CAFC Event

The Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference is a full-day, practitioner-focused event hosted by the Coalition Against Financial Crime (CAFC). The conference brings together financial crime professionals, compliance leaders, risk executives, model risk teams, investigators, auditors, technology leaders, and AI practitioners to discuss how artificial intelligence is being deployed, governed, challenged, validated, and operationalized across financial crime programs.

AI is no longer a theoretical discussion for financial crime compliance. It is already changing how institutions detect suspicious activity, investigate alerts, manage sanctions risk, conduct due diligence, govern models, and structure the future financial crime workforce.

Date: Thursday, September 10, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus
Address: 101 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003

This conference is designed for professionals working in or supporting financial crime compliance, including BSA/AML professionals, sanctions professionals, fraud leaders, compliance officers, risk managers, model risk professionals, internal auditors, investigators, technology leaders, AI governance professionals, vendor risk professionals, regulators, law enforcement professionals, consultants, attorneys, and financial crime technology providers.

The event is especially relevant for professionals actively considering, deploying, or overseeing AI-driven solutions in financial crime programs.

The NYC conference will focus on practical, governance-driven conversations around AI in financial crime compliance, including:

• AI in financial crime: moving from rules-based systems to intelligence-driven programs
• Real-world AI use cases in AML, sanctions, fraud, investigations, and alert triage
• AI governance and model risk management
• Vendor due diligence and implementation realities
• Explainability, auditability, effectiveness, and defensibility
• Human oversight and accountability
• The future of financial crime professionals in an AI-driven world
• AI agents, case automation, and emerging hybrid AML/AI roles

The NYC conference will include:

• 4 expert-led panels
• 3 breakout sessions
• Catered lunch
• Networking opportunities
• Real conversations with AFC, compliance, risk, audit, technology, and AI leaders

The conference is designed to prioritize real-world implementation, governance, oversight, and practitioner-level discussion rather than vague AI hype or sales-driven presentations.

This is a practitioner-first event. While technology providers, consultants, and sponsors may participate, the conference is designed around the real questions financial institutions, compliance teams, risk teams, audit teams, and financial crime professionals are facing as AI becomes embedded in financial crime operations.

The goal is to move beyond generic AI discussions and focus on governance, implementation, defensibility, vendor risk, oversight, and operational readiness.

Yes. The NYC conference will include dedicated networking opportunities, including a networking hour. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect with financial crime professionals, compliance leaders, technology providers, AI governance experts, investigators, auditors, and other industry stakeholders.

Yes. Catered lunch will be provided.

The dress code is business casual. Attendees are encouraged to dress professionally and comfortably for a full day of panels, breakout sessions, and networking.

The NYC conference is expected to host approximately 150 attendees.

Registration is now open. Interested attendees are encouraged to register ASAP to take advantage of early-bird pricing which ends on 08/28/2026.

Registration is available through CAFC’s official website under events.
Please visit www.cafc.org for updates.

Yes. Speaking opportunities may be available depending on panel needs, topic fit, and remaining availability.
For speaking inquiries, contact info@cafc.org.

Yes. Sponsorship opportunities are available for organizations interested in supporting the conference and engaging with financial crime, compliance, risk, audit, technology, and AI professionals.
For sponsorship inquiries, contact info@cafc.org.

The conference is designed to avoid vague AI hype and sales-driven presentations. The focus is on real-world financial crime use cases, governance challenges, implementation realities, vendor risk, auditability, explainability, and defensibility.

A certificate of participation for Five (5) continuing education credits will be provided to all attendees after the event.

Attendees should bring a valid photo ID, business cards or contact information for networking, and any materials they may need for note-taking.

At this time, the NYC conference is being promoted as an in-person event.

The conference is hosted by the Coalition Against Financial Crime (CAFC), a professional organization serving the anti-financial crime community through events, education, certifications, thought leadership, and industry engagement.

Yes. Vendors, consultants, law firms, technology providers, recruiters, and other service providers supporting the financial crime compliance industry are welcome to attend. However, vendors are required to purchase a vendor admission ticket.

This is a practitioner-first conference designed to foster substantive conversations around AI governance, implementation, oversight, defensibility, and financial crime program readiness. To preserve the integrity of that environment, CAFC maintains separate admission categories for practitioners and vendors.

Vendor pricing is higher because vendors attend with a commercial interest and benefit from access to a highly targeted audience of financial crime, compliance, risk, fraud, sanctions, audit, and technology decision-makers.

No. A vendor admission ticket does not include sponsorship benefits, exhibit space, a speaking role, branding, product demonstration opportunities, or lead-generation rights. Those opportunities are reserved for official sponsors.

Vendors who purchase general vendor admission may attend, learn, network appropriately, and participate in the conference experience. However, they may not engage in suitcasing, unauthorized solicitation, product demonstrations, distribution of marketing materials, or any activity that functions as an unofficial exhibit or sponsorship.

Vendors who purchase a practitioner ticket will not be admitted under that ticket type and may be invoiced for the difference in ticket price. If the difference is not paid upon request, the ticket may be cancelled and refunded minus a 25% administrative fee, along with any applicable payment processing and ticketing fees.

For event updates, registration announcements, speaking opportunities, and sponsorship information, visit www.cafc.org.
For direct inquiries, contact info@cafc.org.