UnBundled - Autumn edition
UnBundled Autumn edition
Where CEE capital meets CEE fintech.
UnBundled 2026, Autumn Edition is the fintech track of the Engaged Investments Conference. One day, one room: the Czech National Bank, Mastercard, J.P. Morgan, SG Forge, banks, founders and the investors who fund them.
📍 National House Vinohrady (Národní dům na Vinohradech), náměstí Míru 820/9, Prague 2
🗓 Thursday 22 October 2026, doors 09:30, programme 10:00 to 15:00, then the Startup Showcase fintech track from 15:30 & Fintech Aperitivo and Networking from 16:30
One question runs through the day: when something breaks in finance, who is on the hook?
Morning: who moves the money
10:00 · Opening remarks · The FinTechers and Dominic McCarthy, Mastercard
10:10 · Keynote · The Race is on! Mastercard's perspective on stablecoins · Dorothea Ysenburg, Mastercard. Stablecoins solved moving value. Everyday payments are still the hard part.
10:30 · Panel · New Money Rails · David Durouchoux (SG Forge), Dorothea Ysenburg (Mastercard), Tomáš Kacerovský (WOOD & Company), Petr Hluze. Moderated by Vít Pur (Margarita Finance). The ECB just put central bank money on DLT rails with Pontes. Which rail wins, and for whom?
11:10 · Fireside · The Bot That Bluffs: Can AI Beat the Market, and Should a VC Fund It? · Martin Schmid (EquiLibre Technologies, co-author of DeepStack) with Nico Schoenenberger (10x Founders)
11:30 · Keynote · Slow Money, Fast Money · Maryna Muntian, J.P. Morgan. Why CEE banks and CEE VCs look at the same company and see two different things.
12:00 · Lunch with Engaged
Afternoon: who carries the risk
13:00 · Keynote · The Bank That Won’t Break · Jiří Raška, CTO and Co-Founder, Partners Banka. Resilience when you built the bank from a blank sheet.
13:15 · Panel · Who Actually Owns the Risk? · Michal Vodrážka (Czech National Bank), Jiří Raška (Partners Banka), Petr Zahradník (Tapaya). Moderated by Jan Šovar (Finreg Partners). When a payment goes to the wrong place, who absorbs the loss?
13:45 · Keynote · Your Bank’s AI Is Still a Flip Phone · Matěj Balga, Wonderful. Build or buy: what banks get wrong about AI.
14:00 · Panel · Who Gets Blamed When the Bot Buys Wrong? · Matouš Michněvič (Payments Expert), Zdeněk Němec (Superface), Aleksandra Tyurina (13books Capital), Maryna Muntian (J.P. Morgan). Moderated by Iva Rakočević (Elevator Ventures).
14:40 · Closing remarks
14:45 · Meet the fintech finalists
15:00 · Coffee break
15:30 · Startup Showcase: fintech track, with the finalists, including the winners of this week’s hackathon
16:30 to 18:00 · UnCorked: Fintech Aperitivo after UnBundled, drinks with speakers, founders and investors, same venue. Separate registration:
Who it’s for: fintech founders, bank and payments people, regulators, and the VCs and angels who decide which companies get funded.
Free, curated, approval required.
Want the full two days of Engaged Investments (21 to 22 October, same building)? The FinTechers community gets 30% off with code TFT30.
Organised by The FinTechers. Programme subject to change.
Check the web for more info: https://thefintechers.com/unbundled