Name: Blockchain in Finance
Start: 2016-07-27T17:45:00-07:00
End: 2016-07-27T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Moody's Analytics

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Agenda:

5:45 - Doors open. Networking. Members meet each other. Pizza and beers.

6:45 - Welcome. Members to share topics of interests for future meetings.

7:00 - Talk#1. Blockchain for Financial Services Institutions: Adoption Cycle and Use Cases, with Robert Boyd

7:20 - Q&A break.

7:25 - Talk#2. Blockchain in Finance, with Kathleen Breitman

7:45 - Q&A break.

7:50 - Fireside Chat. Blockchain in Finance: Requirements, Adoption Bottlenecks, Regulations, Use Cases, with Renat Khasanshyn, Jessica Renier, Kathryn White, Andrew J Beal, Sebastien Taveau, and Kathleen Breitman

8:40 - Q&A break.

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DETAILED AGENDA

5:45 - Doors open. Networking. Members meet each other. Pizza and beers.

6:45 - Welcome. Members to share topics of interests for future meetings.

7:00 - Talk#1. Blockchain for Financial Services Institutions: Adoption Cycle and Use Cases

• barriers for adoption

• potential use cases, prototypes of what can be done

• building a digital wallet with open blockchain

• what new challenges blockchain gives banks

• where we are in terms of blockchain maturity

• what banks want from blockchain as consumers.

Speaker: Robert Boyd, Principal Consultant at Haddon Hill Group

Robert is an experienced Principal Consultant at Haddon Hill Group. He has technical expertise in IBM software products including DataPower, API Management, Blockchain / Hyperledger, and non-IBM products such as Ethereum. His roles within Haddon Hill Group include the work as technical management consultant, technical trainer, sales engineer, implementer and developer, project and program manager.

Robert will give a short talk on blockchain use cases for inter-organizational systems integration where blockchain is an underlying pub/sub mechanism and on the likely adoption cycle for financial services institutions.

7:20 - Q&A break.

7:25 - Talk#2. Blockchain in Finance

Speaker:

Kathleen Breitman, Sr Strategy Associate at R3 CEV

Kathleen is a Strategy Associate at R3. Before joining R3, she worked in management consulting and private equity. She gained her first exposure to blockchain technology through Tezos, a cryptocurrency project she conducted with her husband in 2014.

Kathleen holds a degree from Cornell University.

7:45 - Q&A break.

7:50 - Fireside Chat. Blockchain in Finance: Requirements, Adoption Bottlenecks, Regulations, Use Cases

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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.

Panelists:

Jessica Renier, Manager at Deloitte Consulting

Jessica is a manager in Deloitte Consulting’s Strategy & Operations practice focused on blockchain technology and digital identity. Jessica has nine years of experience in banking, monetary policy and international risk across working for the Federal Reserve Bank (2006-2011), J.P. Morgan, and the Hoover Institution under former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Jessica holds an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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.

Andrew J Beal, Blockchain and Distributed Infrastructure Manager at Ernst & Young

Andrew is a manager in Ernst & Young’s (EY) San Francisco Office and a West Coast lead for the firm’s Blockchain and Distributed Infrastructure Practice. Since joining EY in February 2016, Andrew has lead the practice’s strategic partnership and thought leadership initiatives. Andrew is also a subject matter expert (SME) for the firm and educates both EY staff and clients about issues related to blockchain technology and virtual currency.

As a SME, Andrew works with complimentary EY sectors to develop blockchain-enabled business solutions. He works closely with EY’s Blockchain Technology Enablement Team on use case and proof-of concept development.

Sebastien Taveau, Technology Strategist, Innovation Business Architect, Start-ups Mentor, Reformed Entrepreneur

Sebastien is a puzzle solver, a strategic thinker, he strongly believes in intelligent disruption, clear strategic vision and practical execution. Sebastien’s technical and professional experience spans more than 20 years in various industries. He has shaped ecosystems and products around FinTech, mobile payment, mobile security, mobile identity and consumer solutions even when he was told it was not possible. Sebastien has worked as MasterCard Chief Developer Evangelist. His specialties include: Disruptive Innovation, Emerging Technologies, Banking, System Architecture, and currently Blockchain.

Kathleen Breitman, Sr Strategy Associate at R3 CEV

8:40 - Q&A break & wrap-up.

Thank you Moody's Analytics for hosting the meetup and sponsoring food & drinks!

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