Welcome

 Building mission critical apps at scale: How to remain resilient when growing in the cloud

Sponsored by Cockroach Labs
Thursday 20th April 2023
City Social, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad St, London EC2N 1HQ

Scaling mission-critical applications is incredibly hard; the rapid pace of app development, explosive growth in data volume, and the relentless hunt for new customers demands a new set of requirements for FSI professionals.

As a result, market leaders are transforming their clunky legacy systems by using new cloud-based applications and multi-cloud environments to meet the modern requirements for speed of delivery, geographic scale and availability. Such scalable modern apps can correctly handle billions of requests per minute while helping FSIs keep the lights on 24/7.

Market change and volatility over the past months and years has led to increased transaction volumes and teams must still deliver world-class apps and services while budgets and headcount come under pressure. Established FSI's must also contend with increasing levels of competition from challenger digital-first banks, embedded finance from non-financial companies and the rise of ‘Super Apps’.

To keep up, many are looking to simplify their technology stack and operational complexity wherever possible to focus on the task at hand – improving their apps and services while ensuring customer satisfaction and retention as well as growing their customer base.

This roundtable with senior peers will focus on the key challenges and opportunities for FSIs as they grow and maintain customers, and the impact that has on application development at a critical time for the industry.

Topics for discussion:

·What are the main obstacles in maintaining, upgrading or building applications in the cloud?
·What are the best methods to adapt to new and accelerating regulations and innovations in the market and how do FSIs adapt their technology to keep up with the demand for new customer experience journeys?
·What are the main roadblocks in an FSI’s app development cycle and how could these be removed?
·What are the key challenges for organisations trying to retain and attract new customers whilst moving to the cloud?
·How can FSIs build and scale world-class applications with seamless customer experience, under the constraints of limited resources?

Timings for the evening:

18:00 – 18:30        Welcome and refreshments
18:30 – 20:00        Introduction to fellow guests and roundtable discussion
20:00 – onwards  Complimentary three-course dinner