Fintech Experts to Discuss Open Banking and Digital Assets at Symposium

The Canada FinTech Symposium is set to go down this week in Alberta.

Organized by Prolink Events, the two-day conference at Calgary’s BMO Centre will connect banks, credit unions, fintechs, payment networks, investors, and technology leaders from across Western Canada and beyond.

The Alberta Edition, which follows the success of the symposium’s Toronto edition in May, features the theme “FinTech Forward: Building a Resilient, Inclusive & Intelligent Financial Future.”

“After a strong edition in Toronto this May, we’re bringing that momentum to Calgary,” explains event director Rahul Bhatia.

Targeting a senior audience of executives and founders, the program will cover topics like AI, open banking, payment modernization, digital assets, credit union innovation, and financial infrastructure, ending with the inaugural Northern Lights FinTech Awards on the evening of October 8.

In addition to an exhibition hall, more than 50 speakers will take the stage across presentations and panel discussions, including Zafran Vice President Tyrone Emi delivering the keynote “The Hidden Cost of Modernization: Rethinking Risk as Canadian Finance Rewires Itself.”

Confirmed speakers at the Canada FinTech Symposium include representatives from Interac, Proof, Mastercard, Visa, Scotiabank, Payments Canada, Digital Commerce Payments, BDC, Concentrix, Paysend, Transactix Financial, Tetra Digital Group, Zafran, SpendTheBits, Olympia Trust, Walnut Insurance, Flora, Veem, Finofo, Innovation Federal Credit Union, and the Canadian Bitcoin Consortium.

“This year’s program puts the people building real-time payments, open banking, and digital money in the same room as the institutions that will adopt them,” Bhatia remarked, “and we’re proud to celebrate that work at the first Northern Lights FinTech Awards.”

The inaugural Northern Lights FinTech Awards will recognize innovators across ten categories: Fintech of the Year; AI in Financial Services; Stablecoin & Digital Assets; Payments Innovation; Banking Excellence; WealthTech / Investing; Insurance Technology; Cybersecurity & Digital Trust; Lending & Credit; and Founder of the Year.