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Matt Middleton retweeted
The AI Demo Drop at Future Proof Festival puts seven companies on stage with seven minutes each to prove it. The audience is 5,000+ advisors and operators who know how to evaluate technology quickly.
Learn more: futureproofhq.com/ai-demo-dr…
Apply now: futureproofhq.com/festival/a…
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Registration for Future Proof Festival 2026 is now open.
Year five will be our biggest and most ambitious Festival yet.
Over the last four years, more than 15,000 leaders have gathered to connect, build partnerships, launch firms, raise capital, and shape the direction of wealth management. What started as a new way to bring the industry together has become a defining annual moment.
In 2026, we raise the bar again.
More leaders.
More meaningful meetings.
More opportunities to build what comes next.
If you want to be in the room for the conversations that matter, this is your year.
Secure your spot: futureproofhq.com/festival/r…
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Whether you joined us last year or you’re considering your first Future Proof Citywide, this one’s for you.
We took everything we learned in 2025 and redesigned the experience for 2026.
Here’s what’s new at Future Proof Citywide, March 8-11, in Miami Beach, FL this year:
- A reimagined footprint with expanded walkway coverage across the sand
- Energy designed to move everywhere — no dead zones, no sidelines
- The AI Playground at the literal and symbolic center of the experience
- A truly Citywide experience that extends beyond the footprint and into Miami Beach
Same DNA. Built for an AI-driven future, powered by real community.
Read the full blog for a first look at how we’re designing the 2026 Future Proof Citywide experience: futureproofhq.com/designing-…
See you on the beach.
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The 7 AI Demo Drop Finalists for Future Proof Citywide 2026 have officially been selected.
After reviewing 80+ submissions, we’re excited to announce the companies that will take the stage and demo real, advisor-ready AI.
AI is no longer just technology. It’s becoming the operating layer.
As part of Future Proof Citywide 2026, the AI Demo Drop is focused on surfacing practical AI tools founders have built for the real world.
Meet the finalists:
- Advice.ai
- CurrentClient
- Nevis
- Perscient
- Shaping Wealth
- Slant CRM
- VastAdvisor
You’ll see these companies demo LIVE at Future Proof Citywide 2026, March 8-11, 2026 in Miami Beach, FL, putting real products in front of the advisors, operators, and industry leaders shaping what comes next.
Read the full announcement: futureproofhq.com/announcing…
Matt Middleton retweeted
He quickly turned @FutureProof_HQ’s wealth fest in Huntington Beach into the industry’s must-attend event. Now, as CEO of @ETFcom, can @MattMiddleton__ win with the same playbook? See why he’s one to watch next year: #FinancialPlanning #20in2026 #financialadvisors
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What if your AI product had its breakout moment in front of 4,000+ leaders in wealth, fintech, banking, and asset management?
That is the environment the AI Demo Drop creates at Future Proof Citywide. A live, high-stakes stage where innovators show real products to the people who shape strategy, adoption, and investment across financial services.
If you are building AI that helps firms work smarter, move faster, or unlock new value, this is where it should be seen.
Learn more and apply: futureproofhq.com/apply-now-…
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Find out what industry experts think of the trend, where risk lies, and the latest developments in crypto in this episode of ETF Zoo. Featuring ETF Action’s Mike Akins, Bloomberg's @EricBalchunas, Strategas’ Todd Sohn, and our own @DaveNadig and Sumit Roy.
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Matt Middleton retweeted
100% 🎯. Creating new regulations to avoid imagined harms on a doomer narrative that runs counter to the long record of economic & human progress that has invariably come from prior technological advances - especially when locked in a global AI race - is highly dangerous. 🇺🇸🚀
Replying to @RoKhanna
what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers.
if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums.
humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall.
your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc.
i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…
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Gopal Subramanian is leading an AI strategy that is designed to drive measurable impact at Focus Financial Partners.
His focus and finish mindset accelerates delivery, while his scan, try, and scale model ensures the right use cases advance from idea to implementation.
Learn more on his approach from the conversation with Future Proof Founder & CEO Matt Middleton: futureproofhq.com/rewiring-w…
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The great @sumitroy2 coming in hot with some @YieldMaxETFs total return analysis: they're amazing fee generation engines, but the math pretty much goes one way, and not in your favor.
Matt Middleton retweeted
Confused about "Private" securities in ETFs? Couldn't be more excited to be featuring @OuterBeachC on @etfcom with this excellent guide to the entire topic, covering all 9 offerings currently trading, and their various potential, hiccups and weirdnesses:
Matt Middleton retweeted
Most people talk about AI as a technology. The real shift happens when you treat it as a system for people, process, and strategy.
Explore the full conversation with @MattMiddleton__ on the blog: futureproofhq.com/rethinking…
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Matt Middleton recently sat down with Gopal Subramanian, Chief Data & AI Officer at Focus Financial Partners, to discuss how one of the industry’s largest wealth management networks is preparing for the AI era, and what “getting AI-ready” really means.
Check out what Matt took away from the conversation, now live on the blog: futureproofhq.com/rewiring-w…
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Replying to @MattMiddleton__
@MattMiddleton__ recently sat down with Gopal Subramanian, Chief Data & AI Officer at Focus Financial Partners, to discuss how one of the industry’s largest wealth management networks is preparing for the AI era, and what “getting AI-ready” really means.
Check out what Matt took away from the conversation, now live on the blog: futureproofhq.com/rewiring-w…
Matt Middleton retweeted
In the Age of Mamdani & Bernie, it’s in vogue again to attack capitalism & success. But it is precisely this system of incentives & freedom that has done more to lift the world from darkness, despair, & poverty than any other system ever devised by humans. 🇺🇸🚀🤍
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Does Wall Street have a gambling problem? Great chat with my old friend @DaveNadig at the @FutureProof_HQ conference about trends in ETF investing (700 new ETFs this year, $700 billion inflows) and the growth in active ETFs, but also about the Wall Street gambling problem: the troubling rise of gambling culture in sports and investing. We discuss the rise of investors seeking “lottery-like returns,” including those willing to invest in meme-like instruments like zero day to expiration options, single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs, and options-based income products targeting specific stocks that give the illusion of very high distributions; and finally discuss the value of live conferences: In an age of AI-generated deep fakes, why the investing community needs to evolve as a COMMUNITY of like-minded investors.
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Replying to @FutureProof_HQ
@FutureProof_HQ has the most female attendees of any conference I've been to.
The industry is still imbalanced but coming to FP gave me the chance to learn from women about how different the world is for them vs men.
A few things I learned from women at the FP conference 👇
Matt Middleton retweeted
“AI isn’t something you layer on. It’s the new industry foundation.” – Matt Middleton, CEO & Founder of Future Proof.
Join the largest AI-native community in finance at Future Proof Citywide. South Beach, Miami. March 8-11, 2026.
Together we will navigate the biggest shift in modern finance through a four-part AI framework:
- Invest in AI
- Build with AI
- Grow with AI
- Live with AI
These themes are not tracks or silos, but lenses to understand where to focus, how to act, and how to lead.
The pace isn’t slowing down. Neither should you. Register now: futureproofhq.com/citywide/r…
Matt Middleton retweeted
There have been a lot of posts about @FutureProof_HQ this past week, and I also attended and had a wonderful time! For those who have never been here’s how I would describe it:
In a nutshell, it’s a ‘build your own adventure’ industry experience, in a casual environment, in a lovely sunny location, with most of the top minds in the industry from both sides of the border.
At any moment there will 3 or 4 stages for you to choose which content you want to consume, or if you don’t want to do that you can walk around and speak to the countless sponsors and booths, or demo leading technology. Or you can take a break from the action and escape to talk with someone off grounds.
You can choose to have one on one matched conversations where you get to decide in advance who is of interest to you. I had 14 pre-scheduled one on one talks and they were all wonderful.
Everyone is extremely accessible. If there’s someone you want to talk to, you will be able to.
It’s structured, very well organized, and yet you’re not tied into doing anything you don’t want to do.
The reason it is so well received by everyone who attends is because the choices are limitless. You choose the experience you want.
Very educational. Very forward looking. Very good people (so many good people).
Having recently launched my own firm, I couldn’t have chosen a better time to attend an event like this. It reaffirmed for me that @TIERWealth is absolutely on the right track but also gave me a lot to think about.
I’ll be going again!
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Only at @FutureProof_HQ .....
can two of the most influential voices in finance hit the pickleball court mid-conference, with the ocean as a backdrop.
Joshua Brown and @MattMiddleton__ taking on who I think is Ben Wirtshafter at the @CapitalGroup booth......
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