Virginie O'Shea
Founder Firebrand ResearchBuy Side Innovation Day | 15th September
10:20 AM Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
12:45 PM Product Innovation Panel: Building Value Through Product Innovation: How can Product and Ops teams best partner to build capabilities that support new product types at scale and unlock new investment opportunities to enable business growth?
- How can Product and Operations teams align priorities to identify high-impact innovation opportunities that drive measurable business growth?
- What strategies or frameworks have proven effective for scaling new product types while maintaining operational efficiency and quality?
- How can cross-functional teams foster a culture of experimentation and risk-taking that supports sustainable innovation?
- What capabilities—people, processes, or technology—are essential for supporting new product launches at scale, and how should organizations invest in building them?
Main Day 1 | 16th September
8:50 AM Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
12:10 PM Fire Side Chat: Transforming the Operations Lifecycle: How can you update your operating model from client on boarding to reporting – achieving seamless orchestration across teams and asset classes?
- How are firms breaking down silos to achieve true front-to-back integration across onboarding, trading support, and post-trade functions?
- How are you evolving toward standardised, real-time data and shared data layers to enable a seamless end-to-end lifecycle?
- How do you balance the need for cross-asset scale and common capabilities with maintaining asset-class specialisation?
- How are you meeting evolving client expectations across onboarding, servicing, and reporting without introducing additional operational complexity?
12:40 PM Fire Side Chat: Re-thinking Third Party Partnerships: How can you move from vendor management to ecosystem orchestration to unlock interoperability, resilience, and innovation?
- How are firms rationalising overlapping vendor landscapes?
- What capabilities should be sourced externally versus retained in-house?
- How do you manage interoperability and data consistency across vendors?
- What does a true strategic partnership look like from an operations perspective?
4:45 PM Advisory Board Panel: Looking back – Looking forward: A deep dive into the progress the capital markets operations industry has made and an outlook on what the future holds to help you best prepare your division.
- Which transformation initiative will deliver the highest value for Buy Side firms if prioritised over the next 5 years?
- What are your key learnings of the last 5 years of leadership that will help to shape how you drive your firm's Ops function moving forward?
- Where does the buy side need better cross industry support to meet shared industry objectives?
- How are you preparing more junior leaders to equip the function for future success?
Main Day 2 | 17th September
10:20 AM Panel Discussion: Building Resilience by Design: How can you embed operational resilience into culture, processes, and partnerships to drive true business value rather than it being a tick box regulatory exercise?
- How are firms shifting resilience conversations from compliance to operating model design?
- What role do near misses and incident analysis play in improving resilience?
- How are third-party and vendor dependencies being stress-tested?
- How do firms test resilience across people, process, technology, and data?
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Virginie.
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