| 8:30 AM | Registration, networking and morning coffee |
| 9:00 AM | Conference introduction Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City Week |
| 9:05 AM | Chair’s opening remarks Julian David, CEO, techUK |
| 9:10 AM | Keynote address - AI for Innovation Chris Hayward, Chairman of Policy and Resources, City of London Corporation |
| 9:20 AM | Keynote address – Balancing the productivity opportunities of financial technology and AI against the potential risks Randall Kroszner, Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England |
| 9:35 AM | Keynote address Saqib Bhatti MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology |
| 9:45 AM | Keynote address |
| 9:55 AM | Setting the context: the potential for generative AI to transform the financial services industry How should boards incorporate generative AI into their strategy? How to manage the risks of unfair bias, opaque automated decision-making, misinformation and fraud. Ethics and corporate governance.
Moderator:
Lucy McNulty, Editor, Following the Rules
Panel:
Jamie Ovenden, CTO, Schroders
Professor Carsten Maple, Turing Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute; Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, University of Warwick's Cyber Security Centre (CSC); Principal Investigator, NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence, Cyber Security Research
Sarah Gadd, Chief Data Officer and Head of Data & Process Automation, Julius Baer
Jan Putnis, Head of Financial Regulation Group and co-Head of Financial Institutions Group, Slaughter and May |
| 10:35 AM | Networking and morning coffee |
| 11:05 AM | Where next for UK, EU and U.S. regulation of AI? How has the approach to AI regulation evolved in the UK, Europe and U.S.? To the extent that they differ, what are the implications for AI in cross-border financial services? Will there be a global regulator? The plans for an AI Safety Institute.
Nicole Sandler, Head of Digital Policy, Barclays
Hayley Fletcher, Director, AI Foundation Models Review, Competition and Markets Authority
Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Advisor for MEP Axel Voss (EPP Group), European Parliament |
| 11:45 AM | Use cases of AI in financial services to date Which have been the most promising use cases so far? Using AI to re-engineer existing business models and internal processes. Implications for product design and customer engagement. What are the integration challenges?
Moderator
James Longster, Partner, Technology & Commercial Transactions, Travers Smith
Panellists
Emily Prince, Group Head of Analytics, London Stock Exchange Group
Dr Jochen Papenbrock, Head of Financial Technology (EMEA), NVIDIA |
| 12:25 PM | The rapidly developing digital payments landscape Open banking and the development of digital currencies in the UK and elsewhere has unleashed a wave of innovation that has transformed the payments landscape. However, digital currencies and financial crime pose a threat continuing threat to payment providers. Can AI help to provide a solution? What are the key challenges for cross-border payments? What is being done internationally to improve cross-border payments? What are we doing to help tackle the frictions in cross-border payments?
Moderator
Natalie Lewis, Partner and Head of Fintech, Market Infrastructure and Payments (FMIP), Travers Smith
Panel:
Victoria Cleland, Executive Director, Payments, Bank of England
Tony McLaughlin, Managing Director, Emerging Payments and Business Development, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
Xiaonan Zou, Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, UBS Group Treasury
Mandy Lamb, Managing Director, UK & Ireland, Visa |
| 1:05 PM | Networking and lunch |
| 2:00 PM | Chair’s welcome remarks Emma Reynolds, Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy & Research, TheCityUK |
| 2:05 PM | Keynote address – Forward-looking cooperation between two leading global financial centres on the basis of the innovative CH-UK Berne Financial Services Agreement Daniela Stoffel, Vice-Minister, State Secretariat for International Finance, Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland |
| 2:25 PM | Keynote address – The UAE’s AI strategy |
| 2:45 PM | Fireside Chat – How will AI reshape investment banking? |
| 3:05 PM | Fireside Chat - The evolving nature of the cyber threat to the financial services industry |
| 3:25 PM | The criticality of data in financial services: opportunities and challenges Data is at the heart of all the key developments in financial services, including sourcing data for machine learning and AI, climate and nature reporting, open data, blockchain technology and payments. Key issues include international data transfers, data privacy and synthetic data. What are the latest developments?
Ezechi Britton MBE, CEO, The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology
Dawd Haque, Global Lead for Regulatory Market Initiatives, Transformation and Strategy, Deutsche Bank
Phillipe Laurensy, Managing Director and Head of Product Strategy & Innovation, Euroclear Group |
| 4:05 PM | What will the next generation of AI models offer to the financial services industry? Will the response to managing the current risks posed by generative AI be sufficient for next generation models? How will functionality be enhanced? Potential implications for different industries, financial markets and the workforce.
Vishal Marria, CEO and Founder, Quantexa
Prashant Jajodia, IBM Consulting Financial Services Leader
Dr Marc Warner, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Faculty |
| 4:45 PM | Chair’s closing remarks Emma Reynolds, Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy & Research, TheCityUK |
| 4:50 PM | Networking drinks reception and close of proceedings |
