You can watch the morning and afternoon session recordings on the WFE website
To integrate artificial intelligence (AI) on the enterprise level in a tightly-regulated mission-critical space, one should overcome the unique issues of transparency, explainability, interpretability, autonomy and human intervention. The industry is also beginning to realise that building acceptance and quality assessment criteria for AI-augmented systems is a highly complex technology task. But are these challenges truly unprecedented?
In fact, software testing technology providers have been learning to successfully mitigate such issues for years when conducting comprehensive quality assessment of traditional financial systems. Financial infrastructures naturally exhibit a high degree of complexity, component interdependency and non-deterministic behaviour – characteristics they share with AI systems. As venues and surrounding platforms further evolve to hybrid and AI-powered forms, it becomes paramount to learn to fully harness the ever-growing technical complexity to continue ensuring best execution and compliance.
For Exactpro, over 16 years of building software testing excellence for complex systems has been a stepping stone towards AI Testing excellence. The Exactpro team draws from this global cross-asset and cross-venue experience to help organisations achieve their in-house AI readiness goals.
Developing in-house excellence in AI Testing ensures building a strong foundation for an AI-ready environment: pervasive internal AI literacy, shaping ethics, testing, security, and compliance principles and frameworks, training all business and technical staff. The outcomes support enterprise teams in both being able to responsibly create and operate AI systems, as well as leverage AI tools and frameworks to enhance quality assurance.
On 3 December, Exactpro co-CEO and co-founder Iosif Itkin and Outreach Director for the AI Testing training program Anna-Maria Lukina joined the World Federation of Exchanges webinar to share clear pathways for providing enterprise teams with comprehensive knowledge and skills for responsible AI and ML development, testing and integration.
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Iosif is co-founder and co-CEO of Exactpro – an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing and related development services for financial organisations. Founded in 2009, Exactpro has a client base of major exchanges, post-trade platform operators, banks and technology vendors across 24 countries.
In his professional career, Iosif has held many technology roles: software developer, performance testing department lead, technology architect– on a number of global financial industry initiatives. Iosif’s expertise at the intersection of high-availability systems and capital markets has enabled him to successfully facilitate technology transformations within exchanges, investment banks and clearing and settlement organisations in London, New York, Milan, Singapore, Sydney and other major financial centres.
Iosif is a co-author of ‘Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification’ released in September 2025 by BCS Publishing.
Iosif has organised several industry conferences, including EXTENT – Software Testing and Trading Technology Trends Conference. He frequently speaks at worldwide FinTech events organised by industry associations such as the FIX Trading Community, Futures Industry Association, the World Federation of Exchanges, the Zero Outage Industry Standard and others.
Anna-Maria Lukina is the Marketing Director at Exactpro and Outreach Director for Exactpro’s AI Testing Training programs. In her Marketing Director role, Anna-Maria is responsible for global brand and business development and management of industry events. Coming from a technology background herself, Anna-Maria also wears an Outreach Director hat to bring a strategic vision into Exactpro’s professional development activities such as the award-winning ISTQB®-accredited AI testing course for enterprises and individual learners.
Anna-Maria has co-authored Exactpro’s latest book – ‘Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification’ released in September 2025 by BCS Publishing.
With a deep understanding of information systems and technologies and extensive experience in global marketing, Anna-Maria has successfully led the Exactpro brand through product launches, the acquisition by LSEG and the following buyout, countless international and local industry gatherings, as well as the accompanying social media campaigns.
AI TESTING:
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BETTER SOFTWARE,
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Software testing is an information service. Its goal is to provide stakeholders with objective information about the defects present in their system. Using AI in software testing can help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to enhance the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results. Smart execution capabilities can support full-scale AI adoption in software testing.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada, and Italy, and a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.
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