aLWAYS PRACTICAL, ALWAYS PRAGMATIC

AGENDA

DESIGNED TO SUPERCHARGE GROWTH

Built for Fintechs, Banks, and Enterprises That Are Serious About Scale.

Fintech Week London goes deep on the technology, strategy, and relationships that separate challengers from category leaders – across two days, two stages, and eight tracks designed for founders, operators, and the bank and enterprise leaders who are done with surface-level insight.

Come to build. Leave with the people who’ll help you do it.

dAY 1 - Wednesday 09 sep

AI, Convergence, REGULATION & Trust

Day one goes deep on the forces reshaping fintech from the inside: AI as a competitive edge, the regulatory environment you need to get ahead of, the fintech/crypto convergence that’s closer than most people think, and the trust that takes years to build and seconds to lose.

Time	Room 1	Room 2
08:30	Registration & Coffee (45 min)
09:15	HOST WELCOME Calypso Harland, CEO & Founder, Fintech Fringe
09:30	AI IN ACTION KEYNOTE: Building Britain’s AI Future Rt Hon. Kanishka Narayan MP, Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence)
	MC: Ian Horne	MC: Alison Donnelly, fscom
10:00	AI IN ACTION FIRESIDE: When AI Becomes Your Competitor: Rebuilding Your Moat Moderator: Michael Cherepnin, EJF Ventures Charith Mendis, Head of Worldwide Banking, AWS	REGULATION REIMAGINED PANEL: Inside the Regulatory Sandbox: How Live AI Testing Is Already Changing the Rules Moderator: Rachel Wolcott, Financial Journalist, Compliance Corylated Mehdi Jamei, CEO & Co-Founder, Veris AI Ehsan Faridifar, Co-Founder and Chief Product & Data Officer, Serene Henrike Mueller, Manager, AI Strategy Team, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority
10:30	AI IN ACTION PANEL: Who Signs Off on the Agent? Building AI Governance That Doesn’t Slow You Down Moderator: Marieke Flament, Co-Founder, Currency of Power Sandi Samantaray, Founder & Regulated-AI Specialist, Vyaya AI	REGULATION REIMAGINED PANEL: Open Finance Is Here: What the New Data Rules Mean for Your Product Strategy Moderator: Ellie Duncan, Open Banking Andrew Self, Head of Open Banking, FCA Huw Davies, CEO, OzoneAPI
11:00	Coffee & Networking (30 min)
	MC: Oliver Smith, Money20/20	MC: Alison Donnelly, fscom
11:30	AI IN ACTION PANEL: From Copilots to Agents: What’s Actually Ready to Run Your Workflows Moderator: Sophia Furber, Fintech Research Analyst, S&P Global Sean Hederman, CTO, Zilch Neil Lathia, CTO, Gradient Labs	REGULATION REIMAGINED PANEL: Turning Compliance into a Growth Strategy Moderator: Amanda Harrison, Senior Advisor, fscom Ashley O’Reilly, Head of Growth, Corlytics Jared Taylor-Davies, Director of Financial Services, Bain
12:00	AI IN ACTION PANEL: The AI Product Decision: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Leave Alone Moderator: Oliver Smith, Money20/20 David Weinstein, Co-Founder & CEO, KayOS Sasha Haco, Co-Founder & CEO, Unitary AI Chris Corbett, Head of Product, Plaid	REGULATION REIMAGINED PANEL: RegTech That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Checkbox Compliance Moderator: Amanda Harrison, Senior Advisor, fscom Francis Mariniere, Compliance Director, Moody’s Marius Jurgilas, Axiology
12:30	AI IN ACTION PANEL: Measuring AI ROI: The Metrics That Tell You Whether It’s Actually Working Moderator: Dan Poh, Lytte AI Mike Shebalkov, Product Director, Wise Jas Shah, Founder, Bitsul Moushami Verma, Senior AI Lead CDAIO, Santander	REGULATION REIMAGINED PANEL: Cross-Border Compliance: How to Scale Across Jurisdictions Without Doubling Your Legal Bill Moderator: Laura Collins, Senior Associate, CMS Ori Kissos, Head of Compliance & MLRO, payabl. Jack Miles, Chief Risk Officer, Interpolitan Money
13:00	Networking Lunch (60 min)
	MC: Ian Horne	MC: David Barton-Grimley
14:00	CONVERGENCE PANEL: DeFi Is Not Dead: What Decentralised Finance Actually Offers Fintech Builders Now Moderator: Neha Reiss Andrew Forson, Founder, DeFi Technologies Marieke Flament, Co-Founder, Currency of Power Louisa Murray, Chief Strategy Officer, FRAME	TRUST AS CURRENCY PANEL: The Fraud and Compliance Paradox: How Safe is Too Safe? Moderator: Nicole Heringer, VP of Brand & Comms, Enfuce Daniel Alter, Enfuce Rebecca James, Director, Featurespace Steve McGowan, Head of Compliance, allpay
14:30	CONVERGENCE FIRESIDE: The End of the TradFi/Crypto Divide Moderator: Georgia Hanias, Ecology Media Fahmi Syed, President, Midnight Foundation Mintoo Bhandari, Founder, Monument Bank	TRUST AS CURRENCY FIRESIDE: The Deepfake Economy: Defending Against AI-Driven Fraud and Identity Cloning Moderator: Oliver Smith, Money20/20 Peter Griffin, CEO, Aviel
15:00	CONVERGENCE PANEL: Stablecoins, Dollar Dominance, and the New Financial Order Moderator: Marieke Flament, Co-Founder, Currency of Power Seny Orlov, Chief Business Officer, RealFi Emma Mayer, CMO, BVNK	TRUST AS CURRENCY PANEL: The Trust Stack: Building Security Customers Can Actually Feel Moderator: Gina Clarke Ken Hart, CEO & Founder, Snowdrop Solutions Charith Mendis, AWS
15:30	Coffee & Networking (30 min)
	MC: Ian Horne	MC: David Barton-Grimley
16:00	CONVERGENCE PANEL: When AI Agents Need Wallets Moderator: Irina Chuchkina Ali Minaei, Co-Founder & CTO, Gr4vy Charlotte Laborde, Director, Partner Growth, Moonpay Dea Markova, Director of Policy, Fireblocks	TRUST AS CURRENCY PANEL: Operational Resilience: Meeting the Regulator’s Bar Without Slowing Down Moderator: Sarah Jones, Fintech Wales Timothy Ruangvoravat, PwC Imran Ali, Form3 Sergiu Negut, FintechOS
16:30	CONVERGENCE PANEL: Real World Assets: The Tokenisation Opportunity Fintechs Are Sleeping On Moderator: Natalie Oestmann Anas Rafi, Mint Digital Steve Delpy	TRUST AS CURRENCY PANEL: Proving Who You Are Without Killing the Experience: The New Identity Verification Standard Moderator: Daniel Lowther, Hoffman Jaye Hackett, Vouchsafe Rebecca James, Director, FeatureSpace Mitch Trehan, Chief Compliance Officer, Allica Bank
17:00 – 10.30	Evening Networking & Drinks (120 min) THE GREAT DEBATE Will Agents Drive Our Economy? Debate 1: “By 2035, your AI agent will strike a better deal than you ever could.” Debate 2: “By 2035, AI agents will conduct more transactions than humans.” Debate 3: “By 2035, brands will sell to machines, not people.” Agent Provacateur Ian Horne, Author – Why Defi Matters / Let Fintech Grow, Team Blue Captain: Laura McCracken, CEO, the Board Alchemist Debator 1: Jovi Overo, Group CEO of ONE.io Debator 2: Jeff Parker, CEO, Paymentology Team Pink Captain: Nathalie Oestmann, Partner, Mangosteen Advisory Debator 1: David Barton-Grimley, Head of New Bets, Cleo Debator 2: Océane Codjia, Head of EMEA Stablecoin Payments @Coinbase

dAY 2 - Thursday 10 sep

Scale, Growth, Infrastructure & 'lONDON FINTECH SHOWCASE'

Day two gets into the decisions that drive growth: the infrastructure and stack decisions you can’t undo, go-to-market strategy, the marketing that underpins it all and a showcase of London’s finest fintechs.

Time	Room 1	Room 2
08:30	Registration & Coffee (45 min)
09:15	HOST WELCOME Calypso Harland, CEO & Founder, Fintech Fringe
09:30	BUILT TO SCALE KEYNOTE: Bringing the Future of Finance to the UK Keith Grose, UK CEO, Coinbase
	MC: Ian Horne	MC: Gina Clarke, The Fintech Times
10:00	BUILT TO SCALE PANEL: Capital is Coming Back: Fintech IPOs, M&A and Exits Moderator: Karen Allan, Partner, HaysMac Neil Shah, Director, Tech Sector Specialist, London Stock Exchange Group David Butcher, Head of Fintech & Cyber, London & Partners	ARCHITECTING PANEL: Rethinking Core Infrastructure: The Stack Decisions You Can’t Undo Moderator: Gina Clarke, The Fintech Times Sameer Dubey, Head of Banking Product, Metro Bank Ian Slater, EVP, Mastercard
10:30	BUILT TO SCALE PANEL: From UK to Europe to Global: The Expansion Playbook Moderator: Alexis Akwagyiram, Managing Editor, Semafor Africa Irina Chuckina Nicky Goulimis, Co-Founder, Tunic Pay Ridwan Olalere, CEO, LemFi Ms. Huynh Thanh Tuyen (Jamie), Director, International Financial Centre Vietnam	ARCHITECTING PANEL: API First: Building for the Embedded Finance Era Moderator: Ryan Woods, StartedPR Greg Pitsali, Head of Institutions EMEA, Lorum Rehana Mitha, Edenred Payment Solutions Kaley Addo, Head of UK Operations, Upvest
11:00	Coffee & Networking (20 min)
	MC: Ian Horne	MC: Gina Clarke, The Fintech Times
11:30	BUILT TO SCALE FIRESIDE: The Embedded Distribution Play: Reaching Customers Through Other People’s Platforms Moderator: Olivia Minnock, Embedded Finance Partnerships, New Day Sam Goodenough, CTO & Co-Founder, Stoa Andrew Ellis, NatWest Boxed Sadra Hosseini, CEO, Ryft Payments	ARCHITECTING PANEL: Data as a Moat: Why Your Architecture Is Your Competitive Advantage Moderator: Kristina Mydlar, Founder and CEO, Mydlar Consulting Limited Mark Dearman, VP Banking, FintechOS Sheila Mitham, Co-CEO, Evara
12:00	BUILT TO SCALE PANEL: Operating Model Design: Building the Structure That Scales With You Moderator: Darren Emery, Partner & Transformation Lead, Agilicist Jeff Parker, CEO, Paymentology Yasemin Swanson, COO, OpenPayd	ARCHITECTING PANEL: Tech First: Making the Infrastructure Decision Before It Makes Itself Moderator: Aditi Subbarao, Financial Services, Snowflake Moushami Verma, Senior AI Lead, CDAIO, Santander Edward Wilde, CTO, Form3
12:30	BUILT TO SCALE PANEL: The People Problem: Hiring, Culture and Leadership at Scale Moderator: Sarah Jones, FinTech Wales Jo Dewar, Project Nemo Jim McDougall, Chief People Officer, Rocks Fuel Tim Kimball, CTO, Confused.com	ARCHITECTING PANEL: Build or Buy? The Operating Decisions That Define Category Leaders Moderator: Kimberley Long, Asia Editor, The Banker Ali Minei, Gr4vy
13:00	Networking Lunch (40 min)
	MC: Calypso Harland, CEO & Founder, Fintech Fringe
14:00 – 15:30	ONES TO WATCH: THE AI VANGUARD A rapid-pitch showcase of London’s most AI-native fintech founders, CEO and founder-led companies building the products defining agentic finance, from automated credit decisioning to AI-powered payments infrastructure. Expect fast funding stories, sharp pitches, and the names investors are watching closest right now.
15:30	Coffee & Networking (20 min)
	MC: Calypso Harland, CEO & Founder, Fintech Fringe
16:00 – 17:30	ONES TO WATCH: BEYOND AI The afternoon widens out from AI-native pure-plays to London’s broader growth stories, founder and CEO-led companies using AI as a growth lever rather than their whole product. A rapid-pitch showcase spanning embedded finance, wealthtech, and payments infrastructure, each one a genuine contender for the next wave of London fintech success.
17:30	Event Networking & Drinks: Smiths of Smithfields: 67-77 Charterhouse St, London EC1M 6HJ

"Reflecting on a great few days at FTWL... This week we have learnt lots, gained new connections and most importantly I have a lot of motivation and inspiration moving into next week!"

"Now that was a productive, thought provoking and well organised event. Thanks ... for pulling it all together."

"We thought this was a great opportunity to meet with other organsiations that we could potentially partner with. It's been very, very well organised and it's a very quick way to get 10-15 minutes chats with some of the Vice Presidents here."

aLWAYS PRACTICAL, ALWAYS PRAGMATIC

AGENDA

DESIGNED TO SUPERCHARGE GROWTH

Built for Fintechs, Banks, and Enterprises That Are Serious About Scale.

dAY 1 - Wednesday 09 sep

AI, Convergence, REGULATION & Trust

Day one goes deep on the forces reshaping fintech from the inside: AI as a competitive edge, the regulatory environment you need to get ahead of, the fintech/crypto convergence that’s closer than most people think, and the trust that takes years to build and seconds to lose.

Registration & Coffee (45 min)

HOST WELCOME

AI IN ACTION

KEYNOTE: Building Britain’s AI Future

MC: Ian Horne

MC: Alison Donnelly, fscom

AI IN ACTION

FIRESIDE: When AI Becomes Your Competitor: Rebuilding Your Moat

REGULATION REIMAGINED

PANEL: Inside the Regulatory Sandbox: How Live AI Testing Is Already Changing the Rules

AI IN ACTION

PANEL: Who Signs Off on the Agent? Building AI Governance That Doesn’t Slow You Down

REGULATION REIMAGINED

PANEL: Open Finance Is Here: What the New Data Rules Mean for Your Product Strategy

Coffee & Networking (30 min)

MC: Oliver Smith, Money20/20

MC: Alison Donnelly, fscom

AI IN ACTION

PANEL: From Copilots to Agents: What’s Actually Ready to Run Your Workflows

REGULATION REIMAGINED

PANEL: Turning Compliance into a Growth Strategy

AI IN ACTION

PANEL: The AI Product Decision: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Leave Alone

REGULATION REIMAGINED

PANEL: RegTech That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Checkbox Compliance

AI IN ACTION

PANEL: Measuring AI ROI: The Metrics That Tell You Whether It’s Actually Working

REGULATION REIMAGINED

PANEL: Cross-Border Compliance: How to Scale Across Jurisdictions Without Doubling Your Legal Bill

Networking Lunch (60 min)

MC: Ian Horne

MC: David Barton-Grimley

CONVERGENCE

PANEL: DeFi Is Not Dead: What Decentralised Finance Actually Offers Fintech Builders Now

TRUST AS CURRENCY

PANEL: The Fraud and Compliance Paradox: How Safe is Too Safe?

CONVERGENCE

FIRESIDE: The End of the TradFi/Crypto Divide

TRUST AS CURRENCY

FIRESIDE: The Deepfake Economy: Defending Against AI-Driven Fraud and Identity Cloning

CONVERGENCE

PANEL: Stablecoins, Dollar Dominance, and the New Financial Order

TRUST AS CURRENCY

PANEL: The Trust Stack: Building Security Customers Can Actually Feel

Coffee & Networking (30 min)

MC: Ian Horne

MC: David Barton-Grimley

CONVERGENCE

PANEL: When AI Agents Need Wallets

TRUST AS CURRENCY

PANEL: Operational Resilience: Meeting the Regulator’s Bar Without Slowing Down

CONVERGENCE

PANEL: Real World Assets: The Tokenisation Opportunity Fintechs Are Sleeping On

TRUST AS CURRENCY

PANEL: Proving Who You Are Without Killing the Experience: The New Identity Verification Standard

Evening Networking & Drinks (120 min)

THE GREAT DEBATE

Will Agents Drive Our Economy?

Agent Provacateur

​Team Blue

​Team Pink

dAY 2 - Thursday 10 sep

Scale, Growth, Infrastructure & 'lONDON FINTECH SHOWCASE'

Day two gets into the decisions that drive growth: the infrastructure and stack decisions you can’t undo, go-to-market strategy, the marketing that underpins it all and a showcase of London’s finest fintechs.

Registration & Coffee (45 min)

HOST WELCOME

BUILT TO SCALE

KEYNOTE: Bringing the Future of Finance to the UK

MC: Ian Horne

MC: Gina Clarke, The Fintech Times

BUILT TO SCALE

PANEL: Capital is Coming Back: Fintech IPOs, M&A and Exits

ARCHITECTING

Team Blue

Team Pink