All Events
Commonwealth hosts and participates in a variety of programs to understand current challenges facing financially vulnerable Americans, share our research and insights, and pose equitable, scalable solutions. We facilitate dialogue through our own programming, including in-person and virtual events for industry partners and professionals from the fintech, nonprofit, policy, corporate, and financial sectors. Our executive team, content experts, and partners frequently lend their voices at industry conferences, convenings, and discussions.
Commonwealth’s webinars and speaking engagements provide an opportunity to discover new data, receive expert insights, and strategize for organizational success. View our upcoming and past events below.
Past Events
Social Innovation Summit
Join Commonwealth’s Co-Founder and Executive Director Timothy Flacke and BlackRock’s Claire Chamberlain on the first day of the Social Innovation Summit! Our panelists will explore the challenges people face in building financial security, employer-driven solutions for facilitating financial stability, and proven strategies for building a culture of financial wellness in the workplace.
Finovate Spring 2023
Wealth matters: it delivers material, psychological, and societal benefits, not just for individuals and families, but also for communities, the economy, and the nation. Yet, building wealth is a persistent challenge for working Americans living on low-to-moderate incomes who continue to become less wealthy, not more.
Commonwealth Co-Founder and Executive Director Timothy Flacke will speak as a panelist regarding the relationship between financial inclusion and wealth building
Briana Marbury, Interledger Foundations
Amee Parbhoo, Managing Director, Accion Venture Lab
Ben Maxim, Chief Digital Strategy and Innovation Officer for MSUFCU and Chief Technology Officer for MSUFCU’s wholly-owned CUSO Reseda Group
Mary Dent, Senior Advisor, Claros Group, Former CEO of Green Dot Bank, General Counsel and VP Public Policy of Silicon Valley Bank/SVB Financial Group, General Counsel of New Skies Satellites, and General Counsel of Insikt
How SECURE 2.0 Could Impact Workplace Emergency Savings and Inclusive Financial Wellness
Fintech Nexus 2023
Join Commonwealth’s Director Gosia Tomaszewska and Rishi Ahuja from Cash App to hear insights on the importance of inclusive design from 20+ years of primary research and financial tool deployments.
HRE Health & Benfits Leadership Conference 2023
The opportunity to save for retirement and build a sound financial future has long been a highly valued employee benefit for high wage earners, but for those with low and moderate incomes (LMI), it has often been an opportunity out of reach.
Join Commonwealth’s Senior Vice President Nick Maynard to learn about the current landscape of available emergency savings options for employers to offer, steps to explore an emergency savings benefit at their companies, and key lessons from deployments at UPS, Best Buy, AutoNation, and Fresh Market.
Inclusiv Conference
Commonwealth’s Director Brian Gilmore will speak alongside Sid Ratkiewicz from Common Cents Lab on the role that credit unions play in supporting emergency savings as financial institutions, employers, and vendors to other employers.
How Payroll Providers Can Advance Worker Emergency Savings
Join Commonwealth and BlackRock’s Emergency Savings Initiative as we present findings from our new research about how high-quality emergency savings features deployed in the payroll space could meet the needs of LMI consumers and how companies can partner with payroll service providers to provide innovative emergency savings products to their employees.
Welcome to FTT Embedded Finance & Super-Apps: Financial Services for the Masses
Do financial institutions struggle to connect with consumers? What is the role of established players in this evolving ecosystem? Uncover what lies behind the drive for businesses to integrate financial services for their communities or end-users. Understand the value for customers when they can access financial services from the brands that they love and trust.
Charvi Gandotra, Associate Director, Commonwealth
Steve Andrews, President and CEO, Western Bankers
Matt Zalubowski, SVP Marketing, Atlanticus
Dave Campbell, Financial Product Management, Gusto
Shilpa Bangera, Chief Revenue Officer – Platform & Data, Finastra (Moderator)