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Digital Transformation

Building the Next Generation of Financial Services

FinTech Connect Digital Transformation track session
2026 Track Narrative

Modern finance is being rebuilt around resilience, third party dependencies, and cross border oversight. This stage is where CIOs, CTOs, architects, and transformation leaders get the playbook for 2027: how to modernise core platforms, cloud operating models, and vendor ecosystems in a world where critical ICT providers are now formally designated and supervised, and where EU-UK cooperation is structured for coordinated oversight during incidents.

Who Attends This Track

Chief Technology Officer
Chief Digital Officer
Chief Information Officer
Head of Engineering
Head of Architecture
Head of Cloud
Head of Platform Engineering
Head of DevOps
Head of Core Banking Transformation
Head of Digital Banking
VP / Director, Technology Strategy
Head of Engineering Productivity
Head of Open Banking Technology
Head of AI Engineering

Key Attendee Benefits

01

Benchmark digital transformation strategy approaches against leading UK and global banks, including Lloyds, Commerzbank, MUFG, NatWest and more

02

Hear honest case studies on core banking modernisation and how change is being implemented across enterprises

03

Get a clearer view of where cloud-native adoption is delivering in regulated environments, and where it is still struggling

04

Explore practical ways to manage tech debt at scale without sacrificing delivery speed

05

Understand what the future of best practice legacy modernisation looks like from a range of stakeholders, including big bank transformation leaders and fintech pioneers

06

Understand how open banking APIs, API design patterns and real-time payment infrastructure are changing financial services architecture

07

Evaluate when AI coding tools can improve engineering performance, and where regulated teams need tighter controls

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Digital Transformation

Primary Content Themes

01

Tech debt management and modernisation at scale in financial institutions

02

Cloud-native architecture and DevOps in regulated environments

03

Is there an EQ deficit for AI and digital leaders? The challenge of stakeholder management

04

AI-assisted development: opportunities and risks for financial services engineering

05

Are partnerships back in fashion for banking? A conversation on the banking-vendor relationship

06

Security in the scale: building a safer foundation for digital transformation

07

Neobank and challenger bank architecture: what traditional banks can adopt

08

Edge computing and data sovereignty in financial services

Past Delegations Include

Lloyds Bank
JP Morgan
HSBC
NatWest
Santander UK
BNY Pershing
Microsoft
Google
IBM
Red Hat
Bain & Company
GitLab
Fidelity International
Nordea
Innovate Finance
TSB Bank
Backbase
Allica Bank
Moneycorp
Codat
Wise