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Women in tech leadership: Financial Services

November 17, 2026, 08:45 – 10:30 GMT

Maxwell Dining Room, Pan Pacific Hotel, 80 Houndsditch, London, EC3A 7AB.
Nearest tube: Liverpool Street (2-minute walk).

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Together with Anthropic and AWS, Version 1 is hosting an exclusive gathering for senior female technology leaders across financial services, focused on candid leadership conversations, peer connections and fresh perspectives on AI in financial services.

Agenda

Fireside chat: How to secure longevity in the C-Suite

Speakers:

CIO for Markets, Banking, Payments and Resolution Deputy Governorship at Bank of England
Eugenia Planas, Chief Information Officer, Bank of England (Markets, Banking, Payments and Resolution Deputy Governorship)


Sarita Sudera, Chief Commercial Officer, Version 1

A candid discussion on what it takes to build and sustain a senior career, including sponsorship, trade-offs and the choices that matter most.

Panel: Human or AI? How to structure delegation at scale

Speakers:

Anna Bratton Leadership - UKI & Northern Europe @ Anthropic
Anna Bratton, Head of Financial Services, Anthropic

Kitty Dwyer Head of Banking, Payments and Fintech at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kitty Dwyer, Head of Banking, Payments and FinTech, AWS

Organisations need a clear boundary between the decisions AI can own and those that need human judgement. This session explores how to set that boundary, which factors should drive it, and how to keep accountability clear as automation scales across the business.

Who should attend

This event suits senior women and allies leading technology in UK financial services, including:

  • CIOs, CTOs, and Chief Data, Analytics and AI Officers
  • Directors and SVPs of Technology, Engineering, Architecture, Cloud or Data
  • Heads of Digital Transformation, Innovation or Automation
  • Leaders who make enterprise technology decisions across banks, insurers, wealth managers and capital markets firms

Places are limited to keep the room intimate and the discussion high-value.