RealTalk 2025: Your Economic Edge

RealTalk 2025: Your Economic Edge
Creating Your Value Advantage in a Disrupted Financial World

In today’s financial world, disruption is constant, but so is opportunity. At RealTalk 2025, we take on the question professionals are asking: how do you define, protect, and grow your value in a world that’s shifting around you?

This year’s theme, Your Economic Edge, will explore what it means to lead strategically, grow intentionally and stay competitive, whether you’re driving transformation at scale or making your next career move.

When: November 20th, 2025 | 1:00pm to 7:00pm (Doors open 12 noon)
Where:  Suffolk University, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

Who Should Attend:

• Fintech and financial services professionals navigating change
• Strategic thinkers in product, risk, compliance, talent, or innovation
• Student and early-career professionals looking to launch or advance their careers
• Executives rethinking leadership, value, and culture

Why Attend:

• Clarify your advantage as a leader, team builder, or individual contributor
• Learn from the boldest minds shaping strategy, innovation, and inclusive growth
• Build a network that reflects the future of financial services
• See around corners with insight into market forces, career trends, and leadership challenges

What You’ll Walk Away With:

• Thought leadership from voices across fintech, finance, and beyond
• Frameworks to assess and strengthen your value proposition
• A powerful community invested in doing better business and building better careers
• Deep and meaningful connections from session breaks crafted for networking

What You’ll Experience: 

A half-day immersive experience that challenges assumptions, sharpens your value, connects you with innovators, and equips you to thrive through disruption.

Conference Agenda

Welcome remarks
Opening keynote. Sabrina Mansur, Director, Massachusetts AI Hub
Product Demos. Showcasing multiple products to demonstrate breadth of innovation in digital financial solutions
Parallel Masterclasses (choose 1 from the following)
— Managing Wealth:  Investment Strategies for Everyone. Led by Andy Gupta, Founder, Women Winning at Investing
— Building Leaders: Neuroscience-based Strategies. Led by Asa Fanelli, Founder, IdeaLift
— Technology, Practically: Build Your Solution in 90 mins. Led by Shuchi Agarwal Founder, GirlHacks; Executive Director, CVS
— Board Education: Innovation and Boards. (By Invitation only; led by BDO’s  Amy Rojik, Managing Principal and Lee Sentnor, Practice Director. For details or to attend this session, email: directors@fitnechwomenusa.com)
Panel discussion. Moderator: Pradeep Aradhya with Courtney Nuara, Frances West, Sage Pagano and Rob Hickey
Closing keynote address. Heather Gentile, Executive Director, watsonx.governance, IBM
Networking & continue at a nearby bar

Mark your calendar, join us. We can’t wait to see you on Nov 20th!