WeBuild-AI is proud to be part of FSI Horizons 2026: Women & Allies, an afternoon 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

Francesca Solomon
Senior Consultant

Building AI Products at the Speed of Trust

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