Conference Day Two – Wednesday 8 March
Stream 1 – BANKING & FINANCE
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08:30 | Welcome coffee
08:50 | Opening remarks from the Chair
Nick Giurietto, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Currency & Commerce Association
HOW BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY WILL TRANSFORM PAYMENTS AND SETTLEMENTS
09:00 | OPENING KEYNOTE CASE STUDY: Simplifying the Complexity in Wealth Management
- Examining how proof-of-concepts are tested and improved
- Assessing blockchain adoption within Commonwealth Bank and the key areas where blockchain technology will eliminate current inefficiencies
Annabel Spring, Group Executive, Wealth Management, Commonwealth Bank
09:30 | Examining how the blockchain can enable faster, automated and scalable cross-border payments and cut global settlement costs
- An update on the challenges and successes of Ripple’s collaborative effort
- Demonstrating how to move assets across Ripple's growing network
- Delivering fast, secure and real-time payments
- Ensuring privacy by connecting and interoperating ledgers
Dilip Rao, Managing Director, Ripple
10:00 | CASE STUDY: Leveraging blockchain technologies to accurately track payments
- What are ANZ doing to track payments in real-time
- Exploring payment disruption in real-time
- Using blockchain to develop new technologies and operating models to offer prospects for both domestic and cross-border inter-bank clearing and settlements
Nigel Dobson, GM Wholesale Digital Transformation, ANZ
10:30 | Morning tea
11:00 | Smart contracts and financial market infrastructure – code meets clearing, payments and the fabric of finance
- Leveraging blockchain technologies to increase the speed and reduce costs
- Examining the developments for payments, clearing and settlements underpinned by smart contracts
- Exploring codes role in the future of finance
Peter Randall, Chief Executive Officer, SETL
11:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION: Identifying the opportunities in finance for blockchain applications
- What are the key blockchain applications in finance and how will they work?
- How to use blockchain to increase efficiency, transparency and security, reduce costs, and unleash unprecedented innovation across payments, settlements and the finance sector
- Exploring the advantages, expectations and limitations of using smart contracts across the finance sector
- Identifying strategic implementation for blockchain applications
Panel moderator:
Nick Giurietto, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Currency & Commerce Association
Panellists:
Nigel Dobson, General Manager, Transformation Projects, ANZ
Michael Aaron, Blockchain Business Development Leader AuNZ, IBM
Michael Southwell, Director of Payments - Global Transactions, Westpac
Steven Spizer, Vice President, GTS Banks & Public Sector Group Australia & NZ, Citigroup
DEPLOYING THE BLOCKCHAIN IN THE REAL WORLD – EXAMINING THE PROJECTS AT THE FOREFRONT OF DEVELOPMENT
12:10 | KEYNOTE CASE STUDY: Examining how Nasdaq’s blockchain is enabling competitive advantage
- Latest developments when exchanging shares and assets across the blockchain
- Innovating and finding new applications with blockchain technologies
- Revolutionising the core of capital markets infrastructure systems
Peter Jessup, Senior Vice President of Global Technology, Nasdaq
12:45 | Networking lunch
13:45 | CASE STUDY: Exploring new opportunities in a blockchain environment
- Positioning your company for success in a disruptive, blockchain-defined sector – will trading, clearing, settlement and registry functions be reduced to just trading and registry?
- Innovating and finding new applications with blockchain technologies
- Formulating blockchain strategy to construct a more streamlined and efficient market model
Sam Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Blockchain Global
14.15 | Learning from Fintechs - how are blockchain protocols like BitID building digital identities for finance?
- Developing the backbone of a universal identity system
- How digital identities will transform traditional process of the finance sector - cutting costs and existing inefficiencies
- Streamlining identity verification for online services while protecting privacy – with tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain
- Finding a potential accelerant and enabler for the adoption of a digital identity system
Jason Williams, Founder, BitPOS
14:45 | Afternoon tea
MERGED SESSION - INNOVATING ON THE BLOCKCHAIN, WHERE TO FROM HERE?
For these final sessions, both streams will re-join in the same room.
15:15 | LIVE DEMO: Rapidly testing different proofs of concepts to enable commercial innovations with blockchain technologies
- Building, testing and implementing intra-connectivity applications for emerging markets
- Moving beyond the experimental phase and consolidating ideas for production
- Using blockchains as a platform for future innovation
Joseph Lupin, Co-Founder, Ethereum and Consensys
15:45 | CRYSTAL BALL PANEL DISCUSSION
Anticipating how blockchain technologies will impact and shape a new public and private sector landscape
- Forecasting future opportunities across business, government and the everyday landscape
- Positioning your organisation to capture future opportunities by identifying the right blockchain platform and strategy to meet your needs
- What trends are anticipated for the next year and the next decade?
- Will increased digital distribution of data eradicate the need for humans, buildings and traditional financial service infrastructure?
Panel moderator:
John Riggins, Head of Operations, Asia Pacific, BTC Media
Panellists:
David Lawrence, Chief Operating Officer, Sydney Stock Exchange
Sam Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Blockchain Global
16:30 | Closing remarks from the Chair and drawing of lucky door prize!
16:40 | End of Day Two and close of the conference
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