Event details
What to expect:
Imperial CFT and IBM have organised a half day event for business and technology leaders to discuss the challenges and opportunities in creating the new market infrastructure to support the emerging digital assets use cases. They will bring together some of the leading innovators across the financial services sector, IT, and academia to highlight and debate important issues such as interoperability, security, scalability, regulatory compliance and much more.
Agenda:
12:00pm: Registration desk opens, refreshments available
12:30pm: Buffet Lunch
13:00pm: Welcome and Introductions: Prof Gilles Chemla
13:10pm: Blockchain, Digital Assets and Finance How technology can create efficiencies in financial services. Existing use-cases and potential for new ones: Marco di Maggio, Professor of Finance, Imperial College
14:00pm: Panel - Blockchain-based infrastructure. Key considerations to support enterprise grade infrastructure. Transparency, privacy, security, performance, usability, compliance, regulations, and more
Chair: Ying-Ying Hsieh Hsieh, Associate Director, Centre for Cryptocurrency Research, Imperial College
Panelist: Elli Androulaki, Distinguished Eng, IBM Zurich Research
Panelist: Nicolas Mading, Security Lead, IBM Boblingen Research
Panelist: Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki, CEO, Concordium
Panelist: Waqar Chaudry, Head of Digital Assets, Standard Chartered Bank
15:00pm: Refreshments and Networking
15:30pm: Interoperability of blockchain networks, key considerations : Presentation by Uri Lee, Imperial College
16:00pm: Panel - Interoperability, opportunities and challenges. Use cases such as settlement and others. Coping with different regulatory environments. Role of Open Finance and SSIs
Chair: Naveed Sultan, Co-Director CFT and Professor of Practice, Imperial College Business School
Panelist: Ezechi Britton, MBE, CEO CFIT
Panelist: Soren Mortensen, Director for Financial Markets, IBM
Panelist: Mario Stumpo, Founder, Bymbit
Panelist: Benjamin Wong, CEO & Co-Founder, TranSwap
16:45pm: Closing Comments
17:00pm: Drinks reception and networking