name: Harland Connections 2007
date: Sept 19-22 2007
location: San Diego CA
produced by: the folks at the Harland Financial Solutions

For all you banks and credit unions out there that rely on products and services from Harland Financial Solutions, it’s time for your annual Harland conference! If you are a credit union, look for Harland to be starting to push their Phoenix Core System, which you may recall Harland acquired from Fair Issac Corporation in 2004.

Here is the intro section from the conference website…

Harland Financial Solutions is delighted to once again bring all of its product lines together for one conference. We have an exciting cast of speakers ready to engage and teach you more about the financial services landscape. Plus, we’re offering plenty of opportunities to network with your peers throughout the conference—from our opening night product receptions, to the popular Partner Expo and Innovations Station, to our final night event - Passport to Rock! You’ll find that classes are designed around our specific products, as well as timely industry topics. And, you can attend sessions related to any product or topic whether you are a user or just interested in learning more.

name: TechCrunch20
date: Sept 17,18 2007
location: San Fransisco CA
produced by: the folks at the TechCrunch blog

It seems anyone and everyone that is interested in new internet technology is an avid reader Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch blog. Well, Michael has decided to parlay his blog kingdom into a first ever, full blown TechCrunch conference. Similar to Finovate below, the TechCrunch20 conference will had pick 20 innovative companies (from a pool of more that 700! submissions from over 20 countries), and give them each 6 minutes to give it their all in a demo. The sponsors and panelists are the who’s who from Tech.

At this time, the selected companies have not been announced, and we have heard that TechCrunch is keeping this info under wraps until the conference actually starts!

That means we are not sure if there are any companies/products in the financial service industry who will be presenting. We will stay on top of this and cover/analyze any presentations in this space.

update: sounds like the TechCrunch20 has balooned to the TechCrunch40 !