It's Bulgaria's largest digital payments conference, and after nine editions, it's the region's reference event for banks, fintechs, and regulators. The 2026 program runs as a single day across keynotes, panels and a hands-on workshop. Organizers are calling it "Your Gateway For The Future."
📅 Date: October 8, 2026
📍 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
🏢 Venue: Inter Expo Center
Themes for 2026
What's different this year is the subject matter: instead of another round on faster checkout and broader access, the agenda turns to the parts of payments infrastructure that increasingly make their own decisions, and what happens when they get it wrong.
The four main tracks follow:
- Innovation and agent payments
- Open banking and embedded finance
- The transformation underway in wealth management
- Fraud, financial crime and cybersecurity
For the first time, DIGI PAY opens the floor to AI agents in payments, starting with the debate "Next Gen Innovation: Agentic AI in Payments — Ready or Cautious?" A later panel goes further into deepfakes, biometric attacks and the identity checks meant to catch them, running alongside a parallel session on the security of Bulgaria's new digital wallet.
The pattern across both: the more of a transaction that runs without a human in it, the more the system depends on knowing who, or what, is actually on the other end.

Who can you meet?
Some of the very interesting names on the agenda are:
- Astrid Cousin — Director for Horizontal Policies, European Commission's Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.
- Commissioner Svetlin Lazarov — Head of Department, Ministry of Interior Affairs of Bulgaria
- Noah Krähenmann — Global Managing Director of Wealth Management, Temenos.
- Prof. George Dimitrov — Chairman of the Board, Evrotrust Technologies
- Goran Angelov — Founder and CEO, IBS
- Ludovic Francesconi — Chief Member & Strategy Officer, EPI Company
- Maria Mavromatidou — CEO, Lexentra GmbH
- Evangelia Dimitroulia — President, ACFE Greece
- Dimitar Mutafchiev — Director of the Security Directorate, DSK Bank
- Alexander Stanev — Head of Business Division, BORICA


Member discussion