Tech Talks at Airbnb

Agenda

Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb: A Followup

Presenter: Alice Liang, Engineer - Payments, Airbnb

Where are we now? What would we do differently?

Alice will present a summary of her blog post about financial reporting at aribnb (Tracking the Money — Scaling Financial Reporting at Airbnb (https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/tracking-the-money-scaling-financial-reporting-at-airbnb-6d742b80f040)), and will also address some of the open questions raised by it.

The talk aims to provide more color and context around certain decisions that were made and how we are redesigning our financial reporting pipeline in our events-based system.

Braintree: Contextual Commerce Experiences

Presenters: Azita Habibi, Business Development Lead for Braintree Commerce; Rohit Turumella, Product Lead for Braintree Commerce

Businesses are increasingly partnering together to find new distribution channels and develop unique commerce experiences around those. Contextual commerce aims to enable consumers to seamlessly purchase products at the moment of discovery, which often occurs in the context of everyday activities.

Braintree's commerce infrastructure tools power the payments for a diverse set of contextual commerce experiences from Pinterest buyable Pins to ordering an Uber/Lyft on FB Messenger to purchasing Eventbrite tickets directly on Bandsintown, an artist and performance discover platform.

While contextual commerce is still in its nascent phases, behavioral trends and early stats indicate that it will undoubtedly become the way users expect, and desire, to make purchases in the future.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): Payment Request API Presenter: Olivier Yiptong, Engineer - Payments, Airbnb

In this talk Olivier will cover the emerging Payments APIs being developed at the W3C, and demonstrate how those APIs can be used to simplify the development of websites that need payments processing.

Emerging trends in fintech investing

Presenter: Alex Prokhorov, Managing partner, Finsight ventures

Alex will provide an update about emerging trends as seen from his vantage point as a venture capitalist focused on the fintech world.

Settle: Decentralized trust graph for online value exchange without a blockchain

Presenter: Stanislas Polu, Engineer, Stripe

In this talk, Stan will present Settle, a practical implementation of a decentralized credit network that demonstrates that given limited constraints it is possible to operate a safe credit network (a currency system without double-spend) without requiring global consensus (a shared global state machine, or blockchain). Stan will chat about the advantages as well as limitations of credit networks versus regular blockchain backed crypto currencies.