What: Global Government Fintech Lab 2025
When: Wednesday 11 June 2025
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Details: Fintech Ireland's Peter Oakes will join a stellar line up of experts at the fourth Global Government Fintech Lab 2025 taking place in Dublin, Ireland on Wednesday 11 June 2025. 

Registration: More details about Registration HERE
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Costs: 

• Free to attend for those in the Public Sector
• €300 for Private Sector attendees

 
The Lab is being organised in partnership with Department of Finance Ireland, which also hosted the Global Government Fintech Lab in 2024 and 2023.

Fintech Ireland is delighted to be partnering with the  Global Government Fintech Lab 2025.  We have been provided a special offer for fintechs in the Fintech Ireland Network.  Contact us at [email protected] to learn more.

​​This event is for government departments, public sector agencies and authorities looking to capitalise on the possibilities of technology to transform their operations and the services they deliver and the event also welcomes professionals from the Private Sector too.  Learn more at the Registration Page

Thus far, speakers announced include:

• Brian Corr (Ireland), Head, International Financial Services Unit, Department of Finance, Ireland
• Miriam Dunne (Ireland), Head, Innovation Strategy and Policy, Central Bank of Ireland
• Ruth Kennedy (Ireland), Revenue Commissioner, Ireland
• Barry Lowry (Ireland), Chief Information Officer, Irish Government
• Peter Oakes (Ireland), Founder, Fintech Ireland and non-executive director at regulated fintech companies
• Alexandra Bloomfield (UK), Assistant Commercial Director, Financial Services/Payments, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), United Kingdom
• Dina Buse (Latvia), Deputy Director, Financial Market Policy Department & Head, Credit Institution and Payment Services Policy Division, Ministry of Finance, Latvia
• Maria Tereza Cavaco (Portugal), Head, Payment Systems Department, Banco de Portugal (Portugal’s central bank)
• Lee Edmonds (UK), Head of Payments Services – Financial Services, Crown Commercial Service, United Kingdom
• Valentina Ion, Director, Public Finance Strategy, Microsoft
• Dr Laura Körber (Germany), Policy Officer in the Digital Finance, Payment Services & Cybersecurity Unit, Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany
• Marine Krasovska (Latvia), Head, Fintech Supervision Department, Latvijas Banka (Latvia’s central bank), Latvia
• Ros Lynch (IoM), Head – Supervisory Practices, Innovation and IT, Isle of Man Financial Services Authority
• Alessandro Moricca (Italy), Chief Executive, PagoPA (operator of national e-payments platform), Italy
• Elda Nogarotto (Italy), Policy Officer, Directorate for Regulation and Supervision of the Financial Sector, Ministry of Finance, Italy
• Eva Selamlar-Leuthold (Switzerland), Head, Swiss Financial Innovation Desk (independent unit within Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance)
• Pietro Stroia (Italy), Head of Technology, PagoPA (operator of national e-payments platform), Italy
• Rob Haslingden (UK), Head of Impact Assessment and Engagement, Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology, United Kingdom
• Siobhan Benita, Event Moderator, Global Government Fintech & Global Government Forum
• Ian Hall, Editor, Global Government Fintech

​As further speakers are added, we will update here.

This event was last held in Dublin on 18th May 2023 at Dublin Castle. (see details of the 2023 event here).

It was an excellent event.  It is returning to the Printworks Building at Dublin Castle on 25th April 2024 and Fintech Ireland is delighted to be partnering with the organisers. 

Fintech Ireland has worked with the team at Global Government Fintech to provide the following exclusive offers:

1. Fintech Ireland Showcase Partner
2. Fintech Ireland SME Zone
3. Other deals to Sponsor this premier Event - including Headline Knowledge Partner, Topic Knowledge Partner and Exhibitor

SEE FULL DETAILS HERE - Global Government Fintech, LAB, 25 April 2024 Fintech Ireland Members Pack

​What: The Global Government Fintech Lab 2024

Keynote speeches, panel discussions, topic specific sessions and more, including: Governments and fintech: on the right path?; Financial regulators and innovative technology: on the right path?; Public sector financial innovation through payments technology; Fighting financial fraud with technology; frontiers of public sector fintech (and beyond).


When: Thursday 25th April 2024 (08:30-19:00, Irish Time)

Who: Those regulated under the Central Bank of Ireland regime and those interested in it.  In PCF role holders such as INEDs, CEO, CFOs, COOs, Compliance Officers, MLROs, CROs, CIOs and their colleagues.  Professional services firms and regulators/central banks (near and far) welcome too. 

Where: The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Ireland.

Offers for Fintech Ireland supporters to avail of: 

1. Fintech Ireland Showcase Partner Offering: (see page 10 here)
2. Fintech Ireland SME Zone Offering: (see page 12 here) 

Registration: To sign up as an attendee, register through Fintech Ireland's link here.  NB The event is free to attend if you are a public servant and a fair fee is charged for non-public servants.

Agenda:

• Governments and the future of finance 
• Financial regulators and innovative technology: on the right path?
• Public sector Financial innovation through payments technology
• Fighting financial fraud with technology 
• Frontiers of Fintech 
• Governments and Fintech 

What: Global Government Fintech Lab 2023

When: Thursday 18 May 2023, 08:30am– 5.30pm, followed by a Reception until 7.00pm

Where: The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dame St, Dublin 2, Ireland

Cost: The event is free to the public sector employees.  For private sector members of the Fintech Ireland Network, the team at Global Government Fintech are offering a unique 25% discount which you can advance with George O'Grady, Head of Commercial via [email protected]

More Details: https://www.globalgovernmentfintech.com/lab/

Fintech Ireland is delighted to spread the word about this excellent event organised by Global Government Fintech, the Department of Finance and Ireland for Finance.

A big thank you to the team for including our ​Peter Oakes on the panel discussing "How can financial authorities capitalise on data to improve what they do?", together with Mari-Liis Kukk
Head, Innovation Department, Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority (Finantsinspektsioon), Estonia and Gavin Curran, Head, Markets Supervision Division, Central Bank of Ireland.  The Panel will be moderated by Siobhan Benita, Event Moderator, Global Government Fintech

Public sector authorities are increasingly interested in the possibilities enabled by growing quantities of financial data, including unstructured data. Machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics are some of the techniques being deployed.

Questions include:

What are the biggest financial data-related possibilities and challenges for public authorities?
What outcomes have organisations already achieved?
How can internal skills and mindset obstacles be overcome?

​The Global Government Fintech Lab 2023 is bringing the world of global government fintech together to share expertise and experience in how governments worldwide are exploring fintech. The first such event was held in 2022 in Tallinn, Estonia.

There is a fantastic line up of speakers including a keynote by Dr Jennifer Carroll MacNeill
Minister of State, Responsibility for Financial Services, Credit Unions and Insurance, Department of Finance.

See the full speaker line-up here.

​The Global Government Fintech Lab 2023 – to be held in Dublin, Ireland on Thursday 18 May – will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, topic-specific sessions and more including:

• How best should financial authorities, including government departments, agencies and regulators, explore fintech solutions?
• How can financial authorities capitalise on data to improve what they do?
• Where are the frontiers of public sector fintech?

The Lab will tackle these questions – and many more – in a day packed with international experience-sharing and networking.