Thursday August 20^th, 2024 18.00-19.30 UK / 19.00-20.30 CET / 13.00-14.30 ET The central premise of Jenny Kleeman’s new book Sex Robots and Vegan Meat is that “if we can have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the ideal sexual relationship without compromise, have the perfect death without suffering, how else will human nature be changed forever?” Join this highly interactive keynote session to hear Jenny present ideas from the book, discuss the implications for society, and respond to participant questions. Jenny Kleeman is a journalist, broadcaster, and documentary-maker who has traveled the world finding extraordinary characters to turn into film, print, and audio. She writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Sunday Times, and Tortoise. She has reported for BBC One's Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches, and VICE News Tonight on HBO, as well as making 13 films from across the globe for Channel 4's Unreported World. She is the host of the Immaculate Deception podcast, and the weekend Breakfast show on Times Radio. Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is her first book. www.jennykleeman.com Twitter: @jennykleeman Facebook: www.facebook.com/jennykleemanUK The book is available from all good bookstores. More details here: www.jennykleeman.com/sexrobotsveganmeat

In this cutting edge insights session, a panel of industry experts will go beyond the excitement and noise around Fintech, to explore the future of financial services, banking, and insurance over the next five years. They will explore the emerging societal and customer shifts and needs, potential evolution paths, technology developments, the possible impacts of process automation and digital transformation, new market opportunities, impacts of digital currencies, regulatory considerations, ethical factors, business models, and challenges that could shape the scenarios that could emerge. They will discuss how the pandemic is impacting current and future activity and R&D plans in the sector, and how we can lay the foundations for the adoption of exponentially advancing technologies such as artificial intelligence. The panel will also explore what our world could look like when customers can design and customize their own products, and financial services becomes an invisible layer in every activity we undertake.   See full details below.