Finovate Announces Live Demo Companies and Industry-Leading Speakers for FinovateEurope 2026

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Finovate, a research and events firm focused on innovation in financial and banking technology, today announced its list of demo companies and featured speakers for FinovateEurope 2026, taking place February 10-11 at the Intercontinental O2 in London.

A premier event dedicated to shaping the digital future of the financial services industry, FinovateEurope is set to attract more than 1,000 senior-level attendees, including over 500 attendees from banks, financial institutions, and investment firms. The event offers a firsthand look at the technologies and ideas driving change across the industry.

This year’s live demo program will feature more than 30 fintech companies presenting their products on stage. Demos will highlight solutions spanning customer experience and personalization, embedded finance, artificial intelligence, payments and real-time money movement, open banking, and fraud prevention.

The announced demo companies include:

• AAZZUR
• Candour Identity
• Darwinium
• Elephant
• FINTRAC
• Francis
• Hagbad
• Intuitech
• Keyless
• mAI Edge
• Mifundo
• Opentech
• Outsampler
• R34DY
• Sea.dev
• Serene
• Tweezr

Learn more about the FinovateEurope live demos here.

Alongside live demos, FinovateEurope 2026 will feature more than 100 industry speakers across keynotes, panels, and fireside discussions. Sessions will examine artificial intelligence, regulation and risk, customer experience, lending, payments, and women in fintech.

Featured speakers include:

• Manas Chawla, Founder & CEO, London Politica
• Bianca Zwart, Chief Strategy Officer, bunq
• Victor Alexiev, Global Head of Venture Investments and Partnerships, Citi
• Sarah Biller, Co-Founder, Fintech Sandbox
• Taner Akcok, Head of Global API Banking, Deutsche Bank
• Theodora (Theo) Lau, Founder, Unconventional Ventures
• David Birch, Principal, 15Mb
• Aurelie L’Hostis, Principal Analyst, Financial Services Practice, Forrester
• Mukund Umalkar, Director, GenAI Strategy & Execution, ING Wholesale Bank
• Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance
• Richard Davies, CEO, Allica Bank
• Rukayyat Kolawole, CFA, CEO & Co-Founder, PaceUP Invest

Learn more about the full speaker lineup.

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About Finovate

Finovate is a research and events firm focused on innovation in financial and banking technology. Its team runs the Finovate conference series and authors the popular Finovate blog. Finovate is the only conference series focused exclusively on showcasing the best and most innovative new financial and banking technologies. Finovate conferences consistently attract large, high-impact audiences of senior financial and banking executives, venture capitalists, press, industry analysts, bloggers, regulators and entrepreneurs. For more information visit www.finovate.com.