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

Opening keynote: A Regulator’s perspective on AI

Ed Towers, Head of Advanced Analytics & Data Science Units, Financial Conduct Authority

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?

Dara Sosulski, Managing Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Model Management MSS, HSBC
Justin Xu, Head of Quant and AI Strategy, MillTech
Vall Herard, Co-founder and CEO, Saifr
Representative from Theta Lake

Fireside keynote:

Interview with: Luware
Interview by: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Keynote:

Panel: From blueprint to reality – Your strategic roadmap for integrated GRC with RegTech

• What are the essential GRC elements that underpin a successful RegTech implementation rollout, ensuring alignment with overarching governance frameworks?
• From global to local – How should compliance teams address the differences of managing regulatory divergence across jurisdictions and geographic entities, particularly from a risk management and governance perspective?
• Tackling data integration: What are the strategies for unifying fragmented data landscapes for holistic GRC insights and improved risk identification?
• Legacy modernization: What progress are firms making transitioning from legacy architectures to a modular, cloud-native, and data-centric architecture to enhance GRC agility and control?
• Buy, build, or hybrid: How is the debate evolving considering the increasing focus on third-party risk management and cybersecurity threats?
• Beyond technology – What are the workforce requirements and how should firms foster a culture of innovation within compliance to strengthen the overall GRC ecosystem?

Moderator: Dr. Sabine Dittrich, Head, EU Financial Regulation, Slaughter & May
Marili Anderson, Managing Director, Head of Compliance UK, Rabobank
Chris Beevor, Group Compliance COO, GAM Investments

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?

Sarah-Rose Perry, Head of Compliance and MLRO, BTIG

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?

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?

Moderator: Chad Giusaani, independent RegTech Advisor
Dawd Haque, Market Initiatives, Regulatory Transformation & Strategy | Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank AG
Barrie Ingman, Legal Counsel – Head of Regulatory Developments, Mizuho
Emma Kalliomaki, Managing Director, Derivative Service Bureau

Fireside Keynote Interview: T+1 Settlement in the UK- roadmap, readiness & regulatory priorities for 2027

• What is the official timeline for the UK’s move to T+1, and what lessons can we draw from the US and Canadian transitions?
• What are the most important technical, operational, and regulatory recommendations from the AST’s final report?
• How will T+1 impact firms’ operational systems, workflows, and relationships with vendors and counterparties?
• What new risks and compliance challenges will accelerated settlement introduce, and how should firms prepare?
• How should firms approach industry testing and collaboration with the AST, HMT, and the Bank of England?
• What are the implications for investment fund settlement, and how will the T+2 recommendation protect investors?

Interview with: Andrew Douglas, Chair, UK T+1 Taskforce 

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?

Moderator: Mark Edwards, Independent Regulatory Specialist Former FCA & LSEG
Andrew Adams, Head of Trade Surveillance EMEA & APAC, RBC Capital Markets
Sanjay Tripathi, Global Head of Communication Surveillance Technology & Cloud and AI Transformation Lead for Compliance Tech. Deutsche Bank

Panel: Addressing financial crime and AML with RegTech

• How are firms using RegTech to meet evolving AML directives like 6AMLD and the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) regime?
• What are best practices for implementing AI and machine learning in AML systems while ensuring transparency, explainability, and regulatory compliance?
• How can financial institutions improve cross-border AML data sharing and surveillance to manage risk across fragmented EU jurisdictions?
• What’s the role of RegTech in preparing for Financial Conduct Authority expectations around perpetual KYC, sanctions compliance, and crypto-related risks?

Event ends