8th Annual AI in Financial Services Conference

Now in its eighth year, the AI in Financial Services Conference runs on 8-9 September 2026 at Convene, 155 Bishopsgate in London, organised by Arena International (a GlobalData company). It is a focused two-day event where artificial intelligence is the entire subject rather than a single track, aimed squarely at senior practitioners from European banks, insurers and asset managers — the organisers cite 350-plus attendees, roughly 60% at Director level or above, and 35 to 50 speakers.

The agenda spans both the front and back office: agentic AI and automation, responsible and explainable AI, generative AI in customer and advisory workflows, and the regulatory-compliance and risk-management questions that come with deploying models in a supervised industry. Named participants at the time of writing include senior figures from Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, Goldman Sachs, Citi and Peel Hunt, giving a sense of the incumbent-heavy, execution-focused audience.

For attendees, the draw is peer benchmarking among people running real AI programmes inside regulated institutions, rather than vendor spectacle. If you are weighing whether to go, this is a paid, senior-level industry conference; confirm the current speaker list and delegate pricing on the official site before booking.