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?

Moderator: Irina Kostina, Developer & Women in tech advocate

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.

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 IoT for insurance companies and will guide you through the newest research within IoT.

IoT has huge potential for the insurance industry, and this event will let you get closer to understanding how far in the process of implementation this technology is to make the insurance industry more efficient.

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

Program:

16:00-16:05

Introduction by Copenhagen FinTech

16:05-16:35

Sebastian Büttrich, Special Adviser, ITU

Sebastian Büttrich is the PITLab research lab manager at ITU. He works with IoT, embedded/pervasive systems, wireless technology and much more, in order to build networks, systems and much more. As one of few, he has worked with IoT long before it was called IoT, and is a specialist within environmental sensing, air and water quality, and energy and asset tracking.

The aforementioned expertise areas makes Sebastian one of the top minds in terms of practical usage of IoT, which can easily be projected towards the insurance industry.

16:35-17:05

Morten Bremild, Co-Founder, Anyware Solutions

Anyware Solutions are one of the key players in the Danish IoT industry, offering a unique end-to-end customer engagement platform within insurance, energy and telecom. Their award winning Anyware Smart Adaptor is by some considered the world’s smartest IoT device, with several use cases within insurance.

Their partners use their adaptor and platform to acquire and retain customers with targeted and personalized services, giving the insurance companies access to data in a smarter way.

17:05-17:20

Break

17:20-17:50

Habib El-Zein, Business Development Director, IoT Denmark

IoT Denmark is the Danish operator of SigFox, one of the world leading IoT companies. They currently cover 1 billion people, 60 countries and 4,2 million square kilometers with their network. Habib will introduce you to the possibilities of how IoT can be used in the insurance industry, by addressing the current biggest pains, and explaining how IoT can help on strategic journeys through reduction of churn, digital development, improved and widened product offerings. He will end by showing a specific case example, giving you a better understanding of current and future opportunities.

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.

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

Quantum Computing is here! Okay, maybe not yet as a mainstream computing platform, but in the case of IBM Q as a useful and stable platform for everyone to use. It is working, toolkits are ready and YOU can get access through IBM Cloud.

On April 3rd, 2019, we want to present to you, how far we have come with IBM Q, demonstrate the toolkits, let you work with IBM Q in hands-on labs but first and foremost we want to inspire you. We want you to think about, how quantum computing can find use within your field.

Read more here.

Lost and Founders is a series of events focusing on the most essential topics for fintech founders. To do so, for each session we invite industry/subject experts and a fintech founder, together they offer actionable advice on the topic and insights based on their experiences. We finish each session with a fireside chat, where the attendees have the opportunity to ask questions to the two speakers.

Have you alerady or are you looking to partner with a large financial institution? Then this session is for you, we will dive into the barriers to partnering and how as a startup you can overcome those barriers best.

Session #4: Partnering with Incumbents 

The vast majority of fintech startups today build and scale their business through partnering up with the established industry. The benefits are obvious, they have the customer base, licenses to operate, industry expertise, pools of internal resources and many of the systems that you have no interest in reinventing. The good news is that the incumbents are also eager to collaborate with fintechs in order innovate on their current model and explore future potential models. Unfortunately, regardless of the good intent from both sides many experience extreme difficulty in getting these partnership to work. This Lost & Founders is about gathering fintech leaders and talk about these difficulties and learning from those who managed to successfully land the partnerships.

To kickstart the discussions we will have both a presentation from Copenhagen Fintech as well as from Matter Pension. Copenhagen Fintech has gathered all the partners and sponsors and co-created in a seperate workshop the barriers that they face in workign with fintech startups – we will share these results here. Next, Matter Pension who has successfully partnered up with Skandia will share their learnings from being involved in both successful and less fruitful partnership processes.

Agenda: 

Welcome and introductions around the room

The barriers our partners and sponsors face – Copenhagen FinTech

Our learnings – Matter Pension, Emil Stigsgaard Fuglsang, Co-founder & COO

Discussion & co-create top barriers – all participants

Lendino will be hosting a workshop on how to improve your sales online. Sales expert Søren Lindhardt will explain your customers’ behavior online and why it’s important to have a value-creating experience on your website. The event will be in Danish:

Dagens program

15:30-16:00: Ankomst og netværk

16:00-16:05: Velkomst ved Andreas Helgason Rex, CMO i Lendino

16:05-17:05: ”Vind eller forsvind på internettet 2019 – valget er dit” – Foredrag

17:05-17:15: Pause

17:15-17:45: ”Vind eller forsvind på 1nternettet 2019” – Workshop

17:45-18:00: Afrunding på arrangementet

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.

Invitation to become a part of Europe’s largest tech show

Copenhagen Fintech, the Danish Embassy in Paris and Invest in Denmark are, in close cooperation with Erhvervshus Hovedstaden, planning the first ever edition of a Danish pavilion at VivaTech Paris. The pavilion will be mainly dedicated to smaller Danish tech oriented  companies either looking for investors and/or partners and seeking global inspiration.

France is slowly taking over the scene as Europe’s tech hub number 1 and VivaTech Paris is growing very rapidly to become the largest tech event in Europe with more than 100.000 visitors, including 1.900 visiting investors, 9.000 visiting start-up companies and more than 2.000 exhibitors. Many French and global corporates are strong partners to VivaTech and are present to support start-ups and look for new business opportunities and innovative technologies.

Our ambition for you

The 2018 VivaTech evaluation showed that 50% of all visitors looking for partnerships and investors found them at VivaTech. 50% of all visitors hunting for new solutions found them. And 75% of all participating companies found that VivaTech boosted their digital transformation.

Current year’s current ambition for participating Danish companies is to have an even higher success rate! Copenhagen Fintech together with Invest in Denmark and The Trade Council at the Embassy in Paris will prepare individual meeting programs with potential investors, technology partners, customers etc. and also help you put up your candidacy for the pitching arena of the conference. You tell us what you are looking for and we will go prepare the right meetings for you.

The Danish participation will be kicked off with an international start-up pre-event organized by La French Tech at the world’s largest incubator, Station F, on 15th May (for start-ups only). At the conference itself, in addition to individual meetings and being a part of Copenhagen Fintech stand at the Danish pavilion, the Embassy in Paris will work to create activities around the Danish Pavilion by e.g. hosting a reception with the Danish Tech Ambassador, Casper Klynge.

Prices and how to sign-up

The participants will be required to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

The expenses associated with participation in the conference as well as all the related activities will be covered by Copenhagen Fintech.

For additional information, please, reach out to Serafima Paluika at [email protected]

APPLICATION DEADLINE 15 MARCH 2019

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.

Join us in Copenhagen for our great Nordic Fintech conference!

Copenhagen FinTech Week is back for a 3rd Edition: 14-20th June 2019.

We invite you to join more than 1000 attendees from all continents in sharing insights with the 60+ international speakers we gathered from over 15 different countries, to join our keynotes and panels tackling hot Tech topics. Immerse yourself in the networking sessions and workshops we crafted for you, meet fantastic fintech startups showcasing and pitching on stage!

Drawing hundreds of the world’s Fintech leaders together to learn and do business, network and exchange views and knowledge on how Fintech is impacting and transforming industries globally. This year we will use Copenhagen FinTech Week to show the world how fintech is impacting much more than traditional finance – and give you the opportunity to explore top fintech trends in topics like Sustainability, Smart Cities Fintech Partnerships, Big Tech, Data Ethics and more.

Copenhagen FinTech Week 2019 will be home to the brightest fintech minds from all over the world. Get the chance to network, exchange knowledge and meet the fintech influencers and disruptors of this era!

Program:

14-16^th June:

Fintech Startup Weekend

17^th June:

Fintech Symposium

Copenhagen FinTech Global Advisory Board meeting

Hubs Night

Investors Dinner

18-19^th June:

Main Conference

20^th June:

Innovation Lab Crawl

See the full program on https://cphfintechweek.com and get your Early Bird tickets before 1^st April!

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.