March FinTech Open Mic Night - Virtual Currencies

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to our six month FinTech Open Mic Night series in Paris. Please join us for our monthly mixture of presentations, skype-ins, fireside chats and shout-outs plus plenty of networking.

This monthly session is designed to provide an opportunity to catch up with your peers, to see what's going on in the Paris and International FinTech scenes and to tell us all about yourself and your own work.

This month's topic is Virtual Currencies, in particular Bitcoin and Altcoins with a realistic focus on the potential value they bring and the features that make them effective. Clearly this is still an experimental area that is changing very fast. We'll deal with Blockchain technologies and applications at our April session.

We'll be videoing the session as usual for those of you who are unable to attend. You mayclick 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/NewFinanceParis/photos/).

Agenda

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

7:00pm - Doors open

Refreshments and Networking Opportunities

7:30pm - Session starts

-> Welcome address

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

Marc Lapostolle (https://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceParis/members/169451842/), Project Manager - Banking & Finance, Finance Innovation (http://www.finance-innovation.org/index_en.htm)

-> Presentations, Interviews, Demos, Skype-ins...

Sandrine Ayral (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sandrine-ayral/18/7bb/a2a/en), Business Development @ NeuCoin (http://www.neucoin.org/), The first digital currency that is easy and useful for regular consumers, free to get started, with close to zero friction, distributed to all who grow its value and utility and more... Read the press at: TechCrunch (http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/neucoin-is-a-new-cryptocurrency-designed-for-microtransactions/), CoinDesk (http://www.coindesk.com/uber-hotwire-2-25-million-neucoin/), VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/03/neucoin-raises-2-5m-to-be-a-headache-free-take-on-bitcoin/)

Pierre Noizat (https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=45388892), Co-founder & COO Paymium (https://paymium.com/), Buy and sell Bitcoin, The European exchange. Compliant: Euro payment accounts held by an approved Payment Institution; and Secure: 100% Cold Storage.

David Latapie (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidlatapie), European director for the Monero (https://getmonero.org/home) cryptocurrency, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency. It uses a codebase completely different from Bitcoin and a more advanced cryptography, safer for both privacy and network integrity. The goal of Monero is to be usable and useful, for both privacy-conscious users and for mainstream usage.

Etienne Hayem (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoupic), Initiator and Founder at Symba (https://www.symba.co/), leading the development and cocreation of the Symba network : a currency to develop environmental, social, cultural & economical externalities in a B2B network of trust

8:30pm - Closing

Shout-outs, communications, feedback and thanks

Further Networking Opportunities

9:00pm - Session ends

For those of you who would like to continue networking we'll retire to a local bar.

Cheers

Eddie