From the innovator behind IBM's rapid advancements in blockchain to the man who taught AI to remember, we're excited to present the speakers for WIRED Money, taking place in London on May 18, 2017.
President, Global Enterprise Risk & Security, Mastercard
Ajay Bhalla has helped shape the new digital payments landscape by pioneering the development and use of biometrics and artificial intelligence to improve the protection and security of MasterCard customers.
CEO, Monzo
Former co-founder of Boso.com and GoCardless, Blomfield's app-only bank, Monzo, was valued at £50 million after an autumn 2016 funding round of £4.8 million.
CEO and founder, Starling Bank
With over 30 years’ experience, Anne founded Starling Bank, a fintech business with a banking licence that is shifting control to customers, giving them access to insights, data and services that empower them to make decisions about their money.
Co-CEO, CrossLend GmbH
CrossLend is a FinTech startup seeking to reshape the EU’s lending economy by enabling the free flow of capital within Europe via single-loan securitisation and creation of a European debt exchange.
Chief Digital Officer, Aviva
Brem is overseeing Aviva’s digital transformation. As UK’s largest insurer Aviva has around 33 million customers across 16 countries.
Partner, Passion Capital
Passion Capital was launched in 2011 and has funded more than 63 early-stage tech startups, and backed over 100 founders who have grown to include some 700 team members.
Founder, Sybenetix
Combining behavioural science, financial domain knowledge, and machine learning, Sybenetix detects and investigates suspicious trading.
Founder, Quantopian
Founded by serial entrepreneur John Fawcett, Quantopian is an institution-grade platform that enables users to trade quantitatively in the same way as hedge funds do. Authors receive a share of profits.
Fintech Challenge Prize Lead, Nesta
Chris Gorst leads the Open Up Challenge at innovation foundation Nesta, a £5m fund to accelerate the emergence of game-changing innovations for small businesses building on the UK's open banking standard.
UK lead, Square
In March 2017, Jack Dorsey’s Square launched in the UK. It aims to help small- and medium-sized businesses to participate in the economy, with transparent and easy-to-use payments tools.
Founder & Director, Nutmeg
Nick Hungerford, co-founder and director, Nutmeg. Nutmeg is democratising investment, enabling users to set up a portfolio in less than ten minutes. It has raised $90 million in funding.
SVP, Director of Research, IBM
The man behind IBM's blockchain innovations, Krishna will discuss how the anticipated open source blockchain platform from the Linux Foundation Hyperledger Project will change the nature of business transactions.
Executive director, business transformation, R/GA London
With more than two decades’ international experience in business transformation, strategy, design and technology, Andrew has led major transformation initiatives across a range of sectors including media, finance, manufacturing and government. His mission at R/GA is to help clients transform their business and capture new growth opportunities.
Executive vice president of Mobile Services, Wirecard
Responsible for Wirecard's product innovation, Leogrande will examine how artificial intelligence can be used to make accurate predictions about customer behaviour in real-time.
CEO and Founder, Suade
Suade takes the complexity out of regulatory compliance for banks. It helps institutions compare their operations to regulations, manages implementation and enables them to maximise available business opportunities.
Co-founder & CTO, HackerOne
After founding Facebook’s product security team, Alex Rice co-founded bug bounty platform HackerOne. Since 2012, the network has grown to comprise more than 100,000 hackers and has paid over $14 million in bounties.
Co-founder and CEO, iwoca
Rieche oversees the day-to-day operations, finance and strategy for iwoca, a credit platform for small businesses that offers loans of up to £100,000.
Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab IDSIA; Professor of AI, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland; President, NNAISENSE
Jürgen Schmidhuber is best known as the Father of Modern A.I. The deep learning neural networks developed by Schmidhuber’s group at TU Munich and the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA have revolutionised machine learning and AI.
CEO & Co-Founder, Lemonade
Providing insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioural economics, Lemonade offers homeowners and renters a zero-paperwork premium. It's raised $60million in funding since its foundation in 2015.
Head of Business Development, EverLedger
Everledger uses blockchain technology to create permanent digital footprints for diamonds and other valuable goods, effectively and efficiently improving the security and transparency of asset records through its supply chain journey.
Founder, Algodynamix
Risk analytics company AlgoDynamix provide investment banks and asset managers advance warning of major directional market movements.
Co-founder & CEO, N26
Stalf co-founded N26, a Berlin-based digital bank accessed entirely though an app. It recently secured partnerships with Allianz Global Assistance Europe, vaamo, Mastercard and TransferWise.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
