#PAY Symposium & Exposition

AREIEL WOLANOW, MANAGING DIRECTOR, FINSERV EXPERTS
Areiel Wolanow is a globally recognized thought leader in blockchain,
machine learning, and financial inclusion. He is currently the Managing
Director of Finserv Experts, his clients have included HSBC, Bank of
America, Lloyd’s of London and Deutsche Telekom. Areiel is an active
advisor to the UK government on blockchain regulation and adoption.

Areiel will start by walking through a real-world business case that has unlocked investment in a DLT prototype for one of the world’s most well recognized financial markets.

The biggest challenge in raising money for new blockchain solutions – both for startups and established enterprises – is articulating the business benefits of blockchain and DLT solutions in a way that investors and board members will understand.

The group will break into smaller teams and receive real-world experience in developing a DLT business case. Attendees will take away the business case template developed for use on their own projects.

Financial Innovation on the Web
Presented by FTG, Fortune Times Group

Emerging Innovations in Payments, Security and Identity

RACHEL YAGER, FOUNDER & CEO
Dr. Rachel Yager is the Founder and CEO of FortuneTimes Group (FTG), a New
York professional development and management consulting firm. Dr. Yager leads
the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) advisory committee in technology
adoption for the financial services industry and serves on the IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SymposiumX brings together a community of W3C members and industry thought leaders in building the next generation of emerging technologies and standards for business innovation. Expert Panel Discussions showcase trends, strategy, and implementation in Innovations. Leveraging W3C’s network of leaders and member companies, participants will benefit from business networking for partnerships and new strategic applications.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
CIOs, CTOs, CDIOs (Chief Digital Information Officers), Business Analysts and Digital Information Strategists, Product Managers, and Senior Technology Managers, Senior Architects, Programmers and Developers, and Chief Marketing Officers from Financial Institutions, Technology Vendors, FinTech Companies, Platform Providers, Retailers, Consulting and Industry Analyst Firms and W3C Member Organizations.

BETSY IRIZARRY, FOUNDER, FRESHTILT PARTNERS
Betsy Irizarry is an experienced Agile Coach and the founder of FreshTilt, a Business Agility consulting firm. Betsy has worked with organizations of
various sizes across different industries, including more than a decade of
experience in the financial services industry.
Betsy believes that people are at the heart of all we do, and she loves
collaborating with teams, customers, and stakeholders on their quest for
better outcomes.

This interactive workshop will guide participants through an exploration of agile practices which can help them nimbly respond to change and scale business outcomes.

This two-hour session will be highly engaging and hands-on as we walk through a series of concepts and tools that can help you maximize your time, talent, and resources. Attendees will explore how organizations of all sizes can use agile approaches to embrace change for their competitive advantage as they deliver excellent customer experiences on a regular, rapid cadence.

This workshop will provide attendees with foundational agile knowledge as well as a set of practical tools they can carry forward into their work.

ACCELERATE YOUR DIGITAL JOURNEY
presented by Get Digital Velocity - Navigate the Next

KERRIE HOFFMAN, PRINCIPAL, GET DIGITAL VELOCITY
Kerrie is Co-Founder and Principal for Get Digital Velocity, working with
large enterprises to accelerate the move toward a more frictionless
business. Kerrie Hoffman is a serial entrepreneur and freelancer
specializing in business growth and digital business. Additionally, Kerrie
is the owner of FocalPoint Business Coaching Practice

In this masterclass, Kerrie Hoffman will introduce an innovative approach to accelerate your digital journey.

She will start by walking through the Digital Flow Framework as well as the lifecycle of a business.

Participants will map their individual journey, and the class will then break into small teams to Mindstorm as a group and amplify the individual outcomes.

There are three major challenges in making the shift from traditional business to digital business. First understanding the difference.

Second, believing the time to make the move to digital flow is NOW.
And lastly, adopting the mindset, process accelerators, and digital technologies.

This is a hands-on workshop to accelerate your journey from traditional business to digital business, with the end goal of frictionless business and digital flow.

Attendees will get to take away a digital journey roadmap they developed.

Ron Karpovich | Global Head of eCommerce Solutions | JPMorgan Chase

Antony Welfare | Author | Commercializing Blockchain - Strategic Applications for the Real World Based on three years of research, and co-authored by thirteen experts in the Blockchain world, Commercializing Blockchain will take the audience through the real world use cases of Blockchain technology being used today, and in the future to revolutionize your enterprise. From supply chain, to finance transactions, to customer loyalty, this keynote will give the audience the real strategies to benefit from the Blockchain revolution.

Gene Neyer | Icon Solutions Peter Tapling | PTap Advisory Open banking had been hailed as a way to revolutionize banking – “biggest change since electronic payments”. So what is it – it can’t just be about the standard APIs? What’s happening worldwide? What does it mean to banks? Fintech’s? End-Users? Let’s talk about its potential to transform the industry and how you can incorporate this trend into your business plans.

Moderator: Chris Zhong | Founder & President | Blockchain Philanthropy Foundation Panelists: Bhaskar Krishnamachari | Director, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems | USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dave Berson | Partner | Berson Law Group Niki Ariyasinghe | Head of Partnerships - APAC| R3 Corda

Dr. Julie Albright | Author | Left To Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream

Jeremy Berger | Co-Founder & COO | Arival Bank

Anthony Delgado | Founder of Disrupt | FIntech in Paradise - How the DIgital Economy is enabiling Fintech through the Digital Nomad life style.

Moderator: Ken Kruszka | President & CEO | Snapcheck, Inc. Panelists: Dion Lisle | Managing Director | FACERE25 - Leonardo Shapiro | Head of Growth | Azlo Bank - Omri Mor | CEO | Routable This session will explore the complexities involved in business payments. Why are there so many new apps and options for consumers and so few for businesses? Why do businesses avoid new methods? What options to businesses have in front of them? And most importantly, how do we as an industry help businesses to cross the digital divide and finally put away the checkbook forever and embrace digital payment options and modernize?

Katherine McClure - PPro The consumer is often forgotten in the complicated payments value chain. The consumer needs to be top of mind when creating global payment solutions. This discussion will showcase the importance of the shift from a channel-focused to a consumer-centric mindset. Online merchants need to cater their payments to the needs of consumers, not force a specific payment method onto a global region in hopes it becomes adopted. This presentation will showcase payments through the lenses of different global consumers. We will look at how innovations in payments impact the lives of customers around the world and how if consumer preferences are kept top of mind, that payment technology can drive financial inclusion.

Kerrie Hoffman | Get Digital Velocity How to Move from Traditional Business to Digital Flows - The pace of business is continuously increasing, and digital technology is a key factor in this acceleration. No longer are competitors your only threat. Your organization's willingness and capacity to change, and employee’s ability to identify and capitalize on business opportunities at an accelerated rate, is crucial to survival in a digital world. At a time when everything is changing, the desired end state keeps evolving.

Chris Butler | IPsoft How do you build conversational banking experiences that effectively combine the power of humans and machines to serve your customer? Due to the complexity of interactions, the answer isn't straightforward. Exploring and understanding the expectations people have for banking as well as expectations for the machines in different environments can lead us to potential solutions.

Pamela Norton | President & CEO | Borsetta Global spending and emerging new payment solutions will soar from $119B in 2020 to $310B in 2023 for the Machine to Machine 4.0 Edge Economy. Today, a bank is not willing to give a bank account to a machine. But with a digital wallet, machines can generate income for physical or data services without any middleman and use it for purchases like insurance, energy, maintenance or income for services or job tasks. Advances in artificial intelligence is leading us to a world where sensor devices and machines will operate autonomously and create new business models. Learn more about what’s in the digital wallet and new payment streams of the future. In this session, we’ll identify new revenue streams, business models and opportunities to participate in the emerging machine to machine edge eco-system and economy.

Rik Coeckelbergs Invisible Payments drives most new ventures in the industry these days. This session brings you from the world of cash to the future of connected devices with real-life cases from all over the world. While investigating the risks as well as the opportunities that this brings to consumers.

Vincent Kadar | CEO | Telepin Software Systems, Inc.

Sam Maule | Managing Partner - North America | 11:FS The question of whether banks and fintechs are friend or foe is long past its shelf life. The question is no longer “if” this partnership should take place but “how” these partnerships can move forward. In this session, we will examine real-life case studies of successful banking/fintech partnerships as well as failures. We will examine what issues were roadblocks to success as well as what approaches result in successful implementations. We will examine how to move beyond the desire to innovate to actually moving the needle.

Brittany Michalchuk

Moderator: Brian Zisk | Head of Market Development | Chia Network Panelists: To Be Announced

Krista Tedder | Head of Payments | Javelin Resarch & Strategy Reporting consumer research on how expectations are changing expectations, what is driving adoption of new payment technology, and an open discussion on what the industry can focus on to move adoption to new payment methods.

Claire Gates | CEO Paysafe Pay Later | Paysafe Group We are seeing a new rise in the ever-changing payments world that allows for merchants and contractors that previously may have only accepted cash, check or credit cards to offer the option of a loan at the moment of purchase, whether online, in-store, or on the go.

David True | President | PayGility Commerce is becoming more and more digital, and that is changing how we pay. Think about the point of purchase. In a physical store we might wait in a line to pay, but online many will abandon the purchase if the checkout is clunky. Behind the scenes there are changes as well. For merchant acquirers the digitalization of commerce is changing how money is made. The recently announced deals between processors and acquirers reflect this changing world, as does the success of firms like Square and Stripe. In this talk, David will offer a framework for thinking about how the move to digital and mobile is affecting payments, and who stands to win and lose.

Startup Showcase is focused on a curated selection of early-stage Fintech startups. This is a proven platform for early entrants to achieve the next level of success with new customers strategic partnerships expert feedback press coverage and venture capitalists funding.