Fintech & Security - A Panel Discussion

This event is sponsored by the Authy division of Twilio. The panel discussion will have speakers in the fintech security space discussing about current and future challenges.

Moderated By: Jeanine Swatton

Jeanine Swatton is the Director of Developer Evangelism at Yodlee Interactive. Jeanine holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Boston University and a Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity. Jeanine has more than 15 years of engineering experience in the government and surveillance space as well as startup sectors. For the last 5 years, her main focus has been on mobile app development which includes helping companies define a mobile strategy as well as developing native iOS apps. Jeanine taught iOS Development at a few Universities. She is also an technical advisor for high school students at Technovation. Jeanine speaks at several events/conferences on Fintech, mobile app development as well as Ruby on Rails related topics.

Rich Kirk, Authy Enterprise Sales

Rich is a member of the Authy Sales Group at Twilio and is focused on Large Enterprises and the FinTech vertical. Rich is currently helping some of the largest and most recognized FinTech companies secure their applications with 2FA. Rich has been involved with software startups for 15 years and focused on security solutions for most of that time.

Olaf Carlson-Wee, Head of Risk at Coinbase

Bio: Olaf heads up risk at Coinbase, the largest bitcoin company in the world, where he was the first employee. He received a BA in Sociology from Vassar College after completing his thesis on distributed networking, focusing on the implications of the mass adoption of bitcoin and other cryptographic technologies. He is an expert in decentralized ledger protocols, crypto-based financial instruments, and anti-fraud systems at scale.

Christian Hansen, CTO and Co-founder at Cobalt.io

Bio: Christian is CTO and co-founder of Cobalt.io, an application security platform, that has hosted 2-300 bug bounty programs and security audits, crowdsourced by the power of several thousand security researchers. Christian has a background in physics and computer science and has led development and security at Cobalt, since 2013.

Jason Tan (@jasontan) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sift Science

Bio: Jason runs Sift Science, a San Francisco technology company that fights online fraud with large scale and real time machine learning. He previously served as CTO of BuzzLabs, a machine learning startup acquired by InterActiveCorp. Prior to that, he was an early engineer at two Seattle startups, Zillow and Optify. Jason graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in 2006 with a Computer Engineering degree.