FIMA Connect 2025 | Data Innovation Conference

Engage in Preselected 1-1 Meetings

With Data Decision Makers from Leading Banks and Asset Managers

The Invitation-Only Forum for CDOs and Data Leaders from the World’s Leading Investment Banks and Asset Managers

At FIMA Connect, you’re in control. Your schedule is customised so you can cut through the noise and cover your benchmarking and vendor evaluation in just two days.

As attendance is restricted to senior budget holders from the top investment banks and asset managers, and a select group of leading vendors, you will:

Discover practical ideas to transform your business through private sessions led by market leaders
Evaluate the leading service offerings during conveniently arranged 1-1 meetings with vendors that you select based on your current investment priorities.

It’s a Platinum Members’ Club offering a bespoke experience for those shaping the future of data strategy in financial services and setting a solid foundation for innovation. It’s where you make the connections you need to make, when you want to make them.

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2024 Speakers Included:

Elaine Priest

Head of Data Risk
HSBC

Tarek Nassar

Head of AI Solutions
PIMCO

Ari Cohen

Chief Data Officer, EMEA
Macquarie

Dr Nataliya Tkachenko

Generative AI Ethics & Assurance Lead
Lloyds Banking Group

Chris Waite

Chief Data Officer
HSBC Asset Management

Paul Lickman

Group Head of Data Architecture
HSBC

Carol Wilson

Head of Data Ethics, Privacy and Records
Santander

Nigel Guy

Head of Data Migration and AI
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

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The Connect Difference

Transformative Content

We only cover strategic content and hand-pick our senior-level speakers and attendees. Furthermore, because we pre-qualify attendees based on decision-making responsibility and budget, you get invaluable peer-to-peer information and opportunities.

Personalised Connections

You tell us your priorities and we create private sessions to connect you with the right solutions partners in 1-1 meetings, saving you time on competitor benchmarking and vendor evaluation.

A Luxury Experience

We only select luxury venues in a captive location, a perfect environment for quality learning and networking without distractions.

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Highest Priority Content. Created for Decision-Makers.

Pioneering data governance as a value generator
Mastering the fundamentals of data quality management to enable AI innovation
Leveraging innovative tech to drive and sustain a culture of data integrity
Establishing robust data oversight to improve company-wide data trust
Delivering AI real-world initiatives that deliver a competitive edge

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How it works

A Bespoke, Senior-Level Experience

If you qualify to attend, we’ll ask you about your strategic priorities and we’ll build your personalised agenda and meeting schedule.

Connect with Hand-picked Solutions Providers 1-1

Based on your profile we’ll match you with leading solution providers, assisting with the vendor selection process. You are in full control as you will only meet with the providers you are interested in evaluating.

Speak Freely in Interactive Formats

Sessions are not recorded or covered by press. The ‘closed-door’, interactive discussions encourage openness, so you get more detailed information and takeaways than at any other event.

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Join the FIMA Connect Club

Be Among The Leaders. Join 60 VIP Attendees From Investment Banks and Asset Managers

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Interactive Learning & Networking

Get ideas from all the great minds in the audience through a variety of small working group discussions.

Think Tank

An exceptional way to genuinely get to grips with your key challenges. Your chance to probe an industry expert along with your peers to source practical solutions collaboratively.

Case Study Revolution

Take part in interactive discussions with your industry peers and take away different approaches to the same challenge. Starting with a case study the speaker then invites you and your group to find a solution to a key unresolved challenge.

Oxford-Style Debates

Walk away with a fresh mindset and better prepared to deal with a controversial issue. Sit back and witness industry leading figures pitting themselves against each other to deliver the knockout argument.

The Creative Boardroom

Determine a new 3-step action plan to take back to the office and test. Collaborate with your industry peers to leverage their know-how and challenge each other to ultimately find a new way forward.

Drill-Down Roundtables

An exceptional way to genuinely get to grips with your key challenges. Your chance to probe an industry expert along with your peers to source practical solutions collaboratively.

Synergy Workshops

Turn theory into practice and bring a idea to life. Collaborate with your industry peers on a new forward-looking project to create a step-by-step action plan to launch it.

What our VIPs say about Connect

Intimate

“An intimate private setting which gives me time to discuss the hot topics in our industry and lots of opportunities to network too”

Allie Gillon-Livesey
Head of Applied AI, CIB Digital Innovationk
JP Morgan

Engaging

“Delivers really relevant discussions, outstanding speakers with deep experience and formats which engage and allow you to interact like no other event I’ve been to”

Tarek Nassar
Head of Client Data Science and AI Solutions
PIMCO

Different

“The personalised itinerary, my own concierge to take me to and from meetings and emphasis on expanding my own professional network is unique and makes this event stand out”

Ariel Cohen
Chief Data Officer, EMEA
Macquarie Group

Benchmark your data and analytics strategies and capabilities with your senior peers from leading banks and asset managers and define how to future-proof your data division

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