How they describe themselves: Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend’s solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every banking, finance, payments and e-commerce company. Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm – human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers. Please visit us at: www.cyberfend.com.

How they describe their product/innovation: Cyberfend will demonstrate a powerful security innovation – BotFender. BotFender is the most comprehensive cyber attack automation detection service available in the market. The solution uses proprietary IP based on human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning algorithms. The deployment is frictionless, protecting both web pages and mobile applications. No changes to user experience or user interface are required. The security layer is invisible to the end-user with no added latency. Deployment options include private or public clouds or on-premise. The attack detection is real-time, which allows your web or mobile application to prevent fraudulent access to your service.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Sreenath Kurupati, CEO & Co-Founder, [email protected], 408-585-5660
Sales: Sridhar Machiroutu, VP Business & Co-Founder, [email protected], 408-585-5660

DigiByte Holdings Limited is dedicated to leveraging the advantages of the DigiByte network to create a complete blockchain, distributed ledger ecosystem under one company. DGB Holdings has developed advertising, security, remittance and trading solutions on top of the DigiByte blockchain. DGB Holdings is focused on developing the blockchain attention advertising economy through millennial customer acquisition with an innovative gaming platform. DigiByte Holdings is also focused on securing trade finance documents in real world use cases on the DigiByte blockchain and social remittance payments.

Presentation

DigiByte: A Scalable Blockchain Ecosystem

The founder of DigiByte will present how DigiByte is a scalable blockchain being used in several innovative ways, including how the blockchain can be used to usher in the era of the attention economy, secure real world trade finance documents and leverage social media for highly efficient social remittance payments.

What You’ll Learn

• DigiByte is being used to usher in the era of the blockchain attention economy through video gaming to disrupt the advertising & remittance industries.
• DigiByte is being used to secure real world trade finance documents and any other document of importance.
• DigiByte is a highly scalable blockchain with several unique advantages that allow DGB Holdings to have developed a complete beta ecosystem ready to be scaled.

Presenter

Jared Tate, President
hk.linkedin.com/in/jaredctate  |  @jaredctate  |  [email protected]  |  208.589.3267

Jared Tate is the founder and creator of DigiByte. DigiByte is a rapidly growing two year old worldwide-decentralized blockchain. DigiByte is scalable to 2000+ transactions per second by 2021 and is currently capable of 280 tps.

We provide the tools people need to build businesses. We make it possible for companies all over the world to accept payments online and let customers make a purchase with one touch. So an engineer in London can launch his latest mobile venture in Sydney. And a student in New York can pay her rent. We build the technology. You make it meaningful with your ideas and innovations.

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A Credit Card Form Walks into a Bar . . . (Making Beautiful Credit Card Forms)

Who ever said building a credit card form was complicated/boring? Increasing check-out conversion is part art, part science, part design, and part engineering. I’ll walk through some bad examples and show you how you can use some cool tricks, tips and best practices to decrease shopping cart abandonment. At the end of this talk expect to be able to make the most fun, enjoyable and seamless checkout experience ever.

What You’ll Learn

• Design patterns, tools, tips, tricks and other developer resources you can use to build a great checkout experience.
• Case studies on companies that made changes to their checkout flow that resulted in increased customer revenue.
• Examples of great checkout experiences and some not so great checkout experiences that we can learn from.

Presenter

Justin Woo, Developer Evangelist
linkedin.com/in/justinzw  |  @jzwoo  |  [email protected]  |  425.591.2367

Justin Woo is a Developer Evangelist at Braintree / PayPal and has been programming ever since he got his first IBM XT running DOS. He loves writing mobile applications (especially hybrid-HTML5 applications) and wishes everything could be done in LISP.

Craft Silicon is currently a leading force within the exclusive club of end-to-end technology solution providers in financial services. With the experience of managing some of Africa’s most volume-intensive and complex financial applications, the company is uniquely situated to take its expertise globally. In terms of technology initiatives, Craft Silicon is recognized as among the first companies to successfully bring innovative banking solutions with futuristic thoughts in Africa and other emerging markets globally. Craft Silicon has been the technology partner for many leading banks in all their transformational initiatives.

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Banking enabled through Multi Chat Platforms: An Innovative Step towards 0% Bank’s OpEX & 100% Customer Comfort

Don’t just serve customers; provide them with the safe banking experience in a space that they are most comfortable. Multi Chat banking solution enables the banking customer to achieve freedom and control over their everyday banking. During this session, Craft Silicon will be showcasing two innovative chat-banking solutions: Telegram/Twitter/WeChat/Facebook Banking platform and sample Uber bookings & payments via chat platforms.

What You’ll Learn

• How to reduce time and money on the banking infrastructure while keeping focus on customers, products, user experience, and quicker go-to-market strategy
• Sneak peek of these solutions
• Simple solutions with rich user experience

Presenter

Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO
@KBudhabhatti  |  [email protected]  |  254734600283

Kamal Budhabhatti is CEO of Craft Silicon, a 360-degree financial technology company. He is the mastermind behind the innovative banking solutions.

Accusoft provides a full spectrum of document, content, and imaging solutions as fully supported, enterprise-grade, client-server applications, mobile apps, cloud services, and software development kits. The company is focused on solving document lifecycle complexities through a customer-focused approach, continuous product development, proactive support, and forward-thinking leadership.

Founded in 1991, Accusoft has grown through persistent product innovation and strategic mergers and acquisitions into the best-in-class solutions provider it is today. The company has been awarded 30 patents and is recognized as a thought leader in the industry.

Presentation

Accelerate Your Secure Document Workflow Applications With Cloud Services

Accusoft will present the web services and technology that stack developers can use to easily develop and deploy solutions for secure document viewing and collaboration, including annotations and redaction. Developers can accelerate development and deployment of their applications by using Accusoft’s simple REST APIs and enterprise-grade cloud services technology stack.

What You’ll Learn

• What the Accusoft Cloud Services development stack is built on
• Why you can trust this technology as the backbone for your application
• How quickly you can build secure document collaboration with Accusoft Cloud Services

Presenters

Brandon Mount, Manager, Sales Engineering
linkedin.com/in/bmount  |  @bmount  |  [email protected]

Explorer, Technology Advocate and Web Compute Knowledge Broker at Accusoft.

Find me on www.about.me/bmount.

Michael Pardue, Sr. Software Engineer
linkedin.com/in/michael-pardue-3aa1a553

Michael is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead for Accusoft Cloud Services. He is knowledgeable in a number of technologies including node.js, microservice architecture, cloud computing, continuous integration, and unit testing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from University of South Florida.

John Armenia, Director, SaaS & IS
linkedin.com/in/john-armenia-4087036

Since 2014, as the Director of the SaaS Product Group, John’s primary responsibility has included managing the development and delivery of our Cloud Services product. Before joining Accusoft, John spent 15 years in the healthcare information technology field building client-server, desktop, and SaaS-based software.

Avoka is a software-as-a-service company solving the problem of digital customer acquisition for banks and other financials. For opening checking accounts, applying for loans, or onboarding investment accounts, Avoka creates a frictionless experience on phones, tablets and desktops, then ties it to the branch and call center. The magic is time-to-market, since we deliver in weeks what the bank takes a year to build.

Presentation

Agile Design for Customer Acquisition

Avoka will demonstrate why frictionless customer acquisition for mobile and digital is so important and show how to deliver that user experience in a way that promotes rapid design, deployment, measurement and iteration. The agile design and delivery on the Avoka Transact platform will illustrate the creation of a customer acquisition experience, incorporating identity, social media and fraud detection in a way that beats time-to-market targets.

What You’ll Learn

• How to WOW your customer by creating a frictionless experience for financial account opening transactions
• How to create an agile customer acquisition experience, one that can be measured, iterated and optimized without impacting or changing back office or business processes
• A path to get to market FAST for digital and mobile customer acquisition, without getting bogged down in integration, infrastructure, business process or systems of record

Presenters

Kevin Atkinson, Sr. Architect
ca.linkedin.com/in/kevin-atkinson-84392a

Kevin is a senior architect at Avoka, designing and implementing digital customer acquisition systems for the largest financial institutions in North America.

Howard Treisman, CTO
au.linkedin.com/in/howard-treisman-11435a

As CTO of Avoka, Howard is focused on strategic product management, including market analysis and differentiation, product roadmap, competitive intelligence, and partner solutions. Howard ensures the Avoka product and platform meet customer requirements and is a market-leading technology.

The Beast Apps offers an Application Distribution as a Service (ADaaS) as a utility in a pay-as-you-go business model where one can Build-Test-Deploy their financial apps in the cloud within hours and days as opposed to weeks and months. The Beast App’s ADaaS has attracted financial institutions such as exchanges, IDB, ECNs/ATSs, analytics vendors, market data vendors as well as innovative startups, that leverage the platform to significantly reduce time to market in providing services to their clients through the cloud, and in many cases, capturing additional customers that they were not able to tap before.

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The Beast Apps – Application Distribution as a Service (ADaaS)

The Beast Apps will discuss why building and deploying applications for the financial industry is so difficult, time consuming and expensive. It will show how one can leverage Beast ADaaS to reduce time to market and offer a competitive solution leveraging cloud and mobility. The Beast Apps will also show how many institutions are leveraging its BeastExcel technology to solve workflow integration and deployment challenges.

What You’ll Learn

• Build-Test-Deploy Cloud Based Applications Now
• Application Distribution as a Service
• BeastExcel – Solve workflow challenges by accessing markets from spreadsheets

Presenter

Ashok Mittal, President
linkedin.com/in/ashok-mittal-8035982  |  [email protected]  |  646.688.7500

Ashok Mittal has more than 30 years of IT experience with last 20+ years creating a secure, robust, 24×7 application-distribution architecture with a primary focus on helping distribute pre-trade, trade, and post-trade applications in the financial industry.

How they describe themselves: Dynamics was founded and seeded in 2007 by Jeff Mullen, CEO and President. Dynamics produces and manufactures intelligent powered cards, such as advanced payment cards, and is focused on introducing fast-cycle and market-leading innovation to top card issuers.

How they describe their product/innovation: The company’s commercial applications are the world’s first fully card-programmable payment interfaces (stripe, EMV, NFC) for use in next-generation payment cards.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: [email protected]

Press: [email protected]

Sales: Will Keliehor, Head of Payments EMEA, [email protected],
Michael Gerome, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected],
Kyle Kunkle, Business Associate, [email protected]