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
09:00	OPENING KEYNOTE Building Britain’s AI Future Rt Hon. Kanishka Narayan MP, Minister of AI
09:30 – 11.00	AI IN ACTION – Part 1 — KEYNOTE The Human and AI Balance: Where Automation Ends and Judgement Begins TBC — FIRESIDE When AI Becomes Your Competitor: Rebuilding Your Moat Moderator: Michael Cherepnin, Partner, EJF Ventures Charith Mendis, Head of Worldwide Banking, AWS — PANEL Who Signs Off on the Agent? Building AI Governance That Doesn’t Slow You Down Moderator: Marieke Flament, Independent Board Director, Strategic Advisor & Co-Author, Currency of Power Sandi Samantary, Founder & Regulated-AI Specialist, Vyaya AI	REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 1 — KEYNOTE Consumer Duty: Who’s Winning and Why — 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 Henrike Mueller, Manager, AI Strategy Team Ehsan Faridifar, Co-Founder & Chief Product and Data Officer, Serene — PANEL Open Finance Is Here: What the New Data Rules Mean for Your Product Strategy Moderator: Ellie Duncan, Head of Content, Open Banking Expo Andrew Self, Head of Open Banking, FCA Huw Davies, CEO & Co-Founder, OzoneAPI
11:00 – 11.30	COFFEE & NETWORKING
11:30 – 13.00	AI IN ACTION – Part 2 — PANEL From Copilots to Agents: What’s Actually Ready to Run Your Workflows Sophia Furber, Fintech Research Analyst, EMEA, S&P Global Sean Hederman, Chief Technology Officer, Zilch Neal Lathia, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Gradient Labs — PANEL The AI Product Decision: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Leave Alone Moderator: Oliver Smith, Head of Content, Money 20/20 Sasha Haco, CEO & Co-Founder, Unitary AI Chris Corbett, Head of Product, Plaid David Weinstein, Co-Founder & CEO, KayOS — PANEL Measuring AI ROI: The Metrics That Tell You Whether It’s Actually Working Moderator: Dan Poh, CEO, Lytte AI Mike Shebalkov, Product Director, Wise Jas Shah, Founder, Product expert, Author, Fintech: under the hood Moushami Verma, Senior AI Lead, CDAIO, Santander	REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 2 — PANEL Turning Compliance into a Growth Strategy Moderator: Alison Donnelly, Head of Payments, fscom Ashley O’Reilly, Head of Account Management, Corlytics Jared Taylor-Davies, Director, Bain & Company — PANEL RegTech That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Checkbox Compliance Moderator: Amanda Harrison, fscom Marius Jurgilas, Chief Executive Officer, Axiology Franics Mariniere, Compliance Director, Moody’s — PANEL Cross-Border Compliance: How to Scale Across Jurisdictions Without Doubling Your Legal Bill Ori Kissos, Head of Compliance and MLRO, payabl Laura Collins, Senior Associate, CMS Jack Miles, Chief Risk Officer, Interpolitan Money
13:00 – 14.00	NETWORKING LUNCH
14:00 – 15.30	THE CONVERGENCE – Part 1 — KEYNOTE Putting You in Control: Bringing the Future of Finance to the UK Keith Grose, UK CEO, Coinbase — FIRESIDE The End of the TradFi/Crypto Divide Moderator: Georgia Hanias, CEO, Ecology Media Fahmi Syed, President, Midnight Foundation — PANEL Stablecoins Go Mainstream: What Consumer Adoption Actually Looks Like Moderator: Marieke Flament, Independent Board Director, Strategic Advisor & Co-Author Currency of Power Emma Mayer, CMO, BVNK Seny Orlov, Chief Business Officer, RealFi	TRUST AS CURRENCY – Part 1 — PANEL The Fraud and Compliance Paradox: How Safe is Too Safe? Moderator: Nicole Heringer, VP Brand & Comms, Enfuce Rebecca James, Director, Featurespace Daniel Alter, CRO, Enfuce Steve McGowan, Head of Compliance, allpay — FIRESIDE The Deepfake Economy: Defending Against AI-Driven Fraud and Identity Cloning Oliver Smith, Head of Content, Money 20/20 Peter Griffin, CGO & Co-Founder, Aviel — PANEL The Trust Stack: Building Security Customers Can Actually Feel Moderator: Gina Clarke, Events Correspondant, The Fintech Times Ken Hart, CEO & Co-Founder, Snowdrop Solutions Charith Mendis, Head of Worldwide Banking, AWS
15:30 – 16.00	COFFEE & NETWORKING
16:00-17.30	THE CONVERGENCE – Part 2 — PANEL When AI Agents Need Wallets Moderator: Irina Chuchkina Ali Minaei, Co-Founder & CTO, Gr4vy Charlotte Laborde, Director, Partner Growth, Moonpay Dea Markova, Head of Policy, Fireblocks — PANEL Real World Assets: The Tokenisation Opportunity Fintechs Are Sleeping On Steve Delpy, Chief Banking Officer, ARF Natalie Oestmann, Partner, Mangosteen Advisory Anas Rafi, Co-Founder, Mint Digital — PANEL DeFi Is Not Dead: What Decentralised Finance Actually Offers Fintech Builders Now Moderator: Neha Reiss, Treasurer, Ex-Monzo Marieke Flament, Independent Board Director, Strategic Advisor & Co-Author Currency of Power Andrew Forson, President, DeFi Technologies Louisa Murray, Chief Strategy Officer, FRAME	TRUST AS CURRENCY – Part 2 — PANEL Operational Resilience: Meeting the Regulator’s Bar Without Slowing Down Imran Ali, Product Strategy – New Markets, Form3 — PANEL Proving Who You Are Without Killing the Experience: The New Identity Verification Standard Daniel Lowther, SVP & Head of Fintech, Hoffman Jaye Hackett, Chief Technology Officer, Vouchsafe Munish (Mitch) Trehan, Chief Compliance Officer, Alicia Bank — PANEL Third-Party Risk: Managing the Security Gaps You Didn’t Build Yourself Sarah Jones, CEO, Fintech Wales Timothy Ruangvoravat, Director, PWC
17:30	EVENING NETWORKING & DRINKS

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
09:00	OPENING KEYNOTE
09:30 – 11.00	BUILT TO SCALE — Sovereign AI: Powering Tomorrow’s AI Leaders Today — London’s Fintech Champions: CEOs and Founders share how they are deploying AI for market advantage — Capital is coming back: : Fintech IPOs, M&A and Exits Neil Shah, Head of Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange Group	ARCHITECTING Rethinking Core Infrastructure: The Stack Decisions You Can’t Undo Moderator: Gina Clarke, Events Correspondant, The Fintech Times Sameer Dubey, Head of Banking Product, Metro Bank Ian Slater, EVP, Mastercard API First: Building for the Embedded Finance Era Kaley Addo, Head of UK Operations, Upvest Rehana Mitha, Managing Director, Edenred Payment Solutions Ryan Woods, Head of Strategy, StartedPR Gregg Pitsiali, Head of Institutions EMEA, Lorum Build or Buy? The Operating Decisions That Define Category Leaders Ali Minaei, Co-Founder & CTO, Gr4vy Nick Perrett, Founder & CEO, Prosper Kimberley Long, Asia Editor, The Banker
11:00 – 11.30	COFFEE & NETWORKING
11:30 – 13.00	BUILT TO SCALE — PANEL From UK to Europe to Global: The Expansion Playbook Moderator: Alexis Akwagyiram, Managing Editor, Semafor Africa Irina Chuckina, Fintech Growth & Marketing Advisor, Independant Nicky Goulimis, Co-Founder & CEO, Tunic Pay Ridwan Olalere, CEO, LemFi — PANEL Operating Model Design: Building the Structure That Scales With You Jeff Parker, CEO, Paymentology Yasemin Swanson, COO, OpenPayd Darren Emery, Partner & Transformation Lead, Agilicist — PANEL The People Problem: Hiring, Culture and Leadership at Scale Moderator: Sarah Jones, CEO, Fintech Wales Jo Dewar, CEO, Project Nemo Jim MacDougall, Chief People Officer, Rocks Fuel Tim Kimball, CTO, Confused.com	ARCHITECTING — PANEL Data as a Moat: Why Your Architecture Is Your Competitive Advantage Kristina Mydlar, Founder & CEO, Mydlar Consulting Limited Sheila Mitham, Co-Ceo, Evara Mark Dearman, VP Banking, Fintech OS — PANEL Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid: Making the Infrastructure Decision Before It Makes Itself Edward Wilde, CTO, Form3 Aditi Subbarao, Financial Services, Snowflake Moushami Verma, Senior AI Lead, CDAIO —
13:00 – 14.00	NETWORKING LUNCH
14:00 – 15.30	ONES TO WATCH: THE AI VANGUARD — SHOWCASE A rapid-pitch showcase of London’s most AI-native fintech founders building the products defining agentic finance	THE GROWTH ENGINE – Part 1 — FIRESIDE Why Safe Marketing Is Killing Your Growth Georgia Scott, Director of Integrated Marketing, Monzo — PANEL Marketing to Machines: When AI Does the Research and Makes the Decision — The Embedded Distribution Play: Reaching Customers Through Other People’s Platforms Moderator: Olivia Minnock, Embedded Finance Partnerships, New day Andrew Ellis, CEO, Natwest Boxed Sadra Hosseini, CEO, Ryft Payments Sam Goodenough, CTO & Co-Founder, Stoa
15:30 – 16.00	COFFEE & NETWORKING
16:00 – 17.30	ONES TO WATCH: BEYOND AI — SHOWCASE 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	THE GROWTH ENGINE – Part 2 — Google Built You a Front Door. AI Just Bricked It Up. — The Agent That Worked, The Agent We Killed — The Human Premium: What AI Still Can’t Fake

"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.

09:00

OPENING KEYNOTE

Building Britain’s AI Future

09:30 – 11.00

AI IN ACTION – Part 1

—

KEYNOTE

The Human and AI Balance: Where Automation Ends and Judgement Begins

—

FIRESIDE

When AI Becomes Your Competitor: Rebuilding Your Moat

—

PANEL

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

REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 1

—

KEYNOTE

Consumer Duty: Who’s Winning and Why

—

PANEL

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

PANEL

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

11:00 – 11.30

COFFEE & NETWORKING

11:30 – 13.00

AI IN ACTION – Part 2

—

PANEL

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

—

PANEL

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

—

PANEL

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

REGULATION REIMAGINED – Part 2

—

PANEL

Turning Compliance into a Growth Strategy

—

PANEL

RegTech That Actually Works: Moving Beyond Checkbox Compliance

—

PANEL

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

13:00 – 14.00

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00 – 15.30

THE CONVERGENCE – Part 1

—

KEYNOTE

Putting You in Control: Bringing the Future of Finance to the UK

—

FIRESIDE

The End of the TradFi/Crypto Divide

—

PANEL

Stablecoins Go Mainstream: What Consumer Adoption Actually Looks Like

TRUST AS CURRENCY – Part 1

—

PANEL

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

—

FIRESIDE

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

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PANEL

The Trust Stack: Building Security Customers Can Actually Feel

15:30 – 16.00

COFFEE & NETWORKING

16:00-17.30

THE CONVERGENCE – Part 2