Track host
About the track
Modern banking is not just software at scale, it is a living system where trust, risk, resiliency, and user experience intersect every second.
This track explores the business of banking through the lens of the engineers who build and operate its platforms, revealing the technical realities behind payments, lending, markets, identity, and regulatory obligations. We will examine how large-scale banking systems are designed to be resilient under stress, how risk is continuously measured and managed in code and infrastructure, and how seemingly simple user experiences are shaped by deep architectural and operational trade-offs. The goal is not to overwhelm with complexity, but to build appreciation and empathy for the constraints, responsibilities, and craftsmanship required to deliver safe, reliable, and intuitive financial services at global scale, where every design decision carries both technical and business consequences.
Sessions in this track
Monday 16 March. 5 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session architecture How To Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not To Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch If you've made a bank transfer recently, there's a good chance that Form3 handled it. When we have a wobble, people notice. 11:45 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session AI/ML Your Multicloud Strategy Is a Product Problem - Treat It Like One Luis Henrique Albinati Junior, Surabhi Mahajan You can't really "opt out" of multicloud anymore. Between cloud concentration risk, SaaS sprawl, and increasing regulatory expectations, most enterprises end up operating across multiple clouds whether they planned to or not. The hard part isn't having two or three providers. 13:35 Rutherford (4th Fl.) Unconference Unconference: Tech of Finance Industry 14:45 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session Alpha Copilot The Realities of Building an AI Native Fintech Startup David Lin Founder and CEO @Linvest21, Previously CTO @JPMorgan For fifty years, $400 trillion in professionally managed assets sat untouched by external technology. The most analytically demanding investment workflows required a combination of PhD-level quant finance and advanced engineering that no outside vendor could sustain commercially. 15:55 Mountbatten (6th Fl.) Session Platform Engineering Move Fast, Don’t Break Trust: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond Suhail Patel Senior Staff Engineer @Monzo Leading the Platform and Data Functions, Previously @Citymapper Moving fast only works if your systems are engineered with trust and verification in mind. In this talk, we showcase how teams can scale to the point where shipping hundreds of changes a day becomes boring, routine, and safe.QCon London 2026 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.