More from the Masters: A Sneak Peek at FinovateFall’s Top Keynote Speakers

More from the Masters: A Sneak Peek at FinovateFall’s Top Keynote Speakers

Earlier this month we highlighted a handful of the Mastermind Keynotes scheduled for FinovateFall 2022 in New York, September 12 through 14.

This week, we take a look at more of the fintech entrepreneurs, analysts, and experts who will share their knowledge and insights into the fintech industry at FinovateFall next month.

Day One will feature Joe Lichtenberg, Global Head of Product and Industry Marketing for Intersystems, with his Mastermind Keynote address: How Next Generation Architectures Empower Financial Services Firms with Trusted Business Insights. Lichtenberg’s morning presentation will introduce a new architectural approach that is providing business decision makers with a consolidated, accurate, and real-time view of their business.

Personetics President of the Americas Jody Bhagat will deliver a Mastermind Keynote: How Mid-Market Banks Can Find Their Sweet Spot with Digital Plus Human Interactions in the afternoon of Day One. Bhagat will discuss how mid-market banks can evolve their relationship models to do more of what they do best: supporting customers with advanced money management capabilities and Digital Plus Human interactions.

VantageScore EVP and Chief Product Officer Rikard Bandebo will deliver a Mastermind Keynote in the afternoon of Day Two of FinovateFall. In a presentation titled Leveraging Data Analytics to Drive Financial Inclusion, Bandebo will talk about new tools and analytic strategies to discover not just newly scoreable consumers, but newly lendable consumers, as well.

Day Three of FinovateFall will feature a Mastermind Keynote during the Payments Stream. Tom Ward, Partner with Sidley Austin LLP and recent CFPB Enforcement Director, will deliver an address titled The CFPB in the Biden Administration – Enforcement and Regulatory Priorities for Fintechs in 2022 and Beyond. Ward’s presentation will explain the CFPB’s enforcement priorities as they relate to fintech and the organization’s current focus within the industry.

Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer for Symend Tiffany Kaminsky will deliver a Mastermind Keynote during the Customer Experience Stream on Day Three. Kaminsky’s presentation – Upping the Ante: Using the Science of Decision-Making for Effective Customer Engagement – will help businesses leverage behavioral science to better engage with customers and hyper-personalize customer outreach efforts.

Our Artificial Intelligence Stream on Day Three will feature a Mastermind Keynote from Kore.ai SVP of Marketing Michael Kropidlowski. In his address – Creating Extraordinary Customer and Employee Experiences for the Banking World – Kropidlowski will show how conversational AI is revolutionizing the customer experience in banking.

Visit our FinovateFall 2022 hub today and reserve your seat. Register by September 2nd and take advantage of early-bird savings!


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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Instnt

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Instnt

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Instnt’s fully-managed Customer Acceptance Platform helps businesses sign up and accept 50% more good customers with zero fraud loss for good, with continuous, portable identity assurance.

Features

  • One-click frictionless customer acceptance
  • Day 0 to Day N continuous identity assurance
  • Decentralized, reusable KYC verification

Why it’s great

Instnt provides frictionless customer acceptance experiences without compromising on security, risk and compliance.

Presenters

Sunil Madhu, CEO
Madhu is a serial entrepreneur operating in Security, Risk & Compliance for over 30 years. Recently, he founded and was the CEO of Socure.
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Justin Kamerman, CPO
Kamerman has over 20 years of experience designing and building high performance distributed systems in the telecommunications, IPTV, identity verification, social media analytics, and IIoT industries.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Illuma

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Illuma

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Illuma Shield Voice Authentication is integrated with Posh Technologies’ Conversational AI IVR for deployment in the contact center.

Features

  • Frictionless account access without pins/passcodes/passphrases
  • 24/7 customer service with a user friendly, conversational IVR
  • Better security with biometric voice authentication

Why it’s great

The Illuma Shield Voice Authentication + Posh Conversational IVR integration improves operational efficiency, security, and customer experience for community banks and credit unions.

Presenters

Milind Borkar, CEO & Founder, Illuma Labs
Borkar brings a background in R&D and more than 50 successful product launches to his role at Illuma Labs.
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Karan Kashyap, CEO & Co-Founder, Posh
Posh is a conversational AI fintech working with FIs. Kashyap is an alumni of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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Chad Rogers, EVP & COO, Connexus Credit Union
At Connexus Credit union ($4.9B in assets), Rogers leads a talented senior leadership team delivering exceptional experiences to ~420K members nationwide.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: EqualFuture

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: EqualFuture

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

EqualFuture’s Super App reimagines financial wellness through a simplified, integrated way to empower people to plan, simulate, and make smarter decisions.

Features

  • Includes “Someone Like Me” features that help users create their profiles
  • Supports goal/scenario-based financial decisions through interactive, gamified tools
  • Uses cashflow modeling to stay on track

Presenter

Joyce Phillips, CEO & Founder
Joyce Phillips is an awarded leader, innovator, and marketer. Phillips brings significant global financial expertise, previously holding executive leadership roles with iconic corporate brands.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Debbie

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Debbie

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Debbie is the Noom for debt loss, utilizing behavioral psychology and rewards to motivate and incentivize people to crush their debt, for good.

Features

  • Utilizes behavioral psychology through a guided debt loss program to help users unwind habits
  • Provides time trended credit data to pre-qualify users for refi
  • Offers users micro-rewards for improved behavior

Why it’s great

Debbie users pay down on average $450/month of debt, while setting aside savings of $100/month consistently. For folks in $5k-$10k of debt who are making $50k/year, this is significant.

Presenters

Frida Leibowitz, CEO
Ex-Credit Risk at Marcus by Goldman. Immigrant, first-gen student from a single parent home. Passionate about financial security because she’s experienced crushing debt while attending NYU.
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Rachel Lauren, COO
Former VC at BDMI and software equity research analyst at Credit Suisse. Passionate about financial behavior after seeing her family struggle with money management and financial shame.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: SESAMm

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: SESAMm

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

SESAMm specializes in big data and AI. At FinovateFall, the company is demoing its ESG Monitoring and Alerting product that detects controversies and positive impact events on web data.

Features

  • ESG controversies and SDGs positive impact topics identification on 5+ million companies
  • Event monitoring on private and public companies
  • Delivery methods: Daily emails, cloud and CRM integration, among others

Why it’s great

SESAMm’s ESG and SDG Alerts leverage AI to give firms the ability to monitor millions of public and private companies worldwide, providing more objective indicators.

Presenter

Sylvain Forté, CEO
Sylvain Forté, CEO and Co-Founder of SESAMm, created the company in 2014 based on his passion for artificial intelligence and finance after receiving a double degree in engineering.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Agent IQ

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Agent IQ

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Agent IQ’s Lynq personal engagement platform improves communication between financial institutions and their customers, leading to happier, more loyal, and more profitable relationships

Features

  • Allows customers to select a personal banker
  • Includes configurable, built-in AI that supports a company’s banker to be more efficient
  • Provides real-time insights into what customers are talking about

Why it’s great

Agent IQ helps its customers create relationships in the digital world that are just as personal as they are in the physical world, but even more enhanced.

Presenters

Matt Phipps, CMO
Phipps has over a 20 year career in global marketing and branding in which he led digital marketing across Asia Pacific out of Melbourne, Australia for a multi-billion dollar life sciences company.
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Soren Bested, COO
Bested’s industry tenure has spanned six countries across four continents and primarily been focused on FinTech services, biotechnology, healthcare and international strategic collaboration.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Teslar Software

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Teslar Software

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Teslar is a configurable lending process automation platform that helps community financial institutions balance portfolios, optimize profits, and effectively serve their customers.

Features

  • Allows banks to work with business customers to provide financing for mutual customers
  • Expands lending opportunities
  • Customizable to the bank’s risk management practices

Why it’s great

Expand lending opportunities while the consumer benefits by having the convenience and ease of working directly with the retailer or dealer for financing. Quick and reliable financing.

Presenter

Joe Ehrhardt, CEO and Founder
Ehrhardt began his career as a teller and now has over 20 years’ experience in the industry. Having built Teslar from the ground up, today he leads Teslar’s strategic vision and upholds company culture.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Turnpool

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Turnpool

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Turnpool is an on-chain marketplace for commercial debt on crypto rails. The product enables borrowers to raise debt efficiently, compliantly, and securely, giving lenders opportunities to earn yield.

Features

  • Borrowers tap into a revolving line of credit
  • Crypto investors get stable yield that is uncorrelated with crypto markets

Why it’s great

The goal is to bridge the world of DeFi with real-world assets. Breaking down the barriers of entry, driving adoption, and driving more inclusive capital-efficient access to financing.

Presenters

Jwalin Joshi, Engineer
Joshi is a graduate of UC Berkeley and is interested in the applications of financial technology. He has served as one of the lead engineers and architects of Turnpool’s debt marketplace.
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Mary Gooneratne, Co-Founder
Mary Gooneratne, Co-Founder of Turnpool, previously co-founded and sold a successful defense staffing business and then proceeded to hold various engineering positions at Google. She has expertise in product development, AI, and quantitative finance.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Uplinq Financial Technologies

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Uplinq Financial Technologies

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Uplinq delivers the first global credit assessment platform for small business lenders by leveraging billions of statistically validated data sets.

Features

  • Includes 10,000+ direct connections into SMB data sources in 150+ countries
  • Contains billions of regulatory compliant alternative data sets
  • Serves as a significant extension of existing credit bureau services

Why it’s great

Uplinq acquired a mature product that had been in market for 15 years and had served as a foundational component to $1.4 Trillion+ in loan originations and repurposed it into a modern day fintech.

Presenters

Ron Benegbi, Founder & CEO
Benegbi is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder & CEO at Uplinq. Uplinq is Benegbi’s fifth startup. He’s a four-time tech founder and had two successful global exits and one flop, too.
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Patrick Reily, Founder
Reily is an elite mathematician, economist and 30+ year FI veteran. He is an early AI pioneer in financial services, a frequent speaker at the G20 & World Bank and a consultant to the US Federal Reserve.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Ocrolus

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Ocrolus

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Ocrolus is a document automation platform that powers the digital lending ecosystem. They are debuting Detect, a powerful and innovative solution offering lenders superior fraud detection.

Features

  • Catch more instances of fraud and reduce your risk
  • Utilize detailed fraud signals and descriptions to power underwriting decisions
  • Reduce manual application review

Why it’s great

Detect will uncover what fraudsters want to stay hidden with the ability to view received and recovered documents side-by-side, highlighting altered content.

Presenters

David Snitkof, VP of Product, Analytics
David Snitkof is a technology entrepreneur and data/analytics leader with a successful track record of developing analytical systems, teams, and businesses from the ground up.
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Mindy Robins, Product Marketing Manager
Mindy Robins is a Product Marketing Manager at Ocrolus with extensive experience managing new product development to drive growth for financial services and fintech companies.
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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Linqto

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: Linqto

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

Linqto makes investing in private companies accessible, affordable and efficient. Wealth managers can diversify client portfolios with investments in unicorns.

Features

  • Simple to use interface on web and mobile app
  • $5K and $10K minimum investment sizes
  • Get liquidity by selling shares on the platform

Why it’s great

Linqto offers the same benefits of public markets – immediate access and settlement of private equity shares at affordable prices with the ability to get liquidity for shares purchased at any time.

Presenter

Patty Brewer, Chief Product Officer
Industry veteran with over 25 years experience in strategic product management with fintech companies like Digital Insight, Intuit, and Nav. Passionate about customer driven and iterative innovation.
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