Financial Cloud Summit: three builds to success

Providing financial institutions with a recipe for success, the Finextra Financial Cloud Series Conference will help financial leaders formulate an actionable cloud strategy that aligns with business needs.

By demonstrating the cloud’s importance beyond the IT and technology departments, this agenda forms a method for creating a cloud strategy, migrating to the cloud, and optimising existing cloud processes, answering commonly asked questions about the cloud.

The agenda is therefore split into what the Finextra community perceives as the three core stages of cloud usage: Strategy, Migration and Optimisation.

Users of the cloud in a financial context are encouraged to join sessions with their cross-departmental colleagues to ensure that they leave with a solid holistic transformation plan of action, across these three core stages.

Plan and select, Connect and consume, Budget and secure.

Choose and validate, Adapt and communicate, Support and manage.

Identify and consolidate, Tailor and innovate, Equip and improve.

Agenda

08:30 - 09:30

Registration and breakfast

09:30 - 09:40

HEADLINE keynote: What does success look like?

What do you need to do to succeed? How can you measure your performance? How can you be a part of the ecosystem?

Piers Linney
Piers Linney

Entrepreneur and Investor, Founder and CEO, Moblox

Gary Wright
Moderator Gary Wright

Head of Research, Finextra

09:40 - 09:50

STRATEGISE keynote: Do you need cloud?

Do you need cloud for everything? What can you do with what you currently have? What are your company’s goals and how can the cloud help you achieve them?

Avinash Kumar
Avinash Kumar

Product Director, Temenos Banking Cloud

Gary Wright
Moderator Gary Wright

Head of Research, Finextra

09:50 - 10:00

MIGRATE keynote: Cloud migration: What does success look like?

Which cloud migration model is the best for you? Rehosting, replatforming, repurchasing, refactoring, retiring, or retaining?

Orlando Fernández
Orlando Fernández

Senior Technical Specialist, Recovery, Resolution & Resilience, Prudential Policy Directorate, Bank of England

Gary Wright
Moderator Gary Wright

Head of Research, Finextra

10:00 - 10:10

OPTIMISE keynote: Hybrid cloud strategies: Doing more for less

What are the tangible things you can do to optimise your IT, making it a value engine for your business, rather than a cost that inhibits growth?

Ben Scowen
Ben Scowen

VP of Cloud and Core Enterprise, Kyndryl UK & Ireland

Gary Wright
Moderator Gary Wright

Head of Research, Finextra

10:10 - 10:50

STRATEGISE panel: Digital transformation: The logic behind change

How can you connect your cloud strategy to your plans for digital transformation? How can issues such as cost transparency, visibility, budgeting, and predictability be resolved up front?

Siki Giunta
Siki Giunta

Executive Vice President, CloudSMART Offerings Strategy, Industry Cloud Consulting, HCLTech

Sonia Greenberg
Sonia Greenberg

Associate Director, Cloud and Managed Services, FactSet

Paige McNamee
Moderator Paige McNamee

Reporter, Finextra

10:50 - 11:20

Coffee break and networking

11:20 - 12:00

STRATEGISE panel: Security: Aligning partners with strategy

How can you balance trust with providers? How can you get out of a cloud decision? How can you ensure data ownership, portability and lock-in at the data level?

Stewart Davies
Stewart Davies

Global SaaS Commercial Director, Temenos

Andy Sturrock
Andy Sturrock

CTO, Atom Bank

Niamh Curran
Moderator Niamh Curran

Reporter, Finextra

12:00 - 12:40

MIGRATE fireside chat: Agility and scalability: Validating post-migration success

How can you calculate your cloud server requirements to ensure you avoid buying more than you need? How can you consider agility, scalability, and disaster recovery all at the same time?

Neil Robinson
Neil Robinson

Senior Operations and Change Management Director, OakNorth

Madhvi Mavadiya
Moderator Madhvi Mavadiya

Head of Content, Finextra

12:40 - 13:55

Lunch and networking

13:55 - 14:35

MIGRATE panel: Customer experience: Keeping pace with demand

How can you strike the balance between migration processes taking servers temporarily offline, ensuring data does not become unavailable or at risk of breach and keep pace with loyalty or personalisation initiatives?

Martin Bradbury
Martin Bradbury

Regional Director, Financial Services Industry, Dynatrace

Ange Johnson De Wet
Ange Johnson De Wet

Cloud Enabled Business Transformation - Head of Function, Lloyds Banking Group

Monica Sasso
Monica Sasso

EMEA FSI Chief Technologist, Red Hat

Paige McNamee
Moderator Paige McNamee

Reporter, Finextra

14:35 - 15:15

OPTIMISE panel: BaaS: Entering new and niche markets

How can embedded finance and banking as a service help to transform the backbone of business operations? How can you diversify?

Billy Ferguson
Billy Ferguson

Chief Technical Officer, Thincats

Avinash Kumar
Avinash Kumar

Product Director, Temenos Banking Cloud

Filipe Teixeira
Filipe Teixeira

Chief Information Officer, illimity Bank

Ainsley Ward
Ainsley Ward

Industry Thought Leader and Business Development Lead, CGI

Niamh Curran
Moderator Niamh Curran

Reporter, Finextra

15:15 - 15:50

Coffee break and networking

15:50 - 16:30

OPTIMISE panel: Technical talent: Fuelling innovation and improving productivity

How can you equip different teams with cross-department skills, improve decision-making time, effectiveness, and how quickly you can deploy recommendations?

Jason Maude
Jason Maude

Chief Technology Advocate, Starling Bank

Mani Nagasundaram
Mani Nagasundaram

Senior Vice President, Head Strategic Initiatives and Cloud Ecosystems, Financial Services, HCLTech

Ben Scowen
Ben Scowen

VP of Cloud and Core Enterprise, Kyndryl UK & Ireland

Charles Wood
Charles Wood

Chief Architect, Mettle

Madhvi Mavadiya
Moderator Madhvi Mavadiya

Head of Content, Finextra

16:30 - 17:30

Drinks reception and networking