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The Race to Innovate: Can Data-Driven Technology Speed Up Transformation in a Time of Disruption?  

Sponsored by Couchbase
Tuesday 8 December 2020, 12:30
Zoom

The pandemic has accelerated many changes already underway in the financial services industry, with digital transformation, moves from on-premise to cloud storage, and upgrades to both back office tech and user experience of mobile apps all being prioritised as consumers and the workforce move online.

This transformation is being attempted while a recession increases the pressure on budgets, making the redesign of applications and rationalisation of data sources crucial to driving efficiencies and helping staff become more productive.

This digital roundtable will assess how businesses - from FinTech challengers to established incumbents - can make changes to maintain operational resilience and free up time to develop the products and services that will keep them competitive in a time of unprecedented disruption.

This roundtable will bring together senior industry peers to discuss challenges, opportunities and possible solutions as organisations use new technologies to keep up with the competition in their own race to innovate.

Topics for discussion:

• What have the biggest challenges been for your business in adapting to COVID-19?
  
  
• What impact has the pandemic had on your digital transformation strategy?
  
  
• Has the shift to remote work and digital services driven up demand for data access?
  
  
• How has your firm met the increased demand for online and mobile services – has this caused uptime or operational issues?
  
  
• How can rationalising data platforms help with cost saving and innovation strategies?
  
  
• How have customer expectations changed with regard to financial services apps?
  
  
• What challenges has your business faced when it comes to AI and machine learning projects and have these included speed, or data portability integrity?
  
  
• What has the buy-in been like from the board for spending on IT transformation projects?
  
  
• How far down the cloud migration journey is your business – and has COVID accelerated this shift?
  
  
• Have you hired new people to help with data projects, or invested in tech and training to give existing staff the skills and time to do the work?
  
  

Timings:
12:30 – 12:40   Editor’s Welcome
12:40 – 14:00   Topic Discussion

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