FinWell Summit 2026 in Berlin

The summit takes place at the Backfabrik, Saarbrücker Straße 36–38 in Prenzlauer Berg. Registration opens at 8:15 a.m., the program starts at 9 a.m., and networking follows the award ceremony in the evening. The masterclasses take place in the HoFT space in the same building.

Registration runs through Luma, and the price rises as the date approaches: 250 euros until 12 October, 350 euros until 1 November and 450 euros until 1 December 2026. Members of House of Finance & Tech Berlin attend free of charge.

The summit is organized by House of Finance & Tech Berlin, which has its own space in the Backfabrik. The hub connects fintech companies, financial institutions and investors in Berlin, and its CEO Sebastian Schäfer is among the speakers. HoFT expects senior decision-makers from more than 80 organizations, from banks and asset managers to regulators and research institutes.

At 9:30 a.m., HoFT presents the FinWell Monitor 2026 on the main stage of the Backfabrik. Its new German Financial Wellbeing Score follows the method of the Financial Well-Being Scale of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The opening keynote before it, at 9:10 a.m., covers the national strategy for financial education in Germany.

The first panel asks whether banks earn more when their customers are financially healthier. The second panel, Financial Advisory 2.0, covers AI in advice, advisory costs and trust. The third looks at savers who become investors before the Altersvorsorgedepot, the new German pension depot, starts in 2027.

The closing panel at 4:35 p.m. is about Gen Z and behavioral design. In the afternoon, six masterclasses of 60 minutes each run in two rounds across three rooms.

The preliminary lineup includes Tabea Bucher-Koenen of ZEW Mannheim, Milos Spiridonovic of Deutsche Bank, Thomas Matis of KPMG and Susanne Grohé of the law firm Annerton. Tim Kaiser of RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Thomas Soltau of Smartbroker and Andreas Bermig of bonify are also announced.

Santiago Louro speaks for N26, and Infront sends three speakers on quantitative solutions and sales. The founders Robin Binder of NAO and Marc Karkossa of DYNO complete the list so far, and HoFT announces further speakers on the summit website.

The FinWell Award 2026 in the Wealth Tech category takes applications until 15 November 2026. The shortlist follows in late November, and the jury announces the winners at the summit at 5:10 p.m. Representatives of Berliner Volksbank, KPMG and DWS sit on the preliminary jury, together with IBB Ventures.