Reimagining Banking for the Intelligent Age

Bringing together leaders from banking, technology, academia and regulation to explore how Al and frontier technologies are reshaping the future of financial.

Thursday 1 October 2026
Barclays Campus, Glasgow 
09:00 – 17:00 

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Confirmed Organisations

Barclays

Nvidia

FCA

Accenture

Blackrock

IBM

Microsoft

Bank of England

University of Strathclyde

University of Cambridge

The Data Lab

Digital Trust Centre of Excellence

FinTech Scotland

Confirmed Speakers

Alexia Cambon

Director – Office of Applied Research
Microsoft

Prof Bill Buchanan

Professor of Applied Cryptography
Edinburgh Napier University

Colin Payne

Head of Innovation
FCA

Fern Watson

Manager, Emerging Tech & Research
FCA

Florian Pouchet

Partner, Cybersecurity and Operational Resilience
Wavestone

Kristen Bennie

Group Head of Partnerships and Innovation
Barclays

Paul Wilson

Chief Executive Officer
STAC

Ross D’Arcy

Head of Business Development, Banking – EMEA
Nvidia

Two tracks to choose from

You can choose sessions from both tracks.

TRACK 1: AI & INTELLIGENT BANKING

AI in Scotland

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

  • Welcome
  • Al Innovation in Scotland – transforming banking

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AI in Financial Services

10:40 AM – 12:10 PM

  • Panel: AI Deployment and Governance
  • Fireside chat: Security Considerations and Consumer Trust
  • Fireside chat: What Will Financial Services Look Like by 2035?

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The Future of Wealth Management

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM

  • Keynote: Wealth Management in a Post-AGBR Era
  • Panel: From Targeted Support to Full Advice

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Agentic Banking

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM

  • Keynote: Agentic Payments, Beyond the Hype
  • Case Study 1 – Opportunities for Banks
  • Case Study 2 – Al in Corporate Banking

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The Bank of the Future

3:50 PM – 5 PM

  • Panel: Workforce Transformation: The New Human -Al Division of Labour
  • Keynote: Will Every Bank Become an Al Company?
  • Micro panel: Building the Future of Banking Through Collaboration

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TRACK 2: FRONTIER TECHNOLOGIES

Frontier Technologies: Separating Hype from Reality

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

  • Welcome
  • Panel: The frontier technologies shaping the future of financial services
  • Keynote: Quantum Today: Capabilities, Limits & Timelines

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The Quantum Opportunity

10:40 AM – 12:10 PM

  • Panel and Q&A: Where is the Quantum Opportunity for the UK?
  • Keynote: 2 Years to Gain Commercial Quantum Advantage
  • Panel: Neuromorphic and Quantum: The New Paradigm?

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The Future of Money

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM

  • Keynote: Stablecoins, Tokenised Deposits and CBCs – Different Visions of the Future
  • Panel: Who Will Control the Digital Rails of the Future?

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Digital Assets in Practice

2:20 PM – 3:20 PM

  • Panel: How Financial Institutions Are Deploying Digital Assets Today
  • Fireside chat: The Need for Enhanced Cryptography

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Liquidity in a Tokenised World

3:50 PM – 5 PM

  • Keynote: Treasury, FX & Liquidity Management in the Age of Digital Assets
  • Fireside chat: The Battle of the Golden Ledger

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