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      • TGV4+ portfolio company Pinktada raises another round
      • Quantumrock partners with Bambu - enhancing B2B roboadvisory solutions with AI
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      • TGV4+ Supports Unchain Ukraine
      • TGV4+ Backs First Female Founder
      • TGV4+ invests in EnjinStarter
      • TGV4+ invests in Coinhouse
      • TGV4+ invests in Chromaway
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True Global Ventures 


Developer’s Meetup
and
Disruption in Financial Services


Tokyo 25 January 2018
Disruption in Financial Services, Tokyo 25 January 2018
TGV Disruption in Financial Services – Tokyo
 
24th- 25th Jan 2018
 
Venue: NYU School of Professional Studies Tokyo (NYUSPS Tokyo), ニューヨーク大学
 
Location: 22F, Shinagawa Intercity Tower A, 2-15-1 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 〒108-6028 Tokyo, 港区Konan, 2 Chome−15−1, 品川インターシティA棟 22 階
 
Recommended Hotel: The Strings Intercontinental Hotel, 2-16-1 Konan, 26-32/F Shinagawa East One Tower, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8282, Japan
 
(Japanese + English 2 way simultaneous translation provided) (日本語+英語2ウェイ同時翻訳提供)
 
True Global Ventures has held 22 highly praised Disruption in Financial Services events in New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mumbai, Stockholm, London, Paris and Berlin. 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 and Initial Coin Offering (ICO) 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 applications to solve real problems and define what should go into production or ICOs.
 
Look forward to an engaging discussion with top industry leaders (corporates, investors, entrepreneurs) in FinTech!
 
o   Number of attendees: 135
o   1/2: Investors; (GP of VCs and Founders of Crypo/ICO Investors) 1/4: Corporates, (Digital Transformation Officers) 1/4:Startups (Founders)
 These Rules Apply:

o   Chatham House Rules
o   No media, no press, no journalists
o   We do not invite intermediaries as well 
 
 
 
Agenda
 
24th January 2018
 
Developer’s Meetup (Presentation in both Japanese and English)
 
19:00 – 19:30 Networking and Registration
 
19:30 - 19:40 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
 
19:40 – 20:10 Opensource projects
* Jeff Wentworth, Co-founder of Curvegrid (Tokyo, Japan)
 
Curvegrid is a blockchain tooling startup based in Tokyo, Japan. Curvegrid is building a blockchain application server as well as a software development practice. Blockchain is the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Blockchain and its associated applications are revolutionising the way we think about money, information, and the relationships we have with each other.
 
Before co-founding Curvegrid, Jeff spent six years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President and global product owner of block and object storage. Prior to that, Jeff was a technology consultant and customer engineer at EMC.
 
20:10 – 20: 25 Networking and Refreshment
 
20:25 – 20:55 Opensource projects
* JP Thor, CEO of Bountysource (Melbourne, Australia)
 
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 10,000 every year) 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 Dash and Ether soon.
 
 
20:55 – 21:10 Networking and Refreshment
 
21:10 - 21:40 A Decentralised Database for dApps
* Bluzelle (Singapore)
 
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.
 
 
21:40 – 22:00 Networking and Refreshment
 
 
 
25th January 2018
 
Disruption in Financial Services Event
 
12:30 – 13:00 Networking and Registration
 
13:00 – 13:15 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 (Singapore)
 
13:15 – 13:30 Fireside Chat 
* Mike Kayamori, CEO & Co-founder of QUOINE (Tokyo, Japan)
 
13:30 – 14:15 Panel Discussion: Regulation of Token Generating Events – Where to draw the line?
* David Wang, Executive Director of Gibraltar Stock Exchange & CEO of Stellar Partners (Gibraltar)
* Ken Kawai, Partner at Anderson, Mori & Tomotsune (Tokyo)
 
14:15 – 14:45 Networking and Refreshments
 
14:45 – 15:30 Panel Discussion: Token Generating Event: A gamble, an investment or a utility?
* Hong Thieu, CFO & Founder of Stryking (Berlin, Germany)
* JP Thor, CEO & Co-founder of CanYa (Melbourne, Australia)
* Lasse Clausen, Partner at 1kx (Berlin, Germany)
* Jalak Jobanputra, Founder & Managing Partner at FuturePerfect Ventures (New York, USA)
 
15:30 – 15:55 Panel Discussion: Corporate Venture Spinoffs
* Steve Monaghan, Chairman and CEO of Gen.Life Limited spin off of AIA (Hong Kong)
* Norbert Gehrke, Strategy Office at AIG Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
 
Moderated by: * Frank Desvignes, Founder & CEO of AXA Lab Asia, Partner at True Global Ventures (China)
 
15:55 – 16:20 Fireside Chat: The Past, Present and Future of Trading
* Joo Seng Wong, Co-founder of M-DAQ, CEO & Co-founder of Spark Systems (Singapore)
* Tatsuo Shigemitsu, Director and Managing Executive Officer of SBI Holdings, Inc & Vice Chairman of SBI Liquidity Market Co., Ltd.  (Tokyo, Japan)
 
16:20 – 16:50 Networking and Refreshments
 
16:50 – 17:35 Panel Discussion: How Traditional Venture Capital is being Disrupted by ICOs!
* Bo Dong, Partner at FBG Capital (Beijing, China)
* Remington Ong, Partner at Fenbushi Capital (Shanghai, China)
* Masaya Kubota, Partner at World Innovation Lab (WiL) (Tokyo, Japan)
* Paul Veradittakit, Partner at Pantera Capital (San Francisco, USA)
 
Moderated by: * Jehan Chu, Managing Partner at Kenetic Capital (Hong Kong)
 
17:35 – 18:15 Panel Discussion: The Past, the Present and the Future of Primary and Secondary Markets
* Greg Brogger, CEO of Sharespost (San Francisco, USA)
* Oki Matsumoto, CEO of Monex Group (Tokyo, Japan)
* Roland Schwinn, Executive Director at Eurex (Deutsche Borse Group) (Singapore)
 
Moderated by: * Wei Zhou, Managing Partner at FZ Global Partners & Partner at True Global Ventures (Beijing)
 
 
18:15 – 18:20 Closing Address
* Eli Hatch, Assistant Director of Programs, NYU School of Professional Studies Tokyo (Tokyo)
 
 18.30 – 20.30 VIP Dinner (By-invite only)
 
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Venue Sponsors:
NYU School of Professional Studies Tokyo is an international learning environment that draws upon the resources of New York University, a prestigious research university with campuses and sites around the world.

Co-Organizers:
Kenetic Capital is a blockchain investment and technology firm. Kenetic invests in a full spectrum of assets within the blockchain ecosystem and also provides consulting services to companies seeking to digitalize and conduct token sales.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a full-service law firm formed by the merger and consolidation of the practices of three leading Japanese law firms: Anderson Mori, which established its reputation as one of the largest and most established international law firms in Japan since its inception in the early 1950s; Tomotsune & Kimura, particularly known for its expertise in international finance transactions; and Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa, a premier international insolvency/restructuring and crisis-management firm.

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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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. 

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 10,000 every year) 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 Dash and Ether soon.

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    • AI Investor Judges
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  • 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