London FinTech Day 2026 by JetBrains
Join us in London to explore how JetBrains IDEs and AI tools are helping fintech enterprises build and secure AI-assisted engineering practices.
January 27, 2026
- 09:00–20:00 UTC
Speakers
Anastasia Kazakova
Michelle Frost
Andrew Zakonov
Nik Tkachev
Matt Ellis
Rodrigo de la Garza
Daniel Gallo
Kai Schmithusen
Agenda
January 27, Tue
- 09:00–09:30 UTC
Registration
Come early to register, grab a cup of tea or coffee, and meet other attendees for a morning chat.
- 09:30–10:00 UTC
Welcome! Let's Get to Know Each Other
Event opening
- 10:00–10:30 UTC
JetBrains: Open Platform for Agents, MVP for Humans
Let's dive into the JetBrains AI Assistant vision as a platform for different AI tools available on the market and how users will benefit from it. We will cover competitive differentiation of JetBrains AI tooling and our strategy for 2026.
- 10:30–10:45 UTC
Break
- 10:45–11:30 UTC
The Agentic Future of Software Development: How Developers and Businesses Can Shape and Adapt to the New AI Agentic Reality
In this talk, we'll explore what a future with AI agents may look like:
- The shift from assistive AI (autocomplete, copilots) to agentic AI.
- How to safely supercharge development by building a trusted coding agent for businesses.
- The trade-off between speed and quality in AI-generated code.
In this talk, we'll explore what a future with AI agents may look like:
- The shift from assistive AI (autocomplete, copilots) to agentic AI.
- How to safely supercharge development by building a trusted coding agent for businesses.
- The trade-off between speed and quality in AI-generated code.
- 11:30–11:45 UTC
Break
- 11:45–12:30 UTC
Why Coding Agents Fail to Boost Productivity
Let's discuss why coding agents fail to provide productivity boosts for organizations and what will change in 2026.
- 12:30–13:30 UTC
What We Expect From AI in 2026
An open discussion moderated by two facilitators, focused on the real impact of AI tools on software development. We’ll talk about where AI truly boosts productivity, where it falls short, and why some developers choose not to use it.
We’ll also explore whether AI is widening the skill gap, reshaping junior roles, and changing how engineering managers think about responsibility and code quality.
An open discussion moderated by two facilitators, focused on the real impact of AI tools on software development. We’ll talk about where AI truly boosts productivity, where it falls short, and why some developers choose not to use it.
We’ll also explore whether AI is widening the skill gap, reshaping junior roles, and changing how engineering managers think about responsibility and code quality.
- 13:30–14:30 UTC
Lunch Break
- 14:30–15:00 UTC
dotUltimate: The Dev Toolkit for .NET Teams
We'll introduce dotUltimate – the complete developer toolkit for empowering .NET teams – and share our strategic vision and roadmaps for .NET Tools in 2026.
- 15:00–15:30 UTC
Many Platforms – One ReSharper, Your Universal Legendary Tool for .NET
Live demo! ReSharper, the legendary productivity tool that changed the way millions of .NET developers explore, write, improve, and maintain their code, is now in the Visual Studio Code-compatible editor of your choice. We'll cover VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, and more.
- 14:30–15:30 UTC
Code With Confidence: How IntelliJ IDEA + Spring + AI Boost Developer Performance
Discover how IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and Spring Debugger, help you ship faster with confidence, plus get a sneak peek at what’s coming next for Java, Spring, and InteliJ IDEA Ultimate.
- 15:30–16:00 UTC
Break
- 16:00–17:00 UTC
From Commit to Compliance: Building Secure, Auditable CI/CD Pipelines for Modern Fintech with TeamCity and Qodana
Fintech engineering teams must deliver new features at high velocity while meeting strict regulatory, security, and audit requirements. In this session, we’ll explore how two JetBrains solutions, TeamCity and Qodana, working together can form a strong DevSecOps foundation and serve as the backbone of a reliable, compliant CI/CD pipeline.
Together, TeamCity and Qodana bring deeper static code analysis and automated compliance checks directly into your development workflow, helping teams address obligations commonly found in UK financial regulation, such as FCA operational resilience expectations or maintaining auditable change records under PRA and GDPR/UK Data Protection Act requirements.
We’ll walk through patterns for designing scalable CI/CD pipelines that support systems made up of many services – often built with different programming languages – while maintaining full pipeline visibility and integrating automated quality and security gates. We’ll also highlight how Qodana strengthens code quality and compliance by delivering repeatable, policy-driven inspections directly within your pipelines, enabling traceability, consistent reporting, and alignment with internal and external audit requirements.
In this session you’ll see practical examples of:
- Leveraging TeamCity’s authentication integrations, granular access control, and audit trails.
- Managing and securing secrets within TeamCity pipelines.
- Embedding quality gates and security scanning early in the lifecycle.
- Using Qodana to enforce coding standards and reduce compliance risk.
- Scaling CI infrastructure in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
- Improving developer productivity with rich, actionable insights.
You’ll leave with actionable ways to accelerate delivery while strengthening security, quality, and compliance across your Fintech development process.
Fintech engineering teams must deliver new features at high velocity while meeting strict regulatory, security, and audit requirements. In this session, we’ll explore how two JetBrains solutions, TeamCity and Qodana, working together can form a strong DevSecOps foundation and serve as the backbone of a reliable, compliant CI/CD pipeline.
Together, TeamCity and Qodana bring deeper static code analysis and automated compliance checks directly into your development workflow, helping teams address obligations commonly found in UK financial regulation, such as FCA operational resilience expectations or maintaining auditable change records under PRA and GDPR/UK Data Protection Act requirements.
We’ll walk through patterns for designing scalable CI/CD pipelines that support systems made up of many services – often built with different programming languages – while maintaining full pipeline visibility and integrating automated quality and security gates. We’ll also highlight how Qodana strengthens code quality and compliance by delivering repeatable, policy-driven inspections directly within your pipelines, enabling traceability, consistent reporting, and alignment with internal and external audit requirements.
In this session you’ll see practical examples of:
- Leveraging TeamCity’s authentication integrations, granular access control, and audit trails.
- Managing and securing secrets within TeamCity pipelines.
- Embedding quality gates and security scanning early in the lifecycle.
- Using Qodana to enforce coding standards and reduce compliance risk.
- Scaling CI infrastructure in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
- Improving developer productivity with rich, actionable insights.
You’ll leave with actionable ways to accelerate delivery while strengthening security, quality, and compliance across your Fintech development process.
- 17:00–17:30 UTC
Break
- 17:30–18:30 UTC
Ask-Me-Anything session with JetBrains
This is your chance to get first-hand answers to the questions bothering you the most! Grill the JetBrains squad with your most challenging and tricky questions, get answers that help your business, gain insights, and understand JetBrains' strategic views on the most important software development questions.
- 18:30–20:00 UTC