Dr Maryam Alhalboni, School for Business and Society, University of York, explores how procedural policy clarity enables markets to act on climate-related information, showing why disclosure alone is not enough to support effective capital allocation.

Helena Viñes Fiestas, Chair of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance and Commissioner of the Spanish Financial Markets Authority, explores why where companies invest their capital matters more than the climate targets they set.

Arunma Oteh, Co-Chair, and Simon Rawson, Executive Director, of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), explain how stock exchanges can help shape the disclosure of inequality and people-related issues.

Sacha Sadan, Director of Sustainable Finance at the FCA, explores why sustainable finance must move beyond building frameworks to ensuring they deliver.

Fiona Watson, VP Corporate Performance & Accountability, WBCSD, explores how exchanges can strengthen market quality by making sustainability more investable.

Magnus Almqvist, CEO of Exberry, examines the rapid rise of prediction markets and the infrastructure, regulatory frameworks, and market integrity standards required to support their growth at institutional scale.

Alyona Bulda, SVP, Emerging Technologies, and Dmitry Kolpakov, Chief Financial Officer at Exactpro, examine the critical questions FMI technology teams must address earlier to strengthen resilience across trading and post-trade systems.

Suraj Pandey, Head of Business Development at pTools Software, explains how AI-enabled processing is improving the speed, accuracy and compliance of corporate announcements, while reducing operational risk across capital markets.

Lateral experiences and reflective pauses can build capability, resilience and perspective.