Open Banking, Financial Payment Solutions, financial technology, blockchain, payment integration and many more. This is the focus on these regular summits every month or every other month in a local San Francisco, CA hotel.
Such Events are organized by TECH TREK EVENTS in Estonia with the assistance of the local SF hotel who has the food permit during the one day conference. These events seems very promising showcasing live streaming to answer the question of low attendance.
They kind of say there are more online attendees.
On top of this, One on One meeting appointments are advertised but there are no scheduled meetings. The idea is that one on one meetings can be arranged during the events and the sponsors live presentations.
Tech Trek Events normally contacts staff like myself and other probable event managers. They staff their event four (4) days before the actual event via WhatsApp. One would wonder why their preferred communication is entirely using WhatsApp.
Since they are disorganized they will immediately ask if you can manage their event for $200 or $250 for the one day conference. They want you to come as early as 7:30 am to ensure the breakfast being served in the hotel are set as well as the event materials are laid one and shipments open such as banners, etc.., on the contract they send.
However since the 4 days before when they contact you, they also expect you to find office supplies and printing suppliers so they can print attendee badges, they try to be desperate for help so you try to help out find suppliers. You are already working without being compensated.
Interestingly this June 20, when they finally got connected with a local printing supplier, suddenly they want me to pay for the entire cost from the supplier to almost $800. The reason they say is that they are not allowed to give credit cards or issue credit card authorizations for payment.
I said "what" a Financial summit with major big financial company sponsors and partners in the US would not like to use a credit card for payment for their own event materials? So as result with the kindness of heart I paid the supplier using my debit card. They POC ask for my bank wire transfer details so they can send the money to repay me.
Again until the 3rd week of July, they cannot even show proof of receipt of a bank wire transfer. I even showed them what it looks like from a googled image on one of their affiliates, Wells Fargo. One would probably say I got scam. Yes but I got scam by all these big financial bigwigs in the finance industry. Why? I managed the one day event so all the said materials were used to the event and the event closed at 5:30 pm on 6/24/25.
On top of this, I was ask to bring a laptop. I was thinking it maybe needed in case there were last minute registrations. I was wrong, they needed my laptop the entire time in front of the podium to be used by their major speakers and presenters to show their PowerPoint presentations. Good I also brought my IPAD as their host need to read the missing paragraphs on her script.
Even in the past I was told they have low physical attendance so they use live streaming to showcase that they have a lot of online attendees. I was also ask to take a lot of pictures using my smart phone so they can post them on social media. On top of the individual, group text for the event team and calls they kept calling and texting me using WhatsApp on my phone.
As of this writing, they still keep saying they sent a wire transfer without any proof but just sending a screenshot of the bank details I originally sent them to send the payment.
They used different contacts on their website as contact from a Joblin, Chris, Kristy, Melanie etc., of whom I had emailed all to follow-up what their plan is for payment.
Not only they owe me for the event materials I paid in their behalf, they also owe me the contracted fee, admin fee and electronic device usage in California.
During the event, I had a phone discussion with them as one of their major sponsors kept asking me about their advertise one on one meetings. They want to know the times of the meetings. I was told to let them know that said one on one meetings develops during the event and will be scheduled as such if there were interested parties.
You can just tell why every monthly conference in San Francisco they need new event staff, why? because they scam people and don't pay them and used them.
These scam needs to stop. What a shame to use all this financial literacies summit.
