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

Just confirmed - Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at the FCA

10.00 – Welcome – Stuart Harrison

10.05 – Keynote

10.20 – Driving commercial growth - Rich Newland, past senior leadership roles at HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Nationwide and Radio Presenter

10.35 – S & W

11.05 - South Coast – growing a regional hub - Claire Main, BCP Council

11.20 - Making FinTech boards future-fit - Gillian Camm, Transformational Business NED and Author

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 pitches

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

Moderated 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