DC Fintech Summit 2026: The New Rules of Money
👉 Apply to attend at dctav.co/fintech-summit/apply
💸 DC Fintech Summit 2026: The New Rules of Money
📅 Wednesday, November 4, 2026
🕗 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM ET
📍 Station DC, 1323 4th St NE, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20002
✨ About the Event
We’re excited to announce the return of the 3rd Annual DC Fintech Summit, hosted by the DC Tech & Venture Coalition in partnership with the DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) Office of Innovation!
The Summit brings together leaders at the intersection of policy, capital, and innovation to examine how fintech is evolving in 2026. Discussions center on federal stablecoin legislation and rulemaking, AI agents in finance, emerging payment infrastructure, investment strategies, and the regulatory and commercial opportunities shaping the industry.
🏁 What You’ll Gain
Regulatory Clarity on federal stablecoin law, rulemaking, and what banks, payments firms, and startups must do now
Innovation Insights into stablecoins, emerging money rails, AI agents in finance, and the governance challenges surrounding data, fraud, and liability
Investor Perspective through a reverse pitch exploring investment strategies, founder support, and capital opportunities in and around DC
Exposure to Live Products through the application-based Fintech Company Demo featuring five founders and four-minute fintech demos
Direct Access to Resources through 15–20 resource tables covering legal and compliance, banking, capital programs, talent, office space, and accelerators
🎯 Who Should Attend
Fintech entrepreneurs and executives, founders and startup teams, investors and venture capitalists, regulators and policymakers, financial institutions and service providers, banking and payments professionals, lawyers and compliance experts, academics and researchers, and community and nonprofit leaders working to advance financial innovation, responsible regulation, and equitable access to financial services.
💡 Agenda Highlights
8:30 – 9:00 AM | Resource Marketplace & Connection Lounge
Doors open at 8:30 for a half hour of networking before the stage program. Fifteen to twenty resource tables are live from the moment doors open and stay open for the full event: legal and compliance, banking, capital programs, talent, office space and accelerators.
9:00 – 9:10 AM | Welcome
Commissioner Karima M. Woods, DC Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB).
9:10 – 9:25 AM | Opening Keynote: Who Writes the Rules for Money in 2026?
Chloé Dolsenhe, Executive Chair, DC Fintech Club. What is at stake as federal rules take shape, and why the front door to those rules runs through Washington, DC.
9:25 – 10:00 AM | Stablecoins and the New Money Rails
Moderator Dan Spuller, Blockchain Association. With Angelena Bradfield, Financial Technology Association; Ian P. Moloney, American Fintech Council; and Kevin Wysocki, Anchorage Digital. From federal stablecoin law and rulemaking to real products: what banks, payments firms and startups must do now. Industry, bank and regulator voices on one stage.
10:00 – 10:35 AM | AI Agents in Finance
John Delalio, EisnerAmper; and David O’Brien, DISB. What is working in production and where governance breaks: data, fraud and liability. Builders and buyers, side by side.
10:35 – 11:00 AM | Marketplace Break
The main window for the resource tables. Visit tables and meet the people behind the programs.
11:00 – 11:35 AM | Why Build Fintech in DC
Moderator Tamara Zeidan, DISB Office of Innovation. With Aaron Fenwick, DISB; Adam Lattimore and Anthony Andrews, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; Ousmane Conde, WODI Money; and Sean Rybus, Plug and Play. A regulator, a DC founder and an investor on the front door to regulators, the capital here and the talent pipeline.
11:35 AM – 12:00 PM | Fintech Company Demo: Solutions in Action
Five founders, four-minute demos, each ending with one ask to the room. Demo companies are chosen by application.
12:00 – 12:40 PM | Investor Reverse Pitch: Why Take Our Money?
Investors make the case to the founders in the room: what they back, what they bring beyond capital, and why they invest in or near DC.
12:40 – 1:30 PM | Closing Reception
Close out the morning. Follow up with the speakers, founders and investors you met, and catch any resource tables you missed.
📝 Registration Notes
Attendance is free but by application only. Apply to attend through dctav.co/fintech-summit.
Space is limited. Applications are reviewed individually, and selected attendees are confirmed through Luma.
Walk-ins cannot be accommodated. Registration approval is not guaranteed.
Coffee and light refreshments provided.
Resource marketplace featuring 15–20 tables focused on legal and compliance, banking, capital programs, talent, office space, and accelerators.
Founders interested in presenting at the Fintech Company Demo and organizations interested in hosting a resource table must submit separate applications through the official summit webpage.
Business casual attire.