FTW 2025 Conference Agenda on 10th October at We the Curious

10.00 – Welcome – Stuart Harrison, Director, FinTech West

10.05 – Keynote - Colin Payne, Head of Innovation, FCA

10.20 – AI, so what!? - Rich Newland, past senior leadership roles at HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Nationwide and Radio Presenter

10.35 – The S & W Panel - Scaling your Fintech from the South West with:

  • Adam Sharpe, CEO, Cardsteam

  • Emily Berry, Business Tax Partner, S&W

  • Nick Davenport, Finance Consultant, Loqbox

Chaired by Jennifer Tragner, Partner S&W

11.05 - South Coast – growing a regional hub - Claire Main, BCP Council and Dan Ware, FinTech Entrepreneur

11.20 - Making FinTech boards future-fit - Gillian Camm, Transformational Business NED and Author in conversation with Anita Kimber, NED at the FCA | Transformation and Innovation Mentor for Scaling businesses

11.35 - What has Startup Coalition ever done for FinTech? Stories from the frontline in Whitehall - Charlie Mercer, Startup Coalition

11.50 - Becoming a FinTech scaleup - Tom Eyre, Founder and CEO, Loqbox

12.05 – Pitch 360 - Opening Remarks & Moderator - Joshita Ganesan, Innovate Finance

Pitches featuring:

  • Joe Jordan, Co-Founder, Adclear

  • Oliver Lane, Founder & CEO, BehindLogin

  • Shayen Yatagama, CEO, Kainovation Technologies

  • Emily Kenna, Founder & Director, Sense Risk Solutions Ltd

  • Charles Knight, Head of Sales, SideUp

  • Daniel Gold,  CEO & Founder, Stratiphy

12.45 – Lunch

13.30 - Under the radar panel with:

  • Fiona Pollard, Chair at Monument Bank

  • Alex Gibbons, Audit Leader at Monzo Bank

  • Fred Moss, Head of Partnerships, Octopus Money

Chaired by Katharine Finn, until recently, Regional Chair of City UK

14.00 – Driving water resilience - Richard Tidswell, Business Doctors and Project Lead

14.15 - EY session & Pitch 360 results - Rob Branch, EY

14.30 – AI in a large financial service organisation - Graeme Burns, Nationwide

14.45 – An InsurTech hub for the region – Rohit Nair, Assureful

15.00 - Close & Networking & Interactive Exhibits

Partner exhibitors include S&W, University of Bristol, Bayes Price, Navos, Future Finance, Purplefish