Speakers
Who's Speaking
Martin Trojer
Staff Engineer
Meta
Simone Steel
CIO, Central Data and AI
Deutsche Bank, Corporate Bank
Sam Newman
Independent Consultant
Sam Newman & Associates
Tom Dellmann
Director of Engineering
Chronicle Software
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer
Syntasso
Michael Jones
CTO
loveholidays
Henry Garner
CTO
JUXT
River Keefer
Principal Engineer
Antithesis
Jon Pither
CEO
JUXT
Will Bassett
CIO, Equities and Cross Asset Financing Technology
HSBC
Joel King
Principal Engineer
NatWest Group
Nik Tkachev
Head of Product
JetBrains
James Brown
Enterprise Engineering Lead
Schroders
Kris Jenkins
Lead Developer Advocate, EMEA
Snowflake
Farzad Pezeshkpour
Principal Engineer
JUXT
The Day
Agenda
Nine talks, an expert panel, and an evening reception.
08:30
Registration and Morning Refreshments
09:00
Housekeeping
09:05
Opening Remarks
Jon Pither | JUXT | CEO & Founder
09:15
How to Survive the Claudpocalypse
Martin Trojer | Meta | Staff Engineer
09:50
Data Cartography: From Static Blueprints to Navigable Maps for Data-Driven Organisations
Simone Steel | Deutsche Bank | Managing Director, CIO Data & AI, Corporate Bank
10:20
Coffee and Networking
10:50
AI In Equities Technology: The Promise is Real, So Are the Problems
Will Bassett | HSBC | CIO, Equities and Cross Asset Financing Technology
11:25
Close to the Metal: Modern Low-Latency Development
Tom Dellmann | Chronicle Software | Director of Engineering
12:00
Spectroscopy for Software: Measuring Legacy Code with AI
Henry Garner | JUXT | CTO
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Platform as a Product in a 300-Year-Old Bank
Abby Bangser | Syntasso | Founding Principal Engineer
Joel King | NatWest Group | Principal Engineer
14:05
Why Coding Agents Fail to Boost Productivity
Nik Tkachev | JetBrains
14:40
Extracting Reliable Software from LLM loops
River Keefer | Antithesis | Principal Engineer
15:10
Coffee and Networking
15:30
Expert Panel: How Far Can We Accelerate with AI?
James Brown, Simone Steel, Mike Jones & Farzad Pezeshkpour
Panel host - Kris Jenkins
16:35
Dark Modules, Cobots, and Architecting for AI
Sam Newman | Independent | Author, Building Microservices
17:05
Closing Remarks
17:20
Evening Reception
Canapés, Drinks, Networking
*Agenda and speakers are subject to change
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About the Conference
An Invite-only Event for Engineering Leaders
It's our tenth year running the XT conference (2016-2026), and this year bringing together around 250 senior engineering leaders across banking, hedge funds, and financial services, in London's Tower Hill.
This is pure thought leadership. Real-world experience shared by peers who are actually doing engineering at scale.
The conference has grown organically each year, building a community of practitioners focused on solving hard technical problems in financial services.
