Evolving Consumer Lifestyles

The intelligence your team relies on is most valuable at the point of decision and inside the tools you already use every day. This session introduces GlobalData's Direct Data Solutions (DDS): a flexible set of delivery options that help consumer teams get more from the subscriptions they already hold, from a supplier they already trust.

We will start where it matters with your data strategy and the challenges you are working through, and show how DDS can support them, from established feeds and integrations through to newer AI-native access. This is an introduction - come away with a clearer picture of what is possible and a sense of the right next step for your team.

Contract research organizations (CROs) and contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) provide vital outsourced services to pharmaceutical companies and must continually evolve to keep pace with industry demands.

Our in-house experts will share the latest trends and support how you can maximise opportunities.

Every major hyperscaler now ships a production agent platform, and pilots are running at most large institutions across banking, wealth management, and insurance. The question incumbents actually face isn't which vendor to back — it's how to let a system that plans its own execution path operate safely above a core ledger, a policy administration system, or a custodial platform that was never built to be called by anything non-deterministic. Get that wrong and you've either rebuilt the estate you spent a decade hardening, or handed a reasoning model root access to a mainframe.

Join Craig Beattie, Craig Focardi, and Dan Mayo as they unpack Celent's new research on agentic architecture and legacy modernization — why the brownfield path beats a greenfield rebuild for regulated firms, and what changes once you accept that most institutions will run several agent orchestrators at once, not one.
In this session, we'll discuss:

• Why the greenfield agentic reference architecture collapses under real compliance and core-system constraints
• The brownfield alternative: treating the agent as an intelligent client above your existing API gateway and identity plane, not a replacement for either
• Practical integration patterns — API-as-a-tool, ephemeral token exchange, compensating sagas — for wiring agents safely into legacy cores
• The multi-orchestrator reality: why the goal is a shared substrate of identity, tools, and audit, not convergence on a single platform