Agenda

08.30 - 09.15: Registration and refreshments

09.15 - 09.20: Chairman’s welcome
Jonathan Easton, Editor, FStech

09.20 - 09.50: Keynote speaker: Fintech Investment Trends

Kirsty Rutter, Strategic Investment Director (Corporate Venture Capital), Lloyds Banking Group

Kirsty Rutter, Lloyds Banking Group's Fintech Investment Director will look at the transformative fintech landscape and discuss some of the trends we are seeing this year. Kirsty will discuss the opportunities and potential challenges for the sector across areas including digital wallets, AI in cyber security and payments innovation. 

09.50 - 10.20: Session to be announced 

10.20 - 11.00: Panel session to be announced 

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 12.00: Session to be announced 

12.00 - 12.40: Panel session to be announced  

12.40 - 13.10: Session to be announced  

13.10 - 14.10: Lunch Break

14.10 - 14.40: Optimising Large Language Models for Finance

Philip Treleaven, Professor of Computing & Director, UCL & UK Centre for Financial Computing

This presentation reviews LLMs and their use in Finance, such as Quant trading, fund management and advice.It introduces key LLM terminology such as GenAI, Agentic AI, chain-of-though prompting, and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG).Importantly ChatGPT, Claude, Llama and DeepSeek support different techniques for optimising Prompt Engineering , which is essential for performance.

14.40 - 15.20: Panel session to be announced 

15.20 - 15.50: Keynote speaker – Digital Business Banking: From neo to what’s next

Chris Waring, Head of Digital Customer Journeys, NatWest

Business banking has already seen major innovation, but a new wave is emerging — driven by AI, real-time data, and the expectation of mobile, always-on access. As universal banks look ahead, the opportunity lies in applying these advances to more complex products and larger business segments. This session explores how modern, neo bank-style approaches can be adapted to SMEs and beyond, bringing simplicity and speed to areas of business finance that have remained stubbornly manual.

15:50 - 16:10: Chairman's closing remarks, quiz and end of conference

16.10 - 17.10: Networking drinks reception