Leaders Summit

5-6 May 2027 | InterContinental London - The O2

About

The Leaders Summit is designed for senior decision-makers navigating the strategic challenges reshaping compliance and financial crime functions. Focusing on leadership, operating models, emerging risks and long-term transformation, the Summit explores how leaders can build resilient organisations in an increasingly complex world. 

Taking a longer-term view, the Summit examines the strategic issues likely to shape compliance and financial crime functions over the next 3–10 years, helping leaders prepare for a future defined by technological change, geopolitical uncertainty, evolving regulation and new risk landscapes.

Key themes for 2027

  • The future regulatory landscape and strategic preparedness
  • Accountability in increasingly automated organisations
  • Geopolitics, sanctions and strategic resilience
  • Stablecoins, tokenised assets and the future financial system
  • Building the next generation compliance and financial crime function

Key benefits

  • Gain strategic insight into the forces shaping compliance and financial crime over the next decade
  • Explore leadership approaches to regulatory, operational and technological change
  • Understand how leading organisations are balancing growth, innovation and risk
  • Learn how executive teams are adapting operating models and workforce strategies
  • Connect with senior peers facing similar leadership challenges

Who should attend

  • Chief Compliance Officers 
  • Chief Risk Officers 
  • MLROs 
  • Heads of Financial Crime 
  • General Counsel 
  • Directors of Compliance 
  • Directors of Risk 
  • Board Members 
  • Non-Executive Directors 
  • Financial Crime Leaders 
  • Regulatory Leaders 
  • Senior Executives responsible for governance, risk and compliance functions