Evident AI Symposium New York 2026

The Evident AI Symposium 2026 is a one-day, single-stage gathering of senior AI leaders in banking and insurance, held in New York City on 22 October 2026. It is run by Evident Insights, the research firm behind the Evident AI Index that benchmarks the AI maturity of the world's largest banks, and the audience is vetted rather than open-ticket: Evident describes 350+ hand-picked guests drawn from 110+ financial institutions, with one in three attendees at C-suite level, listening to roughly 25 speakers. The 2026 programme is framed around what it actually takes for a firm to become an AI-first institution: reimagining workflows end-to-end around AI, harmonising fragmented technology stacks, and harnessing knowledge held across the firm. Confirmed speakers include Yann LeCun (AMI Labs), Leigh-Ann Russell (BNY), Prem Natarajan (Capital One), Bruce Ross (RBC), Mojgan Lefebvre (Travelers), Monica Caldas (Liberty Mutual) and Saul Van Beurden (Wells Fargo), with AKKA, Anthropic, EY and Synechron as headline sponsors. The 2025 edition drew over 300 banking and insurance executives, innovators and policymakers, and ran sessions on agentic AI, the difficulty of calculating ROI, the shift from large to small language models, and moving pilots into production.

Date

October 22–22, 2026

Location

New York

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Summit

Status

Upcoming

Expected Attendance

350+

Pricing

Invite-Only

Organizer

Evident Insights

Added

Jul 27, 2026

Updated

Aug 13, 2026

• ✓Chief AI Officer
• ✓Chief Data Officer
• ✓CIO / CTO at a bank or insurer
• ✓Head of AI Transformation
• ✓Chief Risk Officer
• ✓Head of Digital / Innovation in financial services
• ✓AI programme and platform leads in regulated firms

For a bank or insurer's AI leadership, this is the one day in the calendar where the peer set is explicitly the same peer set: 110+ financial institutions, one in three attendees C-suite, and speakers who run AI inside BNY, Capital One, RBC, Wells Fargo, Travelers and Liberty Mutual. You come to calibrate — how far along is everyone else on agentic deployment, what ROI they can actually evidence to a board, which parts of the stack they consolidated and which they abandoned, and where regulators are pushing. Because the audience is hand-picked and the format is single-stage, the conversations in the room are with people carrying the same mandate and the same constraints, which is a materially different input to strategy than a vendor conference provides.

• ✓Single-stage programme of roughly 25 speakers across one day
• ✓'Becoming an AI-first institution' — the framing theme of the 2026 edition
• ✓Sessions on reimagining workflows end-to-end around AI
• ✓Sessions on harmonising fragmented enterprise technology stacks
• ✓Sessions on harnessing knowledge held across a global firm
• ✓Yann LeCun (AMI Labs) among the confirmed 2026 speakers
• ✓Bank and insurer AI chiefs on stage from BNY, Capital One, RBC, Travelers, Liberty Mutual and Wells Fargo
• ✓Headline sponsorship from AKKA, Anthropic, EY and Synechron
• ✓Prior-edition agenda covered agentic AI, ROI calculation, AI governance and the shift from LLMs to small language models

• ★The audience is capped and vetted — 350+ hand-picked guests with one in three from the C-suite — rather than an open-ticket expo, so the room is peers instead of prospects
• ★Sector-specific to banking and insurance, and run by the firm that publishes the Evident AI Index, so the benchmarking data and the practitioners being benchmarked are in the same room
• ★The named speakers are AI leaders inside the institutions themselves (BNY, Capital One, RBC, Travelers, Liberty Mutual, Wells Fargo), not vendor keynotes
• ★Single-day, single-stage format with no exhibition hall to work around — roughly 25 speakers, one agenda, everyone sees the same sessions
• ★Anthropic sits alongside EY and Synechron as a headline sponsor, so a frontier-lab view and a Big Four implementation view appear on the same programme

No public ticket price. Evident has not published a pass price for the 2026 edition — the 350+ audience is described as 'hand-picked' and the event page offers a waitlist / register-your-interest form rather than an open ticket sale, so attendance is by application. Budget for travel and accommodation in Manhattan and treat the seat itself as unpriced until Evident responds to your application.

When is Evident AI Symposium New York 2026?

Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 takes place October 22–22, 2026 in New York.

Where is Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 held?

Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 is held in New York. The event format is in-person.

How much does Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 cost?

Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 is invite-only. No public ticket price. Evident has not published a pass price for the 2026 edition — the 350+ audience is described as 'hand-picked' and the event page offers a waitlist / register-your-interest form rather than an open ticket sale, so attendance is by application. Budget for travel and accommodation in Manhattan and treat the seat itself as unpriced until Evident responds to your application.

Who should attend Evident AI Symposium New York 2026?

Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 is aimed at Chief AI Officer, Chief Data Officer, CIO / CTO at a bank or insurer, Head of AI Transformation, Chief Risk Officer, Head of Digital / Innovation in financial services, AI programme and platform leads in regulated firms.

What topics does Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 cover?

Evident AI Symposium New York 2026 covers Agentic AI in financial services, Scaling AI from pilot to production, AI ROI measurement, AI governance and risk in regulated firms, Enterprise AI operating models, Technology stack consolidation, Knowledge management and AI, AI talent and organisational design.

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