Qualifying Future Identity Customer attendees from eligible relying parties can apply to join our exclusive VIP Hosted Meetings Programme. You’ll benefit from everything the event has to offer, plus travel and accommodation reimbursement (up to £200 for UK based attendees and £300 for international attendees), and VIP benefits.
You’ll be connected to key industry suppliers to help build an invaluable network for your company. Our hosted meetings team generate meetings based on the preferences you make, to ensure only the highest quality and most relevant matches are scheduled.
Benefit from a full VIP experience including:
- Travel reimbursement (up to £200 for UK based attendees and £300 for international attendees)
- Exclusive networking sessions with leaders in the fintech and financial services space
- Networking drinks
- Queue jump at registration
- Passes are limited so be quick and register before they go!
- T&Cs apply
Am I eligible to take part in the VIP Hosted Meetings Programme?
VIP Hosted Rockstar passes are available for individuals with buying power or influence from regulated financial institutions, lenders, retailers, e-commerce firms and platform marketplaces, and other relying parties.
Previous participating brands
Key hosted meetings benefits
The hosted meetings lounge will be open 14:00 – 17:00 on the event day and is exclusively for VIP Hosted Meetings Programme participants. The lounge is designed to help you recharge, relax and refresh between meetings. You can grab some refreshments and catch up with calls, connect with fellow hosted meetings participants, and with our friendly hosted meetings team.
The programme puts the power in your hands, giving you unrivalled sourcing, learning and networking opportunities. View the full T&Cs.
“It was a great way to meet with prospective partners to get the conversation started. And it made a big difference that these were face-to-face conversations happening all in one venue.”
– Ajay Moti, Senior Manager, Fintech Partnerships, Booking.com
“It was a very valuable experience to meet with fintech partners that can help turbocharge our business.”
– Ankur Sisodia, Head of Product, Lending & Savings, N26
“It’s the perfect time to see whether there is a match, and schedule a follow up conversation.”
– Anouk Moll, Founder in residence, Merantix
“I loved the event: the vendors were very relevant and it was great to find them all in a single place. The crowd was great, the show was great!”
– Alexandru Dorobantu, Senior Director, Global Payments, Delivery Hero
Programme commitments
As a programme participant your commitment is to attend all your scheduled meetings with event sponsors who you have matched with. You also commit to completing our hosted meetings survey post event and give constructive feedback on the meetings.
To qualify, individuals must: (a) be responsible for buying or evaluating technology solutions for their company, and (b) agree to take at least four (4) 15-minute onsite meetings with participating sponsors, determined by a double opt-in process. The purpose of which is to create value for all involved. See T&Cs for the full criteria.
Hosted delegates must be actively looking for solutions in the following areas
- Identity verification providers
- Customer identity and access management (CIAM)
- Decentralised identity solutions
- Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS)
- Fraud detection and financial crime solutions
- Fraud detection and prevention
- Anti-money laundering (AML)
- Fraud risk management platforms
- Payment fraud solutions
- Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
- Identity governance and administration (IGA)
- Policy and compliance management
- Risk analytics and management
- Privileged access management (PAM)
- Cross-domain identity and security solutions
- Enterprise identity management (EIM)
- Zero trust and adaptive security solutions
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Emerging technologies and trends
- AI-driven identity and fraud solutions
- Behavioural biometrics
- Blockchain for identity and compliance
Meetings Package for tech and solution providers
We have a brand new opportunity available for you to get involved – get in touch with us at marketing@vcinnovations.co.uk to view our meetings package as part of the VIP Hosted Meetings Programme.
FAQs
The VIP Hosted Meetings Programme is an opportunity for you to pre-schedule meetings with event partners. Our hosted meetings team will generate meetings based on your preferences and schedule only the most relevant meetings for you.
A VIP Hosted Meetings participant is a senior decision maker responsible for buying or evaluating technology and other solutions for their company. To view a full list of criteria please see our T&Cs.
We’ll check your registration and let you know via email if you have been approved as a VIP 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 14:00 and 17:00 on the event day (13th May 2025) in the VIP hosted meetings lounge.
Double opt-in means that both parties agree to the meeting, so we will only schedule meetings where both yourself and the event partner have agreed to meet.
VIP Hosted Meetings Pass holders 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 a minimum of four (4) pre-scheduled meetings during the event and complete the post-event survey.
The deadline to apply will be confirmed soon.
Participants are free to attend content sessions and network on the exhibition floor around their schedule of meetings.
You will be reimbursed following attendance to 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 will be confirmed soon.
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 £599 + 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.
Register your interest
Have any questions? View the T&Cs or contact a member of the team:
