Scotland Fintech Festival 2022

8.30am - 5pm

Now in its ninth year, the Fintech Summit has established itself as the largest annual gathering of financial technology leaders in the country and will serve as the launch event of the Scotland Fintech Festival. The event will be run fully live and in-person at the iconic Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on Thursday 15th September 2022.

9.30am - 4pm

The event aims to bring industries, higher education and talents in the Fintech field together through a two-day workshop and provide a holistic view of how financial technology can be fused and expanded in Scotland. This event will be accounting for all fundamental supporting areas upon which the performance of the Scottish Technology Ecosystem depends, namely education and talent, infrastructure, and funding. The event is co-funded and supported by the Scottish Technology Ecosystem Fund of the Scottish Government.

9.30am - 11.30am

Join us to learn how your business can make the most of innovative payment solutions to save your business time, money and improve your cashflow. This event will bring together, businesses, fintechs and experts across the innovation ecosystem to learn from one another, hear best practice and understand how to use emerging technology at a practical level.

9am - 10am

In order to understand more on the opportunities in China, and to bring knowledge directly to the Scottish Fintech Community, SDI has commissioned research into the opportunities available to Scottish fintechs, looking at trends in technology, business models, collaboration opportunities and viable routes to market. Author of the report, Dr. Wei WU, Associate Professor of China Overseas Institute at Shenzhen University will present his findings at this session.

10am - 12pm

Fundsquire will be at the Scotland Fintech Festival in September 2022 Fundsquire is a global startup and scale-up growth funding specialist with offices in the UK, Australia and Canada. We help entrepreneurs grow their businesses with fast, easy, and early ways to access capital – beyond selling equity.

12pm - 1pm

Internal facing session showcasing the last 4 months of TSB Labs, who we are working with currently and what they can provide TSB and our customers.

Crypto Nexus is an interactive workshop designed to guide financial leaders from crypto-curious to crypto-capable in an educational environment. Participants are guided through a hands-on curriculum covering blockchain technology, essential Web3 concepts, decentralized finance, and more. By the end of the workshop, students are more confident in their ability to understand this complicated space and identify new opportunities to gain a competitive advantage.

3.30pm - 5pm

With the introduction of the blockchain protocol a little more than a decade ago a new breed of information technology (IT) came to existence. One that is able to scale globally in a bottom up fashion via the incentive driven and protocol mediated collaboration of individual node operators. This type of technology motivated rethinking from first principles the current state of IT and how established paradigms in various IT supported domains such as finance, media, supply chain, government and others could benefit from it. In this talk, Professor Aggelos Kiayias will review the advantages as well as the challenges in harnessing this technology and also point to directions for future research and development.

4pm - 5.30pm

Join us for the next event in our series with Henderson Loggie. This session looks at two topics: R&D Tax Relief and Intellectual Property.

1pm - 5.30pm

We’re proud to be hosting an event which aims to support women and non-binary individuals, start or progress their careers in tech. We’ll be holding workshops in areas such as developing CV’s, walking through the first steps of learning to code and running Technical sessions for the more experienced technologist. You’ll also hear the stories of entrepreneurial, inspirational women who are making waves across our tech eco system. Build your network across the Fintech, Academic and Financial Services sectors, relax with your new friends with a drink and nibbles at our networking session to close the event. We look forward to seeing you there.

3pm - 4pm

This event will bring together senior leaders across Scotland’s prominent businesses to hear from our speakers around how fintech is addressing the current environment, the smart data foundry and how that is solving real challenges along with capital investment. This will no doubt open up a highly interactive discussion. To register please email sophiemoteau@fwbparkbrown.com

10am - 12pm

FinTech Scotland invites you to an exclusive event to hear about innovation opportunities for fintechs. We're delighted to welcome some great speakers to look at what's happening in Scotland, the UK and Europe. Agenda: Innovate UK's Innovation competition - Open Finance Innovation in Scotland - Synthetic Data at the Smart Data Foundry - Money2020 World Tour

10am - 12pm

With the death of third-party cookies, FinTech businesses urgently need to find fresh sources of data. Join Phoenix Group, Pool Data, and Unbanx at Scotland's FinTech Festival to explore why data unions might hold the solution. Professionals need more data than ever before to make the right decisions, increase brand insights, and feed AI and machine learning systems. This in-person event will provide you with a deep understanding of data unions: bodies that represent consumers and bargain for their data rights and value collectively.

6.30pm

As part of this year’s Scotland Fintech Festival, Copy House are hosting an exclusive dinner for fintech brands and representatives looking to upscale their marketing efforts. This dinner will be attended by the game-changers in the industry and is exclusive to 20 places. Join us there for an informal discussion about the strategies, technologies and leadership techniques that CMOs and marketing leaders are utilising to transform their Fintech brand into revenue-generating machines even during uncertain times like recession.

10am - 11am

In this 1-hour workshop learn why over 90% of ventures fail and learn the three strategies that will help you reduce your risk of failure as you launch and scale your venture. FinTech is quickly re-shaping the "Future of Finance". The rapid growth of the FinTech Industry is driving a highly competitive marketplace for solutions throughout Insurance & Financial Services. As well as exploring the common causes of high failure rates, this 60-minute workshop will quickly arm you with a 9-stage model that helps you understand your current commercial maturity and a commercialisation model that you can use to build a complete and efficient strategy for your next stage of commercialisation. This, not to be missed, insight packed workshop focuses your attention on how tech-enabled entrepreneurs and product owners, can avoid common causes of commercialisation failure and efficiently accelerate success. By the end of the workshop you will have models that you can use to construct your own, winning, commercialisation advantage.

4pm - 5pm

This Regtech Forum is focused on cryptocurrency literacy. Among the questions the panel members will address are the following: What should Gen Z and new investors know about cryptocurrencies? How do the characteristics of equities and cryptocurrencies vary? What are the critical risks compared to other forms of investing? How do the views of regulators and investors in crypto vary? Should crypto alternatives be part of the financial portfolio they are developing and if so, at what point in their investing experience?

12.30pm

It is important to ‘live for today as well as plan for tomorrow’, and striking the right balance can often be challenging. If you would like some tips to help you to effectively plan your financial future, you may be interested in joining us for a free, informative, lunchtime webinar.

3pm - 5pm

Phoenix Group and strategic partner TCS will showcase how the use of FinTech innovation can highlight and shape organisational ability to support customer vulnerability, using customer case studies and pilot trials to bring the topic to life. The event will be followed by networking with drinks and canapes.

12pm - 1pm

Ever had an important meeting, interview or even a conversation where you wished you had made more of an impression? How do you make an impact? Part of the answer is to become a ‘Key Person of Influence’. In this part our influencing series webinars, we’ll consider the practical steps we can take to make sure we make a personal impact.

6pm

Campfires are designed to inspire, educate and catalyse sector growth on red-hot relevant topics. OBE always attracts the best speakers for our global industry conversations. During this Campfire, we are talking to industry experts from our familia in Brazil taking a deep dive into Payment Initiation in Brazil.

3pm - 5pm

This in-depth 6-hour bootcamp, split over 3 days, is fully supported by cloud-based tools and expert practitioners. Over 90% of ventures fail and 75% of all VC backed ventures fail. Learn why, discover how you can avoid these failures, learn from models of other successful companies and build a commercialisation strategy that will accelerate your success and ensure both capital and resource efficiency. The FinTech sector in the UK is comprised of over 1,600 firms, and that number is projected to double by 2030 according to the International Trade Association. Better yet the UK holds the largest FinTech ecosystem across Europe and the third largest globally after USA and China. This provides a highly competitive environment from Start-up to Scale-up with very high levels of failure rates. This workshop over 3 days will provide the training, techniques and tools you need to build a complete commercialisation strategy on your road to success.

9.00am - 11.30am

In partnership with Fraser of Allander Institute and contributors from across Scottish business, Addleshaw Goddard present an update to their major trend report, last issued in October 2020. At this breakfast event, we look at where the innovation is happening in real businesses, where the tensions are between public and private sector stakeholders, what challenges need clever thinking and how and where the opportunities are for sustainable growth.

6pm - late

An evening of drinks during the Scottish Fintech Festival for Fintech Founders to connect over the challenges & joys of building a fintech company.

9am - 10am

We are hosting an event to chat to founders and team builders in the start up/scale up ecosystem about the best approaches and ideas to enhance your: -Recruitment (in the context of the skills shortage) - Attraction (in the context of having to compete with large FS) - Retention (In the context of the market being more favourable to employees than companies)

Join 1,200+ attendees in-person at the SEC, Glasgow to hear from the brightest minds in the tech industry and discover the impact technology is having on our world.

11am - 12pm

We are hosting a virtual presentation with our Head of Private Capital Markets, Reggie Mills, to offer the Scotland FinTech community an insight into Private Capital Market fundraising in difficult market conditions.

5.30pm

Operating in the financial services sector means you need to address the volume of regulation and its pace of change, and you need robust solutions to manage risk. During this event we will consider how RegTech solutions can address this. Our panelists will discuss: How RegTech can support compliance and risk management - What are the challenges in deploying RegTech? - What is the role of Regulators in supporting RegTech? - What is the future of RegTech innovation

6.30pm 11pm

This is an invite only event.

9am - 5pm

Come along to hear from a fantastic range of speakers bringing us future trends, opportunities and strategies that will ensure Scotland’s digital community continues to grow and prosper. An annual festival of ideas and innovation that showcases the best of the Scottish technology sector, ScotSoft brings you sought-after speakers from all over the world.

10am - 4pm

This year, we focus on the potential for data to encourage greater diversity, equality and inclusion. Our diverse range of speakers will reflect what data is already doing - and what more it can do - to deliver better social, economic and environmental outcomes for a social, economic and environmental outcomes for everyone.

10am - 11am

With longer term consumer trends and the increasing importance of the metaverse in mind, this discussion dives into what the metaverse really is, how we demystify it and the need for companies to truly consider engaging with it.

12pm

Talent Beyond Boundaries leads the Displaced Talent Mobility programme; connecting skilled refugees and displaced people with secure job opportunities in the UK and other countries facing talent shortages. This webinar will be an opportunity to learn how the Displaced Talent Mobility Programme works, plans for its roll out in Scotland, and opportunities for Scottish FinTech employers to engage.

5pm - 6pm

Join EY as we discuss regulatory expectations in relation to your security posture, both from an internally facing perspective and from an external perspective when acting as a service provider. We’ll go through developing security frameworks in response to industry risks, common certifications to assist with responding to third party assurance requests, and other regulatory expectations to be aware of.

11am - 12pm

Session providing an update on the progress of TSB Labs and discussing with fintech partners why working with TSB was important to them.

4pm - 5pm

In an uncertain world, customers need solutions from the financial services industry that can provide certainty and security, help to mitigate future risks, and alleviate current pressures. From net zero to the cost of living crisis, fintech is proving to be a vital tool to help customers achieve these goals, all under the clear banner of ‘fintech for good’. In this event, we will bring together a number of fintechs and leading financial institutions to discuss and analyse how fintech innovation is playing a role in helping customers manage the big challenges of our time. Our panel will look at specific examples, such as the role of financial technology in in supporting customers to lower the carbon footprint, or helping them to make better choices to mitigate the effects of rising household bills, before discussing the big picture, and what fintech for good means for the future of finance and our industry’s role in society.

10am - 11am

Understand the cycle of raising funding, applying for patents and claiming tax relief. Join PwC UK and Lawrie IP for a discussion on FinTech growth, protecting your IP and Government incentives.

2.30pm - 4pm

We are being joined by Greg Summers, a Presenter with over 20 years international experience. Greg has Presented some of the biggest events in the UK and he has vast broadcast and production experience on TV, Radio and Online.

1.30pm

With the financial services industry being a prime target for cyber crime is now the right time to review your cyber posture? Come join ScotlandIS Cyber and friends to share insights and learning on cyber trends and threats focussed on the financial services industry. How can fintechs ensure their businesses remain cyber secure? What does a security-first culture and approach look like? This event is aimed at all FS companies in particular Fintechs and SMEs operating in FS. Speakers will include David Brown, Lead Senior Consultant, NCC Group and Helena Brown , Commercial and Data Protection & Head of Data, Addleshaw Goddard LLP

5.30pm - 8.30pm

Scottish Fintech Festival 2022 | Hosted by Denholm & FreeAgent, Power to People, will feature some of Scotland's top Tech & Fintech leaders

3.30pm - 5.30pm

Thinking about building your business for a future exit, and wondering how best to plan for your financial future? Join us for a free in-person seminar hosted by Mearns & Company and Business Doctors in Leith, Edinburgh.

9am - 10am

We are hosting an event to chat to founders and team builders in the start up/scale up ecosystem about the best approaches and ideas to enhance your: -Recruitment (in the context of the skills shortage) - Attraction (in the context of having to compete with large FS) - Retention (In the context of the market being more favourable to employees than companies)

3pm - 6pm

Learn all about how the Isle of Man is developing a welcoming ecosystem for Insurtech businesses and insurance carriers to develop and grow. Already home to a successful and continually growing international insurance industry, with a highly regarded regulatory infrastructure, the Isle of Man is embracing the future by creating an Insurtech ecosystem. Hear about the journey so far, industry and government support and our international collaboration plans. Angela Mitchell, Deloitte’s Practice Senior Partner for Scotland & Northern Ireland, will be keynote speaker at this event. You’ll also have the opportunity for a first glimpse at the propositions from the cohort on our joint-venture accelerator programme with F10 in Switzerland. Then join us for drinks and informal networking.

10am - 12pm

Not all Synthetic Data is made the same way. Please join David Tracy, our head of Data Science and Nick Radcliffe, our Chief Data Scientist, to walk you through the different types of Synthetic data and its real-time industry applications. This will follow with a discussion around the limitations of synthetic data and a Q and A session to close.

6pm - late

The Scottish Financial Technology Awards will recognise innovation and achievement right across the Fintech sector; spotlighting some of the incredible organisations that are driving improvements within the industry and putting our national ecosystem on the map. The awards are free to enter, and open to Financial Service and Fintech companies headquartered or based in Scotland.