WeBuild-AI is proud to be part of FSI Horizons 2026: Women & Allies, an afternoon and evening dedicated to women in financial services and their allies, alongside LSEG, Coventry Building Society, and Intellias.
Financial services is modernising at unprecedented speed, from cloud-native transformation and AI-powered operations to real-time regulatory compliance. The institutions that innovate at scale will define the next decade of finance. This event champions diverse perspectives. It's open to everyone: women in FSI, allies, and anyone passionate about shaping the future of finance through inclusive leadership.
Senior leaders from WeBuild-AI will be among the speakers, full lineup to be announced, alongside AWS and strategic FSI partners including LSEG, Coventry Building Society, and Intellias.
Why attend
Hear real-world transformation stories from leading FSI institutions
Understand how AI, regulation, cloud, and security intersect in practice
Build meaningful connections with 200 peers across financial services
What to expect
An exclusive forum for 200 attendees, women in financial services and their allies.
6 lightning talks real-world case studies co-presented by AWS and customers
Fireside panel strategic insights from senior leaders across FSI
Networking: dinner, drinks, and connecting with peers and AWS specialists
Speakers
Elena Vilimaite
Lead Software Engineer
How AI-Native Engineering Can Upskill Teams and Accelerate Delivery
Speaking at Coventry
Elena will explore how spec-driven development changes the pace and shape of delivery and how it creates new opportunities for internal teams to grow into AI-native ways of working, rather than being left behind by them.
Francesca Solomon
Senior Consultant
Building AI Products at the Speed of Trust
Speaking at London
Almost every financial services firm now has a mandate to do something with AI, and the appetite is genuine. What often follows is a slower and more frustrating delivery than anyone expected, not because of the technology but because the organisation around it was designed for a different pace of change.
Access to tooling takes weeks, governance boards meet monthly, and decision rights sit with people who were never asked to sponsor an AI programme in the first place. The encouraging part is that this is a solvable problem, and solving it does not require any firm to choose between moving quickly and staying well controlled. They are the ones treating governance as a design input rather than a final gate, choosing problems where value and evidence arrive early, and building alongside the people who will eventually own the thing.
This talk looks at what actually creates the gap between wanting AI and being ready to deliver it. Speed in AI delivery can be an organisational capability rather than a technical one, and that the firms getting value are the ones treating readiness as part of the build.
In collaboration with
Intellias · LSEG · Coventry Building Society
