Neil Thewlis

Led by Neil Thewlis, HSBC’s Head of AI and Model Transformation, this session explores how enterprises can build AI architectures that scale both technically and organizationally. As AI projects move from proofs-of-concept to production, IT leaders must balance quick wins with long-term vision. Neil will share HSBC’s journey to build long-term AI initiatives, focusing on key pillars of people, platform, and process to drive re-useability, portability and scale.

• People, Platform, Process: Leveraging the right talent and culture, robust AI models and infrastructure, and streamlined workflows/governance to support AI growth.
• Building Beyond Short-Term: Assessing how you can avoid falling into the trap of focussing on near-term investments, in favour of longer-term goals and objectives.
• Developing AI solutions with re-useability and portability front of mind and avoiding vendor lock-in utilizing open standards and cloud-agnostic tools will ensure your models and data can move freely as the landscape changes.
• Bridging the gap between technical implementation and business functionality by mapping AI use cases to the right architectural components so that technology choices directly serve business goals.
• Accommodate emerging requirements around scale, control, and agentic by designing with adaptability in mind