Fintech South Announces World Class Speaker Line Up

Monday, Oct. 5 (10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. EDT)

• Atlanta Stage

  • Mainstage presentations from Marty Flanagan, President and CEO of Invesco; Jim Marous, Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand; Scott Case, Chief Information Officer for Truist; Bryson Koehler, Chief Technology Officer at Equifax; Rob Sadowski, Trust and Security Marketing Lead for Google Cloud at Google; Eric Savitz, Associate Editor, Technology at Barron’s; Dr. Vivian Greentree, SVP, Head of Global Corporate Citizenship at Fiserv; Nandan Sheth, SVP and GM Global Digital Commerce at Fiserv; Jennifer Tescher, Founder, President and CEO of Financial Health Network and Franz Paasche, SVP Corporate Affairs and Communications at PayPal; Marla Blow, SVP Social Impact, North America at Mastercard; Tanya Van Court, Founder and CEO of Goalsetter; Mike Froman, Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth at Mastercard; Lisa Calhoun, Founding General Partner at Valor Ventures; Joon Cho, Head of FIS Ventures at FIS; Blake Patton, Managing Partner at Tech Square Ventures; Sean Banks, TAG Fintech Society Chair and Partner TTV Capital

• • 2020 TAG Fintech Lifetime Achievement award presentation featuring Jeff Sloan, CEO of Global Payments introducing the 2020 recipient, M. Troy Woods, Chairman of Global Payments

• Investor Preview

  • Panel discussions from West Coast and East Coast investors on the current funding environment from both sides of the country including; Sheel Mohnot, Founding Partner at Better Tomorrow Ventures; Dan Rosen, Founding and General Partner at Commerce Ventures; Emmalyn Shaw, Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures; Ryan Gilbert, Partner at Venture Partners; Matt Harris, Partner at Bain Capital Ventures; David Jegen, Managing Partner at F-Prime Capital; Addie Lerner, Founder & Managing Partner at Avid Ventures; Kelly Fryer, Executive Director at Fintech Sandbox; Eli Broverman, Co-founder, at Betterment & Co-founder at Treasury; Jeffery Cruttenden, Co-founder at Acorns & Say & Co-founder at Treasury; James Layfield, Co-founder and Rise & Clearfield & Co-founder at Treasury

• The Top 10 Fintech South Innovation Challenge finalists pitch for an all-star panel of investors

• Deep Dive Sessions

  • AI & Machine Learning Deep Dive Sessions

    • Making Finance More Human with AI featuring Jeremy Balkin, Head of Innovation at HSBC Bank USA
    • AI Solutions That Take A Bite Out Financial Crime with Stephen Lurie, Director, Anti-Financial Crimes Practice at DHG; Dave Excell, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Featurespace; Sultan Meghji, CEO and Co-Founder of Neocova and Amy Barbieri, Co-Founder, President and Chief Customer Officer at Vital4
    • Exploring the State-of-the-Art in Conversational AI with Alexandra Qi, Head of Developer Relations, Fintech at NVIDIA and Keenan Freyberg, Product Manager, Machine Learning for Kensho Technologies
    • Analytics for the Intelligent Enterprise with Robert Davis, VP Solution Management at MicroStrategy; Steve Turk, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Commercial Banking at JPMorgan Chase
    • Tally: Fintech’s First Debt Robo-Advisor with Gregg Schoenberg, Managing Partner, Wescott Capital and Contributor at TechCrunch and Jason Brown, Founder and CEO of Tally

  • Crypto & Blockchain Deep Dive Sessions

    • Prophets in Chaos: Blockchain Strategy to Sow and Survive Disruption with Roop Singh, Co-Chair, TAG Blockchain Society and Founder and Principal Consultant for Intuit Factory; Jagruti Solanki, Technology and Blockchain Partner for Aprio
    • Buying (with) Bitcoin: Is the Crypto OG Still the Future of Money? Featuring Jalak Jobanputra, Founder and Managing Partner of FuturePerfect Ventures; Catherine Coley, CEO of Binance.US and Stephen Pair, Co-Founder, President and CEO of BitPay
    • Financial Regulation, Banks & The Future of Digital Assets with Dana Syracuse, Partner at Perkins Coie; Brian Brooks, Acting Comptroller of the Currency of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
    • Leveraging Blockchain for Simple, Affordable Global Business Payments with Sanjib Kalita, CEO of Guppy, Partner at Reason inc. and Editor in Chief of Money20/20; Vanessa Indriolo Vreeland, Head of Truist Ventures at Truist and Marwan Forzley, Co-Founder and CEO of Veem
    • What is DeFi? And Why the Future of Finance Will Be Decentralized with Dana Syracuse, Partner at Perkins Coie; Mike Lempres, Executive in Residence at Andreessen Horowitz; Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound and Brian Avello, General Counsel for Maker

  • Regulating Fintech Deep Dive Sessions

    • The Future of Financial Regulation with Jo Ann Barefoot, Co-Founder and CEO of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation and David Ehrich, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation
    • Regulating Fin or Tech? Fostering Compliant Innovation featuring Youssef Sneifer, Strategist and Advisory Counsel at Perkins Coie; Melissa Netram, Chief Innovation Officer and Director, LabCFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Dave Dadoun, Managing Director, Global Regulatory Compliance, Worldwide Financial Services at Microsoft and Gerry Tsai, Head of Americas Regulatory at Stripe
    • In Conversation: Atlanta Fed CEO Dr. Raphael Bostic featuring Chris Brummer, Host of Fintech Beat podcast, Professor and Faculty Director for the Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Dr. Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
    • 3 Trends Shaping the Regulatory Landscape for Financial Services with Michael Morris, Partner at Wipfli; Nathan Ottinger, Senior Vice President at Atlantic Capital Bank; Dowse “Brad” Rustin, Partner and Chair, Financial Regulatory Team at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and Jodie Kelley, CEO of Electronic Transactions Association
    • In Conversation: FDIC Chairman Jelena McWilliams with Jo Ann Barefoot, Co-Founder and CEO of Alliance for Innovative Regulation and Jelena McWilliams, Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Kickoff Reception: Enjoy local Atlanta music and network to celebrate the start of Fintech South 2020

Wednesday, Oct. 7 (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. EDT)

• Retail & Commerce Deep Dive Sessions

  • How Omnichannel Commerce is Transforming Traditional Industries with Jordyn Holman, Retail Reporter at Bloomberg and Scott Mackay, VP Global Digital Commerce at Fiserv
  • How the Pandemic is Shaping the Future of Commerce featuring Andrew Lipsman, Principal Analyst, Retail and E-Commerce at eMarketer; Kate Weiler, Director, Global Product Delivery for Discover Financial Services; David Wilkinson, President and GM, Global Retail at NCR Corporation and Nick Basford, VP Global Retail and E-Commerce Strategy at UPS
  • The Great Digital Shift: X-Border E-Commerce Insights, Local Payment Methods on the Rise with Simon Black, CEO of PPRO
  • Merchants’ Perspectives on Payments: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t and What Should with John Drechny, CEO of Merchant Advisory Group (MAG); Joe Vasterling, Director, Payment Acceptance and Gift Cards at Best Buy; Sorin Hilgen, Chief Information Officer for EG America

• Identity & Privacy Deep Dive Sessions

  • How America’s Fastest Growing Private Company is Powering Privacy, Security & Trust with Toby Spry, Partner, Information Governance and Privacy at PwC and Kabir Barday, Founder, President and CEO of OneTrust
  • Digital Identity for Non-Humans with Dave Birch, Global Ambassador of Consult Hyperion
  • Maintaining Trust & Safety In A Digital World with Dave Birch, Global Ambassador of Consult Hyperion, Adam Gunther, SVP, Digital Identity for Equifax; Megan Heinze, President, Financial Institutions, North America for IDEMIA and Andrew Gowasack, Co-Founder and President at TrustStamp
  • Do You Know Your Customers? KYC/AML Compliance for Online Identity Verification with Robert Prigge, CEO at Jumio; Eric Byunn, Partner at Centana Growth Partners

• Talent & Diversity Deep Dive Sessions

  • Talent Strategy at the Intersection of Technology, Investing & Human Capital Management with Ross Znavor, Head of Commercialization, Digital Wealth Solutions Group at BlackRock and Samara Epstein Cohen, Co-Head ETF Markets and Investments at BlackRock
  • The Power of a Diverse Workforce with Adam Moore, Chair, TAG Diversity & Inclusion and VP Senior Supplier Diversity Manager at Truist; Khalilah (Shakir) Lyons, Senior Manager, Diversity at Discover Financial Services; Barbara Dugas-Patterson, Managing Director, CAO Site Services Executive at JPMorgan Chase and Anna Kooi, National Financial Services Industry Leader for Wipfli
  • Innovating To Empower Workers: Is Your Fintech for Social Good with Adrian Haro, CEO of The Workers Lab and Rachel Schneider, Co-Founder and CEO of Canary
  • Overcoming Adversity at Work and in Life with Mohamed Massaquoi, Former NFL Player and Founder of VESSOL; Gloria Styles, VP HR and Talent Development for AvidXchange and Crystal Williams, Chief Human Resources Officer at FLEETCOR
  • Diversity in Finance & Tech: Seizing the 2020 Moment, Where Do We Go From Here? featuring Lule Demmissie, President of Ally Invest and Nathan Richardson, Executive Vice President of The Points Guy

• Payments Innovation Deep Dive Sessions

  • AvidXchange: Liberating Accounts Payable, One Company at a Time with Steve McLaughlin, Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of FT Partners and Mike Praeger, Co-Founder and CEO of AvidXchange
  • Will Real-Time Payments Transform Commerce? featuring Scott Harkey, Global Head of Financial Services and Payments at Levvel; Ben Milne, Founder and Chairman at Dwolla; Daniel Baum, SVP FedNow Product Management at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Elena Whisler, SVP Sales and Relationship Management at The Clearing House
  • Mobile Payments Are Good for Your Health: The Pandemic and the Future of Payments with Thad Peterson, Senior Analyst at Aite Group and Kush Saxena, EVP Merchants and Acceptance for Mastercard
  • Crystal Ball: What’s Next in Consumer Payments with Rodrigo Dantas e Silva, Americas Payments Leader at EY; Randy Piatt, Head of Solutions for Ondot Systems and Trey Loughran, CEO of Purchasing Power
  • Payments Innovation on the Planet of the APIs with Sara Elinson, Americas Fintech M&A Leader and US Payments M&A Leader for EY

• Transforming Tech for the New Normal Deep Dive Sessions

  • The Need for Speed: How 5G Transforms Finance & Commerce with Jude Fils-Aimé, Senior Solutions Architect for Verizon Enterprise Solutions; Scott Steinmetz, Global Head for Risk Consulting and Global Corporate and Specialty at Allianz and Luc Boivin, Director Solutions Architecture, Verizon Business for Verizon
  • Lessons from the Front Lines: Fighting Fraud & Cybercrime with Kevin Simmonds, Partner, Cybersecurity and Privacy for PwC; Tim Callahan, SVP and Global Chief Information Security Officer for Aflac; Russ Ayers, SVP Global Security Architectural Engineering and Deputy CISO for Equifax; Carolyn DeVar, Executive Director, Cybersecurity and Technology Controls for JPMorgan Chase and Barry Hensley, Chief Threat Intelligence Officer at Secureworks
  • Powering the Digital Workplace with Scott Eason, Global Vice President for Verizon Enterprise Solutions; Larry Williams, President and CEO at Technology Association of Georgia
  • The Platforms Transforming Financial Services with Ky Nichol, Co-Founder and CEO of Cutover and Steve Hassett, President of GT Software
  • Pindrop Security: Bringing Trust Back to the Telephone with Gordon Littley, Global Leader Domain and CX Practice at Verizon and Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Co-Founder and CEO of Pindrop Security

• Financial Health Deep Dive Sessions

  • What the Data Tells Us About Financial Health with Anita Ward, Chief Development Officer at Salary Finance and Assad Lazarus, SVP, General Manager for Equifax
  • Responding to a Crisis: Access to Affordable Credit with Mark Gabriel, Chief Fintech Strategy Officer for Sunrise Banks; Tom Burnside, Co-Founder and CEO of LendingPoint; Anita Ward, Chief Development Officer at Salary Finance and Anish Acharya, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
  • Why We’re Irrational with Money with Kristen Berma, Co-Founder and Principal at Common Cents Lab and Co-Founder of Irrational Labs; Mariel Beasley, Principal, Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University and Co-Director of Common Cents Lab
  • Resiliency: Creating Solutions for Today’s Heightened Savings Crisis with Deborah Winshel, Global Head of Social Impact at BlackRock; Timothy Flacke, Executive Director and Co-founder of Commonwealth; Abbey Wemimo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Esusu and Daniel Shakhani, Co-Founder of Salary Finance
  • The Next Step: Helping People Start to Build Wealth with Dan Macklin, Co-Founder of SoFi and U.S. CEO of Salary Finance and David Gardner, Co-Founder of Conscious Capitalism and Co-Chairman of The Motley Fool

Friday, Oct. 9 (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT)

• Fintech South Career Fair hosted in partnership with Fintech Atlanta and the Georgia Fintech Academy, the Fintech South virtual career is an opportunity for employers to have direct access to hundreds of talented undergraduate and graduate students looking for fintech jobs. The event will be hosted in the Handshake platform.