Welcome to Fintech Tuesday hosted by Copenhagen FinTech and InfinIT, where we combine the knowledge of commercial stakeholders together with the newest research within the technical sciences.

This Fintech Tuesday will be about applications of artificial intelligence for financial services companies and will guide you through the newest research within artificial intelligence.

AI can be applied in a vast amount of ways especially in the financial sector, but in this event we have chosen focus areas that we believe will apply to companies within all sub-sectors of fintech.

Join us for an afternoon of some of the greatest research, business applications and minds within AI, to guide you through real use of this very hyped technology.

Program:

16:00-16:05

Introduction by Copenhagen FinTech

16:05-16:35

Rasmus Kær Jørgensen, Researcher, Science AI Centre, University of Copenhagen

Together with PwC, Rasmus Jørgensen is doing highly qualified research within “Accounting Financial Transactions Across Companies & Corporate Sectors”.

Using AI technology, Rasmus builds efficient solutions for mapping financial transactions, proving real applications in the financial industry.

16:35-17:05

Stephen Alstrup, CEO & Co-Founder, SupWiz

SupWiz recently won the Innovation Fund’s Grand Solutions Prize with their groundbreaking customer service solution. SupWiz probably has the strongest AI team Denmark has ever seen and is founded by Professor in computer science Stephen Alstrup, and two of the world’s best Ph.D’s within AI, in Søren Dahlgaard & Mathias Knudsen.

Stephen is also the leader of the algorithms part of Denmarks biggest big data/machine learning research project, co-founder and CEO of Octoshape with an exit of close to DKK 1 billion. Co-founder of the IT University in Copenhagen, as well as having top 10 most important algorithmic research results globally in 2016, and top 50 theoretical research results in 2017.

SupWiz already have customers in all industries, including large financial institutions such as ATP and this is a great opportunity to anyone who wants to see how top research can lay the groundwork for a great company.

17:05-17:20

Break

17:20-17:50

Mikael Munck, CEO & Founder, 2021.ai

2021.ai has in just over 2 years grown from 1 to 80 people. They develop everything from AI strategy to full implementation of their own platform called Grace. The team is a combination of world class experts in AI and machine learning, along with senior leaders of technology companies and entrepreneurs, ranging from establishment to exits.

17:50-18:00

Q&A

18:00-18:30

Networking

By registering for the event, you agree that your contact details will be shared with the hosts (Copenhagen FinTech & InfinIT) of the event.

About the Summit

The summit is targeted towards bankers, accountants, lawyers, stock brokers, investment fund managers, custodians, and other people from the financial industry. The purpose of the summit is to inform and inspire delegates about new opportunities with blockchain technology in the financial industry and in particular with tokenization of securities and assets.

Using blockchain technology, companies can now issue security tokens with share- or bond-like properties in order to raise funding (through an STO – a Security Token Offering) as an alternative to an IPO. Large established companies can raise additional funding through the same means, or tokenize their existing shares. As existing securities and assets become tokenized, issuers and investors benefit from easier price discovery, increased liquidity, extended trading hours, automation of processes, reduced settlement times, etc.  In the near future, real estate and other investment portfolios will be tokenized for the same reasons. Collections of art, automobiles, boats, etc. can be tokenized in order to fragment ownership and other rights. (Learn more).

This financial revolution has already begun and the existing financial ecosystem will move towards the blockchain over the next 10 years.

Make sure you are at the forefront of this financial revolution, join the Fintech Disruption Summit!

Click “Register Here” to find practical information.

Fintech and financial institutions must plan for and build in from the very beginning effective ways to address cybersecurity, data security, and privacy protection. It is a critical sector when talking about cyber crime.

Join the cyber security meetup hosted by CyberHack at Copenhagen FinTech Lab with speakers from IBM, Danske Bank and PII Guard.

Learn more about the program when registering – make sure to save your spot now as the seats are limited! 

On March 8th, Copenhagen FinTech invites founders and investors to its first Balance for Better workshop to bridge the gap between female founders and investors. A panel debate will give an insight into the experiences of female founders when trying to acquire funding as well as the knowledge and perspectives of investors on topics concerning gender equality on boards, senior management teams and in investment decisions. Together we will discuss if and how gender can be seen as a factor in predicting the success of a venture.

In order to engage in a panel debate on how to actively address gender equality in investment decisions, we will focus on the following questions:

• What is the state of the art of current funding structures and how can we apply a strategy to create a gender-inclusive financing landscape?
• (How) are language, rhetoric, stereotypes are influencing the assessment of a venture?
• (How) can we include non-financial measures (like gender equality) in the value assessment of ventures?
• What role can factors like leadership, governance, policies, target markets, product development, marketing, PR, supply chain and community engagement play in the assessment of gender equality?

Moderator: Marianne Haahr, Director Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance

Panel Participants:

During the second Balance for Better workshop on March 15th, Copenhagen FinTech will explore the potential barriers preventing women from entering the financial markets and will discuss how the investment landscape should be shaped in order for women to invest their holdings and participate in the financial markets. With current research showing that women tend to invest in a more conservative and risk-averse manner, preferring investments with a social impact, we will reflect on how we can attract more female investors and catalyze change in the financial industry.

The discussion will revolve around questions like:

• How can we design the financial ecosystem in a more welcoming way to women and how can we encourage more women to invest?
• Is it possible to develop services that are designed to the specific needs of female investors?
• How do different behavioral patterns of women influence their approach to financials?
• What effect might gender-specific biases on male dominated advisory boards of investment firms have on their performance and behavioral patterns?
• How could the promotion of diversity on VC boards influence opportunities for more diverse ventures?

Moderator: Desirée Kjær Ballegaard, Speaker, Board Member, Founder & CEO at Financial Confidence

Panel Participants:

For Partners and Sponsors only. 

This is the second workshop in our series of three startup connect workshops which will focus on investing in startups.

There is no one answer to how you should engage with a startup and each distinctive method has its pros and cons. The different ways for engaging are not mutually exclusive, overlap in innovation efforts are natural, yet it is important that you have a clear purpose for each engagement that you do.

At this series of innovation workshops we will focus on what the best-practices are and learn from actual cases. This series is exclusively for partners and sponsors of Copenhagen FinTech.

We will invite startups, academia and industry experts to share their thoughts and knowledge around the three topics.

FarPay, CrediWire, Kontolink og CLA Reply inviterer til fastelavnsboller og en snak om den digitale hverdag for revisorer og bogholdere.

Copenhagen FinTech Lab lægger hus til og der er et stærkt line-up af digitale værktøjer til enklere bogholderi og revision.

Eventet er gratis, forplejning er fra Lagkagehuset, men husk at tilmelde dig hurtigst muligt, da der er et begrænset antal pladser.

Program:

Frederik “Den luddovne bogholder” Sandgrav – den digitale bogholder og revisors hverdag

Produkt præsentation af FarPay, CrediWire, Kontolink, Clareply

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FarPay – Debitorbogholderiet ajour hver dag, uden at røre en finger.

CrediWire – Skab stærkere relationer og hjælp dine kunder med at opnå deres mål

Kontolink – Automatisk bogføring med match af bilag, direkte fra din bank.

CLA Reply – www.NewClient.app | Compliant onboarding made easy

The event is held in Danish 

Blockchain er en af tidens mest omtalte teknologier. Med sin decentrale struktur bliver den af nogle hyldet som en teknologi, der som internettet har potentialet til at forandre verden.

Blockchain blev kendt som strukturen bag bitcoin, ethereum og de mere end tusinde andre kryptovalutaer, men blockchain er langt mere end kryptovalutaer og rummer store muligheder for den finansielle verden.

Med blockchain-teknologien kan man nemlig skabe fuld gennemsigtighed og fuld sikkerhed gennem mange produktionsled, og i en række lande ser man for tiden på mulighederne for at bygge en blockchain-baseret udgave af den lokale valuta.

I Norden arbejder nationalbankerne på at udvikle elektroniske valutaer. Og i Danmark er eksempelvis Coinify langt med i udviklingsarbejdet af en ”elektronisk krone” baseret på blockchain, mens Nets forventes at rulle en blockchain-baseret betalingsløsning ud inden længe.

Så uanset hvilken rolle og kontakt, du har med betalinger, bør blockchain være en mulighed, som du bør overveje. Potentialet er der, og et gennembrud står for døren.

På denne konference ser vi på, hvor langt er teknologien egentlig nået, og hvordan den virker i praksis.

Kom og hør om en række helt nye blockchain-tiltag på betalingsområdet, der føre til store besparelser på cashflow, højere hastighed, styrkelse af tilliden, reduktion af risikoen ved transaktioner og højere opfyldelse af de compliancemæssige krav.

Du får også en Finanstilsynets vurdering af teknologien, en modenhedsanalyse af den samt en vurdering af de juridiske aspekter.

Så er du godt klædt på til at vurdere blockchains relevans for din virksomhed på et oplyst grundlag.

IMPORTANT: Startups that wish to participate please send an email to [email protected]

For the third Balance for Better Workshop on March 22nd, Copenhagen FinTech invites important players in the Danish tech industry and leaders of educational institutions to engage in a penal debate in order to jointly explore new avenues to make tech education and careers more attractive to women. Topics for discussion will range from how to widen the pool of recruitment in the tech sector to how we can create an interest for girls to pursue an academic career in the STEM fields.

Questions to be discussed could involve:

• (How) are current images and stereotypes of the STEM fields preventing women from pursuing a tech career?
• Is it possible to encourage more girls to pursue a tech-related education through workshops, mentoring programs and coding courses?
• How can we build a new image and find new ways of communicating tech-based educations in order to appeal to more female students in the relevant academic fields?
• How can we make job ads more appealing to the female workforce?

Panel Participants:

Description

PwC’s conference ‘Blockchain.Leveraged’ offers a sharp, inspiring, and engaging exploration of blockchain technology. At the conference, leading experts will discuss the technological possibilities and business value of leveraging blockchain in solving major organisational challenges. Instead of the mainstream theoretical discussion of blockchain’s potential, we will focus on concrete experiences and actual use cases.

In collaboration with ARYZE and the Nordic Blockchain Association, PwC is pleased to welcome a variety of the most interesting case companies, market-leading keynote speakers, and renowned blockchain experts who will challenge and explore the perception of the technological opportunities in real world problems.

In a dynamic mix of plenary speeches, breakout sessions, and panel debates, the speakers will provide their assessment of where to look for the greatest opportunities and challenges as well as refreshing use cases from a wide range of sectors, such as the financial and public sectors. How do leading players succeed? What considerations, processes and other factors are decisive?

Look forward to meet for example:

• Frederik Gregaard, Head of Digital, Financial Services, PwC Switzerland
• Ville Sointu, Head of DLT & Blockchain (Emerging Technologies), Nordea
• Jan B. Lillelund, CTO, IBM Denmark
• Simone Blair, Business Development, R3 London
• Mads Stolberg-Larsen, Blockchain Specialist & Product Manager, Tradeshift
• Ian Choo, Founder & Managing Partner, Ekofolio
• Jack Nikogosian, Co-founder & CEO, ARYZE
• Robert Bo Jensen, Partner Consulting & Technology, Financial Services, PwC Denmark

We are looking forward to an excellent day where we will explore the potential of blockchain in solving concrete organisational challenges, bringing the blockchain dialogue to the next level. Moreover, there will be plenty of opportunity for networking with professionals from the blockchain ecosystem. The conference will be held in English.

A common barrier for many fintech startups is to get the right license in place in order to operate. This session is about knowledge-sharing to make it easier for startups looking to get a license in the future. We will aim to answer six common questions when it comes to getting a license as a fintech:

• What are the different licenses relevant for Fintechs?
• Which license might fit your business best?
• How can you partner your way to not having to get your own?
• What are the requirements and costs for getting a licence?
• What does the process look like, and who can help you?
• What can we learn from others who have gone through the process already?

To help us answer these questions we have invited one of our legal partners as well as a startup to share their perspectives on these questions. We encourage you to bring your questions to the event and we’ll leave plenty of room for discussion.

Speakers:

• Lars Lüneborg, Partner, Attorney at Horten (will also present the case of Grandhood)
• Michael Juul Andersen, Spiir
• Anders Hartmann, Nord Investment
• Kim Ulf Rehfeld Thoden, Moneyflow

For Partners and Sponsors only.

This is the third workshop in our series of three startup connect workshops which will focus on building a startup.

There is no one answer to how you should engage with a startup and each distinctive method has its pros and cons. The different ways for engaging are not mutually exclusive, overlap in innovation efforts are natural, yet it is important that you have a clear purpose for each engagement that you do.

At this series of innovation workshops we will focus on what the best-practices are and learn from actual cases. This series is exclusively for partners and sponsors of Copenhagen FinTech.

We will invite startups, academia and industry experts to share their thoughts and knowledge around the three topics.

PSD2 * OPEN BANKING * API * ERFARINGER * NEXT LEVEL

Med betalingsloven der trådte i kraft i 2018 er PSD2 nu for alvor er gældende i Danmark. Det har stor betydning for både institutter og fintech tredjeparter.

På konferencen om PSD2 & OPEN BANKING 2019 sætter vi fokus på de praktiske erfaringer som følger af den nye lov, herunder det igangværende arbejde med APIer. Samtidig er den fortsatte udvikling på området fra europæisk side på programmet.

Igen i år udvikles programmet i tæt samarbejde med partner, advokat, Ph.D. Michael Camphausen, Camphausen|Co, der vil fungere som konferencens moderator.

Programmet for 2019 er lige trapperne, de bekræftede talere ses nedenfor – herunder KEYNOTES Ralf Ohlhausen, der sad med i API Evaluation Group og Larisa Tugui fra EBA.

Does the future need your leadership?

Join us at this presentation, where you will learn more about your personal innovation profile and the power of transformation in the innovation process.

Understand your personal innovation-profile, and discover if your preferences are about innovation, revolution or evolution. Depending on your profile as a leader, the culture in which you are handling change and innovation and the profile of your team, you can achieve different degrees of success with your innovation efforts. If you approach innovation as a process of transformation, this presentation will give you some well documented tools, processes and methods supporting your change and innovation while at the same time also keeping a performance and customer relationship in focus.

Your personal and professional outcome:

• You will learn more about how ”innovation” can beviewed as a transformational process, calling for new structures, competencies and mindsets.
• You will discover your own innovation-profile and get a sense of your personal approach to change and innovation. You will also get some ideas on how to use the profile within your team.
• You will receive inspiration about adult learning, and howyou can overcome your own and your teams “Immunity to Change”. This part of the presentation is based on theapproach developed by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey from Harvard University.
• You will be presented to a model for cultural development, which will help you getting started with the best mindset possible for change and innovation depending on the culture.
• You will get an understanding of the leadership skills needed for building a more innovative and transformative culture.

About the presenter

In more than two decades Flemming Christensen have integrated different disciplines as psychology, leadership, teamwork and philosophy to support the needed change, innovation and transformation within teams and organizations. He is author of 15 books certified by The Enneagram Institute, New Ventures West, The Leadership Circle and professor Ole Fogh Kirkeby. He has studied integral leadership at Notre Dame University, Somatic Leadership at Strozzi Institute, Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan. Flemming is also a zen-buddhist and studies with his teacher in San Francisco.

Assumptions

The presentation is built on the assumption, that innovation can either be created as an addition to the organization and therefor more will have the nature of an startup-business, which will not have any major impact on the innovation and change-culture of the organization – or innovation can be addressed as a transformation process, a transition or an evolution of the existing culture. With the mindset of transformation more leaders will build new skills to support change and innovation impacting the overall culture on a much larger scale creating a new mindset supporting learning, growth, change and innovation.

The topics

• Innovation in general, covering the terms of innovation,

change, transformation and evolution.

• Learning cultures, covering the parameters of a learning culture, the difficulties about creating and maintaining a culture of learning.
• Personal innovation profile, covering and insight in your own personal innovation profile and the option of using the profile in your own team.
• Immunity to Change, covering the understanding about the essential assumption, which prevent change and innovation.
• Cultural levels, covering the different cultural levels within organizations and how to work with different cultures.
• Leadership competencies, covering the skills and competencies needed for leaders to success with change, innovation, transformation and evolution.

Audience

Leaders of teams who are responsible for initiating, supporting, drive and building the culture for innovation and HR-professionals who are responsible for supporting their leaders in the process.

July 5th 2019 Copenhagen FinTech will be back at the Roskilde festival diving into how the amazing Roskilde Festival is building a Smart Sustainable and Cashless City with 150.000 inhabitants to last for a week in all sorts of Danish weather.

On Friday July 5th you can join Copenhagen Fintech for a full day experience at the Roskilde Festival 2019. You will get a full one-day (and night) festival ticket, Access to backstage Village, Transfer Roskilde Station/Festival and return, Special front Pit concert experiences and of cause special Roskilde Festival Tours focusing on Sustainability, Smart City Building and Cashless Payments in a huge festival setting.

What else to expect?

Well…. when we did it in 2017 one of our guests from South Africa miraculously left his wheelchair after 10 years and walked the festival, a Japanese guest had a one-of-lifetime outside toilet experience and one of our Danish guests met an American guest and later got married. In 2017 we ate more insects than you would believe and we were 15 fintech guests in the bus to the festival – but almost 120 very enthusiastic fintech guests when we left again late in the evening… expect nothing but a true Copenhagen Fintech / Roskilde Festival experience!.. so hurry up and sign up for this one.

Max 15 participants.

Sign up deadline: February 28th. First come first served.

Price: DKK 3200 ex vat. You will be invoiced manually after your signup which will complete your registration.

Time:

Expect all day and most night – detailed timeslots for tours and speaks during the day not planned yet but there will tours expected between 12.00 and 16.00. Detailed concert program is not up yet either. We arrange transfer to and from Roskilde Station – but if you wish you can also arrange individually how and when you wish to join and leave the festival.  

Planned transfer times.

11:00 (July 5th) Transfer from Roskilde Station to Roskilde Festival

01:00 (July 6th) Transfer from Roskilde Festival to Roskilde Station.