Agentic Engineering in Financial Services

AI-supported software delivery is moving beyond coding assistance. With tools such as Claude Code and increasingly agent-driven development workflows, financial institutions are beginning to ask questions that go far beyond engineering productivity: What is already possible today? What is still hype? And what could this mean for value creation, operating models, governance, architecture, talent and strategic control?

To explore these questions, ELCA and SFTI are jointly convening an Emerging Topics Exchange for senior decision makers and experts from banks, insurance companies, software providers and the broader financial services ecosystem.

The event is designed as a focused impulse and expert exchange. Short practical inputs from different perspectives will be followed by a moderated expert panel. The objective is to separate myth from reality, create a shared understanding of the current state, and discuss which implications financial institutions should start preparing for.

Participants will leave with a clearer view of what agentic engineering can already enable, where its limits and risks remain, and which questions around delivery, governance, architecture, talent and operating models deserve senior attention.

Agenda

08:30–08:50 | Arrival coffee and croissants 
Arrival, coffee, croissants and informal networking.

08:50–09:00 | Welcome 
Welcome by Kai-Nicholas Kunze, Head of Financial Services Advisory at ELCA (LinkedIn), and Mario Ruppen, Managing Director at SFTI (LinkedIn)

09:00–09:25 | Impulse 1 
Bedo Hamza, Innovation Lead at Viseca and Founder of HMZ.Swiss (LinkedIn) 
Beyond the Guardrails: What Agentic Engineering Can Do Today and What Comes Next 
A practical impulse on what AI agents, Claude Code and other modern development workflows can already enable today, with selected real-world observations and open theses on where the field may be headed.

09:25–09:50 | Impulse 2 
Nissim Buchs, Head of Agentic Engineering at ELCA (LinkedIn) 
A technology and architecture perspective on how agentic engineering may affect delivery models, integration, complexity and the management of modern technology landscapes 

09:50–10:15 | Impulse 3  
Gilles Burnier, Strategic Innovation Expert at Group Mutuel (LinkedIn) 
A financial services perspective on how institutions can approach agentic engineering in practice, and which opportunities, questions and organisational implications may emerge in a regulated environment

10:15–10:40 | Impulse 4 
Petri Rahja, Co-Founder & CTO of Helvo (LinkedIn) 
Beyond Coding Assistants: How Agentic Engineering Changes Software Delivery in Banks

10:40–11:00 | Coffee, croissants and fruits 
Short break and informal exchange

11:00–11:30 | Moderated expert panel 
Representatives from banks, insurance companies and software providers
The session concludes with a moderated expert panel bringing together perspectives from insurance companies, software providers, banks and the broader ecosystem. The discussion will connect the impulse contributions and focus on what agentic engineering could mean for financial institutions in practice. 

Key questions include: What is already possible, what remains hype, where could real value emerge, and what should financial institutions start preparing for now?

Participation is limited to maintain a focused and valuable exchange among participants.
To ensure a balanced mix of attendees, all registrations are subject to review and confirmation.