LHoFT

PRESENT WITH IMPACT with Nasir Zubairi
2019-03-07 16:00 - 23:30 UTC
Description
For University students only
As a leadup to our Meet&Match – Students Recruitment Forum on March 11th, we welcome Uni.lu students to an exclusive Masterclass on ”Presentation Skills”, Thursday, 7th of March.
PRESENT WITH IMPACT
with Nasir Zubairi, CEO of the LHoFT
Description
The way you present yourself or pitch has a tremendous effect on your visibility and credibility. The first impression you make on your audience, whatever the setting, can be the difference between business success or hitting a brick wall.
During this interactive session with Nasir, you will learn how to

Raise your confidence
Create the right impression
Communicate with impact

Speaker: Nasir Zubairi
Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg. He is also a Non-Executive Board Director of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB) S.A and sits on the IMF’s High Level Advisory Group on Finance and Technology. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS, ICAP, HSBC and EBS. He has been immersed in the Fintech and startup sector for the past seven years. As an entrepreneur, Nasir has built multiple Fintech businesses across verticals. He has advised the boards of leading financial institutions, central banks and governments. Nasir is included in the “Top 40 innovators shaping the future of financial services -2014” by The Wall Street Journal/Financial News. Nasir has a BSc from the London School of Economics and is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School.

Meet-Match Student Recruitment Forum - Uni.lu students meet Fintech Leaders
2019-03-11 16:00 - 23:30
Description
Meet&Match Student Recruitment Forum – Uni.lu students meet Fintech Leaders
You are a graduate or undergraduate student looking for an internship, a summer job, thesis projects or want to jumpstart your career with one of European’s most innovative Fintech Leaders, then take a shot at March 11th from 4 pm to 7 pm.
Seize the opportunity and…

Discover Luxembourg’s Fintech Innovation Hub!
Present yourself to leading Fintech Firms! You got one minute to convince! Three questions matter. Who are you ? What are you looking for and why? Due to time restrictions only Master students can pitch.
Network and find your right match!

Agenda:

3h30 pm – Doors open
4h00 pm – Welcome Speech
4h10 pm – Student presentations
5h00 pm – Meet&Match Networking

An introduction of yourself on stage is not mandatory. If you plan to only take part in the networking session, you are more than welcome.
PS: Dress code “casual” and be equipped with your CV.
Registrations to get your pitching slot close on Thursday March 7.
How to get started?
Register and send your CV in pdf form directly to antony.martini@lhoft.lu by mentioning if you intend to present.
This event is sponsored by Finologee
Supported by Do Recruitment Advisors and Uni.lu Incubator
Participating Firms:
Algoreg products enable a fast and compliant onboarding, decreasing operational KYC and reducing negative impacts on customers.
AMD Group automates tasks and integrates AI to appropriate business processes aiming at helping financial firms reduce costs and make their HR focusing on most critical activities.
ANote Music is the European marketplace for music rights. Through ANote Music, anybody can invest in music and purchase rights that artists, record labels and publishers decide to sell on the platform.
Apla is a blockchain platform for organizing economic, public and social activities. These events are powered by smart laws and smart contracts.
behave builds quantitative factor based models for investment professionals, including stock and style selection as well as sector and equity/cash allocation.
bitFlyer Inc. is the largest bitcoin exchange in the world by volume, transacting $100 billion year-to-date. Since it was founded in 2014, bitFlyer has grown to nearly 1 million users worldwide.
Bitvalley is building a new decentralized economic model, facilitating the adoption of blockchain technology in domains that are ripe for disruption.
CFinance offers easily accessible unsecured loans online with a focus on user friendliness and quality of the service to customers who are in need of financial aid in Finland and Sweden.
Compellio is a software company that develops enterprise applications for private and public organisations, including cloud platforms for digital asset transaction on the blockchain.
Crosslend offers single-loan securitisation as a service, transforming loans into fungible bonds to enable both institutional & retail investment in consumer and SME credit.
Cyberhedge helps companies better mitigate their cyber risk by expressing the risk in financial terms. Their R&D department’s responsibility is to develop and improve our financial models.
Emergent Payments offers both payment facilitation and gateway services through advanced technology, local operations, data analysis and an experienced payments team.
Finologee helps financial industry players re-think, invent and build their customers’ experience.
Governance.com enables their clients to deal with regulatory requirements effortlessly, by collecting and connecting all their data and documents.
Greenwich Dealing offers an outsourced trading solution to provide Clients / Funds with access to Global Markets in a fully transparent process.
Hacknowledge is a Swiss-made security monitoring solution that helps shorten the time between breach and detection.
HQLAχ provides market participants with a platform improving collateral fluidity by creating a new, more efficient, transparent and cost effective marketplace for liquidity transfers.
Jemmic provides professional services, custom software components and solutions for protecting web sites, portals and users.
Label R provides a unique ESG and ethical certification and benchmarking for companies and funds.
LendInvest is the UK’s leading marketplace platform for property lending and investing, and one of the UK’s largest non-bank mortgage lenders.
Licorne Capital designs digital solutions for dynamic and automatic management of stock market portfolios, producing regular annual performance and integrating risk control.
Numbrs is a customer-centric financial services firm enabling its customers to manage their existing bank accounts and personal finances and to buy any financial product from every provider at the best possible price.
Peer Mountain is a blockchain-agnostic decentralized ecosystem for identity aggregation and trust.
Satispay is a new payment system allowing customers to pay in stores or your friends from your smartphone within seconds. The service is completely free and available for download for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.
At SEQVOIA back office headaches for the fund management industry are solved. KIIDs, PRIIPs and Fund Prospectuses can be produced and managed on SEQVOIA’s FundD software.
Scorechain provides business intelligence and big data for the blockchain technologies as well as risk analysis and metrics for transactions and keys to its customers.
Sikoba is a decentralized platform based on peer-to-peer IOUs and build on blockchain technology. Participants who know and trust each other in real life grant each other credit lines in the Sikoba system
SnapSwap offers a fully automated online and mobile onboarding solution for banks institutions, telecom operators, insurance companies and investment industry.
Stampify is an entrepreneurship-centric platform to tokenise capital increases. SMEs benefits from the dynamic corporate governance toolbox enhancing a fully digitised 1-to-1 shareholding relationship.
StarTalers is an online financial coach and roboadvisor that supports women willing to invest sustainably.
Stokr is an accessible and easy to use peer-to-peer investment platform connecting investors and business founders to finance forward-thinking ideas and to share future profits.
Tetrao’s technology enables the automation of any process a human work does on a Web browser, being on public websites or backoffices.
Tokeny is the European market-leader in delivering an institutional grade, secure end-to-end platform, allowing for the issuance and servicing management of digital securities.Tus-S&T is a large technology investment and service group affiliated with Tsinghua University, China. Tuspark operates over 80 incubators hosting more than 5000 innovative startups.
ume has been designed to respond to the asset management industry for an effective automated due diligence of fund distributors.
VNX Exchange is the first marketplace and trading platform for tokenized venture capital assets.

A la veille du Brexit : quelles perspectives pour le Luxembourg?
2019-03-13
Description
L’Amicale des Anciens Résidents Luxembourgeois de la Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre à Paris organise une table ronde :
A la veille du Brexit : Quelles perspectives pour le Luxembourg? Relations bilatérales, Place financière, Etudiants,…
Participants :
M. Pierre Gramegna, Ministre des Finances du Luxembourg
S.E. John Marshall, Ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni
M. Nazir Zubairi, CEO of The LHoFT
M. Philippe Frieden, étudiant au Royaume-Uni
Modération : M. François Biltgen, Président de l’Amicale
La conférence sera bilingue (français-anglais) et ouverte au public
Contact: weckerjohn@yahoo.com

Forum Fintech Grandes Écoles et Universités
2019-03-14 14:00 - 23:30
Description
Forum Fintech Grandes Écoles et Universités
Get the opportunity to

Meet numerous students coming from leading engineering schools, business schools and universities looking for job opportunities
Showcase your Fintech
Network and find your right match

The students are coming from …
Agenda
2.00pm – 3.00pm: Opening & LHoFT Presentation
4.00 pm – 4.50pm : Startup Pitches – 10 firms pitch in front of students
6pm30: Fintech Best Pitch award
7.00pm – 7h30pm: Closure Keynote
8.00pm – 10+ pm: Networking
The LHoFT has a 15m2 booth located at the main entrance of the Recruitment Hall
For more information, contact us

“The 101 on Recruitment” - A Masterclass with Do Recruitment Advisors
2019-03-15 16:00 - 17:00
Description
For LHoFT & Host Members only
“The 101 on Recruitment” – A Masterclass with Do Recruitment Advisors

The LHoFT is inviting you to the « 101 on Recruitment » – A Masterclass with Do Recruitment Advisors March 15th. During this session, you will learn about the full recruitment life cycle and how to proceed, taking one step at a time.
Agenda:

Recruitment needs: how to draft a job description for the searched profile?
Spreading the word: which channels to use to get the right profile?
Screening: how to select the right received CVs? What are the key attention points to keep in mind? (work permit, career path…)
Selection process: how to conduct interviews?
Offer: what are the common salary and benefits in Luxembourg? What are the social security contribution rates the employers have to pay?
Hire: how to onboard newcomers?
End of contract: what are the different notices to take into consideration?

The speakers:
Ms Aideen Flannery is a highly skilled senior recruitment specialist focusing on the financial services sector in Luxembourg. She has an honors degree in business studies from the University of Limerick in Ireland and after completing an internship, she returned to Luxembourg to work as an external auditor for one of the Big 4 firms. After almost 3 years auditing investment funds and management companies, she missed the people connection and decided to move into the human resources world. Aideen is in charge of the financial services division and is mainly focused on accounting, internal audit and is highly involved in all regulatory positions from senior to executive level.
Ms Sonia Prince is a Recruiter expert in identifying and attracting the best and most diverse talents available from both local and international sources. After attaining her Master’s degree in Law in France, she worked as a Legal counsel, prior to making the transition into recruitment. She has worked as a recruitment manager at KPMG and is now heading the legal and Fintech division at DO Recruitment Advisors.

Fintech Friday - The Age of Tomorrow
2019-03-15 17:30 - 18:00
Description
Dear Innovators, Partners & Friends,
We are thrilled to invite you to our Fintech Friday – The Age of Tomorrow Edition
Fintech Friday is Luxembourg’s fastest growing (and coolest) Fintech networking event, bringing together Fintech Entrepreneurs, Executives, VCs, Fintech enthusiasts and Business Angels.
This Fintech Friday is very special as we will have the pleasure to welcome Mr Pierre Gramegna, Luxembourg Finance Minister and LHoFT Chairman discussing Government’s 2019 mission on fostering Fintech Innovation in Luxembourg.
In addition, we will have with us the 11: FS Team running Fintech Insider, a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking and financial services.
You will meet our newly joined members and celebrate the growth of Luxembourg’s ecosystem with us!
The event is sponsored by Satispay & Tokeny
PS: Don’t forget to take a memorable picture in our Photo Booth
We are looking forward to see you there!
Join us for this unique gathering. ​Registration on invitation only.

London Fintech Conference 2019
2019-03-20 12:00 - 13:30
Description
London Fintech Conference 2019
Welcome to Europe’s largest student-led conference on Financial Technology.
The London Fintech Conference (LFC) is back again this year and will be taking place on Wednesday 20th March 2019 at University College London!
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet more than 500 of the brightest minds from all across Europe
Agenda
12:30pm – 1.00pm: Registration
1.00pm – 1:15pm: Introductory Speech – LFC Team
1:15pm – 2:00pm: Keynote – Nasir Zubairi on ” AI and the Future of Work”
2:00pm – 2:45pm: Alternative Investing
2:45pm – 3:00pm: Break
3:00pm – 3:45pm: Future of CryptoCurrencies
3:45pm – 4:30pm: Peer-to-Peer Lending
4:30pm – 4:45pm: Break
4:45pm – 5:30pm: Cloud Computing / Application of AI & Machine: Learning Diversity in Fintech
6:15pm – 6:30pm: Break
6:30pm – 7:15pm: Venture Capital Investment Appetite
7:15pm – 8.00pm: Fintech Startup Showcase
8.00pm – 8:10pm: Closing Remarks
8:30pm – 10.00pm: Networking Session (Top 50 Students)

"Adem Best Practices" with Laurent Peusch, Deputy Head of Employer Services
2019-03-21 12:00 - 15:00
Description
During the Masterclass with Laurent Peusch, you will get introduced to the specific measures developed by the ADEM aiming at helping both candidates and employers to find their way in a constantly evolving labor market, where it is crucial to be listening to all its players and to pay attention to new technologies trends, whose impact are far from negligible.
The Masterclass main takeaways:

Luxembourg labor market – key figures
The Employers’ department
Skills shortage – Talent attraction
Third-country nationals
Meet Laurent Peusch:

After graduating from technical school for health profession in 2004, Laurent Peusch worked for a short time in the hospital sector. In 2005, Laurent Peusch joined the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, the Directorate of Immigration at the Department of third-country workers. In 2007, after 2 years Peusch Laurent joined the foreign employment department at the Luxemburgish Public Employment Services, where he was promoted head of department in 2012. In 2016, the foreign employment department has been integrated into the employer department where Laurent Peusch became the deputy head and still responsible for all matters related to the third-country nationals and the asylum seekers.

Startup Weekend Regional - The Final
2019-03-21 18:00 - 21:00
Description
The LHoFT, in partnership with the Technoport and the University of Saarland, is thrilled to invite you to the Startup Weekend Regional Final.
The finalists of the 2018 edition of Startup Weekend Luxembourg and Startup Weekend Saarbrucken will pitch their projects in a final battle.
Come and discover what the entrepreneurs from both regions have the best to offer.
Agenda:

6.00 pm – Welcome
6.30 pm – Showtime
7.30 pm – Networking event

We are looking forward to welcome you.
The Startup Weekend Luxembourg team.

Upside Academy Innovation Program
2019-03-27 - 2019-04-02
Description
The Upside Innovation Academy is a training program aimed at helping financial institutions build repeatable and scalable internal capabilities to drive digital transformation, optimise Fintech procurement and relationship management, and drive measurable returns on investments in innovation.
The Upside Academy Innovation Program will be conducted for the first time in Europe as a collaboration of the LHoFT Foundation, Deloitte Luxembourg and Upside Partners, a leading innovation and digital transformation advisory firm based in Silicon Valley.
The program will be delivered by Upside Partners’ co-founders Mike Sigal and Jelena Ewart, who collectively have over 40 years of experience as entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and executives in Silicon Valley, and Dr. Marc Sniukas, Director Innovation at Deloitte, corporate innovation expert and author of The Art of Opportunity – How to create new growth through strategic innovation (Wiley 2016).
PROGRAM
Segment 1 – 27 & 28 March 2019
The Executive Immersion is a 2-day semi-public, group session for all 30-50 participants. The curriculum does not expose the participants competitive challenges or insights, but the group dynamics and perspectives of multiple companies promotes deeper insights and accelerated learning.
Key takeaways of the Executive Immersion include:
● Understanding of startup and venture ecosystem dynamics to help corporate teams better identify and engage with the right startups and partners;
● Insights into the mindset and skill-gaps between entrepreneurs and corporates, and an ability to identify any such gaps in corporations;
● A survey of startup & VC-inspired managerial, financial, and training tools and best practices for achieving operational excellence and consistent innovation ROI.
Executive Immersion Day 1 (Wednesday) – Innovation Management Theory
➔ Introduction to Upside Methodology
➔ Introduction to the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Startup Working Methods and the VC Business Model
➔ Best Practices in Innovation Opportunity Assessment
➔ Analysing Startups like a VC, in Minutes, not Months
➔ Tools for Governance and Alignment: Measuring the Right KPIs at the Right Time
➔ Fireside Chat on Corporate/Startup Innovation & Dinner
Executive Immersion Day 2 (Thursday) – Leveraging Upside in your Company
➔ Best Practices for Running a Successful PoCs
➔ Setting up for Success: Engaging Lateral Stakeholders
➔ Finding the Right Startups Using Innovation Briefs
➔ Best Practices for Working with Startups
➔ Secrets of Digital Leadership: Fostering a Growth Mindset & Culture
Segment 2 – March 29th, April 1st or 2nd
The Business Challenge Workshop is a 2.5-hour private, small group session delivered to participants from a single company to put the lessons from the Executive Immersion into action to advance your company’s innovation agenda.
Key takeaways of the Business Challenge Workshop include:
● Hands-on experience transforming innovation objectives into Business Challenges;
● A list of Business Challenges your organization can immediately use to prioritize innovation initiatives;
● A high-level, KPI-driven Sourcing Matrix for one Business Challenge that can be immediately used to drive startup sourcing and selection.
Business Challenge Workshop (2.5 Hours on March 29th, April 1st or April 2nd)
➔ Framework for constructing and managing Business Challenges, the mission-critical quantum of effective innovation.
➔ Hands-on practice developing a series of Business Challenges relevant to your company, and prioritizing those challenges.
➔ Hands on practice developing a startup Sourcing Matrix relating to a single Business Challenge.
Upside Partners is a Silicon Valley-based consultancy that helps corporations and institutions develop operational excellence in innovation through the application of startup and venture investor best practices. The Upside Partners team brings extensive experience and success of delivering innovation and digital transformation programs for corporates around the world such as Nordea, Payments Canada, RCI Banque, Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority, Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Life and SWIFT.
Deloitte Luxembourg is a leader in corporate and digital innovation. Deloitte’s innovation services help organizations create awareness for innovation and new technologies; set innovation strategies; build, launch and scale innovative offerings, business models, and new ventures; and boost your organization’s capabilities for innovation.
Deloitte Digital combines Deloitte’s globally recognized strength in business transformation and technology implementation with the capabilities of a world-class digital agency. We can support your organization across the digital lifecycle — from working to define a bold digital strategy to designing and building your online and mobile presence — using agile methods that move quickly from digital concept to digital reality.
The LHoFT Foundation is a public – private sector initiative that drives technology innovation for Luxembourg’s financial services industry, connecting the domestic and international Fintech community to develop solutions that shape the world of tomorrow.
For more information, please click here

WOOP - World of Possibilities
2019-03-28
Description
WOOP : LE NOUVEAU RENDEZ-VOUS INCONTOURNABLE POUR L’INNOVATION BUSINESS & TECH AU LUXEMBOURG
Le 28 mars prochain aura lieu la première édition de la conférence WOOP à la Maison du Savoir de Belval. Un nouveau rendez-vous déjà incontournable pour tous les décideurs de l’écosystème Tech et Business luxembourgeois.
Un vent d’air frais souffle sur les événements du Grand-Duché en ce début d’année. La conférence WOOP, produite par InTech, filiale du groupe Post Luxembourg, se positionne comme l’une des conférences sur l’innovation les plus ambitieuses de cette fin de décennie. Un rendez-vous à ne manquer sous aucun prétexte : avec plus de 700 visiteurs attendus, WOOP a l’ambition des plus grandes conférences internationales pour le Luxembourg.
Au programme
WOOP, c’est avant tout près de quarante intervenants internationaux d’exception parmi lesquels le philosophe Eric Sadin spécialiste international de l’Intelligence Artificielle, Elodie Vialle, directrice du bureau Journalisme et Technologie de Reporters sans frontières, le médecin spatial Jérémy Saget de la mission Mars One candidat au premier vol habité vers la planète rouge, ou encore Amel Hammouda, directrice de la transformation digitale d’Air France. L’occasion d’interroger le futur du management, le rôle des Fintech dans l’économie de demain, la liberté d’informer au XXIe siècle, mais aussi le transhumanisme, ou les objectifs de la nouvelle conquête spatiale.
Un format unique
Mais la conférence WOOP, c’est aussi une expérience unique avec pour la première fois en Europe, des débats sous forme de Battles animés par Audrey Pulvar pour que chacun puisse se forger un avis et se préparer à l’avenir. Une confrontation sans affront donc, afin d’apporter plusieurs points de vue et ainsi proposer une expérience unique aux visiteurs dans leur rapport à la technologie et au monde qui se dessine.
Via ce code LHOFTWOOP obtenez 15% de réduction sur votre ticket
Toutes les informations: https://woop-events.com/

Cybersecurity Breakfast #29 - How to secure mobile communication in sensitive environments?
2019-03-28 08:30 - 12:00
Description
Cybersecurity Breakfast #29
How to secure mobile communication in sensitive environments?
Organized by Sectra, SECURITYMADEIN.LU & the LHoFT
Agenda :
8.30am : Welcome
9.00am: Keynote
9.20am: Round Table
10.00am: Conclusion & Coffee
Registrations here

LTS Hackathon - A.I. 4 Finance
2019-03-29 - 2019-03-31
Description
On 29, 30 and 31 March 2019, Groupe Foyer is proud and excited to host the next #Hackathon by the Luxembourg Tech School with Digital Luxembourg and The LHoFT
For the first time, #LTS’s students will brainstorm, think and work on a subject related to insurance, in an event that will be totally dedicated to one single company.
Now fully equipped with connected watches ⌚️, the future digital leaders are fit & ready to work on the subject of Wearable Insurance
#Innovation #Luxembourg #Youth #Creativity #Insurance #Future

Blockchain-applied series: Crypto-assets, nothing but opportunities
2019-04-02
Description
PwC Luxembourg is introducing the blockchain-applied series that will bring together inspirational keynotes, panel discussions, blockchain exhibitions, and a host of networking opportunities.
Through this series, we intend to discuss the latest developments and insights on the ever-evolving blockchain technology and its applications.
The first round of the blockchain-applied series focusing on: Crypto-assets, nothing but opportunities
For this first event, PwC is addressing the biggest crypto-asset dimensions involving renowned international players, local flagship companies and experts on blockchain and crypto-assets:

Custody and safekeeping
Payments and settlement
Tokenisation

To name but a few, Ledger, Ripple, Hedera Hashgraph, Coinplus, Tokeny will be on stage to cover the topics.
The event will be kicked off by a keynote speech from Henri Arslanian, the PwC FinTech & Crypto Leader for Asia who leads PwC’s crypto efforts around the world.
During the networking cocktail, the participants will have the unique opportunity to meet a dozen of local actors in a crypto-fair and discuss with them their business and new trends in crypto-assets.

Please note that the number of seats is limited for this event.
For any requests, do not hesitate to contact PwC events organisation team at pwc-events@lu.pwc.com

Istanbul Fintech Week
2019-04-02 - 2019-04-05
Description
Istanbul Fintech Week (IFW) is the largest fintech gathering in Turkey and the broader EMEA region.
The event will host more than 1000 participants through 7 industry streams, 25 thematic stages, country presentations and dozens of startup pitches.
Program is available hereafter
List of speakers is avaible hereafter
Don’t miss LHoFT’s Head of Ecosystem Alex Panican and LHoFT’s Head of Operations and Projects Emilie Allaert who will all be speaking at #IstanbulFintechWeek!
Day 2 – 3rd of April – 11.45am – 12.45pm

Day 2 – 3rd of April – 13.45pm – 14.45pm
