7th Annual Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Conference 2025

Fostering the Future of Financial Services with AI Strategies and Performance

9 - 10

September

2025
  • London, UK
  • Complimentary

Why attend?

WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2025

  • Gather expert insight from an impressive speaking faculty, 60% of which are director+ level from the biggest FS companies in the industry.
  • Discover the latest innovation and updates from a remarkable agenda, which covers both front-end and back-end themes.
  • Enjoy two days of invaluable networking opportunities.
  • Be part of timely and relevant conversations and hear about topics that are trending in the industry, including Chat GPT and the best ways to manage the novel risks and challenges of AI.

500+

Attendees

15+

Exhibitors

50+

Speakers

75%

Attendees at Director+ level

500+

Attendees

15+

Exhibitors

50+

Speakers

75%

Attendees at Director+ level

Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services 2024

Agenda

  • 9 Sep 2025
  • 10 Sep 2025
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Streams

Stream one

STREAM A

Stream two

STREAM B

STREAM B: Complying With Emerging AI Regulations For Financial Services

11:30 AM

GenAI Model Management

Speakers

Dr. Matthew Jones
Head of Risk Decision Science & Analytical Innovation, Nationwide Building Society
Tom Phillips
Head of Risk Data Science, Nationwide Building Society

11:50 AM

Call Miner – Risk and Compliance Product format to be confirmed by production)

12:20 PM

How Is AI Revolutionising Data Visualisation?

  • How far has data analysis, hallucinations and bias silos developed within AI in FS?
  • How has AI impacted quality of analytics and data collections for utility?
  • Transforming data context and RPAs to become accurate and cognitive

Speakers

Divya Kesavan
Head of Corporate Data Science and Insights, Barclays
Aneek Akram
Lead Data Scientist, Global Transaction Banking, Barclays

12:40 PM

How Is AI Transforming Governance & Compliance In The Funds Industry?

  • Enhancing regulatory compliance through AI
  • AI in risk management and oversight
  • Challenges and ethical considerations in AI-driven governance

Speakers

Dale Jones
Interim Head of Client Portfolio Insights, NatWest Commercial & Institutional Depositary Services

1 PM

Crealogix

1:15 PM

LUNCH

STREAM B: The Future of Data and Analytics

2:15 PM

Living In A Data Sovereign World

  • Steps to overcome data sovereignties and regulatory turmoil
  • How should financial institutions adapt in foreign data policies and strategise ROI initiatives?
  • How are we defining tools and frameworks into our business and strategies?

Speakers

Dr Andrea Isoni
AI Advisor, ISO - International Organization for Standardization and Chief AI Officer

2:30 PM

DataSnipper

2:50 PM

Mastering The Arts of Data and Models

  • Increasing data privacy risk amidst a global AI race
  • How should organisations be proactively maintaining data commitments and obligations of AI within models?
  • To what extent have we successfully implemented models into business products?

Speaker, HSBC

3:10 PM

Kosmoy

3:25 PM

Networking Break

8 AM

Registration

8:30 AM

Opening Remarks

Speakers

Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

8:45 AM

GD Opening Remarks: AI Unpacked

Speakers

Suneet Muru
Associate Analyst, GlobalData

THEME 1: AI Growth Plans In The UK For 2025

9 AM

Industry Keynote Address: A Pro-Innovation Roadmap for AI in the UK

  • Understanding the UK ‘AI Action Plan’ to turbocharge AI
  • How will the 5 principles for the responsible regulation of AI promote growth innovation and public confidence?
  • How will the UK become an AI superpower and shape the AI revolution?
  • Fostering an environment for home-grown AI
  • Achieving a consensus on the risks associated with frontier AI

Speakers

Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe
Head of AI Assurance - Responsible Technology Adoption Unit, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

9:20 AM

Keynote: The AI Race Against Humanity

Speakers

Adrian Cox
Managing Director, Thematic Strategist, Deutsche Bank

9:40 AM

Lead Partner Address Building the AI Infrastructure in the UK

10:10 AM

Keynote: From Hype To Reality – Overcoming Challenges To Scale (AI in Action)

Speakers

Eric Alter
Senior Vice President, Risk & Cyber/AI Engagement Leader – UK Corporate & Commercial, Marsh

10:30 AM

Airia

11 AM

Dragon’s Den

11:10 AM

Networking Break

STREAM A: Building Your AI Stack

11:30 AM

Real-World Challenges In Leveraging AI and Data

Speakers

Yauheniya Shynkevich
Head of Quant Solutions, Bank of New York

11:50 AM

Boost AI – (format to be confirmed by production)

12:20 PM

Operationalising AI to Enhance Business Strategies and ROIs

  • How can AI support revenue generating activities?
  • Driving efficiency gains VS driving alpha
  • Using Generative AI as a co-pilot to free up time and resources for higher-value activities

Speakers

Konstantina Kapetanidi
Head of CRM and AI Sales, Schroders

12:40 PM

Panel Discussion: To What Extent Is GenAI Ethical and Responsible?

  • Transparency and explainability of decision-making processes
  • Accountability and bias management
  • Impact on society and the need for regulation
  • Human oversight in AI deployment
  • Addressing modern challenges, including those posed by intelligence and digital technologies

Speakers

Mari Parry
Principal AI Engineer, Blackrock
Dr Andrea Isoni
AI Advisor, ISO - International Organization for Standardization and Chief AI Officer
Monika Kashyap
Head of Decisioning, Omni Channel (AI, Data & Analytics- CIB), HSBC
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

1 PM

Weave.ai

1:15 PM

LUNCH

2:15 PM

Enhancing The Use of Gen AI

Speakers

Alex Porciani
Data & AI Product Manager, UBS

2:30 PM

FICO

2:50 PM

Panel Disucssion: AI Agents in Financial Services: A look into the future

  • How can we gather our data to pivot true innovation?
  • Payment and consumer behaviour - what are we seeing?

Speakers

JoAnn Stonier
Mastercardfellow Data and AI, Mastercard
Kelvin Waters
Customer Insight Manager, Lloyds Banking Group
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

3:10 PM

Coreweave

3:25 PM

Networking Break

THEME 2: Societal Impacts of AI

4 PM

A Four-Pronged Strategy to Mitigating the Risk of Generative AI Hallucinations and Improving Response Quality

Generative AI is predicted to transform almost every role and industry. Yet the technology also exposes users to the major risk of AI hallucinations. Howie Epstein, Director of Product Management at LexisNexis, will outline four steps for organizations to mitigate this risk and make Generative AI’s outputs more accurate, relevant, and trustworthy.

Speakers

Howie Epstein
Director of Product Management, LexisNexis

4:10 PM

Fireside Chat: Anticipating AI Strategies and Holistic Outlooks For 2026/27

  • AI Action Plan – What opportunities will open for AI Diplomacy?
  • Guiding Financial Services industry to strengthen AI risk and resilience
  • Strategies for enhancing fraud detection and prevention
  • How will AI data centres affect financial services industry? Will data management become more efficient?

Speaker, NatWest

Speakers

Simon Thompson
Head of AI, ML & Data Science, GFT
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

4:40 PM

Panel Discussion: Empowering Women and Diversity in Tech

Speakers

Monika Kashyap
Head of Decisioning, Omni Channel (AI, Data & Analytics- CIB), HSBC
Nombuso Matsape
Head of IT Digital Data and Innovation Business Engagement, ICBC Standard bank
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

5 PM

Chairman’s Closing Remarks and End of Day 1

5:10 PM

Reception Drinks Sponsored by CID

Private Dinner Hosted by Appian

Streams

Stream one

STREAM A

Stream two

STREAM B

11:10 AM

STREAM B: The World of Cyberpunks – Fraud, Security and Risk Management

11:30 AM

Strategising data-led financial crime and fraud prevention

  • Exploring commonalities across financial crime and fraud detection and prevention and how financial services can adapt their strategies
  • Leveraging data and AI for a holistic financial crime and fraud risk assessment
  • Integrating AI into financial crime system capabilities to improve effectiveness
  • Monitoring evolving business financial crime and fraud risks

Speakers

Alex Brenig Jones
Head of Insights, Non-Financial Risk, NatWest Group

11:50 AM

Sponsor – Next Gen Cybersecurity in Financial Services

  • Mitigating risks of cyber threats
  • Empowering staff and teams to be cyber-ready
  • Accuracy and potential prospects of AI in identity verification
  • Can biometric authentication help bring back trust of customers and overcome challenges of fraud?

12:10 PM

Restructuring Models in Your Business

  • How are we generating new synthetic data to train our models?
  • To what extent have we affected availability of true data and what are the risks?
  • Reshaping new strategies to create true data to train AI models

Speakers

Fares Triki
Head of Model Risk Management, MUFG

12:30 PM

Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

  • How are we managing operational risks of AI whilst also saving time and costs?
  • Complying with evolving regulations
  • Can Agentic AI enhance credit risk modelling and fraud detection validity?
  • What cases does the industry need to see to adapt forward?

Moderator: Bhavin P. Kapadia, Senior Advisor - Financial Services, AIFS Series Advisory Board

Speakers

Mauricio Toro Bermudez
Head of Data Science, Cheddar
Dr Andrea Isoni
AI Advisor, ISO - International Organization for Standardization and Chief AI Officer
Tom Coppock
Senior Product Management Director - Artificial Intelligence, Tungsten Automation
Mari Parry
Principal AI Engineer, Blackrock
Bhavin P. Kapadia
Senior Advisor - Financial Services, AIFS Series Advisory Board

1 PM

LUNCH

2 PM

Creating Harmonious Regulatory Convergence and Operational Resilience

  • Need for greater coordination among global authorities for synchronised responses and initiatives
  • Establishing principles for national and cross-border data governance
  • How can financial services facilitate greater collaboration among national regulatory bodies? Where are the challenges?

Speakers

David Otudeko
Head of Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers

2:20 PM

Sponsor – Privacy in AI

  • Understanding the unique privacy challenges of AI
  • Dealing with bias and discriminatory outcomes Strategies for mitigating privacy risks
  • Using data anonymization in AI

2:40 PM

Panel Discussion: A Bug in The System: AI Agents in a Crypto World

  • The proliferation of AI agents within the crypto community
  • How can AI agents used in reality and where are the used cases?
  • Successful strategies vs Trial and error stories

Moderator: Bhavin P. Kapadia, Senior Advisor - Financial Services, AIFS Series Advisory Board

Speakers

Samed Bouaynaya
CFA, Portfolio Manager and Director UCITS Funds, Altana Wealth
Bhavin P. Kapadia
Senior Advisor - Financial Services, AIFS Series Advisory Board

3 PM

Networking Break

4 PM

Sponsor Fraud Fight Club (Interactive Workshop)

Are you ready to see how strong your firewalls are? Come join the fight club to challenge the boundaries of privacy, cybersecurity and theft!

Putting your product to the test and see if you can survive the Fraud Fight Club.

[Disclaimer: Whatever happens in the fight club, stays in the fight club]

8 AM

Registration (Sponsored by xx)

8:30 AM

Opening Remarks

8:45 AM

Chairman’s Opening Remarks

Speakers

Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

9 AM

Industry Keynote Address: Economic Impact of Geopolitical Risks on AI

Speakers

Grace Fan
Managing Director Global Policy and Disruptive Themes Research, TS Lombard

THEME 3: Augmenting The New Reality of Artificial Intelligence

9:20 AM

Keynote Panel Discussion: How Are We Installing International AI Initiatives into Blueprints?

  • How do international AI initiatives differ from domestic ones in terms of implementation and impact, especially in Financial Services?
  • What are the key challenges does Financial Services face when integrating AI initiatives into their existing blueprints?
  • What are the best practices for tracking AI innovation and investment trends across different markets?
  • Is an AI licensing regime possible, where is the safety in this?

Massimo Buonomo, Expert and Project Evaluator for AI and Deep Tech European Projects, European Commission

David Otudeko, Head of Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers

Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe, Head of AI Assurance - Responsible Technology Adoption Unit, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Senior representative, GFT Technologies

Senior representative, KPMG

Grace Fan, Managing Director Global Policy and Disruptive Themes Research, TS Lombard

Moderator: Isabel Al-Dhahir, Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

Speakers

Massimo Buonomo
Expert and Project Evaluator for AI and Deep Tech European Projects, European Commission
David Otudeko
Head of Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers
Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe
Head of AI Assurance - Responsible Technology Adoption Unit, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Grace Fan
Managing Director Global Policy and Disruptive Themes Research, TS Lombard
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

10 AM

KPMG AI in Enterprise Finance: A Strategic Blueprint for Innovation

10:30 AM

Keynote: The Dawn of the EU AI Act – What Does This Mean for the UK Industry?

  • Driving economic growth and fueling the innovators
  • Achieving more AI enhancements than human replacement
  • Aggregate global financial data: Provide real-time data from cross-border sovereignties and liabilities.
  • Boosting regulator’s AI capabilities

Speakers

Massimo Buonomo
Expert and Project Evaluator for AI and Deep Tech European Projects, European Commission

10:50 AM

Networking Break

11:10 AM

STREAM A: Building Your AI Stack

11:30 AM

The Status of AI in the Insurance Industry: What Is Happening Now?

  • How can AI play a part in claims processing and enhance CX via chatbots and digital platforms?
  • Key challenges in underwriting and claims handling
  • The Big 3: Silos, biases and hallucinations
  • What frameworks does Insurance need to digitally develop?Yanna Winter

Speakers

YANNA WINTER
CIO, Head Of Generali UK IT And GC&C IT, Generali

11:50 AM

Building New Software Faster With AI to Drive Productivity

  • Driving engineering efficiency
  • Solving your biggest application development challenges by leveraging autonomous AI
  • Exploring the next generation of AI for code

Vespa AI

12:10 PM

Turning Open Banking Data into Underwriting, Retail, and Market Insights

  • Enhancing underwriting models with behavioural insights from Open Banking data
  • Identifying customer needs, demographics, and spending trends for tailored product strategies
  • Leveraging Open Banking and AI to refine retail marketing and customer segmentation
  • Building stronger customer connections and opening new industry opportunities through AI-driven insights

Speakers

Mauricio Toro Bermudez
Head of Data Science, Cheddar

12:30 PM

Panel: Building Resilience In A Virtual World

  • A cultural revolution in financial services
  • Rapid changes in the digital landscape and security
  • Adaptation to innovate and effectively measure success of digital transformation efforts
  • What strategies can be implemented to enhance client engagement and privacy?

Moderator: Isabel Al-Dhahir, Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

Speakers

YANNA WINTER
CIO, Head Of Generali UK IT And GC&C IT, Generali
Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

1 PM

LUNCH

2 PM

AI: The New Employee in the Boardroom

  • How boards can drive innovation that aligns with the organization’s strategy
  • Balancing the need for cutting-edge technology with robust governance structures
  • The emergence of the robo-director
  • Increasing company digital touchpoints to fuel AI decision-making

Speakers

Ange Johnson De Wet
Director, Head of Engineering, NatWest

2:20 PM

Sponsor – Real-Time Data: The Currency of the Future

  • Harnessing speed and real-time data to gain competitive edge
  • Generative AI Vs. Predictive AI – understanding the right time to use each
  • What is operational intelligence?
  • De-Silo your data by implementing a data fabric

2:40 PM

The New World of Agentic AI

Speakers

Zilvinas Bareisis
Director, Retail Banking and Payments, Celent

3 PM

Networking Break

THEME 4: Future Predictions for AI in FS – What to Expect Next?

3:30 PM

Mapping AI’s Future Impact on Financial Data

  • How is AI transforming data management?
  • Building AI-powered data pipelines
  • Addressing security and data minimisation in AI
  • How is AI rewriting the rules of data analysis?

Aveni

3:45 PM

Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: Building An AI Workforce With The Younger Generation

  • How are we creating bandwidth and investments with training and employing younger gen talent?
  • How do we enroll mentorship programs to prepare the younger generation for an AI-enhanced workforce?
  • With a global talent shortage how do we upskill younger workers to develop in an AI-driven job market?

Speakers

Dylan Shah
Strategic Partnerships Associate, Standard Charted
Dharmender Tathgur
Senior Data Scientist, C. Hoare & Co.

4 PM

Sponsor Accessing The New AI Superforce (Interactive Workshop)

Can you transform capabilities to par with human cognition?

Accelerate your artificial intelligence to super intelligence to have open-ended abilities to learn, adapt and deliver. Demos, case studies and sneak peaks to alter your performance.

4:30 PM

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Massimo Buonomo
Expert and Project Evaluator for AI and Deep Tech European Projects, European Commission

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Senior Vice President, Risk & Cyber/AI Engagement Leader – UK Corporate & Commercial, Marsh

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Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe
Head of AI Assurance - Responsible Technology Adoption Unit, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe is Head of AI Assurance at the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Emily leads DSIT’s efforts to support the growth of an ethical, trustworthy, and effective AI assurance ecosystem in the UK, a key pillar of support for realising the UK’s AI governance framework. She represents the UK at the OECD’s Working Party on AI Governance, and is also part of the OECD.AI network of experts, contributing to their Expert Groups on AI Risk & Accountability and Compute & Climate. Emily has worked in AI policy for several years, and prior to joining government worked in the private sector on international AI governance policy. Outside of her roles she has published work on the responsible publication of AI research, and how to manage its risks.

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Head of Quant Solutions, Senior Vice President, Bank of New York
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Isabel Al-Dhahir
Principal Analyst, Strategic Intelligence, GlobalData

Isabel Al-Dhahir is a Principal Analyst in GlobalData’s Thematic Intelligence team where she works with clients across numerous industries to understand the impact of emerging disruptive technologies such as AI, robotics, and quantum computing on their business. Isabel holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in Materials Science.

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Opening Remarks

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Chairman’s Opening Remarks

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Keynote Panel Discussion: How Are We Installing International AI Initiatives into Blueprints?

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Panel Discussion: To What Extent Is GenAI Ethical and Responsible?

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Panel Disucssion: AI Agents in Financial Services: A look into the future

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Fireside Chat: Anticipating AI Strategies and Holistic Outlooks For 2026/27

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Panel Discussion: Empowering Women and Diversity in Tech

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Suneet Muru
Associate Analyst, GlobalData

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GD Opening Remarks: AI Unpacked

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Adrian Cox
Managing Director, Thematic Strategist, Deutsche Bank

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Keynote: The AI Race Against Humanity

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Yauheniya Shynkevich
Head of Quant Solutions, Bank of New York

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Real-World Challenges In Leveraging AI and Data

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Dr. Matthew Jones
Head of Risk Decision Science & Analytical Innovation, Nationwide Building Society

Matthew has a PhD in Statistics and is an ex-lecturer in Computational Statistics at Cardiff University School of Mathematics.  He has 20 years’ of experience in financial services, his team build advanced analytical tools across Credit Risk, Economic Crime and Collections & Recoveries.

His team delivered the first Machine Learning Credit Scorecard for a major UK financial institution, and he currently sits on the Nationwide AI Council with a focus on the creation of controls for Generative AI models.

He has a passion for learning and development creating and chairing the Risk Academy and enterprise-wide Nationwide Analytical Community.

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GenAI Model Management

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Tom Phillips
Head of Risk Data Science, Nationwide Building Society

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GenAI Model Management

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Konstantina Kapetanidi
Head of CRM and AI Sales, Schroders

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Operationalising AI to Enhance Business Strategies and ROIs

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Divya Kesavan
Head of Corporate Data Science and Insights, Barclays

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How Is AI Revolutionising Data Visualisation?

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Aneek Akram
Lead Data Scientist, Global Transaction Banking, Barclays

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How Is AI Revolutionising Data Visualisation?

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Dale Jones
Interim Head of Client Portfolio Insights, NatWest Commercial & Institutional Depositary Services

Dale has over 10 years of data analytics experience in the asset & wealth management industry covering audit, compliance and cloud transformation programmes. Dale leads the Client Insights & Analytics team for NatWest Trustee & Depositary Services. He has a Bachelor of Science in Medical Microbiology from the University of Leeds and certifications for SQL, Python programming and the CFA Investment Management Certificate.

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How Is AI Transforming Governance & Compliance In The Funds Industry?

2025-09-09, 12:40 PM

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Mari Parry
Principal AI Engineer, Blackrock

Mari Parry is a Principal Engineer at BlackRock, focused on leveraging AI to support Portfolio Management workflows. She has 20+ years of experience delivering innovative solutions for the financial and media sectors in the UK and Germany.

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Panel Discussion: To What Extent Is GenAI Ethical and Responsible?

2025-09-09, 12:40 PM

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Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

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Dr Andrea Isoni
AI Advisor, ISO - International Organization for Standardization and Chief AI Officer

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Panel Discussion: To What Extent Is GenAI Ethical and Responsible?

2025-09-09, 12:40 PM

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Living In A Data Sovereign World

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Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

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Monika Kashyap
Head of Decisioning, Omni Channel (AI, Data & Analytics- CIB), HSBC

With over 25 years of experience, Monika is a Data and Decisioning Leader across Banking & Financial Services, Telecoms, Insurance and Travel domains who has led the omni-channel design and delivery across the globe through customer touchpoints (digital and staff assisted) and helped businesses enhance customer engagement, NPS, growth and retention strategies. Monika has worked with major banks & blue-chip companies in the UK implementing Data and AI driven orchestration, deriving meaningful insights, driving hyper-personalisation, actionable intelligence, and optimising business outcomes whilst balancing customer needs.

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Panel Discussion: To What Extent Is GenAI Ethical and Responsible?

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Panel Discussion: Empowering Women and Diversity in Tech

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JoAnn Stonier
Mastercardfellow Data and AI, Mastercard

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Panel Disucssion: AI Agents in Financial Services: A look into the future

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Kelvin Waters
Customer Insight Manager, Lloyds Banking Group

Kelvin started his position as Customer Insights Manager at Lloyds Banking Group on January 29, 2023. His role focuses on understanding and improving customer experiences within the banking sector.

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Panel Disucssion: AI Agents in Financial Services: A look into the future

2025-09-09, 2:50 PM

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Howie Epstein
Director of Product Management, LexisNexis

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A Four-Pronged Strategy to Mitigating the Risk of Generative AI Hallucinations and Improving Response Quality

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Nombuso Matsape
Head of IT Digital Data and Innovation Business Engagement, ICBC Standard bank

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Panel Discussion: Empowering Women and Diversity in Tech

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Dylan Shah
Strategic Partnerships Associate, Standard Charted

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Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: Building An AI Workforce With The Younger Generation

2025-09-10, 3:45 PM

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Dharmender Tathgur
Senior Data Scientist, C. Hoare & Co.

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Closing Keynote Fireside Chat: Building An AI Workforce With The Younger Generation

2025-09-10, 3:45 PM

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Grace Fan
Managing Director Global Policy and Disruptive Themes Research, TS Lombard

With two decades of on-the-ground experience across the Americas (including Brazil and Mexico) and China, Grace has worked at TS Lombard since 2007 and specializes in energy, political risk, infrastructure and industrial/tech policy, plus their intersection with emerging new technologies as key research themes. She previously led Latin America research at TS Lombard and has broad sector expertise in core areas spanning clean energy, oil & gas and agriculture alongside trade and tech issues. Prior to TS Lombard, she worked as an EM journalist with articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Dow Jones Newswires among other publications. She is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation.

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Keynote Panel Discussion: How Are We Installing International AI Initiatives into Blueprints?

2025-09-10, 9:20 AM

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Industry Keynote Address: Economic Impact of Geopolitical Risks on AI

2025-09-10, 9:00 AM

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David Otudeko
Head of Prudential Regulation, Association of British Insurers

David Otudeko leads the regulation directorate which is collectively responsible for the ABI’s policy work on prudential regulation, conduct regulation, tax, financial and corporate reporting and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

David joined the ABI in June 2021 as Head of Prudential Regulation from AmTrust International where he was part of the Risk Management function and was instrumental in establishing a Shared Services Risk Function at the Insurance Group. Prior to this, he had spells working in the Insurance Risk and Regulation Practice at PwC, the Prudential Regulation Authority’s Major Life Insurance Groups Supervision Department and in various roles at RBS over a 10-year period.

David's LinkedIn profile can be found here.

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Keynote Panel Discussion: How Are We Installing International AI Initiatives into Blueprints?

2025-09-10, 9:20 AM

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Creating Harmonious Regulatory Convergence and Operational Resilience

2025-09-10, 2:00 PM

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YANNA WINTER
CIO, Head Of Generali UK IT And GC&C IT, Generali

Yanna is a strategy and technology expert with extensive IT experience. Has successfully bridged the gap between business strategies and IT organisations. Has an established reputation in leading and delivering large-scale transformations. CIO (Head of IT) for Generali UK and for Generali Corporate and Commercial. Session Details: Welcoming digital change to the insurance business operating model and overcoming resistance to adapt

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The Status of AI in the Insurance Industry: What Is Happening Now?

2025-09-10, 11:30 AM

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Panel: Building Resilience In A Virtual World

2025-09-10, 12:30 PM

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Alex Brenig Jones
Head of Insights, Non-Financial Risk, NatWest Group

Alex is responsible for bank-wide data-led insights, executive risk reporting, risk assessments and MI strategy in NatWest Group Financial Crime Risk. Previously led the Group’s efforts to tackle tax evasion: responding to the Criminal Finances Act as well as wider tax transparency (FATCA, CRS) risk management.

Before this Alex was at Barclays, where he supported the front office and managed client and corporate tax risk, across Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, and in-house mergers & acquisitions.

His Experience includes leading RBS’s response to the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (risk assessments, training, designing and implementing controls), M&A tax from conception to post-completion, including sale of Wealth Asia business and sale of UK trusts business, managing tax risks associated with a wide range of FS products and services including structured notes, prime brokerage, real estate financing, and secured funding (securitisations and covered bonds). He has significant experience working with Financial Crime on tax evasion risk and corporate tax compliance roles.

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Strategising data-led financial crime and fraud prevention

2025-09-10, 11:30 AM

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Mauricio Toro Bermudez
Head of Data Science, Cheddar

Mauricio Toro holds a PhD in Computer Science from Université de Bordeaux, France. As the principal data scientist at Cheddar,
best newcomer at the British Bank Awards 2024, he developed solutions to maximize user savings using AI and NLP.
Previously, as a technical leader at a large fintech company in latin america, he developed solutions for customer feedback
summarisation using AI and NLP.

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Turning Open Banking Data into Underwriting, Retail, and Market Insights

2025-09-10, 12:10 PM

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Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

2025-09-10, 12:30 PM

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Fares Triki
Head of Model Risk Management, MUFG

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Restructuring Models in Your Business

2025-09-10, 12:10 PM

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Tom Coppock
Senior Product Management Director - Artificial Intelligence, Tungsten Automation

Tom is responsible for Tungsten Automation’s global AI strategy, related product roadmap priorities and go-to-market value propositions, across Tungsten’s Intelligent Automation, Workflow, Intelligent Document Processing (IDP), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and e-Invoicing platforms.

With more than 25 years in the software industry, Tom has hands-on experience with a wide range of integration, automation, cloud, data, and AI technologies, bringing a deep understanding of how different solution capabilities can complement each other to increase business value and accelerate innovation.

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Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

2025-09-10, 12:30 PM

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Ange Johnson De Wet
Director, Head of Engineering, NatWest

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AI: The New Employee in the Boardroom

2025-09-10, 2:00 PM

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Zilvinas Bareisis
Director, Retail Banking and Payments, Celent

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The New World of Agentic AI

2025-09-10, 2:40 PM

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Samed Bouaynaya
CFA, Portfolio Manager and Director UCITS Funds, Altana Wealth

Samed has been joint portfolio manager for ADAF since January 2022, a director of Altana UCITS Funds since 2017 and PM for the Global Billionaires Fund from 2020-23. Prior to joining Altana in 2014, Samed was a Derivatives Trading Analyst at SocGen, a Credit Quant Analyst at JP Morgan and an Associate Director at RBC Capital Markets where he covered senior quantitative and risk roles supporting derivatives trading. Samed is a CFA® charter holder and holds an MSc. in financial and mathematical engineering from Polytechnic Federal School of Lausanne, Switzerland. He also holds an Msc in computer science and applied mathematics from ENSIMAG (French engineering school ‘Grande Ecole’) in Grenoble.

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Panel Discussion: A Bug in The System: AI Agents in a Crypto World

2025-09-10, 2:40 PM

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Bhavin P. Kapadia
Senior Advisor - Financial Services, AIFS Series Advisory Board

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Risk Management Panel Discussion: Navigating AI/ML applications in risky landscapes

2025-09-10, 12:30 PM

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Panel Discussion: A Bug in The System: AI Agents in a Crypto World

2025-09-10, 2:40 PM

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Hilton London Bankside

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