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Welcome to FinDEVr 2017 London!

The first presentation begins at 9:30 Monday morning. There will be four sessions today, with presentations from 13 companies. There will 30-minute coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon and, during lunch, there will be three roundtable discussions led by FinDEVr presenters. Day One concludes with an hour-long networking session and Happy Hour with open bar.

And before you head out to the event, don’t forget to download the FinDEVr London event app. You can use the app to schedule meetings, vote for your favorite presentations daily, access the attendee list and more! To download the app, search “FinDEVr” in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Join by logging in with the email address you used to register for the event. If you’re not able to join, please email london@findevr.com for assistance.

Presentation Session: 9:30 to 10:55

• 09:35 Trulioo
  Trulioo API = Global Electronic Identity Verification + ID Document Verification + AML Screening
• 09:55 NuCypher
  Body Armor for Big Data
• 10:15 Currencycloud
  Flexible APIs in Action
• 10:35 HackerOne
  Tapping Hackers to Improve Security

<<Coffee Break: 10:55 to 11:30>>

Presentation Session: 11:30 to 12:30

• 11:30 Rangle.io
  How JavaScript is Radically Changing the Way Financial Institutions Create Enhanced Customer Experiences Fostering Creativity
• 11:50 Trusted Key
  Secure Digital Identity
• 12:10 Zuhlke Engineering
  Digital Transformatiom of HSBC – or Changing the Engines of a Jumbo in Flight

<<Lunch Roundtable Discussions: 12:30 to 13:30>>

• 12:30 Led by Trusted Key’s CEO, Prakash Sundaresan: Fintech climate change: Top challenges & regulatory impacts facing the financial services environment.

• 12:30 Led by Trulioo’s Anatoly Kvitnitsky, VP of Growth and Mike Kim, Strategic Accounts Manager: AML, KYC, OMG: How to manage compliance with a smaller team and a better UX.

• 12:30 Led by NuCypher’s MacLane Wilkison, CEO, and Michael Egorov, CTO: Regulatory compliance and data protection in the era of GDPR and PSD2 

Currencycloud Sponsored Lunch (Invite Only) 12:30-13:30

Presentation Session: 13:30 to 14:50

• 13:30 LeanXcale
  Blending Operational & Analytical Capabilities for Fintech Data Intensive Applications
• 13:50 Kontomatik
  FinTech Dictionary: Learn How to Navigate through the FinTech Bull*
• 14:10 ISARA
  Why (and How) You Should Make Your FinTech Security Quantum Safe Today
• 14:30 Cognitect
  Unlocking Hidden Value in Your Data

<<Coffee Break: 14:50 to 15:20>>

Presentation Session: 15:20 to 16:00

• 15:20 TokBox
  Financial Services in the Social Age: Cost or Opportunity
• 15:40 Ixaris
  2017 – The Year of Open Payments: Exploiting Disruption in the Payments Industry with the Open Payments Cloud

<<Networking with open bar & appetizers: 16:00 to 17:00>>

Is it any surprise that data is at the center of our Theme Cloud for FinDEVr London 2017?

Think about it. Everything is about data. Security is about safeguarding our data. APIs are about accessing and sharing data. Behavior analytics helps us undercover and utilize new forms of data – the unique timbre of a voice, patterns of strokes on a touchpad – that we previously didn’t even consider as data. Fraud prevention, KYC, digital identity … all of these themes are both top of mind for fintech professionals and critical applications of, you guessed it, data.

During one of the many insightful presentations from our developers conference in the States earlier this year, Sandeep Sood, VP of Software Engineering for Capital One, underscored how central data is to the trajectory of technological change, including in fintech. After pointing out that the mathematic underpinning for recent breakthroughs like facial recognition has been available since the late 1880s, Sood asked, “then why has it taken so long for us to have facial recognition technology?”

“The mathematics were never the limiting factor when it came to this sort of technology and our ability to do artificial intelligence and machine learning,” Sood explained. “Nor was it the computing power. The major breakthrough in the last 10 years was actually access to data.” Sood quoted Google Research Director, Peter Norvig who said, “We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.”

FinDEVR London starts tomorrow. Launched in Silicon Valley in the fall of 2014, our developers conference has brought together hundreds of professionals who specialize in tackling some of fintech’s trickiest challenges from the inside out. And as our Title Cloud for this week’s event shows, these professionals include everyone from Chief Technology Officers and IT Heads to software engineers, developers, and architects. These are the individuals whose names are often not well known, but whose talent and hard work is what enables us to manage our finances on our smartphones, safeguard our online identities against cybercriminals, and so much more.

Our two-day event runs all day Monday and Tuesday. Both days will feature 15-minute presentations from a wide variety of fintech professionals – all with explicitly technical backgrounds. FinDEVr London will also provide plenty of opportunities for attendees to mix, mingle, and meet up with our presenters, our sponsors, and their fellow attendees. For our first U.K. developers conference, we’ve added a handful of new features designed to help you maximize your time at FinDEVr London. These include lunchtime roundtable discussions led by our presenters, and a special panel on the open banking era hosted by the Finovate research team.

Tickets to this week’s conference are still available. So be sure to stop by our registration page and save your spot today. In the meanwhile, to help you get ready for the conference, here are a few things to know to help you make the most of your FinDEVr London experience.

Time & Date

• FinDEVr London takes place on Monday, 12 June, and Tuesday, 13 June. Registration opens at 8:30am and the first presentation begins at 9:3oam on both days.

Location

• FinDEVr London will be held at London’s Tobacco Dock at Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, St Katharine’s & Wapping, London E1W 2SF.

Agenda

• Get a preview of what’s coming over the two days of FinDEVr London.  Presentations and presenters, roundtables, our panel, networking … check out our agenda to see what’s happening when.

Learn about the companies that will be presenting at FinDEVr London 2017 in our FinDEVr Previews series, while our FinDEVr Interviews give you a change to find out more about the teams behind the technologies. And if you like what you read, we hope we’ll see you bright and early Monday morning at the Tobacco Dock for FinDEVr’s U.K. debut.

FinDEVr London 2017 is sponsored by TestDevLab.

FinDEVr London 2017 is partnered with Aite Group, Banking Technology, BayPay Forum, BiometricUpdate.com, Brave New Coin, Breaking Banks, Byte Academy, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Cointelegraph, Colloquy, Cooper Press, Distributed, Economic Journal, Empire Startups, Femtech Leaders, Finmaps, Fintech Finance, Global Data, Harrington Starr, Holland Fintech, Level39, London Tech Week, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, Plug and Play, SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, SME Finance Forum, Startupbootcamp, Swiss Finance + Technology Association, and Women Who Code.

We’re nearing the end of the work week and shifting our focus to FinDEVr London, which starts on Monday, 12 June. This is the first FinDEVr outside of the U.S. and marks our most international FinDEVr event to date. The presenter map (above) highlights the geographic diversity of this year’s presenting companies.

Don’t forget to register before the event– tickets are still available, but act soon! Here are a few, quick reminders to help you get ready:

Where
Next week’s show will be held at Tobacco Dock in London (Tobacco Quay, Wapping Ln, St Katharine’s & Wapping, London E1W 2SF)

When
The first presentation takes place at 9:30 AM on 12 June and registration opens at 8:30 AM so feel free to come early, take advantage of the free breakfast, and save your seat. Check out the full agenda on our website.

Who
The agenda is loaded with fintech companies working on relevant issues for the global finance industry. View the presenter list on our website, check out previews of the companies’ presentations, and read interviews from company representatives on our blog.

Attendees traveling to FinDEVr London will be coming in from all over the world. Check out the presenter map to see the locales:

FinDEVr London 2017 is sponsored by TestDevLab.

FinDEVr London 2017 is partnered with Aite Group, Banking Technology, BayPay Forum, BiometricUpdate.com, Brave New Coin, Breaking Banks, Byte Academy, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, Cointelegraph, Colloquy, Cooper Press, Distributed, Economic Journal, Empire Startups, Femtech Leaders, Finmaps, Fintech Finance, Global Data, Harrington Starr, Holland Fintech, Level39, London Tech Week, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, The Paypers, Plug and Play, SecuritySolutionsWatch.com, SME Finance Forum, Startupbootcamp, Swiss Finance + Technology Association, and Women Who Code.