The AI World Forum (http://www.worldforum.ai), hosted by the Digital Finance Institute (http://www.digitalfinanceinstitute.org), is a 2-day educational innovation conference that brings together global thought leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to advance the dialogue on the AI revolution.

The AI World Forum explores leadership trends in Machine Learning, Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Infrastructure, Health Care, Cyber-Security, Self-Driving Cars, Chatbots, Law & Ethics, Banking, Defense, Food Security and Diversity in AI and its impacts on the global economy.

We look forward to seeing you at The Carlu in Toronto on March 4-5, 2019!

Last year IBM had a lot of enthusiastic participants at their quantum meetups. It’s time for the next round! Will you join the hands-on workshop, or you prefer to take a deep dive in the application areas?

They will start the meetup with a quantum computing warming up by Anna Moskova from Aconit software. After the welcome it’s time for the breakouts. You can choose to join the technical team to get a hands-on workshop using the Quantum Experience. Or you join the discussion about the application areas of quantum computing.

Break out 1: Hands on workshop Qiskit Aqua
Experts at IBM are building quantum computers with the potential to solve some problems beyond the reach of classical systems. People today can access real quantum computers through the cloud to conduct research and explore new problems. Since 2016, IBM has enabled cloud-access to real quantum devices and simulators. During this workshop they will explore quantum algorithms with Qiskit Aqua.

Would you like to join the hands-on workshop? Don’t forget to bring your laptop! Closer to the date they will ask you to do some pre-work to make sure you won’t waste time on installations, etc.

Break out 2: Discussion applications of quantum computing
Quantum computers take advantage of the laws of quantum mechanics found in nature and represent a fundamental change from classical information processing. While still in early stages of development, these machines will potentially offer unprecedented speed, power and complex problem-solving capabilities in areas such areas as financial services, chemistry and artificial intelligence. They will discuss these application areas and explain them further. So you will understand better where the current research on quantum computing is working on.

Agenda
16:45 Registration, coffee & tea
17:00 – 17:30 Welcome and a quantum computing warming up by Anna Moskova from Aconit software
17:30 – 19:30 Break out 1: Hands on workshop Qiskit Aqua
17:30 – 19:30 Break out 2: Discussion applications of quantum computing
19:30 – 20:00 Closing with food & drinks

Seating is limited. Please use the Quantum meetup group to secure your registration: https://www.meetup.com/Quantum-Meetup-Amsterdam/events/258521296/

Holland FinTech is organizing another Fintech Insights event session in Amsterdam. The event is on Wednesday 6th of March from 9.00 am until 11.30 am.

This is your best chance to get a broad understanding of the latest Fintech developments for 2018-2019 and debate the impact on your business with several peers and experts.

During this breakfast session, you will have the chance to get more closely in touch with Holland FinTech’s activities and discover the multiple possibilities of joining our FinTech community.

Some of our current members will be there as well to concretely show you the added value of being part of Holland FinTech and the benefits they experienced.

Maven 11 Capital is a pioneer investment firm focused exclusively on the blockchain technology sector.

They believe that blockchain is a major technology wave that will impact the world comparable in scale to the invention of the internet. Above all, they passionately believe this wave will fundamentally change and improve economic and social structures across the globe.

During an informative session, Maven 11 Capital will share its vision on the disruptive nature of blockchain technology and how to approach this from an investor perspective.

Besides explaining promising use cases we will also discuss the road to mainstream adoption of blockchain technology around the globe.

They welcome an audience of investors with a keen interest in cutting-edge technologies.

Be Inspired, meet Like-Minded People and supercharge Your Career! Our meetups bring together a broad group of actors from the Dutch and international Fintech ecosystem. This is where you can get an update on the latest tech developments, cool startups and innovative projects and insights from matter experts.

The start-ups will give exciting and interactive pitches to will present their innovative solutions and you will have the chance to vote for the best company pitch!

And of course, you will have ample time to meet and discuss with all other attendees during our renowned Holland FinTech Meetup drinks & networking. Looking for exposure, new customers, investors, team members or cool startups, you will surely meet them here!

 

Agenda:

15:30 – 16:00: Registration & coffee/tea

16:00 – 16:05: Monthly Fintech Recap

16:05 – 16:20: Welcome by an introduction of Bird&Bird (Marianne Minnecre, Francine Cunningham & Karen Berg)

In an EU environment with 24 official languages, 28 Member States, 183 diplomatic missions, 517 Members of the European Parliament and 23,000 European Commission officials, how do you make sure the voice of Fintech and your business is heard above all the noise? In extension of our market leading legal and regulatory expertise, Bird & Bird also provides creative, timely and pragmatic advice in a public affairs context, working the intersection of politics, bureaucracy and business reality. Learn more about how our team of experts can help you navigate the complex decision-making processes in Brussels, but also in The Hague.

16:20 – 16:30: Actuals.io

16:30 – 16:40: PulseDC

16:40 – 16:50: JanusID

16:50 – 17:00: CreditClick

17:00 – 17:10: DexLab

17:10 – 17:20: RevenYOU

17:20 – 17:25: Announcing the best company pitch

17:25 – 19:00: Networking and drinks

Actuals.io: They offer tech-enabled solutions for environments that are driven by a high volume of online transactional data.

Pulse DC: They create, collect and analyze customer & event data from the order2cash trajectory. With scientifically based and accurate process mining technology and artificial intelligence (AI), they analyze and optimize order-to-cash processes.

JanusID: Differentiates itself by focusing on easy to use, privacy friendly and end-to-end identity solutions. If you like the ease of social login, but not the business model behind it, and if you like the trustworthiness of national ID’s, but not their impracticality, then JanusID has the answer.

CreditClick: Is a new payment method to facilitate instant and real-time online credit between consumers and credit suppliers. We have created a win-win-win solution for all stakeholders in the value chain.

DexLab.io: Is an open source infrastructure with an array of added value financial technology services to foster global adoption of cryptocurrencies while preserving the original cypherpunk, decentralized ethos.

RevenYOU: Connects you with all available trading instruments and lets you trade in forex, commodities, indices, shares, options, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. The market potential is in the billions of transactions each month.

 

Please note that photos and/or videos of you may be taken during the event for publicity and marketing purposes.

For more information on the agenda and registration please contact events@hollandfintech.com

 

We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Team Holland FinTech

From the proof of concept to implementation. What role does Artificial Intelligence (AI) play in the financial sector? And what does it mean for the current financial landscape?

Get insights about the benefits, opportunities, implementation strategies and risks of AI during the AI for Financial Services Event. Learn from experts and user cases on how you can successfully integrate AI into your organization.

Highlights:

• Best practices from RPA to fraud prevention
• Deep dive into implementation strategies
• Impact on the organization: ethics, accountability and change management

 

This event is Dutch spoken. For HFT members, we have a discount code if you would like to attend the event, please contact events@hollandfintech.com

During our earlier roundtables about sustainable and social finance, we discovered a great appetite with our members to work together on enhancing financial literacy. This includes the understanding of financial products and services, being able to make sound investment decisions, be able to work with digital solutions, helping the poorest manage their finances and relieving financial distress.

We are looking forward to a great end inspiring session with all parties that are interested in this topic and willing to put in the effort and more to make sure we end up with tangible results. Society is in need here and the industry needs to step up their game and co-operate across all stakeholders to make an impact here.

Host and speaker to be announced. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Please let us know at events@hollandfintech.com if you want to participate.

 

COMPLY2019 is the largest Compliance and RegTech Conference in the U.S. bringing together the most comprehensive gathering of regulators, innovators, legal and compliance professionals and investors from across the globe.

Now in its fifth year, COMPLY gathers the best and brightest in the industry for 2 days full of collaboration, insights, best practices and networking.

Holland FinTech is a proud media partner of COMPLY2019 and wants you to join us there.

Use our code HFT250 for $250 off the current ticket price and meet us in NYC!

 

If you have any questions, please contact events@hollandfintech.com

FinTech continues to transform the financial services sector with new regulations and technologies, enabling new players to enter the market and requiring existing players to adapt. This seminar looks at some of the recent trends in the market with a focus on the factors driving change in financial services and the venture capital market and the impact of Brexit on the payments sector.

Programme:

14:30 – 15:00: Registration

15:00 – 16:15: Welcome/ FinTech: Trends and Legal Implications

• Trystan Tether, Partner, Bird & Bird
  Blockchain: What is it and how does it work?
• Jonathan Emmanuel, Partner, Bird & Bird
  Funding in FinTech
• Shing Lo, Partner, Bird & Bird
  Brexit & Payments
• Simon Grossman, Vice President of Regulatory & Public Policy, MasterCard

16:15 – 16:30: Networking break

16:30 – 17:30: Data in Financial Services: Thinking outside the personal data box

• Treena Dunlea-Peatross, Associate, Bird & Bird
  Payments: Regulatory horizon
• Gavin Punia, Associate, Bird & Bird
  AI in FinTech
• Trystan Tether, Partner, Bird & Bird

17:30 – 19:30: Networking drinks reception

As the opportunities for data sharing are becoming apparent, data is being shared in an increasing number of industries. In the insurance sector, data is already being shared to enable use cases such as obtaining comprehensive consumer insights in pensions, signalling fraud, and obtaining market information. By obtaining access to external data sources (e.g. IoT or PSD2 data), insurers are able to develop new and improved propositions and optimise existing processes. The main challenge here is how companies and the industry as a whole can organise this in a trusted and controlled way.

On 14 March, INNOPAY is organising a breakfast session to discuss this topic. They cordially invite you to join peers and experts in discovering and discussing the impact of data sharing on the insurance sector. During the session, they will mainly focus on three data sharing themes:

• Sharing and leveraging IoT data
• Embedded Insurance
• Connecting to existing data sharing initiatives, also in other industries

This event is intended for experts in the areas of data, digitisation and innovation in the insurance sector. They look forward to your registration through an e-mail to events@innopay.com (please register before the 9th of March) 

Join us in welcoming an inbound trade mission from the UK and find your next business partner from across the pond. We will be looking at facilitating business introductions, partnerships and solutions between UK and Netherlands based companies.

 

Agenda:

14.30 – 15.00 Walk-In ‘Holland Fintech’ Ecosystem

15.00 – 15.15 Opening by Department for International Trade and Holland Fintech

15.15 – 16.15 Panel Discussion: Fintech Regulation in the Netherlands and the UK: how to regulate global technology?

• Marcus Scott – Chief Operating Officer at TheCityUk
• Larissa Silverentand – Partner at NautaDutilh
• Armand Schouten – Division Director at De Nederlandsche Bank

16:15 – 17.00 1-minute pitching sessions by UK companies in front of the network.

17.00 – 18.30 Networking drinks.

 

Contact events@hollandfintech.com for more information

Have you seen the live emotion and pose recognition demo at IBM’s booth during Tweakers Developer Summit? Their experts will show you how it works and how to rebuild it for yourself.

The UK\’s oldest and best-loved conference for fintech and alternative finance insiders returns for its sixth iteration at etc.venues. We\’ll showcase the best of the UK\’s digital banking, online lending and digital wealth sectors through a series of uniquely in-depth discussions and presentations. Open Banking will be in full flight, just over a year on from its launch, and will be a central theme at the event.

You will have 15% discount with the code HollandfintechNET

If you are a Holland FinTech member, we have a greater discount! Contact events@hollandfintech.com to learn more.

Big Data Impacting Order to Cash

Onguard and Altares Dun & Bradstreet invite you for a dynamic and practical afternoon on the subject, ‘Big data regarding order to redeem’.
Big Data is a hot topic these days; What can you do with Big Data, when and where can you use it, and when is it not applicable? Onguard’s experts will provide answers to these questions and demonstrate how big data can help make your order to cash process more effective and efficient.

Program:

16.00 Walk In
16.30 Start Presentations
18.00 Drinks
20.00 End

Location
Werkspoorkathedraal, Utrecht

Note that the event in Utrecht is in Dutch.

This event will be in English in Antwerp, Belgium and London, UK sign up for either events here:

Belgium: 1st of April 2019
United Kingdom 6th of March in United Kingdom.