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Ifgs 2018 Agenda IFGS 2018 AGENDA Date: Monday 19th - Tuesday 20th March Platinum Sponsor Venues: Guildhall and IFGS Campus 1 DAY ONE Monday 19th March 2018 0800 Registration Opens The Great Hall The Livery Hall The Grocers’ Hall Hosted by Please ensure you have registered in the Guildhall Art Gallery before heading to your 0845 - Katie Derham, Presenter and Broadcaster 0900 - 1040 sessions at the Grocers’ Hall. 0900 Great Hall morning sessions will be live streamed in the Livery Hall If you are not registered for the workshops below but would like to attend please go to the registration desk in the Guildhall to enquire about availabilty. 0900 - Welcome Address - Charlotte Crosswell, CEO, Innovate Finance 0900 - Investor Office Hours 0910 1000 Livery Hall With investment in FinTech at record levels, how can the industry come together to ensure FinTech delivers on its promises for businesses and consumers? And Innovate Finance will be hosting Investor Office Hours taking place in the how can the UK remain a global FinTech leader? Grocers’ Hall during the morning of Day 1. From talking through business propositions to seeking funding advice, delegates can connect with leading 0910 - Fireside Chat with Lance Uggla, CEO, IHS Markit investors. Please note, all appointment openings are subject to availability. 0930 From zero to 19 billion dollar company: Lance Uggla, founder of unicorn Markit Investors: (now IHS Markit) will talk about his journey from UK startup to global information Alex Macpherson, Octopus Ventures giant - the lessons learnt, current trends and the future of data in financial Conor Scanlan, Frog Capital services. Dan Smith, Exponential Ventures David Smejkal, Nauta Capital Moderator: Gareth Jones, FinTech Collective Philip Stafford, Editor, FT Trading Room Giuliano Sison, Passion Capital Kristina Soderberg, SEB Ventures Speaker: Thomas Olszewski, Frontline Lance Uggla, CEO, IHS Markit Ola Nordbye, Kennevik Reece Chowdhry, RLC Ventures 0930 - FinTech Leaders: Inspiration for the Next Generation 1005 Panel Discussion FinTech has shifted the competitive landscape, reshaped customer expectations and fundamentally changed the way financial services are structured, provisioned and consumed. In this session, FinTech founders will discuss and explore how their organisations compete differently based on unique customer value propositions, business models and what the challenges and opportunities are for growth. Moderator: Michael Tang, Partner, Deloitte Panelists: Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank Jeff Lynn, Chairman, Seedrs Rishi Khosla, CEO, OakNorth Ron Kalifa, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, Worldpay 2 The Great Hall The Livery Hall The Grocers’ Hall - Piper Room 1005 - What Does FinTech Need to Deliver Real Change? Hosted by 1040 Panel Discussion Bindi Karia, Startup expert and Innovate Finance Ambassador 1005 - How to Address the Changing Fintech Modeling and FinTech has taken the financial services world by storm. It has dominated 1105 Regulatory Landscape with Automated Machine Learning headlines and boardrooms and become a talking point for governments, Workshop by regulators, investors and the world’s largest financial institutions. While FinTech is now squarely in the public and private eye, what is the next step to deliver even greater change? Is FinTech transformative or additive and does it matter which? Can greater investment, government support, access to talent and customers 2018 will be a landmark year for European FinTech and banking. With PSD2 empower FinTech to deliver real change? What else can be done to support the and GDPR now upon us, how can automated machine learning be leveraged growth of the sector? to help financial institutions navigate the changing landscape? DataRobot, the Moderator: world’s leading automated machine learning platform, returns to IFGS to discuss its advances in critical areas of interest to financial institutions such as fraud Vish Sowani, Vice President, Global Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, Visa detection, but also new functionality in automated reporting of such models to support the changing regulatory environment. The demonstration will serve as a Panelists: world premier of these new capabilities from the leader in automated machine Imran Gulamhuseinwala OBE, Open Banking Implementation Trustee learning. Jaidev Janardana, CEO, Zopa Kevin Hanley, Director of Innovation, RBS Workshop Lead: Kirsty Rutter, MD CIO, Barclays UK Justin Dickerson, General Manager - Global Financial Services, DataRobot Li Wang, Head of EMEA Ant Financial, Alibaba Group 1040 - Morning Break 1105 - Will the UK Open Banking Project Deliver on its Promise? 1100 1135 Opinions 1100 - Plenary Address – Catherine McGuinness, City of London 1055 - Hosted by Open banking is an exciting step toward a digitised future, bringing the promise 1105 Corporation 1100 Chris Denson, Director, Ignition Factory, Omnicom Media Group and Host, of liberalised data, focused regulation and empowered customers. The UK’s Innovation Crush open banking regulations came into effect on 13th January 2018 and have been How do you retain trust in a given economic environment? From giving a voice to heralded as the catalyst for the transformation of financial services. The UK 1100 - Keynote – Liam Maxwell, National Technology Adviser, HM all actors to ensuring continuation and stability despite changing conditions, how Open Banking Project, led by the CMA and Open Banking Implementation Entity can we look at the situation with pragmatism and assess the long-term sine qua 1115 Government (OBIE), seeks to deliver on this promise, but what are the challenges that lie non of economic growth? ahead? Can open banking truly enable third parties and enhance competition? Discover Liam Maxwell’s unique perspective on the future of FinTech and financial How will GDPR affect implementation? And how quickly will customers look to services. adopt new service offerings, if at all? 1105 - Revolut: Becoming One of the Fastest Growing FinTechs in 1115 - Cyber Security: Can We Present a United Front? 1125 the World 1200 Panel Discussion Moderator: Keynote Aidene Walsh, CEO, The Fairbanking Foundation In January 2018, the head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre warned As of this year the digital-only bank Revolut has signed up a total of 1.5 that a major cyber-attack on the UK is a matter of “when, not if.” In the financial Panelists: million users and has a monthly transaction volume of well over a billion. services sector, the threat of compromised data or crippled infrastructure would Chris Gorst, FinTech Challenge Prize Lead, Nesta Their journey from humble beginnings to the first challenger bank to break affect customers and businesses on a national and international scale. Will the Christoph Rieche, Founder, iwoca even is a real FinTech success story. Hear it first hand from their CEO Nikolay cyber threat drive collaborations at an industry, national and international level? Marten Nelson, Co-founder and VP of Marketing, Token Storonsky. Is there a hope for a global response to cyber-threats? And can the UK present a Dr Tim Sievers, Founder and CEO, Deposit Solutions united front and lead the way? Speaker: Nikolay Storonsky, CEO, Revolut Moderator: Martin Arnold, Banking Editor, Financial Times Panelists: Andersen Cheng, CEO, Post Quantum Andy Bates, Executive Director, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa Global Cyber Alliance Dr Nigel Houlden PhD, BSc, MBCS, CITP, Head of Technology Policy, Information Commissioner’s Office Ruth Davis, Head of Commercial Strategy and Public Policy, BT Security Stewart Bertram, Director of Threat Intelligence and Professional Services, Digital 3 Shadows The Great Hall The Livery Hall The Grocers’ Hall - Piper Room 1125 - Has Disruption Really Benefited the Consumer? 1135 - FinTech Landscape: A View from the Capital 1200 Opinions 1220 Interactive Polling Panel FinTech has grabbed headlines for disrupting Financial Services, but is it just 2017 saw the most VC investment flow into UK FinTech to date, and led the disruption for the sake of disruption? In what areas has it actually made a way in terms of overall tech investment. So what were the drivers behind this substantial change to customers lives? How have FinTechs put customers at record year? Will it continue? Looking ahead to 2018 - what will be the hottest the heart of their propositions? And can we point to clear use cases where trends and areas of investment? What micro and macro trends will affect the technology development or service change has fundamentally improved the end landscape? Now 5 years old, FinTech has reached its mature phase - what does user’s experience? that mean for investment? Will we finally see some FinTech exits and what will the landscape look like in 5 years time? Moderator: Emily Reid, Head of FinTech and New Business, Hogan Lovells Moderator: Mike Reid, Managing Partner, Frog Capital Panelists: Iain McDougall, UK Country Manager, Stripe Panelists: Lucy-Marie Hagues, Chief Marketing Officer, Capital One Alex Macpherson, Chairman, Octopus Ventures Michael Kent, Co-founder and CEO, Azimo Claire Calmejane, Product Owner, Risk, Lloyds Banking Group Monica Kalia, Co-founder and Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer, Kaushalya Somasundaram, Head of FinTech Partnerships and Strategy, HSBC Neyber Mark Whitcroft, Founding Partner, Illuminate Financial Shaun Port, Chief Investment Officer, Nutmeg Mike Sigal, Partner, 500 Startups 1200 - 1255 1220 -1250 Lunch Break Lunch Break Hosted by 1250 - How Will The
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