Hi Everyone,

Welcome to our FinTech Open Mic Night series in New York. 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 New York and International FinTech scenes and to tell us all about yourself and your own work.

This month's topic is Bitcoin: Are we there yet? Not only has Bitcoin survived the last 8 years from when Satoshi's first paper was published, we have had a significant resurgence lately pushing the price to $1000. Is Bitcoin now mainstream and mature? is it here to stay and have the establishment including the Regulators accepted it as a viable alternative to digital fiat currencies? We're going to explore that question in this session.

Agenda

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

6:00pm - Doors open

Refreshments and networking opportunities

7:00pm - Session starts

-> Welcome address

Ashish Singal (http://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/61157672/), NewFinance New York Chapter Organiser

-> Sponsor messages

Melyssa Brown (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melyssabrown), Marketing + Community Events Manager at Rise New York (https://thinkrise.com/newyork.html)

-> An update on Bitcoin's progress to date

Ashish Singal (http://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/61157672/), NewFinance New York Chapter Organiser

-> Presentations

Max Kordek (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkordek/en), Co-Founder and CEO of Lisk (https://lisk.io/), a decentralised blockchain application platform based in Berlin, Germany

Michael Haley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhaleybtc), Operations Manager at AlphaPoint (https://alphapoint.com/), a leading blockchain technology provider powering digital asset networks around the world

YinFeng Shao (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yinfengshao), VP of Product at LedgerX (https://ledgerx.com), a derivatives exchange and clearinghouse

-> Panel Session

Dmitriy Berenzon (https://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/78315682/) will host an open discussion with both speakers and delegates exploring the presentations so far and the future of Bitcoin

In addition to our speakers we're delighted to be joined by David Wachsman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-wachsman-a3a84652), Founder of Wachsman PR (http://www.wachsmanpr.com/), a Wall Street-based public relations agency which specialises in Fintech, and more specifically supports blockchain technology and digital currency companies worldwide. Wachsman PR currently works with four of the top 20 cryptocurrencies in the world

8:00pm - 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

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