Frontier AI Summit: Leadership, Security & Trust

Join us for this cross sector Forum alongside leaders, policy makers and practitioners as we explore the biggest challenges facing organisations in the era of Frontier AI. We will explore core challenges and solutions through the lens of leadership, technical, security and trust.

AI has crossed a threshold. The most capable AI systems ever built are now active and a core part of the operating systems inside regulated industries — making decisions, shaping customer outcomes, and redefining where accountability sits.

The pace of change is outrunning the policy and frameworks designed to govern it.

Frontier AI: Leadership, Security & Trust brings together leaders, regulators, innovators, security and risk professionals, technology teams and suppliers for a structured day of challenge and co-creation.

Built around four lenses — Leadership, Security, Trust and Technical Supplier Assurance — this full day Forum tackles the questions that matter most right now: what does genuine board-level control look like, what does the threat landscape demand, and what does it actually take to build capability and sustain trust in systems that move faster than any human team can supervise?

This is not a passive conference. It is a working Forum designed to produce outputs and commitments participants can take back and use in their own organisations.

The organisations that will lead in era of Frontier AI are not those with the most agents. They are those who can lead, take their people with them, and build capability alongside, security, trust, evidence and control.

Challenges

Group 1 - The Leadership Lens
Leadership through disruption: How do leaders build the literacy, culture and organisational conditions to govern and scale Frontier AI responsibly — without losing the human at the centre?
Group 2 - The Security Lens
Navigating the Frontier AI Security Paradox: How do organisations defend against the most sophisticated AI-enabled threats whilst harnessing the same technology as their most powerful defensive asset?
Group 3 - The Trust Lens
Balancing Customer Experience & Risk in the era of agentic banking - bridging the gap between technical AI capabilities and what the customer wants, with organisational risk and regulatory expectations.
Group 4 - The Technical & Supplier Lens
Know Your AI: Building a Governed, Evidenced and Auditable AI Supply Chain. Vendor assurances are not controls — how do regulated organisations move from contractual promises to engineered, verifiable proof across every AI tool, model and agent in their supply chain?

Agenda

8:45am
Arrival, Registration & Networking
Main Plenary Session
9:15am
Welcome from Chair, Ian Davey, FinTech-Tables
9:25am
Opening Panel
From assurance to evidence, accountability and control: establishing board level trust in Frontier AI.
10:15am
Short Break
10:30am - Working Groups - The Challenge
Each working group will open with an expert panel led by C-Suite, followed by a group discussion on the challenge statement.
Group 1 - The Leadership Lens
Leadership through disruption: How do leaders build the literacy, culture and organisational conditions to govern and scale Frontier AI responsibly — without losing the human at the centre?
Group 2 - The Security Lens
Navigating the Frontier AI Security Paradox: How do organisations defend against the most sophisticated AI-enabled threats whilst harnessing the same technology as their most powerful defensive asset?
Group 3 - The Trust Lens
Balancing Customer Experience & Risk in the era of agentic banking - bridging the gap between technical AI capabilities and what the customer wants, with organisational risk and regulatory expectations.
Group 4 - The Technical Supplier Lens
Know Your AI: Building a Governed, Evidenced and Auditable AI Supply Chain, Vendor assurances are not controls — how do regulated organisations move from contractual promises to engineered, verifiable proof across every AI tool, model and agent in their supply chain?
12:30pm - Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch
1:30pm - Working Groups - The Solution
Each working group focused on exploring or co-creating frameworks or solutions to tackle the challenge statements developed in the morning session..
Group 1 - The Leadership Lens
Group 2 - The Security Lens
Group 3 - The Trust Lens
Group 4 - The Technical Supplier Lens
3:30pm - Networking Break
Networking Break
3:50pm - Group Feedback
Feedback from the 4 working groups to the entire group
4:20pm
Closing Comments
4:30pm
Curated Networking & Drinks Reception
6:00pm
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Wednesday 21 October 2026
8:45am to 6:00pm
Barclays, Glasgow

Barclays, Glasgow

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Ian Davey, FinTech-Tables
Nathalie Cutting, Barclays
Daniel Neal, Barclays

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