Beerka Consumer Forum 2026

Connect • Collaborate • Create Consumer Relevance

Beerka Consumer Forum 2026

Connect • Collaborate • Create Consumer Relevance

URBAN FINANCIAL BEHAVIOR

From Pressure to Smart Value

An annual consumer insight and industry forum by Beerka, designed to explore how urban Indonesians navigate growing financial pressure—and how these behavioral adaptations are reshaping consumption patterns, financial decision-making, and brand choice in an increasingly digital economy.

What is Beerka
Consumer Forum?

Beerka Consumer Forum (BCF) is an annual consumer insight and industry platform initiated by Beerka to connect
real consumer behavior with strategic decision-making.

BCF integrates rigorous research, insight-led content, cross-industry dialogue, and brand collaboration to help
organizations understand not only what consumers do—but why they do it, and how these behaviors evolve under
pressure.

Designed as a long-term ecosystem rather than a one-off event, BCF serves as a credible reference point where
consumer reality informs strategy, innovation, and responsible growth.

Beerka Consumer Forum (BCF) is an annual consumer insight and industry platform initiated by Beerka to connect real consumer behavior with strategic decision-making.

BCF integrates rigorous research, insight-led content, cross-industry dialogue, and brand collaboration to help organizations understand not only what consumers do—but why they do it, and how these behaviors evolve under pressure.

Designed as a long-term ecosystem rather than a one-off event, BCF serves as a credible reference point where consumer reality informs strategy, innovation, and responsible growth.

Connect

Connecting real consumer behavior, data, and insight across categories and industries to build a shared understanding of consumer reality.

Collaborate

Bringing together brands, fintechs, financial institutions, and strategic leaders to exchange perspectives and align on emerging challenges and opportunities.

Create

Enabling the creation of consumer relevance—through value-driven offerings, responsible financial solutions, and sustainable brand relationships.

Collaborate

Bringing together brands, fintechs, financial institutions, and strategic leaders to exchange perspectives and align on emerging challenges and opportunities.

Connect

Connecting real consumer behavior, data, and insight across categories and industries to build a shared understanding of consumer reality.

Create

Enabling the creation of consumer relevance—through value-driven offerings, responsible financial solutions, and sustainable brand relationships.

Why
Urban Financial Behavior
Matters Today ?

Urban consumers today operate in an increasingly complex and pressurized financial environment. Rising living costs,
lifestyle inflation driven by digital exposure, and frictionless payment systems have transformed financial decisionmaking
into an always-on, high-frequency process.

Everyday decisions—how to pay, when to buy, whether to delay or optimize spending—now accumulate into longterm
financial outcomes. As a result, financial stability is no longer defined by income alone, but by behavioral
discipline, value judgment, emotional control, and long-term orientation.

This shift is reshaping how consumers evaluate brands, products, and financial services. BCF 2026 focuses on
understanding these dynamics and translating them into insight that matters for both consumers and industries.

Urban consumers today operate in an increasingly complex and pressurized financial environment. Rising living costs, lifestyle inflation driven by digital exposure, and frictionless payment systems have transformed financial decisionmaking into an always-on, high-frequency process.

Everyday decisions—how to pay, when to buy, whether to delay or optimize spending—now accumulate into longterm financial outcomes. As a result, financial stability is no longer defined by income alone, but by behavioral discipline, value judgment, emotional control, and long-term orientation.

This shift is reshaping how consumers evaluate brands, products, and financial services. BCF 2026 focuses on understanding these dynamics and translating them into insight that matters for both consumers and industries.

Key Highlights

Financial decisions are made multiple times throughout the day

Consumers increasingly prioritize value over short-term price advantage

Digital payments and BNPL embed credit into everyday consumption

Brands are evaluated by their perceived impact on financial wellbeing

BCF 2026 Flagship Study

Urban Financial Behavior 2026

From Pressure to Smart Value

Purpose

The flagship study aims to:

Methodology Snapshot

The flagship study aims to:

Purpose

The flagship study aims to:

Map the landscape of financial pressure experienced by urban consumers

Identify emerging smart financial behaviors that support stability and control

Understand value-based purchase decision frameworks in real-life contexts

Translate behavioral insight into actionable strategies for brands and fintechs

Methodology Snapshot

The flagship study aims to:

1,200 respondents across major urban centers in Indonesia

Coverage of 6 key cities representing diverse urban dynamics

Primary focus on Gen Z and Millennial consumers

Representation across income segments A, B, and C

Map the landscape of financial pressure experienced by urban consumers

Identify emerging smart financial behaviors that support stability and control

Understand value-based purchase decision frameworks in real-life contexts

Translate behavioral insight into actionable strategies for brands and fintechs

1,200 respondents across major urban centers in Indonesia

Coverage of 6 key cities representing diverse urban dynamics

Primary focus on Gen Z and Millennial consumers

Representation across income segments A, B, and C

Key Research Dimensions

Urban Financial Pressure

Lifestyle inflation, digital impulse triggers, BNPL and pay-later usage, emotional and stress-driven spending.

Lifestyle inflation, digital impulse triggers, BNPL and pay-later usage, emotional and stress-driven spending.

Purchase Decision Framework

How consumers evaluate value density, make tradeoffs, determine willingness to pay, and respond to pricing changes.

How consumers evaluate value density, make tradeoffs, determine willingness to pay, and respond to pricing changes.

Smart Financial Behavior

Budgeting practices, impulse management routines, payment method optimization, and micro-saving behavior.

Budgeting practices, impulse management routines, payment method optimization, and micro-saving behavior.

Urban Financial Behavior Report 2026
From Pressure to Smart Value :

How Urban Consumers Manage Money in the Digital Era ?

Report Coverage :

  • The Urban Financial Context and Pressure Landscape
  • The Emergence of Smart Financial Behavior
  • Key Practices That Support Financial Stability
  • Spending Patterns of Value-Oriented Urban Consumers
  • The Role of Fintech and Digital Payments in Shaping Behavior

Value for Partners :

  • Exclusive, behavior-driven insight beyond demographic profiling
  • Strategic decision support for product design, pricing, and communication
  • Strong thought leadership positioning grounded in credible national research

BCF 2026 Event Ecosystem

BCF 2026 is delivered through an integrated series of engagements designed to build
shared understanding, facilitate dialogue, and create industry impact.

BCF 2026 is delivered through an integrated series of engagements designed to build shared understanding, facilitate dialogue, and create industry impact.

Event Components

Webinar Series

Insight-led conversations examining financial pressure, behavioral adaptation, and implications for brands and fintechs.

National Report Launch

The official release of the Urban Financial Behavior Report 2026, presenting key findings and strategic implications.

Main Conference

A cross-industry forum bringing together brand leaders, fintech executives, financial institutions, and strategists to discuss relevance in a value-driven market.

Urban Smart Value Brand Recognition

Recognition for brands that actively support smart financial behavior and contribute to consumer financial wellbeing.

Partner with

Beerka Consumer Forum

BCF offers partners more than exposure. It offers a strategic role within a credible insight
ecosystem that shapes how industries understand and respond to evolving consumer
behavior.

Partners gain access to insight, dialogue, and visibility that support long-term consumer
relevance—not just short-term attention.

BCF offers partners more than exposure. It offers a strategic role within a credible insight ecosystem that shapes how industries understand and respond to evolving consumer behavior.

Partners gain access to insight, dialogue, and visibility that support long-term consumer relevance not just short-term attention.

Partnership Tiers

Platinum

Support

Custom Collaboration Options :

Sponsored Insight Chapters aligned with category priorities

Category-specific deep dives and focused discussions

Custom data cuts by city, income segment, generation, or behavior

Branded thought leadership content and sessions

Fintech feature showcases within the event ecosystem

About Beerka

[Beerka is a research and program agency dedicated to understanding real consumer
behavior in a rapidly changing market environment.

Working with brands, fintechs, and institutions, Beerka translates insight into meaningful
strategy—helping organizations build relevance, responsibility, and competitiveness over
the long term.

Beerka Consumer Forum is part of Beerka’s commitment to creating credible, insight-led
industry platforms that go beyond projects and campaigns.

Beerka is a research and program agency dedicated to understanding real consumer behavior in a rapidly changing market environment.

Working with brands, fintechs, and institutions, Beerka translates insight into meaningful strategy—helping organizations build relevance, responsibility, and competitiveness over the long term.

Beerka Consumer Forum is part of Beerka’s commitment to creating credible, insight-led industry platforms that go beyond projects and campaigns.

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