Future Skills Conference 2025
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22 May 2025, 09:00-15:00
200 Aldersgate Street, Barbican, London, EC1A 4HD
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Future Skills Conference 2025
Our second Future Skills Conference, held in partnership with TheCityUK, will focus on the skills challenges and opportunities facing UK-based financial and related professional services.
What To Expect
The event will bring together senior practitioners from across financial and related professional services, regulators and policymakers to discuss how to ensure the industry has the skills it needs for the future and continue to drive growth and prosperity across the country.
Through keynote speeches and panel sessions, the conference will cover topics such investing in workplace skills to fill skills gaps and boost productivity, the critical role of skills and talent in driving innovation and growth, and how the UK can remain an attractive hub for domestic and global talent.
To find out what to expect on the day, all of the sessions from the Future Skills Conference 2024 are available on our website, or you can watch the highlights film below.
The Agenda
09:00 – 09:05
Welcome
- Claire Tunley, CEO, Financial Services Skills Commission
09:05 – 09:20
Keynote address
09:20 – 09:30
Chair’s address:
- Anne Richards DBE, TheCityUK Board Chair
9:30 – 10:15
Panel session: Skills as a driver of long-term competitiveness
- Ben Auty, Organisation and Capabilities Director, Lloyds Banking Group
- Further panellists to be announced soon.
10:15 – 10:40
In conversation:
- KPMG UK Apprenticeship Programme
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee and networking
11:10 – 11:20
Chair’s address
- Mark Hoban, Chair, Financial Services Skills Commission
11:20 – 12:05
Panel session: Remaining an International Financial Centre: How skills-based organisations are key to our global prosperity
- Caroline Haines, Vice-Chair of the Policy and Resources Committee, City of London (Chair)
- Chloe Muir, Director of Talent and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Pinsent Masons
- Anne Murphy – Managing Partner, Global Financial Services Practice, Odgers Berndtson
- Further panellists to be announced soon
12:05 – 12:30
In Conversation:
- Tessa Griffiths, Joint CEO of Skills England
12:30 – 13:15
Panel session: How is technological change shaping our industry, the workforce and the skills we need for growth?
- Louise Smith OBE, Chair, Innovate Finance (Chair)
- Freneka Mumford, Director, Future of Work, KPMG UK
- Further panellists to be announced soon.
13:15 – 13:20
Closing remarks
- Miles Celic OBE, CEO, TheCityUK
13:20 – 14:15
Networking lunch
Attendance at the Future Skills Conference is free for our members and members of TheCityUK.
Attend in-person for non-members
Early bird rate - £320 + VAT (valid until 28 March 2025). Standard rate – £370 + VAT
Watch live online for non-members
Early bird rate – £80 + VAT (valid until 28 March 2025). Standard rate - £100 + VAT
Please register for this event using the link at the bottom of this page and our events team will be in touch to confirm your place.
Future Skills Conference 2024 Highlights
Financial Services Skills Commission & TheCityUK Future Skills Conference 2024
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