LHoFT

Startup Weekend Regional - The Final
2019-03-21 18:00 - 21:00 UTC
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.
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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

Workshop - Hiring Tech Talent with AI: understanding recruitment challenges, and using the MoBerries solution
2019-04-05 11:30 - 23:30
Description
Recruiting the right talent is a key concern for institutions in Luxembourg.
The LHoFT wants to help.
We are launching a premium AI driven active recruitment platform in partnership with Moberries. The platform provides access to a large pan-European talent pool, matching your open positions with pre-filtered, actively looking candidates from the largest shared talent network.
Let’s use technology to solve your challenges together. This free workshop and lunch for LHoFT members and partners will provide you with an overview of our new recruitment tool and how it can enhance your recruitment process.
Agenda

11.45am: Registration and Welcome
12.00 pm: Hiring great IT and Tech talent, a big challenge for the industry by Nasir Zubiairi, CEO of the LHoFT
12.15pm: Presentation of the platform, by Mo Moubarak, Head of Business Development at MoBerries

IT and Tech Talent Shortage: an insight
User Case: Tell us how the platform works for you
Guide step by step to your new preferred premium AI driven active recruitment platform

13.00pm: Networking Lunch

If you would like to attend, send us an email!

Fintech Friday - Happy Easter
2019-04-12 17:30
Description
Dear Innovators, Partners & Friends,
We are excited to invite you to our Fintech Friday – Happy Easter edition.
Fintech Friday is Luxembourg’s fastest growing (and coolest) Fintech networking event, bringing together Fintech entrepreneurs, executives, VCs, Fintech enthusiasts and business angels.
You will also get to meet our newly joined members and celebrate the growth of Luxembourg’s ecosystem with us!
To celebrate the Easter season, we invite parents to come along with their children. A small surprise is expected for the kids.
We are looking forward to see you there!

Global Shapers - Luxembourg City Hub
2019-04-13 08:00 - 2019-04-14 20:00
Description
Global Shapers – Luxembourg City Hub
The youth association of the World Economic Forum, representing Luxembourg
In 2011, Prof. Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, founded the Global Shapers Community to empower young people to play an active role in shaping local, regional and global agendas. The Global Shapers Community is a network of hubs founded and led by young people who are exceptional in their potential, their achievements and their drive to make a contribution to their communities.
Shapers represent all walks of life and share a spirit of entrepreneurship in the global public interest.

378 Hubs
6,780 Shapers
155 countries

Shapers look for opportunities to have impact on a global scale by joining forces with other hubs.

Blockchain et son impact sur la société - "Hasheur" Owen Simonin
2019-04-23 17:00
Description
Blockchain et son impact sur la société avec Owen Simonin, “Hasheur”
À propos de cet événement
Blockchain et son impact sur la société – Hasheur
LëtzBlock est ravie de présenter Owen Simonin (alias Hasheur) qui exposera sa vision de la blockchain, et expliquera comment elle peux impacter notre société, nos comportements et nos façons de consommer.
A travers des cas concrets, il montrera que la blockchain est une technologie complexe – mais pas inaccessible!
Biographie
Owen est un jeune entrepreneur qui, à seulement 21 ans, s’est fait une place importante dans l’écosystème francophone de la blockchain. Depuis deux ans, il vulgarise – surtout sur YouTube – cette technologie complexe dans l’objectif de la rendre accessible à tous. https://bit.ly/2mecUvJ
Owen a fondé plusieurs sociétés dont Just Mining, une startup qui se spécialise dans les solutions d’investissement dans la blockchain. Sa société a réalisé plus de 2.5M de chiffre d’affaires lors de son premier exercice.
Ticket
Membres LëtzBlock : gratuit
Non-membres: € 15
Pour devenir membre, veuillez consulter la formulaire sur notre site www.letzblock.com. Si vous êtes déjà membre et n’avez pas reçu une code discount veuillez nous contacter par email ou par le Slack.
Portes: 18:30h – Début conférence: 19:00h Attention : accès seulement aux inscrits !
Accès au parking de PWC sur présentation du billet d’entrée
LëtzBlock remercie PwC Luxembourg pour le hosting de l’event
#blockchain, #DLT, #decentralisation, #crypto, #cryptocurrency, #cryptoassets, #digitalassets, #startups, #innovation, #Letzblock, #luxembourg, #hasheur

Is AI the solution to biased AI?
2019-04-24 17:30
Description
As enterprises build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, it’s important to understand the ethical considerations of our work. Ethics are not a separate business objective bolted on after an AI system has been deployed. They are part of business performance. Only by embedding ethical principles into AI applications and processes can we build systems that people can trust.
As AI advances, and humans and AI systems increasingly work together, it is essential that we trust the output of these systems to inform our decisions. Alongside policy considerations and business efforts, science has a central role to play: developing and applying tools to wire AI systems for trust. To encourage the adoption of AI, we must ensure it does not take on and amplify our biases and knowing how an AI system arrives at an outcome is key to trust, particularly for enterprise AI.
IBM Research has open-sourced AI Fairness 360 (http://aif360.mybluemix.net), a comprehensive open-source toolkit of metrics and algorithms to check for and mitigate unwanted bias in AI, to help the community engender trust in AI. IBM also launched its Trust & Transparency service as part of AIOpenScale (https://www.ibm.com/cloud/ai-openscale). This service provides explanations into how AI decisions are being made, and automatically detect and mitigate bias to produce fair, trusted outcomes.
In this meetup we will explore the ‘dangers of AI’ being bias, (lack of) explanation and robustness issues. Next to that we will explore the AI Fairness 360 toolkit and IBM’s Trust & Transparency service. Hands on examples will be available.
Speaker: Stefan Van Den Borre, Technical Professional – Watson Data Platform, IBM.
Doors open at 17:30 hrs.
Session intended to start at 18:00 hrs.

PSD 2, APIs and the upcoming Open Banking after 14th of september 2019
2019-04-25 15:30
Description
« L’Association des Professionnels de la Société de l’Information (APSI) » has the honour to invite you to the APSI Day n° 1 /2019
PSD 2, APIs and the upcoming Open Banking after 14th of september 2019

13:30 Welcome Coffee, offered by APSI
14:00 Introduction “Where are we with PSD 2, APIs, RTS, where are we going after 14th September?”, by Jean Diederich, Partner at Wavestone and President of APSI
14:20 “PSD2: Focus on Action”, by Luca Borella, Advocate of OpenBankProject, Tesobe, Berlin
14:40 “PSD2: Switch to an API model”, by Alexandre Hamroun, Director Large Accounts, Budget Inside, Paris
15:00 “If only I had a Crystal Ball”, by Raoul Mulheims, Co-Founder of Finologee
15:20 “PSD2 opportunities for incumbent financial institutions”, by Nasir Zubairi, CEO, The LHoFT Foundation
15:40 “PSD2: Thinking beyond Compliance”, by Biju Suresh Babu, Fiorano, London
16:00 PANEL “How fast Open Banking will evolve after 14th of September, slow evolution or fast revolution?”, all participants, Serge Wagener, President of the ABBL WG Payments and BCEE, Moderator: Jean Diederich
16:30 Network Cocktail, offered by Fiorano

To register, send please e-mail to info@apsi.lu
Participation is free of charge

12ème édition de la Journée luxembourgeoise de la propriété intellectuelle
2019-04-25 15:30
Description
12ème édition de la Journée luxembourgeoise de la propriété intellectuelle
25 avril de 13 h 30 à 18 h 30
Panorama sur les dernières actualités
A l’initiative de l’Office de la propriété intellectuelle du ministère de l’Économie, l’Institut de la Propriété Intellectuelle Luxembourg (IPIL G.I.E.) organise le 25 avril 2019 la 12ème édition de la Journée luxembourgeoise de la propriété intellectuelle.
La manifestation, qui se déroulera à la Chambre de Commerce, débutera à 13h30 par l’ouverture des stands regroupant les principaux acteurs de la propriété intellectuelle et les acteurs de la recherche, de l’innovation et de la promotion de l’entrepreneuriat au Luxembourg.
Programme

13h30: Ouverture des stands
14h00: Mot de bienvenue

Lex Kaufhold, Chargé de la direction de l’Office de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Ministère de l’Économie

14h15: Greetings from Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO
14h20: Recent developments in digital European Copyright law

Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou, Associate professor at the Law Department of the University of Cyprus

15h00: Evolution des solutions digitales pour une gestion efficace de la PI et des dessins et modèles en particulier

Nicolas Vigneron, Chef de Service, Office de l’Union européenne pour la propriété intellectuelle

15h45: Pause-café
16h15: Self-driving vehicle technologies and patenting trends

Ilja Rudyk, Senior Economist, European Patent Office

17h00: Dispute resolution between domain names and trademarks at the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre

Erik Wilbers, Director, WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center

17h45: Questions/Réponses
18h10: Networking Cocktail

Modération: Iris Depoulain, Commissaire aux droits d’auteur et droits voisins de l’Office de la Propriété Intellectuelle, Ministère de l’Economie et Pablo Mohr, Expert en propriété intellectuelle à l’IPIL G.I.E.

Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS)
2019-04-29 - 2019-04-30
Description
Why Attend?
Innovate Finance Global Summit (IFGS) 2019 will focus on the key areas enhancing, empowering and safeguarding the FinTech sector today and in the years to come.
You will hear from the best of industry on: developments in technology, the talent and skills gap, the importance of diversity and new sessions for this year, including Green Finance and Embedded Finance.
More infos hereafter
