ICT Hub Meetup: FintechBridge - Ireland + Serbia Meetup

Fintech Ireland (http://www.fintechireland.com/) and Fintech Serbia (http://www.fintechserbia.com/) have joined forces to create a unique event that brings together TWO great Fintech communities!

This unique event gives you the opportunity to expand your network internationally (with the help of our FintechBridge system), check out five upcoming Fintech companies (three from Serbia – LeanPay (http://leanpay.com/), Manigo (http://manigo.com/) and Circle.Money (https://www.circle.money/sr/) and two from Ireland) (#FintechBattle), and keep your finger on the pulse of RegTech, one of the hottest areas of FinTech.

When: Thursday, 8th June 2017 - 18:30 Belgrade
Where: Playground, 10 Kralja Milana (entrance from Kosovka devojka), Belgrade

Agenda:

This time the event will be held in Dublin (Ireland) and Belgrade (Serbia) connected by videolink and streamed live on Periscope (http://www.periscope.tv/)!

· 18:30 Introduction & Networking

· 19:00 Overview of each Country, plus special guest speakers Peter Cowap and Leona O’Brien from Ireland’s Governance Risk and Compliance Technology Centre (GRCTC)

· 19:45 #FintechBattle - Fintech Startup Showcase (Twitter @FintechBattle (http://www.twitter.com/FintechBattle))

· 20:30 Voting

· 20:45 #FintechBattle Results

· 20:55 Notices & Upcoming Events

· 21:00 End

Speakers:

· Dave Anderson (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/daveandersonireland) is a collaborator at FintechIreland and Head of Consulting at Ammeon, where he helps companies accelerate their product delivery cycles. Dave has two decades of experience in engineering and management roles in telecoms and financial services, is a founder of a number of companies, and holds a BSc (hons) in Software Engineering and a Postgraduate Diploma in Product Management

· Leona O’Brien (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/leona-o-brien-017a904) of GRCTC. Leona is a Senior Legal Researcher, with a Masters in Law from UCC, and has been in the GRCTC since its inception in 2012

· Peter G Cowap (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/peter-cowap-28234126) is currently the Director of the Technology Centre for Financial Services – Governance, Risk and Compliance (‘GRCTC’), where the EI-IDA funded Centre contributes to enhancing global standards and Ireland’s value proposition in the FinTech/RegTech/RiskTech space. Peter holds an LL.B (hons) in law (Leeds) and an MBA (Management) from the City University (now CASS) Business School, London and has accumulated extensive international experience in the corporate governance and regulatory domain, having held senior positions in a number of banks and corporations including; HSBC, Credit Suisse First Boston, Nomura and more recently the AIB Group, where he was Head of Financial Crime.

· Dušan Vukanović (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dusanvukanovic/) is active in the areas of technology entrepreneurship as an author, lecturer and mentor. He has mentored successful tech startups from Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Serbia. Since 2015 he is Innovation and Business Development Consultant to ICT Hub, #1 center for technology entrepreneurship and corporate innovation in Serbia, where he focuses on helping corporations embrace the knowledge, power and energy of tech startups. In 2016 he has joined a team of founders of One Assessment, a tech startup in the area of recruitment and human resources management, where he puts into practice his own expertise and experience in the fields of human resources, entrepreneurship and working with tech startups.

What is FintechBridge?

FintechBridge is about connecting Fintech communities across Europe. Use our simple networking system to publish your details and to view other attendees, and then it’s up to you to make the connection. You’ll receive a link when you register for this event.

Find out more at FintechBridge.eu (http://www.fintechbridge.eu/)

What is FintechBattle?

FiintechBattle is a showcase for upcoming Fintech companies. It’s a five-minute pitch, to audiences across Europe. No pressure! You can get involved by voting for your favorite pitch by tweeting. Sounds complicated? Don’t worry, all will be explained!

Find out more at FintechBattle.eu (http://www.fintechbattle.eu/)

Thanks to our generous sponsors FSCom (http://www.fscom.co.uk/), ICT Hub (http://www.icthub.rs/), Societe Generale Serbia (http://www.societegenerale.rs/), Societe Generale Insurance (http://www.sogeosiguranje.rs/) for making this event possible.

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