LHoFT

Sibos 2019 London
2019-09-23 - 2019-09-26
Description
Sibos 2019 will take place at ExCeL London between 23 & 26 September.
For the first time Sibos will be hosted in London, a global financial superpower renowned for its affinity for finance, technology and innovation, and home to many leading figures in the financial services industry.
This year’s conference theme – thriving in a hyper-connected world – recognises the challenges, and opportunities that mass digitisation and data-driven relationships present for the Sibos community.
Sibos 2019 will explore the impact of new technologies on infrastructures, value propositions and business models and identify the culture, skills and working practices that organisations need to maximise the potential of both human and machine capabilities.
Five sub-themes will examine how this critical human and machine collaboration can capitalise on data as the lifeblood of the modern financial services ecosystem:

Enhancing digital ecosystems
Leveraging data
Keeping ahead of cybersecurity threats
Adapting to geopolitical and regulatory priorities
Exploring the human element

Sibos 2019 ‘just the ticket’ for fintechs
Are you an ambitious fintech professional interested in attending Sibos 2019 to connect with major financial services industry players?
Check out the criteria and visit the registration section of Sibos.com and enter FINTEC19 in the ‘Accreditation’ field.

Fintech Friday - Kickstart, sponsored by Stokr & Apollonian
2019-09-20 17:30 - 23:30 UTC
Description
Dear Innovators, Partners and Friends,
To celebrate an exciting new season, we are thrilled to invite you to our special FINTECH FRIDAY – KICKSTART edition, sponsored by Stokr & Apollonian.
With Fintech Friday Kickstart, the LHoFT launches a series of lunch seminars and workshops, dedicated to raising capital in Luxembourg as a lead up to the Global Ventures Summit in November.
We also welcome you to discover our exclusively hosted photography exhibition by Marat Mukhonkin, an award winning photographer from Moscow.
Agenda:

5h30 – Open door
6h30 – Presentation of STOKR – “Invest in programmable securities – STOKR Demo”
6h40 – Presentation of Apollonian – “Guiding companies on their journey from startups to unicorns” & Partnership Announcement – “Crowdfunding meets Venture Capital”
6h50 – Networking (as usual drinks and food will be served)

PS: Don’t forget to take a memorable picture in our Photo Booth corner.

The LHoFT Fintech Friday
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!
This is a private event, for registration please contact us at info@lhoft.lu

How to manage efficiently your product team
2019-09-20 16:00 - 17:00
Description
It’s not enough to hire skilled people, you need to create the environment and lead your team to high performance.
Agile values, principles and practices provide a great framework to achieve that goal.
3 main takeaways
In this workshop provided to you by Agile Partner you will learn:

The basics to setup an agile team;
Tips to work with team members distributed across various locations;
How to manage your team work for maximizing the value creation for your startup.

Speakers Biographies
1. Mathieu Dietrich
Between 2010 and 2016, Mathieu was both IT Project Manager and Technical Architect. During this period, he contributed to a DevOps initiative, aimed at streamlining and improving cooperation between development and production teams. It is also at this time that he fell into the pot of agility, and gradually switched to a role of facilitator and Scrum Master to help the first agile teams freshly created. This role has evolved rapidly to become Agile Coach, with teams working in Scrum or Kanban. Coaching, graphic facilitation, team bootstrap or agile scaling – “Agile @ Scale” – are now his favorite playgrounds.
2. Eric Ferrot
Eric is a senior consultant specialized in Agile Methodologies. He started his career as a software developer in 1999 and moved to agile coaching after working for seven years in an agile team that began with Scrum and then switched to Kanban. He is now an Agile Coach since four years. As a result, Eric is kind of an agile Swiss Knife with facilitation skills as well as software engineering skills, including continuous integration and various testing techniques. He is both fluent in French (mother tongue) and English (10+ years as working language).
Company Description
Agile Partner, the agile software development company. We develop your software and we develop your agility.
Since 2004, Agile Partner has been helping its customers to exploit the innovative potential of software technologies and the human potential of their teams. Thanks to agile principles and practices we can help you be a more efficient and more resilient venture.

25th Anniversary of ATEL (Luxembourg Association of Corporate Treasurers)
2019-09-19 16:30 - 23:30
Description
Programme:
4:30pm: Welcome of participants​
4:50pm: Introduction by François Masquelier, ATEL Chairman
5.00pm: 1st round of workshops

Value creation with payments – BearingPoint
Treasury & VAT – EY
Capital Calls – ING
Innovations in the Payments Ecosystem – BNP Paribas

6.00pm: 2nd round of workshops

Value creation with payments – BearingPoint
Treasury & VAT – EY
Capital Calls – ING
Innovations in the Payments Ecosystem – BNP Paribas

7.00pm: Plenary conference

Fintech – Intensum
EIB
Refinitiv

7:45pm: Networking cocktail
8:30pm: Seated dinner

Startup Stories Round 3
2019-09-17 18:30 - 23:30
Description
La série « Start-up Stories » rythmera l’année par 5 événements, chacun parrainé par une personnalité ou un expert de la création d’entreprise.
Pour ce troisième “round”, après une keynote d’ouverture de 20 minutes, 10 entrepreneurs sélectionnés par la LHoFT pitcheront en 3 minutes chacun l’histoire de leur start-up et l’origine de leur idée.
A l’issue de la soirée, les 2 meilleurs pitches seront sélectionnés pour participer au “Start-up Stories Awards”, la grande soirée de remise des prix qui se déroulera le 17 décembre à la Maison du Savoir à Esch-Belval.
Programme

18:30: Accueil
19:00: Keynote Speech by Denise Voss, Chairman of LuxFlag and Conducting Officer at Franklin Templeton Investments.
19:20: 10 PITCHES 3 minutes de pitch par entrepreneur + 1 minute de commentaires du jury
20:30: Networking & Appetizers

STARTUP STORIES – Special Feature

BENOÎT MOULIN – DOMOS FS — “It is essential to learn from your mistakes”
DAVID KIENER – FUNDSQ — “We need to remain agile and lean”
BARBARA TERRA – HACKNOWLEDGE — “Start-up are vulnerable”
GUILLAUME VIEIRA – SMART OVERSIGHT — “Motivation and resilience are key qualities”
VLAD CENTEA – MORFIN — “In the start-up world, we call our mistakes ‘pivoting’”
OLIVIER DEBEUGNY – LINGUA CUSTODIA — “Entrepreneurship requires tenacity and resilience”
GUILLAUME DE VERGNIES – STAMPIFY — “Never give away your values and stay focused”
MATTEO CERNUSCHI – ANOTE MUSIC — “You need to continuously adapt to changes”

Global INSEAD Day - The Human Side of Digitalization
2019-09-17 18:00 - 23:30
Description
Why do most digital transformation initiatives fail – and how can you make yours succeed?
The INSEAD Alumni association surveyed business leaders currently managing digitization programs and one common theme emerged: digital transformation is not about the technology.
Join us for an interactive discussion and networking evening with experts and business leaders who will share insights on the unspoken part of the journey: taking hard strategic decisions, preparing the workforce for a new way of working, establishing new internal and external processes, and creating an organization that is ready for the future.
Speakers include:

Dr. Theos Evgeniou, Professor of Decision Sciences and Technology Management, INSEAD
Mrs Françoise Thoma, Chief Executive Officer of BCEE
Mr Marc Hansen, Luxembourg Minister for Digitisation
Mrs Gwendoline Michaelis, Executive Director at Prisma Media

About INSEAD and Global INSEAD Day
INSEAD is a leading graduate business school with a mission to develop responsible leaders who transform business and society. Every year, the INSEAD Alumni Association in Luxembourg brings together business leaders, government representatives, and academics to share their views, experiences, and strategies on how business can prosper and produce positive societal outcomes.

Open Banking Hackathon
2019-09-14 - 2019-09-15
Description
September 14th 2019 is an historic day for the Open Banking trend in Europe.
To celebrate the beginning of Open Banking in Europe and the PSD2 directive operational start-date (14 September 2019), Finqware will host the first Open Banking dedicated Hackathon in CEE, using financial multibanking data access in sandbox mode.
The participating hackathon teams will have access to Finqware’s single API solution to connect to banking sandboxes for access to account information, payment initiation and financial product distribution.
The challenge will engage teams to ideate and implement products, use cases and applications on top of financial data availability
THE TEAMS

7 to 10 teams of 4 people (on average) to take up the challenge are expected.
The teams can be either ad-hoc teams for the event, early stage startups or teams representing IT Dev companies.
The objective is to maximise the success of the teams in picturing innovative applications and use-cases for Open Banking.

Registration deadline is 1st of September (end of day) >> REGISTER your TEAM
THE CHALLENGE
The teams will be challenges to use the multi banking API testing environment made available by FINQware and partners ( where applicable ) to think of real use-cases implementations in 3 main fields with some proposed but not exclusive subcategories of solutions:
1/ Open Banking for Individuals

Personal finance management applications
Robo-Advisory for increasing financial health
Increase financial inclusiveness
Next level payment solutions

2/ Open Banking for Businesses

Optimising Treasury Management for Corporates
Smart Financial management for SMEs
Cross border FX Hedging for corporates

3/ Open Banking for IoT

Using Wearables to manage financial life
The car and its applications

THE AWARDS
1st place team:

2000 EUR in cash
5000 EUR Google Cloud credit offered by Techcelerator
Shortcut to Techcelerator next batch admission

2nd place team

5000 EUR in Google Cloud credits offered by Techcelerator
Shortcut to Techcelerator next batch admission

3rd place team

5000 EUR in Google Cloud credits offered by Techcelerator
Shortcut to Techcelerator next batch admission

The FinTech Abu Dhabi Tour in Luxembourg
2019-09-12 17:00 - 23:30
Description
The FinTech Abu Dhabi Tour — Connecting Global FinTech Hubs
About the Tour
The FinTech Abu Dhabi Tour connects global finance hubs around the world to bring together emerging and scaling FinTech businesses and connect them to FinTech Abu Dhabi.
Pitching events, meetups, exclusive dinners and workshops will connect emerging FinTech businesses and talent from around the world with the chance to get involved in FinTech Abu Dhabi, through the Innovation Challenge, the FinTech Abu Dhabi Awards and the FinTech 50.
What We’re Looking For

Emerging and Scaling FinTech Businesses looking to scale internationally, with a focus on the Middle East & North Africa.
Businesses developing revolutionary products and services working to address the challenges areas identified by Abu Dhabi Global Market:

RegTech & SupTech
Financial Inclusion
Digital Marketplaces
Blockchain & Crypto
Security & Trust

Why Attend
Apply to Pitch to take part in one of several Pitch Sessions

The winning pitch will attend FinTech Abu Dhabi for free
Receive a stipend towards travel and accommodation.

Hear from Abu Dhabi Global Market and Unbound about FinTech Abu Dhabi.
Connect with regional ecosystem partners and learn how to scale your business internationally.
Find out how you can get involved with the FinTech Abu Dhabi:

Innovation Challenge
FinTech Abu Dhabi Awards
FinTech 50.

APPLY TO PITCH
Agenda

17:30 – 18:00 – Registration
18:00 – 18:15 – Welcome note from LHoFT and kick off
18:15 – 18:45 – Panel discussion: How to scale tech startups in new and emerging markets
18:45 – 19:20 – Pitching session (3min pitch + 2min Q&A)
19:20 – 19:30 – Jury deliberation & Winner announcement
19:30 – 21:00 – Closing remarks and networking

European AI for Finance
2019-09-03 14:00 - 23:30
Description
WHAT’S EUROPEAN AI FOR finance?
Startup Inside is creating the most exclusive Artificial InteIligence initiative focused on the financial industry in Europe.
A unique opportunity to gather the European AI ecosystem with the European Financial ecosystem: hundreds of corporates, startups, Fintechs, research labs and communities.
With this B2B edition Startup Inside aims to spotlight the Top 100 use cases of Artificial Intelligence in the financial industry.

Discover the Full AGENDA
Meet the speakers of the European AI For Finance
Join us on the LHoFT Stand and get the chance to meet some of our Fintech

2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference
2019-08-29 - 2019-08-31
Description
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) is a world-influential AI event co-sponsored by the State Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Network Information Office, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.
The Deepblue Cup A.I. competition will be part of the 2019 WAIC and will collect + screen over 1,000 AI companies from 16 countries and regions, where selected companies will be invited to the Shanghai roadshow where the main conference is hosted.
​DeepBlue Cup A.I. Competition aims to build a broader business application acceleration platform for start-ups in the field of AI. Through this competition, high-quality projects with commercial application potential in various sub-industries can be excavated worldwide, providing business landing fields and capital matching platform for AI projects at domestic and abroad.

FinTech Hackathon - Bucharest
2019-07-27 - 2019-07-28
Description
This FinTech Hackathon brings together FinTech developers and designers to develop financial products and discover new technologies. Example applications include innovations in risk management, trading, investing, personal finance, big data, retail banking, regulatory compliance, mobile payments and enterprise social.
Attendees will spend 24 hours coding, validating their ideas, networking and then demoing their hacks to a panel of VCs, executives and entrepreneurs. This hackathon is highly focused on the engineering component of your solution. Your ability to architect, design, and build your technology stack has significantly more weight than your ability to create a powerpoint pitch!
Join the competition NOW and check out the prizes
Discover the mentors
Agenda
Day 1 (Saturday 27th of July)

08:30 – 09:30 Coffee + Breakfast + Registration
09:30 – 10:15 FinTech Hackathon “1st Edition” Introduction
10:15 – 10:45 Mentors and Jury Introduction
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11.15 – 12:00 Presenting the Contest “Challenges”
12:00 – 14:00 Mandatory strategy meetings in the “war rooms”
14:00 – START HACKING!
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
14:30 – 20:00 Continue Hacking!
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner & Networking
21:00 – 8:00 Hacking all night!

Day 2 (Sunday 28th of July )

08:30 – 09:30 Coffee & Breakfast
09:00 – 09:30 Progress Review Sessions
09:30 – 14:00 Continue Hacking!
14:00 – STOP HACKING!
14:00 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 15:15 Preparation for the presentations
15:15 – 17:30 Team Pitches
17:30 – 18:30 Jury huddle to pick the top winners
18:30 – 19:00 Awards Ceremony + “Public Vote Winner” and “Golden Buzzer Winner”
19:00 – Closing Presentation + Networking + Dinner

Fintech Friday – Accelerate Your Summer sponsored by NadiFin Program
2019-07-12 17:30 - 23:30
Description
Our next, and last Fintech Friday of the season before the summer break, is just around the corner.
We are looking forward to gather the Fintech Community and celebrate the winning Fintech of the NadiFin Acceleration program.
The NadiFin Acceleration program powered by MiddleGame Ventures and Farvest in partnership with the LHoFT brought together 10 Fintech startups from around the globe over two in person sessions in Dublin and Luxembourg, competing in a trademarked peer-voting startup accelerator curriculum (powered by Village Capital) leading to a €100,000 investment from MiddleGame Ventures.
As special guest, we welcome Mr. Paul CHAN, Hong Kong Financial Secretary (Minister of Finance).
Agenda:

5.30pm – Open door
6.00 pm – Introduction of Mr. Paul CHAN, Hong Kong Financial Secretary (Minister of Finance)
6.30pm – Welcome Note by Nasir Zubairi and Presentation of the NadiFin Program
6.45pm – Announcement of the winning Fintech of the NadiFin program and the grant of €100,000 investment from MiddleGame Ventures
7.00pm – 9.00pm – Networking (as usual drinks and food will be served)

​ If you want to know more about The NadiFin Acceleration program, check out the website: https://www.nadifin.com
We would like to thank the partners of the 2019 NadiFin Fintech accelerator programme including Pictet, Fuchs, Telindus, Arendt, Enterprise Ireland, the Banking and Payments Federation of Ireland, Grant Thornton, WeWork Labs, Amazon Web Services and Stripe.
Fintech Friday is Luxembourg’s fastest growing (and coolest) Fintech networking event, bringing together Fintech entrepreneurs, executives, VCs, Fintech enthusiasts, and business angels.
This is a private event, for registration please contact us at info@lhoft.lu

Many companies start up, but too few scale up!
2019-07-12 16:00 - 17:00
Description
Many companies start up, but too few scale up!
How to scale up your company and take it to the next level

Introduction/takeaways:
Start up, then scale up or stall out (fail to scale)!
This sequence describes the life cycle of most businesses.
Your takeaways from this conference:

Identify the key challenges of the growth journey
Learn about a structured way to systemize your scaling efforts
Get an insight into the tools to master the journey – without drama

Presenter:
Dr. Jean-Marc Fandel is an experienced operational manager, trainer and performance coach. JM runs his own training and advisory firm in partnership with “ScaleUp.team” a European-wide consulting consortium, leveraging over 20 years of experience in various growth industries advising clients on business issues and opportunities associated with growth. In the recent past, JM has contributed to scaling up MASH, a fast growing Fintech50 company, and has developed CETREL and SIX Payment Services, as CEO and Managing Director by growing the business exponentially. JM is also a board member in various companies and a mentor to entrepreneurs. He holds a PhD and MSc from the Ecole des HEC, University of Lausanne and is an AMP alumni of the Harvard Business School. jmf@scaleup.de

4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
2019-07-12 - 2019-07-13
Description
Luxembourg will be hosting the 4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on 12th & 13th July 2019.
It will be the first Annual Meeting to take place outside of Asia. At the Annual Meeting, the Asian Infrastructure Forum is the business-dedicated part focused on creating connections and business development opportunities for participants.
At the 2019 Annual Meeting, private sector businesses, including start-ups, will have the unique opportunity to meet counterparts from Asia and beyond, to develop business partnerships and to showcase their products and services at the Exhibition.
Industries and focus areas

Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity
Urban Development and Mobility
Clean and Renewable Energy
Sustainable Finance and Development
IT and Fintech
PPP and Resource Mobilization
Railways, Airports, Roads and Highways
Water and Sanitation
Logistics and Multimodal Transport
Satellite and Space Resources

Why exhibit ?
During the Annual Meeting, a Host Country Exhibition will be organized to offer Luxembourg’s private sector an opportunity to actively take part in the Annual Meeting and to showcase their innovative services and business solutions. The Exhibition will take place in the Foyer of the European Convention Center Luxembourg on 12th and 13th July 2019.
The objective of the exhibition is to promote the economic and financial sector and offer companies operating in Luxembourg the opportunity to share their know-how in the field of consulting, infrastructure, project development, logistics, financing and delivery.
How to exhibit ?
Businesses operating in Luxembourg have the possibility to reserve an exhibition stand at the AIIB Annual Meeting.
Exhibitors can request a personalized stand for a preferential package rate of EUR 1500.
The stand package comprises a 3m x 2m x 2.5m booth, personalized print for the booth walls, 40” LCD screen, high table, two bar stools, document holder, carpet, light, electric socket and WIFI.
Exhibition space is limited and stands are allocated on a first-come first-served basis. Companies interested in taking part in the Exhibition can express their interest by contacting the Chamber of Commerce
>> Contact persons: Violaine Mathurin, Kinkai XU – E-mail: china(at)cc.lu
For more information, check hereafter

A Guide Through the Common Features of Digital Asset Generating Events.
2019-07-11 17:00 - 19:00
Description
The LHoFT Foundation, Allen & Overy, Elvinger Hoss Prussen, Fieldfisher, Clifford Chance, Loyens & Loeff, Lëtzblock and Melvin Tjon Akon are pleased to invite you to a conference presenting their new joined White Paper going through the common features of Digital Assets Generating Events (DAGEs).
After a first White Paper, produced by the LHoFT in collaboration with Stellar in September 2017, aiming to explain the functioning of DAGEs, this new working paper aims at providing an analysis of the existing regulatory and legal framework and its application to the fundraising mechanism called Digital Assets Offering or Digital Asset Generating Events (“DAGE”), as well as discussing certain options to address these offerings within the Luxembourg regulatory framework in the future.
Please find here below the agenda of the event:
17.00 > 17.30: Registration
17.30 > 17.45: Welcome note – Why Luxembourg should look into DAGEs: benefits & economic impact

Patrick Mischo, Senior Partner, Allen & Overy Luxembourg
Paul Péporté, Partner, Allen & Overy Luxembourg
Emilie Allaert, Head of Operations & Projects, LHoFT Foundation

17.45 > 18.30: Ask the experts – White Paper presentation: A Guide Through the Common Features of Digital Asset Generating Events. The after-dark: how current regulations apply, and how to characterize digital assets.

Paul Péporté, Partner & Philippe Noeltner, Associate, Allen & Overy Luxembourg
Steve Jacoby, Managing Partner, Clifford Chance Luxembourg
Ingrid Duboudieu, Asset Management, Finance, Funds and Regulatory, Country Managing, Fieldfisher
Gary Cywie, Partner, Elvinger Hoss Prussen
Monique Bachner, Attorney at Law, Director LëtzBlock
Alvaro Garrido Mesa, Senior Associate, Loyens & Loeff
Melvin Tjon Akon, Attorney at Law, Independant Contributor
Moderator: Emilie Allaert, Head of Operations & Projects, LHoFT Foundation

18.30 > 19.00: Ask the Doers – Roundtable: How do you manage to navigate the current framework?

Christian Dohmen, Luxembourg Stock Exchange Luxembourg
Philippe Van Hecke, COO, Tokeny
Alexander Tkachenko, CEO, VNX Exchange
Moderator: Emilie Allaert, Head of Operations & Projects, LHoFT Foundation

19.00 > 21.00: Cocktail
This is a private event and we have a limited capacity. For any queries, please send an email to marketing@lhoft.lu
