Greg Palmer has more than a decade of fintech experience working for Finovate, a fast-paced, demo-first showcase of the latest innovations and ideas in financial and banking technology. Greg is Finovate’s resident MC, hosting Finovate’s live events, podcast, and video pieces. He’s also an accomplished public speaking and demo coach.

These experiences have given Greg a unique bird’s-eye-view of the fintech industry as it has come to prominence. He’s seen thousands of demos and interviewed countless industry experts, watching not only individual innovations as they gain traction, but also the high-level trends that have shaped the industry. While he sometimes serves as a “fintech translator,” taking ideas and language from inside fintech and making it accessible to those “outside the bubble,” Greg’s true passion lies in pushing financial service providers to do more for the people all over the world who need new technologies to create a brighter financial future for themselves. A more diverse, inclusive, resilient financial ecosystem benefits everyone, and there’s nothing Greg likes more than providing a platform and a spotlight for fintech’s innovators and dreamers.

Barb MacLean is a fintech expert and speaker who has a passion for APIs, data and payments. She has joined Coastal Community Bank as the head of technology operations and implementation, where she oversees the bank's digital transformation and innovation. Before that, she worked at Celero Solutions for over 21 years, where she held various roles such as vice president of integration and analytics. She is a proud Canadian and has a global perspective on fintech. She is a salt & vinegar chip connoisseur, your phone-a-friend for Star Wars trivia & karaoke buddy. Check out her weekly Fintech Playlist 💿 on LinkedIn.

John Waupsh is co-founder and CEO of Nerve. Nerve is the business banking app built for creators with FDIC-insured debit, savings, and other money-management tools. Nerve also offers APIs, that provide embedded banking solutions and instant payouts for companies serving the creator economy.

Prior to founding Nerve, John spent nearly 20 years leading product management, R&D and user experience at Kasasa, a fintech company serving more than 800 banks and credit unions and millions of consumers nationwide. John is a keynote speaker, founder of two record labels discovering and releasing lost music, and a fintech consultant to several banks and credit unions. His book, Bankruption: How Community Banking Can Survive Fintech, is available on Amazon. He enjoys spending time with his kids in his hometown of Austin.

Brian Solis is a world-renowned futurist, digital anthropologist, 8x best-selling author, and international keynote speaker.

Brian also serves as the Head of Global Innovation at ServiceNow. He has consistently been recognized as one of the world's leading thinkers in innovation, business transformation, and new leadership for over two decades.

Forbes has called him “one of the more creative and brilliant business minds of our time,” ZDNet said that Brian is “one of the 21st century business world’s leading thinkers,” and The Conference Board described Brian as "the futurist we all need now."

Brian travels the world to help executives and audiences embrace change, learn what’s coming next and why, and to take a leading role in shaping the future they want to see. He has a unique gift of humanizing these trends to make transformation and innovation purposeful, inspiring leaders to reimagine the future and motivate those around them.

With a loyal online audience of over 800,000 people online, his work makes him a sought-after thought-leader to leading brands, celebrities such as Oprah, Shaq ,and Ashton Kutcher, and startups around the world.

Brian’s next book is entitled - “Mindshift: Ignite Change, Inspire Action, and Innovate for a Better Tomorrow.”