Welcome

The Autonomous Workspace: Balancing Security, Experience and Control in Financial Services 

Sponsored by Omnissa
Thursday 8th October 2026
City Social, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad St, London EC2N 1HQ

Financial institutions have invested heavily in enabling distributed, hybrid workforces, yet the security controls designed to protect them increasingly come at the cost of employee experience and productivity. As estates grow more complex, siloed device and endpoint management fractures visibility, expands the attack surface and complicates the data control that regulators now expect. At the same time, the enterprise workspace is maturing from manual administration toward intelligent, observability-driven and increasingly autonomous environments.

This exclusive roundtable dinner, hosted by FStech in partnership with Omnissa, brings together senior technology and security leaders from across UK financial services for a candid, peer-to-peer discussion under the Chatham House Rule.

The discussion will be centred around the core question: how do you consolidate and secure the digital workplace without compromising agility, experience or compliance? Drawing on the experiences around the table, this discussion will explore how financial services organisations are rearchitecting for resilience, embedding zero-trust and data control by design, establishing effective AI governance, reducing cyber risk through faster remediation and patch management, and using AI and observability to move from reactive management towards increasingly autonomous operations while demonstrating measurable business value

Topics for discussion:

• Where is the friction between security mandates and digital employee experience hurting your organisation most, and how are you resolving that tension in a regulated environment?
• Reducing the cyber threat footprint increasingly depends on speed. How are you improving your ability to patch vulnerabilities, update applications and retire legacy software quickly without disrupting the business?
• How far can AI, automation and observability realistically take organisations towards a self-healing workspace, and what governance is needed to ensure these capabilities improve employee experience while remaining secure and trusted?
• With cost and sustainability pressures rising, how are you measuring the true ROI of workspace transformation and making the case for continued investment?

Timings for the evening:

18:30 – 19:00        Welcome and refreshments 
19:00 – 20:00        Introduction to fellow guests and roundtable discussion 
20:00 onwards     Complimentary three-course dinner

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