Sunday Summits

Navigating the Convergence of TradFi and Onchain Finance

The boundary between traditional finance and onchain finance is dissolving. On-chain infrastructure, regulatory clarity, and institutional participation are combining to create a single converged financial system. This summit examines the opportunities, risks, and competitive stakes for financial institutions navigating this shift and what adoption at scale will mean moving forward. 

• Location: Casanova 501-504, The Venetian
• Day: Sunday, October 18
• Time: 1:15 PM – 4:15 PM
• View full agenda here

Crypto founders, blockchain developers, web3 investors, digital asset strategists, DeFi innovators

• Blockchain technology and protocol innovation
• Cryptocurrency and stablecoin ecosystems
• Decentralized finance (DeFi) and applications
• Web3 infrastructure and tooling

• Adoption at Scale
• Wallet Apps as the New Bank “Branch”
• New Opportunities to Yield
• How to Prepare for an On-chain Financial System  
• Bank Readiness for an On-Chain Financial System

The next face of wealth preservation and distribution

Family Office and Wealth-Tech Summit is where ultra-high-net-worth families, wealth managers, and industry innovators gather to explore the evolving landscape of wealth preservation and distribution. This summit addresses the strategies, infrastructure, and competitive dynamics reshaping how wealth is protected, transferred, and grown across generations. From expanding investment access and reimagining customer experience to understanding shifting wealth demographics and market forces, this is the essential gathering for family offices and wealth leaders navigating the new era of wealth management.

• Location: Marco Polo 705-707, The Venetian
• Day: October 18
• Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Family office principals and executives, wealth management firms and advisors, private banks and trust companies, wealthtech platforms and innovators, investment strategists, multi-generational wealth planners

• Wealth preservation strategies and generational transfer
• Investment infrastructure and expanding asset access
• Customer experience as competitive advantage
• Emerging wealth demographics and migration patterns
• Capital markets evolution and new investment opportunities
• Winning strategies for the modern wealth management era

• To Win Wealth Management, It Needs to Feel Like Luxury
• Money Is Moving. And So Should the People Who Manage It
• Uncovering the True Behaviors of U.S. Investors Post-2020
• Retirement Money Meets Alternative Risk
• Her Burden, Her Grief, Her Estate: Unlocking Women's Generational Wealth

Platforms, ecosystems, and the infrastructure of scaled finance

Network Effects Summit brings together the architects of modern financial ecosystems: platform operators, infrastructure providers, payment networks, and the banks and fintechs building on top of them. This summit examines how network dynamics drive growth, trust, and competitive advantage in an era where scale is built through connection, not just capability. From sponsor banking models and tokenized infrastructure to cross-border payment orchestration and quantum-ready security, attendees will explore the strategies and systems that turn platforms into ecosystems and partnerships into revenue engines. This is where the leaders shaping networked finance come to understand what's next.

• Location: Marco Polo 801-803, The Venetian
• Day: October 18th
• Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• View full agenda here

Platform operators and marketplace leaders, payment service providers and processors, sponsor banks and banking-as-a-service providers, fintech infrastructure companies, digital wallet and embedded finance platforms, global payment networks, financial institutions building ecosystem strategies

• Ecosystem banking and scaled fraud prevention
• Sponsor banking and lifecycle revenue models
• Building engagement through partnerships and experiences
• Infrastructure for a digitized and tokenized world
• Global payment orchestration and cross-border interoperability

• When a Social Network Becomes a Bank
• Sponsor Banking at Scale: Driving Revenue Across the Lifecycle
• Score the Un-scoreable: Build an Alt-Data Model with Us
• Behind the Pay‑Out: How Global Platforms Move Money at Scale
• How Real-time Data Access is Driving Underwriting Breakthroughs

Navigating Emerging Threats, Market Shifts, and the Forces Reshaping Business

The Intelligence Summit delivers actionable intelligence for financial and operational leaders navigating an era of rapid change and emerging risk. This summit combines ground-truth investigations, data-driven market analysis, and strategic foresight, covering everything from fraud farm operations and financial crime to prediction markets and the evolving CFO technology stack. It's where CFOs, CROs, fraud leaders, and strategists gain the intelligence they need to detect threats early, seize emerging opportunities, and adapt to the speed of change.

• Location: Galileo 1001-1003, The Venetian
• Day: October 18th
• Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
• View fulll agenda here

CFOs and finance executives, Chief Risk Officers (CROs), fraud and financial crime leaders, strategic planning executives, compliance and investigation teams, enterprise technology decision-makers

• Financial crime and fraud investigations
• Threat intelligence and emerging risks
• Prediction markets and market signals
• Identity and authentication evolution
• CFO technology stack and operational tools
• Strategic foresight and market intelligence

• Criminals Ship Fast: Is Your Risk and Compliance Team?
• Programmable Money, Unprogrammable Institutions: Bridging the Gap
• The new questions fraud teams need to answer in intelligent finance
• Digital Identity Is Broken: States Have a Solution
• Attack of the Clones: Managing Identity in the Deepfake Era

Securing Payments, Across Borders, Networks and Autonomous Commerce

Cybersecurity Summit brings together payments and security leaders to address the vulnerabilities emerging as money moves across borders. Financial data flows through open ecosystems, and AI agents gain the power to transact. From the missing guardrails of agentic commerce to the network’s role as a security layer, this summit explores how to protect transactions, verify who or what is authorized to pay, and close security gaps across connected financial systems. It’s where cybersecurity meets the next generation of payments, with a focus on the controls, accountability, and shared standards needed to build trust at scale.

• Location: Casanova 501-504, The Venetian
• Day: October 18th
• Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

CISOs, CTOs, payments executives, cybersecurity and fraud leaders, open finance specialists, risk and compliance teams, and financial infrastructure providers. 

• Who Let the Bots Pay? The Missing Guardrails of Agentic-Commerce
• Agentic AI and Open Finance: Security, Standards, and Control
• The Last Security Gap in Borderless Payments
• The Network as the New Security Layer for Fintechs

• Identity, authentication, and authorization for humans and AI agents
• Payment networks as a security layer for fintechs
• API security, data protection, and consent in open finance
• Security standards and accountability across connected payment ecosystems