Maurice Button, CEO, City Week, and CEO, City & Financial Global

Julian David, CEO, techUK

Chris Hayward, Policy Chairman, City of London Corporation

Randall Kroszner, Member of the Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

Saqib Bhatti MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

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

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.

Moderator:

Julian David, CEO, techUK

Panel:

Nicole Sandler, Head of Digital Policy, Barclays

Jenny Cieplak, Partner, Latham & Watkins

Euan MacMillan, Director, Digital Markets Unit, Competition and Markets Authority

Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Advisor for MEP Axel Voss (EPP Group), European Parliament

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

Leigh Bates, Partner, Data & Analytics Lead, PwC UK

Dr Dara Sosulski, Head of AI and Model Management for Markets and Securities Services, HSBC 

The development of digital currencies and other new technologies in the UK and elsewhere has unleashed a wave of innovation that has transformed the payments landscape – and many of these new technologies promise to make a significant contribution to solving the challenges associated with cross-border payments. What are the key challenges for cross-border payments? What is being done internationally to improve cross-border payments, and what is the ultimate ambition? 

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

Tim Moncrieff, VP, Global Head of Strategic Growth Initiatives, Visa Money Movement, Visa

Emma Reynolds, Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy & Research, TheCityUK

Daniela Stoffel, Vice-Minister, State Secretariat for International Finance, Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland

Host:

Maurice Button, CEO, City Week, and CEO, City & Financial Global

In conversation with:

Zygmunt Łoziński, Global Lead on Quantum Safe Networks, IBM

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?

Moderator:

Emma Reynolds, Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy & Research, TheCityUK

Panel:

Ezechi Britton MBE, CEO, The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology

Belinda Doshi, Head of Legal, Data & Digital, Lloyds Banking Group

Philippe Laurensy, Managing Director and Head of Product Strategy & Innovation, Euroclear Group

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

Moderator:

Justin Cash, Online Editor, Financial News

Panel:

Vishal Marria, CEO and Founder, Quantexa

Prashant Jajodia, Managing Client Partner, Financial Services Sector Leader - UK & Ireland, IBM Consulting

Dr Marc Warner, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Faculty 

Sonya Iovieno, Head of Venture & Growth, HSBC Innovation Banking UK

Emma Reynolds, Managing Director, Public Affairs, Policy & Research, TheCityUK