Stablecoins are moving real money. AI is approving the loan. Your customer's agent is about to pick their bank.

Emerging tech is rewriting how money moves. Most people will read about it later. This room gets there first.

Join the founders building it, the financial services leaders putting it to work and the investors backing it for one afternoon on what's changing now, what's coming next and who's building it.

What to expect

See what's coming before everyone else Hear from the leaders and founders reshaping how money moves, and debate the questions finance can't stop asking. Past speakers: Bill Phelan, founder, PayNet (acquired by Equifax) · Tom Sosnoff, co-founder, thinkorswim and tastytrade · Rochelle Nawrocki-Gorey, founder, SpringFour · [Nafas: confirm full name, title, company]

Meet the startups building it Fintech founders putting emerging technology to work across payments, lending, banking and fraud, seed through Series A.

Learn from the people moving it forward Bank and financial services leaders implementing it, investors funding it and regulators deciding what's allowed.

Leave with the right connections Corporate leaders, investors and founders in one room, with introductions made before, during and after the Lab.

Who you're around changes what you believe is possible.

Based in Chicago. Serving the world.

Agenda

11:30 AM · Invite-only pre-event Separate registration required

  • CorpInno Exchange - Fintech For senior financial services, innovation and functional leaders. One leader walks through a real implementation: what they set out to do, what it took to get through the building, and where the plan changed. Then the room takes it apart.

  • Fintech Investor Insider Seed-stage and Series A founders raising capital pitch for 60 seconds to a room full of fintech investors actively writing checks. Then the real conversations start.

12:30 PM · Startup Alley Expo: corporate and investor preview Invite-only Corporate leaders and investors get first access to the startups, before the doors open.

1:00 PM · Doors open · Startup Alley Expo opens to all

1:30 PM · Welcome from 1871

1:40 PM · Opening keynote One of financial services' most influential leaders on where emerging tech is taking the industry, and what to do about it now.

2:00 PM · Tech on the Edge Three to four rapid-fire 15-minute conversations with the people closest to the work.

Sample topics might include:

  • Will stablecoins make the wire transfer, and the correspondent bank, obsolete?

  • When your customer's AI agent picks the bank, who owns the customer?

  • Quantum could break the encryption behind every payment. Is finance ready for Q-Day?

  • Deepfake CFO on line one: is fraud outrunning the defenses?

  • Can AI underwrite a loan a regulator will sign off on, and explain why?

  • Will AI close the financial inclusion gap, or widen it?

3:00 PM · Networking and facilitated breakouts Pick a table, pick a topic, led by industry experts. Past tables: the future of payments · investing in fintech · barriers to financial inclusion · AI in fintech · Chicago's role in fintech

3:50 PM · Founder pitch showcase The fintech startups to watch, pitching to the corporate leaders and investors who can move them forward. Past winners: OKY · Habits

4:30 PM · Emerging leaders keynote A founder who built one of fintech's fastest-growing companies, on the decisions behind the growth.

5:00 PM · Happy hour in Startup Alley Drinks with the startups, and the introductions we lined up for you.

Tickets: Pre-sale $150 · Free for 1871 members