Global Government Fintech Lab in Dublin on 11 June 2025: register now

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Global Government Fintech Lab in Dublin on 11 June 2025: register now

Global Government Fintech Lab: the event was held in Estonia in 2022 (top left) and in Dublin in 2023 and 2024

Public servants across the world with an interest in innovative technology, as well as those who supply tech solutions to the public sector, are invited to register to attend the Global Government Fintech Lab 2025.

Global Government Fintech’s in-person event – to be held in Dublin on Wednesday 11 June – 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.

Taking place for the fourth time – and the third time in Ireland’s capital, which also hosted the Global Government Fintech Lab in 2024 and 2023 – the 2025 agenda includes keynote speeches, panel sessions and plenty of opportunities for international networking, reflecting our spirit of knowledge-sharing across borders.

Free to attend for those in the public sector, session titles include ‘Governments and fintech: comfortable bedfellows?’, ‘Government finance: which (fin)technologies have the most potential?’, ‘Super supervisors? How well are financial regulators engaging with innovative technology?’ and ‘Who goes there? Exploring digital ID schemes and fintech-enabled innovation’.

The Lab is being organised in partnership with the European Union (EU) member state’s Department of Finance, which created a fintech steering group almost four years ago. At the 2024 Lab, the minister of state with responsibility for financial services, Neale Richmond, gave his first formal public remarks on fintech after taking up the role, hailing the opportunities for the public sector to capitalise on the ‘digital transition’ and collaborate with private-sector fintech suppliers.

REGISTER NOW TO ATTEND IN DUBLIN ON 11 JUNE 2025

Post-election Ireland

Global Government Fintech Lab 2024 opening panel

Ireland has held a general election (29 November 2024) since the 2024 Lab. Fianna Fáil, which won the most seats in the Dáil (lower house of parliament), endorsed a ‘programme for government’ on 19 January. Party leader Micheál Martin is set to become taoiseach (prime minister) for the second time tomorrow (22 January).

Ireland’s government published a whole-of-government ‘Ireland for Finance’ strategy almost six years ago (in April 2019). An update was published in 2022. ‘Fintech and digital finance’ is one of the five themes, alongside sustainable finance; diversity and talent; regionalisation and promotion; and ‘operating environment’.

Richmond told the Lab audience last year that it was “difficult to overstate the opportunities that fintech has brought and will continue to bring to Ireland, both in helping to achieve our public policy goals, but crucially, to provide better outcomes for our citizens”– a sentiment echoing the keynote address delivered by his ministerial predecessor, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, at the 2023 Lab.

Brian Corr was recently appointed as head of the Department of Finance’s international financial services unit. Previously senior corporate finance specialist and head of the ‘Funds Review 2030’ (a Department of Finance-led review focused on the asset management and funds servicing sectors), Corr succeeded Karen Cullen. The latter, who spoke at our 2022 and 2024 Labs, is now head of unit – banking division.

The inaugural Lab was held in Estonia’s capital city, Tallinn, in June 2022 in partnership with the Estonian government.

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GLOBAL GOVERNMENT FINTECH LAB TESTIMONIALS

“The Global Government Fintech Lab takes a different angle to other fintech events. For us in the public sector, it casts us in a different role to the one we are used to: we move from being mere spectators and rule-makers to thinking about how fintech solutions (regardless of who is supplying them) can improve what we do and the way we deliver public services. I enjoyed the interactions throughout the event, which made us reflect on this very important perspective.”
Diego Villafáñez Sagardoy, Digital Finance Co-ordinator, Department of Digital and Sustainable Finance, Spanish Treasury – speaker at Global Government Fintech Lab 2024

“The Global Government Fintech Lab takes a unique perspective, focusing on the delivery of public services through fintech solutions. Participating in the 2024 Lab’s opening panel was enlightening, especially for someone from Slovenia, where fintech is still emerging. The event provided invaluable insights and practical ideas that will greatly aid our new fintech roadmap strategy. The Global Government Fintech Lab is essential for anyone involved in public sector innovation.”
Robert Rampre, Undersecretary in the Insurance and Capital Market Division, Ministry of Finance of Slovenia – speaker at Global Government Fintech Lab 2024

“Global Government Fintech Lab is an amazing forum that brings together government executives, start-ups and financial services organisations to foster innovation, exchange best practices and ideate the vision of the future. From payments to financial inclusion, all topics are explored to create a better society and economy. Microsoft values our partnership and appreciate the curiosity when it comes to what technology can enable and what benefits it can bring to citizens, governments and companies (start-ups or corporate).”
Valentina Ion, Public Finance Administration Global Lead, Microsoft – speaker at Global Government Fintech Lab 2022 & Global Government Fintech Lab 2023 (Microsoft partnered Global Government Fintech Lab in 2022, 2023 & 2024)

“Still digesting my notes from this one…! The Global Government Fintech Lab 2024 was above and beyond one of the most impactful conferences I have attended in some time – the agenda was jam-packed with inspirational content from public sector representatives across Europe and beyond. I spend so much time at conferences, it was a pleasant departure to peek behind the veil of government initiatives as pertains to fintech adoption. And ultimately humbling to hear how government navigate the many technological advancements, while simultaneously always prioritising their raison d’etre i.e. the protection of public interest. Thank you for putting together a phenomenal agenda.”
Cara Hennessy, Co-Founder & Co-Chief Operating Officer, Provenance – exhibitor at Global Government Fintech Lab 2024


GLOBAL GOVERNMENT FINTECH LAB 2025: CONTACT US

To discuss the 2025 Lab agenda and registrations, please contact Anne Simonsen: [email protected]

To find out about Global Government Fintech commercial opportunities, including partnering the 2025 Lab, please contact Matt Hoare: [email protected]

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