Temenos Group AG is the market leading provider of mission-critical software applications to over 1,650 financial institutions in 150 countries worldwide.

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B2B Financial Apps MarketPlace

Join us to discover Temenos’ B2B financial services MarketPlace and become a world leading FinTech solution provider. We will walk you through the benefits of this route to market and show you how to spin up your own cloud core banking instance for use in development and discovery of products online. There are millions of product opportunities on the Temenos core banking platform (T24) and User Experience Platform (edgeConnect), and we’ll help you get started by giving you code and putting your product in front of 700 banks and financial institutions.

What You’ll Learn

• How to develop the most successful and disruptive FinTech ideas
• How development on a core banking system really works
• How to market your product to more than 700 Banks and Financial Institutions

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Aaron Phethean, MarketPlace Director
uk.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-phethean/33/3ba/a22 | @aphethean | [email protected]

Aaron has met with hundreds of banks over the last decade and been through dozens of product launches, core banking renovation projects, and digital channel initiatives. Originally from New Zealand, now based in London, he is a keen innovator and regularly contributes to open source projects.

Spreedly is an API based service designed to help marketplaces and platforms securely create a universal credit card token that works across the broadest range of payment endpoints possible.

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The Vault Grows Up

Storing credit cards is becoming more and more critical for businesses across the fintech landscape, but so often the choice is between taking on the whole burden of PCI compliance or being locked into a single payments stack. We’ll demo the rapid conversion of a legacy payment form into one backed by Spreedly’s modern vault and then walk through some powerful use cases for that data once vaulted.

What You’ll Learn

• How to easily put a modern vault on top of a legacy stack with Spreedly
• Once your payment data is in your Spreedly vault, you can transact against it with total flexibility.
• Using a universal vault like Spreedly enables you to track a credit card across multiple channels.

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Nathaniel Talbott, CTO
linkedin.com/in/ntalbott | @ntalbott | [email protected]

Initially drawn into fintech by client needs when running a software consultancy, Nathaniel has since built a deep expertise in the ins and outs of payments as the CTO of Spreedly. Passionate about fintech, technical leadership, distributed systems, and building a world class software organization.

It’s the year of mCrime (mobile crime), and all banking apps are easily eavesdropped on by ‘trusted apps’ that are actually malware allowed on iTunes, Google Play and Microsoft App store. We’ll present a live demo of this ‘breaking into my own bank account’ on mobile using a malicious Flashlight App. Then, you’ll learn about AppSHIELD SDK.

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Increase Adoption of Your Mobile App with AppSHIELD SDK

AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to this problem that works. We’ll show how IBM TRUSTEER SDK and INAUTH SDK and ARXAN are easily CIRCUMVENTED by Cyber criminals to steal consumer PII. If you see AppSHIELD SDK in action (in 95+ financial institutions), you’ll want it in your banking app to protect your consumers and your brand.

What You’ll Learn

• All Mobile Banking Apps Are Insecure and Hackable.
• Many Trusted Apps Exploit These mBanking Vulnerabilities.
• Our AppSHIELD SDK is the only solution to make mBanking Apps Bulletproof.

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Gary Miliefsky, CEO
linkedin.com/in/miliefsky | @Miliefsky | [email protected] | 800-991-3871

Gary is the CEO of SnoopWall and inventor of the company’s novel Counterveillance technology. He has been extremely active in the INFOSEC arena, a member of ISC2.org, CISSP^®, Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Counter-Terrorism and Cyber Crime at Norwich University and DHS.gov.

Chris Gauthier, VP Engineering
linkedin.com/company/snoopwall-llc | @SnoopWallSecure | [email protected] | 800-991-3871

Chris Gauthier is our VP of Engineering. He’s an early stage engineering team leader who is also the chief software architect for SnoopWall and co-inventor of the AppCrusher. He’s a team leader, hands on coder and passionate white hat with a strong ethical hacking background.

ScriptRock is the brainchild of two longtime IT veterans who recognized a common problem inherent in IT and set out to build a solution. The result is a powerful configuration integrity monitoring platform in use by companies around the world. Thanks in part to the platform’s flexibility and scalability, ScriptRock has become integral to workflows in high finance, banking, healthcare, retail, and other industries.

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Integrity in the Age of DevOps

The chips have fallen and DevOps is here to stay, but many companies are still falling short in testing their infrastructure throughout the development cycle. Automation platforms like Chef and Puppet are great, but they’re not enough to guarantee systems integrity. See why Continuous Testing can mean the difference between profit and PR disaster.

What You’ll Learn

• Continuous Delivery is great, but without proper testing, your project can quickly go off the rails.
• How recent high-profile outages such as the NYSE, Apple’s App Store, and United Airlines could have been prevented
• Compliance monitoring doesn’t have to be a long, arduous, and expensive process.

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Alan Sharp-Paul, Co-CEO & Co-Founder
linkedin.com/in/asharppaul | @asharppaul

Alan is an experienced veteran of corporate IT, a relentless entrepreneur, and a self-described perfectionist with an emphasis on usability, elegance and efficiency. As Co-Founder of ScriptRock, he seeks to solve many of the problems that – until now – have been inherent to IT, and specifically DevOps.

Quisk, Inc. is a Silicon Valley based start-up that partners with financial institutions and other organizations to enable anyone to use their money without needing cash or cards. Quisk provides a digital services and transaction processing platform for integrated mobile payments and digital marketing and loyalty programs. Deploying cloud-based technology, the Quisk digital cash solution not only works with any mobile phone number on any type of mobile phone but also can leverage existing Point-Of-Sale (POS) infrastructure. The Quisk team is comprised of technology and payments industry veterans from CyberSource, Visa, Apple, and HP. Quisk is the next step in the evolution of money.

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Quisk Digital Services Platform

We are sharing some of the key learnings Quisk has gained from building a next-generation digital payments/FinTech SaaS platform from scratch. While there are some common design themes and architectural patterns employed to build enterprise-grade SaaS platforms, there are also very specific demands on FinTech startups who focus on selling to banks and other financial institutions. Quisk’s SaaS platform interfaces with multiple entities, end user consumers, issuing banks, merchants, acquirers, processors, etc., with each entity having its own unique requirements and expectations. We are describing how we have built and delivered a holistic platform that satisfied these diverse customer needs.

What You’ll Learn

• Architecture models for B2B2C-oriented FinTech SaaS platforms
• Security considerations in cloud-based FinTech platforms
• Performance and scalability considerations in next-generation FinTech platforms

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Praveen Amancherla, CTO
linkedin.com/in/amancherla | [email protected] | 408-462-6951

As Quisk’s CTO, Praveen Amancherla is responsible for technology and product development. He brings over 15 years of experience in designing highly available, massively scalable and secure software products and platforms. Praveen earned an M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

TokBox, a Telefónica company, develops and operates OpenTok, the leading cloud platform for embedding real time video, voice, messaging and screen sharing into websites and mobile applications. Our comprehensive API offers a suite of advanced capabilities, including interoperable mobile and web SDKs, archiving, security, 1:1 and multiparty calls, and more.

The first platform to incorporate support for WebRTC, OpenTok caters to enterprises, entrepreneurs and developers with powerful APIs. OpenTok has been used to add real-time communications by companies including Mozilla, Royal Bank of Scotland, Valspar, MLB, Ford, Doritos, Bridgestone Golf & Double Robotics.

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How to use WebRTC to build engaging FinTech applications

For all of the efficiency and convenience technologies have brought to financial services, a key challenge continues to be their impact on customer satisfaction rates. How can organizations provide top-notch service when most customers, especially millennials, experience services through a website or mobile application, and have never even stepped foot in a branch?

Enter WebRTC, the HTML5 standard making it possible to embed secure live video, voice and text communications directly into the context of your website or application. Learn about the development challenges, best practices, and how FinTech companies are already integrating WebRTC into OTT services today.

What You’ll Learn

• What WebRTC is and how it can transform FinTech applications
• How financial service companies can leverage WebRTC to bring the same high-quality customer service from brick and mortar stores online

The development challenges and best practices for building with WebRTC

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Badri Rajasekar, CTO
@baddn

Badri is the CTO & SVP of Engineering at TokBox, the provider of OpenTok, the leading real-time communications platform. He leads the core engineering and operations teams and is responsible for end-to-end service delivery, including product development, quality engineering, & customer solutions.

Token provides a new rail for instant, secure and flexible payments. The Token Payment Platform is an end-to-end secure payment system accessible to developers, where all transactions are authorized using digital signatures. With Token, third party developers easily add payments and identity to their websites and apps. There is no worrying about PCI compliance or protecting user information as Token is based on public-key cryptography rather than shared secrets such as usernames and passwords. Token is focused on delivering the best Developer Experience to be had and allow developers to focus on their core mission.

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The Future of Payments Now

Learn how website and app developers improve conversion rates and customer experience with Token’s new payment rail. Gone are the troubles with payment cards and other antiquated payment methods. You’ll see how Token supports current payment models and how it creates opportunities for new, exciting business models. You’ll see how incredibly smooth user provisioning is, how easy it is to integrate with websites and apps, and what rock-solid security means. Basically, you’ll get to know the future of payments now.

What You’ll Learn

• How to increase conversion rates for websites and mobile apps
• What good customer experience really looks like
• How security concerns will be a thing of the past

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Bill York, VP Development
linkedin.com/in/wmyork

Bill York is the VP of Product at Token, where he is responsible for the execution of Token’s product strategy. Bill brings over 20 years experience building great teams and products for both consumer and enterprise applications.

Prior to joining Token, Bill was VP of Product & Technology for Tile, held executive leadership positions at Reachable and was a Founder, CTO, and SVP of Product Development at Comergent, an enterprise e-commerce software company used by clients including Cisco, Intel and DIRECTV.

Thinking Capital is the leader in the Canadian alternative lending space, leveraging technology to be at the forefront of the fintech industry. Since 2006, they have helped more than 10,000 small-to-medium sized Canadian businesses reach their full potential. By combining their people and technology, Thinking Capital is transforming the way business owners get the capital they need to grow.

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To Build or Not to Build

This Q&A session with Thinking Capital’s Pat Forgione, CTO, and Anthony Lipschitz, CSO, will delve into how a leading fintech organization uses SAS software to create a proprietary platform that facilitates underwriting, decision making, compliance and more.

What You’ll Learn

• How fintech developers can use technology to create unique competencies in finance
• How to decide whether to build, outsource or customize fintech solutions
• How a leading fintech organization can use SAS software to create a proprietary platform

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Pat Forgione, CTO

Pat joined Thinking Capital in 2013 after spending almost 20 years in the brokerage industry. As Thinking Capital’s CTO, Pat is responsible for the positioning of the technology footprint, building a secure infrastructure aimed at providing state of the art SaaS solutions to the financing market.

Anthony Lipschitz, Chief Strategy Officer
ca.linkedin.com/pub/anthony-lipschitz/11/304/235 | @ant_lipschitz | [email protected]

Anthony is a Senior Executive with a track record of successfully raising venture capital and creating value for shareholders. Prior to joining Thinking Capital, he led StubHub as their Canada Country Manager. Anthony is a startup mentor having built businesses in South Africa, New York and Toronto.