CTO Craft Con: Fintech 2026

Execution is getting cheaper. Proving value isn't.
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Date & Time
Nov 2, 2026
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Nov 3, 2026
Type
Onsite
Location
The Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, London, UK
Forte Group Team
Mikael Carlsson
Chief Executive Officer at Forte Group
Lucas Hendrich
Chief Technology Officer at Forte Group
Alex Lukashevich
Chief AI Officer at Forte Group
Rob Wells
VP EMEA at Forte Group

Event Overview

CTO Craft Con: Fintech is a two-day conference for senior technology leaders in fintech, banking, payments and insurance. It's built for leaders working through complex systems, high-stakes regulation and rapid change. The format favours real-world experience over theory and peer conversation over sales pitches.

Core Topics:

AI Adoption & Verification: How fintech leaders are adopting AI responsibly, including how they verify AI-generated code before it reaches production.

Compliance & Regulation: Leading technology in a heavily regulated environment without slowing delivery.

Platform Modernisation: How technical debt, legacy systems and architecture choices shape fintech growth.

Operational Resilience & Technical Quality: Building systems that hold up when the stakes are high.

Leadership & Management: Leading teams and making decisions with confidence amid rapid change.

Forte Group Speaking Session

Our Chief Technology Officer, Lucas Hendrich, will present "Code Is Cheap, Impact Is Expensive: Why Product Telemetry Matters More Than Ever."

AI has made writing code faster and cheaper than ever. As a result, the hard question has moved from how to build to what is worth building and whether it paid off. Lucas will share how Forte Group designs product telemetry into engagements from day one, so that technology investment can be traced through to measurable outcomes in production. He'll also cover what we got wrong along the way and what we changed. This is a practitioner's view of a shift every CTO is facing: telemetry that shows not only whether the system is healthy, but whether the investment is.

Join us for two days of pragmatic talks, hands-on sessions, and curated networking designed specifically for financial services.