AI adoption in European financial services has moved past experimentation: 84% of institutions are alreadyusing generative AI, and effectively all expect to invest in it within the next two years, according to IDC research.Agentic AI is now the frontier, with over a quarter of European financial institutions already running agentic AI inproduction and more than a third piloting it. Yet execution remains the real constraint: only around a quarter of AIinitiatives at European financial institutions move beyond proof-of-concept into production, and “capitalize onAI/GenAI” is now the number-one business priority for European financial services organizations over the nexttwo years.

The institutions pulling ahead are the ones that treat data and cost discipline as enablers of scale, notafterthoughts. A unifying semantic data layer keeps AI outputs grounded and trustworthy across systems, while aclear-eyed view of token economics keeps the business case intact as usage moves from a handful of pilots toenterprise-wide deployment.

This exclusive executive dinner will offer senior IT decision-makers in banking, financial services, and insurancea confidential setting for peer-to-peer exchange, alongside perspectives from IDC, Google, and Capgemini onhow BFSI institutions can close the gap between AI proof-of-concepts and enterprise-wide production, and buildthe semantic data foundations and cost discipline needed to scale AI as a core layer of the business.