STAGE 1
STAGE 2
HENRY LE BOEUF
SALLE M
08:00
Registration & Welcome coffee
08:45
Opening Ceremony by the Minister of Finance and FinTech Belgium
09:00
FinTech Beyond the Hype by Koen De Leus
09:10
Study : The Rise of FinTech by FinTech Belgium
09:20 Session 1. Payments
09:20 Startup Pitch Battle Session 1
Introduction by Jean de Crane (Isabel Group)
Intro by Robin Wauters (TechEU)
Experience feedback from the NBB by Reinout Temmerman
One of the Winners of 2017: Elimity, 1 year later
with Catherine Houssa (Simont Braun)
09:35 Pitch 1: StarTalers
Innovations in Payments by Daniel Stein (Fidor Bank) and
09:45 Pitch 2: Kadonation
Johannes Vermeire (POM)
09:55 Pitch 3: RiskConcile
09:55 Panel discussion on Payments with Peter Pollaert (BNPPF)
10:05 Pitch 4: WeGroup
COFFEE BREAK
10:15 11:00 Session 2. Open Banking / API
11:00 Startup Pitch Battle Session 2
Introduction by Marijke Koninckx (Isabel Group)
Two of the Winners of 2017: Qover and Lita.co, 1 year later
What's new on the market with Marc Lainez (Ibanity),
11:15 Pitch 5: Swanest
Patricia Boydens (Harmoney), Louis Dewavrin (Deposit
11:25 Pitch 6: Ewala Money transfer
Solutions), William McMullan (Western Union),
11:35 Pitch 7: Yields.io
Aoife Houlihan (Klarna)
11:45 Pitch 8: Biometric security by unique platform
11:50 Panel discussion on Open Banking
11:55 Pitch 9: Investsuite 12:05 Pitch 10: blanco.services
LUNCH Word of Jan Smets (National Bank of Belgium)
12:15 13:45 13:50 Session 3. Blockchain, beyond the hype?
13:50 Scale-up Pitch Battles
Introduction by Marc Wolenik
13:50 Bit4you
Case 1: Thomas Marckx (The Ledger)
14:00 Vadis Technologies
Case 2: Kevin de Patoul (KeyRock)
14:10 Digiteal
14:15 Debate: GDPR, threat or opportunity for the Blockchain?
14:20 Seraphin SA
Moderated by Selin Suntay (Laga) with all of the above,
14:30 POM
Louis-Quentin Degroux (Blockchain Hive), Jean-Luc Verhelst,
14:40 iBanFirst
and Frank Verhaest (Isabel Group)
COFFEE BREAK Word of Minister Alexander De Croo
14:50 15:35 15:45 Session 4. AI / Machine Learning
15:45 Session 4. Cross Industry Diversification
Introduction by Jean-Marc Boxus (Deloitte)
Introduction by Tine Holvoet (Vlerick)
Explore a bright future with Jonathan Berte (Robovision),
Where banks startand end - Karel Van Eetvelt (Febelfin)
Geert Van Kerckhoven (0smosis), Eric Rodriguez (data.be),
Cases with Vincent Marchand (BNP Paribas Fortis), Emmanuel
Rachel Karny (Google)
Degrève (Forum for The Future), Bruno Masselis (CodaBox),
16:30 Panel discussion moderated by Nik Baerten (Pantopicon) with Michel Van Der Poorten (IBM) and all of the above
17:00 v
Maxime Bouckaert (Koalect), … 16:30 Panel discussion with all of the above
Award Ceremony & Closing by Fintech Belgium 17:30 - 21:30 - GinTech Networking