Guests gathering beside the Mediterranean in Marbella at sunset

A Pool 100 Gathering · Marbella, Spain

Future of Money

100 leaders. One room. No sales floor.

An invitation-only gathering for the founders and executives shaping how money moves, how companies operate and how global business will be built next.

The anti-conference

Scale fills a hall. Intention fills a room.

Future of Money replaces thousands of attendees, competing stages and exhibition stands with 100 carefully selected leaders and one shared experience.

Every seat is held for someone who can move a payments, finance or AI decision forward—not for someone with a quota to fill.

AI, payments and the new infrastructure of global business.

Who is in the room

Selected for the conversation.

01Founders and CEOs
02CFOs and finance leaders
03Payments and product leaders
04Investors and capital partners
05AI and technology leaders
70%

At least 70 percent of participants will be buyer-side leaders rather than vendors.

The conversations

Five forces shaping what comes next.

01

AI Agents and Autonomous Commerce

How intelligent systems will transact, negotiate and operate on behalf of companies and customers.

02

Payments and Cross-Border Money

The next generation of global movement, settlement and embedded financial experiences.

03

Stablecoins and Programmable Finance

Practical infrastructure for treasury, commerce and international business—not speculation.

04

The Modern Finance Stack

How data, automation and connected systems are reshaping the office of the CFO.

05

Capital, Ownership and Tokenization

New models for access, alignment and ownership across private markets and real assets.

Pool 100 guests meeting at a beachside gathering

What it feels like

Real conversations, with room to continue them.

A gathering moves between focused discussions, shared tables and the informal moments where trust is built.

The format

One considered 36-hour experience.

Enough structure to create momentum. Enough space for the conversations that happen between the agenda.

  1. 01Arrival lunch
  2. 02Executive conversations
  3. 03Small curated roundtables
  4. 04Sunset drinks
  5. 05Private dinner with assigned seating
  6. 06Founder breakfast
  7. 07Closing lunch
  8. 08Optional padel, golf or boat experience

The venue

The Pool, Marbella.

A members' house under a vaulted glass roof: open lounges, quiet corners, a single shared stage and a long table where the day slows down—closer to a board retreat than a trade floor.

No exhibition hall. No stands. One space, designed for people who would rather talk than present.

The Pool Marbella seen from outsideGuests arriving through the entrance of The Pool MarbellaThe Pool Marbella signage inside the houseThe vaulted glass atrium of The Pool MarbellaThe shared stage and seating stepsLounge seating under the glass roof
A panel conversation on stage at a previous Marbella gathering

From previous gatherings

One shared programme, one room.

Everyone hears the same conversation, then continues it over coffee, lunch and dinner—rather than scattering across parallel tracks.

Speakers in conversation on stageGuests listening during a sessionMorning conversation at the breakfast bar

A glimpse of the gathering

The room beyond the programme.

Event atmosphere

The Pool 100 principles

The room is the product.

01

Maximum 100 participants

02

Invitation only

03

No exhibition stands

04

No general sales teams

05

One shared programme

06

Curated introductions

07

Maximum two participants per company

Founding circle

The first five around the table.

Five founding seats, each held for a specific perspective. Names are announced once confirmed.

01

To be announced

Founder and CEO

Cross-border payments company

02

To be announced

Group CFO

International commerce group

03

To be announced

Head of Payments and Product

Global platform business

04

To be announced

Partner

Growth and fintech investment fund

05

To be announced

Head of Applied AI

Enterprise technology company

For partners

Participate in the room—not around it.

Founding partners in payments, finance and AI receive category exclusivity, genuine participation in the programme, private hospitality and curated opt-in introductions.

The model is built around contribution and trust—not stage time or logo exposure.

01

Founding Partner

By conversation

02

Strategic Partner

By conversation

03

Community Partner

By conversation

Two guests in conversationGuests sharing a conversation on a terraceGuests meeting during the eveningMusic beside the MediterraneanGuests during a session in MarbellaThe stage set up inside The Pool MarbellaA beachside gatheringOptional padel in Marbella
Marbella beach and the Sierra Blanca mountains from the air

Marbella

A place designed for unhurried ambition.

Marbella has become a meeting place for international entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.

It offers a rare combination: global ambition, personal privacy, Mediterranean hospitality and the time required for meaningful conversations.

La Concha mountain above the Marbella shorelineMarbella marina from the airA boat off the Mediterranean coastBoats anchored in turquoise water
A beach gathering at dusk

Application

Request your place in the room.

Applications are reviewed individually to keep the balance between buyer-side leaders, founders and capital in the room.

The conversations shaping the future of money should not happen in an exhibition hall.