Past event · 25 Aug 2026
Embedded Finance Build Day
For the first time, banks built together: a closed, one-day hackathon where developers and go-to-market leaders from financial institutions built finance agents on real banking APIs.
- When
- Tuesday 25 August 2026 · 08:00–20:00
- Where
- A House, Katarinahuset, Stadsgården 6, 116 45 Stockholm (Slussen)
- Hosts
- Alexandra Grisanti, Ellen Freij
- Presented by
- Operator Network
- Format
- Invite only. Every seat is approved by the host.
What happened
A vendor-neutral, one-day hackathon at the intersection of agentic AI and financial infrastructure. Developers and go-to-market leaders from financial institutions across Stockholm spent the day building finance agents with the APIs and technologies shaping the next layer of finance, including Open Payments and Zwapgrid.
In numbers
- 98 registrations and 72 approved places
- 44 builders in 15 teams, who built 15 working prototypes
- 26 companies in the room
- 14 warm leads, at SEK 1,785 each
- SEK 25,000 in total, with no paid advertising
The jury
- Dan Hyyrynen, CTO, Froda
- Ola Hjorth, Head of Technology and Engineering for Digital Services, Worldline
- Christie H. Kristensen, Partnerships Manager for Open Banking, Danske Bank
- Mats Persson Bergius, CEO, Zinova
- Rebecca Koskinen, CEO, Stackby Investment Platform
- Charles Arvidsson, CEO, AI Nordics
Partners
Open Payments, Zwapgrid, Danske Bank, Froda, Worldline and Dun & Bradstreet, alongside Solvapay. Read the full Build Day case study for how the numbers were counted.
