Guided by the belief that technology only lives up to its promise when it is well designed, EffectiveUI creates transformational digital products, experiences and insights for fintech / Fortune 500 innovators. By making technology more useful, usable and desirable, we collaborate with clients to reinvent significant aspects of their businesses, using our approach to adapt systems and technology to human behavior (not the other way around) through user research and insight, digital strategy, UX design, and UI development and integration.

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Organizational Transformation through the Bimodal Lens

Delivering enterprise software quickly and regardless of the landscape is tough. At EffectiveUI, we’ve collaborated with clients who have seen nearly every kind of failure, coming alongside them to embrace and adapt FAST (bimodal) technology for organizational transformation, meeting user needs and exceeding preferred outcomes. In this presentation, we share insights from our experiences applying bimodal philosophy through a recent client journey.

What You’ll Learn

• Bimodal technology is not just about development; it is about enterprise-wide transformation.
• Identifying/ understanding a bimodal landscape often takes an outside partner. Taking the first step requires a collaborator. Success usually only happens when the approach is embraced enterprise-wide.
• Once this transformation is underway, the ROI becomes clearer, the user needs met more fully and the preferred outcomes realized in a sustainable way.

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Zach Hendershot, Vice President of Technology
linkedin.com/in/zhendershot  |  @zhendershot  |  [email protected]  |  614.284.6963

Zach Hendershot is passionate about the power of technology to help drive social entrepreneurship and innovation. He uses his expertise — from large-scale software system development to problem solving — toward that end. Hendershot joined EffectiveUI in 2014 to help drive sustainable technology engagements and outcomes.

Financial Apps is the next generation Fintech enabling platform.  The platform incorporates easy access to financial data with powerful tools that accelerate how organizations build, manage, and scale their applications. Using the Financial Apps platform, Fintech providers can quickly build and deploy solutions as well as reduce the cost of bringing new product to market.

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Build it Now!!

Financial Apps is the API platform that makes it easy to build your fintech applications. Learn how having the right kind of data can help take your product from concept to creation. Join us for FinDEVr as we demonstrate the power of the Financial Apps platform by building an app live on stage.

What You’ll Learn

• How the Financial Apps API makes it easy for developers to integrate financial data
• How flexible data can reduce development times and help you iterate faster
• How to use relevant data to build powerful financial applications

Presenters

Bob Sullivan, President
linkedin.com/in/bobsull  |  @bobsullivan  |  [email protected]  |  954.325.2102

Bob Sullivan is the Founder and President of Financial Apps. Leveraging 25 years of experience in Financial Technologies, Bob has a passion for creating technical solutions to complex business challenges. When not thinking about Fintech, Bob enjoys his family, football and all things outdoors.

Neil Carroll, Sr. Product Director
linkedin.com/in/neilrcarroll  |  [email protected]

Neil Carroll, Product Manager, has an extensive background in both product and project management in the technlogy space, having spent the last several years as a team lead in the FinTech arena. Carroll’s skill set includes product development, tactical execution and UI expertise.

Dexter Weatherly, Sr. Account Director

In this connected world, Fidor is a leading innovator for digital financial services. In actively driving innovation as a co-entrepreneur, Fidor creates helpful value added services, products and solutions that are globally adopted.

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How to Start Your Digital Bank – Mobile Apps and APIs Included

Launching a banking solution for digital natives can be daunting and time consuming when integrating new mobile apps and 3rd party solutions with an existing core banking system and products. This talk will showcase where Fidor’s Digital Banking Accelerator was used to speed up this process to achieve it in months instead of years – including launching open APIs, seamlessly integrating Fintechs and engaging with users in an online community.

What You’ll Learn

• How our Digital Banking Accelerator can be used to quickly launch a Digital Bank
• How partners use our open API technology to build targeted mobile frontends
• How banks can leverage upon Fintech’s competencies to rapidly deliver new products and innovative services

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Patrick Gruban, Chief Innovation Officer
de.linkedin.com/in/gruban  |  [email protected]  |  +49 170 8390407

Patrick has been working in social media since the 90s when he co-founded the Munich startup cassiopeia, a software company for online communities. Since 2001, he has worked as a management consultant and developer, since 2007 for Fidor Bank, from 2014 as Chief Software Architect and later as Head of Innovation & Markets.

Google Cloud Platform enables developers to build, test and deploy applications on Google’s highly-scalable and reliable infrastructure. Choose from computing, storage and application services for your web, mobile and backend solutions. Visit https://cloud.google.com and get started today.

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TensorFlow Machine Learning with Financial Data on Google Cloud Platform

Machine learning techniques, especially deep learning, hold great promise for time series analysis. As time series become more dense and many time series overlap, machine learning offers a way to separate the signal from the noise, even when the noise can seem overwhelming. Deep learning holds great potential because it is often the best fit for the seemingly random nature of financial time series.

What You’ll Learn

• Google is a company with machine learning at its core and a history of achievement in machine learning.  Come and see how Google thinks about machine learning in financial services.
• TensorFlow is Google’s next generation machine intelligence library, see it in action on financial time series data . . .
• Google Cloud Platform is high performance, cost effective compute and services on demand, see how it provides the ideal platform for financial analysis and machine learning . . .

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Rene-Paul LaFrie, Sales Engineer

Rene-Paul has 10 years of experience building, architecting and optimizing High Performance Computing for the Financial Services Industry. Prior to Google, Rene-Paul lead Systems Engineering for IBM Platform Computing. Rene-Paul received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Technology in Compiegne.

Green Key, winner of the 2015 most promising startup award, is changing the way the world communicates. We built a voice software & VoIP network solution specifically for the financial markets. Telephones are dinosaurs. Dial tone is dead. Green Key is next generation telephony, a secure, compliant voice workspace designed for high throughput collaboration. One click push-to-talk over a secure encrypted platform to dozens of counterparties or colleagues. Conversations are recorded and converted to text data to be leveraged by compliance and analytical 3rd party partners.

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Green Key Technologies – Voice Software

The presentation will be a demonstration of our voice workspace, including biometric login, making connections, push to talk, click to call, video call, instant messaging, voice & chat recordings, voice dictation, and recording transcription.

What You’ll Learn

• Functionality increased. Superior voice quality, calling, intercom, video conferencing and screen sharing. Ideal for remote collaboration.
• Data unlocked. Converts voice into transcribed, useable data, which is then made accessible to other applications through the GreenKey app store for data analytics.
• Compliance and security expanded. Biometric log-in. Military grade encryption. Transcribed conversations give compliance officers the ability to analyze in real time.
  

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Rohan Bedarkar, Sr. Software Engineer
linkedin.com/in/rohanb  |  @GreenKeyTech  |  [email protected]  |  312.608.1321

Lead Developer with 11+ years of software engineering experience primarily within the hedge fund, high frequency trading and quantitative trading industry.

Joe Heenan, VP Engineering
linkedin.com/in/josephtheenan  |  @GreenKeyTech  |  [email protected]  |  312.371.3160

Lead developer at Segovia Technology alongside co-founders of LinkedIn and Facebook. Key development work preceding series A led by Reid Hoffman. Deep background in algorithmic trading strategy development & voice recognition / machine learning.

Honkio^® (www.honkio.com) is a mobile commerce SDK developed by RiskPointer Ltd. The Honkio SDK allows fast and easy mobile commerce development for companies around the world. Developers can create rich mobile commerce functionalities including identification & authentication, order & payment processing, ticketing, subscription services and all the functionalities for mobile commerce. The company is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

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Introducing the Mobile Commerce Developer’s Best Friend

Honkio is a full-stack mobile commerce SDK with the mission to make life easier for mobile developers by empowering the world of mobile commerce with ready-to-use commerce logic as SaaS-service and mobile application code as open source. The presentation will introduce the Honkio SDK, what developers can do with it, demonstrate how mobile commerce applications can easily be built with the SDK, and finally show a concrete example of a real mobile commerce solution built with Honkio.

What You’ll Learn

• Honkio makes your mobile commerce development easy. All the complex commerce logic, including payments, is ready-to-use behind the simple SDK.
• You can build mobile commerce solutions quickly (and cheaply) and take them to market, lowering the barrier to try out a lot of cool mobile commerce things in the markets.
• There’s various existing mobile commerce solutions available built on Honkio, which can be easily reused for other similar purposes.

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Pekka Honkonen, CEO
[email protected]

Peter Ollikainen, Mobile Commerce Evangelist
[email protected]

Hyperwallet is a purpose-built outbound payments platform that empowers businesses to quickly, cost-effectively, and transparently distribute funds to independent contractors, suppliers, and resellers anywhere in the world. Trusted by enterprise, ecommerce, and on-demand platforms, our REST APIs and payout widget bring the best of Hyperwallet’s proven global payments platform into a corporate B2B/B2C application with minimal coding complexity. Equipped with integrated payout tracking and compliance and management tools, Hyperwallet’s platform has changed the way people get paid in the new economy.

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Pay the Planet with Hyperwallet’s Global Payout API

Witness a live demo of Hyperwallet’s REST payout API and JavaScript widget that enables businesses and developers to easily, cost-effectively, and securely embed global payout infrastructure and capabilities into their platforms. Both features have been developed for seamless integration, ensuring a simple end user experience, secure connections to Hyperwallet’s global financial network and direct access to a wide variety of payout options. This session is a must-attend for any developers tasked with solving payment issues across a variety of industries, including digital marketplaces, on-demand economy, and ecommerce platforms.

What You’ll Learn

• Understand the difference between merchant payments and outbound payments, why a ubiquitous global payout solution hasn’t existed until now, and why this is important for businesses and developers.
• Learn how the complexities of managing multiple outbound payment methods can negatively impact a business and the advantages of streamlining payout processes through a single integrated platform.
• Experience a live demo showcasing ease-of-use and integration of Hyperwallet’s platform, APIs, and JavaScript widget; see how we solve the challenges of global payouts across multiple industries.

Presenters

Bill Crowley, Chief Product Officer
ca.linkedin.com/in/bilcrow  |  @hyperwallet  |  [email protected]  |  855.449.3737

Bill Crowley is the Chief Product Officer at Hyperwallet, where he leads the product team to develop innovative global payment solutions. He is responsible for all aspects of the product lifecycle and solution delivery, including product conception, development, and launch.

Blair Olynyk, Software Architect
ca.linkedin.com/in/blair-olynyk-67b9b83  |  @hyperwallet  |  [email protected]  |  855.449.3737

Blair Olynyk is a Software Architect at Hyperwallet. With over 12 years of experience in the fintech industry, he leads cross-functional teams in building products and solutions that simplify global payments. His technical expertise includes Java EE and various JavaScript frameworks.

Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 165 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

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Rapidly Deliver Contextually-Powered Stream Processing

Streaming platforms have benefits that go beyond high volume processing. FICO^® Decision Management Platform Streaming is built to support high volume, low latency analytics for batch and stream sources. Our contextual analytics turn data from “Raw” to “Decision-Ready” for real-time use cases in risk, fraud, marketing and customer service. Out-of-the-box features allow for integration with other applications significantly reducing the time to deploy real-time streaming decision solutions.

What You’ll Learn

• Contextually powered decisions should no longer be just an aspiration. Introducing  the toolbox for every developer to implement contextually responsive customer experience, risk and fraud.
• Power your decisions with a variety of analytics without having to be a data scientist. Rules, predictive models or optimization don’t have to be hard to operationalize.
• Reduce the burden of lengthy programming cycles by leveraging citizen developers and integrators yet maintain robust performance.

Presenters

Shalini Raghavan, Senior Director, Product Management
linkedin.com/in/decisionstream  |  [email protected]  |  651.486.4637

Shalini Raghavan is Sr. Director of Product Management at FICO and has over 15 years of experience in analytics and software development in diverse areas such as scientific computing, process control and healthcare. Currently, she is focused on stream processing platforms to enable complex analytics across the enterprise.

Tom Traughber, Vice President, Product Engineering
linkedin.com/in/tomtraughber  |  [email protected]  |  512.903.1625

Tom Traughber is Vice President of Product Engineering at FICO. His technology experiences span distributed processing, analytic processing user interface, communications and persistence in a variety of industries. He is currently working on a high-performance stream processing platform.

FairCom’s database technology provides a unique high-throughput ACID-compliant operational DBMS. In addition, our unique multi-model approach facilitates high-performance NoSQL and industry-standard SQL access within the same application, over the same data. High-performance and solid stability with mission critical applications makes c-treeACE the preferred database technology for thousands of ISVs and enterprise organizations. FairCom technology is being used in solutions serving industries including financial, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing automation, accounting, legal, dental, education and many more. Learn more at www.FairCom.com.

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COBOL in 2016: SQL, ACID, OLTP, and BIG Data Are Now Available for Your Application

Businesses worldwide run on over 220 billion lines of COBOL code today. It would be a massive undertaking to replace the mission-critical business programs with a brand new language without introducing detrimental bugs. With this in mind, FairCom created c-treeRTG COBOL Edition. It is a fully operational transaction database that allows simultaneous SQL access to COBOL files. With no changes to the application logic, developers can now take advantage of the relational database models without rewriting their COBOL programs. And in this presentation we’ll show you how easy it is.

What You’ll Learn

• How to modernize your COBOL app so you can further preserve your investment. In spite of being called “legacy,” most of these systems are part of the core systems in today’s major corporations.
• How to eliminate data corruption in COBOL data files. C-treeRTG offers industrial quality on-line transaction processing (OLTP) supporting full ACID properties of transactions.
• How to integrate your data files directly, in real-time, with your BI system using real-time SQL capabilities and transaction-oriented interfaces (JDBC, ODBC, PHP, ADO.NET, Python, etc.).

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Evaldo de Oliveira, Director of Business Development
linkedin.com/in/eholiveira  |  @eholiveira59  |  [email protected]  |  573.445.6833

Evaldo is the Director of Business Development for FairCom, where he focuses heavily on the company’s competitive market strategies. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading strategic sales in the IT industry with a focus on software, software development and infrastructure solutions architecture.

EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys, develops innovative software products and offers them on premise or as cloud-hosted business platforms. Our products help businesses develop deeper connections with stakeholders, power continuous innovation, and accelerate growth in the digital world. We power our clients’ growth in rapidly evolving areas like banking, distributive trade, credit servicing, customer service, and enterprise buying. Today, global corporations across financial services, insurance, retail and CPG, life sciences, manufacturing, and telecommunications use EdgeVerve products.

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Showcasing JSON/REST APIS and API Gateway as a New User Interface for Core/ eBanking

Peter will be doing a live demo using REST API’s to show the intersection of an event and the extension of a business process, using Finacle core banking software and Node.red visual tool for wiring.

What You’ll Learn

• Overview of complexity of a core banking system
• How REST API’s will change the way forward, even with huge complexity
• It’s a secret 🙂

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Peter Loop, Associate Vice President & Principal Technology Architect
linkedin.com/in/peterloop  |  @Loop_Architect  |  [email protected]  |  425.943.5005

Peter Loop is an Innovative Sr. Leader with a long career of transforming the enterprise system ecosystem. Peter provides thought leadership on Cryptocurrency/Blockchain ledger technologies, API management, cloud migration of enterprise systems, integrations, user experience strategy, mobility, and BI strategies.

How they describe themselves: Infosys Finacle today serves core banking, online banking, mobile banking, payments, origination, wealth management, treasury, analytics and Islamic banking requirements of banks worldwide. The company operates in 84 countries, serving over 450 million customers – which is equivalent to 16.5% of the world’s banked adult population. Infosys Finacle is rated as a leader by industry analysts consistently over the years – most recently by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for International Retail Core Banking for the 8th year in a row.

How they describe their product/innovation: Finacle Youth Banking solution helps banks build their future customers. It enhances the financial acumen of the youth while combining banking with learning and fun. The enriched platform is ideal for parents and their children to jointly set financial goals. It empowers parents with the opportunity to support their children in the matters of personal finance and help them understand the concept of linking goals in life to monetary savings and on how to achieve them. Finacle Youth Banking solution is a secure and feature rich app based solution which provides separate login for youth and their guardians. All financial transactions done by the youth are approved by the guardian.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.& Sales: Gautum Kedia, Business Development – UK and Ireland, [email protected], +44 (0) 794 426 9721

Press: Gurpreet Binning, Marketing and PR, [email protected], +44 (0) 7464 531582

How they describe themselves: HotDocs is a leader in document automation technology with thousands of clients and more than one million end users worldwide. Cited by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” and “Best of Breed Technology” in the Enterprise Content Management space, HotDocs is used to transform frequently used documents into dynamic templates that maximise efficiency and accuracy in the production of business-critical documentation. In financial services, HotDocs is already in use by a number of large banks and insurance companies to automate a range of documents, including corporate and commercial lending documentation, customer onboarding, claims processing and policy documents. Use of HotDocs reduces risk, aids compliance and creates operational efficiency.

How they describe their product/innovation: Already an established technology, HotDocs continually evolves and enhances the core document assembly platform to provide increased benefits to clients. In addition to demonstrating the central document assembly engine, HotDocs will also be showcasing the HotDocs Hub – a new, modular toolbox aimed at simplifying the process of integrating HotDocs document assembly technology into wider business processes, such as BPM, CRM or document management systems. The HotDocs Hub operates on premise, in the cloud or as a hybrid and is run in conjunction with HotDocs Cloud Services or HotDocs Server as the document assembly engine.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Noel O’Connell, Bus. Dev. Manager, [email protected]
Press: Lois McLuckie, Senior Marketing Manager, [email protected]