Native Finance Summit Brings Tribal Leaders, AI, and Fintech Talk to Tulsa This October

Tribal leaders, financial professionals, and tech innovators will gather in Tulsa October 5th through 7th at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for the first-ever Native Finance Summit, hosted by the Native American Financial Services Association. The three-day event includes a two-day trade show and sessions covering artificial intelligence in financial services, fintech inside Tribal jurisdiction, decentralized finance, sovereign lending, and governance and compliance.

For communities like Lawton and the surrounding Comanche Nation areas, the summit speaks to a bigger question: how do Tribal Nations take control of their financial futures using tools that didn’t even exist a generation ago? NAFSA Executive Director Gary Davis says the goal is broadening the conversation beyond Tribal lending into sovereign finance and new economic opportunities aligned with self-determined futures.

Sponsorship packages are available through sponsor@nativefinance.org, and you can call (202) 753-0300 for registration details. Whether you work in banking, law, Tribal government, or you’re just curious about where Indian Country’s economy is heading, this is a conversation worth following. Do you think emerging financial technology helps or hurts Tribal sovereignty? Let us know in the comments.