TreasuryTech

Registration and networking

08:00

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Opening remarks

09:00

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KEYNOTE: AI: a view from outside treasury

09:10

The opening keynote will assess – from beyond the treasury world – what AI can currently do, and more importantly, what it can’t.

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Travel time

09:40

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Working with the data you've actually got

09:50

Theme A: Putting AI to Work

Speaker: Richard Ransom, Head of Solution Consulting, Bottomline

Most treasurers are dealing with fragmented, manual data. This session will show how to get usable AI results from imperfect data rather than waiting for a perfect dataset.

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Digital money: what's real and what's theoretical

09:50

Theme B: The Money Stack

Speaker: Adeel Hussain, Treasurer, Pleo

There has been much talk about stablecoins, tokenised deposits and CBDCs. This session will explain the differences between each and map what's genuinely usable today against what's still a pilot, and what is just an idea.

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Cash forecasting: what AI actually fixes

10:25

Theme A: Putting AI to Work

In association with Kyriba

Many treasurers put cash flow forecasting at the top of their wish list. It is also the most over-claimed AI use case. This session will give a before-and-after view, honest about where AI genuinely helps and where it's just a rebadged Excel formula.

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Cross-border payments and digital money in difficult markets

10:25

Theme B: The Money Stack

Cross-border rails are slow and expensive but robust, so new solutions must prove a real use case. That test is sharpest in high-inflation and currency-restricted markets, where stablecoins have real pull – helping treasurers hold value, move funds and manage local-currency exposure – but carry compliance, counterparty and reputational risks.

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Networking break

11:00

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Managing fraud and AML risks without blocking genuine payments

11:35

Theme A: Putting AI to Work

Fraudulent payments slip through while false positives block legitimate ones and bury the team, so this shows where AI can cut both, and in doing so helps to reduce cyber risk.

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Real-time or on-time? What treasurers actually need from faster payments

11:35

Theme B: The Money Stack

Real-time payments are already available ‘in places’ (e.g. Faster Payments) – what are the benefits and how do treasurers manage the consequences of the always-on pitch? Why do real-time rails still bump up against bank cut-off times and settlement windows that fall well before the systems themselves close.

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Agentic AI, audit and accountability: who's responsible when it goes wrong?

12:10

Theme A: Putting AI to Work

Speaker: Theo Wasserberg, Head of UK&I, Embat

As treasurers hand more to agentic tools, the hard questions land on their desk: how much to keep the human in the loop, what auditors expect when the model version changes, and who's liable if a third-party AI connected to your systems makes an error or gets breached.

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Putting cash to work: real yield vs digital hype (SLY in the digital world)

12:10

Theme B: The Money Stack

Treasurers are holding cash that earns little while being pitched tokenised funds and on-chain yield. With money market funds the usual first port of call, this session asks whether digital assets can genuinely add yield over traditional instruments whilst retaining acceptable levels of security and liquidity.

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Networking lunch

12:45

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THE DEBATE: Will AI mark the end of the treasury function - or enable treasury to pivot?

13:45

Structured as an Oxford-style debate, two speakers argue that AI is what finally removes manual processes and delivers true straight-through processing. Two argue that technology has promised this before and only ever shifted the work rather than removing it - and that AI will be no different.

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TechTalks: what is out there?

14:30

A short sharp 4x10 minute sessions highlighting some of the more innovative tech solutions that can solve a treasurer’s problems, especially around the incorporation of new technologies in TMSs, better liquidity visibility and management and solutions to help FX.

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Networking break

15:15

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ROUNDTABLES

15:45

Split into small groups, this will give an opportunity to discuss and share insights from your own experiences, with the following themes:

• Where to start: Building the internal business case and taking the first practical steps with AI, for the share of the room still working out where to begin.

• People and skills: What an AI-ready treasury team actually looks like, and how to build or buy the capability you need.

• Living with the risks: Comparing notes on data quality, auditors, security and third-party AI tools, and what your own organisation is demanding.

• Right process, right place: As automation accelerates, which activities genuinely need to sit inside treasury and which could be centralised - KYC as a key example - much as the same questions once gave rise to shared service centres.

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KEYNOTE: On the horizon: quantum computing and the next wave of treasury technology

16:35

We’ve heard today about what’s available now – but what does the future really hold, and where does quantum computing fit into this?

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Closing remarks

17:05

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Networking drinks

17:10

*This is a draft agenda subject to change.