Tech Sprints

PIMFA WealthTech Tech Sprints help the industry move from identifying challenges to shaping technology-enabled solutions.

What are Tech Sprints?

Tech Sprints are structured, time-bound innovation programmes designed to help the wealth management and financial advice industry explore and develop practical solutions to real-world technology challenges.

How do Tech Sprints Work?

Each Tech Sprint is built around a specific industry problem, participants showcase technology solutions to expert panels, with a focus on practical impact, collaboration, and adoption. Tech Sprints help the industry identify, test, and accelerate innovative solutions that can drive meaningful change.

The process typically starts with a clearly defined “problem statement” that reflects a pressing industry need. Fintech participants are then invited to propose and demonstrate technology solutions that address that challenge. Over the course of the sprint, they showcase their products or approaches to expert panels made up of industry leaders, who evaluate the solutions based on their relevance, innovation, and potential real-world impact.

Tech Sprints are hands-on and outcome driven. They are designed to test ideas quickly, encourage collaboration between established financial firms and innovative start-ups, and identify technologies that can be practically adopted across the sector. Each sprint concludes with insights, findings, and often highlighted solutions that can inform future adoption and further development within the industry.

PIMFA WEALTHTECH: TECH SPRINTS METHODOLOGY

Current Tech Sprint:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)  (2026)

Tech Sprint carried out February 2026 – TBC

Problem Statement:

AI in wealth and advice – from experimentation to ROI: how can firms turn their application of AI into measurable business impact?

Completed Tech Sprints:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) (July 2025)

Tech Sprint carried out February – June 2025

Problem Statement:

How can wealth management and financial advice firms leverage AI to enhance operational efficiency by optimizing end-to-end processing across front, middle, and back-office functions?

Cyber Security (October 2024)

Tech Sprint carried out September – November 2024

Problem Statement:

How can a specialist cyber security Fintech provide unique and additional value to support wealth managers in preventing, detecting, responding and recovering from cyber security attacks?

ESG reporting, verification & disclosure (June 2024)

Tech Sprint carried out March – April 2024

Problem Statement:

How can new technologies and solutions make a difference to ESG and Sustainable Finance reporting, verification and disclosure?

Client Onboarding and Client Analytics (June 2024)

Tech Sprint carried out September – November 2023

Problem Statement:

How can new technologies and solutions make a difference to ESG and Sustainable Finance reporting, verification and disclosure?

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