
Event
Financial Services & Insurance
Symposium
Dock Gallery, Tobacco Docks, Wapping Lane, London E1W 2SF

Wednesday 2nd November | 1:00 PM
Join the era of customer-centric services, more sustainable investing and open banking models that unlock new revenue streams
Want to engage with your peers and uncover how your organisation can unleash the potential of data and AI? Join our Financial Services Symposium to hear from leading global brands across banking, insurance, capital markets and fintech on how they are delivering innovative data and AI use cases, with solutions like open source collaboration and the modern data lakehouse in the cloud.
You’ll have a chance to join engaging panel discussions and interactive demos on the latest data, analytics and AI technologies.
AGENDA (GMT)
1:00 – 2:00 PM | Networking Lunch
2:00 – 2:25 PM | Lakehouse for Financial Services: The Future Is Open
2:25 – 2:45 PM | Customer keynote: Allianz
2:45 - 3:00 PM | Customer keynote: Tide
3:15 – 3:15 PM | Data Collaboration in Financial Services
3:15 – 3:45 PM | Break
3:45 – 4:10 PM | Breakout sessions
- Using the cloud to address ESG and Sustainability priorities by AWS
- The Future of Financial Services powered by data and ai by Accenture
4:15 – 4:35 PM | Analyst keynote: Mike Ferguson
4:35 - 5:00 PM | Fireside Chat: Chip
5:00 - 6:00 PM | Networking cocktails
Breakout sessions hosted by:

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Speakers

Dael Williamson
Field CTO, EMEA
Databricks

Jai Bhankharia
Senior Director Senior Director, Data Partnerships
Databricks

Phil Chadney
ESG Lead, Financial Services Business Developments
AWS

Ilan Gleiser
Principal, Impact Computing Specialist
AWS

Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Head of Data Engineering
Chip

Paul McComish
Senior Data Engineering Manager
Allianz

Hendrik Brackman
VP Data
Tide

Mike Ferguson
CEO
Intelligent Business Strategies Limited

Courtney Jucht
Director, Field Engineering - Databricks
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