NCFA Reveals Speakers and Agenda for FFCON21

2021-5-10 11:32

The conference will explore accelerated blockchain and fintech trends and innovations paving the way to mass adoption and scale.

TORONTO — May 6, 2020 — The Fintech & Financing Conference and Expo (#FFCON21), Canada’s premier fintech conference organized by The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA), Toronto Finance International (TFI), and partners announced its agenda and speaker line-up for its seventh annual event taking place online from May 11 to May 13, 2021.

Building on the success of previous conferences will bring together an international community of leading voices in fintech, digital banking, payments, tokenization, blockchain, CBDCs, digital identity, AI, capital markets innovation, and finance – all in an immersive and interactive platform. The FFCON21 audience is composed of 500 global fintech companies, financial institutions, investors, tech providers, government, and media. 

This year’s theme is ‘Breaking Barriers’ reflecting the growth and emerging challenges that the Canadian fintech industry must navigate to achieve mass adoption and scale. Through keynotes, lively panel discussions, and workshops the conference will share new ideas and thought-provoking insights into:

AI and the future of innovation in financial servicesThe rise of decentralized finance and web 3.0 and its barriers to adoptionThe future of NFTs and what happens when your customers are augmented humans, robots, and virtual beings?Diversity and inclusion: beyond disclosuresHow millennials and Gen Z are changing the financial landscapeRetail investors, stakeholder capitalism and IPO innovationsStablecoins and central bank digital currenciesOpen finance and composable bankingInclusive banking and affordable creditFirst federally chartered digital asset bankFintech’s opportunity to breaking barriers to net zeroData rights and how decentralized technologies are shaping our future Blockchain and renewable energiesChina vs USA and what it means for tech innovation and global fintech marketsStrengthening Canada’s innovation capacity and global competitiveness

This year’s event features over 100 notable speakers including:

Keynotes:

Don Tapscott, executive chairman, Blockchain Research InstituteSophia, humanoid robot, Hanson RoboticsDavid Hanson Ph.D., founder, chairman, chief creative officer, Hanson Robotics Ben Goertzel, CEO, Singularity NET Cathy Hackl, futurist + chief metaverse officer, Futures Intelligence Group Hester M. Peirce, commissioner, Securities Exchange CommissionHrish Lotlikar, co-founder and CEO, SuperWorldEthan Pierse, founding partner/ director, Borderless Ventures / CryptoAssets Institute Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., chairman of advisory board, ThreeFold Tech; Author of The Hunt for Unicorns and The Digital War; former managing director of CIC

Government:

Senator Colin Deacon, Senator, Senate of CanadaHon Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board, Government of OntarioHon. Doug Schweitzer, Minister of Jobs, Economy and Innovation, Government of AlbertaJudith Robertson, Commissioner Financial Consumer Agency of CanadaJennifer Reynolds, President & CEO, Toronto Finance International

Innovation:

Mark Maybank, managing partner, Maverix Private EquityJean Desgagne, CEO, Stablecorp Inc.Betty DeVita, CBO, FinconectraChristin Friedrich, chair European Crowdfunding Network, CEO InnovestmentAndrew Graham, co-founder & CEO, BorrowellBrittany Kaiser, independent chairperson of the board, Gryphon Digital MiningHamzah Nassif, partner, Real VenturesKrista Kim, digital artist, Global Ambassador of SuperWorldLawrence Lewis, founder, OneFeatherDavid Unsworth, co-founder and general partner, Information Venture Partners Timothy Li, CEO at Wikipro Inc, CEO at AlchemyChris Goodman, advisory services, Credit Union Digital Transformation, CuDigital.caDavid Lucatch, co-founder, director and president, Liquid Avatar TechnologiesJeff Lynn, executive chairman and co-founder, SeedrsDavid Nault, co-founder and general partner, Luge CapitalTom Baumann, CEO and co-founder, ClimateCHECKGeorgia Quinn, general counsel, AnchorageKris Read, co-founder and CTO, Neo FinancialSom Seif, CEO, Purpose Financial / Purpose InvestmentsDavid Taylor, president and CEO, Versabank

Full list here.

The event will also feature the second annual 2021 Fintech Draft, designed to identify and feature emerging and high growth fintech start-ups and scaleups. Inspired by sports league drafts.

Congratulations to the six Fintech Draft pitching finalists listed below who will battle in FFCON21’s pitching competition for prizes and exposure:

Agryo — a global risk intelligence provider that enables financial institutions to assess and manage financial risks in the crop field level for underwriting agriculture insurance, loans, and trade finance globally; as well as meet sustainability goals.

Copia Wealth Studios — a financial intelligence platform that uses modern design and machine learning to bring all investments (including Alternatives and Illiquid assets) into one elegant view.

ForwardAI — a simple, single, and lender-first API that delivers the most robust accounting and financial data suite for small-business lending.

Nava — A software as a service (SaaS) company that offers an ecosystem of socially responsible fintech products for credit unions, helping them compete with big banks.

Orchid B — the premium platform of choice for back-office functions including business registration, banking, cards, foreign exchange, insurance, accounting, and payroll. Enabling the self-employed and small businesses to transact efficiently and cost-effectively.

Phaze — Phaze makes digital money instantly immediately spendable in over 80 countries but also makes digital money go further, providing neobanks, wallets and fintech companies with a discount off the total value of any transaction.

The agenda can be accessed on the programme page.

Registration for FFCON21 DIGITAL is still open. Register for your tickets here: https://fintechandfunding.com/tickets/

Further information about the conference series can be found at www.fintechandfunding.com

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