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Confirmed Program (Updated Daily)
Track 1:
Stage Host: Nikolai Sondergaard
Part 1: Blockchain, Banking & Finance
- Claus Skaaning GoSecurity: opening remarks.
- Hachem Hassan, National Bank of Denmark: A perspective from the National Bank of Denmark on blockchain, tokenization and settlement processes.
- Lasse Meholm, DNB Bank: Leveraging blockchain & distributed ledger technology: Pilot projects at DNB Bank.
- Johan Lorenzen, Handelsbanken: The role of blockchain in traditional banking.
- John Zai, Founder and CEO, Tech Shanghai Advocates and CENTI Group, China: Key blockchain trends in Finance and Fintech in China.
- Panel 1: Blockchain in Banking, Opportunities, Threats & Regalation (Moderator: Jeanette Carlsson).
Part 2: Investing & Regulations
- Jeppe R. Stokholm, Partner at AmaZix, Head of Legal & Corporate Finance: IPO vs ICO vs STO – Crowdfunding events and international financial legislation.
- Martin von Haller Grønbæk, Bird & Bird: tokenization of assets, a perspective.
- TBA due to cancellation.
- Thomas Nägele: Liechtenstein blockchain act.
- Luka Gubo: Blocktrade’s perspective on securities trading.
- David Grundy, Danske Bank: Special panel guest
- Panel 2: Blockchain-based Bonds, Securities and Assets: Investing & Regulations (Moderator: Jeanette Carlsson).
Part 3: Business Use-Cases & Venture Funding
- Rasmus Mølbjerg: Deloitte perspective on blockchain and tokenization in Denmark.
- Christian Lassen, Head of IBM Blockchain in Nordic: IBM Blockchain – How IBM applies Blockchain in Supply chain and Financial Services.
- Mads Stolberg-Larsen: Tradeshift’s perspective on blockchain and tokenization in Denmark.
- Special panel guest: Erik Balck Sørensen, Investment Director at VF Venture (VC part of Vækstfonden).
- Panel 3: Blockchain Business Use-Cases & Venture Funding (Moderator: Jeanette Carlsson).
Track 2:
- Lasse Birk Olesen, MakerDAO: Dai – Stable Blockchain Currency for Frictionless Global Transactions
- Danish FSA (Finanstilsynet): Regulation of cryptoassets in Denmark.
- Claus Skaaning, GoSecurity: Company shares and equity crowdfunding on the blockchain in Denmark.
- Bo Hembæk Svensson, Blockchain Business Developer and member of EU Blockchain Observatory: The EU system, its blockchain priorities now and going forward, and its impact on financial services.
- Jochem Gerritsen, Infloat: The fundamentals of security tokens & security token design.
- Morten Nielsen, Aryze: Assets on the blockchain.
- Julianne Sloane, Real estate on the blockchain – a tokenized real estate portfolio.
- Peter Scharstein, Oracle: Practical implementation of projects from the banking industry.
See the full program here.
Claus Skaaning
Founder & CEO at GoSecurity / Founder & CEO at VentureFusion.
Topic: Company shares and equity crowdfunding on the blockchain in Denmark
Claus will speak about how and why companies can issue shares in the form of equity tokens for crowdfunding and trading optimization purposes. The talk will be a mix of practical and technical aspects of tokenization. Further, Claus will briefly demonstrate the DigiShares platform for transferring company shares to the blockchain, and describe GoSecurity’s own STO (Security Token Offering).
About Claus
PhD in computer science. Has worked as a researcher and technical lead for Hewlett-Packard, before founding his first company, Dezide, a software company with focus on Artificial Intelligence for diagnostics and troubleshooting. After heading Dezide as CEO for 12 years, Claus left and started new companies, including Sales on Tap, a sales and exports consultancy company, while also taking part in many other ventures. Claus has extensive experience with developing and managing incubators, being employed in the Aalborg University Innovation incubator, an incubator that accepts and helps around 80-100 startup companies every year.
Lasse Meholm
Head of DNB Blockchain & DLT strategy – IT
Topic: Leveraging Blockchain & Distributed Ledger technology: Pilot projects at DNB Bank.
About Lasse
Lasse has worked in the finance and securities market since 1986. Based on IT and finance, he worked for 4 years in PWC before starting Tazett, the market leader portfolio management system in Norway for financial investors, banks and fund management companies. Tazett had a good foothold in Sweden, Finland and UK. He sold Tazett in 2000 and started FinanceCube in 2002, a cloud-based service for financial advisors and private banking, the first in Europe, with customers in 6 countries. Lasse authored the bestseller “Investment Guide” published on Hegnar Media in 2004. FinanceCube was sold in 2012, and since 2013, Lasse has been working in banks, within IT strategy, digital banking, Blockchain and Fintech companies as the area of work. 3 years in Nordea and now in DNB.L asse has written a new bestseller “Money from caveman to robot” published by Hegnar Media in March 2017, and “Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, ICO and Blockchain” March 2018.
Jeanette Carlsson
Founder, Tech Nordic Advocates
Panel moderator
Tech Sector CEO, Business Leader, Entrepreneur, NED, Business Growth Mentor, Innovation Expert and Lecturer, Conference Chair, Keynoter, Government & Diplomatic Advisor; Founder, Northern Europe’s largest tech/startup ecosystem network and media commentator with 25 years’ international experience of building, leading, growing & advising startups to blue-chip PLCs with focus on the fast-paced digital/tech/innovation space. I thrive on challenges and achievements, navigating complex environments and bringing the best people together to make things happen and exceed expectations. ‘Inspirational Woman’ 2018.
Thomas Nägele
Christian Lassen
Head of IBM Blockchain in Nordic.
Topic: IBM Blockchain – How IBM applies Blockchain in Supply chain and Financial Services.
Christian will present use cases and IBM Blockchain cases running in Production, among others:
- IBM Food Trust, trust and transparency in our food, how blockchain is making the world’s food supply chain safer, more efficient and more sustainable
- TradeLens: greater collaboration and trust in the global supply chain
- we.trade: an innovative Trade Finance platform
- IBM World Wire: clearing and settlement of cross-border payments in seconds – not days
Also he will present how you as a company can get started with Blockchain.
About Christian
Christian Lassen is Head of IBM Blockchain in Nordic. Christian has been with IBM since 2007 in various roles within Business Development, Sales and Sales Management.
Jochem Gerritsen
Director at Infloat and writer of the acclaimed securitytoken.it newsletter
Masterclass: The fundamentals of security tokens & security token design
How should we design security tokens? In this presentation, Jochem Gerritsen will talk about how Infloat has designed security tokens for their clients, and the different facets of token design we should consider. From crypto dividend payments to token holder voting — how should a security token be similar or different from a traditional security — and how do we ensure that we find the right way between technical possibilities and legal considerations?
Julianne Sloane
Tokenized real estate portfolio expert from Leaseum Partners
Topic: Real estate on the blockchain – a tokenized real estate portfolio.
Julianne will present on the emerging field of Real Estate tokenization. She will discuss the current state of the ecosystem and the main benefits Real Estate tokenization can bring to investment management. She will also discuss the major challenges facing this new technology.
About Julianne
Julienne is a blockchain evangelist specializing in security tokens & blockchain for social impact.
Leaseum Partners is tokenizing a $250M portfolio of New York City Commercial Real Estate. Through tokenization, Leaseum Partners enables both institutional investors and accredited investors access to a liquid portfolio of professionally managed Real Estate.
Nikolai Sondergaard
Stage Host, Track 1
Nikolai is Chairman and co-founder of Nordic Blockchain Association. He started his blockchain career working with US-based startup, Blockchain Technologies Corp, a company doing, among other things, consulting, crypto ATMs and voting systems on blockchain.
Being visionary and passionate about technology and social change, he co-founded Nordic Blockchain Association, with the vision of consolidating a Nordic ecosystem, that could help improve the fundamentals on which we build society.
Innovation and Digitalization at Handelsbanken
Topic: The role of blockchain in traditional banking.
Johan will discuss the implications of and the opportunities created by introducing emerging technologies, such as blockchain, into a conservative banking environment.
About Johan
Johan has been following the blockchain space closely since its early days. Today he works with digitalization and innovation within the Handelsbanken Group, currently focusing on new opportunities within emerging technologies and strategic partnerships.
Jeppe R. Stokholm
Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Partner at AmaZix, Head of Legal & Corporate Finance
Topic: IPO vs ICO vs STO: Crowdfunding events and international financial legislation.
In this session, Dr. Jeppe R. Stokholm will highlight the legal differences between fiat, coins and tokens and answer the following questions:
1) What is the difference between an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and a Security Token Offering (STO)?
2) What are the legal cross-border implications?
3) What is the industry “best practice” during international crowdfunding events?
About Jeppe
Dr. Jeppe R. Stokholm is a Danish lawyer and venture capitalist based in Zürich, Switzerland, with a Ph.D. in international corporate affairs. He is specialised in the legal impact of the blockchain economy and also a respected crypto market commentator. Dr. Jeppe R. Stokholm has conducted his Ph.D. research at Duke University (USA), Tilburg University (the Netherlands) and SDU (Denmark).
Mads Stolberg-Larsen
Mads Stolberg-LarsenBlockchain specialist at Tradeshift, Cand.polit.
Topic: Creating Digital Assets out of business relationships.
We are witnessing a tectonic shift in financial services. Twenty years ago it would have been hard to imagine the current state of payments and financial services. The forces acting in this space is a combination of regulatory trends, technology-driven players addressing underserved markets of consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and emerging markets as well as increasing digitization of financial- and physical assets. In all this change new opportunities arise and in Tradeshift Frontiers we believe it is soon possible to create Digital Assets out of business relationships. In this talk we outline how we are working on doing just that.
About Mads
Economist specialized in business models around blockchain and DLT. Currently driving forward blockchain and other business opportunities in Tradeshift Frontiers, which is the R&D and investment arm of the Danish Fintech unicorn Tradeshift. Worked with blockchain as a strategy consultant in the NextGen Technologies unit of Deloitte Nordics before joining Frontiers.
Bo Hembæk Svensson
Topic: The EU system, its blockchain priorities now and going forward, and its impact on financial services.
In his talk Bo will discuss how blockchain is perceived and discussed by the EU system i.e the Commission, Parliament and institutions.
About Bo
Bo is appointed member of the core working group at EU’s Blockchain Observatory focusing on use cases and transition towards a new economy. In this capacity he has insights in how blockchain is perceived and discussed by the EU system (i.e the Commission, Parliament and institutions). The blockchain observatory also serves as council to EU and plays an active role in prioritization, standardisation and education.
Besides the above Bo assists Concordium – the new upcoming blockchain platform – with its business development. Bo is also appointed member of Dansk Industri Fintech Panel and is a +30 year IT industry veteran.
Peter Scharstein
Business Development Director, Oracle
Topic: Practical implementation of projects from the banking industry
Oracle has developed a blockchain service that significantly can speed up any practical development project, and with the elastic nature of the environment the project risk in terms of costs are minimal. Peter will present some practical implementation projects from the banking industry during his presentation.
About Peter
Peter Scharstein has many years of experience from implementing new technologies in Oracle’s global customers. Peter has worked with several large financial companies such as Nordea, Deutsche Bank, Sberbank and others on how to implement advanced new technologies and optimize their business. As a natural continuation on his expertise Peter has been looking into Blockchain and what the use cases in the FS industry.
Hachem Hassan
Lawyer at Danmarks Nationalbank’s Financial Stability department.
Topic: A perspective from the National Bank of Denmark on blockchain, tokenization and settlement processes.
About Hachem
Hachem Hassan is a lawyer at Danmarks Nationalbank’s Financial Stability department. He has a wide-ranging experience in FinTech and emerging technologies. Hachem specializes in the legal challenges associated with Blockchain, equity crowdfunding and financial institutions, both at national and international level.
In this session, Hachem will give 1) a short introduction to Blockchain, 2) an overview of some of the legal challenges associated with Blockchain and financial market infrastructures, 3) and finally a presentation of Danmark Nationalbank’s work with Blockchain.”
John Zai
Founder and CEO, CENTI Group and Tech Shanghai Advocates
Topic: Key blockchain trends in Finance and Fintech, China.
John will talk about current blockchain trends and opportunities in finance and fintech in China. The talk will focus on regulations and real use-cases about how to get started investing in China.
About John
John is the founder of CENTI Group (China-Europe Networks of technology and Innovation), which is a cross-border platform connecting European technology startups and SMEs with the Chinese market. CENTI Group work with investors, governments and tech enthusiasts around the world to help companies with their fundraising, market expansion, property management (innovation spaces, incubators). CENTI Group has created one of the largest ecosystem/networks between Europe and China that is now facilitating the transfer of technology, ideas, and talent between the continents.
Martin von Haller Grønbæk
Partner at Bird & Bird. International legal specialist in blockchain.
Topic: Tokenization of assets, a perspective.
About Martin
Martin is a partner at Bird & Bird law firm, where he works with IT and new technology from both a legal and commercial perspective. For over 20 years Martin has co-founded several IT startups. He serve on a number of boards of eCommerce, IT and web companies, where his vast knowledge about business, technology and legal matters help guide companies to success. Martin also spend a considerable portion of his time advising on legal and commercial issues related to open licensing within open source, creative commons (open content), open data, open APIs and more.
In Denmark, Martin is considered a pioneer within the Internet and web industry as he introduced the concept of Internet law in Denmark back in 1994.
Topic: Deloitte perspective on blockchain and tokenization in Denmark.
There is much hype around blockchain, but the first production solutions are running and the financial sector that is leading developments. Rasmus gives an overview of the development by presenting two analyzes that Deloitte continuously carries out. Rasmus will present a couple of cases where Deloitte has helped customers realize blockchain projects.
About Rasmus
Rasmus is an expert in digital transformations, and he has more than 12 years of experience in optimizing sales, marketing and service across industries. Rasmus’ main focus is primarily on how to use digital solutions and data to create insight into customer wishes, behavior and needs, so that a customer-centered company can be obtained.
Lasse Birk Olesen
Topic: Dai: Stable Blockchain Currency for Frictionless Global Transactions
Get introduced to the world of decentralized finance and the next generation of financial services.
Nascence of blockchain technology came together with Bitcoin over 10 years ago. Bitcoin has played a pivotal role in the early days of cryptocurrencies, yet, due to its volatility, it has transitioned from its original vision of digital cash into being considered a speculative asset. Fast forward a couple of years later, a new idea evolves–stablecoin, a cryptocurrency that is designed to minimize volatility, its value pegged to a currency.
The applications of Dai stablecoin are many. Understand the most common use cases of the stablecoin for different stakeholders, learn about the existing projects benefiting from Dai, and get inspired for your venture.
About Lasse
Lasse Birk Olesen, a blockchain entrepreneur since 2011, currently as Head of Innovations at MakerDAO, will introduce you into the wonders of Dai, the first decentralized stablecoin issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Learn about the Dai Credit System and its elements, including Dai stablecoin and trustless collateralized debt positions.
Morten Nielsen
ICO expert, Fintech, Investments, blockchain assets, digital payments
Topic: Assets on the blockchain
Morten will be speaking about the tokenization of assets like bonds, stocks and commodities have the potential of completely changing the way we trade assets as well as the cost of trading assets in the near future.
About Morten
Morten Nielsen has years of experience in finance, fundraising and the cryptocurrency space. With experience from JP Morgan in London and Tokyo for five years as well as a position at UBS as global head of hedge fund derivative marketing, he gained a great insight to the world of finance.
Since then he has also gained great knowledge of ICO’s and the regulations surrounding them and has today positioned himself as an expert in the field. The digitalization of financial assets is a great passion of Morten’s, and his vision for a globalized digital system play a significant role in the success of ARYZE.
Erik Balck Sørensen
Panel 3 Participant: Blockchain Business Use-Cases & Venture Funding
About Erik
Erik is responsible for new investments and business development within the ICT(TECH) portfolio. Erik has made three recent investments in RFRSH, a leading e-sport entertainment company, Insurance Business Applications, a fast growing Danish insurance suite SaaS company and First Agenda, an innovative meeting management company based on speech-recognition and machine learning technology. Erik has a background as a co-founder and executive manager of a series of tech start-ups such as Billetto.com, Downtown.dk, BloggersDelight.dk and TakeOffer.dk and he has held multiple board member and chairman positions. Erik has extensive experience with management, business development, fundraising and sales from the IT and gaming industry, and has working experience from USA, France and Belgium.
State of venture funding in the blockchain scene (keywords):
- Suddenly everything was blockchain related (at least on paper)
- The emergence of blockchain only VCs
- ICOs as an alternative to Venture Capital
- Dominance of Crypto-related blockchain start-ups.
- VF Venture skeptical towards crypto-projects and ICOs
