Arxan offers solutions for software running on mobile devices, desktops, servers, and embedded platforms – including those connected as part of the Internet of Things (IOT) – and is currently protecting applications running on more than 400M devices across a range of industries.

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Mobile Payments: Protecting Apps and Data from Emerging Risks

It is possible to protect sensitive data and transactions while implementing progressive mobile payments technology and preserving the customer experience! Join security expert, Sam Rehman, CTO of Arxan, to understand emerging techniques hackers are using to attack mobile payment applications and related cryptographic keys – and the latest techniques developers can leverage to protect their payment applications and cryptographic keys.

What You’ll Learn

• Mobile App Payment Landscape
• How Criminals Can Attack Your Payment App
• Comprehensive Protection Techniques

Presenter

Sam Rehman, CTO
linkedin.com/in/samrehman

Sam joined Arxan in May 2015 with the mission to shape the technical directions and drive innovations. Sam is a proven technology evangelist and leader with over 25 years of experience in both leading product development and professional services companies.

As the Braintree_PayPal developer and startup relations team, Braintree_dev works directly in the field to educate and support the community about the Braintree and PayPal APIs and SDKs. With unique programs including BattleHack, Startup Blueprint and Start Tank, Braintree_dev engages with the community to mentor, support and enable seamless commerce experiences through easy integrations around the globe.

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Make me pay you! – Increasing Checkout Conversion

Don’t you just wish you can talk to your users ask them to “Show you the money!!” Sometimes your users just want to give you the money but we make it so difficult for them. Increasing check-out conversion, part art, part science, part design, part engineering. I’ll talk through simple design patterns, like making sure you have a way for users to give feedback to engineering libraries (cool libraries that help you take a photo of a credit card instead of entering it’s info). By the end of this talk, I hope you will have found some interesting ways for your users to give you more money.

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 increase customer revenue.
• Examples of great checkout experiences and some not so great checkout experiences that we can learn from.

Presenters

Justin Woo, Developer Advocate
linkedin.com/in/justinzw | @jzwoo | [email protected] | 408-376-7400

Justin Woo is a Developer Advocate 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.

Blockstack.io is an enterprise software company that sells infrastructure for financial services and other enterprises to create blockchain 2.0 applications quickly and easily. The San Francisco-based company has taken the underlying technology of Bitcoin and sells a hosted private sandbox to accelerate application development and prototyping.

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A Perspective on Blockchain Technology for Financial Services

Blockchain technology for financial services is at the bleeding edge. The enormous potential has increased interest in the technology but created many questions as well. There are many factors to consider: the technical foundation, the application, the participants, the legal and regulatory frameworks, etc. Blockstack.io shares some thoughts on which areas are important to understand this exciting, new field of blockchain infrastructure.

What You’ll Learn

• Blockchain is infrastructure technology.
• Infrastructure must be flexible and rigid in the right places.
• Ecosystems win, not technology alone.

Presenters

Peter Shiau, CEO & Co-Founder
linkedin.com/in/petershiau | @petershiau | [email protected]

Lior Saar, CPO & Co-Founder
linkedin.com/pub/lior-saar/0/43/475

Blockchain is the technology that powers Bitcoin and other digital assets.

BlockCypher helps companies easily build reliable blockchain applications. The BlockCypher team built a generic blockchain platform, exposing simple web APIs for developers to build on. BlockCypher runs multiple blockchains on the same infrastructure, including their own blockchain. BlockCypher provides a cloud-optimized enterprise-grade blockchain platform with no single point of failure, linear scaling, and uptimes >99.99%.

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Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Programmable Money

See how Bitcoin and blockchains enable programmable money. From simple scripts to complex contracts, code can automate the transfer of value and make it traceable, distributed and cryptographically secure. Dedicated blockchains and smart contracts can automate trading with fast settlement as well as encode complex derivatives. Want to learn how blockchains can fundamentally impact finance and Wall Street? How about rebuilding a bank in 2 days without keeping funds in custody? Want a sneak peek at what blockchains and peer-to-peer distributed consensus can do? This session will put you on the right track and create a spark for you to build the next big finance thing.

What You’ll Learn

• Everything in Bitcoin is code
• What is the blockchain, what can you do with it, and how to code on it
• Any good developer can now functionally replace a bank

Presenters

Matthieu Riou, CTO & Co-Founder
linkedin.com/in/mriou | @mriou | [email protected]

Matthieu has architected many software systems at MommaZoo, C3, Intalio, BEA, Reef, BNP, and Societe Generale. He’s a member and former VP at the Apache Software Foundation and has founded and mentored many different open source projects, from distributed databases to build tools. Matthieu has a BS & MS in Computer Science and AI.

Catheryne Nicholson, CEO & Co-Founder

linkedin.com/in/catherynenicholson | @Catheryne_N | [email protected]

Engineer, entrepreneur, mother, and former U.S. Naval Officer. Catheryne has built large-scale software platforms in education, energy and emissions management, CRM, and defense systems for MommaZoo, C3, Siebel Systems, and Northrop-Grumman. BSAE, MSCE, PE MechE. US Naval Academy and Stanford University.

BehavioSec transforms behavior into a transparent additional layer of security by monitoring the way users interact with their devices in real-time. BehavioSec’s technology recognizes if a conflicting user is operating a device by monitoring the environment, rhythms, and interaction patterns that are unique to each user. The solution is designed to enhance security without impacting the user experience. It is currently deployed at over 20 retail banks protecting over 11M users and over 500M transactions per year.

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Behavioral Biometrics as a Service

BehavioSec has extended the proven and tested technology from BehavioSec’s large banking installation of behavioral biometrics that work as an additional layer of security and implemented it as a transaction based service in the cloud. This gives any organizations suffering from fraudsters compromising the integrity of companies and individuals today an opportunity for better control over who is accessing their services.

What You’ll Learn

• How BehavioSec uses behavior as an additional layer of user-friendly security
• How BehavioSec’s technology and SDK’s are easily deployed on demand
• How to minimize fraud without adding any end user friction

Presenters

Ingo Deutschmann, VP Engineering
Olov Renberg, COO

Research and development about how to resolve an illegal remittance. Our product SuperMatrix Security System has been honorably featured on a great deal of mass media – acclaimed TV programs, newspapers, magazines, quite a few Fintech events. We are now running a collaboration banking system in Japan.

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SuperMatrix

Developed SuperMatrix Security System that is easily printable on the back of cash cards or specific cards as our first launching product. Critically effective as a next generation security system for an illegal access and transaction authentication, man-in-the-middle-attack. Extremely low cost of one fifth compared to conventional security system like One – Time – Password.

What You’ll Learn

• 2FA (2 Factor Authentication)
• Man-in-the-middle attack
• Phishing attack

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Haruhiko Fujii, CEO
[email protected] | +81 90 1439 6745

Driven by the vision of decoding the world’s most powerful dataset, Coinalytics has developed an end-to-end intelligence platform, combining a variety of datasets and analytics to provide actionable insights and operational intelligence to the Bitcoin industry. The path-breaking platform brings real-time machine learning and graph analytics capabilities to the blockchain. Coinalytics provides pragmatic and data-driven solutions to the worlds of payments, financial services and the Internet of Things. The company was founded in April 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

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Decoding the Blockchain

The blockchain is the underlying ledger of Bitcoin, where every transaction is recorded. Due to its decentralized and pseudonymous nature, understanding the data and deriving actionable insights in real-time is no small challenge. We will cover a high-level overview of the Coinalytics platform and its architecture, a deep-dive into the API and finally explore some use-cases and applications for real-time blockchain intelligence.

What You’ll Learn

• Leveraging the blockchain for compliance and operational intelligence
• Understanding the challenges of real-time blockchain analytics
• Interacting with the Coinalytics platform

Presenters

Bill Gleim, Tech Lead
linkedin.com/pub/william-gleim/12/4ab/b72 | @billgleim | [email protected]

James Edwards, Principal Infrastructure Engineer

The Clarify.io API gives you the ability to search and understand your audio and video to make them actionable.

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Don’t be a Smaug. Reinvest!

You’ve collected terabytes of recordings. You protect them like Smaug protected his gold. If someone wants to hear what a trader said to a customer, they have a mutliday 15 step process just to listen to it. That’s insane. Recordings are full of data that could be used to make gold. You could help clients get better information faster. You could see patterns before they appear in trade data. You could extract relationship information that belongs to the company, but instead compliance officers hoard it like gold and discard it as soon as the retention policy allows. “Honey, where did you put that bag of money?” “Oh, I threw it out. I didn’t think we needed it anymore.”

What You’ll Learn

• There’s a lot of actionable data buried in your compliance recordings.
• That actionable data is worth a lot of money.
• It’s easier to get at than you think.

Presenters

Paul Murphy, CEO
linkedin.com/in/prmurphy | @PRMurphy | [email protected] | 646-513-4234

Paul has spent 20 years in tech, including 10 years building systems for clients like J.P. Morgan and Salomon Brothers. He later joined Adeptra as CTO, a pioneer in automated outbound calling for credit card fraud detection. He has now dedicated his time to leveraging emerging voice processing.

Ivo Rothschild, VP, Research and Development

Businesses and individuals are still writing paper checks. Checkbook is solving the problem of Paper Checks by introducing Digital Checks. We have built a way for individuals/businesses to send and receive Digital Checks without the need for signing up.

Our API provides Merchants with a way to accept Digital Checks on their websites with couple of lines of code. Digital Checks can do real-time balance verification thus minimizing NSF risk present in ACH. We charge a flat fee of $1/Check or less for businesses and it’s free for individuals.

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API for Digital Checks

Our presentation will show both a business as well as an individual sending a Digital Check using a browser. It will be an end-to-end experience with the beneficiary receiving and depositing the Check.

Additionally, we will demo a site using our API to receive Digital Checks and go over the API integration.

What You’ll Learn

• Digital Checks
• API for Digital Checks
• UI/UX for Digital Checks

Presenters

PJ Gupta, Founder
linkedin.com/in/pjgupta | [email protected] | 415-595-8782

PJ Gupta is the former Chief Network Architect at VISA and lives and breathes payments, a techie with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Tim Kay, Technical Staff
linkedin.com/in/timkay | [email protected] | 650-517-4001

Tim built a check printing system to solve the problem of paper checks all by himself – before it was easy. He also has a PhD in Computer Science from Caltech.