Conference Program. June 7 9, 2017

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1 Conference Program. June 7 9, 2017

2 DAY ONE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7 9:00 AM PRE-SUMMIT (Separate registration required) SU TECHNOLOGY BOOTCAMP Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies WELCOME Mike Sigal Partner, 500 Startups 1. BLOCKCHAIN INTRO AND OVERVIEW Robert Schwentker Founding President of Blockchain University Robert will provide an overview and Q&A for 35 minutes, especially rooted in financial services. 2. BLOCKCHAIN USE CASES Anne Connelly Vice Chair of the Board of Blockchain Canada Explore the ways in which distributed digital ledgers are being used to automate and decentralize the way we live and work. 3. FROM PILOT TO PRODUCTION Eric Piscini Principal of Financial Services Technology & Global FSI Blockchain Leader, Deloitte A review of the various roadblocks and challenges ahead for blockchain, as well as the solutions to address them. 4. Q&A WITH SPEAKERS 1:00 PM SUMMIT OPENS WELCOME Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University EXONOMICS Amin Toufani Faculty, Singularity University Explore unifying themes among disruptive trends in business strategy, financial markets, cryptocurrencies, economic policy, and risk management. Exponential technologies have profound effects on how economies function, and exonomics surveys this emerging new world and its implications for individuals, businesses and governments. 2:10 PM BREAK 2:20 PM INTRODUCTION TO EXPONENTIALS TRACK Emcee: Will Weisman INTRO TO EXPONENTIALS Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University Gain a better understanding of both where we currently stand, as well as what to expect, across a wide range of exponential technologies through the distinct perspective of Singularity University. SINGULARITY UNIVERSITY ALUMNI TRACK Emcee: Lisa Kay Solomon WELCOME Lisa Kay Solomon Managing Director of Transformational Practices, Singularity University Gain a better understanding of both where we currently stand, as well as what to expect, across a wide range of exponential technologies, in this session especially geared for alumni.

3 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING & BIG DATA Neil Jacobstein Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Chair, Singularity University How machine learning and data analytics are revolutionizing credit, risk, and fraud, and changing the overall financial services landscape. ENERGY Ramez Naam Energy & Environmental Systems Faculty, Singularity University How the cost of new energy technologies is dropping, existing companies face disruption, and investors have tremendous opportunities to profit. BLOCKCHAIN Toni Lane Casserly Partner, BitNation An introduction to blockchain and cryptocurrencies, and an accurate look at how they re disrupting markets and the current economic landscape. QUANTUM COMPUTING Andrew Fursman Faculty, Singularity University How quantum computing is solving difficult financial problems, and a realistic take on how these machines will impact your business. QUANTUM COMPUTING Andrew Fursman Faculty, Singularity University How quantum computing is solving difficult financial problems, and a realistic take on how these machines will impact your business. BLOCKCHAIN Robert Schwentker Founding President of Blockchain University With the boom of token and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), has blockchain tech unlocked a Pandora s box for venture capital s disruption? ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING & BIG DATA Neil Jacobstein Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Chair, Singularity University How machine learning and data analytics are revolutionizing credit, risk, and fraud, and changing the overall financial services landscape. ENERGY Ramez Naam Energy & Environmental Systems Faculty, Singularity University How the cost of new energy technologies is dropping, existing companies face disruption, and investors have tremendous opportunities to profit. 4:15 PM BREAK 4:45 PM EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Bob Pisani On-Air Stocks Editor, CNBC A broad, yet impactful look at how exponential technologies are changing the fundamental nature of the financial industry. FINTECH STARTUP LANDSCAPE Mike Sigal Partner, 500 Startups Mike Sigal, Fintech Partner at 500 Startups, the world s most active early-stage fintech investor since 2012, will share a snapshot of current trends in fintech startups and venture investment. CROWDSOURCING AND HEDGE FUNDS Brinkley Warren Co-founder & CMO of Quantiacs EXPONENTIAL IMPACT / FINANCIAL INCLUSION Ashish Gadnis Founder & CEO, BanQu Jane Barratt Founder & CEO, GoldBean ABUNDANCE Peter Diamandis Co-Founder & Chairman, Singularity University

4 7:00 PM DINNER 8:30 PM CHAIRMAN S SESSION ENHANCED Only Peter Diamandis Co-Founder & Chairman, Singularity University Bob Pisani On-Air Stocks Editor, CNBC MOONSHOTS OVER SHOTS Jack Hidary Chairman, Samba Energy, Senior Advisor, Alphabet X Labs, Chairman, Hidary Foundation A lively and interactive workshop to develop and bring to life audacious, seemingly impossible goals. This workshop will have an AI theme.

5 DAY TWO THURSDAY, JUNE 8 7:00 AM MORNING MEDITATION WITH MUSE BREAKFAST 8:30 AM WELCOME BACK Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University ASK ME ANYTHING Peter Diamandis Co-Founder & Chairman, Singularity University This is your opportunity to pose any question to Peter Diamandis, co-founder of SU, founder of the XPRIZE, and one of the world s leading futurists! THE POWER OF NARRATIVE John Hagel Co-Chair, Deloitte s Center for the Edge Exponential technologies are paradoxically creating expanding opportunity and mounting performance pressure. To turn pressure into opportunity, we will need to re-think our approach to strategy, re-frame what we mean by innovation and pursue new approaches to business transformation. INVESTING IN DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION Catherine Wood Founder & CEO, ARK Investment 10:30 AM BREAK 11:00 AM TRACK 1: BANKING Emcees: Brett King and Will Weisman BANKING BANKING EVERYWHERE BUT NEVER AT A BANK Brett King Author and Founder, Moven How today s consumer demands are influencing tomorrow s banking system, and why most of today s banks won t survive the shift. COGNITIVE AUTOMATION & ROBOTICS IN BANKING Sridhar Rajan Principal, Deloitte Consulting TRACK 2: WEALTH MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL ADVISING Emcee: Ric Edelman THE FUTURE OF FINANCIAL ADVISING Ric Edelman Founder and Executive Chairman, Edelman Financial Services Providing advice to your clients in a period of dramatic change. DO HUMAN FINANCIAL ADVISORS HAVE A FUTURE IN THE EXPONENTIAL WORLD? Bill Bachrach Chairman & CEO, Bachrach & Associates John Bowen CEO, CEG Worldwide Kevin Knull Former President, MoneyGuidePro (PIEtech, Inc.) How humans will interact with machines, what to expect as a retail advisor, and how to be successful in an exponential future. TRACK 3: INSURANCE Emcee: Diane Francis EXPONENTIAL INSURANCE Angela Strange Partner, Andreessen Horowitz Developments in predicting, forecasting, money and cash management, and trading, and newly emerging types of insurance. INSURANCE & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Daniel Schreiber CEO & Co-Founder, Lemonade How bots and machine learning are replacing brokers and bureaucracy, pushing insurance toward zero paperwork and instant everything.

6 CAPITAL MARKETS Peter Randall CEO of SETL EXPONENTIAL TECH & INVESTING Ric Edelman (moderator) Jeffrey Tarrant Founder, CEO & CIO at Protege Partners Danielle Hughes CEO Divine Capital Markets Sharon Sputz Director of Strategic Programs, Data Science Institute, Columbia University How data, new data platforms, and the advancement of machine learning are creating opportunities in wealth management. BIOMETRICS & DIGITAL IDENTITY Bianca Lopes Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Marketing, BioConnect Rob Douglas Chairman & CEO, BioConnect The challenges, successes and barriers to implementing biometrics, and the influence of mobile on accelerating the industry. 12:30 PM LUNCH 2:00 PM TRACK 1: BANKING (CONT.) TRACK 2: WEALTH MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL ADVISING (CONT.) TRACK 3: INSURANCE (CONT.) DIGITAL BANKING & EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGY Mary Harman Managing Director & Payments Strategy, Bank of America TAKING BLOCKCHAIN TO PRODUCTION - AN ONGOING PERSPECTIVE Matt Spoke CEO & Co-Founder, Nuco John Lee Vice President, Head of Innovation and Enterprise Delivery, TMX Group Why building on a blockchain platform is valuable, how to innovate through collaboration, and the challenges of integrating new technologies. PREPARING FOR THE COMING TSUNAMI OF WEALTH TRANSFER Jay Lipman Co-Founder & CEO Ethic DIGITAL WEALTH - THE FUTURE OF WEALTH MANAGEMENT Gauthier Vincent Principal, Deloitte BLOCKCHAIN IN INSURANCE Eric Piscini Principal of Financial Services Technology & Global FSI Blockchain Leader, Deloitte Pete Miller President & CEO of The Institutes Why organizations decide to initiate blockchain activities, the value proposition to their industries, and the challenges to delivering tangible value. INSURETECH Nigel Walsh Deloitte Chris Cheatham CEO/Founder Risk Genius Anatola He Director of Product Strategy, HyperScience What it is, who s doing it, and why AI will save insurance.

7 THE FUTURE OF BANKING Gary A. Bolles (moderator) Partner, Charrette LLC Luvleen Sidhu Co-Founder & CSO, Bankmobile Alida Draudt Futurist & Service Designer, Capital One Nitish Kannan CEO, Circle Plus Payments, Inc. How financial services firms hire, manage, and develop talent is changing. These are the strategies leaders need to know to navigate the future. DIGITAL WEALTH - GETTING TO WORK STRATEGIZING & IMPLEMENTING Gauthier Vincent Principal, Deloitte Kabir Sethi Managing Director & Head of Digital Wealth, Bank of America Merrill Lynch THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF INSURANCE Samir Shah CEO, Ledger Investing How innovation in technology and capital are disrupting insurance, and how to use these forces to redesign the insurance value chain. 3:30 PM BREAK 4:00 PM EXPONENTIAL TRADECRAFT SESSIONS MAKING INNOVATION REAL Amelia Dunlop Doblin Deloitte FINANCE FOR IMPACT Greg Amrofell Intentional Futures Identify social problems that exponential finance can address, call out barriers standing in the way, and brainstorm solutions. EXPONENTIAL BUSINESS MODELS Patrick van der Pijl Business Model Inc. Nine principles outlining how to design exponential business models that foster and lead disruptive change. RAPID FIRE SCENARIOS FOR CHANGING WORLDS Lisa Kay Solomon Singularity University A hands-on seminar on what scenario planning is, and how visiting the future can help leaders reframe problems as strategic opportunities. STRATEGIC FORESIGHT AND THE FUTURE OF MONEY Alida Draudt Futurist and Author Julia Rose West Futurist and Author Combines financial market segments, drivers, trends, and signals to collaboratively explore potential futures and their implications. SCI-FI DI Christine Kelly Singularity University Learn how to innovate in a way that s inspired by Science Fiction thoughts and methods. EXTERNAL INNOVATION Mike Sigal and Jelena Ewart 500 Start-Ups Explores some of the best sourcing, collaboration, management and cultural change practices employed by the dozens of corporations that work with 500 Startups and our early-stage portfolio companies.

8 5:30 PM PERSPECTIVES IN GLOBAL FINTECH Thomas Jankovich (moderator) Financial Services Innovation Leader Shelly Kapoor Collins Managing Partner, The Shatter Fund of Propeller Venture Capital Mark Hand ANZ fintech Margaret Hartigan Founder & CEO, Marstone How a surge of global innovation, fueled by misstrust, technology and new business models, is challenging who has the legitimacy and resources to provide financial services. EXPONENTIAL LEADERSHIP David Roberts Business and Technology Disruption Expert On leadership, decision making and performance in a world of technology disruption, exponential change and global problems. DAY 2 WRAPUP Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University 7:00 PM DINNER 9:00 PM FIRESIDE CHAT WITH DAVID ROBERTS ENHANCED Only David Roberts Business and Technology Disruption Expert FIRESIDE CHAT WITH SALIM ISMAIL ENHANCED Only Salim Ismail Chairman, ExO Works and Founding Executive Director, Singularity University SHOWING OF THE UNIVERSITY Documentary by Matt Rutherford

9 DAY THREE FRIDAY, JUNE 9 7:00 AM MORNING MEDITATION WITH MUSE BREAKFAST 8:30 AM OVERVIEW OF THE DAY Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University SECURITY - PROTECTING YOURSELF AND YOUR ORGANIZATION Marc Goodman Founder, Future Crimes Institute THE FUTURE OF WORK Gary A. Bolles Partner, Charrette LLC Matthew Breitfelder Chief Talent Officer, BlackRock How financial services firms hire, manage, and develop talent is changing. These are the strategies leaders need to know to navigate the future. 10:30 AM BREAK 11:00 AM EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS Salim Ismail Chairman, ExO Works and Founding Executive Director, Singularity University Drawing on research from his award-winning book, Ismail will show how companies can use disruptive technologies to streamline operations and dramatically outperform competitors. INTERVIEW WITH RAY KURZWEIL Ray Kurzweil Co-founder & Chancellor, Singularity University Bob Pisani (Interviewer) On-Air Stocks Editor, CNBC A chat with the fascinating Ray Kurzweil, one the world s leading inventors, thinkers and futurists, and CNBC s world renowned Bob Pisani. EXPONENTIAL INTO ACTION Salim Ismail Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University CLOSING REMARKS Will Weisman Executive Director/Summits, Singularity University 1:00 PM SUMMIT ADJOURNS

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