Finance Conferences

The finance conferences worth knowing

Financial services events split by which business you're in. A bank technology buyer, a mortgage lender, a hotel investor and a mining financier would each pick a different show, and few of them are the big-hall financial services expo the name suggests. Here are the main ones by type, with who each is built for. Dates for all of them are in the list above.

Fintech, payments and banking technology

• Money20/20 (Las Vegas, October). Best for: people working in payments, fintech and financial services, from banks to the startups selling to them. Informa runs it. More on the fintech conferences page.
• FinovateFall (New York, September). Best for: banks, credit unions and investors who want to see fintech products working. It's built around seven-minute live demos on the main stage, with no slide decks, and runs at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
• Banking Transformation Summit USA (Charlotte, November). Best for: the people who lead transformation at US banks and credit unions, covering AI, infrastructure, fraud and customer experience. More on the banking conferences page.
• Accountex Canada (Mississauga, November). Best for: accountants, bookkeepers, CPAs and finance leaders. Sessions are CPD-verified, and the floor is accounting software, automation and fintech vendors.

Mortgage and real estate finance

• MBA Annual Convention & Expo (Nashville, October 2027). Best for: residential mortgage lenders, servicers, investors and the technology providers who work with them. The Mortgage Bankers Association calls it the nation's largest gathering of real estate finance professionals.
• MBA CREF (San Diego, February). Best for: commercial and multifamily real estate finance. It's the MBA's other convention, with an expo, held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
• ALIS (Los Angeles, January). Best for: hotel owners, investors, developers and the finance professionals who work with them. The name stands for the Americas Lodging Investment Summit.
• EXPO REAL (Munich, October) and the Canadian Apartment Investment Conference (Toronto, September). Best for: real estate investors, lenders and developers, in Europe at Messe München's trade fair and in Canada's multi-residential market at Informa's one-day Toronto conference. More on the real estate conferences page.

Capital for a single industry

• BIO Investment & Growth Summit (Miami Beach, February). Best for: biotech companies meeting investors and biopharma partners. It replaced the BIO CEO & Investor Conference from 2026.
• PDAC Convention (Toronto, March). Best for: mining executives, geologists and mining investors. The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada pairs a trade show with an investors exchange.
• Energy Council Houston (Houston, October). Best for: upstream oil and gas operators, investors and financiers discussing capital, M&A and energy investment. It's a private executive forum held under the Chatham House Rule, formerly called Northam.
• Engine Leasing, Trading & Finance Americas (Scottsdale, January). Best for: lessors, airlines and financiers in the aircraft engine market. Aviation Week runs it alongside AeroEngines Americas.
• Cannabis Capital Conference (Hollywood, Florida, March). Best for: cannabis operators raising money and the investors who back them, with pitches and one-to-one meetings. It ran for a decade as the Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference.
• Compound Conference (Sundance, February). Best for: operators who grow by acquisition: holding company owners, platform buyers and executives at family offices and PE-backed businesses. It's small and curated, held at Sundance Mountain Resort.
• Finance & Accounting for Bioscience (Boston). Best for: finance and accounting teams at biotech and pharma companies, with CPE credit. It runs as part of Biotech Week Boston; the next dates haven't been announced yet.

Small business

• Small Business Expo in Austin (October), Houston and Atlanta (December), Charlotte (March), Chicago and San Francisco (June) and Los Angeles (Pasadena, October 2027). Best for: small business owners, entrepreneurs and startups and the companies that sell services to them. Each stop is a one-day trade show with workshops, panels and speed networking. They're general business shows rather than finance events, listed here and on the marketing page.