Plato Technology Summit 2024

21 October 2024

The Plato Technology Summit format has been designed by the Plato Partnership, a group of 40 leading buy-side and sell-side firms. It’s based on buy-side and sell-side feedback to create a leading financial services technology-focused conference for market participants.

After a hugely successful inaugural conference, the Plato Technology Summit will return on 21 October 2024 at the Leonardo Hotel St Paul’s in London - a one-day conference with unique approaches for participants and sponsors that differentiates itself from other major industry conferences that are often filled with the same buy-side and sell-side panel discussions.

Leonardo Royal London St Paul's

 

What to Expect

When we built the Plato Technology Summit, we wanted to avoid creating ‘just another finance conference’ populated with the same old panellists discussing the same old problems on repeat. We wanted to boost engagement and deliver real value to our attendees by forming a truly innovative format.

The day is divided into four main components:

Use-Case Presentations

Focused Use-Cases

In-depth presentations

Here, leading technology companies demonstrate how their products work in the real world. We want our audience to come away from the Summit with lightbulb moments and their next technology partner.

Problem Statement Solutions

Problem Statement Solutions

Solving real problems for the marketplace

Audience members, sponsors and Plato Partnership members collaborate to discuss and find solutions to real issues facing the marketplace. A workshop coupled with presentations and electronic voting will generate a future Plato initiative.

Exhibition Space

Fintech Alley

Technology demonstrations

Small-group technology demonstrations from fintech sponsors - “FinTech Alley” - a dedicated space for our delegates to meet up-and-coming FinTech companies and their future providers.

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Interesting people - interesting topics

In 2023, Plato Partnership invited the 100 Women in Fintech project (a part of the 100 Women in Finance) to curate a panel discussion showcasing women leaders in financial services. We will be hosting a similar discussion in 2024.

Meet the Sponsors

Intelligent Cross
S3 Partners
One Chronos
Primary Portal

FinTech Alley

BMLL
ipushpull
Rapid Addition
AlgoDynamix

More sponsors to be announced closer to the event…

Testimonials from 2023

  • Dan Squires, imandra, Technology Sponsor in 2023

    The Plato Technology Summit was an excellent event in which we were very happy to participate. Technology plays an ever-increasing role in capital markets and trading - it makes perfect sense to have this dedicated event under the auspice of Plato. The calibre of attendees was excellent, and I very much valued the opportunity to present specifically on imandra, rather than the usual panel discussions. We would strongly advocate for anyone with a tech-centric solution to embrace this event. From an imandra point of view, we also made some connections during the networking parts of the day that have already proved valuable

  • Monica Summerville, Celent, Panellist in 2023

    I enjoyed presenting at the Plato Tech Summit as the invite-only buy and sell side audience and innovative event format, coupled with Chatham House Rules led to many interesting discussions. I hope to be back next year

  • Khaled Shahin, MFS, Attendee in 2023

    The Plato Summit presented an opportunity for us to interact with new technology vendors, understand how their technology can fit within our business as well as discuss the challenges that we need to overcome, from a technological standpoint. This format was one that enabled us to have a more open dialogue with vendors that we otherwise may not have interacted with.

  • Dan Schleifer, Finsemble, Technology Sponsor in 2023

    Plato Summit represented a unique opportunity for us as a vendor and member of the capital markets technology industry - to network with clients, prospects, and peers, in an open, collaborative learning environment. We were able to share our domain knowledge and in return learn from clients and prospects about their challenges. This open atmosphere facilitated sharing of knowledge and relationship building in a very different way than traditional industry trade shows and events.

  • Séverine Raymond Soulier, Symphony, Technology Sponsor in 2023

    The Plato event was a great occasion to connect with some of our key buy-side partners as well as tech partners we already work with or discovered during the event. The crypto panel which was exclusively female led was also very insightful - great to see so many women on stage.

  • Neil Ryan, Finbourne, FinTech Sponsor in 2023

    The Plato Summit provides opportunities to interact meaningfully and network with clients, peers and innovators as well as providing a practical platform to debate the future agenda.