A Lookahead at Worth in 2026

As we wrap up 2025, the Worth team is already looking ahead to an ambitious year of travel, connection, and industry conversations across the country. From payments gatherings to fast-growing fintech summits, our 2026 calendar is packed with events where innovation, underwriting transformation, and AI-driven decisioning take center stage.

If you’ll be at any of these conferences, let us know. We’d love to meet.

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SkiTech • February 3–6 • Telluride, CO

SkiTech has become one of the most exclusive gatherings in payments. It’s an invite-only retreat born from a casual 2015 ski trip that evolved into a premier meeting spot for CEOs, founders, and investors. Today, it’s known for its unique blend of candid deal-making, relationship-building, and mountain-side conversations that regularly spark M&A activity, major commercial agreements, and senior hires. This will be a return trip for Worth, and we’re excited to reconnect with leaders in a setting designed for honest conversations (whether you ski or not, Telluride offers something for everyone).

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ETA Transact • March 18–20 • Atlanta, GA

Transact remains one of the industry’s most important stages for payments innovation — where founders, PayFacs, banks, ISVs, and risk leaders converge to talk about what’s being built and what’s next. Worth is returning once again, and this year, Sal Rehmetullah will be speaking on a fireside chat titled “The Rise of AI Agents: From Deployed Underwriters to Financial Operating Systems.” His session will dive into the shift from automation to agentic AI, the evolution of explainability and compliance, and why multi-agent ecosystems are poised to redefine how SMBs interact with financial platforms. It’s a conversation rooted in real deployment experience, and a perfect fit for Transact’s “come curious, leave ahead” ethos.

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Fintech Meetup • March 30–April 1 • Las Vegas, NV

Fintech Meetup has quickly become one of the most productive events in the industry, bringing together 1,000+ CEOs and founders and 700+ financial institutions through a technology-powered meetings program that facilitates more than 50,000 one-to-one conversations. Worth is excited to return to an environment built for real partnership formation and accelerated deal cycles. From banks and credit unions to fintech operators and investors, this is where the entire ecosystem gathers to compare notes on what’s new, what’s next, and how the future of financial services will take shape.

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Safeguard • May 3–6 • Colorado Springs, CO

Safeguard will be Worth’s first appearance at this fast-growing AI, fraud, identity, and compliance event designed for deep learning and cross-industry collaboration. With 500+ leaders across fintech, banking, compliance, and payments, Safeguard focuses on the mounting risks created by rapidly evolving AI-driven threats and the urgent need for shared solutions. We’re looking forward to joining this community for the first time, engaging in conversations on applied AI, and connecting with operators tackling some of the most complex challenges in risk and compliance.

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SEAA • June 8–10 • Miami, FL

SEAA continues to be one of the anchor conferences for the acquiring and payments community, offering 2.5 days of education, vendor insights, card-brand presence, and networking with top processors, hardware providers, software platforms, and regulatory experts. Worth will be returning in 2026 to meet with partners and customers across the ISO and PayFac ecosystem. SEAA has been a longstanding forum for industry connection since 2001, and it remains a valuable touchpoint for conversations around underwriting, compliance, and operational transformation.

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MWAA • July 22–23 • Chicago, IL

MWAA is built around one purpose: equipping ISOs, MSPs, and financial institutions with the evolving knowledge they need as the payments landscape continues to shift. As a nonprofit, non-membership forum, it attracts a broad spectrum of industry players for two days of education and open dialogue. Worth is looking forward to returning and connecting with acquiring professionals focused on modernizing risk operations, improving merchant experiences, and adopting technology that scales.

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WSAA

WSAA is known as the premier acquiring-industry event for the Western region. It’s a high-energy conference run by volunteers and supported by sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees across merchant acquiring, SaaS, payments, and fintech. Worth will return in 2026 to engage with ISOs, merchant acquirers, MLSs, and SaaS partners as they navigate the next wave of industry changes. With strong educational sessions and unmatched networking, WSAA remains a place where genuine partnerships are forged and industry insights are exchanged.

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ETA Strategic Leadership Forum • September 28–30 • Naples, FL

SLF is one of ETA’s most intimate and influential gatherings, built specifically for senior leaders shaping the future of payments. The event blends curated content with high-impact networking to challenge assumptions, expand strategic thinking, and elevate leadership perspectives. Worth will return to SLF in 2026 to engage in executive-level discussions on underwriting modernization, AI, embedded financial infrastructure, and broader shifts transforming the industry.

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Money20/20 USA • October 18–21 • Las Vegas, NV

Money20/20 is the largest and most influential fintech conference in the U.S., bringing together global leaders across payments, banking, fintech, crypto, lending, and financial services. With its unique energy and industry-shaping conversations, it remains the central stage for product launches, strategic partnerships, and category-defining ideas. Worth will be back in 2026, continuing to build momentum around underwriting automation, intelligent decisioning, and AI-driven risk operations — and meeting with partners from across the ecosystem during four packed days of content and connection.

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Fintech NerdCon • November 19–20 • Miami, FL

NerdCon is one of the most unique and community-driven events in fintech, attracting 1,000 curated operators and more than 100 speakers across product, engineering, risk, compliance, and operations. It’s built for practitioners who want depth — where PMs dig into regulation, engineers debate architecture, and risk leaders pressure-test frameworks. Worth is excited to return in 2026 to engage with the builders shaping the next generation of financial infrastructure, all in an environment intentionally designed for collaboration, learning, and fun.