Move faster. Stay compliant. Get AI right.
CTO Craft Con: Fintech brings together senior technology leaders from fintechs, banks, and regulated platforms to share how they’re navigating AI, compliance, delivery friction, and what it actually takes to ship safely. It’s the conversations, the peers, and the decisions you make afterwards that make the difference.
2-3 November, 2026
The Minster Building, London
Meet tech leaders you’ll actually swap playbooks with from the likes of:
The Role Is Changing. This Is Where You Make Sense of It
CTO Craft Con: Fintech returns to bring our community of senior technology leaders across fintech into the same room – not just to listen, but to compare notes on the realities of the role today.
Over two focused days, we’ll explore how fintech organisations are adopting AI responsibly, managing compliance-led delivery, and continuing to ship in highly regulated environments. The agenda is only half of it.
The real value is in the conversations it sparks – practical operating stories from teams on the ground, followed by between session chats where you work out what it means for your own organisation.
These aren’t problems with a clean answer. Working through them with peers who face the same trade-offs is what makes the difference, and the relationships you build here last well beyond the conference.
Register Now to Build Connections That Last
Secure your place alongside peers shaping the future of tech in finance. We’ll share real stories, solve real challenges, and send you back with ideas ready to put into practice.
Which conversations matter most to you?
The best conference sessions start with a question every technology leader is already asking.
AI is changing everything. What should change first?
How do you adopt AI without losing engineering quality, autonomy or trust?
Who’s accountable when AI touches regulated money?
AI governance, risk, and control in a regulated environment
Leading engineers through constant change
The human and cultural side of leadership under pressure
Metrics – what matters and what doesn’t in a fintech product
Are you measuring progress, or just measuring noise?
Shaping the Conversation
- AI, Risk and Regulation
Explore how technology leaders are introducing AI responsibly inside regulated environments, balancing innovation with governance, consumer duty and evolving expectations from regulators. - Delivery Inside Complex Systems
Learn how teams are shipping meaningful change despite legacy platforms, approval layers and compliance constraints, and where new tooling is genuinely improving developer productivity. - Data, Platforms and Architecture
Discuss how organisations are rethinking data access, platform strategy and infrastructure as expectations shift towards real-time insight and intelligent product experiences. - Teams, Structure and Leadership at Pace
Understand how leadership is changing as AI reshapes workflows, decision-making and team design, and what it takes to support engineers working in increasingly complex environments.
Is this the room for you?
This event is for CTOs, VPs Engineering, and senior technology leaders responsible for building and operating technology in fintech organisations.
CTOs
Leading technology strategy across fintechs, banks, and regulated platforms
VPs & Heads of Engineering
Responsible for delivery, architecture, and organisational direction at scale
Directors of Engineering & Technology
Shaping teams, platforms, and operating models in complex environments
Heads of Platform, Data & Infrastructure
Driving reliability, governance, and modernisation across critical systems
If you want to lead with precision – this is your room.
The best ideas don’t end when the keynote does.
Most conferences ask you to listen. CTO Craft asks you to participate.
Hear practical experiences from leaders who’ve tackled the same challenges. Then take those ideas into structured discussions with peers, challenge assumptions and leave with practical approaches you can use in your own organisation.
Learn it.
Hear practical stories from technology leaders who've tackled the same organisational and leadership challenges you're facing.
Discuss it.
Take those ideas into facilitated roundtables with peers from different organisations, industries and markets.
Challenge it.
Compare approaches, ask difficult questions and discover perspectives you won't hear from the stage alone.
Continue it.
Whether it's Coffee Corners, lunch discussions or evening networking, we've designed the event so ideas keep evolving long after the keynote finishes.
Apply it.
Leave with practical ideas, new relationships and greater confidence in the decisions you'll make next.
Beyond the Stage
At CTO Craft Con: Fintech, the most valuable conversations often happen between the sessions.
We’ve designed time and space for senior technology leaders working in regulated environments to compare notes, test ideas, and speak candidly with peers facing similar constraints.
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Coffee Corner Conversations
Join small, informal discussions during the breaks on topics like introducing AI safely, navigating compliance friction, and leading delivery inside complex financial systems. -
Circles Breakfast
Meet members of the CTO Craft Circles programme and hear how structured peer groups are helping leaders make better decisions in high-pressure roles. -
Smarter Networking Tools
Use Conversation Starter prompts and “Ask Me About…” tags to connect quickly with people working on the same challenges as you.
Learning doesn’t stop when the session ends.
Coffee Discussions
Structured Roundtables
Lunch
Meet Your Peers
Keynotes
Circles Breakfast
Our Advisory Board
Supported by an advisory board of experienced technology leaders from across the industry, the agenda reflects the realities of delivering in regulated fintech environments today.
Your ticket is just the beginning.
You’ll join Fintech’s senior technology leaders for two days designed to help you make better engineering decisions.
Tech Leader Ticket
Better decisions
A clearer approach to AI adoption
New perspectives on organisational design
Better connections
Relationships with peers facing similar challenges
Honest conversations that continue beyond the event
Better outcomes
Greater confidence in difficult leadership decisions
Practical ideas you can put into practice immediately
Everyone attending is responsible for engineering strategy, people or delivery. That’s what makes every conversation relevant.
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Register Now to Build Connections That Last
Secure your place alongside peers shaping the future of tech in finance. We’ll share real stories, solve real challenges, and send you back with ideas ready to put into practice.