Programme
Day 1 | Thursday, 4th February 2016
09:30-10:15 | Registration and coffee |
10:15-10:45 | Welcome from the WBS Dean, Professor Mark Taylor and Introductory remarks by the conference organizers: Dr. Markos Zachariadis, Warwick Business School & Dr. Nathaniel Tkacz, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick |
10:45-12:30 | Session 1 - Digital innovation in the payments industry |
Moderator: Susanne Chishti, CEO, Fintech Circle // Leda Glyptis, Director, Sapient // Carlos J. Menendez, President, Enterprise Growth and Partnerships, MasterCard // Dr. Carsten Sorensen, Department of Management, London School of Economics // Richard Morgans, Head of Innovation and Procurement, Atom Bank // Dr. Pinar Ozcan, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick |
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12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
13:30-15:15 | Session 2 - From cash, to plastic, to mobile payments: Discussing the evolution of monetary forms |
Moderator: Dr. Nathaniel Tkacz, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick // Jean-Stéphane Gourévitch, Director, Mobile Convergence Ecosystems Limited // Professor Bernardo Batiz-Lazo, Bangor Business School, Bangor University // Marc O’Brien, Partner, Payments Practice, Capco // Brett Scott, Alternative Finance Author & Journalist // Dr. Joe Deville, Management School and Dept. of Sociology, University of Lancaster |
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15:15-15:45 | Coffee break |
15:45-16:45 | Workshop - Technologies of exchange in a digital economy: When theory and research meet practice |
16:45-17:00 | Closing remarks |
17:00-20:00 | Evening reception |
Day 2 | Friday, 5th February 2016
08:30-09:00 | Registration and coffee |
09:00-10:45 | Session 3 - Financial inclusion and the role of mobile money |
Moderator: Professor Michael Barrett, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge // Kosta Peric, Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation // Claire Alexandre, Head of Commercial & Strategy, Mobile Payments, Vodafone // Dr. Susan Johnson, Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath // Claire Calmejane, Director of Innovation, Lloyds Banking Group // Dr. Gianluca Iazzolino, Centre of Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford |
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10:45-11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15-13:00 | Session 4 - Transactional data, analytics and algorithms |
Moderator: Dr. Markos Zachariadis, Assistant Professor, Warwick Business School // Dr. Kimmo Soramäki, Founder and CEO, Financial Network Analytics // Daniel Drummer, Fintech leader, World Economic Forum & McKinsey // Professor Yuval Millo, School of Management, University of Leicester // Crispin Rogers, CEO, Whole Hearted Marketing // Charles Radclyffe, Consultant & Entrepreneur, dataPHILOSOPHER |
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13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:45 | Session 5 - ‘Interrogating the Blockchain’: A conversation on the applications, issues and impact of distributed ledgers in payments |
Moderator: Dr. Garrick Hileman, Economic History, London School of Economics // Professor Tomaso Aste, Head, Financial Computing & Analytics Group, University College London // Dr. Rachel O’Dwyer, Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin // Gene Vayngrib, CEO and Co-founder, Tradle // Dr. Primavera De Filippi, Faculty Associate, Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Harvard University // Simon Taylor, Vice-President, Blockchain R&D and Experimentation, Barclays |
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15:45-16:00 | Closing remarks - End of conference |
16:00-17:00 | Coffee/Tea and Networking |