Technologists and operational professionals will gather at the FundsTech Forum in April 2025 – a conference dedicated to technology and transformation in the investment fund management industry.
Funds Europe, the leading magazine for the European cross-border funds business, is staging the event in London for the second year. The Forum takes place on April 29, 2025.
The event follows our successful inaugural FundsTech Forum in 2024, which featured personalities including Nike Trost, head of department, asset management & pensions policy at the FCA, and Karen Sands, chief operating officer at Federated Hermes.
Confirmed participants for 2025 include:
Martin Gilbert, executive chairman, AssetCo
Joseph Pinto, CEO, M&G Investments
Nick Dekker, senior partner and head of technology consulting UK, Alpha FMC
Bill Gourlay, independent consultant
Ben Bobroff, head of digital solutions consulting team, Northern Trust
John Allan, Head of Innovation and Operations Unit, The Investment Association
Tom Cunningham, head of investment operations & change, Hargreaves Lansdown
Davina Goodall-Smith, Experienced COO & board member
Gareth Burgess, global head of IT development and data, Janus Henderson Investors
Mike Tumilty, global COO, Aegon Asset Management
Robert Crossley, head EMEA and APAC Industry Advisor Services, Franklin Templeton
Olivier Fines, head of advocacy and capital markets policy research, CFA Institute
Priya Mittal, global head of business transformation, HSBC Asset Management
Alain Mandy, strategic adviser and consulting in asset management
Laurent Majchrzak, group head of digital assets, CACEIS
Funds Europe is passionate about funds technology, with a website dedicated to the subject at www.fundstech.com, and our successful first FundsTech Forum 2024 was praised for featuring differentiated content.
What FundsTech Forum 2025 offers
FundsTech Forum is for operational professionals within fund management and asset servicing, as well as for vendors. Nick Fitzpatrick, Funds Europe editor, said: “Although the Forum will explore developments in ‘trending’ topics such as tokenisation and artificial intelligence,- the event also delves into core technology & operations areas like outsourcing and transfer agency. People will be able to hear about successful outsourcing strategies and we’ll also ask how transfer agency managed to defend itself from disruption.
“We also plan to discuss the importance of the relationship between COOs and CTOs, which is vital for any transformation project to be successful.”
Delegates will be able to hear veteran COO Davina Goodall-Smith, formerly of Nikko Asset Management, bring some insight from her experience of transformation. Asset managers are transforming their businesses to take on the 21st century challenges, which include firms having to cater for an increasingly tech-savvy clientele.
Robert Crossley, vice president of EMEA and APAC industry advisory services at Franklin Templeton, will take part in a discussion on tokenisation and digital assets, and the Forum will also hear viewpoints from the platform sector with Tom Cunningham, head of investment operations & change at the mighty Hargreaves Lansdown, discussing how heritage firms can transform without losing their heritage brand.
FundsTech Forum 2025 is assembling leading figures from the asset management and asset servicing industry and more participants will be announced in the coming weeks.
Find out more and register your space here.
