Community and Networking

Discover the future of banking

Discover brought together innovation stakeholders from across the financial ecosystem to drive connections and collaborative innovation. Participants had the chance to network with cutting-edge fintech firms from around the world, gaining valuable insight from the innovators shaping the future of finance.

Alongside the exhibition space, Discover featured the dedicated Swift Innotribe conference programme, moderated by well-known voices from the fintech ecosystem and beyond, plus the highly competitive Perfect Pitch and Swift Hackathon contests.

Swift Innotribe

At the heart of Discover, Swift Innotribe took participants back to the future with fresh perspectives on technology, society and our digital tomorrow.

A ‘conference within a conference’, Innotribe 2023 brought a new twist to the much-loved ‘Future of Money’ panel, and new session formats delved into topics such as central bank digital currencies, the future of sustainability and breakthroughs in AI and quantum.

Discover Stage

The Discover Stage provided the Sibos innovation community with an opportunity to present thought leadership on topics spanning the digital finance landscape to drive the connections and collaborative innovation required to future-proof the industry.

Networking events

Networking is at the heart of Discover and curated events throughout the week provided participants with the opportunity to engage with industry experts and thought leaders.

Perfect Pitch

The much-loved Perfect Pitch competition returned for its fourth year, and a selection of emerging fintechs battled it out in the live final during Sibos week. Fintechs competed across three streams – Ambitious Adventurer, Community Pioneer and Established Trendsetter.

The winners, determined by a panel of expert judges and audience voting, were rewarded with exclusive access to venture capitalists, banks and corporates, and promotion of their company and solutions on Sibos TV and social media channels.

This year's winners were:

Ambitious Adventurer
- Global PayEx

Community Pioneer
- Fincom

Established Trendsetter
- Encompass Corporation

The Perfect Pitch competition was sponsored by MaRS, Plug and Play and RBC.

Swift Hackathon

Back for its third edition, Swift brought together developers from across the financial services and banking community to collaborate and develop new solutions to some of the biggest industry challenges.

The live final took place on the final day of Sibos 2023 and this year’s participants once again impressed with their innovation and creativity.

Learn more about the Hackathon challenges.