Featuring

Mainstage sessions featuring the best in fintech from around the globe.

Innovation Challenge is an annual program that recognizes innovative U.S. fintech startups with ties to Georgia. Eligibility for the program, which includes both cash and in-kind awards for the winning company, is limited to founders of early-stage companies who have raised less than $1.5 million in funding and are based in (or committed to relocating to) Georgia.

Applications for the 2025 Innovation Challenge will open soon!

The TAG Fintech ADVANCE award program recognizes innovative U.S. fintech companies with ties to Georgia. Applications opening soon!

Available throughout Fintech South

Explore the 50+ exhibitors in our expo. Learn about each organization’s mission, people, products and services.

The Rise of Generational AI

Navigating a New Era in Financial Services

Artificial Intelligence is having a transformational impact on nearly every industry as well as our everyday lives. In financial services, generative AI is rapidly moving from theory to reality. Are you ready?

Gain insights from leading experts on how to set sail and successfully navigate your AI journey, including lessons learned from real-world applications by financial institutions and innovative fintechs, and exploring the human implications at the intersection of AI and money that are too often overlooked.

Journey to the Planet of the APIs

Opportunities in Open & Embedded Finance

In today’s competitive market, consumers and businesses are willing to change financial institutions for a better digital experience. To prevent churn and lost customer relationships, it’s more important than ever to deliver a competitive and desirable digital banking experience, often delivered through bank-fintech partnerships and powered by an open banking ecosystem in which APIs provide unencumbered data sharing and integration. Come with us on a journey to the Planet of the APIs!

Omnichannel Commerce

Unpacking the Future of Shopping

From e-commerce marketplaces to the gig economy, the way that consumers and businesses buy goods and services are constantly evolving. Fintech solution providers must also adapt to power the just-in-time and omnichannel experiences that customers demand.

In this dedicated e-commerce track, gain valuable perspective from leading merchants, brands, and fintech innovators on the future of commerce and the role financial technology will continue to play as that future unfolds.

The Technology of Trust

Cybersecurity, Identity & Fighting Financial Crime

For the financial services industry, trust is essential. Customers need to be able to trust financial institutions and fintechs to keep their money safe, to protect their personal data, and to deliver reliable services that help them manage and use their money responsibly. However, trust in financial services is hard won and fragile.

In this track, we dive into building trust and how digital identity solutions are mitigating fraud, fighting financial crime, and creating secure and seamless experiences for customers.

Credit Where Credit is Due:

Innovations Driving the Future of Lending

There is more to a borrower than their credit score and yet creditors have not historically had a 360-degree view of a borrower’s creditworthiness. As a result, many consumers and businesses have unfortunately been left under-served. In these sessions, leading experts share insights on innovations in lending, including how alternative data sources, regulations that give consumers more control of their data, and game-changing technologies like AI, have the promise to give credit where credit is due.

Modernizing Payments

Instant, Interoperable, and Everywhere

Facilitating the movement of money is one of the most fundamental and dynamic aspects of financial services – and Georgia’s “Transaction Alley” processes more than 70 percent of all the billions of transactions taking place each day across the US. From crypto to AI to new instant payment rails powered by banks and The Fed, there is no better place than the ATL to explore how providers are leveraging fintech to meet the growing demand everywhere for faster, interoperable, and lower-cost payments.

Walking the Regulatory Tightrope

Balancing Innovation & Consumer Protection

As game-changing technologies like AI and crypto rapidly bring new innovations to the financial services landscape, regulators are challenged by the pace and finding the right balance. How to protect consumers while also enabling financial innovation? Meanwhile, both incumbents and startups must find ways to efficiently navigate compliance and costs in an unpredictable regulatory landscape. In these sessions, financial policymakers and innovators help us walk the regulatory tightrope.

Wealthtech & Welltech

Empowering Financial & Personal Well-Being

Fintech has the power to serve the underserved, increase resiliency in the face of financial setbacks, and democratize opportunities to invest and build wealth to retire with dignity. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans are not financially healthy – struggling to meet expenses, with little or no emergency savings, and burdensome levels of debt – and historically disadvantaged populations are disproportionately so. Here we explore fintech’s opportunity and responsibility to empower financial wellness.