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Sharing knowledge strengthens the fintech ecosystem—that’s why fintech_devcon sessions are free to watch. Here are sessions from previous years.

Keynotes

Simple to users, brutal to build: What rewards ledgers teach us about fintech architecture

Matthew Goldman
Founder at Totavi

Lessons learned building the network for global money: A decade in

Harsh Sinha
CTO at Wise

The anatomy of agentic commerce

Jeff Pomeroy
SVP of Payments, Services & Platforms at PayPal

Revolutionizing incident response

Emily Freeman
Author, Former DevRel at Microsoft and AWS, Co-Founder and CEO of Freeman & Forrest

Roadblock talks

Letting AI speak fintech: How we made our APIs AI-agent friendly

Angie Jones
Head of Developer Relations at Block

Eliminating NIGO at the source: Architecting a scalable verification framework

David Gonzalez
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Docusign

Powering agentic payments: What we learned about flexibility, control, and issuing at scale

Robin Gandhi
Chief Product Officer at Lithic

Credit where credit's due: Lessons in embedded lending

Baishi Wu
Sr. Group Product Manager at Chime

What we learned (the hard way): Reconciliation at scale with serverless architecture

Melvin Philips
Staff Engineer at Lead Bank

Using open source to power global payments: Learn the architecture, tools, and integration strategies

Edward Cable
President/CEO at The Mifos Initiative
Min Tha Gyaw
Director of Growth at The Mifos Initiative

Practical tips for working in a multi-million line monolith in fintech: What to do and what not to do

Mike Tria
CTO at Gusto

Overcoming AI compliance roadblocks in payment systems: A playbook for fintech builders

Ravieshwar Singh
Founder at Protocol Law

Building identity foundations for an agentic future in fintech

Anvi Banga
DevRel Engineer at Descope

Ledgers made of lightning: Reinventing tradition to forge the future of finance

Julie Morlan
Senior Managing Director of Product and Design at Jack Henry
Chris Davenport
Principal Software Engineer at Jack Henry

Breaking the rules: Overcoming challenges in building a real-time payment gateway with OPA

Yangye Zhu
Engineering Manager at Torpago

Achieving payments resiliency with idempotency

Emery Coxe
Lead Architect at First Dollar

Optimizing payment routing: Enhancing efficiency across multiple payment methods

Arthur Breurkes
Senior Software Engineer at Adyen

How to build an agentic workflow with Conductor

Maria Shimkovska
Software Engineer at Orkes

Mastering latency: Elevating web application performance

Sam Lightfoot
Lead Engineer at J.P. Morgan
Kirill Barsukov
Executive Director at J.P. Morgan

Building payments infrastructure that scales: Lessons in tokenization, isolation, and API design

Travis Mottershead
Sr. Director of Client Operations at VGS

The Andy Factor: How to design for accessibility

Becky Kiichle-Gross
Principal Product Manager at Mitek Systems

Securing the digital dollar: Application security challenges where GenAI meets fintech

Stephen Thoemmes
Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk

How to extract financial insights from cash flow data with AI

Berkay Ozturk
Software Engineer at Pave

Hands-on EMV: How to read chip card data with Android NFC APIs

Richard Kolkovich
Senior Software Engineer at Moov

Securing a banking system's UI and API

Benjamin Howdle
Senior Software Engineer

Navigating biometric regulations: Overcoming privacy roadblocks in fintech

Frances Zelazny
CEO at Anonybit

Event-driven architecture in payments: Lessons from scaling a digital twin

Carlos Netto
CEO & Co-Founder at Matera

The architecture of trust: Transaction integrity for distributed systems

Fred Amaral
Founder & CEO at Lerian
Jefferson Rodrigues
CTO & Co-Founder at Lerian

From bottleneck to billions: How data migrations unlocked massive scale

Steve Smith
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Moov

Lessons learned scaling a payments platform with an event-sourced architecture

Daniel Cohen
Software Architect at Rainforest

Securing financial and Web3 mobile apps: Best practices for fraud prevention from dev to deployment

Karen Hsu
SVP Mobile DevOps & Security, Founder at Appdome and Blockchain by Women

Double RAG: How out-of-the-box AI can help reduce decision times

James Moughon
VP of Digital Products at Praxent

The color of money: Rethinking fungibility in digital ledgers

Clément Salaün
Co-Founder at Formance

Build your own universal core API adapter for fun and profit. Write once, copy once, generalize

Miah Petersen
Lead Engineer at Zsuite Tech

Deriving credit attributes with JSONata: Patterns for parsing and aggregation

Dustin McAllister
Engineering Manager at Bloom Credit

Learn how to power agentic payments with FIAT, crypto, and compliant infrastructure

Maria Palma
General Partner at Free Style Capital and Payments
Tyllen Bicakcic
Co-Founder at Paymen

Learn to use AI agents to accelerate development and streamline CI/CD

Ravi Nagvekar
Generative AI Financial Architect at Amazon Web Services

Making REST APIs AI-usable: A guide to structuring for agents

Johnny Mejias
Head of Engineering at Payabli

Beyond the LLM: Building personalized, secure AI features with the right integration data

Shensi Ding
CEO at Merge

How to scale reliable infrastructure by continuously testing in the real world

Darragh Buckley
Founder and CEO at Increase

Building and exposing your first MCP to your users

Michael Cullum
CTO at Bud

Workshops

Learn how to prepare your fintech API for AI agents: Architecture, controls, and protections

Adrian Machado
Staff Software Engineer at Zuplo

Launching regulated tokens: A technical deep dive and live build

Ilan Gitter
Lead Engineer at Solana Foundation
Brianna Migliaccio
Developer Relations at Solana Foundation

From tap to auth: Building a complete payment processing flow in Go

Pavel Gabriel
Software Engineer at Moov
Adam Kornafeld
Software Engineer at Moov
Wade Arnold
Co-Founder and CEO at Moov

Designing a GraphQL strategy for decoupled systems

Matthew Martin
Software Architect at Swivel