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We are excited to invite you to our 5th annual RealTalk.
RealTalk 2026 | Lived Experience: Designing Finance for Real Life
Join us on October 20th for an afternoon of thoughtful, thought provoking conversations about how financial services can better reflect the realities of the people they serve. As always registration is free to ensure access to all. 
Now in its fifth year, RealTalk continues to push at the boundaries of how we think about the future of financial services. Meet industry professionals, emerging leaders and students to challenge assumptions, share perspectives and explore what better financial products and experiences could look like when lived experience is part of the design process from the start.
We’ll begin with an opening keynote grounded in people and real life, then move into a main-stage conversation about creativity, technology and whether our understanding of what is worth building is keeping pace with our ability to build it.
From there, RealTalk opens up. Smaller, interactive sessions will take the conversation in many different directions, from financial literacy and public speaking to technology, human-centered AI, board leadership and the darker side of fintech, bringing practical skills, emerging questions and different perspectives into the same afternoon. Our product and solution demos will introduce people building answers to problems many of us may not realize are so significant in everyday life.
And we’ll close by looking forward: if we understand people better and can build more than ever before, what becomes possible?
When: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Conference: 12:30 PM to 6:00 PM (Doors open at 11:30 AM)
Where: Smith Commons, Suffolk University, 110 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02108
Registration is free. Reserve your place in the conversation. Workshop selections will be shared shortly, with opportunities to choose the sessions most relevant to you.
We hope you will join us for an afternoon designed to make you think, connect and leave with a fresh perspective on what comes next.
Location: Smith Commons, Suffolk University, 110 Tremont Street, Boston, 02108
