Build, Buy, or Keep Sovereign? The Domain-LLM Data Question Regulators Are Asking

Underneath every agentic use case sits a harder technical choice: fine-tune a general model, retrieve against it, or build something smaller and sovereign that never lets sensitive data leave the building. This session works through the trade-offs between those approaches and what the build-versus-buy decision made this year locks in for everything built on top of it. The audience leaves with a clearer sense of which architecture fits their own data, risk appetite and regulatory footprint. One of the key questions the panel will look to dive deeper into: can a bank trust a model it did not build, running on its most sensitive data?