Assistant treasurer and financial services minister Daniel Mulino, RBA assistant governor Brad Jones and Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy are among the headline speakers at the annual Intersekt conference, September 3-4, in Melbourne.
FinTech Australia CEO Rehan D’Almeida said 9th Intersekt sees fintech at a critical juncture with existential threats to capital access, major industry wide regulatory reform and the ongoing impact of AI.
“Our Deloitte Impact of Fintech report shows the huge opportunity that fintech has to triple in size to become a $37 billion industry in the next decade buoyed by huge technological shifts that will help grow the sector, but it is critical that we get the policy settings right,” he said.
“The policy reform underway has the potential to change the outlook for local fintechs, with concerns surrounding the evolving access to capital.”
The 2026 program covers over four key themes:
- Capital access: The biggest issue facing fintech startups and the future of innovation in this sector.
- AI impact: How AI, and agentic AI, will play a pivotal role as it moves from pilot to production.
- Regulation and reform: Fintech’s response to the biggest regulatory reset in a decade.
- Money movement gets rewired: Every layer of the stack – regulator, scheme, acquirer, issuer merchant, across cross border, POS, stablecoins
Intersekt is part of FinTech Week Australia (Sept 1-4) and connects industry leaders and international delegations in a series of events, pitch nights and regulatory roundtables.
Last year’s conference hosted more than 1000 attendees, including representatives from over 220 fintechs and 11 government agencies. The event has sold out for the last four years.
Registration for Intersekt 2026 is intersektfestival.com.
