Unlocking Trusted Advice

22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ | Tue 10 Feb

The UK’s leading Conference for the financial advice community

Conference 26, held on Tuesday 10 February, saw senior leaders from across advice, wealth and investment management have a chance to step back from the noise, compare notes with peers, and shape what comes next.

Firms that modernise how they engage clients will be best placed to retain relationships and grow them over the next decade. Conference 2026 showed what that looks like in practice: a digital advice platform that connects the full journey end-to-end, reducing friction, embedding AI, and helping firms create the capacity they need to unlock trusted advice at scale.

Key Agenda Items

This year’s Conference was built around a clear ambition:

  • A new operating platform for advice.
  • AI-enabled. Data-driven. Regulation-ready.
  • Unlocking trusted advice. At scale.

Across the day we focused on three leadership themes:

  • Platform, not point solutions – how firms move from fragmented tooling to an integrated operating platform for advice.
  • AI in production – practical, automation-first workflows that reduce friction, lower cost and raise consistency in regulated environments.
  • Data as a strategic asset – turning data into better client outcomes, faster regulatory outputs, and stronger strategic decision-making integrated with your tech stack.

We also addressed what targeted support could mean in practice and how together we can unlock trusted advice for more people.

Stand out sessions

A mix of visionary perspective, peer-level debate and practical platform insight from leaders shaping the industry.

The data revolution: from Clubcard to financial wellbeing
Edwina Dunn, co-founder of dunnhumby and pioneer of Tesco Clubcard, shared how data transformed trust and personalisation at scale, and what advice firms can learn as they move from client interactions to always-on, personalised, data-led client outcomes.

Unlocking trusted advice at scale
Keynote from Dynamic Planner founder and CEO, Ben Goss: our vision for working with our customers to close the advice gap and how Dynamic Planner is now the digital advice platform that creates capacity for you and your organisation. Ben discussed real customer stories, plus what’s coming next in platform-led advice.

What disruption really means for advice leaders
Katie Prescott, Technology Business Editor at The Times, provided an outside-in view of the forces reshaping the market and what leadership teams must do now to stay trusted, competitive and scalable.

CIO panel: inside the decision making behind suitable solutions 
A moderated panel discussion with the industry’s leading CIOs, this session was designed to explore the current financial landscape from the macroeconomic outlook to specific asset classes. Panellists shared where they see emerging opportunities and risks, giving advisers a look “under the hood” at the thinking and decision-making that shapes suitable solutions for retail investors.

 

Main stage speakers

Katie Prescott

Business Editor, The Times

Ben Goss

CEO, Dynamic Planner

Rowan Whittington

Chief Product Officer, Dynamic Planner

Joshua Knight

Head of Product, Dynamic Planner

Edwina Dunn

Founder – The Female Lead and Co-Founder of DunnHumby

CIO Panel

Abhimanyu Chatterjee

Chief Investment Strategist, Dynamic Planner

Andrew Balls

CIO Global Fixed Income, PIMCO

Mike Coop

CIO, Morningstar

Trevor Greetham

Head of Multi-Asset, Royal London Asset Management

Edward Park

Chief Asset Management Officer, Evelyn Partners

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