Blockchain in Finance

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Agenda:

6:00 - Doors open. Networking. Members meet each other.

6:35 - Welcome. Talk #1. Blockchain in Finance and Banking, with Michael Gardner

6:55 - Q&A break.

7:00 - Talk #2. Blockchain Applications and Impact, with Karen Hsu

7:20 - Q&A break

7:30 - Panel Discussion. Blockchain in Finance: Requirements, Adoption Bottlenecks, Regulations, Use Cases, with Renat Khasanshyn, Kathryn White, Chris Finan, and Patrick Schilz

8:20 - Q&A break

8:35 - Wrap-up.

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DETAILED AGENDA

6:00 - Doors open. Networking. Members meet each other.

6:35 - Welcome. Talk #1. Blockchain in Finance and Banking

• barriers for adoption

• potential use cases, prototypes of what can be done

• what new challenges blockchain gives banks

• where we are in terms of blockchain maturity

• what banks want from blockchain as consumers.

Speaker:

Michael Gardner, Managing Director and Head of Center at BNY Mellon Innovation Center - Silicon Valley

Michael has 2+ decades of software development and executive leadership experience in a variety of contexts. At the Innovation Center, Michael is building a world class research and delivery team, focused on some of the world's hardest and most interesting problems and data. Teams and research areas include Big Data, APIs, crypto currency, and blockchain. Michael strives to bring extraordinary changes to Financial Services.

6:55 - Q&A break.

7:00 - Talk #2. Blockchain Applications and Impact,

• Challenges, priorities and role of blockchain

• Blockchain applications and business impact

• Case studies for financial services

• How these use cases can be addressed with HyperLedger

• Getting started quickly and scaling

Speaker:

Karen Hsu, Head of Growth at BlockCypher

Karen Hsu is Head of Growth at BlockCypher. With over 20 years of experience in Big Data Analytics, Fintech and Blockchain, Karen has co-authored 4 patents and worked in a variety of engineering, marketing and sales roles to bring new products to market for banks and financial services institutions. She has also worked closely with standards organizations such as SWIFT and ACORD.

Karen has a Bachelors of Science degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

7:20 - Q&A break

7:30 - Panel Discussion. Blockchain in Finance: Requirements, Adoption Bottlenecks, Regulations, Use Cases, with Renat Khasanshyn, Kathryn White, Chris Finan, and Patrick Schilz

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Moderator:

Renat Khasanshyn, CEO at Altoros

Renat is founder and CEO at Altoros. Altoros helps Fortune 100 digitize their revenue streams through training, deployment and integration of solutions offered by the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. Renat's professional interests lie in the intersection of Cloud Foundry, industrial internet & IoT, predictive applications and APIs, B2B blockchain and smart contracts as a service, microservices architectures and web components.

Speakers:

Kathryn White, Innovation Consultant - Silicon Valley Solutions at Royal Bank of Scotland

Kathryn is working at Silicon Valley Solutions for the RBS scanning the horizon for new trends and technologies and considering their impact on banking. She is reviewing interesting startups from across all areas, looking for ideas which will make life better for RBS customers, in areas including Big Data, Cloud Services, blockchain, and many more. Kathryn is aiming to bring the best ideas back to the bank for Proof of Concepts and deployment to customers.

Chris Finan, CEO and Co-Founder at Manifold Technology

Manifold Technology is a venture-backed technology startup based in Menlo Park, CA. Manifold provides private blockchain technology to financial institutions for asset liquidity and next-generation financial services.

Patrick Schilz, Blockchain Entrepreneur, Head of Business Development at String

Patrick has experience in investment banking, private equity, and an own advisory business. He lived, studied, and worked across Europe, Asia, and North America.

In 2013, Patrick founded cf-x Advisory, a specialist start-up advisory boutique that supported entrepreneurs and young companies in raising initial and growth capital.

In 2016, Patrick left traditional finance and settled in Silicon Valley to help building a new financial ecosystem based on blockchain technology and smart contracts. String is a venture backed fintech startup developing a decentralized permissionless global financial environment for Ethereum smart contract developers that aims to help programmers become the world's bankers.

8:20 - Q&A break

8:35 - Wrap-up.

Thanks BNY Mellon for providing the space, organising the recording and live streaming!

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