Rooted in Community: Strengthening Food Access in Atlanta
Join us for hands-on food assembly and distribution preparation in partnership with the Latin American Association, helping to expand food access for households across Atlanta.
Member-Exclusive Session | The Future of Financial Health, Part II: The 2036 Blueprint
Design a 10-year roadmap for making financial health foundational to your organization’s success. Prepare for the next decade of innovation and leave with a clear path toward durable, scalable impact.
Hard Questions for the Future of Finance
In this candid closing conversation, confront the toughest questions shaping the future of financial health, from AI and fraud to climate risk and new payment models.
Building Customer Loyalty by Committing to High Standards
Why do shared standards matter for consumers and institutions? Unpack how clear benchmarks support stronger governance and more consistent outcomes.
Founders of the Next 250 Years
As the U.S. turns 250, think like a founder during this session on designing financial systems that earn trust, strengthen democracy, and endure for generations to come.
Morning Wellness: Walk and Stretch
Start your day with a guided walk, light yoga, and stretching. Recharge your body and mind to set the tone for EMERGE’s final day. Comfortable clothes and shoes are encouraged.
Innovation Spotlight: AI in Action
See how innovators are applying AI to real financial challenges, with insights from early pilots and a focus on practical, people-first solutions.
The New Playbook: Beyond Best Practices
In this candid dialogue, hear from leaders across sectors on what to scale, what to stop, and what to build next to improve financial health outcomes.
Building for All: Access is a Design Choice
How do your product and servicing decisions shape who gets to participate? Learn what institutions can change today to reimagine and deploy more accessible financial solutions.
Putting the Standards to Work: A Collaborative Product Design Studio
Explore how the FinHealth Standards can shape better financial products and gain a clearer understanding of how to apply them in your own organization—from design to implementation.
Beyond Banking: Emerging Innovations Redefining Financial Health
From AI-driven advice to alternative financial ecosystems, explore the emerging trends redefining financial health, what these shifts mean, and how institutions can respond.
Place-Based Insights That Drive Better Solutions
Discover how place-based insights drive more effective financial health solutions. Leaders will share how local data, partnerships, and perspectives from their communities are sparking scalable action.
Ownership as a Pathway to Retirement Security
Ownership is a foundation for stability, dignity, and generational opportunity. Explore how approaches like community-owned real estate and employee ownership can unlock lasting wealth for more people.
Stopping Scams: A Whole-Of-Society Approach
Scams are growing more prevalent, and more costly. Hear from scam prevention experts and learn about new solutions to better protect consumers and safeguard financial health.
In Their Shoes: A Hands-On Financial Experience
This immersive workshop illustrates the daily financial realities of customers navigating uncertainty and strain. Experience everyday tradeoffs and get new insights to spark innovation and strengthen trust.
AI Under Pressure: The Financial Health Test Kitchen
Pressure-test AI in real financial health scenarios, uncover bias and blind spots, and leave with practical guardrails for using AI responsibly in products and services.
The Next Era of Financial Health Measurement
Explore the future of financial health measurement in this interactive session. Through small-group discussions, get guidance to inform your strategy and help shape the next chapter of financial health analytics.
Empathy as a Leadership Discipline: Practice, Pressure, and Choice
Explore how leaders can turn empathy into a decision-making discipline that shapes daily outcomes: culture, accountability, and trust under real-world pressure.
Atlanta Builds: When Innovation Meets Real Lives
How do we ensure innovation expands opportunity instead of deepening inequities? Using Atlanta as a case study, we’ll explore how new ideas actually land in people’s lives.
AI That Works for People: Guardrails for Financial Health
As AI reshapes how people get financial advice, get up to speed on the pillars of responsible innovation and explore safeguards to prevent bias, misinformation, and harm.
Measuring What Matters: Data, AI, and the Next Chapter of Financial Health
How can stronger measurement strategies drive financial health? Learn how to prepare for the next chapter of financial innovation, with a focus on protecting consumers and strengthening financial health for all.
Implementing Essential Benefits: Lessons From Early Adopters
What does it look like when employers put the Essential Benefits framework into practice? Early adopters share practical lessons and real-world examples to help your own organization strengthen worker well-being.
From Data to Debt Relief: Turning Insight into Action
What does it take to turn financial health data into impact? From a debt payoff challenge to peer-led support networks, Atlanta leaders will unpack urgent needs and strategies to drive tangible outcomes.
FinHealth Face-Off: Real Scenarios, Real Solutions
Watch experts tackle real financial challenges in this game show-style session, exploring practical solutions and systems-level approaches to move households from financial strain to lasting stability.
Morning Wellness: Movement and Sound Bath
Ease into your morning with a gentle, guided movement and breathwork practice, followed by a restorative sound bath and meditation. Comfortable clothes are encouraged.
Creating Community: Role-Based Breakout Sessions
Join peers in similar roles for focused, interactive discussions on shared challenges and opportunities to advance financial health. Exchange real-world insights, learn what’s working across organizations, and build relationships that help move your work forward.
No Margin for Error: Finding Housing in an Unforgiving Economy
As trust in the housing market erodes, examine how rising costs push working families into crisis—and what it will take to design a housing system with stability at the core.
Innovation & Community Spotlight: What Works, What Travels
Hear from influential Atlanta leaders turning urgent community needs into solutions with measurable impact, and walk away with ideas for scaling those models across the country.
Finding Our Balance
Jennifer Tescher, founder and CEO of the Financial Health Network, will deliver the opening remarks. In her keynote, she will spell out the three converging disruptions shaping the future of financial services and why they represent an opening to build a financial system that couldn't have existed before.
Member-Exclusive Lunch | The Future of Financial Health, Part I: 2027 in Focus
What will customers and employees expect in 2027 that you can’t deliver today? In this interactive kickoff, define emerging consumer expectations in financial health and brainstorm what’s needed to meet them.
Observe. Reflect. Connect.
Join us for a visit to the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, a powerful museum where the story of the U.S. civil rights movement converges with global human rights struggles. Through immersive exhibits, you’ll explore the past, sit with the present, and leave with fresh perspectives on advancing inclusion, equity, and systemic change.
Expanding Access Through Design: A Conversation with April Clobes
We sat down with April Clobes—President & CEO of Michigan State University Federal Credit Union and CEO of Reseda Group, a fintech investment CUSO—ahead of her appearance at the Financial Health Network's EMERGE conference in Atlanta, May 19–21, where she'll speak on the panel "Building for All: Access Is a Design Choice." Here's what she had to say.
EMERGE Financial Health FAQ 2026
Asad Ramzanali: Guardrails to Make AI Work for the People
We sat down with Asad Ramzanali—who has worked on AI policy at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and now at Vanderbilt University—ahead of his appearance at the Financial Health Network's EMERGE conference in Atlanta, May 19–21, where he'll moderate the panel "AI That Works for People: Guardrails for Financial Health." Here's what he had to say.
Building What Doesn’t Exist Yet: A Conversation with Lara Hodgson
We sat down with Lara Hodgson, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of NowAccount and founder of ROX, ahead of her appearance at the Financial Health Network's EMERGE conference in Atlanta, May 19–21, where she'll join the "Innovation & Community Spotlight: What Works, What Travels" session. Here's what she had to say.
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr to Keynote at EMERGE Financial Health 2026
Financial Health Network's Flagship Conference Convenes in Atlanta, May 19–21.
Empathy as a Leadership Discipline: A Conversation with Stanford Professor Jamil Zaki
Ahead of his appearance at Financial Health Network's EMERGE 2026 conference, Stanford psychology professor Jamil Zaki sat down to discuss why empathy isn't a soft skill and why the leaders who treat it as one are making a costly mistake.
The Room Where It Happens
Fawziah Bajwa reflects on the evolution of EMERGE Financial Health from an annual convening into a platform for advancing ideas, community, and progress across the field.
PolicyLink’s Michael McAfee: Building an Economy for the Next 250 Years
We sat down with Michael McAfee, CEO of PolicyLink, ahead of his main stage appearance at the Financial Health Network's EMERGE conference in Atlanta, May 19–21, where he'll explore what it truly takes to build an economy that lasts. Here's what he had to say.
Empowered to Thrive: Inside PNC’s Center for Financial Education
Discover how collaboration and community partnerships are transforming lives and helping communities thrive.
2025 EMERGE Sponsors
Making a positive impact on financial health has never been more important. Let your brand help lead the way as a sponsor.
EMERGE Financial Health Speakers | 2026
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Building Liquidity Solutions That Put Consumers First
Join us for a conversation on how Chime is reimagining short-term liquidity tools that are responsive to real consumer needs.
Advancing Data-Driven Strategies to Help Nonprofit Workers Financially Thrive
Nonprofit workers power our communities, but relatively little is known about their financial health. Prudential is changing that.
Jack Henry Launches MyFinancial Health To Help Its Customers Thrive
How can consumers have more control over their entire financial lives? Jack Henry’s new MyFinancialHealth suite of tools makes that vision a reality for consumers of over 1,000 banks and credit unions.
Financial Fraud: Empowering Consumers Through Education
Join us to learn how Everfi’s Achieve course supports smarter, safer financial decisions for your customers.
Thank you for Registering for Financial Fraud: Empowering Consumers Through Education
EMERGE 2025 Reflection: Game On! ING Trailblazes with Innovative Financial Health Measurement
Working together to embed financial health into the DNA of banking and financial services will be more sustainable and effective than trying to mandate and regulate it.
Why Scam Protection Must Be Part of Financial Health Conversations
Fraud and scams cost Americans billions each year and undermine financial security and trust. Combating this crisis requires cross-sector collaboration, education, and innovative defenses.