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True Global Ventures 

Disruption in Financial Services

Berlin 12 - 14 December 2017
Disruption in Financial Services, Berlin 12 - 14 December 2017
True Global Ventures has held 20 highly praised Disruption in Financial Services events in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai, Stockholm, London and Paris. We are stringing together FinTech trends and what Financial Institutions in the future might look like. We showcase growth stage FinTech startups, identify future Blockchain, Initial Coin Offering (ICO) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) trends and help bring the industry together.
 
We do not allow this to become a PR & Marketing event, media and journalists are not allowed and Chatham rules apply. We are aggressively challenging the ongoing hype around ICOs. We dig into real user cases of Blockchain and AI applications to solve real problems and define what should go into production.

Look forward to an engaging discussion with top industry leaders (corporates, investors, entrepreneurs) in FinTech!

This event will be held at Microsoft Berlin, Unter den Linden 17, 10117 Berlin, Germany on 14 December 2017
 
Agenda for 14th

12:00 – 12:30 Networking and Registration
 
12:30 – 12:45 Opening Address
  • Dušan Stojanović, Director and Founder of True Global Ventures with 9/18 exits and 3 exits in a week in 2012 awarding him “Business Angel of the Year” in 2013 
 
12.45 – 13:30 How Traditional Venture Capital is being Disrupted by ICOs!
  • Christian Nagel, Managing Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital
  • Lasse Clausen, Partner at 1kx
  • Yale ReiSoleil, Chairman & CEO of McAfee Crowdchain
  • Sven Laepple, Founder of ASTRATUM
Moderated by Jonathan Cooper, TGV partner and Former Investment Director at SEAF Qatar

13:30 – 14:00 Networking and Refreshments
 
14:00 – 14:50 The role of Artificial Intelligence in FinTech Partnerships between Startups and Corporates
  • Carsten Thoma, President at SAP Hybris
  • Christoph Auer-Welsbach, Partner at IBM Ventures
  • Tom McNerney, Director at Semantics, Founder of Markit
  • Christian Jorg, CEO of Opentopic
  • Jon Koplin, Managing Director at Cisco Investments and Corporate Development 

14:50 – 15:10 Fireside Chat with Peter Reuschel, Co-founder & COO of Leondrino Exchange
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Moderated by Petter Sehlin, TGV Partner

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15:10 – 15:35 Fireside Chat with Christian Schröder, Director of Global Founders Capital

​Moderated by Dušan Stojanovic

15:35 – 16:00 Fireside Chat with Nick Cowan, Managing Director and Founder of Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange and Caspar Schroth, Partner at Schwenke & Schütz
 
Moderated by Dušan Stojanovic

16:00 – 16:30 Networking and Refreshments
 
16:30 – 17:15 Investing in ICOs: A gamble, an investment or a utility?
  • Alexander Lange, Formerly Earlybird VC, Done 25 crypto investments, 8 ICOs
  • Neeraj Murarka, CTO of Bluzelle
  • Petter Sehlin, TGV Partner, Personally invested in 30 ICOs
  • Dirk Weyel, CEO of Stryking

Moderated by Dušan Stojanovic

17:15 – 18:00 The Past, the Present and the Future of Primary and Secondary Markets
  • Greg Brogger, CEO of Sharespost
  • Zoe Adamovicz, CEO & Co-founder of Neufund
  • Stefan Tirtey, Managing Director of CommerzVentures
  • Philipp Moehring, Head of Europe at AngelList, recently launched CoinList
Moderated by Dušan Stojanovic

18:00 - 18:05 Surprise Speaker 
 
18.30 – 20.00 VIP Dinner (By-invite only)


Agenda for 12th

This event will be held at Space Shack, Akazienstraße 3A, 10823 Berlin, Germany on 12 December 2017

18:30 - 19:00 Registration, Networking and Refreshments

19:00 - 19:10 Opening Address by Dušan Stojanović, Director and Founder of True Global Ventures with 9/18 exits and 3 exits in a week in 2012 awarding him “Business Angel of the Year” in 2013

19:10 – 19:55 Opensource projects - Bountysource, JP Thor, CEO & Co-founder of CanYa & Liz Steininger, CEO & Co-founder of Least Authority

Bountysource is a platform for anyone to post bounties on issues for open-source projects, and for developers to solve and earn money. Bountysource has a community of 46,000 open-source developers (growing by 1000 every 6 weeks) ready to solve issues and claim bounties on open-source projects. Customers include IBM, Facebook, Ripple and Google. Bounties can be paid in fiat, Bitcoin, Ripple, Mastercoin with plans to support Bitcoin Cash and Ether soon. 

CanYa is a decentralised autonomous organisation powered by blockchain technology that allows people to find, book and pay for digital and home services with cryptocurrencies. CanYa is targeting the freelancer industry and allows Digital nomads the freedom to work whenever they want, how they want with no centralised third party. 

Least Authority believes that people have a right to privacy and has a mission to make secure technology easy and accessible to everyone. Least Authority builds technical solutions that incorporate these values and helps others technologies to be more secure. They offer the Simple Secure Storage Service (S4), a secure cloud storage product for individuals based on the cryptographically-protected, decentralized file store, Tahoe-LAFS. The Least Authority team also consults about privacy by design in open source projects, including security audits of code. The company was formed in 2011 to create freedom-compatible technologies, spun-off Zcash as a sibling company and moved to Berlin in 2016.


19:55 - 20:10 Networking and Refreshments

20:10 - 20:40 A Decentralised Database for dApps by Neeraj, CTO of Bluzelle

Bluzelle provides an on-demand, decentralized database network that gives applications better performance, greater reliability and massive scalability. To ensure developers get the highest throughout in performance, reliability and scalability, Bluzelle implements swarming technologies. A swarm is a large group of nodes (computers) that work together to store and manage data. Nodes in these swarms can go down and new nodes can come up with minimal impact on the network. Overall Bluzelle is a meta-swarm comprised of multiple swarms. Bluzelle has worked with AIA, Maybank, Temenos, BT, KPMG and more.

20:40 - 20:55 Networking and Refreshments

20:55 - 21:40 Next Generation of Prediction Market Applications by Dr. Friederike Ernst, COO of Gnosis

Gnosis is a decentralized prediction market built on the Ethereum protocol. Gnosis provides an open platform for anyone to predict the outcome of any event and plans to drastically simplify the creation of customized prediction market applications. GNO is an Ethereum-based token that is used to incentivize long-term participation in the Gnosis platform.

Friederike is a physicist by training and after obtaining her PhD from the Free University of Berlin worked at Columbia University and Stanford/ SLAC before becoming a guest professor at the University of Hamburg. Friederike has been interested in cryptotechnology for many years and has switched gears from basic science: She now structures, organizes and directs company operations.

21:40 – 22:00 Networking

Agenda for 13th

This event will be held at SAP Dataspace, Rosenthaler Straße 38, 10178 Berlin, Germany on 13 December 2017

18:30 - 19:00 Networking and Registration

19:00 - 19:15 Opening address by Dušan Stojanović, Director and Founder of True Global Ventures with 9/18 exits and 3 exits in a week in 2012 awarding him “Business Angel of the Year” in 2013 and Christoph Gerlinger, CEO of German Startups Group

True Global Ventures is an unique, international, early-stage vehicle formed by the world's leading technology entrepreneurs-turned-angel-investors. True Global Ventures leverages the personal networks and expertise of its partners to support its portfolio companies in 9 cities and three continents.

German Startups Group is an investment company based in Berlin that focuses on young, fast-growing companies. The company acquires majority and minority shareholdings mainly by providing venture capital.

19:15 - 20:00 Future of Fantasy Football by Dirk Weyel, Founder & CEO of Stryking

Stryking integrates e-commerce, advertising and sponsoring functionalities in free-to-play fantasy sports.  Currently, Stryking develops and operates the innovative platform "Football-Stars", a thrilling and diversified gaming experience on web and mobile to soccer fans in Europe with official license of the German Budesliga. 

Dirk Weyel is a serial entrepreneur and started his career in the music industry before switching to the gaming and digital entertainment sector. Dirk co-founded Frogster Interactive, a Berlin-based games company which has been growing into a leading publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games in Europe, being publicly listed at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

20:00 – 20:45 Smart Contract Security by Rafael Razim and Christian Rühringer

Rafael has 20 years of experience in gaming markets like poker networks, skill games, bingo, lotteries and instant win games as CTO, security officer and risk management. Large experience with gaming regulators such as MGA (Malta) and UKGS (UK). He is the founder of skill gaming platform (Gimigames), founder of retargeting platform used for email marketing (Remintrex) and designed and co-created Poker4ever technical platform (betconstruct poker software is based on this network). Former companies worked with: Poker4ever - Austria / Malta based poker network. Gimigames - Berlin based skill gaming platform sold to a german investor. Gluckgames  - Berlin / Gibraltar based lotto / instant win software development company
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20:45 – 21:30 Networking
 
Venue Sponsors:
13th November:
SAP.iO 
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The SAP.iO fund invests in early stage startups that can leverage SAP APIs, data sets, business content and/or platform technologies. The SAP.iO Foundry is a global network of accelerators providing deep, programmatic mentorships to startups with locations in Berlin, San Francisco, New York and Tel Aviv.

14th November:
Microsoft Berlin

Co-Organizers:

Schwenke & Schütz is an internationally renowned law firm that has grown homogenously with offices in Berlin and Palma de Mallorca. We provide our clients with competent advice on all aspects of economic and administrative law. Our ambition is to provide a maximum of competence, flexibility and service that supports our clients, most of whom are SMEs, in achieving success in their individual markets. The notary’s office guarantees that a full range of services is available to our clients.
Thanks to the international outlook of our firm, we have many years of experience in advising foreign investors and enterprises in Germany.


Sharespost is a Pre-IPO online marketplace for late stage VC-backed private companies. The company uses innovative technology to efficiently connect individual accredited investors, family offices and institutional money managers with high quality private investment opportunities. Triple Digit Profitable Growth. Launched Sharespost 100 in March 2014. 
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Bluzelle offers a complete and fully integrated stack of blockchain applications, middleware and data services. Bluzelle’s business applications unleash the power of the blockchain covering payment networks, smart insurance and KYC-Identity. Bluzelle Quantum is a middleware that hides all the blockchain plumbing making it easier for our customers to run their applications. Bluzelle’s customers include Maybank, AIA, MSIG, Desjardins, MatchMove and others.

Stryking Entertainment specialises in sports fan engagement and monetisation by combing the real and virtual world to create genuine interaction opportunities for fans, stars and brands. Stryking integrates e-commerce, advertising and sponsoring functionalities in free-to-play fantasy sports.  Currently, Stryking develops and operates the innovative platform "Football-Stars", a thrilling and diversified gaming experience on web and mobile to soccer fans in Europe with official license of the German Budesliga. 
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Opentopic Sia is a powerful cognitive engine by Opentopic that leverages the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of IBM Watson and our own Opentopic Technologia Lab, enabling collaboration environments and professionals to better understand the deluge of public and private data coming at us every second of our professional life. Simply install Sia into your collaboration or messaging platform and let her join your sales, marketing, product, innovation or communication teams. When they are trying to understand a complex set of data to deliver a better result, Sia will simply chime in with insights, ideas and recommendations. Sia allows you to analyze any kind of public or private source of unstructured data to unearth meaningful insights hidden within. It is these hidden insights, brought down to a human, behavioral, emotional (aka cognitive) understanding that empower you to personalize at a level and scale previously thought impossible. Our machine learning technology adapts and gets smarter continuously to deliver ever improving results.
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  • About
  • Portfolio
  • Team
  • TGV Global Competitions
    • AI Investor Judges
    • TGV Global Competition 2024
    • TGV Global Blockchain Sustainability Competition 2024
    • TGV Global Competition 2018
  • Our Events
    • Past Events >
      • TGV 70th Global Conference
    • Upcoming Events
  • Media & Press
    • Media Coverage
    • TGV Press Releases >
      • TGV invests in BUSUP
      • TGV Invests in BookitNGo
      • TGV Invests in Silicon Valley-based COVU
      • TGV Invests in Prezent.AI
      • Validation Cloud Secures $10M Lead to Scale AI for Web3 from True Global Ventures
      • Obligo Raises $35M to Expand Its Security Deposit Solutions Across Millions of U.S. Homes
      • Tookitaki, AI Compliance Solution Drives Expansion Across Key Asian Markets with Funding from True Global Ventures
      • TGV invests in Printler
      • True Global Ventures Opportunity Fund Invests in Jus Mundi
      • Bookit N Go, a Travel Technology Company, Announces the Successful Closure
      • Animoca Brands update on financial position
      • Animoca Brands Joins Chromia as a Network Provider
      • Appointment of Beatrice Lion as CEO
      • Insights on megatrends
      • AYA Platform of Enjinstarter Granted Virtual Asset Service Provider Licence by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
      • TGV 4 Plus Rebrands to Opportunity Fund
      • TGV Invests Over 24 M USD in Ledger
      • TGV's 5 Web3 megatrends for 2023
      • TGV4+ portfolio Pinktada oversubscribed on 1.3M USD
      • TGV4+ portfolio company Pinktada raises another round
      • Quantumrock partners with Bambu - enhancing B2B roboadvisory solutions with AI
      • TGV4+ invests total US$38m in Animoca Brands
      • TGV4+ FOF first investment following on in Animoca Brands
      • TGV4+ closes new US$146m Follow on Fund
      • TGV4+ continues to invests in Coinhouse
      • TGV Invest in First Asian Female Entrepreneur 26 May 2022
      • TGV's Forge goes public on NYSE!
      • TGV4+ invests in Iomob
      • TGV4+ Supports Unchain Ukraine
      • TGV4+ Backs First Female Founder
      • TGV4+ invests in EnjinStarter
      • TGV4+ invests in Coinhouse
      • TGV4+ invests in Chromaway
      • TGV4+ invests in GCEX
      • TGV4+ continues rapid global expansion
      • TGV4+ invests in Pinktada
      • TGV4+ invests in PictureThis
      • TGV4+ invests in Forza Ikonia
      • TGV4+ follows on investment in The Sandbox Series B with US$10m
      • TGV4+ exercises CAD$2.3M warrants in CCU
      • Animoca raises $65M at $2.2B valuation
      • TGV4+ Five New Founding Partners
      • TGV4+ 100 million closing
      • Canada Computational Unlimited, 22 June 2021
      • Animoca Brands May 13, 2021
      • Forge Global May 07, 2021
  • Contact