Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of cloud and carrier neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving a wide range of customers through 37 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion’s uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With more than 500 Connectivity providers and 20 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created cloud, content, finance and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest.

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Quants in a European Cloud

Interxion and Sayula will present a European FinTech success story. We start with the colocated foundation infrastructure necessary to meet European demands and progress to Sayula’s open development framework platform and added open source components allowing Vontobel to meet their needs for a shared structured derivatives valuation platform.

What You’ll Learn

• Social Mobile Analytics in the Cloud applied to Quants
• How to build a shared and modular valuation platform
• European challenges for Fintech Infrastructure

Presenters

Bill Fenick, Strategy & Marketing Director, Interxion

Over 20 years of financial services industry experience in data distribution and trading technologies, managed services, co-location and hosting. Prior to Interxion, worked at Thomson Reuters and Tibco.

Holds a PhD from University of Vienna, an MA from Webster University in Vienna, and a BA from UCLA.

Daniel Mueri, COO, Sayula

Earned his master (Cornell University) and bachelor (Rutgers University) degrees in electrical engineering. By nature an innovator and competitor in his professional & sporting activities. Twenty years experience in market data and trading systems.

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Cristian Alzati, CTO, Sayula

Cristian has more than twenty years of software development experience in the financial industry. Before founding Sayula, he designed a server-based spreadsheet system that stayed more than 20 years in production at UBS. Cristian has Master’s and Engineer’s degrees from Stanford and a Master of Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon.

Intuit Developer offers you a vast, ready-to-tap opportunity to generate app revenues and grow your business. Our goal is to help you get your app built, published, and adopted as quickly as possible using best-in-class tools, high-quality APIs, industry leading security practices and dedicated support.

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Intuit’s Financial Data Services

Intuit’s Financial Data Services (CAD) provides developers with access to end-user authenticated financial data:

• “Transactions API” provides access to financial account information from 20,000 financial institutions.
• “Identification API” provides bank account and routing numbers and personal information on the bank owner to verify identity and reduce friction in setting up an ACH.

What You’ll Learn

• Forget your checkbook or micro-deposits, get the information you need to set up an ACH in seconds with your bank account user name and password
• Access end-user authenticated data from over 20,000 Financial Institutions
• Leverage the same technology that fuels Mint, QuickBooks, and Quicken and join the thousands of developers who are part of the Intuit Developer community

Presenters

Emily Silberstein, Head of Financial Data Services (CAD)
linkedin.com/in/emilysilberstein | @ersilberstein

Emily manages Intuit’s Financial Data Services business for third party developers. Prior to Intuit, Emily was a fintech entrepreneur, launching and running the Asia business for an alternative data credit scoring start up. Emily has an MBA from Harvard and is originally from Iowa.

Jarred Keneally, Head of Developer Relations Engineering
linkedin.com/in/jarredkeneally | @JarredKeneally

Jarred is a Developer Relations leader and has been with Intuit for 15 years. He has a background in software engineering and a degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and children.

Chase Ellsworth, Software Engineer, Earnest

Kabbage has pioneered the first financial services data and technology platform to provide fully automated funding to small business in minutes.

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The Kabbage Platform

Kabbage transformed the lending industry with its fast and automated lending platform. Most customers are approved and have money on the way in minutes. FinTech developers can now use the Kabbage platform to accelerate their own lending process. No need to build your own lending platform! We will show the Kabbage platform in action and walk through several integration patterns, from simple white-label to full customization. You can be using our platform to lend money to your customers in a matter of days.

What You’ll Learn

• Integrating with the world’s most automated lending platform is easy.
• There are several important integration patterns to consider when choosing a platform.
• Adding a lending platform to your application will create new opportunities for your business and your customers.

Presenter

Andy Badstubner, CTO
linkedin.com/in/abadstubner | @abadstubner | [email protected]

Andy Badstubner is the CTO at Kabbage and has over 17 years of experience in software development and IT leadership. He has worked in both public and private companies and was a member of the technical leadership team at Cbeyond during the company’s IPO.

With over 200,000 users in more than 180 countries, Kashoo is simple cloud accounting software for small business-on the web and on the App Store (the most downloaded accounting iPad app), but it’s more than just that. Kashoo is peace of mind. It’s control. It’s your business’ financial health at your fingertips, whether you’re working from your home office or meeting with a customer. Kashoo lets you run your business on your terms. Get started at kashoo.com or download the app for iOS and Android.

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White Labeling: A CTO’s Tales from the Trenches

We’ve all been there: meeting rooms filled with suits, screens filled with PowerPoints, and images of graphs that go on for days. While the business side of white labeling is something that we’re all familiar with, I’m here to share my story as CTO at Kashoo Cloud Accounting, where we’ve successfully launched two major white labeling partnerships with some of the leading companies in North America. If you’re thinking of white labeling your product or bringing a white labelled product into your business, join me for lessons learned, best practices, and other tips from the trenches!

What You’ll Learn

• What to expect from white label partnerships – true stories!
• Key questions to ask in white label partnerships
• Technical due diligence: what you need to know

Presenters

Chuck Clark, CTO
linkedin.com/in/chuckclark | @cziclix | [email protected]

Chuck Clark is the CTO for Kashoo Cloud Accounting, the SaaS company behind the most downloaded iPad accounting application in the iTunes App Store. While delivering outstanding customer experiences over the last 20 years for sites like Orbitz, American Airlines, and Cheaptickets, Chuck routinely found himself as a developer hanging out with the operations team. As a technologist with a belief in the principles behind agile software development, it was a logical leap to embrace the DevOps philosophy.

Prior to Kashoo, Chuck led product development at Vancouver-based Pulse Energy and before that was the Chief Architect for Orbitz Worldwide, based in Chicago, IL. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he can found with his family either on a bike or supporting his adopted home team, the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Jim Secord, CEO

Kofax^® from Lexmark is a leading provider of software to simplify and transform the First Mile™ of customer engagement. Kofax Insight, our business analytics and process intelligence solution, monitors, analyzes and helps optimize operational business processes to ensure compliance, eliminate risk and gain unprecedented insights to achieve operational excellence. Common processes like new accounts, claims, mortgage applications, and more can be streamlined and accelerated for better customer engagement. More than 20,000 customers globally rely on Kofax software to improve the customer experience, reduce operating costs, differentiate and grow.

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Onboarding Process Intelligence

Kofax Insight – an end to end, agnostic, elastic, responsive process intelligence and process aware platform – empowers data consumers to understand process fidelity, process regression, process deviation and other action-metrics in the context of their specific business challenge. Gain rich insight into business processes that span numerous disparate systems of record, off-premise technologies and multiple lines of business in a single and contiguous analytics engine. Our demo of Mortgage Borrower On-boarding will showcase:

• Data/artifact life-cycle process that start “here” and finish “there”
• Data/artifact process exceptions
• End to end SLA monitoring of data/artifacts

What You’ll Learn

• How to leverage omni data source integration for driving efficient workflows and processes
• How to leverage agnostic process monitoring for insight into the data artifact life-cycle process and data reconciliation
• Process awareness/discovery: improve the effectiveness of operational processes, identifying potential fail-points before they cause business loss

Presenters

Dimitri Seneca Snowden, Named Account Specialist, BI & Analytics Solutions
linkedin.com/in/dimitrisnowden | @dimitrisnowden | [email protected] | 215-554-0450

Dimitri Seneca Snowden, Global Enterprise BI and Analytics Executive at Kofax, is responsible for creating value for businesses by choreographing specialized analytic solutions that solve unique and complex business challenges. His extraordinary ability to translate business requirements into single solution offering is a magical win-win for businesses and their customers.

Alex Dibeler, Sales Engineer, BI & Analytics Solutions
linkedin.com/in/alexdibeler | [email protected]  |  484-423-6123

Alex has been working in Information Technology and more specifically Enterprise Software for 10+ years.  He has held various roles in Project Management/Software Implementation and more recently as a Systems Engineer with Lexmark.

Lleida.net is the leading international operator in the market of registering electronic communications, SMS solutions and data validation. As a trusted third party, eCommunications are provided with an added legal value. Lleida.net services bring efficacy, certainty and cost effectiveness to their customers’ processes. Public administrations, SMEs and large companies are among their customers. Some of Lleida.net services are

• Registered email and registered SMS
• Registered invoices
• Registered electronic contracts
• Connectaclick (eContracting solutions)
• Stamphoto (take photos and certify them)
• Stamp ID Lleida.net (ID and passport validation)
• Data validation
• Text messaging

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Who’s Guilty? Registered eCommunications; the Evidence for Developers, the Durable Media for Consumers

New distance selling rules, particularly in the EU, stand for evolution rather than revolution. You need to prove to the parties involved both the offer and its reply in a durable media ready for inspection by a third party. But if already certified by an independent third party, then we will know who the culprits are.

To prove who’s guilty of the sales, Lleida.net Telecom operator and trusted third party, has developed “Registered electronic communications,” to help companies proving each step of their communications and issuing a legal certificate. We provide the ultimate evidence companies need.

What You’ll Learn

• Registered eCommunications, the pocket knife of legal evidence.
• Registered eCommunications and their legal certainty drive innovation for businesses.
• How to create legal evidence in ecommerce.

Presenters

Jordi Ramon, CTO

Daniel Parada, R&D Technician

Linqto is a Silicon Valley software development company specializing in enterprise solutions for digital banking. Named a Top Ten Tech Company to Watch in 2015 by American Banker and winner of this year’s Most Innovative Monarch Award for Business Banking, Linqto is a leader in new tech innovation for banking. Linqto’s omni-channel One Tap Banking suite is one of the company’s latest offerings, delivering the face-to-face connectivity and relationship-building benefits remote customers are missing.

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Otto API

Are your banking customers handicapped by an obsolete delivery process with a one year presentation cycle and three to five year contracts with their vendor? Linqto is the only company that provides the delivery of digital banking software as a service. Imagine the flexibility and agility advantage if a community bank could go online, choose its software features and submit. This is Linqto’s Otto API. We will demonstrate how to use this API to submit your mobile apps to the Apple Store and Google Play Store. From development, to build, to deploy to submission in one easy process flow.

What You’ll Learn

• How to automate the application submission process to web, iOS and Android
• How to incorporate video communication into your digital banking solutions
• How to automate and individualize branding for every app submission

Presenters

Bill Sarris, CEO
linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3842259 | @BillSarris | [email protected] | 831-521-3605

Bill Sarris is a recognized expert in streaming technology and has developed banking solutions for twenty years. Bill’s clients have included Microsoft, Intuit, Digital Insight, NCR, Google and Stanford. Award winning software includes Personal Banker and Community Banker.

Erik Thomas, Chief Software Architect
linkedin.com/profile/view?id=7568495 | [email protected] | 303-304-1466

As Linqto’s Chief Software Architect, Erik has developed enterprise financial solutions for Intuit, Digital Insight and NCR. Erik has designed and built online payment solutions, ACH and wire transfer online applications and cross sell applications used by thousands of financial institutions.

Kontomierz presents Kontomatik – a leading provider of the Banking API. The service supplied by Kontomatik API is mostly aimed for the banks with competitive products, online lenders that are looking to optimise loan-issuing processes and start-ups that want to build their apps around a supreme technology. Online Credit Scoring, Instant KYC and Contextual Financial Offers are the key benefits supplied by Kontomatik API, yet the main service is the provision of a tool that lets an organisation become a true innovator in the financial industry. Kontomatik API is now available in Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mexico, Brazil, Russia and more countries to come.

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Create Financial Industry 2.0 with Banking API

Customers often choose unsuitable products because of lack of information. Until now. Banking API introduced by Kontomatik allows penetration of banking transaction systems, aggregation, analysis and processing of data. This data is an opportunity for strong growth for the financial companies with attractive products. Our presentation will uncover the key benefits of the Banking API, its application in the banking and financial sectors, scope of countries and future plans. Also, you will see exactly why the Kontomatik technology is a superior way to connect to the banks.

What You’ll Learn

• How to Bring Your Services Fully Online
• The Main Benefits of Banking API
• Emerging Markets & Technology

Presenters

Peter Hiekmann, VP Sales
linkedin.com/pub/peter-hiekmann/6/89a/65a | [email protected] | +49 17 7878 8867

Peter has been working in the Financial and Technology Industries for more than 25 years already. Before starting with Kontomatik, Peter was improving the performance of such companies as Fujitsu, Cisco, BT Global Services and more. Peter has just climbed the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Marcin Truszel, CEO

pl.linkedin.com/in/marcintruszel | [email protected] | +48 50 80 20 152

Marcin has founded Kontomierz.pl, a leading Polish PFM app back in 2009. While developing and enhancing the app, Marcin has come to an understanding that there is no way a PFM can be efficient without a proper synchronisation with bank accounts. This is how Kontomatik was born.