Maurice Button, Chief Executive, City and Financial Global

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP, Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Advisory Group of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange

Welcome keynote address

Data and AI as national infrastructure: What the UK now expects of financial services. The government position on AI adoption, smart data and digital identity as the UK's growth and resilience agenda, and what that means for the obligations and opportunities of regulated firms

Open finance and the smart data revolution: from roadmap to revenue. The benefits and the implementation challenges, assessed against what is deliverable in 2027

Data-first supervision: what changes when the regulator can query your data faster than you can. What the FCA’s data and analytics direction genuinely means for the financial services sector – and how to prepare for it

Building your next data strategy in the era of rapid AI adoption 

In conversation with the regulators and a global AI enterprise

Regulatory considerations on data governance and financial stability in the era of AI transformation. The questions your board will be asked

Update on Digital Assets

The Architecture of Trust: Navigating the UK’s New Digital Identity Framework

Three Data & AI Innovation showcases or keynote presentations

Themes may include:

• Digital sovereignty and the 2nd  of December deadline
• The practical legal and strategic implications of data and AI sovereignty
• The 18 March 2027 Mandate: Legal risk, board accountability, and critical third parties. Who decides what and other uncomfortable questions
• Cybersecurity and data resilience in the AI era - the escalation of cyber breaches and identity fraud
• Agentic AI evidenced deployment: what worked, what failed and what cost?
• The board AI value ledger. Moving from pilot theatre to outcomes evidence: what a credible use-case portfolio, unit economics and stop condition look like in a board pack

Data & Agentic AI — A Human-Centric Vision

• How the Data Use and Access Act 2025 shapes data accessibility, security, and public trust in AI deployments.
• Board- and executive-level frameworks for autonomous systems.
• Dynamic policy enforcement and live monitoring in production.
• Mitigating bias while ensuring fairness, transparency, and explainability.
• Managing and protecting sensitive information within agentic workflows.
• Practical steps for robust documentation, logging, and transparency.

Quantum and cyber resilience: one architecture, two clocks.  Preparing for the future. How will quantum computing impact data encryption and processed capabilities

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP, Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Data Advisory Group of the International Business and Diplomatic Exchange

Three interactive roundtables – deep dives into specific issues, with two or more moderators for each session. Themes to be chosen from the list below, subject to further changes and suggestions

• Data quality in regulatory reporting. Lineage, attestation, control evidence and the returns the regulator is retiring; how to keep quality high when reporting volume falls 
• Digital and AI sovereignty 
• Adopting Digital ID in the UK. Customer due diligence, retained liability, supplier concentration, loss-of-certification fallbacks and the fraud assessment due in November 2026 
• Agentic AI commerce and payments. Consent, liability, the right to pause, dispute resolution and the reality of reimbursement obligations when an agent acts on a customer’s behalf 
• Ethical AI, data, culture, bias mitigation and social impact. Proving the distribution of benefit across customer groups, and the culture and incentive conditions that make escalation work 
• The board AI value ledger. Moving from pilot theatre to outcomes evidence: what a credible use-case portfolio, unit economics and stop condition look like in a board pack