The Fintech and Financial Services Forum 2026, themed Reimagining Finance in the Age of AI, is scheduled for June 27, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, bringing together senior figures from banking, fintech, venture capital, investment, policy, and technology for a full-day conversation about how artificial intelligence is restructuring financial services, infrastructure, and the broader global economy. The museum, an iconic Silicon Valley landmark where the history of computing innovation is preserved and celebrated, provides a fitting backdrop for a forum whose agenda is oriented entirely toward the next era of that same innovation as it intersects with one of the world’s most consequential industries. Early registration is open at lnkd.in/dTc4Ux2r, with organisers encouraging participants to secure their place ahead of the June 27 event.
The forum’s agenda is structured around several interconnected sessions that together map the terrain of where artificial intelligence is having its most consequential effects on finance. One of the anchor sessions, titled The Future of Banking in the Age of AI, will examine what banking looks like when artificial intelligence moves from being a supplementary tool to the organising principle of how financial institutions make decisions, manage risk, build products, and structure their workforces. The session will cover intelligent decision-making systems, platform-based banking ecosystems, governance and regulatory considerations specific to AI-driven financial institutions, and the workforce transformation that accompanies the shift toward an AI-first operating model. The framing of the session acknowledges that the future of banking will not be determined by technology alone but by the leaders who understand how to deploy it with strategic intent and institutional discipline. Participants can register to attend at lnkd.in/dTc4Ux2r.
A second major session, focused on the Evolution of Financial Products, will address the accelerating pace at which consumer-facing financial offerings are being redesigned around data, personalisation, and seamless integration into everyday digital experiences. The session will explore embedded finance and invisible banking, where financial services are woven into non-financial platforms in ways that make the underlying infrastructure disappear from the user’s perspective entirely. It will also cover personalisation through data and artificial intelligence, digital lending and buy-now-pay-later models, next-generation wealth products, and the broader argument that customer experience has become a primary competitive differentiator in financial services rather than a secondary consideration. The evolution of financial products is not simply a technology story but a customer expectations story, and the session is designed to hold both dimensions in view simultaneously.
Beyond these two anchor sessions, the forum’s broader agenda spans AI-powered banking and financial ecosystems, payments innovation, open banking and financial infrastructure, the evolving role of credit unions in a digital-first environment, and fintech’s impact on global economies, financial inclusion, and growth. This last theme places the more technically specific conversations within a macroeconomic and social context that matters particularly for markets and populations where access to financial services has historically been constrained and where AI-driven fintech represents one of the more credible pathways toward meaningful inclusion at scale. The full agenda reflects an understanding that the transformation underway in financial services is simultaneously a technology story, a regulatory story, a product story, and an economic story, and that the most useful conversations about it are the ones that hold all of those dimensions in view at once.
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View places the forum at the geographic and cultural center of the technology industry’s most concentrated community of engineers, investors, and product thinkers, many of whom are already working on the AI systems and financial infrastructure that will define the next decade of the industry. For attendees from banking and traditional financial services, that proximity is a reminder that competitive pressure is arriving from an ecosystem that operates with considerably more speed and considerably fewer institutional constraints than regulated finance has historically been able to match. Leaders and practitioners tracking these developments and looking to engage with peers navigating the same shifts can register for the full-day June 27 forum, running from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at lnkd.in/dTc4Ux2r.
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