5th Annual Digital Financial Services Conference: Emerging Payments & Blockchain

5th Annual Digital Financial Services Conference

Emerging Payments & Blockchain 

May 20th 2016

Columbia University-Faculty House

For more information, and to register, please visit

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You will learn from world experts on:

  • Global retail payments trends
  • The state of security and threats in mobile payments and payment systems
  • Fintech investing
  • Disruption to traditional bank models
  • Regulatory issues and initiatives in payments
  • Payments in transit and Internet of Things
  • Identity management and security
  • Big Data use and privacy implications
  • Mobile money and Digital Financial Services in the developing world
  • Global Philanthropic activities in payments and financial inclusion
  • Bitcoin, and Blockchain initiatives and disruption in the financial world

 

AGENDA 

08:30-09:00am EVENT REGISTRATION AND CHECK-IN

09:00-09:15am Digital Financial Services & The Global Emerging Payments 

     Opportunity 

  • Dr Leon Perlman, 
    Director, Digital Financial Services Observatory,  Columbia Business School

09:15-09:30am The Role of Digital Financial Services in Enhancing Financial 

     Inclusion

  • Sacha Polverini,
    Senior Programme Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

OVERVIEW OF GLOBAL PAYMENTS & FINANCIAL SYSTEM

Moderator: Ulrike Guigui, Director, Strategy and Operations, Deloitte Consulting LLP

 09:30-9:45am The State of Mobile Payments Globally

  • Howard Hall, Managing Director, Consult Hyperion USA 

09:45-10:00am World Bank Role In Payments

  • Thomas Lammer, Senior Specialist, Payments Systems Group, World Bank

10:00-10:15am Nasdaq & The Blockchain

  • Frederick Voss, Vice President, Nasdaq

10:15-10:30am Q&A for All Session Speakers

10:30-10:45am Coffee Break

EMERGING PAYMENTS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

Moderator:      Khurram Sikander, Global Group Lead Digital Finance and Payments, Enclude 

10:45-11:00am The State of Digital Financial Services in the Developing World

  • Gunnar Camner

Director, Mobile Money Services

GSM Association

11:00-11:40am Panel: Uptake Of Digital Financial Services In The Developing World

  • Kwasi Donkor, Senior Policy Advisor, Digital Financial Services, USAID
  • Dalia Cohen, Group CFO, Cassava Connect
  • Vince Kadar, CEO, Telepin
  • Chris Dooley, Lead, Global Financial Inclusion, World Economic Forum
  • Ann Camarillo, CEO, Boloro

11:40-11:55am Q&A for All Session Speakers

 

EMERGING & MOBILE PAYMENTS IN RETAIL

Moderator: Jason Oxman,
                 CEO,  US Electronic Transactions Association

11:55-12:35pm Roundtable: Global Payment Initiatives

  • Ann Sattin, Head of digital alternative payments & gift card marketing/acquisition, Amex
  • Peter Donat, SVP, Head of First Data Ventures

12:35-12:50pm Q&A for All Session Speakers

12:50-02:00pm LUNCH

 

INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURS— INVESTING & FINETCH STARTUP FORUM

Moderator: Eric Cantor, 
                    MD, Mobile Global, and adjunct at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

02:00-02:15pm The Banking Disruptors

  • Brett King, CEO, Moven

02:15-02:25pm Socure 
                        Sunil Madhu, CEO

02:25-02:35pm Mistral Mobile
                       Ludwig Schulze, CEO

02:35-02:45pm Currency Cloud
                      Dov Marmor, Director of Business Development

02:45:-02:55pm - Loyyal

              Greg Simon, CEO

02:55-03:10pm  Investing In Fintech & Services 
                 Matt Harris, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures

03:10-03:25pm Q&A FOR ALL SESSION SPEAKERS

REGULATORY, BIG DATA, ID, PRIVACY, SECURITY & CYBERCRIME

Moderator: Boris Segalis

Co-Chair, Data Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity at Norton Rose Fulbright    US LLP

03:25-03:40pm Security Challenges in Mobile Devices

  • Prof Kevin Butler, 
    Department of Computer and Information Science, University Of Florida

03:40-03:55pm Security & Privacy in Mobile Devices

  • Jay Kramer, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI, NY 

03:55-04:10pm Coffee Break

04:10-04:40pm Panel: Privacy, Consumer Protection, Privacy & Cybersecurity Challenges  in Digital Payments

  • Vinny Lingham, CEO, Civil
  • Laura Zuckerwise, Attorney, US Federal Trade Commission
  • Prof Paul Lee, Faculty of Law, Columbia University
  • Jay Kramer, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI, NY 

04:40-04:55pm Q&A FOR ALL SESSION SPEAKERS

 

DISRUPTIVE TRENDS IN DIGITAL FINANCE

Moderator: Rik Willard, 
                 CEO, Agentic Grouphttps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif

04:55-05:35pm Panel: Bitcoin, the Blockchain & the Potential Disruptive Effects on Commerce, IDs, and IPOs

  • Jo Lang, Director, R3CEV
  • Dan O'Prey, Chief Marketing Officer, Digital Asset Holdings
  • Reggie Middleton, CEO, Veritaseum
  • Lawrence Orsini, CEO, LO3 Energy

05:35-05:50pm Q&A FOR ALL SESSION SPEAKERS

05:50-06:30pm CONCLUDING REMARKS & Reception

Hwan Kim, World Economic Forum