Open Finance and the Smart Data Revolution – the benefits and the implementation challenges

The FCA’s “Data First” strategy – what does it really mean for the financial services sector?

Next steps for your business - building a robust data strategy in the era of the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence, the transition towards a "smart data" economy, and escalating cybersecurity threats

Update on Digital ID

Artificial intelligence: Data Governance and Financial Stability Regulatory considerations - Implications of AI for the SMCR, Consumer Duty, governance and control requirements

• What are the implications of the recent Data Use and Access Act 2025 and how does it affect Agentic AI deployments, particularly concerning data accessibility, security, and public trust?
• Governance frameworks for autonomous systems: accountability at board and executive level
• Dynamic policy enforcement and real-time compliance monitoring in production
• Ethical guardrails: bias, fairness, transparency and explainability in agentic systems
• Data privacy in agentic workflows: managing sensitive data handled by AI agents
• Practical steps to audit-readiness: documentation, logging and explainability

• Changing threat landscape: Shift to "Machine Speed" attacks; cloud infrastructure exploits and industrialisation of cyber crime
• AI-driven fraud and deepfakes: Hyper-realistic social engineering; synthetic data manipulation and enduring exposure risks
• Supply chain and third-party risks: Shadow AI and data leakage, AI pipeline vulnerabilities and the “trust exploitation” trap
• Cyber and agentic AI: Autonomous decision making; high-privilege system risks, the rise of high-severity CVEs targeted directly at Agentic systems and MCP servers 
• Recent cyber use cases, both in the UK and abroad

Digital sovereignty - the practical legal and strategic implications of data and AI sovereignty, following the recent release of the EU Tech Sovereignty Package and the proposed EU Cloud & AI Infrastructure Act

Presenting the industry’s latest data and AI solutions

Quantum leaps & Digital Assets: preparing for the future. How will quantum computing impact data encryption and processed capabilities & how will tokenised digital assets redefine data governance? 

This session will provide actionable insights on how to future-proof your data architecture, secure your datasets against emerging quantum risks, and effectively manage modern digital assets

• Roundtable one - Data quality in regulatory reporting
• Roundtable two – Adopting Digital ID in the UK 
• Roundtable three - Agentic AI commerce and payments  
• Roundtable four - Ethical AI, data, culture, bias mitigation, and the social impact