Productivity Potential: Driving Change in UK Financial Services

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion examining the relationships between effective leadership, emerging technologies, and workforce productivity in the UK financial services.

🗓️ Mon 6th Oct

🕛 09:30-12:00

📍 EQ Bristol, 111 Victoria St, Redcliffe, Bristol BS1 6AX

The event will focus on the productivity challenges facing UK financial services - a sector with higher-than-average productivity levels, yet one experiencing a sharper decline in recent years.

We’ll explore the impact of legacy systems, regulatory demands, and workplace culture on employee output, and ask whether rapid advancements in AI - often hailed as a productivity game-changer - will deliver meaningful change.

Crucially, we’ll also consider how “productivity” is being measured. Are traditional metrics still fit for purpose in the evolving world of work in 2025 and beyond?

Join us for a frank discussion where our expert panellists will dive into these questions and more.

Topics Will We Cover

• How do we measure productivity in financial services?

• The real-world potential (and limitations) of AI and automation in driving productivity

• The role of leadership in driving cultural change and long-term productivity gains

Our Panellists

Panel line-up to be announced soon!

Who Is This Event For?

While the event is centred on financial services, the themes explored will be relevant across sectors. We welcome professionals working in strategy, operations, innovation, or leadership roles within financial services and related industries. The event will also be of interest to anyone curious about the future of productivity, AI, and technology adoption.

Future Finance Research

This event runs alongside our Collaborative Challenge Programme - research roundtable series. At this event, we’ll share early insights from our current challenge run, focused on productivity in UK financial services. Further findings will follow.

If you’re interested in contributing to the research or receiving the final report, please get in touch at: hello@future-finance.tech

Timings

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Future Finance part of a programme called Next Generation Professional and Financial Services, delivered by Innovate UK and ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council).

This programme aims to help professional service sectors, including accounting and law, and the financial service sectors, including insurance, lending, advisory and payment services, develop and use digital technologies.