Cloud Expo Europe 2023 - London | Closer Still Media | 7 March 2023 | ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL, UK

Why financial services are bullish about the cloud. Recent investor surveys demonstrate great confidence in the cloud.

When asked about IT plans, 43% of FS tech leaders say they plan to increase cloud spending this year. And, 86% see hybrid cloud as the “ideal operating model” for their businesses.

Banks, funds, insurers and asset managers are investing big in cloud technology, seeing it as a way to compete with fintech disruptors and access new markets. But with huge troves of data and compliance headaches, migration won’t always be plain sailing.

In need of assurance.
Although a handful of major banks have committed to full migrations to the cloud, the majority have soon run into issues when they investigate the technology’s potential.

Perhaps most significant are problems around compliance and security. In a highly regulated industry, farming out data management to third party organisations represents a real headache (and may be even more complex in the light of Brexit).

This explains the popularity of hybrid models, where some content is always kept on local servers, while the less sensitive information goes online. But configuring this set up requires a whole new information architecture.

Security concerns are another headache for financial services CIOs. Providing remote access to employees might at first feel attractive, yet the security problems it entails can add a whole level of complexity to your planning.

Then there’s the issues of migration from legacy systems. How do you get decades’ worth of data, cleaned and ready to use, and onto a cloud server?

Banking on the cloud.
But done right, a migration to the cloud offers rich pickings.

Finance firms sit on treasure troves of customer information, yet this is often spread around multiple silos. The cloud provides powerful data management tools which can finally help make sense of all that information.

Artificial Intelligence can hunt for insurance fraud, create hyper-personalised mortgage offers or recommend investments tailored to the individual.

Opportunities for innovation in the cloud are enormous too. By using more flexible technology, banks, insurers and other FS businesses can play fintech ‘disruptors’ at their own game. With more innovative services, established firms can enter dynamic new markets.

One legacy of the pandemic will almost certainly be a rise in remote working in the industry. And again, cloud tech makes it much easier for staff to work securely and seamlessly wherever they are.

Get cloud-ready.
With its enormous potential for FS firms, the cloud simply cannot be ignored.

At Cloud Expo 2022, you will hear from industry experts about how your organisation can use the cloud and what strategies you need for a successful migration.

You’ll find out how hybrid models work, get a feel for the suppliers who can support your move, and learn how others have already done it.

2023 Speakers

Professor Jim Al-Khalili
Distinguished Chair, Professor of Physics, Professor of Public Engagement in Science, Centre Director, University of Surrey

Paul Allen
Practice Director, SCC

Brigitte Amoruso
Senior Climate Change, Energy & Environment policy specialist, MakeUK

Robin Aveline
Chief Cloud Architect, Group Architecture, Deutsche Bank

Martijn Baecke
Product Marketing Manager, Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks

Joe Baguley
Vice President & CTO - EMEA, VMWare

Dena Barasi
Senior Regulatory Economics Manager, Scottish Power

Nick Barron
COO, Harbor Solutions

Hugo Bergmann
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Seagate LYVE Cloud and Data Services

Charlie Bernard
Director Growth Strategy,, Cyxtera

Anne Boden
CEO And Founder, Starling Bank

David Boland
Vice President Cloud Strategy, Wasabi Tech

Richard Braganza
Head of Offensive Security, Cyberfort

Anna Brailsford
CEO, Code First Girls

Graham Bromham
Head of Regional Sales and Service Providers, UKI, Fujitsu

Robert Buckley
Head of Relationship Development, Cornwall Insights

David Cecil
Cloud Lead, Capco

Alison Court
Chief Transformation Officer, Oxfam GB

Martyn Crow
Technology Lead, Vodafone

James Davis
Director, NHS London

Stephen Douglas
Advisory Member, 5G Security Working Group

Andrew Ellam
VP Technology, Climate X

Sol Enenmoh
Director – Group Digitalisation, HSBC

Tamara Finkelstein
Permanent Secretary, Defra

James Freed
Chief Digital and Information Officer, Health Education England

Dr Hannah Fry
Mathematician, best-selling author and science TV presenter, -

Dr Laura Gilbert
Chief Analyst and Director of Data Science, Downing Street

Jane Gilmour
Director of Architecture and Infrastructure, Marks and Spencer

Prasanna Gopalakrishnan
Group CTO, Sky

Dax Grant
CEO, Global Transform, Forbes Technology Council, Forbes Council

Peter Hammond
Client Technical Specialist, Cyber Resilience SME, IBM UKI

James Haywood
Infrastructure Architect, Dyson

James Henigan
Managing Director, SCC Hyperscale & SCC Cyber

Professor Winfried Hensinger
Professor of Quantum Technologies (Physics and Astronomy), University of Sussex

Mike Hill
Chief Digital and Information Officer, Cabinet Office

Nicola Hodson
CEO, IBM UK & Ireland

David Howell
Editor-in-Chief, Silicon

Louise Hutton
Head of Platform Architecture & Design, Service Express

Patrick Hyslop
Show Manager, CloserStill Media

Princess Ibironke - Yekinni
Head of Quality Assurance Engineer, Africa Fintech

Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE
Author, Founder, Stemettes

Dr Christyl Johnson
Deputy Center Director for R&T, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre

Chris Johnson
Chief Medical Information Officer, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Anna Jones
Main Anchor, Sky New Breakfast

Surbjit Juttla
Head of IT, Test & Operations, Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB)

Basma Kamal
DevOps Lead, Vodafone

Pankaj Kane
Chief Engineer, admiral

Penny Kechagioglou
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

Rachel Kerr
Head of Services Transformation, UK HOME OFFICE

Tariq Khokar
Head of Data for Science and Health, Wellcome Trust

Zoe Kleinman
Technology Editor, BBC

Rhiannon Lawson
Director of Digital, The Tony Blair Institute

Grégory Lebourg
Global Environment Lead, OVHcloud

Marc Linster
Chief Technology Officer, EDB

Ian Mahoney
Technology and Engineering Director, New Look

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller
Former Director General, MI5

Etay Maor
Senior Director Security Strategy, Cato Networks

Georgina Maratheftis
Associate Director, Local Public Services, TechUK

Jered Markoff
Chief Technology Officer, Emergency Operations, World Health Organization

Gerard Marlow
VP Sales - Technology & Developer, SKILLSOFT

Gary McAllister
Chief Technology Officer, NHS England

Mackensie McEntire
Senior Enterprise Account Director, Toptal

Malcolm McKee
CTO, Defra

Ricardo Moreira
Principal DevOps Manager, Vodafone

Jane Muir-Sands
VP, Global Real Estate and Operations, IBM

Sam Mukherjee
Senior Devops Engineer, KPMG UK LLP

Dia Nag
Head of Strategy and Digital Transformation, Cabinet Office

Keith Nolan
Head of IT services, Royal Opera House

Declan O'Gorman
Head of Enterprise Engineering, NatWest Group

Jennifer Opal
DevOps Engineer, Dropbox Sign, Neurodiversity & Inclusion Advocate

Sorin Pamfil
Head of Cloud & Hosting, CCS

Katrina Paras
Sixth Form Student, Ada. National College for Digital Skills

Prakash Pattni
MD, Financial Services Digital Transformation, IBM

Radia Perlman
Fellow at Dell Technologies, Inventor of the spanning tree algorithm, National Academy of Engineering, the Inventor Hall of Fame, The Internet Hall of Fame

Renka Pooja
Chapter Lead, admiral

Jonathan Pownall
Senior Digital Specialist, National Audit Office

Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist, Assistant Professor of Physics, Core Faculty Member in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of New Hampshire

Andrew Raynes
CIO, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Kester Riley
Senior Sales Engineer (Partner and Alliances) EMEA, MariaDB

Hannah Russell
CEO, British Science Association

Idriss Selhoum
Head of Technology - Cloud & Infrastructure, Marks and Spencer

Steve Sell
Director of Public Cloud Services, Nasstar

Steve Shakesphere
EMEA Enterprise & Public Sector Sales Director, Intel

Asia Sharif
Software Engineer and Founder

Ola Simisaiye
Junior Paid Social Associate, Merkle

Kirat Singh
CEO, Beacon Platform

Robert Stanley
Cloud and Workplace Director, NTT Ltd.

David Terrar
Chair, Cloud Industry Forum

Billy Thompson
Solutions Engineering Manager, Akamai Cloud

Sophie Thomson
Transformation Manager, Royal Opera House

Alina Timofeeva
Associate Partner, Oliver Wyman

Andy Trevor
Managing Director, Cutter Group

Ted Turner
Cloud Solutions Architect, Kentik

Jamie Van Hankins
DevEx Manager, Vodafone

Filippo Vanara
Senior Research Analyst, IDC

Will Venters
Associate Professor of Digital Innovation and Information Systems, London School of Economics (LSE)

Alex Webb
Head of Sales, Redcentric

Alex Howard Whitaker
Senior Staff Cloud Engineer, OCADO TECHNOLOGY

Luke White
Cloud Consultant, Hyve

James Whitebread
CTO, Royal Opera House

2023 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSOR:
• IBM

REGISTRATION SPONSOR:
• Akamai

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Akamai
• EDB
• Fujitsu
• Github
• Intel
• IFrog
• Logic
• MariaDB
• Paloalto
• SCC
• Service Express
• Wasabi

STREAM SPONSOR:
• Toptal

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Aiven
• Cato
• Gitlab
• LzLabs
• OpsLevel
• OVHcloud
• PrinterLogic
• Skillsoft

THEATRE SPONSORS:
• Clouded
• Kentik
• NTT

VIP LOUNGE SPONSOR:
• IBM