How Financial Services Leaders Are Reimagining Resilience, Security and AI-Ready Infrastructure 

Financial services institutions face converging pressures to modernise while maintaining operational resilience, regulatory compliance and customer trust. As agentic AI moves from experimentation into production and digital-first competitors accelerate innovation, technology leaders must ensure their infrastructure can support new demands without compromising security, performance or control. 

Join HPE and a select group of senior IT and network leaders from across banking, insurance and capital markets for an exclusive executive dinner at The Ned, London. Through a peer-led discussion, we will explore how secure, intelligent network infrastructure is becoming a strategic foundation for AI adoption, digital transformation and business innovation. 

Together, we will discuss how IT and network leaders can modernise complex environments, strengthen security and performance, and build the intelligent digital foundation required to support the next generation of AI-powered services and experiences. 

Discussion themes include: 

• Building a secure, AI-ready network architecture that delivers consistent performance and control 

• Preparing infrastructure and networks for AI training, inference and real-time decision making 

• Securing agentic AI workloads, non-human identities and the expanding AI attack surface 

• Modernising legacy network environments while simplifying management and maintaining security, performance and control 

• Extending secure, resilient experiences across data centres, campuses, branches and hybrid work environments 

• Using automation, AIOps and unified observability to simplify network management, improve performance and accelerate innovation 

• Improving visibility, policy consistency and control across distributed data centre, campus, branch and hybrid environments 

This intimate dinner offers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences with peers, discuss shared challenges and explore how resilient, AI-ready infrastructure can become a source of institutional trust and competitive advantage. 

AGENDA

6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Registration and welcome

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Dinner and executive discussion

8:30 pm – 9:30 pm

Networking and close