The Sovereignty Dividend: How a Competitive AI & Cloud Ecosystem Unlocks UK Financial Services Growth
Strategic summit and launch of techUK's latest industry paper exploring what real competition and choice in AI and cloud means for UK financial services.
About this event
The Sovereignty Dividend: AI, cloud and control in UK financial services
AI, scaled through cloud computing, is transforming UK financial services. But as firms rely more on technology others supply, digital sovereignty has become a defining issue. How can firms keep serving customers if an AI or cloud supplier changes its terms, retires a model or suffers an outage?
Join techUK for the launch of our new report, The Sovereignty Dividend. Built around techUK’s Sovereignty Framework, the report argues that sovereignty lies in the capability, control and choice firms exercise at proportionate cost, not in owning the whole technology stack.
Join industry, government and regulators to discuss how existing market choice can become faster adoption, stronger competition and wider growth.
Sponsored by MariaDB.
Agenda
- 10:00
Opening remarks
- James Challinor, Head - Financial Services and Payments, techUK
- 10:10
Opening keynote
- Nieves Delgado, MariaDB
- 10:25
Panel 1: Control without ownership: staying resilient on global technology
Moderated by James Challinor, explores how firms keep control of global AI and cloud through safeguards they can test and evidence, and how they keep critical services running through disruption.
- 11:00
Second keynote address
- Lucy Rigby MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Labour Party
- 11:15
Panel 2: Making choice real: the route to the Sovereignty Dividend
Moderated by Ksenia Duxfield-Karyakina, looks at what makes market choice easy to use, from evidence that moves with the firm to fairly shared costs, and the growth that follows for firms, UK suppliers and the wider economy.
- 11:55
Closing remarks
James Challinor, Head - Financial Services and Payments, techUK
- 12.00 – 13.00
Networking lunch
Networking lunch
Speakers
James Challinor
Head - Financial Services and Payments
techUK
Nieves Delgado
MariaDB
Lucy Rigby MP
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Labour Party
Partners
Event contacts
James Challinor
Head - Financial Services and Payments
Lourdes De Miguel
Junior Programme Manager - Financial Services & SME Engagement
