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Chelsea, NY · Thursday, November 5
San Francisco was a banger. Time to show New York some love.
An invite-only evening for the executives, founders and investors building the future of payments.
San Francisco included executives from HSBC, Apple, Shopify and Mastercard.
Now we’re bringing that same energy to New York.
Access is earned.
🤝 Community Partnerships
LONDON · THE (UN)BANKED
Monday, November 9 · Landing Canary Wharf
Who runs finance when it moves on-chain?
Amsterdam drew 500+ senior leaders. Now The (un)Banked takes over London.
Proud to be official Community Partners with INPUT Global, putting banks, fintechs and crypto on one stage.
Tokenization, custody, stablecoins, institutional capital and regulation. Five panels, one room.
LISBON · VNTR GLOBAL INVESTOR SUMMIT
Tuesday, November 10 · Web Summit week
Proud to be VNTR’s Summit Community Partner in Lisbon.
300+ curated investors with $50B+ in combined AUM, together for one full day.
VNTR has spent five years building the investor side of the table: 800+ events and 5,000+ vetted members across 40+ countries. We bring the founders and executives they back.
For founders, two ways in:
→ Deal Room: 15 startups, pre-seed to Series A, each get their own table with investors matched by thesis. Applications close November 5.
→ After Party: from 7:00 PM, founders meet funders.
Where You’ll Find Us
Featured: Assets & Access, New York
Tue Nov 10, 6:00 PM ET at Pubkey.
Also on the calendar
Miami: Assets & Access @ Better Days, Thu Nov 12
Tampa: Assets & Access @ The Copper Shaker, Thu Nov 12
The Industry
New York
Crypto · Swell 2026, Oct 27-29
Ripple’s Swell: 1,500+ attendees, with Robinhood and BNY executives onstage. (Hudson Yards)
Crypto · The Bridge, Oct 27
1,000+ executives from banks, asset managers, funds and exchanges on where TradFi meets digital assets. (Brookfield Place)
AI · Responsible Tech Summit, Oct 29
375 invited leaders on AI accountability, with IAPP’s J. Trevor Hughes keynoting. (TimesCenter)
Fintech · Open Source in Finance Forum, Nov 4-5
FINOS and the Linux Foundation on open source in banking, sponsored by Red Hat and Capital One.
AI · Cursor Compile New York, Nov 5
Cursor’s user conference comes to New York, by application only.
AI · MFA Ops: Data, Tech & AI, Nov 10
Technology leaders at hedge funds and alternative investment firms on AI, data and infrastructure. (UBS, Flatiron)
San Francisco
AI · ODSC AI West, Oct 27-29
2,500+ attendees, with keynotes from Peter Norvig and Michael I. Jordan. (Burlingame)
Enterprise · VentureBeat Agentic Infrastructure Summit, Oct 28
A small room of senior tech leaders, by application, with T-Mobile’s CIO, Box’s CTO and a Microsoft corporate VP speaking. Applications close today.
Product · GitHub Universe, Oct 28-29
GitHub’s developer conference, focused on AI agents that write code. (Fort Mason)
Enterprise · OWASP Global AppSec USA, Nov 2-6
800+ security experts and practitioners, with keynotes from Contrast Security’s Jeff Williams and Root Evidence’s Jeremiah Grossman. (Embarcadero)
AI · Cerebral Valley AI Summit, Nov 12
Invite-only. Half the room are AI founders and a third are investors.
Los Angeles
AI · Music Tectonics, Oct 27-29
Music tech founders and investors on AI and royalties, plus a startup pitch competition. (Santa Monica)
Chicago
Fintech · FIA Expo, Nov 2-4
The futures industry’s big week, with CME Group, Coinbase and Cboe among the sponsors.
Fintech · Small Business Banking, Oct 26-28
Starts today. Small business banking heads from U.S. Bank and Live Oak Bank on AI, lending and payments.
Venture · Invest For Kids, Oct 28
David Einhorn, Rod Wong and Justin Ishbia share their best ideas, all for charity. (Harris Theater)
Fintech · Bank.AI Summit, Oct 27
Bank and credit union executives on AI across 20+ sessions, including governance. (Four Seasons)
Boston
Venture · TechCrunch Founder Summit, Nov 4
1,000+ founders and VCs, with Toast’s president and investors from Bessemer and NEA. (SoWa Power Station)
Texas
Venture · Bloomberg Invest Dallas, Oct 26-27
Starts today. TXSE CEO James Lee, JPMorgan’s Elaine Agather and Mavericks CEO Rick Welts. (Dallas)
Fintech · NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum, Nov 10
400+ payments leaders, with speakers from Visa, PayPal, Ripple, Wise and Capital One. (Austin)
Enterprise · BNEF Summit Houston, Nov 11
BloombergNEF convenes 600 leaders across energy, tech, digital infrastructure and finance. (Post Oak Hotel)
AI · DataSecAI, Nov 9-11
Cyera’s AI security conference, with Southwest Airlines and Ascension security chiefs, backed by Snowflake and Google Cloud. (Dallas)
Las Vegas
Fintech · AFP 2026, Nov 8-11
Nearly 7,000 treasury, payments and corporate finance leaders. (Mandalay Bay)
AI · Oracle AI World, Oct 25-28
Underway now. Keynotes from Oracle CEOs Mike Sicilia and Clay Magouyrk. (The Venetian)
Miami
Product · Adobe MAX, Nov 10-12
Adobe’s flagship conference, with 200+ sessions and speakers including Jonathan Anderson and Terry Crews. (Miami Beach)
Europe
Crypto · Digital Asset Summit London, Nov 10-11
1,500+ attendees from 730+ institutions, with BlackRock, JPMorganChase, Coinbase and OpenAI speakers. (London)
Crypto · Bitcoin Amsterdam, Nov 5-6
Strike’s Jack Mallers and Blockstream’s Adam Back headline the fifth edition. (Amsterdam)
Crypto · MERGE Madrid, Oct 27-29
5,000+ attendees, with Santander and BBVA speaking and Ripple, Tether and Mastercard sponsoring. (Madrid)
Venture · Web Summit, Nov 9-12
Last year drew 71,000+ attendees and a record 1,857 investors. (Lisbon)
Fintech · FTT Fintech Festival, Nov 9-10
Last year drew 2,500+ attendees and 400+ speakers. This year HSBC’s chief AI officer speaks, with Lloyds sponsoring. (London)
Enterprise · Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Nov 9-12
6,500+ CIOs and IT executives on building an enterprise AI economy. (Barcelona)
Fintech · MoneyLIVE Nordic Banking, Oct 27-28
800+ attendees, including Swedbank’s deputy CEO, Tomas Hedberg. (Copenhagen)
Middle East
Fintech · Dubai Future Finance Week, Nov 2-6
DIFC’s first finance week: 85+ events and 850+ speakers, anchored by the Dubai FinTech Summit. (Dubai)
AI · Dubai AI Festival, Oct 26-27
Starts today. 20+ global unicorns and 20+ top VCs. (Dubai World Trade Centre)
Asia Pacific
Venture · Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit, Nov 2-4
Invite-only. The HKMA hosts about 280 global finance leaders, including around 120 chairs and CEOs. (Hong Kong)
Fintech · Hong Kong FinTech Week, Nov 2-6
45,000+ attendees and 1,000+ speakers across the city. (Hong Kong)
Crypto · Devcon 8, Nov 3-6
The Ethereum Foundation’s annual conference for developers and researchers. (Mumbai)
Crypto · Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit, Nov 5-6
Cosmoverse’s two-day summit, plus an invite-only business day on Nov 4. (Grand Hyatt, Hong Kong)
Enterprise · SWITCH, Oct 27-29
400+ exhibitors and startups across 30+ global pavilions at Marina Bay Sands. (Singapore)
Enterprise · World Business Forum Sydney, Nov 5-6
Shazam founder Chris Barton and Anna Baird, former chief customer officer for Google Cloud’s generative AI business, headline. (Sydney)
🏔️ Looking Way Ahead: Pyth at Davos
January 20, 2027. Davos, during WEF week.
Our partners at Pyth are hosting an invitation-only afternoon above Davos for leaders in finance and market infrastructure. A private mountain terrace, live music, and a special announcement from Pyth.
Three months out. Requests are open now.
THE MARQUEE SCORECARD
LAST WEEK: THE DESK’S CALL
Room of the week
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 Swell (34%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜ The Bridge (26%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ MERGE Madrid (18%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Oracle AI World (13%)
🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ None of the above (9%)
Where we were
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 New York (38%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜ San Francisco (25%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜ Las Vegas (21%)
🟦🟦🟦🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Somewhere else (16%)
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