AI-Ready. Risk-Ready. Future-Ready.

Overview

As AI moves from experimentation to enterprise-wide adoption, financial services organisations are entering a new phase of transformation. The challenge is no longer identifying AI use cases, but modernising the core technology, data and operating foundations required to scale innovation securely, responsibly and at pace.

Against a backdrop of increasing regulatory expectations, legacy complexity and evolving customer demands, leaders are balancing the need to modernise critical systems while delivering measurable business value and maintaining operational resilience.

This roundtable will explore how organisations are approaching the next phase of AI-enabled transformation, the strategic decisions shaping modernisation priorities, and the capabilities required to build more agile, intelligent and future-ready enterprises.

Agenda

• 11:45 am Delegate arrival & registration(Executive Luncheon) Welcome on arrival. Enjoy a moment to connect informally with fellow attendees before the session begins.
• 0:00 pm Welcome drinks & refreshments(Executive Luncheon) Networking break with light refreshments as we prepare for the session ahead.
• 0:15 pm Opening remarks(Executive Luncheon) An introduction to today’s topic and discussion focus.
• 0:30 pm Interactive discussions(Executive Luncheon) Facilitated peer-to-peer conversation covering the following key discussion points:
• 1:45 pm Closing remarks(Executive Luncheon) A brief summary of key takeaways and insights shared during the discussion.
• 1:50 pm Networking drinks & end of session(Executive Luncheon) An opportunity to continue conversations in an informal setting to wrap up the session.

Partners

• Avanade Avanade is a global technology consulting and digital transformation company jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft. The organisation helps enterprises modernise legacy technology, transform business operations, accelerate AI adoption and improve customer experiences through end-to-end services across the Microsoft ecosystem. Unlike traditional implementation partners, Avanade combines advisory, strategy, industry expertise, technology delivery and managed services to help organisations transform both customer-facing and back-office operations. Its strength lies in connecting business outcomes with technology investments, enabling organisations to modernise core platforms while improving efficiency, scalability and innovation. Avanade works across the full enterprise value chain, helping organisations transform finance, operations, supply chain, workforce productivity, customer engagement and data-driven decision-making.
• Microsoft Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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