Brooklyn | October 16, 2018
Sooner Than You Think
This fall in New York, we’ll take a deep dive into the technologies that are changing how we spend, save and invest — indeed that are changing many of the basic assumptions of our daily lives including the very future of money itself.
Change is coming. Sooner than you think.
From AI-enabled robo-investing to the implications for retail of a cashless world to the impact on monetary policy if and when governments move to digital tender, technological innovation is rapidly changing our relationship to money, creating major new opportunities but also creating poorly understood risks.
To explore these and other related topics, from the future of financial data security to the technological implications of a workforce delaying retirement, we’ll talk to the technologists, visionaries, founders, and entrepreneurs who are creating the future as well as the venture capitalists, hedge funds, banks and major financial institutions making big bets on how we’ll live our financial lives.
Speakers
Commissioner Sharon Bowen
Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Seneca Women PartnerKevin Brown
VP of Strategic Partnerships Wirecard North AmericaBill Capuzzi
CEO Apex ClearingMax Chafkin
Features Editor Bloomberg BusinessweekVik Chawla
Principal Fifth Wall VenturesWole Coaxum
Founder & CEO MoCaFiVanessa Colella
Head of Citi Ventures Chief Innovation Officer, CitiKara Coppa
COO, EVP & Co-Founder BLΔKFXJohn R. Crittenden
Director of Business Development & Investment Strategy PefinDr. Stacey Dixon
Director Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)Ben Elliott
Washington Policy Analyst, Financials Bloomberg IntelligenceAdena Friedman
President and CEO NasdaqRishi Garg
Partner Mayfield FundNima Ghamsari
CEO & Co-Founder BlendTom Giles
Executive Editor, Global Technology BloombergTim Hardin
Market Manager, Global Fund Banking Silicon Valley BankMatt Harris
Managing Director Bain Capital VenturesSteve Huffman
CEO & Co-Founder RedditCaroline Hyde
Anchor Bloomberg TelevisionRamya Joseph
Founder PefinLily Katz
Reporter BloombergJoey Krug
Co-Chief Investment Officer Pantera CapitalYo Sub Kwon
Managing Partner, Pink Sky Capital Co-Founder & CEO, Hosho GroupChristine Lagorio-Chafkin
Senior Writer, Inc. Author, "We Are The Nerds"Renaud Laplanche
Co-Founder & CEO UpgradeBen Lerer
Founding CEO Group Nine MediaRobin Li
Vice President GGV CapitalGideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief MIT Technology ReviewMark Miller
Global Editor Bloomberg LiveJeff Muskus
Senior Technology Editor Bloomberg BusinessweekAnthony Noto
CEO SoFiAndy Rachleff
Co-Founder & CEO WealthfrontJD Ross
Co-Founder OpendoorChristine Sandler
Director of Institutional Sales CoinbaseStacy Scott
Managing Director, Cyber Security and Investigations KrollShamina Singh
Executive Vice President, Sustainability Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth President;Brad Stone
Senior Executive Editor BloombergRania Succar
Vice President and Business Leader for QuickBooks Payments and Capital IntuitColleen Taylor
Executive Vice President, New Payments MastercardVlad Tenev
Co-Founder & Co-CEO RobinhoodRob Urban
Senior Finance Editor BloombergJulie Verhage
Technology Reporter Bloomberg NewsTidhar Wald
Head of Government Relations and Public Policy Better Than Cash Alliance, United NationsSelina Wang
Reporter Bloomberg NewsRyan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO CadreCathie Wood
CEO & Chief Investment Officer ARK InvestEdith Yeung
Partner Proof of CapitalAgenda
October 16 - Tuesday
Registration & Networking Breakfast
The Grand Unified Theory of Fintech
Lines are rapidly blurring in fintech, with companies adding services and getting into each other's business. The CEO of SoFi talks about why the industry is converging and SoFi's role in it.
Interviewer
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Brad Stone
Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg
Speaker
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Anthony Noto
CEO, SoFi
What's Next for Robo-Advisors
Wealthfront continues to add features to its service offerings. We'll explore what's on deck for the pure software model robo-advisor.
Interviewer
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Jeff Muskus
Senior Technology Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
Speaker
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Andy Rachleff
Co-Founder & CEO, Wealthfront
Hotspots for VC Cash
Identifying the hottest trends in fintech and which companies top venture capitalists are backing.
Moderator
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Julie Verhage
Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News
Speakers
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Vanessa Colella
Head of Citi Ventures, Chief Innovation Officer, Citi
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Rishi Garg
Partner, Mayfield Fund
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Matt Harris
Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Where Millennials are Investing
The technology behind some of the leading mobile investment companies shares insights on trends and what matters most to Millennial investors.
Presenter
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Bill Capuzzi
CEO, Apex Clearing
Next Generation Trading
Moderator
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Tom Giles
Executive Editor, Global Technology, Bloomberg
Speakers
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Adena Friedman
President and CEO, Nasdaq
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Vlad Tenev
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Robinhood
Networking Break
In Conversation: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
One-third of Americans visit Reddit each month. It's the 5th most visited site in the U.S.--and there's no shortage of up-to-the minute discussion about crypto and fintech. The man who hand-coded the site and now is chief executive, Steve Huffman, speaks in a rare interview with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, author of We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory.
Interviewer
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Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Senior Writer, Inc., Author, "We Are The Nerds"
Speaker
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Steve Huffman
CEO & Co-Founder, Reddit
Investing in High Risk, High Reward Technologies
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity isn’t as well known as DARPA — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — its counterpart at the U.S. Department of Defense, but that’s changing. As the “DARPA for spies,” IARPA is charged with investing in high-risk, high-payoff technologies and research that will help the U.S. intelligence community tackle the myriad challenges facing the country, many of which may only be solved by advanced technological innovation. What are these kinds of threats? Can the U.S. maintain its traditional technological edge? And what role can — or even should — business play in this process?
Interviewer
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Mark Miller
Global Editor, Bloomberg Live
Speaker
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Dr. Stacey Dixon
Director, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA)
Lending 2.0
Startups are ramping up their competition with traditional banks in small business lending as well as consumer loans and mortgages.
Moderator
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Caroline Hyde
Anchor, Bloomberg Television
Speakers
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Nima Ghamsari
CEO & Co-Founder, Blend
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Renaud Laplanche
Co-Founder & CEO, Upgrade
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Rania Succar
Vice President and Business Leader for QuickBooks Payments and Capital, Intuit
Networking Lunch
Evolution of Payments
As the shift to mobile wallets and payment increases and the battle for market share continues to heat up, which services and security measures are required to win over consumers? Which countries are leading the way in mobile payments?
Moderator
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Selina Wang
Reporter, Bloomberg News
Speakers
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Kevin Brown
VP of Strategic Partnerships, Wirecard North America
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Colleen Taylor
Executive Vice President, New Payments, Mastercard
The AI Financial Advisor
A case study on how Pefin is leveraging artificial intelligence to provide financial advice at a fraction of the cost of a traditional advisor.
Moderator
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Max Chafkin
Features Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
Speakers
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John R. Crittenden
Director of Business Development & Investment Strategy, Pefin
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Ramya Joseph
Founder, Pefin
Realistic Solutions for the Unbanked
As commerce continues to embrace technology and digital currencies become more commonplace, what will happen to unbanked and underbanked consumers? What can be done to ensure no one gets left behind in the digital economy?
Moderator
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Gideon Lichfield
Editor in Chief, MIT Technology Review
Speakers
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Wole Coaxum
Founder & CEO, MoCaFi
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Shamina Singh
Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth President;
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Tidhar Wald
Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Better Than Cash Alliance, United Nations
Real Estate Game Changers
Highlight companies shaking up the traditional commercial and residential real estate models.
Moderator
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Julie Verhage
Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News
Speakers
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Vik Chawla
Principal, Fifth Wall Ventures
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JD Ross
Co-Founder, Opendoor
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Ryan Williams
Co-Founder & CEO, Cadre
Networking Break
Fintech Landscape in China
A spotlight on what's driving huge investments and innovation in China's fast-growing fintech industry.
Moderator
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Selina Wang
Reporter, Bloomberg News
Speakers
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Tim Hardin
Market Manager, Global Fund Banking, Silicon Valley Bank
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Robin Li
Vice President, GGV Capital
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Edith Yeung
Partner, Proof of Capital
Can Governments Contain Cryptocurrencies?
Cryptocurrencies are at the vanguard of a new wave of financial technologies that threaten to disrupt the traditional business of banking. Yet innovators continue to encounter the realities of a highly regulated financial services industry. Retail payments have become a commodity while central banks retain control over high-dollar, wholesale payments between financial institutions and banks retain a competitive advantage in lending. Can governments continue to exert monetary control over borderless cryptocurrencies to keep them as a niche store of digital wealth? Or will they threaten a decades old monetary order?
Presenter/Interviewer
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Ben Elliott
Washington Policy Analyst, Financials, Bloomberg Intelligence
Speaker
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Commissioner Sharon Bowen
Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner, Seneca Women Partner
Protecting Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Recent cryptocurrency exchange hacks highlight vulnerabilities. As cryptocurrency grows in popularity, what can be done to protect the exchanges and increase investor confidence?
Moderator
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Rob Urban
Senior Finance Editor, Bloomberg
Speakers
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Kara Coppa
COO, EVP & Co-Founder, BLΔKFX
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Yo Sub Kwon
Managing Partner, Pink Sky Capital, Co-Founder & CEO, Hosho Group
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Stacy Scott
Managing Director, Cyber Security and Investigations, Kroll
Institutional Investors Meet Crypto
Despite the recent turbulence in cryptocurrency markets, institutional investors are taking a serious look at the digital currency.
Moderator
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Lily Katz
Reporter, Bloomberg
Speakers
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Joey Krug
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital
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Christine Sandler
Director of Institutional Sales, Coinbase
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Cathie Wood
CEO & Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest
Opportunities and Challenges from Fintech to Online Media
As a partner at the early stage venture fund Lerer Hippeau, Ben Lerer looks for new consumer retail brands and innovative startups in fintech and crypto. In his other job, as CEO of online publisher Group Nine Media, he looks to harness the rapidly changing media landscape. We'll talk about both, as well as the economic and social trends that are shaking up the tech industry.
Interviewer
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Brad Stone
Senior Executive Editor, Bloomberg
Speaker
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Ben Lerer
Founding CEO, Group Nine Media
Networking and Cocktail Reception
Sponsors
Invesco
Invesco is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. NYSE: IVZ; www.invesco.com. Invesco is the provider of QQQ, one of the earliest and largest ETFs in the industry. QQQ trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market where innovation and technology expertise have created a world-recognized marketplace for the world’s biggest and best technology companies.
Singapore Airlines
The SIA Group’s history dates back to 1947 with the maiden flight of Malayan Airways Limited. The airline was later renamed Malaysian Airways Limited and then Malaysia-Singapore Airlines (MSA). In 1972, MSA split into Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Malaysian Airline System. Initially operating a modest fleet of 10 aircraft to 22 cities in 18 countries, SIA has since grown to be a world-class international airline group.
Singapore Airlines is committed to the constant enhancement of the three main pillars of its brand promise: Service Excellence, Product Leadership and Network Connectivity. The SIA Group fleet and network are also expanding in support of the development of its portfolio strategy, in which it has investments in both full-service and low-cost airline operations. This portfolio of airlines serving short-, medium-,and long-haul markets gives the SIA Group more flexibility and nimbleness, with the right vehicles to serve the right markets.
Stockholm became the second Scandinavian city to be added to Singapore Airlines’ route network in 2017. During the same year, Singapore Airlines unveiled its new Airbus A380 cabin products. The new Singapore Airlines A380 will be configured with 471 seats in four classes.
In 2018, Singapore Airlines became the world’s first airline to fly the new Boeing 787-10, which will be fitted with its new regional cabin products. The aircraft will be fitted with 337 seats in two classes, with 36 seats in Business Class and 301 seats in Economy Class.
Media Partners
MIT Technology Review’s mission is to inspire more consciously-informed decisions about technology through influential, trusted journalism. As the authority and leader in global discourse on important emerging technologies, MIT Technology Review goes beyond technical explanations, helping its audience explore innovative ways technology can improve lives everywhere. MIT Technology Review’s reputation derives from its 119-year history of reporting on technology and its unique relationship with the world’s leading university for research and innovation, MIT.