FinTech Forum: Innovation, Regulation or Both

Registration Opens and Refreshments are Served

Opening Remarks from the Chairs

The Pulse of FinTech: Where is the Industry Now and Where is it Going?

• How has financial technology changed throughout the last decades?
• Are we at risk of a FinTech bubble?
• What is the impact of disruption on the financial services industry?

Roundtable Discussion: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?

• Insights and opinions from key stakeholders
• Identifying best regulatory bodies to initiate discussion
• Evaluating policy options from ‘do no harm’ to strict regulation

Networking Refreshment Break

Building a FinTech hub in Toronto: Accelerating Innovation

• Key components to hub development and how to achieve them:
  • Geographic presence of key decision makers
  • Availability of tech and finserv talent pool
  • Favorable corporate environment
• Existing incubators and supporters and how to expand them
• Building a global reputation

Networking Luncheon with Keynote from the Ontario Minister of Finance

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Loan Underwriting

• What sets new lenders apart: direct data sources, customer experience, etc.
• Integrating machine learning for underwriting to secure future lending success
• How traditional lenders can adopt FinTech best practices

Scaling Innovation Through Collaboration

• Combining the innovative culture of startups with the customer base of incumbent banks
• Understanding the challenges and opportunities of partnerships
• Parameters for successful collaboration

Networking Refreshment Break

Start-Up Challenge

• Get an update from the recent FinTech landscape:
  • Start-ups have a chance to submit their business plans
  • 5 Start-ups will be selected to give a lightning presentation and product demo!
  • Start-ups will have a chance to compete for prizes
• Discover the newest entrants into the industry

Conference Adjourns, Cocktail Reception Opens

Refreshments are Served

Opening Remarks from the Chairs

Levelling the Playing Field – Should the Payment Ecosystem Have Just One Set of Rules?

• The business case from both sides
• Protecting consumers without stifling innovation
• The potential of internal, FinTech-led standards

Self-Regulation, or How Innovation Sets Its Own Standards

• Innovation without disruption of incumbents
• Potential for global networks and standards
• Using the triple bottom line as an accountability benchmark

Networking Refreshment Break

Going Mobile: Mobile Payments and Wallets, Check Deposits

• The rate of adoption of Apple/Android/SamsungPay and the way forward
• Emerging best practices of NFC, EMV and other technology
• Suggestions for addressing regulatory challenges

Is Blockchain the Future of Banking?

• How distributed ledger technology will disrupt banking
• Realistic use cases in the near and long term
• Challenges to implementation ranging from cost, infrastructure, to regulatory hurdles

Closing Remarks from the Chairs

Conference Concludes