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This brief opening keynote sets the tone for Synergy and outlines what attendees can expect over the course of the event. We’ll highlight the core themes, priorities, and conversations shaping this year’s agenda. Attendees will leave oriented, aligned, and ready to make the most of the sessions ahead. 

Join Star’s Chief Product Officer for a forward-looking look at the evolution of the STAR Enterprise platform. This session highlights the progress we’ve made, the enhancements delivered, and how customer feedback continues to shape what’s next. You’ll gain insight into our product direction and how upcoming innovations are designed to support the way compliance teams actually work.

As AI adoption accelerates across financial services, many firms are choosing progress over paralysis. In this session, industry peers share how they are deploying AI today, where they are seeing the most value, and how compliance teams are supporting responsible adoption despite regulatory uncertainty. Attendees will gain practical insight into how leading institutions are moving forward with confidence rather than waiting on the sidelines. 

This session highlights how Star is strengthening broker feed optimization and monitoring to improve compliance oversight, increase visibility, and drive greater efficiency. From exploring innovative new ways of capturing broker feed data to simplified security matching and emerging closed-loop models, we’ll cover what’s live today and what’s coming next. Learn how these advancements create a more connected, controlled, and streamlined compliance ecosystem. 

This interactive Brainiac Bar session is designed for Star clients looking to deepen their use of the Individual Accountability solution. The discussion will focus on effective usage patterns, real-world approaches, and newer features that help teams get more value from the platform. Attendees will leave with practical ideas they can apply immediately to strengthen their accountability programs. 

Compliance teams rely on multiple tools to get the job done—but those tools don’t have to operate in silos. This breakout explores how the STAR Platform connects products like Outside Business Activities, Expense Tracking, and Broker-Dealer Registration through shared data, workflows, and notifications. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of what a “platform” really means in practice, and how STAR delivers a cohesive experience that makes it easier to add new capabilities without disrupting existing processes. 

In this session, Dominic Holland, Co-Director of Market Oversight Enforcement & Market Oversight Division at the FCA, provides insights into the FCA’s evolving regulatory focus and what that means for financial services compliance programs. Attendees will gain insight into key areas of emphasis, emerging expectations, and how firms should be thinking about positioning their compliance frameworks for the future. The discussion is designed to help compliance leaders anticipate change and prepare with confidence. 

As MiCA and other digital assets regulations move closer to enforcement, compliance teams are under pressure to prepare and execute their policies framework with confidence. This panel brings together practitioners to discuss what readiness looks like – from policy and surveillance controls, to day-to-day operational execution. Attendees will gain practical perspectives on how firms are approaching digital assets compliance today and planning for what’s next in a quickly evolving regulatory landscape. 

This breakout explores how firms are using Star’s Trade Surveillance solution to meet Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) requirements. The session will cover how surveillance supports monitoring, detection, and investigation of potential market abuse across firm and client trading activity. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of how Star helps compliance teams support MAR obligations within day-to-day supervisory workflows. 

This interactive Brainiac Bar session is designed for Star clients looking to deepen their use of the Personal Account Dealing and Gifts & Hospitality solutions. The discussion will focus on effective usage approaches, real-world examples, and newer capabilities that help teams streamline oversight and improve outcomes across both workflows. Attendees will leave with practical ideas to apply immediately within their programs. 

This breakout session highlights how Star’s employee crypto dealing solution removes uncertainty from digital asset oversight. Attendees will see how the solution makes it easy for employees to connect their accounts while enabling compliance teams to identify undeclared accounts and monitor activity with confidence. This session offers a first look for many at how Star’s newer crypto dealing capabilities are being used to bring clarity and control to a relatively new and dynamic market for digital and tokenized assets. 

This Brainiac Bar session is designed for existing Star users who want to deepen their use of the Compliance Control Room. The discussion will focus on how firms are centralizing oversight, connecting key compliance data, and using the Control Room more effectively with enhanced conflict searching, streamlined wall crossing workflows, faster conflict clearance, and more. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for getting more value from the tools they already have. 

This breakout introduces Expense Tracking, Star’s automated employee expense reconciliation capability and how it helps firms reduce manual review and improve accuracy. Attendees will see how the solution integrates with SAP Concur to automatically match expenses to compliance declarations, highlighting how automation can simplify oversight and close long-standing gaps. 

This breakout features a client success story from NFUM, sharing how Sales Compliance Review has reshaped their QA process. Attendees will hear firsthand how the solution has improved consistency, oversight, and efficiency, alongside an overview of the Sales Compliance Review solution itself. The session provides both real-world perspective and practical context for teams evaluating or expanding their use of this capability. 

This invite-only think tank brings together returning participants for a continued, in-depth discussion on the Compliance Control Room. In addition to sharing evolving use cases and emerging challenges, attendees will receive updates on product direction and have the opportunity to provide direct feedback to the Star product team. The session is designed to foster candid, peer-level dialogue while helping shape what comes next. 

This discussion-based session brings peers together by sub-sector to explore common compliance challenges and evolving priorities. Attendees will exchange perspectives on what’s changing, what’s working, and how compliance programs are adapting within similar regulatory and business contexts. The session is designed to foster meaningful peer dialogue and practical takeaways grounded in real-world experience. 

This session begins with a brief client perspective on what they set out to achieve with Analytics and the impact it’s delivering so far. Then, we put Analytics to work—live. Attendees will choose from a curated selection of reports and capabilities, with live walkthroughs showing how to turn compliance data into clearer insights and more informed decisions

This session is designed for non-technical leaders who want a clear, practical understanding of large language models without getting lost in technical detail. In this session, Ronnie Chung, Director at Envisioned AI, explains what LLMs are, how they are being used today, and why they matter for business and compliance decision-making. Attendees will leave with actionable tips for how to effectively utilize AI and LLMs, as well as a stronger foundation for engaging in informed conversations about AI within their organizations.

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