Description Join us for an evening to connect and knowledge-share about the advances in the Greater Boston area's FinTech community. Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Event Type Conference, Expo, Networking Industry FinTech Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Event Organizers Venture Café Start Date Aug 31, 2017 End Date Aug 31, 2017 Venue Name Venture Cafe Kendall Event URL www.vencaf.org/fintechconnect Registration URL Click here to register
Venture Cafe's FinTech mini-conference, “Disrupting Wall Street”, takes place on August 31, 2017. This special ‘conference night’ event seeks to bring together the brightest minds who are building, funding, and innovating in the Greater Boston area’s FinTech Community. Join us for the evening to examine the shifts happening in payments,
blockchain, lending, robo-advisors, insurance tech, and real estate. Come prepared to not only hear the best ideas and see the latest technologies but also to participate in building Boston’s FinTech innovation. Contributing partners include Boston FinTech Meetup, FinTech Sandbox, and DCU FinTech Innovation Center. Sponsors: Interested in sponsoring FinTech Connect? Please contact Chandra Briggman at chandra.briggman@vencaf.org for details.
AGENDA
Office Hours (3:00 - 5:00 PM)
Entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs may book 30-minute appointments to obtain advice from experts - including experts in FinTech space. Click here to book an appointment: http://vencaf.org/book-office-hours/
Startup Demos from Female Entrepreneurs (5:30 - 8:30 PM)
FinTech entrepreneurs may apply to demo their products by submitting our Demo Form: http://bit.ly/vc-ft-demo.
How I Built It: Navigating the Hurdles of Building a FinTech Startup (5:30 PM - 6:30 PM)
A few of the area’s FinTech startups will share their latest success milestones as well as how they got started, failures along the way and strategies that helped navigate the hurdles of building a FinTech venture.
- Vasilios Roussos, DCU Fintech Innovation Center (Moderator)
- Laurel Taylor, Future Fuel
- Patrick Boyaggi, Rate Gravity
- Joe Zhou, Firstblood
FinTech Community Flash Talks (6:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
Are you a subject matter expert in the FinTechspace (entrepreneur, investor, service provider, etc)? Submit your idea for a session during our FinTech Community Flash Talk. These sessions will be community-generated, lightening sessions comprised of 30 minutes of content and 15 minutes of networking for each session.
INVESTORS NIGHT OUT: Ask Them Anything (6:45 PM– 7:45 PM)
We are breaking away from the panel and giving entrepreneurs one full hour to ask investors anything. Patterned after the popular Ask Me Anything (AMA) model, we have secured a selection of Fintech VCs and angels to offer insights into building a successful venture, partnering with legacy finance companies and more.*RSVP REQUIRED* This will be a high-demand session. In order to attend, please complete this form: http://bit.ly/fintech_ata
- Shereen Shermak, FinTech Angel
- Russ MacTough, Liberty Mutual Ventures
- Ian Sheridan, Vestigo Ventures
- Charles Svirk, Mass Mutual Ventures
- Jack Klinck, Hyperplane Venture Capital
