The agenda for FinovateEurope 2026 (February 10—11) in London is still taking shape. We’ve already shared a preview of some of the top themes that the conference will address. Today we’re looking at a trio of Executive Briefings that will offer attendees concentrated deep dives on a few key issues and trends in fintech and financial services.

This year, women in fintech, integrating AI into financial services, and the embedded finance revolution are the three areas of focus for our FinovateEurope Executive Briefings. Stay tuned for more on our moderators and speakers. For now, check out this advance look at how we’re tackling these top issues for 2026.

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Women in Fintech: How Can We All Make Sure We Are Moving The Needle?

Ladies first! Tuesday morning will feature the first of three Executive Briefings at FinovateEurope: our Women in Fintech Briefing. This session, open to all attendees, will examine and discuss the status of women in fintech and financial services today. From strategies to encourage intentional change at the executive level to ideas on how to make mentoring relationships successful, our Women in Fintech Briefing will share experiences with successful initiatives to grow and retain female talent. The session will also explore ways that fintech and financial services professionals can drive change in their companies and the industry, at large.

How Can We All Make Sure We Are Moving the Needle? And How Can We Support Women in the Toughest Job Market We Have Seen In Years? Tuesday, February 10. 10:40am—11:20am

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The AI Competitive Imperative: Ten Solutions You Need to Know About Today

On Tuesday afternoon our Executive Briefing on the increasing importance of AI in fintech and financial services will take place. This session will focus on practical, real-world applications of AI technology in core financial services operations ranging from fraud prevention and compliance to lending and customer intelligence. Our Executive Briefing on AI will discuss every aspect of the integration process: from pilot to production, emphasizing the best practices that have enabled leading financial institutions to successfully deploy AI-powered solutions to increase profitability, lower costs, boost efficiency, and better engage customers.

The AI Competitive Imperative & the Ten Solutions You Need to Know About Today. Tuesday, February 10. 3:20pm—4:00pm

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From Embedded Finance to Platform Banking

On Wednesday, Day Two of FinovateEurope, we will present our Executive Briefing on the latest developments in the field of embedded finance and the growth of platform banking.

Embedded finance continues to be one of the most revolutionary developments in fintech. As the ability to offer banking and financial services becomes increasingly ubiquitous, what are the opportunities for banks to expand their own distribution footprint? This session will examine the current challenges faced by banks from nonbank rivals and discuss ways—including platform banking—that can enable them to compete with the integrated user experiences from Big Tech, Big Retail, and super apps.

From Embedded Finance to Platform Banking—How Can Banks Capture This Huge Opportunity, Create a Robust API Strategy & Defend Against Super Apps & Ecosystem Threats? Wednesday, February 11. 11:30am—12:10pm

The initial agenda for FinovateEurope 2026—February 10 and February 11 at the Intercontinental O2 in London—has just been released. And while there are still plenty of elements to be added to the two-day event, we are already seeing the contours of a conference that will help attendees better understand the opportunities in emerging technologies like quantum computing, learn the latest strategies for fighting fraud and financial crime, and find the most effective use cases for both AI and digital assets like stablecoins.

There’s plenty to share in the weeks to come. For now, here are six of the early highlights from Days One and Two.

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Day One: All About AI

Boom, bubble, or something else entirely, the AI revolution in technology continues to be one of the defining characteristics of innovation in our times. To this end, the first day of FinovateEurope 2026 will feature a number of sessions dedicated to the AI phenomenon and how banks and other financial institutions are putting this new technology to use to offer new products and services faster and better serve their corporate and retail customers.

On the afternoon of Day One, FinovateEurope will host an Executive Briefing titled The AI Competitive Imperative & Ten Solutions You Need to Know About Today. This session will discuss how firms can successfully integrate AI into core financial services operations. The briefing will cover strategies to deploy AI safely and compliantly, ensure that AI initiatives are aligned with the company’s business and change management strategy, and successfully scale their AI projects from pilot to production.

Later that afternoon, FinovateEurope will feature a Keynote Address: Agentic AI—A New Frontier in Banking, How Can FIs Harness it to Reimagine Enterprise Processes. Agentic AI is one of the most exciting developments in AI, with applications from cybersecurity to e-commerce. What needs to happen to ensure that Agentic AI delivers real value for both customers and banks? And what about the issues of trust and identity? How should banks operate in a brave new world in which bots are customers? Our keynote address on Agentic AI will cover all this and more.

FinovateEurope 2026 wraps up Day One with a Power Panel: AI, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, Beyond the Hype—How Financial Institutions Can Use AI to Make Money or Save Money. This panel will showcase a variety of viewpoints on where we are in terms of AI, fintech, and financial services. Where are the greatest opportunities: product innovation or customer journeys? What are the best use cases for financial institutions and do we have the right KPIs to measure success? And what does it mean for financial institutions to “lean into” the opportunities in AI—where do the potential rewards most clearly outweigh the potential risks?

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Day Two: Cyber Security, Quantum Computing, and Stablecoins

If Day One is dedicated to all things AI, Day Two offers a tour of many of the other enabling technologies and top challenges in fintech and financial services.

Wednesday morning, FinovateEurope will feature a Power Panel: Financial Crime & Cyber Security—How Banks & Fintechs Can Work Together to Meet the Challenges of the Digital Era. This session will look at some of the new tools and technologies that are available to help combat financial crime. The conversation will cover the role of digital identity and biometric authentication—as well as AI and machine learning—in the current fight against the fraudsters. The panel will also examine ways that fintechs and banks can partner to better defend customers from both contemporary and evolving threats.

AI is not the only advanced technology that fintechs and banks are exploring. Quantum computing, with processing power that dwarfs that of supercomputers, could have a major impact on industries from technology to communications to defense. FinovateEurope’s Quick Fire Keynote: How Quantum Computing Could Transform Banking—What Are the Use Cases for Banks? will provide insightful commentary on what bankers—and their technology partners—need to know about the promise and risks of quantum computing.

There are many areas where the UK and Europe are ahead of the US—sustainability, open banking and open finance, for example. But has the new clarity in stablecoins in the US courtesy of the Genius Act given the States an edge vis-à-vis the UK and Europe when it comes to these digital assets? FinovateEurope’s Fireside Chat: Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits in the Real World—Hype vs Reality will look at the current regulatory status of digital assets like stablecoins in the EU and discuss what to look for in the next phase of cryptocurrency adoption in the region.

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There’s plenty more conversation coming—from discussions about bank modernization and the power of platform banking partnerships to the growth of open banking, open data, and open finance. Be sure to check out our FinovateEurope 2026 hub—as well as our coverage here on the Finovate blog—for the latest updates.