49th True Global Ventures Conference: “Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century” 28-29 July 2020
True Global Ventures has held 48 highly praised Disruption in Financial Services events in San Francisco, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Mumbai, Tokyo, Seoul, Zurich, Stockholm, London, Paris and Berlin, Warsaw, Riyadh. We are stringing together Blockchain trends and what Financial Institutions in the future might look like while bringing the industry together.
We do not allow any of our events to become PR & Marketing event, as media and journalists are not allowed, and Chatham rules apply. We are aggressively challenging the ongoing hype around Blockchain. We dig into real user cases of Blockchain applications to solve real problems and define what should go into production or Blockchain technology.
These Rules Apply:
49th True Global Ventures Conference: “Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century” 28-29 July 2020
Time:
· 08:00 - 12:30 HongKong/Taipei/Shanghai/Singapore time (29 July morning) (Day 2)
· 20:00 - 00:30 Eastern time (28 July 2020 night)
· 17:00 - 21:30 Pacific time (28 July 2020 night)
Agenda (in HongKong/Taipei/Shanghai/Singapore time)
08:00 – 08:20am: Private Markets as the Future Exit Path for Venture Capitalists?
Keynote Speaker: Kelly Rodrigues, Chief Executive Officer at Forge (San Francisco)
08:20 – 09:05am: The Evolution of Private Markets in Asia and U.S.
· Kelly Rodriques, Chief Executive Officer at Forge (San Francisco)
· Jennifer Phillips, President of Sharespost Financial Corporation (San Francisco)
· Johnson Chen, Founder and CEO of Capbridge (Singapore)
· Gavin Solomon, Executive Chairman of PrimaryMarkets (Sydney)
· Moderated by: Rich Brenner, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Julian Marland, Partner at True Global Ventures
09:05 – 09:50: Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century
· Steve Bertamini, Advisor to the Board at Al Rajhi Bank (Texas)
· Alex Twigg, Founder & CEO of Shift Happens Group (Sydney)
· Sanjay Vatsa, Founder and Principal, ItoR Advisors (New York)
· Matthieu Ruatti, Executive Director of Cedar Mundi (Kuwait)
· Jeffrey Nah, CEO of JN Capital & Growth Advisory (Singapore)
· Moderated by: Kelly Choo, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Bowie Lau, Partner at True Global Ventures
09:50 – 10:00 : The Crossroads between Finance and Gaming: Digital Assets & Digital Collectibles
Keynote Speaker: Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands (Hong Kong)
10:00 – 10.30: True Ownership in Gaming – The Next Thing in Secondary Markets?
· Eric Munson, CIO & Founder of Adit Ventures LLC (New York)
· Michael Felman, President and CEO Of MSF Capital Advisors LLC (New York)
· Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands (Hong Kong)
· Moderated by: Kelly Choo, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Dusan Stojanovic, Partner at True Global Ventures
10:30 – 10:50: Digital Identity – Is now the right time?
Keynote Speaker: Greg Kidd, Early Investor in Twitter, Square, Ripple, Coinbase, Marqeta, Founding Partner of Hard Yaka, Co-founder and CEO of GlobaliD and Partner in TGV (San Francisco)
10:50 – 11:35: Digital Money: The Evolution of Payments Business Models
· Greg Kidd, Early Investor in Twitter, Square, Ripple, Coinbase, Marqeta, Founding Partner of Hard Yaka, Co-founder & CEO of GlobaliD and Partner in TGV (San Francisco)
· Morgan McKenney, Chief Operating Officer, Global Consumer Banking at Citibank (New York)
· John Lunn, Former Partner PayPal Ventures (San Francisco)
· Lance Homer, Global Head of Digital Payments and Banking Ecosystem at Equinix (Utah)
· Moderated by: Dusan Stojanovic, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
· Online Moderator: Florent Mamelle, Partner at True Global Ventures
11:35 – 12:20: Wealth Management in the Age of Machines
· Neal Cross, Co-founder and Chairman of PictureWealth (Australia)
· Eric Wong, Director of Celera Group and TCG (Hong Kong)
· Luke Lim, Managing Director of Phillip Capital (Singapore)
· Stefan Tittel, CEO, Co-founder of Quantumrock (Munich)
· Moderated by: Celine LeCotonnec, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
· Online Moderator: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures
12:20 – 12:30 : Closing Remarks
12:30 – 13:30: Online networking session in Zoom Breakout rooms
Themes for the Breakout Rooms with Speakers (You can only pick one choice):
49th True Global Ventures Conference: “Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century” 28-29 July 2020
Date: 28 July 2020 (Day 1)
Time:
· 20:00 - 22:05 Singapore/Hong Kong/Taipeitime
· 14:00 - 16:05 CEST
· 08:00 - 10:05 Eastern time
Agenda (In Singapore/Hong Kong/Taipei time)
20:00 – 20:20: The Sandbox: Experience Gaming with True Ownership & Proprietary Payment System
· Sebastien Borget, Co-founder & COO of the Sandbox (Paris)
· Moderated by: James Lim (HyungCheol), Partner at True Global Ventures (Seoul)
· Online Moderator: Babu SK, Partner at True Global Ventures (Chennai)
The Sandbox is a User Generated Content gaming platform that disrupts existing game makers like Minecraft & Roblox by providing creators with true ownership of their creations as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Players can build, own, monetize their voxel gaming experiences on the Ethereum Blockchain & rewarded for their participation. The Sandbox recently generated a revenue of 1 Million USD in its virtual real estate pre-sales. They have secured >50 partnerships including ATARI (Rollercoaster Tycoon, Pong), Shaun the Sheep & other award-winning mobile game studios. The team will soon introduce SAND, a blockchain based token, enabling access to the platform & creation of an in-game economy owned & governed by its users (Players, Creators, Investors & LAND Owners).
20:20 – 20:50: Welcoming the New Norm of Engaging Developers in Tech Companies
· Soheil SK, Co-Founder VP Strategy & Business Operations, The Blockchain Group (Paris)
· David Edelsohn, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Source Ecosystem, CTO GCC Technology (New York)
· Moderated by: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures (Paris)
· Online Moderator: Rich Brenner, Partner at True Global Ventures (San Francisco)
Bountysource allows anyone to post bounties for open-source projects that developers can solve and earn money. Bountysource now has a community of 69,000 open-source developers (growing by 10,000/year) and customers include IBM, Facebook, Ripple, Google. Bountysource has been recently acquired by The Blockchain Group, a company listed on Euronext. The Blockchain Group is a global umbrella organization of engineers and entrepreneurs with a mission to create blockchain-powered ecosystems for businesses.
20:50 – 21:20: Payments Innovation - The Digital Winning Solution
· Prabhu Ram, Managing Director and Group CEO of PaySwiff Solutions (Hyderabad)
· Sanjay Chaudhary, Partner of Tata Capital Growth Fund (Mumbai)
· Moderated by: Florent Mamelle, Partner at True Global Ventures (Kuala Lumpur)
· Online Moderator: Steve Melhuish, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
PaySwiff is an omni-channel payment solutions provider in India enabling banks and merchants to offer & accept all forms of payment options. PaySwiff has > 100,000+ merchants and 5+ banks as customers including Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, Axis Bank, UCO Bank. Beyond India, Payswiff solutions are deployed in 10+ countries in APAC, CIS, MENA regions. More recently, Payswiff won VISA EVERYWHERE CHALLENGE out of 418 participants. Their Tap2phone solution (novel way to convert NFC enabled android phone as a card acceptance device) will be presented to all member banks of VISA globally as the winning solution.
21:20 – 22:00: Data Analytics and AI Use Cases such as Decentralised Marketplace for Insights
· Tomasz Roszko, CTO of Opentopic Technologia (Warsaw)
· Bastian Lechner, Founder & CEO of Catana Capital (Frankfurt)
· Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET (Seattle)
· Xavier Latil, CEO of the Blockchain Group (Paris)
· Moderated by: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures (Paris)
· Online Moderator: Carl Johan Grandinson, Partner at True Global Ventures (Stockholm)
Opentopic is a team of software engineers, data scientists, DevOps, QA specialists located in Białystok, Poland who have supported development of numerous AI and data analytics projects. The team has worked with brand names like Slack & IBM integrating ChatBot technology to design conversations between users. They have completed projects in various verticals including insights, content curation, recommendation, analysis, and more recently price prediction & financial sentiments in stocks and digital currencies.
22:00 – 22:05: Closing remarks
True Global Ventures has held 48 highly praised Disruption in Financial Services events in San Francisco, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Mumbai, Tokyo, Seoul, Zurich, Stockholm, London, Paris and Berlin, Warsaw, Riyadh. We are stringing together Blockchain trends and what Financial Institutions in the future might look like while bringing the industry together.
We do not allow any of our events to become PR & Marketing event, as media and journalists are not allowed, and Chatham rules apply. We are aggressively challenging the ongoing hype around Blockchain. We dig into real user cases of Blockchain applications to solve real problems and define what should go into production or Blockchain technology.
These Rules Apply:
- Chatham House Rules
- No media, no press, no journalists
- We do not invite intermediaries as well.
49th True Global Ventures Conference: “Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century” 28-29 July 2020
Time:
· 08:00 - 12:30 HongKong/Taipei/Shanghai/Singapore time (29 July morning) (Day 2)
· 20:00 - 00:30 Eastern time (28 July 2020 night)
· 17:00 - 21:30 Pacific time (28 July 2020 night)
Agenda (in HongKong/Taipei/Shanghai/Singapore time)
08:00 – 08:20am: Private Markets as the Future Exit Path for Venture Capitalists?
Keynote Speaker: Kelly Rodrigues, Chief Executive Officer at Forge (San Francisco)
08:20 – 09:05am: The Evolution of Private Markets in Asia and U.S.
· Kelly Rodriques, Chief Executive Officer at Forge (San Francisco)
· Jennifer Phillips, President of Sharespost Financial Corporation (San Francisco)
· Johnson Chen, Founder and CEO of Capbridge (Singapore)
· Gavin Solomon, Executive Chairman of PrimaryMarkets (Sydney)
· Moderated by: Rich Brenner, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Julian Marland, Partner at True Global Ventures
09:05 – 09:50: Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century
· Steve Bertamini, Advisor to the Board at Al Rajhi Bank (Texas)
· Alex Twigg, Founder & CEO of Shift Happens Group (Sydney)
· Sanjay Vatsa, Founder and Principal, ItoR Advisors (New York)
· Matthieu Ruatti, Executive Director of Cedar Mundi (Kuwait)
· Jeffrey Nah, CEO of JN Capital & Growth Advisory (Singapore)
· Moderated by: Kelly Choo, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Bowie Lau, Partner at True Global Ventures
09:50 – 10:00 : The Crossroads between Finance and Gaming: Digital Assets & Digital Collectibles
Keynote Speaker: Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands (Hong Kong)
10:00 – 10.30: True Ownership in Gaming – The Next Thing in Secondary Markets?
· Eric Munson, CIO & Founder of Adit Ventures LLC (New York)
· Michael Felman, President and CEO Of MSF Capital Advisors LLC (New York)
· Yat Siu, Chairman of Animoca Brands (Hong Kong)
· Moderated by: Kelly Choo, Partner at True Global Ventures
· Online Moderator: Dusan Stojanovic, Partner at True Global Ventures
10:30 – 10:50: Digital Identity – Is now the right time?
Keynote Speaker: Greg Kidd, Early Investor in Twitter, Square, Ripple, Coinbase, Marqeta, Founding Partner of Hard Yaka, Co-founder and CEO of GlobaliD and Partner in TGV (San Francisco)
10:50 – 11:35: Digital Money: The Evolution of Payments Business Models
· Greg Kidd, Early Investor in Twitter, Square, Ripple, Coinbase, Marqeta, Founding Partner of Hard Yaka, Co-founder & CEO of GlobaliD and Partner in TGV (San Francisco)
· Morgan McKenney, Chief Operating Officer, Global Consumer Banking at Citibank (New York)
· John Lunn, Former Partner PayPal Ventures (San Francisco)
· Lance Homer, Global Head of Digital Payments and Banking Ecosystem at Equinix (Utah)
· Moderated by: Dusan Stojanovic, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
· Online Moderator: Florent Mamelle, Partner at True Global Ventures
11:35 – 12:20: Wealth Management in the Age of Machines
· Neal Cross, Co-founder and Chairman of PictureWealth (Australia)
· Eric Wong, Director of Celera Group and TCG (Hong Kong)
· Luke Lim, Managing Director of Phillip Capital (Singapore)
· Stefan Tittel, CEO, Co-founder of Quantumrock (Munich)
· Moderated by: Celine LeCotonnec, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
· Online Moderator: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures
12:20 – 12:30 : Closing Remarks
12:30 – 13:30: Online networking session in Zoom Breakout rooms
Themes for the Breakout Rooms with Speakers (You can only pick one choice):
- The Evolution of Private Markets in Asia and U.S. (Kelly Rodrigues, Jennifer Phillips, Johnson Chen, Gavin Solomon, facilitated by Rich Brenner)
- Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century (Steve Bertamini, Alex Twigg, Sanjay Vatsa, Matthieu Ruatti, Jeffrey Nah, facilitated by Dusan Stojanovic)
- 100 billion dollars in virtual assets, how much bigger will it grow? (Eric Munson, Michael Felman, Yat Siu, facilitated by Kelly Choo)
- Digital Money & The Evolution of Payments Business Models (Greg Kidd, Morgan McKenney, John Lunn, facilitated by Florent Mamelle)
- Wealth Management in the Age of Machines (Neal Cross, Eric Wong, Luke Lim, Stefan Tittel, facilitated by Frank Desvignes)
49th True Global Ventures Conference: “Forced Digitalisation – The Opportunity of the Century” 28-29 July 2020
Date: 28 July 2020 (Day 1)
Time:
· 20:00 - 22:05 Singapore/Hong Kong/Taipeitime
· 14:00 - 16:05 CEST
· 08:00 - 10:05 Eastern time
Agenda (In Singapore/Hong Kong/Taipei time)
20:00 – 20:20: The Sandbox: Experience Gaming with True Ownership & Proprietary Payment System
· Sebastien Borget, Co-founder & COO of the Sandbox (Paris)
· Moderated by: James Lim (HyungCheol), Partner at True Global Ventures (Seoul)
· Online Moderator: Babu SK, Partner at True Global Ventures (Chennai)
The Sandbox is a User Generated Content gaming platform that disrupts existing game makers like Minecraft & Roblox by providing creators with true ownership of their creations as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Players can build, own, monetize their voxel gaming experiences on the Ethereum Blockchain & rewarded for their participation. The Sandbox recently generated a revenue of 1 Million USD in its virtual real estate pre-sales. They have secured >50 partnerships including ATARI (Rollercoaster Tycoon, Pong), Shaun the Sheep & other award-winning mobile game studios. The team will soon introduce SAND, a blockchain based token, enabling access to the platform & creation of an in-game economy owned & governed by its users (Players, Creators, Investors & LAND Owners).
20:20 – 20:50: Welcoming the New Norm of Engaging Developers in Tech Companies
· Soheil SK, Co-Founder VP Strategy & Business Operations, The Blockchain Group (Paris)
· David Edelsohn, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member, Open Source Ecosystem, CTO GCC Technology (New York)
· Moderated by: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures (Paris)
· Online Moderator: Rich Brenner, Partner at True Global Ventures (San Francisco)
Bountysource allows anyone to post bounties for open-source projects that developers can solve and earn money. Bountysource now has a community of 69,000 open-source developers (growing by 10,000/year) and customers include IBM, Facebook, Ripple, Google. Bountysource has been recently acquired by The Blockchain Group, a company listed on Euronext. The Blockchain Group is a global umbrella organization of engineers and entrepreneurs with a mission to create blockchain-powered ecosystems for businesses.
20:50 – 21:20: Payments Innovation - The Digital Winning Solution
· Prabhu Ram, Managing Director and Group CEO of PaySwiff Solutions (Hyderabad)
· Sanjay Chaudhary, Partner of Tata Capital Growth Fund (Mumbai)
· Moderated by: Florent Mamelle, Partner at True Global Ventures (Kuala Lumpur)
· Online Moderator: Steve Melhuish, Partner at True Global Ventures (Singapore)
PaySwiff is an omni-channel payment solutions provider in India enabling banks and merchants to offer & accept all forms of payment options. PaySwiff has > 100,000+ merchants and 5+ banks as customers including Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, Axis Bank, UCO Bank. Beyond India, Payswiff solutions are deployed in 10+ countries in APAC, CIS, MENA regions. More recently, Payswiff won VISA EVERYWHERE CHALLENGE out of 418 participants. Their Tap2phone solution (novel way to convert NFC enabled android phone as a card acceptance device) will be presented to all member banks of VISA globally as the winning solution.
21:20 – 22:00: Data Analytics and AI Use Cases such as Decentralised Marketplace for Insights
· Tomasz Roszko, CTO of Opentopic Technologia (Warsaw)
· Bastian Lechner, Founder & CEO of Catana Capital (Frankfurt)
· Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET (Seattle)
· Xavier Latil, CEO of the Blockchain Group (Paris)
· Moderated by: Frank Desvignes, Partner at True Global Ventures (Paris)
· Online Moderator: Carl Johan Grandinson, Partner at True Global Ventures (Stockholm)
Opentopic is a team of software engineers, data scientists, DevOps, QA specialists located in Białystok, Poland who have supported development of numerous AI and data analytics projects. The team has worked with brand names like Slack & IBM integrating ChatBot technology to design conversations between users. They have completed projects in various verticals including insights, content curation, recommendation, analysis, and more recently price prediction & financial sentiments in stocks and digital currencies.
22:00 – 22:05: Closing remarks
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