Archives: Agenda

• Understanding how to frame AI security – novel challenges, similarities, and differences with traditional cybersecurity
• Practical insights for designing safer, more trustworthy AI systems

As financial institutions deepen their reliance on cloud infrastructure, managing cyber risk becomes a shared responsibility, but where does the provider’s role end and the institution’s begin? This discussion explores how to cut through the noise of data and alerts to focus on what truly matters for business resilience.

• Too much data, not enough clarity and how that overload hides real financial and operational exposure.
• Cutting noise down to the risks that actually matter to revenue, operations, and regulators.
• Exposing the unknown estate shadow IT, shadow APIs, and forgotten cloud services driving unseen risk.
• Turning thousands of technical “criticals” into one clear, defensible, business-level risk picture.
• Measuring what truly improves resilience: reduced exposure, faster remediation, better prioritisation, clearer audit trails.

Moderator: Jon Bernstein, Freelance Writer, Moderator and Digital Media Consultant

A dynamic quick-fire session where selected innovators have one minute each to present a cutting-edge idea or solution shaping the future of cybersecurity in financial services.

This high-energy segment offers delegates a rapid insight into emerging technologies, new approaches, and creative thinking driving progress across the sector setting the stage for deeper conversations during the networking break that follows.

As financial institutions navigate an era defined by AI-driven change, evolving regulation, and increasingly complex threats, this panel explores the hopes, expectations, and fears of security leaders as they look ahead to 2026.

Key discussion points include:

• The evolving role of GenAI in cybersecurity and its influence on threat detection
• Identity, social engineering, and the rise of behavioural anomaly detection
• Balancing risk, regulation, and reputation across financial services
• Defining best practice for modern security operations

Moderator: Jon Bernstein, Freelance Writer, Moderator and Digital Media Consultant

• Key cyber resilience outputs from the FCA in 2025 and what they mean for the financial sector
• The growing importance of collective action to strengthen sector-wide resilience
• Emerging technologies reshaping the cyber landscape, including AI and quantum
• The evolving role of boards in cyber oversight, accountability, and resilience governance

In this uncertain new age of AI, many of us worry how our careers will be affected by this technology – how much will my job change? Will I be replaced? How will my industry look in the future? Demonstrate how embracing technological change can transform industries and create new opportunities in guest service, though a fusion of human emotional intelligence and AI.