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.
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.
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.
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr to Keynote at EMERGE Financial Health 2026
Financial Health Network's Flagship Conference Convenes in Atlanta, May 19–21.