Over 80 speakers at the Future Identity Festival will explore what’s next in digital identity. This means big conversations, real-world use cases and insights across three dedicated stages, covering everything from identity inclusion, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, IAM to securing access in an AI-driven world.

Your pass also gives you access to our co-located events – that’s nine content stages across financial services and beyond. Check out the agenda here.

Passes to the Future Identity Festival include full access to the Festival floor, nine content stages with over 400 senior speakers, complimentary lunch, a craft beer bar, barista coffee stations, networking drinks, live DJ sets, and more. VIP Hosted Meetings Programme pass holders can also enjoy a range of exclusive, additional benefits.

The VIP Hosted Meetings Programme at the Future Identity Festival is a vendor accelerator programme that streamlines connections between buyers and top-tier solution providers through curated, double opt-in 1:1 meetings tailored to mutual interests.

The Future Identity Festival is easily accessible by public transport. The nearest tube stations are Barbican and Moorgate – just a 5-minute walk away. Farringdon (Underground) and Liverpool Street (Underground and National Rail) are also within a 10–15 minute walk. If you are driving, nearby car parks are available, and we have secured a range of discounted hotel options for attendees. Start planning your visit here.

The Future Identity Festival is brought to you by VC Innovations. VC Innovations is a full-stack marketing services agency transforming innovative business through accelerated marketing. As the architects of Future Identity, VC Innovations convene a community of over 200,000 digital transformation leaders from across the fintech and financial services ecosystem. VC Innovations believe that by bringing together communities from across the globe to explore the power of innovation, better outcomes for businesses and consumers will follow. 85 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T4TQ. Visit the VC Innovations website.

The VIP Hosted Meetings Programme is designed to connect those looking for new technology or partners to meet the businesses providing those services. Our hosted meetings team will generate meetings based on your preferences and pre-schedule only the most relevant meetings for you.

Apply & align:
Submit your application and meet with our hosted meetings team to kick off onboarding. We’ll deep-dive into your priorities, current initiatives, and the types of partners you want to meet, ensuring we fully understand where you’re looking to create value.

Set your preferences:
Browse the pre-qualified technology partners and select who you’re most interested in meeting. At the same time, partners review your profile. All Meetings are confirmed through a double-opt-in process. If both sides agree, the meeting goes ahead.

Get your schedule:
Once preferences are locked, we build your personalised meeting schedule. You’ll receive a fully confirmed agenda ahead of the event with dedicated meeting slots and no clashes.

Meet at the event:
Join us in London for a series of focused, high-value meetings. Your day is structured with dedicated meeting sessions, alongside time for networking and VIP experiences. No cold outreach. No irrelevant conversations.

Follow up & claim expenses:
After the event, continue conversations with your new partners and track outcomes. Submit your travel reimbursement documents post-event to claim your expenses.

VIP Hosted Meetings Passes are available for senior decision makers responsible for buying or evaluating technology and other solutions for their company. Eligible company types include: banks, financial institutions; retailers, e-commerce firms, brands and platform marketplaces; esports, gaming and gambling businesses; entertainment and broadcasting businesses; travel, transportation, and delivery services; social media platforms; e-health and healthcare providers.

Excludes individuals from sales, relationship or commercial teams and organisations with a BaaS, payments or funding advisory value proposition. View the T&Cs here.

We’ll check your registration and let you know via email if you have been approved as a hosted meetings participant. If you don’t meet our qualifying criteria, you can register for one of our Rockstar passes instead.

We’ll check your registration and let you know via email if you have been approved as a hosted meetings participant. If you don’t meet our qualifying criteria, you can register for one of our Rockstar passes instead.Ahead of the event, all participants will be invited to select companies they would like to meet with. Your meetings are generated based on the preferences you make, to ensure only the highest quality and most relevant meetings are scheduled.

The meetings will be 15 minutes long and held between 10:30am – 12pm and 2pm – 4pm on both event days (9th – 10th November 2026) in the hosted meetings lounge.

Double opt-in means that both parties agree to the meeting, so we will only schedule meetings where both you and the event partner have agreed to meet.

VIP Hosted Rockstars must commit to making appointments with our event partners via the VIP Hosted Meetings Programme. We ask that you come to the event ready to meet with new potential partners. You must attend onsite meetings with participating sponsors, determined by a double opt-in process and complete the post-event survey.

Participants are free to attend content sessions and network on the exhibition floor around their schedule of meetings.

You will be reimbursed following attendance at all hosted meetings, completing the feedback form providing an evaluation of each meeting, completion of the reimbursement form and submission of receipts. The deadline for the form and receipt submissions is Wednesday, 18th November 2026.

If you attend the event but do not complete your scheduled meetings, you will not receive any reimbursement, we reserve the right to invoice your company for £2,399 + VAT for the event ticket as per the authorisation you agree to, and you may also be excluded from qualifying for the event in future years.

If you are approved for the VIP Hosted Meetings Programme but are unable to participate even though you are still with your organisation, you must agree to suggest one or more substitutes from your organisation as your replacement for the programme. Acceptance of any substitute is subject to prior approval via email.