The women of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough’s Women in Fintech (“WinFin”) Affinity Group aim to pack The Idea Center at Miami Dade College for the inaugural WinFin conference Thursday. The attorneys said the conference aims to promote leading women attorneys, regulators, bankers, entrepreneurs, and tech professionals in the fintech space and forge meaningful connections that seldom occur in virtual networking events.

The conference features seven panels moderated by Nelson Mullins attorneys from offices across the country, including Baker and fintech practice chair Richard Levin from Denver. Some panelists will be men but the majority will be women, such as Global Blockchain Business Council CEO Sandra Ro, Santander Private Banking International global legal head Begoña Guzman Garate and Goldman Sachs head of consumer advocacy Emily Thorn.

Topics include navigating and creating regulations for innovation in digital assets, how cryptocurrency and blockchain are changing the market, diversity as a disruptor and how traditional financial institutions are adapting for the digital world.

Kolmansberger, of Nelson Mullins’ Miami office, said the event is the product of the firm’s WinFin affinity group. Baker, Kolmansberger, Boston senior associate Jillian Hart, and Miami associates Rebecca Lester and Megan Kilissanly founded the group last fall in response to their experience of seeing significantly fewer women in the fintech space than men.

“When I have been at national conferences, there tend to be a lot of men on panels,” Kolmansberger said. “Fintech may look like a frat, but our focus is highlighting that there are indeed very successful women who are more than happy to connect and lift each other up and help each other out.”

After forming the affinity group, Kolmansberger and Baker said they planned the Miami conference around the last day of Women’s History Month and the April kickoff of Miami Mayor Francis Suarez’s informal Miami Tech Month.