Archives: Agenda

• Moving beyond experimentation: what separates the institutions turning AI ambition into production-grade deployment from those stuck in pilot purgatory
• Where is AI delivering measurable enterprise value today, and how are leaders prioritising investment across the front, middle and back office?
• Building the business case: aligning AI initiatives with commercial strategy, risk appetite and board-level expectations
• Lessons learned from early adopters: what senior leaders wish they had known before scaling AI across the organisation

Humans/workers are ‘freed’ – now what?

Time saved does not necessarily translate to financial return. With humans freed from arduous admin tasks, how can we unlock their full potential?

AI first? A strategy for your organisation

Is AI first the right strategy? How can you embed AI throughout your org?

Engaging the board (stakeholders) with AI

What questions do boards need to know, and how can you frame these? How can you effectively brief, without overwhelming? Briefing direction of travel, rather than rule detail. How to identify early warning signals and key strategic risks for the board?

Death by agents – when should you use?

Danger of empowering people to create hundreds of agents and ultimately, a mess to clean up. How can agents be the death of your business?

AI for AI’s sake – cutting through the hype

Not everything needs AI or even a top-of-the range model – how can you cut through the hype of AI implementation and decide what really benefits from AI

Description: The session explores how organisations need to manage cyber risk and complexity. We’ll explore the current landscape, and how digital transformation, business pressures and compliance requirements are driving ever more complex networks. We’ll look at the cost and impact of that complexity, and then how organisations can consolidate their technology stack and simplify their security through unified platforms to solve those challenges, including exploring some real world customer stories.

This forward-looking session explores how cybersecurity in financial services will evolve over the next 12–18 months. Drawing on GlobalData’s latest research, it will examine: 

• The adoption and security implications of emerging technologies – including cloud, AI, 5G, IoT, and quantum computing.
• How evolving business models and ecosystems in banking and financial services are reshaping cyber risk.
• The balance between innovation, risk, and operational resilience in an increasingly complex digital environment.

In recent years, some of the most damaging cyberattacks in Europe share a common thread – identity. As traditional defences strengthen, attackers have shifted tactics, moving away from malware and exploits toward abusing legitimate credentials, permissions, and trust relationships within enterprise environments.

This session considers how attackers use identities to navigate industry-standard defences. We’ll explore the anatomy of an identity-based attack – from initial access through to organisational-wide takeover – and highlight recurring patterns seen across European enterprises.

Today’s breaches aren’t the result of poor security but of unseen complexity. Hidden identity attack paths buried deep in Active Directory and Entra ID provide adversaries with millions of routes to critical systems.

We’ll conclude with a strategy to move from reactive defence to proactive identity risk management. By continuously mapping and removing identity attack paths, organisations can eliminate the bridges adversaries depend on.

• The real cost of “free” software and the security gaps it creates
• How technical debt in open-source stacks becomes a growing risk for financial institutions
• Why traditional “shift left” approaches are no longer enough
• What a secure-by-default model looks like and what organisations should expect from their tools and teams

As financial services firms continue to digitise, their exposure now stretches far beyond the traditional perimeter. From the dark web to domain impersonation and unpatched vulnerabilities, risks can emerge anywhere your brand or data appear online.

This session explores how organisations can harness diverse intelligence sources – including the dark web – to uncover hidden risks and strengthen their digital resilience. Through real-world examples, we’ll show how Digital Risk Protection (DRP) turns threat data into clear, actionable insight that helps financial institutions stay ahead of attackers