Global Government Fintech Lab in Dublin on 11 June 2025: register now
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. The event – which will be held in Dublin on Wednesday 11 June and is being organised by our sister title Global Government Fintech – 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.
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 Ireland’s Department of Finance.
Register now to attend in Dublin on 11 June 2025
Speakers so far confirmed
Speakers so far announced include Barry Lowry, who has been chief information officer for the Irish government since 2016, and Ruth Kennedy, who is Revenue Commissioner.
Speakers from the Lab’s host nation also include Brian Corr, who was appointed head of Ireland’s Department of Finance’s international financial services unit in December 2024, and Miriam Dunne, who is head of innovation strategy and policy at the Central Bank of Ireland.
The UK is represented by speakers including Lee Edmonds, who is head of payments services – financial services at the UK’s Crown Commercial Service; and Alex Bloomfield, who is assistant commercial director – financial services/payments at HM Revenue & Customs.
Representing the Baltic state of Latvia are Dina Buse, who is deputy director of the financial market policy department and head of the credit institution and payment services policy division in the Ministry of Finance; and Marine Krasovska, who is head of the Fintech Supervision Department at Latvijas Banka (central bank).
Further confirmed speakers include Alessandro Moricca, who is chief executive of PagoPA – a company wholly-owned by the Italian state, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, that operates a platform for e-payments to the public administration, as well as a growing number of other platforms/services; and Valentina Ion, who is director – public finance strategy at Microsoft, which is a Lab knowledge partner for the fourth successive year.
Read more: Ireland hosts public sector fintech pioneers in Dublin for third ‘Lab’ – an on-the-day event summary of Global Government Fintech Lab 2024
Post-election Ireland
At the 2024 Lab, Ireland’s 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.
Ireland has held a general election since the last year’s Lab, with Richmond since being appointed to the role of minister of state for international development and diaspora. Robert Troy was recently named as his successor at the Department of Finance.
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’.
The inaugural Lab was held in Estonia’s capital city, Tallinn, in June 2022 in partnership with the Estonian government.
Global Government Fintech Lab 2025: contact us
To discuss the 2025 Lab agenda and registrations, please contact Raquel De Luis Martinez: [email protected]
To find out about Global Government Fintech commercial opportunities, including partnering the 2025 Lab, please contact Matt Hoare: [email protected]
About Ian Hall
Ian is Global Government Finance editor. He has formerly held roles including UK director of Euractiv (2011-2018), editor of Public Affairs News (2007-2011) and news editor of PR Week (2000-2007). He was shortlisted for ‘Editor of the Year’ at the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME) Awards in 2010. He began his career in the Balkans at English-language weekly the Sofia Echo (Bulgaria: 1998-1999).
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