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16 October, 2025

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Location

etc.venues 8 Fenchurch Place, London

Agenda

Where Innovation Meets Compliance

08:15am

Registration and Networking with Sponsors

09:00am

Opening and Welcome
Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

09:10am

Opening keynote: A Regulator’s perspective on AI

09:35am

Panel: Navigating the frontier of agentic AI in RegTech

  • What are the most promising applications and use cases for agentic AI in regulatory compliance?
  • What are the data management requirements for agentic AI?
  • What does a best practice governance and control framework for Agentic AI look like?
  • The ‘Black Box’ on autopilot: How do you solve for explainability and accountability?
  • What is the new role for the compliance professional?
  • What is the most effective strategy for firms to proactively engage with regulators on their use of Agentic AI?
10:20am

Keynote:

10:40am

Morning break and networking with sponsors

11:10am

Keynote:

11:30am

Panel: From blueprint to reality – Your strategic roadmap for RegTech implementation

  • What are the essential elements that underpin a successful regtech implementation roll out?
  • From global to local – How should compliance teams address the differences of managing regulatory divergence across jurisdictions and geographic entities?
  • Tackling data integration: What are the strategies for unifying fragmented data landscapes for holistic compliance insights?
  • Legacy modernisation: What progress are firms making transitioning from legacy architectures to a modular, cloud native and data centric architecture?
  • Buy, build, or hybrid: How is the debate evolving considering the increasing focus on third party risk management and cyber security threats?
  • Beyond technology – what are the workforce requirements and how should firms foster a culture of innovation within compliance?
12:15pm

Panel: The end of manual compliance?  How to build, govern and trust an AI driven regulatory change programme

  • Beyond horizon scanning – How are firms successfully teaching AI to map new, unstructured regulatory text to their own specific internal controls, policies, and procedures?
  • What does a robust governance framework look like for safely using AI models in the regulatory change lifecycle?
  • Mapping a fragmented data landscape:  What are the foundational data management steps and strategies needed to create a machine-readable, centralised, and trustworthy library of your firm’s own obligations and controls?
  • Evolving role of the compliance officer: What new skills and training are essential for compliance teams to thrive alongside these powerful new tools?
1:00pm

Lunch and networking with sponsors

2:00pm

Keynote: Proving true resilience in the post-DORA Era

  • From planning to proof: What does demonstrable resilience look like?
  • What are the most effective, resource-efficient ways firms are embedding resilience testing into their business-as-usual operations?
  • The supply chain front line: How do you manage the resilience of third parties you can’t control?
  • How are financial institutions proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating the full spectrum of evolving internal and external cyber threats?
  • What does a successful, integrated technology stack for operational resilience look like, and how will it evolve to handle the next wave of threats?
2:20pm

Panel: Best practices for streamlined and agile regulatory reporting

  • Beyond the silos: What does a truly unified data strategy for reporting look like?
  •  The ‘no-touch’ report: Is full automation a realistic goal or a costly distraction?
  • Agile in practice: How can cloud based SaaS solutions help firms respond to regulatory change in days, not months?
  • With a heightened focus on transparency, how are firms developing capabilities to demonstrate end to end data lineage, including integrating automated validation controls, metadata tracking, and proactive data quality management?
  • From cost centre to value driver: Can regulatory data be leveraged for business insight?
  • The AI opportunity: Where can AI and Machine Learning make the biggest impact in regulatory reporting?
3:05pm

Keynote: Addressing financial crime and AML with RegTech

3:50pm

Afternoon Break and networking with sponsors

4:20pm

Panel: The data backbone of defence – powering next generation surveillance

  • What does a best practice governance framework for surveillance look like?
  • Analysing false positives remains a huge operational drain.  How can data management advanced analytics sharpen the focus?
  • The holistic data challenge: What are the key architectural and data integration strategies for breaking down silos to achieve a unified view across disparate datasets—trades, e-comms, voice?
  • Future proofing: How should firms evolve their data management and surveillance infrastructure to manage the incoming data landscape e.g T+1 and new data types e.g. digital assets?
  • AI in the trenches: What is the essential groundwork that must be laid before an organisation can realistically expect to achieve a positive ROI on its AI investments in surveillance?
  • Demonstrating compliance: how do you build a defensible data story for the Regulator?
5:05pm

Panel: The WhatsApp dilemma: Moving from prohibition to practical surveillance

  • Policy vs. reality gap: Is ‘zero tolerance’ an obsolete strategy?
  • The privacy paradox: How do you navigate the minefield of GDPR and employee rights?
  • Beyond capture: How do you integrate off-channel data into holistic surveillance?
  • How are firms successfully deploying AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to understand the context, sentiment, and intent behind off-channel conversations?
  • Evaluating vendor solutions and buy vs. build: What are the critical capabilities to look for and what makes a good technology partner?
  • What are the key elements to demonstrate to a Regulator that an off-channel communications programme is ‘reasonable and effective’?
5:50pm

Drinks reception and sponsor networking

6:50pm

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