EVENT DETAILS
Building on the work of the Artificial Intelligence Public Private Forum, convened by the Bank of England and the FCA, the Regulation and Risk Management of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services Summit will focus on how best to adapt regulation and best practice risk management to facilitate increased use of AI in financial services, with specific reference to model risk management, data protection and standards, strategic boardroom issues, governance, ethics and the role of senior management.
We are delighted that Chris Philp MP, Minister for Digital Infrastructure, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has agreed to give the opening keynote address at the summit.
Other confirmed speakers include:
- Varun Paul, Co-Head of the Fintech Hub, Bank of England
- Stephen Bonner, Executive Director of Regulatory Futures and Innovation, UK Information Commissioner's Office
- Lukasz Szpruch, Director of Finance and Economics Programme, The Alan Turing Institute
- Julian Cunningham-Day, TMT Partner, Global Co-head of Fintech, Linklaters
- Sarah Gadd, Head of Semantic Technology, Analytics and Machine Intelligence, Credit Suisse
- Rachel Kirkham, Executive Director, Audit and Risk Analytics, Mindbridge AI
- Shameek Kundu, Head of Financial Services and Chief Strategy Office, TruEra
- Gwilym Morrison, Senior Analytics Manager, Royal London
- Adri Purkayastha, Group Head of AI & Digital Risk Analytics, BNP Paribas
- Kate Rosenshine, Global Technology Lead - Unicorns & Scale-ups, Microsoft UK
- Neil Taylor, Vice President Data Strategy, Mastercard
- Professor Philip Treleaven, Director of the UK Centre for Financial Computing and Analytics and Professor of Computing, UCL
- Dr Adrian Weller, Programme Director for AI, The Alan Turing Institute and Member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)
The programme covers a wide range of highly topical issues including:
- The government’s AI strategy
- The conclusions of the Artificial Intelligence Public-Private Forum
- AI in financial services – current status and future potential
- How AI in financial services is regulated in the UK
- The EU’s proposed rules for AI in financial services
- AI model risk management and the regulatory framework
- The US approach to regulating AI in financial services
- AI and the implications for data protection
- AI at the boardroom level: understanding the strategic issues
- Data quality standards and regulation
- Data governance, ethics and culture
- Developing an AI governance framework and the role of senior management
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For more information, please get in touch with the below Secretariat Team.
James Challinor
James Challinor
James leads our financial services programme of activity. He works closely with member firms from across the sector to ensure innovation and technology are fully harnessed and embraced by both industry and regulators.
Prior to joining us James worked at other business organisations including TheCityUK and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in roles focused on supporting the financial & related professional services eco-system, with a particular focus on financial technology and market infrastructure.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-challinor-105212177/
Lourdes de Miguel
Lourdes de Miguel
Lourdes de Miguel joined techUK in January 2026 as a Junior Programme Manager in the Financial Services and SME Engagement programmes.
Lourdes supports the financial service programme’s mission of connecting firms from across the ecosystem to ensure innovation and technology can be fully harnessed by financial services. She also assists the SME team to help members meet, network and collaborate with their peers, industry leaders and customers.
Prior to joining techUK, Lourdes gained experience in research, finance, and stakeholder engagement across several organisations. Starting off at Elcano Royal Institute in Brussels, she supported seminar creation and event organization engaging with key policymakers and industry leaders developing an understanding of European policymaking. She later joined Swift, assisting the Industry Engagement team to build connections with Central Banks and other international bodies as well as developing research on macroeconomic topics.
Lourdes holds a BA (with honours) in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick.
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach
Lucas Banach is Programme Assistant at techUK, he works on a range of programmes including Data Centres; Climate, Environment & Sustainability; Market Access and Smart Infrastructure and Systems.
Before that Lucas who joined in 2008, held various roles in our organisation, which included his role as Office Executive, Groups and Concept Viability Administrator, and most recently he worked as Programme Executive for Public Sector. He has a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2006
- Twitter:
- @techUK
- Website:
- www.techuk.org
- LinkedIn:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-banach-50139650
