The Tech of FinTech

Managing complex technology stacks is hard. Leading financial services organizations are driving modern architectures to optimize for these complexities by sharing infrastructure, improving developer experience in a scalable way and driving latency performance.

This track will feature top technologists from these leading organizations sharing their experiences of developing these innovative new technology solutions with the associated challenges of delivering high performance modern architectures in regulated financial services environments. In a fast-moving world, how are they making sure to not create legacy technologies of the future.

Please join us for exciting and informative sessions that highlight the importance of these technology innovations and the business value they are delivering.

From this track

Session database

How to Build a Database Without a Server

Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST

Modern data analytics workflows rely on scaling out to huge numbers of users and compute nodes. Managing database installations to handle this scale can be unsustainably complex and expensive.

Speaker image - Alex Seaton

Alex Seaton

Staff Engineer @ArcticDB, Previously Working on Quant Trading Systems @Man Group

Session architecture

Latency: The Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?

Wednesday Apr 9 / 11:45AM BST

Low and predictable latency have been an edge in financial trading. Aeron has been pushing the limit on what is possible for IPC, on-premise, and in the cloud messaging. Can we do better?

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Amir Langer

Principal Software Engineer @Adaptive Financial Consulting

Session

Bringing DevOps Principles to Controls and Audit

Wednesday Apr 9 / 01:35PM BST

In 2025, many organizations still manage critical compliance controls through manual checks, spreadsheets, Word documents, and Confluence pages—approaches that are error-prone, inefficient, and increasingly outdated.

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Ian Miell

Author of "Docker in Practice" & "Learn Git/Bash the Hard Way", Consultant Partner @Container Solutions

Session Platform Engineering

Unleashing Kubernetes for Secure Bare-Metal Workloads

Wednesday Apr 9 / 02:45PM BST

Kubernetes is great for general cloud-native workloads but struggles with low latency and high-performance computing (HPC) due to its abstraction overhead, lack of optimized scheduling, and network inefficiencies.

Session Platform Engineering

Extreme DevOps Automation

Wednesday Apr 9 / 03:55PM BST

Revolut's rapid growth relies on a powerful microservices architecture, but this presents a significant scaling challenge.

Speaker image - Sérgio Amorim

Sérgio Amorim

Systems Engineering @Revolut, Working in Developer Experience DevOps Platform Team

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Wednesday Apr 9 / 10:35AM BST

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Track Host

Ian Ellis

CEO & Founder of Enterprise Tech London

Ian is an independent technology strategy consultant, venture partner and angel investor, who Founded and runs Enterprise Tech London.  

With a career spent working with some of the world's most prominent organisations, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Prudential Financial, Next47, Bank of Ireland and Microsoft, Ian has a wealth of understanding of how complex financial services organisations function and the strategic importance of technology to their operation.

In his role as Founder & CEO of Enterprise Tech London, Ian has built the highly popular Enterprise Tech Monthly event, that brings together tech practitioners/executives, entrepreneurs, investors & academia to discuss key technology trends, opportunities and challenges.  He led the creation of the LSEG Tech Leaders' Summit and was the entrepreneurial force behind bringing the FinTech Innovation Lab to London.  

He holds a BA in Economics & Information Studies from University College Dublin and an MSc in Analysis, Design & Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics.

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