LHoFT

Northern Ireland: Innovation in Compliance & Regtech Solutions symposium
2019-05-16 08:00 - 12:00 UTC
Description
Northern Ireland: Innovation in Compliance & Regtech Solutions symposium
Northern Ireland is a leading global location for financial services, with Belfast ranked as the top destination for Fintech and cybersecurity investment projects and the top city in Europe for software development projects.
Distinguished by its combination of talent, cost-effectiveness and track record of innovation in areas such as analytics, blockchain and capital markets, Northern Ireland is a hub for regulatory, FinCrime and compliance solutions, supporting financial services institutions across the world.
Please join us and engage with Northern Ireland innovators as they present compliance and RegTech solutions to manage the regulatory challenges shared throughout the banking and funds industry.
Northern Ireland companies showcasing their expertise include:

RSVP to rsvp.investni@empowerbusiness.com
Further information https://www.investni.com/regtech.html

Innovative and Sustainable Finance Edition of the Agrique Africa Investment Summit
2019-05-14 08:00 - 2019-05-15 12:00
Description
Innovative and Sustainable Finance Edition of the Agrique Africa Investment Summit
Welcome2Africa international is a private sector development company committed to the positive economic growth of Africa and from the get-go, she was founded upon the vision to redefine the image of Africa.​ We develop and initiate a range of activities to catalyze and facilitate investment, trade and business/commercial interest into and across Africa – All with a current focus and commitment to the development and transformation of Africa’s Agribusiness sector.
Discover more info about Agrique Africa Investment
The Innovative and Sustainable Finance Edition of the Agrique Africa Investment Summit 14th and 15th May, Luxembourg 2019 will provide an interactive platform where panelists will talk about how innovation with a sustainability mindset will help boost and revamp how agricultural investments are made.
ISF 2019 will explore how banks and financial institutions can cooperate with funds and development agencies to multiply the impact had in the agribusiness sector, through using blended finance. ISF 2019 will also explore the viability of sustainable finance in the agricultural sector in Africa, and strategize on how to overcome the setbacks from poor ESG.
https://www.agriqueafrica.com/program
https://www.agriqueafrica.com/copy-of-speakers-2

The Banking Scene
2019-05-14
Description
THE BANKING SCENE
#TBSCONF19
The conference that brings together industry peers, leaders and influencers to debate the changing nature of banking.
It’s a unique platform that explores how we could improve customer engagement, embrace innovation and support new business models in a digital world.
Banking for Humanity
To live up to customer and societal expectations, banks need to embrace new technologies. But just being digital isn’t good enough. Consumers expect a personal service, a human touch and relevance. Choosing the right path to sustainable relationships is essential.
Innovation in payments
We will dive into the first results and the lessons learned from Instant Payments projects, PSD2 and the opening of API environments.
What is the status mid 2019? How similar or how diverse is the Benelux market? How will the evolution of payment innovations be influenced by IoT and Artificial Intelligence?
Discover the program here

CONSENSUS 2019
2019-05-13 - 2019-05-15
Description
Why Attenting Consensus 2019?
EXCEPTIONAL NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
Consensus is the one global conference and expo that brings entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, traders, developers, academics, students and the curious together under one roof to explore, collaborate and debate the future of blockchain and crypto.
THOUGHT PROVOKING INSIGHTS
Featuring the most sought after industry leaders, innovators and analysts, our speaker lineup tapped enterprise blockchain, crypto startups, policymakers and cross-industry pioneers. Experience it for yourself and review the various topics that supported our extensive agenda.
BUSINESS EXPANSION
Regardless of your line of business, Consensus hosts a wide variety of industry leaders who are shaping the future and advancing the reach of blockchain and crypto. Explore the various ways to get involved and increase your exposure exponentially.
What’s on the Consensus agenda in 2019?
The Consensus agenda is programmed across three major categories in 2019: Business, Markets and Technology. These reflect the major categories of coverage on CoinDesk, and will present a holistic view of the industry, ranging from developments in the enterprise to the latest on public chains.
Discover the FULL AGENDA here
Disocver the FULL Agenda of the BLOCKCHAIN WEEK here
Do not hesitate to use the voucher j4n8s7b1 to get a small discount!
Speakers – Consensus 2019

49th St. Gallen Symposium - Capital for Purpose
2019-05-08 - 2019-05-10
Description
49th St. Gallen Symposium “Capital for Purpose”
The St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s leading initiative for intergenerational debates on economic, political, and social developments. The symposium takes place annually in May at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
We bring together key decision makers, thought leaders, and brilliant young minds to address current challenges and opportunities on transforming ideas in to action. We have fostered healthy debates and created an outstanding community for exchange since 1969 to provide fresh insights into important topics of our time.
Program is available hereafter > https://www.symposium.org/programme
Join the St. Gallen Symposium as a company.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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
