The Modern Financial Institution: Breaking the Legacy Cycle to Scale AI - GDS Group

The Modern Financial Institution: Breaking the Legacy Cycle to Scale AI

LIVE DINNER
26 March 2026, London 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm GMT
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Dinner Location: The Goring, Garden Room

Financial institutions across the UK and Ireland are stuck in a familiar bind: nearly 80% of technology budgets are consumed by simply maintaining legacy systems, leaving only a fraction to invest in innovation. As AI shifts from novelty to necessity, CIOs and CTOs face mounting pressure to modernize mission-critical services without jeopardizing compliance, uptime, or customer trust. The result is a widening gap between ambition and execution, one that pilot projects alone can’t solve.

Today, leading organizations are “industrializing” AI by integrating intelligence directly into core workflows. We’ll unpack pragmatic approaches for modernizing financial services technology without taking on “big bang” risk, including decoupling legacy architectures, operationalizing AI in regulated environments, and rebalancing the run-versus-change equation to free up budget and talent for the initiatives that truly move the needle.

Join OutSystems and a select group of your peers as we discuss scaling AI for high-value use cases such as automated loan origination, risk assessment, adviser productivity, and digital-first customer experiences.

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Discussion topics

A practical roadmap for shifting from legacy maintenance to high- velocity innovation, without compromising stability or compliance.

Actionable strategies for scaling AI from pilots to mission-critical production across regulated workflows.

Proven architectural patterns that reduce legacy dependencies and enable faster deployment of modern, digital-first financial services.

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Event Agenda

Day one

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Arrivals, welcome drinks, and networking

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Evening Event

Event welcome, introductions & thought leader remarks

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

7:30 pm - 9:15 pm

Table discussions and three-course dinner

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Event Wrap Up

Why Attend

Closed door, tailored conversations to benchmark, share and get better equipped to solve complex transformation projects.

Experience shared learning

Meet industry leading like-minded executives tackling similar initiatives.

Benchmark with your industry peers

Discover and network to gain expertise and experience on how to best act and succeed.

Accelerate your projects

Accelerate In-depth face time with the world’s leading organizations pushing the boundaries to solve your challenges.

An engaged experience

An expert host facilitates conversations, with live polling, Q&As, and gamification to ensure focused conversation.

Discover next-level ideas

Ensure project success with access to industry experts and cutting edge thought leadership.

De-risk new projects

Gain a range of insights from peers and technical experts who are current with emerging business trends.

About OutSystems

OutSystems is a leading AI development platform trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. The platform empowers CEOs, management teams, and technology leaders to build mission-critical applications and agentic systems that grow revenue, streamline operations, and deliver exactly what businesses need. While evolving AI pilots into production success can be challenging due to talent gaps, legacy systems, imperfect data, and sprawling point solutions, OutSystems provides a proven AI development platform and experience that enables innovation up to 10x faster with the assurance of built-in security, scalability, and governance. Recognized as a leader by analysts, IT executives, business leaders, and developers around the world, global brands trust OutSystems to innovate as fast as the evolving market demands and orchestrate powerful human + AI collaboration in the agentic future.

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