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FinRegLab AI Symposium 2026

The FinRegLab AI Symposium is a forum for collaborative dialogue at the nexus of financial innovation, public policy, the market, and society. It brings together policymakers, technology leaders, banking and fintech executives, consumer advocates, and nonprofits to explore AI's impact on the financial system. The event's 2026 edition will focus on economic t…

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30Speakers
0Sponsors
18On the bill · sessions
28Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at FinRegLab, in alphabetical order.
Ben Hoffman
EVP, Chief Strategy Officer · Fifth Third Bank
Clarence Wardell III
Vice President of Programs · NextLadder
Dan Klein
Professor of AI at UC Berkeley and Co-Founder/CTO · Scaled Cognition
Delicia Hand
Senior Director, Digital Marketplace · Consumer Reports
Hans Morris
Managing Partner · Nyca Partners
Hui Zhu
VP, North America Products & Services · Visa
John Collison
Co-Founder and President · Stripe
Kabir Kumar
Partner, Ecosystem · Flourish Ventures
Kelly Shaw
Head · Synchrony Ventures
Lakhbir Lamba
Financial Services Leader
Leigh Phillips
President & CEO · SaverLife
Mark Zandi
Chief Economist · Moody’s Analytics
Max Levchin
CEO · Affirm
Melissa Koide
CEO · FinRegLab
Michael S. Barr
Member of the Board of Governors · Federal Reserve System
Miriam Vogel
President and CEO · EqualAI
Nadim Homsany
Chief AI Officer · BECU
Prem Natarajan
EVP, Chief Scientist and Head of Enterprise AI · Capital One
Raj Date
Managing Partner & Chair of the Investment Committees · Fenway Summer
Ren Zhang
VP and Global Head of Product AI · PayPal
Richard Bynum
Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer · PNC
Sen. Mike Rounds
Senator and Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · South Dakota
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Agenda

Selected from 18 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:00 – 10:30 am

    Coffee and Networking Break

  • 10:30 – 11:10 am

    AI, Society, and Economic Opportunity

    A growing community of innovators and investors are dedicated to ensuring AI’s benefits are shared expansively across the country. Their goal is to build a thriving financial servi…

  • 11:10 – 11:55 am

    AI by Design: Deploying Safe and Scalable Systems in Banking

    Financial institutions are grappling with how to build effective AI technology stacks that integrate infrastructure, data systems, security requirements, and governance frameworks …

  • 11:55 – 12:20 pm

    Building the Bank of the Future: AI, Governance, and Growth

    When JPMorganChase created the role of Chief Data & Analytics Officer in 2023, it turned to Teresa Heitsenrether - a 36-year veteran who had led $30 trillion in assets under custod…

  • 1:20 – 1:45 pm

    AI in the Financial Flow: How Trust, Access, and Speed Enable Scale

    As one of the earliest architects of the “buy now, pay later” model, Max Levchin has spent more than a decade shaping how technology can make credit more transparent, flexible, and…

  • 12:20 – 1:20 pm

    Lunch in Skylight Pavilion

  • 1:45 – 2:00 pm

    From Data to AI to Action

    A conversation with a digital-forward bank exploring agentic AI.

  • 2:00 – 2:35 pm

    Intelligent Agents for Everyday Finance

    A conversation with a digital-AI agents have begun to help financial institutions detect and combat fraud, financial crimes, and to manage complex customer service tasks across cha…

  • 2:35 – 3:10 pm

    Building an Ecosystem for AI in eCommerce

    From the “search economy” to the “answer economy” to  the “action economy,” how is agentic AI rewiring eCommerce? Whether questions surrounding agent identification, authority, int…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 28 companies, parsed from the program.

28 companies in attendance.

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Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
28Companies Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

80% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1447%
  • Founder / Owner413%
  • VP-level413%
  • Director / Head of27%
  • Manager / Lead13%
  • Other roles517%

Of 30 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Capital One2V
  2. 02Affirm1V
  3. 03BECU1V
  4. 04Catena Labs1V
  5. 05Citigroup1V
  6. 06Commonwealth1V
  7. 07Consumer Reports1V
  8. 08EqualAI1V
  9. 09Federal Reserve System1V
  10. 10Fenway Summer1V
  11. 11Fifth Third Bank1V
  12. 12FinRegLab1V
  13. 13Flourish Ventures1V
  14. 14Google1V
Sponsors by tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this event.