Vencent Fintech Summit 2023 | The Venture Center | 14 August 2023 | The Venture Center, 417 Main St, Little Rock, AR 72201, USA

It’s your chance to learn about what's next in fintech and digital transformation. You can network with top-level executives and who are leading their organizations through this rapidly changing landscape while also learning more about topics like cryptocurrency, Banking as a Service, cybersecurity, and more.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Governor of Arkansas

Congressman French Hill
House Committee, Financial Services Chairperson, House Subcommittee, Digital Assets & Financial Technology

George Makris
Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board, Simmons First National Corporation

Laura Merling
Chief Transformation & Operations Officer, Arvest

Rob Nichols
President & CEO, American Bankers Association

Beth Knickerbocker
Special Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Rajesh Chokhani
President of BOND.AI and Chairman of the Board, Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce

Tatyana Kratunova
Senior Director, FIS Platform Partnerships

Hugh McDonald
Secretary of Commerce, Arkansas

Jay Chesshir
President & CEO, Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS:

John Buhrmaster
President & Chief Executive Officer, 1st National Bank of Scotia

Jill Castilla
President & CEO, Citizens Bank of Edmond

Nigel Prince
Senior Vice President, Axiom Bank

David Peterson
Chief Innovation Officer, First National Bankers Bank

Reed Luhtanen
Executive Director, U.S. Faster Payments Council

Tristan Thompson
Director of Payments Strategy, Arvest Bank

Michael Bryan
Banking Technologist

Robert Daniel
FinTech Catalyst, Advanced Technology Development Center

Jason Savage
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Veritex Community Bank

Darrin Williams
CEO, Southern Bancorp

Mark Wilson
President & Chief Operating Officer, FAB&T

Dana Goff
Head of Industry and Solution Strategy, SVP, Acxiom

John Drechny
CEO, Merchant Advisory Group

Jeff Wingfield
Senior Director of Data Strategy, Acxiom

Chris Morell
Vice President, Equipment Finance & Working Capital

Kendall Reese
Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer of Simmons Bank

Connie Theien
Senior Vice President and Director, Payments Industry Relations, Federal Reserve Financial Services

Debbie Tarvin
Vice President of Marketing Strategy, Arkansas Federal Credit Union

Matt Nilles
Senior Director, Global Products & Solutions, Euronet

FINTECH FOUNDERS:

Dimuth "Jay" Jayawardhane
Head of Partnerships, CredAcc

Alex Gostomelsky
Chief Financial Officer, Tapcheck

Laura Kornhauser
Co-Founder & CEO, Stratyfy

Mark Dreux
Head of Growth & Strategy, Stratyfy

Chandu Vellala
Head of Cyber Security Platform Sales, Sequretek

Don Shafer
Co-Founder, Quilo

Karuna Kathir
VP of Sales, Finzly

Ted Brown
Founder & CEO, Digital Onboarding

Keith Riddle
CEO, BankiFi

Marla Johnson
Co-Founder & CEO, LeapXL

Joe Russo
Head of Sales, DocFox

Soren Bested
Chief Operating Officer, Agent IQ

Saji Nair
Co-Founder & CEO, BCube Analytics Inc.

Tim Medin
CEO, Red Siege Information Security

Angela Murphy Ph.D
Vice President of Business Development, Photon Commerce

Patrick Sells
Co-Founder, True Digital

Andrew Gowasack
Co-founder & President, TrustStamp

Martha Montonya
Chief Executive Officer, AgTools

Zach Duke
Founder and CEO, Finosec

Kevin Shine
Vice President of Sales & Partnerships, Fraud.net

Mick Oppy
CEO & Co-Founder, Neural Payments

Jennifer Carlisle
Co-Founder & COO, Data Driven Partners LLC

Mallory Van Dover
Co-Founder & CEO, Data Driven Partners LLC

Jared Landrum
Vice President of Growth, BOND.AI

Rohan Chitalia
Banking Product Lead, Unit21

Dheeraj “Raj” Singal
CEO & Founder Executive, Finboa

Evan Ellis
Sales Executive, Creatio

2023 Sponsors

PRESENTING:
• FIS

PLATINUM:
• Euronet
• Simmons Bank

GOLD:
• Arvest
• Bond.ai
• Creatio
• Little Rock Regional Chamber
• Red Siege Information Security
• Sequretek
• True Digital
• Unit21

SILVER:
• Agtools
• Agent IQ
• Bankifi
• B3 Analytics
• Circumference Group
• Digital Onboarding
• Docfox
• Finzly
• FNBB, Inc.
• Quilo
• Stephens
• Tapcheck
• Tech Law Wright Lindsey Jennings

FINTECH ALLEY:
• Arvest
• Quilo

IN-KIND:
• CWP Productions
• Stone Ward