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NatWest Speakers @ ACT Annual Conference 2024

Our speaker sessions

We’ll be delivering and taking part in a selection of interesting speaker sessions at this year’s conference.

Unlocking peak performance within treasury: fireside chat with Colin Jackson CBE

Join Carla Floyd, our Head of Debt and Financing Solutions, for an exclusive fireside chat with British athletics legend Colin Jackson as he shares his insight on cultivating the right mindset and achieving peak performance – in sport and in business. In this unmissable session with a decorated athlete and successful entrepreneur, Colin will discuss the parallels between elite athletics and corporate leadership, offering practical strategies for finance professionals on everything from managing pressures to setting ambitious goals.

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Unleashing AI in treasury: how to get your organisation ready to take the next step

Join Nick Pedersen, Head of Digital, Jon Horrocks, Head of FX Options Quantitative Analytics and Tom Underwood, Head of Machine Learning Quantitative Analytics, for an enlightening lab where they demystify and delve into the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in treasury. From summarising vast swathes of technical or legal documentation to financial risk modelling and fraud detection, discover how AI’s time-saving workflow capabilities and next-gen large language models (LLM) could be put to use within corporate treasury teams.  

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FOMO: Are treasurers missing a trick?

Utilising the themes of the 2024 edition of the ACT Business of Treasury survey, Andrew Blincoe, our Head of Corporate Banking and Structured Finance, will join delegates from HSBC and SMBC to discuss what they are seeing and how these tie in with the results of the survey; exploring the key trends that treasurers should be focused on over the next 2-3 years.