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The FTT Fintech Festival brings together innovators and change-makers who are redefining the future of the industry, taking place on December 8 - 9, 2026 at the JW Marriott Austin in Austin, Texas.
Welcoming 450+ senior attendees for two days of doing business, knowledge sharing, and networking. The event will unite C-suite executives, founders, and technology leaders from across financial institutions, fintechs, tech innovators, and a fascinating mix of non-financial enterprises as they delve into the digital transformation reshaping financial services and beyond.
The FTT Fintech Festival will take place on December 8 - 9, 2026 at the JW Marriott Austin in Austin, Texas.
The FTT Fintech Festival brings together a diverse community of C-suite executives, founders, and senior leaders from financial institutions, fintechs, technology providers, and a broad spectrum of non-financial sectors including retail, marketplaces, gaming, healthcare, travel, mobility, and entertainment.
100+ speakers at the FTT Fintech Festival will explore major trends across payments, open finance, embedded finance, AI in financial services, lending innovation, financial inclusion, digital identity, fraud prevention, and more, all through dynamic discussions and real-world use cases across nine stages.
Passes to the FTT Fintech Festival include full access to the Festival floor, the content stages with 100+ senior speakers, complimentary lunch, a craft beer bar, barista coffee stations, networking drinks, live DJ sets, and more. VIP Hosted Meetings Program pass holders can also enjoy a range of exclusive, additional benefits.
JW Marriott Austin is easily accessible from across the city. Located at 110 E 2nd Street, the hotel is around 8 miles from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, with rideshare, taxi and driving options typically taking 12–15 minutes. CapMetro Route 20 also connects the airport to downtown Austin, followed by a short walk to the venue. If you are arriving by train, Austin Amtrak Station is around 1 mile away. Start planning your visit here.
The FTT Fintech Festival is brought to you by VC Innovations. VC Innovations is a full-stack marketing services agency transforming innovative business through accelerated marketing. As the architects of Fintech Talents, VC Innovations convenes a community of 200,000+ digital transformation leaders from across the fintech and financial services ecosystem. VC Innovations believes that by bringing together communities from across the globe to explore the power of innovation, better outcomes for businesses and consumers will follow. 2 Bloomsbury Place, London WC1A 2QL, UK. Visit the VC Innovations website.
The VIP Hosted Meetings Program is designed to connect those looking for new technology or partners to meet the businesses providing those services. Our hosted meetings team will generate meetings based on your preferences and pre-schedule only the most relevant meetings for you.
Apply & align:
Submit your application and meet with our hosted meetings team to kick off onboarding. We'll deep-dive into your priorities, current initiatives, and the types of partners you want to meet, ensuring we fully understand where you're looking to create value.
Set your preferences:
Browse the pre-qualified technology partners and select who you're most interested in meeting. At the same time, partners review your profile. All Meetings are confirmed through a double-opt-in process. If both sides agree, the meeting goes ahead.
Get your schedule:
Once preferences are locked, we build your personalized meeting schedule. You’ll receive a fully confirmed agenda ahead of the event with dedicated meeting slots and no clashes.
Meet at the event:
Join us in Austin for a series of focused, high-value meetings. Your day is structured with dedicated meeting sessions, alongside time for networking and VIP experiences. No cold outreach. No irrelevant conversations.
Follow up
After the event, continue conversations with your new partners and track outcomes.
VIP Hosted Meetings Passes are available for senior decision makers responsible for buying or evaluating technology and other solutions for their company. Eligible company types include: banks, financial institutions; retailers, e-commerce firms, brands and platform marketplaces; esports, gaming and gambling businesses; entertainment and broadcasting businesses; travel, transportation, and delivery services; social media platforms; e-health and healthcare providers.
Excludes individuals from sales, relationship or commercial teams and organizations with a BaaS, payments or funding advisory value proposition. View the T&Cs here.
We'll check your registration and let you know via email if you have been approved as a hosted meetings participant. If you don't meet our qualifying criteria, you can register for one of our Rockstar passes instead.
Ahead of the event, all participants will be invited to select companies they would like to meet with. Your meetings are generated based on the preferences you make, to ensure only the highest quality and most relevant meetings are scheduled.
The meetings will be 15 minutes long and held between 10:30am - 12pm and 2pm - 4pm on both event days (December 8 - 9, 2026) in the hosted meetings lounge.
Double opt-in means that both parties agree to the meeting, so we will only schedule meetings where both you and the event partner have agreed to meet.
VIP Hosted Rockstars must commit to making appointments with our event partners via the VIP Hosted Meetings Program. We ask that you come to the event ready to meet with new potential partners. You must attend onsite meetings with participating sponsors, determined by a double opt-in process and complete the post-event survey.
The deadline to apply is Monday November 2, 2026.
Participants are free to attend content sessions and network on the exhibition floor around their schedule of meetings.
If you attend the event but do not complete your scheduled meetings, we reserve the right to invoice your company for $1,499 for the event ticket as per the authorization you agree to, and you may also be excluded from qualifying for the event in future years.
If you are approved for the VIP Hosted Meetings Program but are unable to participate even though you are still with your organization, you must agree to suggest one or more substitutes from your organization as your replacement for the program. Acceptance of any substitute is subject to prior approval via email.
The promoter is VC Innovations Ltd, 2 Bloomsbury Place, London WC1A 2QL, UK.
This competition is open to registered attendees of the FTT Fintech Festival and Future Identity Festival who are aged 18 or over. Employees of VC Innovations, event sponsors, event speaker and suppliers are not eligible to enter.
The competition is free to enter. No purchase, payment or paid subscription is required.
To enter, participants must publish a LinkedIn post using their official “I’m attending” social media card and tag either FTT Fintech or Future Identity.
The competition is currently open and closes on December 9 at 5pm CST. Entries received after the closing date will not be counted.
One entry per person. Multiple posts will not increase the chance of winning.
The prize is one WHOOP Smart Watch and a one-year subscription. The prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and no cash alternative will be offered.
The winner will be selected by random. The winner will be contacted within seven working days of the competition closing date. If the winner does not respond within seven days, the promoter reserves the right to select an alternative winner.
By entering, participants agree that VC Innovations may announce the winner’s name and company on its website, social media channels, email or event marketing materials.
Personal data will only be used to administer the competition, contact the winner and fulfil the prize, unless the entrant has separately opted in to receive further communications. Personal data will be processed in line with VC Innovations’ privacy policy which can be viewed here.
This competition is run by VC Innovations and is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with LinkedIn or WHOOP. Entrants release LinkedIn and WHOOP from any liability relating to the competition.
The promoter reserves the right to amend, suspend or cancel the competition where necessary due to circumstances outside its reasonable control.
Entries that are incomplete, fraudulent, automated, offensive, misleading or do not comply with these terms may be disqualified.