Banking Disrupters - Virtual Currencies

Hi Everyone,

Our Insurance Disrupters series that examines technologies that are disrupting the Insurance industry has been so successful that we thought we'd take a look at Banking too. This is an inaugural event to test demand, if you're all interested enough we'll start a dedicated series in September.

Virtual Currencies are a hot topic right now, and that's not just Bitcoin, Entrepreneurs are looking at other ways to use the block chain protocol and creating new approaches that address some of the issues with BTC. And enterprises are getting in on the game too. It's time we explored further the impact of Virtual Currencies and their disruptive effect on the Banking Industry.

The workshop is not about the technical aspects of the Disruptive Technology but a qualitative creative discussion about the existing Banking value chain, how the technology might disrupt it and how that can be turned into an opportunity.

The content from this session will be captured and circulated to the group as slides, documents and drawings.

We'll be videoing the session as usual for those of you who are unable to attend. You may click here to watch the videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/LondonNewFinance) from our previous seminars and here to see the photos. (https://www.meetup.com/newfinance/photos/)

Students - we currently have a number of free tickets available for students, please join the group using your academic email and then message an Organiser if you'd like one.

Agenda

Please be aware that the agenda is updated on a regular basis

08:30 - Arrivals

Refreshments will be provided courtesy of our Sponsors

09:00 - Welcome address

Eddie George (http://www.london.newfinance.org/members/6626826/), Founder & CEO, NewFinance

09:10 - Audience Mapping

A networking exercise to see which parts of the industry and technology are represented at the session

09:20 - What are Virtual Currencies, how might they disrupt Banking?

Gabrielle Patrick (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellepatrick), Director - Startups, Gaming & eEntertainment, iSeed (http://www.iseed.co), an online Business, Crytocurrency, and eGaming Lawyer.

10:00 - Breakout Groups

We'll break into roundtables to identify the areas that are most likely to be disrupted by Virtual Currencies and then have a group debrief to combine our thoughts and ideas.

We'll facilitate this section with practical scenarios and the groups will be circulated halfway to ensure we maintain a good mix of Delegates at each table.

12:00 - Disruptive Demo

James Sullivan Smith (https://www.meetup.com/newfinance/members/9239348/), CEO at Elliptic (https://www.elliptic.co/), building a suite of services that will make it easier and more secure to acquire, use and store digital currencies

12:20 - Closing address

Recap, feedback shout-outs, future event details and final messages from Eddie and the NewFinance team

12:30 - Networking opportunities

Refreshments will be provided courtesy of our Sponsors

1:00pm - Workshop ends

Cheers

Eddie