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big.bright.minds. 2026

New Orleans, LA

Every year, courtesy of our title sponsor Origence, Filene brings together credit unions from across the U.S.: CEOs, board members, and the employees designing the future of credit unions. Add in our Filene Fellows and industry thinkers whose work is reshaping the industry, the next generation of leaders through Crashers, and the fintechs building the tools that will define the next decade, and you have the single richest room in the movement.
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big.bright.minds. 2026

What will happen at big.bright.minds. 2026? Original research you'll see nowhere else. Live access to the fintechs credit unions are actually evaluating and deploying. Conversations that reframe how you think about your members, your balance sheet, and your competition. Relationships with peers from unions and the creation of a network that outlasts any one event.

2025 set the bar: 400+ leaders from nearly 180 organizations packed the room in Nashville for our largest big.bright.minds. ever and registration sold out.

2026 will be bigger. 

Registration and Agenda coming soon. 


See you in New Orleans, December 1–3, 2026!

Check out photos from last year's big.bright.minds. 👇

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