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 Dellman
Director of Engineering
Chronicle Software
Abby Bangser
Principal Engineer
Syntasso
Michael Jones
CTO
loveholidays
Prof Paula Buttery
Professor of Language and Machine Learning
Cambridge University
Henry Garner
CTO
JUXT
Ben Collins
VP of Engineering
Antithesis
Jon Pither
CEO
JUXT
Will Bassett
CIO, Equities and Cross Asset Financing Technology
HSBC
Joel King
Principal Engineer
NatWest Group
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
TBD
Will Bassett | HSBC | CIO, Equities and Cross Asset Financing Technology
11:25
Platform as a Product in a 50-Year-Old Bank
Abby Bangser | Syntasso | Founding Principal Engineer
Joel King | NatWest Group | Principal Engineer
12:00
Close to the Metal: Modern Low-Latency Development
Tom Dellman | Chronicle Software | Director of Engineering
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Spectroscopy for Software: Measuring Legacy Code with AI
Henry Garner | JUXT | Principal Engineer & AI Chapter Lead
14:05
Why Coding Agents Fail to Boost Productivity
Nik Tkachev | JetBrains
14:40
Extracting Reliable Software from the Slop Factory
Ben Collins | Antithesis | VP of Engineering
15:10
Coffee and Networking
15:30
Expert Panel: How Far Can We Accelerate with AI?
Michael Jones | loveholidays | CTO
Payal Jain | Citibank | Managing Director
And more to be announced
16:35
AI for Architects
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.
