2026 Preliminary Program

Breakfast

8:00 - 8:45 AM

Opening of the Fintech Forum

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Plenary session 1

Competition or Consolidation? The Market Effect of Open Finance

9:15 - 10:15 AM

Panel 1

From Real-time Rails to Stablecoins: The Future of the Canadian Payment Ecosystem

10:30 - 11:15 AM

Panel 2

Autonomous Transactions: The Next Phase of Embedded Finance

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Lunch break

12:15 - 1:15 PM

Global Fintech Review

1:15 - 2:00 PM

Panel 3

Fintech & ESG: Powering Sustainable Finance

2:00 - 2:45 PM

Panel 4

Embedded Credit Everywhere: Visibility, Risk and Oversight

3:00 - 3:45 PM

Keynote 1

4:00 - 4:45 PM

Networking Cocktail

5:00 - 7:00 PM

Annual Dinner

7:00 - 9:00 PM

Breakfast

8:00 - 8:45 AM

Opening of Day 2

9:00 - 9:15 AM

Plenary session 2

AI Decision-Making in Finance: Building Trust, Control and Accountability

9:15 - 10:15 AM

Panel 5

AI-Native Finance VS Legacy Systems: Compete, Partner or Rebuild?

10:30 - 11:15 AM

Panel 6

Regtech at Scale: Automating Compliance in a High-Regulation Environment

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM

Lunch break

12:15 - 1:00 PM

Fintech Pitch Battle

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Panel 7

AI VS AI: The New Cyber Arms Race in Finance

2:00 - 2:45 PM

Panel 8

Quantum Advantage: Is Finance Ready?

3:00 - 3:45 PM

Keynote 2

4:00 - 4:45 PM

Networking Cocktail

5:00 - 7:00 PM