Fintech Series Part Three: AI-Driven Capitalism
In partnership with Emerging Payments Association Asia, this webinar will discuss how the COVID-19 crisis has severely impacted global economic activity, together with the number of payments transacting within each economy. pastevent
PART THREE: AI-Driven Capitalism with Prof Sandy Pentland and Dr Prash
In Partnership with Emerging Payments Association Asia
| Registrations close at 8:00 AM AEST on Tuesday 19 May, please email [email protected] with your Full Name, Job Title, Company Name, State and Email Address for any last minute registrations. |
 About the Webinar
AmCham and the Emerging Payment Association Asia (EPA Asia) are collaborating in a three-event series looking at the effect COVID-19 has had on the financial service industry and how financial technology firms are living through these unprecedented times.
Financial Technology (FinTech) is at the centre of digital product and service delivery advances across many industries. Australian companies are constantly adopting and applying fintech solutions to grow their businesses, create jobs and provide the services demanded by their customers.
In part-three of this webinar series we present Alex (Sandy) Pentland of MIT Connection Science in conversation with Dr Prash P, CEO and Founder, Caleb and Brown. Moderated by Camilla Bullock, Co-Founder and Director, Emerging Payments Association Asia.
Their discussion will cover what is happening around the world with cryptocurrency and what governments are doing, or not doing, to ensure they keeping across technology and providing solutions for digital privacy, cybersecurity and transparency.
We are experiencing a brave new world where our traditional methods for trading are being replaced by blockchain. People around the world are realizing that AI-driven capitalism requires crafting a new sort of social contract, and the balance must be restored by constructing institutions and laws that control rights, ownership, and use.
What role will Australia play, if any, in Creating a Credible and Trusted Digital Currency for this region?
 In addition to our webinar series, FinTech Australia has partnered with Tier One People to launch a FinTech Talent Market in response to increasing job losses during the COVID-19 crisis. The marketplace, run through LinkedIn Groups, aims to connect people in the FinTech community who have lost their jobs to FinTech companies with jobs. Apply to join the programme.
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 Speakers
 Sandy Pentland, Professor, MIT Connection Science
Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Connection Science, an MIT-wide initiative, and previously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world, and Forbes recently declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world".
Sandy is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR, and was central in forging the transparency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Previously he was member of advisory boards for the American Bar Association, and previously for Google, AT&T, and Nissan.
Sandy is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded more than a dozen companies, a member of the U.S. National Academies and leader within the World Economic Forum.
.jpg) Dr Prash P, Chief Executive Officer, Caleb and Brown
Prash founded Caleb & Brown to bring Cryptocurrency into the suite of traditional wealth management services. C&B was awarded Fintech Startup of the Year 2018 by the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisors Association, in recognition of bridging the gap between traditional financial services and the Cryptocurrency ecosystem. He continues to rail against legacy financial systems, impassioned by a vision that “T+2” should not be an acceptable standard in the 21st century.
A medical doctor by training, Prash pursues his clinical work at The Alfred Hospital whilst maintaining positions on the advisory board of Mind Medicine Australia and The Australian Psychedelic Society towards the establishment of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy as an accessible and effective direction of mental health treatment of the future. His advocacy against myth, misconception and stigma in the face of evidence persists despite the ire of his mother.
Prash was awarded Young Executive of the Year 2018 by the Australia-wide Indian Executive Council.
His discourses and writings on both these libertarian passions are freely available via his non-exclusive, open-source, failure-to-opt-out partnership with Google.
.jpg) Moderated by Camilla Bullock, Co-Founder and Director, Emerging Payments Association Asia
Camilla Bullock is the Co-Founder and Director at the Emerging Payments Association Asia, the only Pan APAC branch organisation for users and providers of payments technology. Camilla is also the lead, and the Co-Founder behind the global project Meet-Her She Knows Payments which is a movement to narrow the gender thought leadership gap existing in the payments industry.
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About EPA Asia
The Emerging Payments Association Asia’s (EPA Asia) goal is to unify the payments agenda in the region, drive business development and improve the regulatory landscape for all organisations within the payments value chain.
EPA Asia is a community of payments professionals whose goals are to strengthen and expand the payments industry to benefit all stakeholders. They run an inclusive programme of activities for members, which addresses key areas impacting the industry.
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Wednesday 20 May 2020 |
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9am - 10am AEST |
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Link to attend the webinar will be sent after registrations have closed. |
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