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CTO Craft Con: Fintech 2026

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TO Craft Con: Fintech 2026 is a focused two-day conference for senior technology leaders in fintech, banking, and regulated financial platforms. It explores the realities of shipping in highly regulated environments, the rise of AI and compliance, and the leadership required to succeed. Attendees will gain insights into responsible AI adoption, compliance-d…

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85Voices
12Underwriters
2Exhibitors
22On the bill · sessions
71Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at CTO, in alphabetical order.
Abhishek Patel
CTO · BPX
Adam Horner
CTO Coach and fractional CTO
Adelina Chalmers
CTO Strategic Advisor and Founder · The Geek Whisperer
Allistair Crossley
CTO · Coconut
Andy Skipper
CTO Coach, former CTO · Comic Relief and Made.com
Anton Kireev
Co-Founder & CTO · Muj Fres
Arbaaz Dossani
ex-CTO, Cookbook · HelloFresh
Arif Shanji
Head of Development · Kano
Ashutosh Saxena
VP of Technology · &Open
Becki Wordsworth
CTO · Meela
Carol Palombini
Coach & Consultant · Palombini Consulting & Coaching
Charaka Goonatilake
CTO · Panaseer
Christena Jethwa
Senior Director of Engineering
Claire Donald
VP Engineering · MOO.com
Dan Smith
Executive Coach; Tech & Product Due Diligence and M&A Advisor
David Yakimischak
Chief Technology Officer
Dennis Pannuto
Executive Technology Leader & Coach
Dr Ole Moeller-Nilsson
CTO · Pivigo
Edoardo Turelli
Exited Founder/CTO • Advisor • Consultant • Coach • CTO
Emanuele Blanco
CTO · Moneyfarm
Emma Hopkinson-Spark
CTO Coach, former Chief of Staff · 101 Ways
Eric Weiss
CTO, Executive Coach, Speaker and Author

— and 63 more, by name unsung —

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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
SonarSourcePlatinum
Skiller WhaleGold
AikidoSilver
Albany PartnersSilver
Noxus AISilver
Architus
Build Circle
Cloudflare
Forte Group
Imaginary CloudExhibitor
Noxus
Ten10
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The Programme

Selected from 22 sessions on the bill.
  • 09:35-10:05

    Keynote – Communicating Effectively with Non-Technical Leaders

    One of the hardest and least appreciated challenges for a CTO is communicating with, negotiating with, and building trust with non-engineering leaders. There are three independent …

  • 09:40-10:10

    Keynote – Owners Not Renters: How We Build an Intelligent Future That Belongs to Everyone

    Your AI stack is built on infrastructure you don’t control. Models, platforms, data pipelines: all rented from companies whose interests don’t always align with yours. Drawing on …

  • 10:05-10:30

    Presentation – The Startup Way: Innovating Within a Corporate Environment

    Large organisations kill good ideas slowly. Approval cycles, risk aversion, and competing priorities turn promising initiatives into long-delayed projects or quiet cancellations. …

  • 10:10-10:35

    Presentation – Leading with EI: The Human Edge in an AI-Driven World

    The leaders who thrive in this era won’t do it by keeping pace with the technology alone. The capabilities AI cannot replicate, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, the ability …

  • 11:10-11:35

    Presentation – Shipping Faster, Trusting Less: Closing the AI Confidence Gap

    Every engineering org using AI coding tools has hit the same tension. Velocity is up. PRs ship faster than ever. But confidence in what’s reaching production hasn’t kept up. The kn…

  • 11:15-11:40

    Presentation with Hywel Carver

    Hywel has led a wide range of dev teams for the past decade (including two VC-backed start-ups), and is a published curriculum author. He wrote his first program in C aged 9, and i…

  • 11:35-12:20

    Panel – The Hard Calls: Leadership, Missteps, and What You Don’t Say Out Loud

    Being a CTO means making decisions with incomplete information, under pressure, about people. Most of those decisions don’t have a clean answer. Bringing together technology leade…

  • 11:35-12:35

    Roundtable – Agentic AI, AI Coding & Intelligent Automation

    Running alongside the main conference, this limited-place roundtable is designed for senior technology leaders who want to go deeper into the practical realities of AI-enabled engi…

    Roundtable
  • 11:40-12:30

    Panel – Who Owns Security Now?

    AI writes more of your code every week. Your attack surface is growing faster than your security team. And somewhere between the developer, the CTO, and the CISO, nobody is quite s…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 71 companies show up — and 2 bet on three roles at once?

71 companies. two are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
2All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
1Exhibitingexhibitor only
58Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Imaginary Cloud·Skiller Whale

02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

85% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite4856%
  • Founder / Owner67%
  • VP-level78%
  • Director / Head of1113%
  • Product11%
  • Engineer · IC56%
  • Advisor / Investor11%
  • Other roles67%

Of 85 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Imaginary CloudSp·EEx
  2. 02Skiller WhaleSp·G1V
  3. 03AikidoSp·S
  4. 04Albany PartnersSp·S
  5. 05ArchitusSp
  6. 06Build CircleSp
  7. 07CloudflareSp
  8. 08Forte GroupSp
  9. 09NoxusSp
  10. 10Noxus AISp·S
  11. 11SonarSourceSp·P
  12. 12Ten10Sp
  13. 13CoderEx
  14. 14Just Eat Takeaway.com2V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
platinum1
8% of 12
gold1
8% of 12
silver3
25% of 12
exhibitor1
8% of 12
unspecified6
50% of 12
05Fig. 05 — The Missing · who's at peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

06Fig. 06 — Adjacent Convocations · by shared underwriters

Sister convocations

Same brand, other regions