The Transformative Potential and Regulatory Challenges of FinTech
Friday November 3, 2017
Check in and coffee
08:00-08:30
Welcome
08:30-08:45
Opening Keynote: Matt Harris, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
08:45-9:15
Research Session 1: Automation and Financial Services
09:15-10:00
- Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania, National Center Chair and Computer Science Professor
- Vasant Dhar, Professor, Stern School of Business and Center for Data Science
- Arun Sundararajan, Professor Stern School of Business, and author of “The Sharing Economy: the End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-based Capitalism”
Coffee Break
10:00-10:30
Research Session 2: Responses to Automation: Disruption or Adaptation?
10:30-11:15
- Francesco D’Acunto, University of Maryland
- Boris Vallee, Harvard Business School
- David Yermack, Chair, Finance Department, Stern School of Business
- Matthew Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Morning Fireside Chat: Regulation and Financial Access, The Amazing Story of Prize-Linked Savings in the U.S.
11:15-11:45
Timothy Flacke, Executive Director, CommonWealth
Moderator: Kathleen DeRose
Luncheon “Brain Dates” (Breakout Sessions)
12:00-13:45
- Student Lending: Phil DeGisi, CMO, CommonBond
- P2P Lending: David Snitkof, Co-founder and Chief Analytics Officer, Orchard
- FinTech Accelerators and Incubators: Adrian Johnson, Startup Bootcamp
- FinTech Angel Funding: Brian Cohen, Chairman, Managing Partner New York Angels
- VC-Startup Partnerships: Michael Sidgmore, Venture Partner, Broadhaven and CEO Alex Hardy, LiveOak Technologies
- Software-Startup Partnerships: Margaret Hartigan, CEO and founder, Marstone
- B2B Global Robo: Drew Sievers, CEO of Trizic and Andreas Ruflin, Head Product, Evolute
- FinTech and the Retirement Market: Grant Easterbrook, CEO and Founder, Dream Forward Financial (and client company)
- The Evolution and Electronificiation of Bond Trading: Josh Hershman, COO, and Dan Siracuse, CFO, Trumid
- Blockchain FinTech Applications: Tom Jessop, President, Chain
- FinTech Data Aggregation: Lowell Putnam, CEO and founder, Quovo
- FinTech Platforms: Adam Broun, COO, and Patrick Wood, Head of Academic Research, Kensho
- FinTech Data Management Tools: Jake Perlman-Garr, CEO and founder, Datavore
- Reg Tech: Jennifer Lee, Investment Team, Edison Partners and Jean-Marc Levy, CEO, ComplySci, portfolio company
Panel 1: The Global Regulatory Sandbox: How is Regulation Shaping FinTech Globally?
14:00-15:00
- Jeffrey M. Bandman, Former CFTC FinTech Advisor and LabCFTC Founding Director
- David Geale, FCA Director of Policy
- Ryan van Grack, Special Counsel and Advisor, Head of SEC’s FinTech Working Group, SEC
Moderator: Gillian Tett
Demo Sessions: Entrepreneurship in FinTech
15:00-16:00
- Derek Brown, CEO, and Isaac Kassin, co-founder and Head of Marketing, Exeq
- Vishal Garg, CEO and founder of Better Mortgage
- Marie Wieck, General Manager, IBM Blockchain
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
Panel 2: The End of Cash?: How is the FinTech Payments and Investment “Stack” Developing Globally?
16:30-17:30
- Prashant Gandhi, Managing Director and Head of Digital Payments, JPMorgan
- David Ronick, former CEO, Stash, serial entrepreneur
- Sharad Sharma, Co-founder and Governing Council Member, iSPIRT Foundation
- James Anderson, Executive Vice President for Digital Payments Products, Mastercard
Evening Keynote
17:30-18:15
Scott Mullins, Amazon Web Services Worldwide Financial Services with AWS Client company on running Fintech platform businesses