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June 21, 2023 | Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG
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Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Agenda
Registration, Badge Collection, Coffee
Opening Remarks
Mark Jopling, Director, AWS Global Financial Services, EMEA & APJ
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Mark joined AWS in Jan 2020 as the Sales Director for Global Financial Services customers head-quartered in EMEA & APAC. Mark was previously CIO for Customer and Colleague Technology at Lloyds Banking Group. Before that Mark held various positions leading business units serving the banking and telecoms industries. He started his career in ExxonMobil and Mars Incorporated. Mark has a PhD and MBA from the University of Warwick and a degree in Electronic Engineering. Mark lives in London with his wife and three children.
Richard Caven, Worldwide Banking Specialist, AWS
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Richard is a Worldwide Banking Specialist at AWS. He is responsible for the development and execution of strategic initiatives to help customers migrate to the cloud and drive their digital transformation journey. Richard joined AWS in 2018 from Barclays where he was a Managing Director and COO for the Global Treasury function.
Regulatory and Compliance Panel Discussion
In this panel, the Bank of England, UK Finance and AWS will be sharing their perspectives on the evolving landscape of regulatory expectations with regards to operational resilience for use of cloud for financial services.
Michael Jefferson, Head of UK Financial Services Public Policy, AWS Financial Services
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Michael is head of UK Financial Services Public Policy at AWS, leading on policy and engagement for issues relating to adoption and use of cloud across the finance sector. He has experience working in technology, trade associations, investment banking and the UK Government.
Before joining AWS, he led on capital markets policy at the Investment Association and prior to that at UK Finance, representing the UK-based banking and finance industry. Previously, he was head of Public Policy EMEA at Nomura and spent the early part of his career as a UK civil servant working on international trade and business issues, including working in the office of the UK Minister for Trade and Investment.
Orlando Fernández Senior Technical Specialist, Recovery, Resolution & Resilience Prudential Policy Directorate Bank of England
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Orlando Fernández is a Senior Technical Specialist at the Recovery, Resolution and Resilience team in the Prudential Policy Directorate of the Bank of England (BoE). He has been with the BoE working on a range of policy areas for over a decade. In his current role, Orlando focuses on third-party risk management. Orlando was one of the authors of the Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) Supervisory Statement on ‘Outsourcing and third-party risk management’ (SS2/21), and the recent Discussion Paper (DP) on ‘Critical Third Parties to the Finance Sector’ issued jointly by the BoE/PRA and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
On the international front, Orlando has represented the BoE at the European Banking Authority (EBA) expert group that produced the 2019 Guidelines on Outsourcing. He is also heavily involved in the Financial Stability Board’s ongoing work in this area, including the 2020 DP on “Regulatory and Supervisory Issues Relating to Outsourcing and Third-Party Relationships” and the proposed follow-up consultative document.
Adam Avards, Principal, Cyber and Third Party Risk, UK Finance
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Adam Avards joined UK Finance in 2022 as Principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk. He leads UK Finance’s engagement on the Critical Third Party regulatory pathway and chairs a number of forums and committees on Cyber Security, Cloud and Risk. Before joining UK Finance, Adam spent over 15 years within the UK’s Intelligence Community, dealing with both physical and digital security policy.
Stephen Martin, Head of Compliance and Security for EMEA and APAC, AWS Financial Services
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Head of Financial Services Compliance and Security for EMEA and APAC. Steve Joined AWS after working for over 20 years in financial service in senior leadership roles with responsibility across ASIA, the Middle East and Europe. At AWS, he support customers as they leverage the scale, security, and agility of AWS to transform the industry.
Coffee & Networking
Build Generative AI solutions for Financial Services on AWS
This session will cover an introduction to Generative AI and its potential use-cases in Financial Services. We will also cover how these use-cases can be implemented on AWS.
Vikesh Pandey, Machine Learning Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS
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Vikesh Pandey is a Machine Learning Specialist Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, helping customers from financial industries around designing and building solution on Generative AI and ML. Outside of work, Vikesh enjoys trying out different cuisines and playing outdoor sports.
Arnav Khare, Principal Solutions Architect for Global Financial Services, AWS
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Arnav is a Principal Solutions Architect for Global Financial Services at AWS. His primary focus is helping Financial Services Institutions build Generative AI and Machine Learning applications in the cloud. Arnav holds an MSc at Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University and has 19 years of industry experience ranging from small startups he founded to large enterprises like Nokia, and Bank of America apart from AWS. Outside of work, Arnav loves spending time with his two daughters, finding new independent coffee shops, reading and traveling.
High Availability at Maximum Velocity: How NatWest delivers Resilient Digital Banking
NatWest Group is a relationship bank for a digital world, serving 19 million people, families, and businesses throughout the U.K. and Ireland. In this session, NatWest details how it migrated it’s mobile platform to a cloud-native microservice based platform, leveraging delivery efficiencies, maximising resource, and cost efficiencies, whilst delivering a highly available and stable service for its end customers. In preparation for combining its mobile and web banking services onto this platform, NatWest leveraged AWS to transform to a multi-region active-active architecture. Learn about NatWest’s multi-region approach to build a highly-resilient and scalable digital platform, mitigate operational risk and achieve a rapid delivery cadence to support business strategies, while meeting the strictest regulatory requirements.
Li Qun Taylor, Head of Digital Channels Technology, Retail Digital X, Natwest Group
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Li Qun leads the award-winning Digital Channels Technology teams at NatWest Group, responsible for the flagship Retail Mobile App, Online Banking and Digital Messaging platforms, relied upon by over 10 million customers. With over 25 years of experience in Technology, Li Qun has driven the bold, large-scale and seamless transformation to market-leading, scalable and highly resilient cloud-native digital offerings hosted on AWS. She recently won the Digital Transformation Leader category at the FDM EveryWoman in Technology awards.
Li Qun is passionate about technology and science, with a strong STEM and extensive engineering background. She has a hands-on approach to leading diverse technology teams, championing devops practices and engineering excellence.
How Chase UK is breaking organisational boundaries creating a next-gen Observability Platform
In 2021, JPMorgan Chase launched its new digital bank in the U.K. under the Chase brand, combining the trustworthiness of an established brand with the seamless experience of a digital retail bank. In this session, you will learn how Chase U.K. leveraged AWS services to capture and aggregate data from disparate applications, data sources, vendors and marketing channels into a centralized Observability Platform that provides a comprehensive, 360-view of their business. We will explore the importance of the Observability Platform and how it transformed the developer and customer experience with Chase U.K., the challenges faced, and lessons learned.
Petrut Iordachescu, Platform Lead Developer Experience Chase UK, JPMorgan Chase
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Started a career in IT 15 years ago in the Oil & Gas Industry. Since then, I have graduated from a BSc and an MSc and have worked in various industries from Forensic Professional Services to Airlines and from AdTech to Fintech. Currently the Platform Lead for Developer Experience in Chase UK; a digital bank that is working to provide rewarding banking to its UK customers.
Lunch & Networking
Building Darwin Insurance: One experiment at a time
Darwin Insurance is Direct Line Insurance Group start-up launched in 2019, providing D2C motor insurance. At Darwin, its understanding of real customers constantly evolves, but with the ever-changing customer needs and more customer touchpoints than ever before, it faced a challenge to implement and scale better customer experiences. In this session, Darwin will share how it executed on its philosophy of test, learn, and adapt and how AWS provided the bedrock to launch its personalized dynamic pricing (PDP) platform using AWS machine learning (ML) services.
Amit Arora, Head of Platforms & Change. Darwin Insurance
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Amit is a seasoned Product Director with over 10 years of experience developing data platforms and MLOps solutions. He has a track record of successfully delivering machine learning products that drive growth and improve customer satisfaction. With expertise in product strategy and cross-functional leadership, Amit is skilled in identifying market opportunities and developing innovative solutions.
How Hargreaves Lansdown built a cloud-based data & analytics platform to improve its trading proposition
Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) PLC is the UK’s number one investment platform for private investors and is trusted with more than £120 billion in assets under administration by over 2 million clients. The company helps it clients to make more of their investments by giving them the tools and information to make informed decisions. HL believes, enhanced analytics will improve discounts it can provide to their clients related to trade activities. In this session, you’ll learn how HL collaborated with AWS to build a multi-tenant cloud-based analytics platform to fuel its next phase of growth, targeting over £24M in revenue per year from its first use case.
James Brake, Head of BI & Analytics, Hargreaves Lansdown
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James is a seasoned data & analytics professional with over 15 years of experience in Financial Services. He has a track record of successfully delivering data products that drive growth and improve customer satisfaction. With expertise in product strategy and cross-functional leadership, James is skilled in identifying opportunities and developing innovative solutions.
Experian's journey to accelerate delivery using DevOps
Experian is the world’s leading global information services company. They help individuals to take financial control and access financial services, businesses to make smarter decisions and thrive, lenders to lend more responsibly, and organisations to prevent identity fraud and crime. In this session, you will learn how the Consumer Services division used DevOps and AWS services to transform the way they deliver software to their customers in a highly regulated corporate environment. Experian explore the benefits realised, challenges faced and some of the many lessons learnt on that journey so far.
Darren Lewis, Principal Engineer, Experian
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Darren is a principal engineer with 16 years’ experience and has worked in the financial services sector for nearly a decade. He enjoys learning new things but more so sharing knowledge with others and helping them overcome complex problems.In recent years, Darren has taken an interest in developer experience and as such, this has led him down the path of DevOps and CI/CD. Darren loves the challenge of identifying and fixing problems to make people’s lives better than they were yesterday. Outside of work, Darren loves watching F1 and playing golf. He is married with a 2 year old son who loves to watch his dad “type type type.
Afternoon Networking Break & Sponsoring Partner Expo
Learn how Barclays built a serverless Single Client View application on AWS with advanced AI/ML features
Barclays had a vision to create an innovative technology platform capable of surfacing meaningful customer insights for relationship managers about their prospects and business development pipeline. Join this session to discover how Barclays used design thinking and built a Single Client View application using serverless technology on AWS. Core features include integration between multiple data sources, advanced natural language programming, and Graph Database technologies.
Charlie Douglas, VP, Head of Analytics & Insights Barclays
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With previous experience at HSBC, RBS and Morgan Stanley, Charlie is currently Head of Analytics at Barclays Private Bank, leading a team of 25 data scientists, analysts, and developers. Barclays Private Bank Provides comprehensive specialist investment, banking, lending and wealth advisory services to the world’s most influential people and their families in the primary global wealth hubs and corridors.
How Citi Bank is building a next generation Risk platform to power Capital Markets
Citi Bank discusses how their legacy market structure systems are being migrated to modern tech stacks on AWS EKS workloads. Leveraging AWS and Kubernetes, Citi Bank is building next generation Risk Platform to satisfy some of the world's most demanding and computationally intensive use cases that power Capital Markets, with scale and elasticity.
David Burford, Director, Public Cloud - Head of Solutions Delivery, Citi Bank
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David joined Citi 2 years ago as Head of Solutions Development for the Public Cloud Team. His career to date has taken him from Silicon Valley start-ups to helping Citi’s competitors in the get a foothold in the cloud. As head of Solutions Development, David’s team is responsible for bridging the gap between the Cloud Platform development teams, and the application teams looking to make use of the platform to deliver real business value.
Steven Readett - Head of Engineering - Risk and Analytics Platform - Director - Citi Bank
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Steve has worked at Citi for 12 years holding various senior positions. Steve has been developing software for 25 years; working with the early internet, telco’s, power distribution, car manufacturers and for the last 15 years or so finance, focusing on: low latency orders/algos, pricing, real-time risk and more recently HPC-HTC. Steve is currently the Head of Engineering for Financial Risk Technology.
Networking Drinks