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      The Annual Meetings for senior public and private sector leaders on the priorities shaping financial services.

      The Insights2040 Annual Meetings, formerly known as the Insights Forum, is the culmination of Insights2040, GFTN's year-round platform for co-creating the evidence base and implementation pathways the financial system needs to become more efficient, resilient, and inclusive.

      The Annual Meetings kick off Singapore FinTech Festival week, bringing senior leaders from central banks, regulators, financial institutions, and technology partners together to address the industry's most pressing priorities. Across two days of invite-only dialogue, participants tackle problem statements that require close public and private sector collaboration to move the industry forward. 

      New for 2026: 2-days of invite-only activities

      This year's meetings expand significantly in format and scale, offering six programming formats across two days, each designed for a different depth of engagement. 

      2026 Theme

      Insights to Action

      The 2026 meeting turns a year of insights into action, across the four priorities: tokenization and programmable finance, artificial intelligence, digital public infrastructure, and quantum resilience. 

      Tokenization & Programmable Finance
      Tokenization & Programmable Finance

      Tokenizing the economy - from assets and stablecoins to payment rails. Evidence base and implementation pathways for tokenized assets, programmable money, and cross-border payment infrastructure.​

      Artificial Intelligence
      Artificial Intelligence

      Governance and deployment in financial services - including agentic commerce, where AI systems transact autonomously,
      and AI-powered financial crime detection​

       

      Digital Public Infrastructure
      Digital Public Infrastructure

      Benchmarking readiness, identifying gaps, and charting the foundations for inclusive digital financial infrastructure.​

      Quantum & Resilience
      Quantum & Resilience

      Cryptographic migration, quantum-safe infrastructure, and the institutional steps that cannot wait.​

      Insights Exchange
      Insights Exchange

      This is a flagship addition to the Annual Meetings and a centrepiece of the delegate experience. A dedicated hands-on space, this zone brings together live demonstrations, working prototypes, and interactive exhibits from banks, central banks, regulators, and technology providers spanning eight domains from Tokenization to Quantum Computing.

      Partner Conferences
      Partner Conferences

      Leading financial institutions can co-locate their own flagship conferences alongside the Annual Meetings, combining senior customer and network events with Insights2040 programming. 

       

      Public-Private Roundtables
      Public-Private Roundtables

      Signature 90-minute structured sessions held under Chatham House rules for 10–15 senior leaders across public and private sectors. 

      Workshops & Design-Thinking Sessions
      Workshops & Design-Thinking Sessions

      Hands-on 30-60 minute working sessions and structured design sprints focused on policy and technology challenges, each tied to a workstream: Tokenization & Programmable Finance, AI, DPI and Quantum & Resilience. Sessions are built to move from what the industry knows to what it needs to do, with capacity for up to only 100 participants.

       

      Networking
      Networking

      Curated engagement opportunities across both days, from facilitated 1:1 introductions and matched cross-sector meetings, to regulators-and-industry breakfasts and drinks, and a VIP invitation-only dinner.

      Launchpads
      Launchpads

      Dedicated sessions for launching new products, research reports, partnerships, and policy initiatives at the Annual Meetings, in front of the decision-makers who matter most across each workstream. Branded and agenda-listed, visible to the full delegate community.

      Boardrooms
      Boardrooms

      Invite-only sessions under Chatham House Rules, limited to ten participants, structured for candid and high-trust exchanges on industry challenges best explored off the record.

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      An Incredible Concentration of Public and Private Sector Thought Leaders

      "Simply by bringing both of these groups into the same room, that alone is powerful. People often fear what they don’t understand, but when you come together face to face, that changes.

      Coming together, sharing perspectives, and understanding each other’s challenges firsthand builds trust and dissolves a lot of misconceptions. Forums like this turn abstract policy debates into real human conversations."

      Angela Ang
      Head of Policy & Strategic Partnerships, APAC
      TRM Labs

      Get early sight of where the industry is heading, make connections that matter, and leave with frameworks to act on.

      Be in the room where direction is set

      Be in the room where direction is set

      The Annual Meetings convene by invitation. At their centre, signature roundtables and boardrooms operate under Chatham House Rules structured for substantive exchange among senior leaders. The discussions that take place in these sessions inform the priorities and positions that flow outward to markets and institutions.
      Engage with work that moves the industry

      Engage with work that moves the industry

      Insights2040 outputs are built on structured, multi-stakeholder input from the Global Finance & Technology Network's (GFTN) convening activity across 12 markets per year. The Annual Meetings represent two days of concentrated contribution by our member network to a body of work that is referenced and disseminated throughout the year.
      Insights Exchange

      See what's being built, by the people building it

      With 81% of the Meetings' delegates made up of decision-makers, the Insights Exchange and Partner Conferences put you directly alongside the innovators at the frontier of financial services.

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      Our Partners Across Policy, Finance and Technology