Cross-border payments are expected to transform by using blockchain technology offering inexpensive highly efficient and faster transfers than ever. Innovations in the IoT space will compete to disrupt the payment infrastructure further. Will online platforms' payments ever be completely decentralized? What does the shift to a "platform economy" where transactions are decentralized mean to the user? How do new blockchain based projects deal cyber security risks? Big players in the payment space are joining the race and compete with best blockchain startups proposing payment system for business-to-business transactions "partially based on blockchain technology.", what's the difference? These and others questions to be addressed in a promising debate with experts and founders operating in the space.

The event is organised by Trustless Ecosystems 2030 - a meetup group committed to support responsible blockchain projects i and spread the adoption of blockchain technologies sponsored by TiiQu and organized by Laura Degiovanni .

SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Julio Alejandro - CEO Humanitarian Blockchain

Maria Tanjala - Co-founder Filmchain.co

Guy Davies - Advisor Brixton Pound

Anton Mozgovoy - Technology and blockchain expert

Raki Brown - CEO Createlinx

Jason Maude - Chief technology advocate Starling Bank

Mann Matharu - Founder Stark payments

PROGRAM

please note: we will start at 6:30 sharp make sure coming early!

6:30 pm - Welcome at Trustless Ecosystems 2030 - Laura Degiovanni

6:45 pm- Keynote - Will payments be ever decentralized? - Julio Alejandro

7:00 - 8:00 pm - Presentation and talks

8:00 - 8:50 pm - Panel discussion with startup founders, blockchain and payment systems experts chaired by Julio Alejandro

8:50 - 9:00 pm - Q&A

9:00 pm - Join panellists at The Coral Room - 16-22 great Russell Street, Bloomsbury ( 2 min walk from Bloomsbury gallery)

BIOs

Maria Tanjala - Co- founder Filmchain

Maria's background is in film production, from budgeting to distribution and she is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation in the industry she loves. The founders won "Blockchain Founder of the Year" UK Tech Founder Awards 2018 and "'Best Woman-led Investment in Innovation" UKBAA Awards 2019.

FilmChain (filmchain.co) is the first automatic fintech service that collects, allocates and analyses revenues for film, TV, and digital content using smart contracts on Ethereum. Clients adopting the platform end-to-end include Council of Europe Eurimages, Golden-Globe winning producers and numerous funds. FilmChain provides transparency, payment automation, rights management tracker, much lower fees to its users. The startup is financed by the UK government. Imperial College and University of Toronto CDL Blockchain-AI are their tech partners.

Guy Davies - Advisor Brixton Pound

Guy Davies is passionate about helping organisations create meaningful change using technology for ethical and social good. Currently leading the new Digital Currency Platform build for the Brixton Pound and a Co-Founder of a German start-up dealing with Intellectual Property Rights using Blockchain Technology.

With 15 years commercial business development across innovation and technology products, Guy helps discern nascent markets and deliver new business strategies. He also has 30 years experience in the music industry as a writer, producer and performer. Guy thrives on building and maintaining strategic relationships whilst communicating complex ideas in a simple way across all stakeholder levels. His role in life is to create music and build bridges between technology, communities and business.

Anton Mozgovoy - Technology and blockchain expert

In 2017 Anton became CTO of Humaniq - a fintech company working on blockchain solution creating a financial marketplace for emerging markets. Humaniq has been selected as a top pick in blockchain in 2018 by TechCrunch. It has also been selected as a top use case by the UK Parliament in APPG. With his team, Anton launched the first hybrid blockchain in production.

After being Invited to serve as a mentor in FasterCapital responsible for tracking and mentoring startups in fintech, blockchain and crypto spaces, Anton took the role in 2018 of senior partner in Investment Network Company (INC). INC helps startups and projects related to technology get access to venture capital; currently he advises Nyne and LegalFAB. Nyne - is a rare sneakers investment platform. LegalFAB - is blockchain company working on legal documents automation.

Jason Maude - Chief technology Advocate Starling Bank

Jason is a coder, coach, and public speaker. He has over a decade of experience working in the financial sector, primarily in creating and delivering software. He is passionate about explaining complex technical concepts to those who are convinced that they won't be able to understand them. He currently works at Starling Bank as their Chief Technology Advocate and host of the Starling podcast.

Starling is a leading digital bank, founded in 2014 and voted Best British Bank in 2018 and 2019. Its retail banking app offers personal, business and joint current accounts on Android and iOS. The Starling Marketplace allows customers to in-app access to a curated selection of third party financial services. Starling also offers groundbreaking B2B banking and payments services.

Mann Matharu - Founder Stark payments

Mann is a passionate technologist and a Certified Blockchain Expert. He first started his digital agency back in 2003 and over the years, he has personally supported over 200 small businesses and worked with some of the biggest brands including Groupon, L’Oreal, SkinCeuticals and New Balance. His latest venture, Stark Payments is designed to build a bridge for conventional payment companies to introduce crypto currency solutions to their existing business customers, with a view of introducing them to new global markets and future-proofing their businesses.

Raki Brown - CEO Createlinx

Raki's passion for robotics and Artificial Intelligence, pairs with his thirst for innovation, together with Dr. Mirko Kovac, Director of the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London, set up SkyCity Robotics Ltd. to collaborate on a window-cleaning drone invented by Raki. This experience sparked new ideas and since parting ways with SkyCity, Raki has dedicated all his time to Createlinx, bringing his ideas to life, attracting talent into his team and solidifying his network of industry influencers and advisors.

Julio Alexandro - Humanitarian Blockchain

International public speaker and an e-governance consultant specialized in political decentralized technologies and non-state (non-governmental) electronic solutions for complex global problems.From 2015, Julio has lectured, lobbied, and/or competed in United Nations, Google, European Union, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, WeWork Headquarters, and +40 universities and institutions worldwide on Blockchain, AI/ML, and IoT projects and systems.Interviewed by BBC, CNN, Fox News. Recognized as the “Leonardo da Vinci of Fintech” (Cointelegraph 2016). Listed as one of the world’s Top 100 Influential Fintech leaders (Onalytica). As of May 2018 serving as as global Ambassador for Aeternity - $1.3 Billion USD market cap, CEO & Founder of Jada Consulting , CEO & Founder of Humanitarian Blockchain , US & UK Foreign Correspondent for Excelsior; 2nd largest media corporation in Latin America, advisor of Bitnation - World's most revolutionary project for Blockchain governance, violence, jurisdictions, and trust.

Laura Degiovanni - Founder and CEO TiiQu

Laura is the CEO and Founder of TIIQU using blockchain technology to remove guesswork and assumptions from credentials with the aim to facilitate instant trust in the global business arena. Since 2016, Laura is committed to make of the TiiQu score, the standard measurement of trustworthiness. To contribute spreading the concept of Trustlessness, Laura launched in 2018 the #trustlessecosystems group taking it to over 800 members and she is now developing a new chapter of the initial group, focused on intensifying the conversation between real world and blockchian world and accelerate the adoption of trustworthy blockchain based systems.