Director & CIO for Markets, Standard Chartered
  • Clare Gambardella - Chief Customer Officer, Zopa Bank
  • Anita Hawser - Europe Editor, The Banker
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Networking Break
13:30 - 13:50
Fireside Chat: Rising Costs, Supply Chain Challenges, and Vendor Lock-In: Safeguarding Your AI Transformation Against the Risks
  • Discussing how banks are safeguarding their AI plans from major external threats including rising development costs, geopolitical tensions and third-party lock-in.
  • Debating the importance of sovereign tool and data utilisation in the context of potential restrictions on the use of overseas AI models and products?
  • Detailing strategies for limiting the cost of AI development, especially related to token usage, without slowing the progress of key projects.
  • Francesca Ferretti - CIO Data & Analytics, ING
  • Oliver Smith - Head of Content, Money20/20 Europe
13:50 - 14:00
Presentation: The Agent-to-Agent Economy: Navigating the Next Internet of Intelligence
  • Exploring the rise of AI agents as customers that can find one another, compare offers, negotiate terms and transact on our behalf.
  • Examining the essential infrastructure or ‘new internet’ required that includes an open directory for agents, a verifiable record of who operates each agent and what it can do and federated registries that no single platform controls.
  • Addressing how banks can manage the systemic risks that this shift could present including reduced customer inertia and bank runs moving at machine speed.
  • Peeyush Aggarwal - Senior Partner & Chief AI Advisor for Financial Services, Deloitte Consulting UK
14:00 - 14:20
Fireside Chat: Developing Governance Initiatives That Remain Robust at Scale
  • Discussing how to install control mechanisms that ensure continued solution reliability as they become more widely adopted by employees or customers.
  • Exploring how banks are effectively fostering alignment between developers and governance teams to create highly advanced, but crucially safe, tools and systems.
  • Assessing how to design standardised, yet adaptable frameworks that ensure the compliance of all new tools and systems being introduced into the organisation.
  • Shehryar Humayun - Managing Director – Models, Data and AI Audit, Lloyds Banking Group
  • Helen Child - Founder & CEO, Open Banking Excellence & IGNITE
Interactive Session Block 3
Showing 5 of 5 Streams
14:20 - 14:50
One to One Meeting Slot 3
14:20 - 14:50
The Future of AI Governance – What Needs to Be Prioritised Moving Forward?
  • Catarina Souza - Head of Model Development and Review Division, Bank of England
14:20 - 14:50
How to Define AI Value & Measure ROI
14:20 - 14:50
Progressing More Projects Beyond the Proof of Concepts Stage
  • Rukmi Sarmah - Head of Performance, Metro Bank UK
14:20 - 14:50
Empowering All Employees to Become AI Champions
Interactive Session Block 4
Showing 4 of 4 Streams
14:50 - 15:20
A Guide to Building Impactful AI Tools Internally
  • Saheed Lasisi - Executive Director - Principal Architect, JPMorgan
14:50 - 15:20
Driving More Data-Driven Decision Making in Banking
  • Andy Thornley - Head of Regulatory Affairs, Innovate Finance
14:50 - 15:20
How to Develop Game Changing AI on a Budget
14:50 - 15:20
Leveraging AI for Improved Cross-Departmental Collaboration
15:20 - 15:55
Panel: Building Towards the Workforce of the Future: Agent & Human Co-Collaborators
  • Outlining how the future workforce of human and agent co-workers will work in practice and its impact on banking operations, productivity, and profitability.
  • Discussing how to prepare workforces for this transformation through training, reskilling, and redesign of workflows to enhance day-to-day efficiency.
  • Debating strategies for overcoming the technical hurdles that remain including agent inaccuracy, governance issues, and incompatibility with legacy architecture.
  • Tom Harris - Chief Technology Officer, OakNorth
  • Nida Sattar - Product Director, Allica Bank
  • Saurabh Gosain - Managing Director & CIO – Group Compliance, Sustainability and AI Execution Office, Barclays
  • Will Shaw - Finance Reporter, Bloomberg News
15:55 - 16:00
Chairperson's Closing Remarks
  • Helen Child - Founder & CEO, Open Banking Excellence & IGNITE
16:00 - 17:00
Post-Event Networking Drinks
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