Live From New York, It’s the FinovateFall 2021 Keynote Speakers!

Live From New York, It’s the FinovateFall 2021 Keynote Speakers!

FinovateFall 2021 is right around the corner (Monday, September 13th through Wednesday, September 15th). That means there’s no better time than the present to pick up your ticket and save your spot as Finovate returns to New York City for its first live fintech conference in more than a year.

We’ve already shared a ton of Sneak Peeks into the innovative technologies our demoing companies will have on display next week. To further whet your appetite, here’s a quick look at some of the keynote speakers and fireside chatters who will share their insights on the hottest topics in fintech.


Monday

Why Three Decades of Cybersecurity Advanced Still Don’t Protect Our Data – Monday, 9.13.21, 10:20am

What Are The Key Questions to Ask When Evaluating Neobanks? – Monday, 9.13.21, 3:55pm


Tuesday

The Transformative Role of AI in Financial Services – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 10:20am

The Platform Economy is Coming – How Much of a Threat are the Tech Giants to Incumbents? – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 10:35am

Accelerating Innovation in Financial Services with Unqork and InterSystems – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 11:20am

AI-First Digital Engineering for Financial Services – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 1:30pm

  • Ajay Krishna – Senior Vice President of Data and Analytics, Finicity, a Mastercard Company. LinkedIn.

Open Banking: Powering the Future SME Marketplace – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 3:15pm

Why We Need Bold Leadership More Than Ever Before – Tuesday, 9.14.21, 4:30pm


Wednesday

Wednesday, 9.15.21, 8:50am

  • John Curtis – Vice President and General Manager, B2B Mobile, Samsung Electronics America. LinkedIn.

Wednesday, 9.15.21, 9:35am

The Growth of In-Car Intelligent Assistants – Wednesday, 9.15.21, 11:10am

The Future of Digital Identity is NOW – Wednesday, 9.15.21, 11:25am


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FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Veem

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Veem

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Veem’s Partner Connect Product offers clients an all-in-one business payment platform; from payables and receivables to end-to-end payment processes showcased in your brand experience.

Features

  • Offer clients flexible payment options
  • Provide access to an all-in-one, global, business payments platform
  • Show tour bank’s branding at the forefront with little-to-no coding

Why it’s great
The Partner Connect Product by Veem offers clients a wide range of payment functions and services conveniently in one place.

Presenter

Jeffrey Revoy, Chief Growth Officer
Revoy is a well-networked, integrity-driven, and respected technology and digital Global Executive with a 20+ year history of achievements including senior roles during IPO and three major acquisitions.
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FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: PwC

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: PwC

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Turn customer data into smarter action with Customer Link, PwCs customer data platform that provides a 360 degree view of your customers.

Features

  • Access over 60K+ consumer attributes
  • No coding necessary
  • Form rapid connections to common first party customer data systems

Why it’s great
Create better, more personalized experiences with unmatched customer data you can’t get from just any customer data platform.

Presenters

Brian Morris, Partner
Morris is a Partner at PwC and leads the customer analytics and digital marketing practice. He has more than 25 years of financial services industry experience.
LinkedIn

Corey Cederquist, Director of Customer Transformation
Cederquist is a Director of Customer Transformation at PwC. He translates advanced analytics into actionable initiatives at leading financial services, private equity, and insurance clients.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Nufi

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Nufi

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Nufi empowers everyone to build financial products quickly and with regulatory compliance. We are the Legos of fintech.

Features

  • Create new fintech products like Legos
  • Avoid regulatory compliance or technical complexities
  • Reduce development times and costs for creation of products

Why it’s great
We empower everyone to build financial products quickly and with regulatory compliance, thus enabling financial innovation in LatAm.

Presenters

Ilich Nuñez, COO
Nuñez is a lawyer from Escuela Libre de Derecho. He has 10+ years of working experience in the banking sector, including at the Mexican National Bank of Public Services and BBVA in the areas of credit, compliance, and strategy.
LinkedIn

Gianni Marossero, Chief Relations Officer
Marossero is an engineer in innovation with a passion for organizing teams and people. He has a multicultural background, having worked in various countries including Argentina, the UAE, Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Fundica

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Fundica

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Fundica’s award-winning, AI-powered, funding search engine helps financial institutions elevate their small business advisory services and acquire valuable insights on their prospects and clients.

Features

  • Retain and engage customers with a licensed funding search engine
  • Generate a regular flow of new business leads
  • Help your small business customers prosper

Why it’s great
Fundica will make you a better and more complete funding advisor by effortlessly extending your service offering at scale.

Presenter

Mike Lee, CEO and Co-Founder
Lee has held leadership roles in technology organizations, secured over $300 million in government funding, and holds Engineering, MBA and CFA designations.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Symbiotic

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Symbiotic

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Symbiotic‘s Tap on Phone is a technology that allows anyone to accept contactless card payments just with a cellphone.

Features

  • Anyone can accept contactless card payments with just a cellphone
  • Disruptive technology of payments that allows cost effective growth and velocity
  • Only company certified PCI-CPoC in the Americas

Why it’s great
Accept contactless card payments with just a phone.

Presenter

Javier Chacon, CEO and Founder
Chacon is an experienced leader in digital strategy with 28 years in the banking industry. He is an award-winning fintech entrepreneur and innovator, and a technology professional with an MBA with honors from INCAE Business School.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Zeta

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Zeta

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Zeta is a banking tech company that provides modern, cloud-native, fully integrated solutions for FIs. Globally more than six issuers use Zeta to power 10+ million cards.

Features

  • Fully integrated credit solution – mobile app, processing, core, payments, and backoffice
  • 100% API coverage – supports open banking and BaaS
  • Ability to launch programs rapidly in weeks

Why it’s great
Zeta allows FIs to launch feature-rich credit programs rapidly, cost-effectively, and with increased income from these offerings.

Presenter

Bhavin Turakhia, Founder
Turakhia, serial entrepreneur and billionaire, is the founder of Zeta, Nova, and Radix. He has been building successful bootstrapped businesses since 1997.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Snap Compliance

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Snap Compliance

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Snap Compliance is a RegTech SaaS solution provider for holistic compliance and risk management, anti-money laundering monitoring, operational risk management, and international sanctions verifications with adaptable technology.

Features

  • Consolidates 36+ sources for local and international sanctions lists for verification
  • Operationally manages risk and maturity assessments
  • Monitors web news and easy integrations

Why it’s great
A one-stop shop for holistic compliance management, Snap Compliance offers a pay per consumption subscription model that adapts to your risk models with multiple options for integration – or no integration at all.

Presenters

Katherine Morales, Head of Expansion and Product Development
Morales is a developer of organizations and humans, with a Master’s degree in technology innovation. She is passionate about sorting chaos into systemic success, eternally curious, and a serial listener.
LinkedIn

Alex Siles, CEO and Founder
Siles is an anti-money laundering and risk specialist with 15+ year of experience, educated in software development and technology innovation. He’s also a trail and marathon runner at heart.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: ForwardAI

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: ForwardAI

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

ForwardAI, an accounting and financial data aggregator, is releasing its intelligent banking and accounting validation technology PreciseMatch to aid financial institutions and small business lenders.

Features

  • Cross-validates banking and accounting data (no more garbage in, garbage out)
  • Highlights risky small business borrowers
  • Works automatically through API with no manual effort

Why it’s great
With PreciseMatch, small business lenders can automatically make lending decisions using cash flow insights from validated accounting data, eliminating the need for manual credit decisioning.

Presenter

Nick Chandi, CEO and Co-Founder
Chandi is CEO and Co-Founder of ForwardAI, an accounting and financial data aggregator that offers access and analysis to financial institutions, lenders, and fintechs.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Dreams

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Dreams

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Dreams‘s Engagement Banking Platform is a revolutionary way of engaging banking customers rooted in cognitive and behavioral science. Dreams makes customer experience deeply personal and emotional.

Features

  • Motivate users to save more money than ever
  • Nudge users towards investing their savings into funds
  • Help users to manage their unsecured consumer debt

Why it’s great
Dreams makes customer experience deeply personal and emotional, based on a scientific method developed over eight years in collaboration with leading research institutes including Harvard and UCLA, among others.

Presenter

Elena Vallin, COO
Vallin is Dreams’ COO & CFO with 15+ years in financial services. She has led strategic development within start ups and global companies, and held positions at Klarna and JPMorgan.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Masterzon

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: Masterzon

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

Masterzon‘s platform contacts sellers with investors of financial services in real time efficiently and transparently. The platform operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Features

  • Complementary back office as a sub-platform, dedicated exclusively to issues of maintenance, support and liquidation of operations
  • Innovative negotiation mechanism
  • Transparent and efficient technology

Why it’s great
Masterzon is a platform that transforms commercial documents into negotiable securities.

Presenters

Elio Rojas, CEO and Co-Founder
Rojas is an economist with more than 20 years of experience in the Costa Rican stock market sector.
LinkedIn

Jordan Wong, Software Developer
Wong has participated in the design and development of the main Masterzon platforms.
LinkedIn

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: QuickPenny

FinovateFall 2021 Sneak Peek: QuickPenny

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall on September 13-15, 2021. Register today and save your spot.

QuickPenny is a free bank API that enables interbank peer to peer and merchant payments directly from the user’s bank application or website without having to transfer money through PayPal.

Features

  • Payment happens directly from the user’s bank application
  • QuickPenny securely maps bank account numbers to URL addresses
  • QuickPenny leapfrogs the physical card network

Why it’s great
QuickPenny enables PayPal features like peer to peer and merchant payments for banks. Users pay directly from their bank application or website without having to transfer money through PayPal.

Presenter

Andrew Hendel, CEO and Founder
Hendel worked in finance for 15 years across hedge funds, private equity, and investment banking. He graduated from Stanford University with a MS and BS, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi.
LinkedIn