External events

Hosted in the  English capital for the first time, Sibos 2019 will take place at ExCeL between 23 & 26 September 2019. London will bring together over 8,000 financial services professionals, hundreds of influential speakers, exhibitors and FinTechs to debate, discuss and explore the new financial landscape. 

The biggest one-day electronic trading event in the region, the Asia Pacific Trading Summit 2019 is expected to bring together over 700 key personnel in institutional trading to discuss the most pertinent issues impacting market participants.

ICST 2019 is the 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation that will take place in Xi’an, China on 22-27 April 2019.

The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing is taking place in San Francisco alongside 4 other major IT conferences in the IEEE Joint Conference/Workshop program. The 6-day program includes numerous tracks on Blockchain, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Healthcare and Medicine using Big Data applications, AI Testing and Machine Learning, etc., supplemented with workshops, tutorials summit meetings and panel sessions.

The QA Financial Forum is designed to promote the sharing of information between quality assurance and software architecture managers of financial companies and other stakeholders in IT, whilst respecting the confidentiality of the speakers, following the principles of the Chatham House rule. The event focuses on the latest issues in quality assurance and testing for software at banks, insurance and asset management companies, with the main theme being Quality Assurance for the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). A special emphasis will be made on in-depth coverage of technologies for automation and continuous app delivery, including artificial intelligence.

This year’s Arab Capital Markets Conference has the Enhancing Transparency and Financial Innovation theme, underpinned by several keytalks and such panels as: