The schwag has been delivered, the notebooks printed, and the lunch order is in. We are all set to welcome more than 200 bankers, tech providers, press and analysts to Mid-town Manhattan on Tuesday, Oct. 2. We sold out the main auditorium last week, but you can still grab a good seat in the overflow room by registering at our conference website.

If you'll be there in person, be prepared to network with the presenters and other attendees. For two hours after both the morning and afternoon DEMO sessions, the presenters, along with other execs from each company, will be available for one-on-one or small group discussions and demonstrations. And a special thank-you to Philip Faulkner and Amdocs for sponsoring the networking area.

If you can't make it, watch this space for liveblogging during the event from Huntington's Brandon McGee. And at our NetBanker blog, Vancity's William Azaroff will also be covering the event in person (and check out his post today on planning your first social media effort). And within a few weeks, you'll be able to watch all the DEMOs in their entirety at our FINOVATE website.

Here's the final FINOVATE lineup:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM Welcome: Jim Bruene, Editor & Founder, Online Banking Report

9:05 AM Morning DEMOs (7 minutes per company)

    Geezeo
    Shawn Ward, Co-Founder

    Metavante
    Chris Burfield, Product Line Manager, E-Payments

    Lending Club
    John Donovan, COO

    Andera
    Charlie Kroll, CEO

    CheckFree
    Bob Homer, VP Product Management
    Milind Pandit, Director Product Management

    Mortgagebot
    Scott Happ, President & CEO

    Billeo
    Murali Subbarao, Founder & CEO

    Online Resources
    Bill Kinnelly, SVP Product & Marketing
    Mike Martell, Business Development Exec.

    Identity Theft 911
    Adam Levin, Chairman

    Yodlee
    Peter Hazlehurst, SVP Product Development

10:40 AM to 1:00 PM Networking with the                                                 Sponsored by:
              Morning Presenters                                               
             (lunch available)

1:00 PM Welcome: Jim Bruene, Editor & Founder, Online Banking Report

1:05 PM Afternoon DEMOs (7 minutes per company)

    Firethorn
    Kyle Cochran, Product Manager

    Monitise
    John Tantum, Business Development Director

    ClairMail
    Joe Salesky, President & CEO

    MShift
    Awele Ndili, Founder & CEO

    mFoundry
    Drew Sievers, CEO & Co-Founder

    Prosper
    Chris Larsen, CEO & Co-Founder
    Andrew Martinez-Fonts, Head of Product Management

    Jwaala
    Andrew Taylor, CTO

    iPay Technologies
    James Hyde, SVP Strategic Alliances

    Digital Insight, an Intuit company
    Paul Rosenfeld, VP & GM Small Business

    Mint
    Aaron Patzer, Founder & CEO

2:40 PM to 5:00 PM Networking with the Afternoon                          Sponsored by:
             Presenters (snacks & beverages available)

4:30 PM Best of Show Awards Presented

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Informal cocktail hour (location TBD)

You may have noticed that the blogging machine has slowed down a bit during the past few weeks (see note 1). It's not because of a lack of industry movement. Far from it. It's because we've been putting together a scorching hot conference, our first ever!

But it will all pay off on Oct. 2 when twenty of the most innovative companies in the financial, banking and lending industries gather in New York City to offer a glimpse of the future of online and mobile banking at FINOVATE 2007: DEMOing the Future of Financial Services.

Following the popular format pioneered by DEMO, FINOVATE 2007 will provide companies with a mere seven minutes to “wow!” an audience of 200 leading executives, investors, analysts, members of the press and bloggers with actual demonstrations of their latest and greatest products and services (no Powerpoint allowed!). The demos will be followed by intimate networking sessions where attendees will be granted unprecedented access to these innovative companies and their executives.

Many of the twenty presenters have mobile solutions, but five are focused entirely on the mobile space (see note 2 for the full presenter list):

ClairMail, Firethorn, mFoundry, MShift, and Monitise 

General admission tickets for the event are extremely limited (fewer than 100 remain!). And with only 44 shopping days left, you'll want to get yours today and qualify for the early-bird rate of under $500. To register, visit our registration page at finovate.com or call us at +1 (206) 517-5021. Don’t miss out on your chance to see what’s next in P2P lending, online account opening, bill payments, mobile banking, social personal finance and more!

(Member of the press or industry blogger? Email us at finovate@netbanker.com to request a press pass.)

Notes:

1. Special thanks to guest blogger Brandon McGee for keeping the spiderwebs from accumulating the last two weeks.

2. Full presenter list (in alphabetical order): Andera, Billeo Inc, CheckFree, ClairMail, Firethorn, Digital Insight (an Intuit company), Identity Theft 911, iPay Technologies, Jwaala, Lending Club, Metavante, mFoundry, Mint, Monitise, MortgageBot, MShift, Online Resources, Prosper Marketplace, and Yodlee.