Conference Program

8:00 AM 8:50 AM Registration
8:50 AM 9:00 AM Opening Remarks
Ken Walker, Conference Host, Managing Partner at Exeter Consulting & Capital Management
Avery Starr, Conference Chair and AFS Board Member, Managing Director, Seatig Inc.
Chengying Xiu, AFS Chair, Shareholder, Becker & Poliakoff LLP
9:00 AM 9:20 AM Keynote Speech

How Innovations are Disrupting Money
Herve Tourpe, Head of Digital Advisory Unit, International Monetary Fund
9:20 AM 10:15 AM Panel #1 Sustainable Economy in the New Era of Fintech Innovation
Session Chair: Avery Starr, Managing Director, Seatig Inc.
Panelists: Purva Khera, Economist, Monetary and Capital Markets at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Xiaochen Zhang, President of FinTech4Good, and Executive Council of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Sustainable Business Network (ESBN)
Herve Tourpe, Chief Digital Advisor, International Monetary Fund
Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business
10:15 AM 11:00 AM Panel #2 Fintech and Community Bank: Disruption and Opportunity
Session Chair: Jinfeng Tang, Chief Operating Officer of Loan Transactions & Technology (LT&T)
Panelists: John A. Roberts, President and CEO, Loan Transactions & Technology
Dai Zhao, Co-founder, ZM Financial Systems
Bill Kroll, Managing director, The Casey Group
11:00 AM 11:20 AM Keynote Speech
Open Standards’ Benefits for Innovation – and Why Bloomberg Supports Them
Rich Robinso, Head of Data Strategy and Standards, Open Symbology, Bloomberg LLP
11:20 AM 12:15 PM Panel #3 Standards in the Face of Fintech Disruption and Regulatory Response
Co-Session Chair: Jim Northey, Co-Chair Global Technical Committee of FIX Trading Community and Chair of ISO TC68 Financial Services
Co-Session Chair: Thomas Jordan, President and CEO, Jordan & Jordan
Panelists: Karla McKenna, Head of Standards, Global Legal Entity ID Foundation
Richard Robinson, Head of Data Strategy and Standards, Open Symbology, Bloomberg LLP
Lee E. Saba, Head of Market Structure, Rialto Markets
Lunch
1:00 PM 1:20 PM Keynote Speech

Perspectives on Central Bank-Backed Cryptocurrency
Wilfred Daye, Head of Financial Markets for OKCoin USA and CEO for OKCoin Securities
1:20 PM 2:00 PM Panel #4 Where We Stand in Trade’s Digital Evolution: Blockchain, AI, and Big Data
Session Chair: Jeff Cooperstein, Business Development of R3
Panelists: Fiona J. Deroo, Managing Director, Global Trade Structuring Sales Executive, Bank of America
Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Co-founder & GP of REFASHIOND Ventures and Co-founder of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation
2:00 PM 2:05 PM Explanation of Competition Rules
Arnold Chu, AFS Treasurer, Principal Examiner, FHFA
2:05 PM 2:20 PM Judge Introduction
Session Chair: Arnold Chu, AFS Treasurer, Principal Examiner, FHFA
Judges: Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business
Hitesh Aggarwal, Global Lead, Strategic Partnerships and Investments
Institutional Payments, Citigroup
Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Rubicon Venture Capital

Seamon Chan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Palm Drive Capital
2:20 PM 2:30 PM Intermission
2:30 PM 5:00 PM AaA Fintech Competition
Co-Session Chair: Arnold Chu, AFS Treasurer, Principal Examiner, FHFA
Co-Session Chair: Ken Walker, Conference Host, Managing Partner at Exeter Consulting & Capital Management
Contestants: Marek Forysiak, CEO, Movencorp
Mathias J. Klenk, Co-Founder, Passbase
Dragan Oremuš, Founder, Compliant Risk Technology LLC
Desmoine DeLancey West, Investor of BlockSentry Inc.
Jack Berube, Founder and CEO, MERGED Solutions, Inc
Syed Ahmed, Head of Finance & Accounting, Placid
5:00 PM 5:25 PM Judge Panel: Competition Review
Session Chair: Shan Chen, AFS Board Member, Head of US operations for CubeTech Global Asset
Judges: Arun Sundararajan, Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship at New York University’s (NYU) Stern School of Business
Hitesh Aggarwal, Global Lead, Strategic Partnerships and Investments
Institutional Payments team, Citigroup
Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Rubicon Venture Capital
Seamon Chan, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Palm Drive Capital
5:25 PM 5:30 PM Volunteer recoginition and group photo

Frank Mah, Secretary General of AFS, Managing Director at Transnational Capital Corp
Evening Award Ceremony and Dinner Reception                                                     

(restricted: only open to keynote speakers, panel speakers, judges, VIP reception ticket holders, and AaA production team. Conference ticket does not include dinner reception. )
5:30 PM 5:55 PM Registration 
5:55 PM 6:00 PM Opening Remarks
Host: Morgan Jones, AFS Board Member and Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships at Avenues: The World School
Raymond P. Thek, Partner, Lowenstein Sandler LLP
6:00 PM 6:30 PM Evening Keynote
Regulatory Responses to Fintech Disruptions
Robert Jackson, SEC Commissioner
Host: Morgan Jones, AFS Board Member and Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships at Avenues: The World School
Introduction by: Avery Starr, Conference Chair and AFS Board Member, Managing Director, Seatig Inc.
6:30 PM 6:50 PM Competition Results and Award Annoucement and Photo Session
Host: Morgan Jones, AFS Board Member and Director of Community Engagement & Partnerships at Avenues: The World School
6:50 PM 6:52 PM Acknowledgement and Closing Remarks
Arnold Chu, AaA Competition Chair and AFS Treasurer, Principal Examiner, FHFA
6:52 PM 8:00 PM Dinner and Networking