09:45-10:15 How will Blockchain Technology transform financial services? Dr. Garrick Hileman, Economist at the London School of Economics.

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1 January PROGRAM FINTECH R&D INNOVATION CONFERENCE 08:00-09:15 REGISTRATION 1 08:00-09:30 WELCOME COFFEE & NETWORKING 09:30-09:35 CONFERENCE INTRODUCTION Karl A. Johannesson FinTech Innovation Coach 09:35-09:40 OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE Public and Private Partnerships in FinTech Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy of Luxembourg 09:40-09:45 SnT within the FinTech Innovation Ecosystem of Luxembourg Prof. Björn Ottersten, Director SnT (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust), University of Luxembourg. PLENARY SESSION The morning plenary session focus on key change paradigms and expectations for how the FinTech transformation of the banking and FI sectors might evolve in short and medium term. New disruptive business models, backed by Venture Capital and public funding and now establishing a strong market presence across horizontal and vertical FinTech market segments, will be discussed. New private and public Luxembourg funding instruments in 2016 for R&D, seed-funding and private equity investments; including FinTech will be presented. 09:45-10:15 How will Blockchain Technology transform financial services? Dr. Garrick Hileman, Economist at the London School of Economics. 10:15-10:45 Disruptive FinTech Landscape; predictions for Philippe Gelis, Co-Founder and CEO of Kantox. 10:45-11:05 COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING 11:05-11:35 The Future of FinTech and Banking: Digitally Disrupted or Reinvented? Mali Marafini, CEO Interruptiv. 1 No te. Al l speakers are con firmed (14/1 2/ 201 5)

2 PLENARY SESSION 11:35-11:45 New Funding Opportunities for Cooperation in Research & Innovation Marc Schiltz, Secretary General Luxembourg National Research Fund 11:45-12:00 Venture Capital Investment in FinTech What s on the Radar screen? Alain Rodermann, Founding Partner, Expon Capital 12:00-12:40 PANEL DISCUSSION and QUESTIONS FROM AUDIENCE How can Luxembourg become a competitive FinTech Hub? Introduction by Gérard Hoffmann, Chairman ICT Luxembourg Panellists: Xavier Buck, Chairman DCL Group Marc Hemmerling, Member of the Management Board ABBL Pascal Lanser, Country Manager CIONET Speakers from morning sessions 12:40-14:00 BUFFET LUNCH & NETWORKING 14:00-16:30 PARALLEL AFTERNOON FINTECH STREAMS Afternoon FinTech streams are interactive presentations with invited guest speakers/animators and by teams of leading scientists from SnT presenting the latest research trends related to FinTech topics. Potential generic research topics and user cases will be discussed in order to give impetus to explore potential joint R&D projects. Participants are encouraged to participate actively as there is a combination of several short presentations and discussions. Maximum 45 participants per FinTech Stream (on a first come basis) to keep an interactive format. 16:30- REFRESHMENT & NETWORKING

3 FINTECH STREAM I COMPLIANCE, SECURITY AUDIT & VERIFICATION FOR FINTECH During this Session practical user cases for online monitoring and verification techniques for a wide range of FinTech operations will be presented. Automated Support for Security Audits and innovative concepts for ensuring compliance are being showcased. 14:00-16:00 Moderator: Prof. Lionel Briand Regulatory Compliance : How FinTech firms can automate and reduce the cost of demonstrating compliance with the applicable laws and regulations. Dr. Mehrdad (Mike) Sabetzadeh Does your system deliver what you expect? An overview of online monitoring and verification techniques for checking whether your system meets your requirements. Dr. Domenico Bianculli Is your system vulnerable? Effective techniques for access control and penetration Testing. Dr. Cu Duy Nguyen Automated Support for Security Audits : Program Analysis and machine learningbased techniques for verifying implementation (code) security. Dr. Shar Lwin FINTECH STREAM II CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN AND SMART CONTRACTS During this Session participants will be able to apprehend practical usage of Blockchain technology and applications across various FinTech applications. Smart contracts with state-of-the-art cryptographic tools and specific properties will be discussed in an interactive mode. FinTech Stream II is introduced by two speakers giving talks aimed at a non-technical audience interested in smart contracts and cryptocurrencies. 14:00-16:30 The future of digital and complementary currencies Dr. Garrick Hileman, Economic Historian at the London School of Economics "Smart contracts -- state-of-the-art. A broader perspective with a high level overview about smart contracts and sophisticated privacy-preserving smart contracts. Andrew Miller, PhD Candidate Based on the interest and active participation of participants a selected discussion topics will be presented and discussed (see below). Prof. Alex Biryukov, FSTC Professor (co-presenter). Dr. Dmitry Khovratovich, FSTC Postdoc (co-presenter) Customization of blockchain, comparison with Ripple and Ethereum Security and Privacy in cryptocurrencies Enhancement of blockchain security mechanisms: encryption and authentication Anonymity and privacy for blockchain users and its tuning for law enforcement and data science (KYC/AML) Security evaluation and comparison of alt-coins and meta-currencies (Ripple, Ethereum) Fine-grained micropayments for online services: development and implementation Customization of cryptocurrencies and blockchain mechanisms for concrete applications: egalitarian mining, computation-less proofs (proof-of-stake), reputation-based networks

4 FINTECH STREAM III DATA ANALYTICS, BIG DATA AND MOBILE SECURITY In this Session three topics are presented with practical case studies related to data analytics, big data fraud detection and mobile security for data and payment. Case studies: How to transform FinTech data into valuable information, sensitive data leaks and how to identify fraudsters using advanced state of art Big Data Architecture. FinTech Stream III is introduced by two guest speakers. 14:00-16:30 Moderator: Prof. Yves le Traon, FSTC Professor Private Equity Viewpoint: Is predictive & analytical tools needed for FinTech? Alain Rodermann, Founding Partner, Expon Capital How to leverage the 'Wisdom of the Crowd' to make predictions? Peronet Despeignes, Special Ops at Augur.net. Based on the interest and active participation of participants a selected discussion topics, which are more case orientated, will be presented (see below). How to modelling core business processes to transform raw data into manipulable information Dr. Gregory Nain Case Study: Big Data Processing & Fraud Detection with analysis of 250TB data samples Dr. Lautaro Dolberg and Patrick Glauner Automated detection and fix of Vulnerabilities: a Dream? How large repositories and big data mining can help detecting vulnerabilities and reduce the time-to-fix Dr. Tegawendé F. Bissyande Machine learning for enabling reasoning about data Dr. François Fouquet Mobile Malware Detection and Compromised Smartphone: is your banking app still secure even on a compromised smartphone? Dr. Jacques Klein Security Testing Apps, taking into account the specificities of Mobile Dr. Mike Papadakis

5 FINTECH STREAM IV INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN FINTECH SECURITY & PRIVACY In this Session several innovative approaches to FinTech service infrastructure solutions will be presented; including secure authentication, e-cash, functional cryptography and lightweight versions of smart contracts. 14:00-16:00 Secure authentication over insecure channels : everything you wanted to know about secure exchange of encryption keys over the Internet but were afraid to ask Dr. Jean Lancrenon Transparency, Verifiability and Privacy : verifiable systems allowing everyone to prove that something happened by the rules without revealing too much data Dr. Gabriele Lenzini Privacy-friendly e-cash : concepts for crypto-based e-cash Dr. Qiang Tang Functional cryptography : encrypted operations over encrypted data and other privacy-respecting operators Dr. Vincenzo Iovino Next generation cloud infrastructures for Smart Contracts. Case Study: Lightweight virtualisation approaches highlight how these can scale up to the requirements to the future Internet of Money Mathis Steichen and Beltran Fiz Pontiveros, PhD students Organised by: In co-operation with: