Agenda 5th ECN Crowdfunding Convention: 3rd November

08:30 Registration and welcome coffee

09:30 Welcome speech

Speaker: ECN

09:45 Opening Speech

Paul-Francois Fournier, Bpifrance

10:00 Keynote 1

Alessandro Tappi, European Investment Fund

10:15 Panel 1 - Crowdfunding within Capital Markets Union after Brexit vote: current situation and future scenarios

Reid Feldman, Kramer Levin; Paul Massey, CrowdCube; Tero Weckroth, Invesdor; Dominique Stucki, Avistem; Simon Burns, KREAB (moderator).

11:00 Networking Break

11:30 Panel 2 - A look at blockchain as infrastructure for alternative finance players

Alex Raguet, Lumo; Nelson Fernandes, BNP Paribas; Jens Glaso, Spenn; Hubert de Vauplane, Kramer Levin; Joachim Schwerin, European Commission .

12:15 Panel 3 -How can platforms establish successful partnerships with banks and other financial actors?

Andreas Pages, Swisscom; Coenraad de Vries, Oneplanetcrowd; Jeremy Sartre, SmartAngels; Philippe Gluntz, BAE; Emanuela Vartolomei, All Street (moderator);

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Keynote 2

Cedric Pacheco, Association of Financial Markets in Europe

14:15 Keynote 3

Niall Bohan, Head of Unit Capital Markets Union, European Commission

14:45 Panel 4 -Secondary markets for crowdfunding: existing challenges and opportunities

Philip Dardier, Alternativa.fr; Kimmo Lonnmark, Around; Robert Michels, Dentons; Eric Forest, Enternext; Armando Melone, European Commission (moderator)

15:30 Networking Break

16:00 Panel 5 -Lending crowdfunding after Lending Club’s scandal: is the golden age still achievable?

Nicolas Lesur, Unilend; Pascal Ouvrard, Lendix; Thomas De Bourayne, Credit.fr; Dan Rajkumar, Rebuildingsociety; Therese Torris (moderator)

16:45 Panel 6 -IT and best practices for improving transparency, security and processes in crowdfunding

Jean-Marc Nourel, Mangopay; Charles Baldet, Be Crowd; Chris Kennedy, Protektr; Kostas Kotsiopoulos, Profile Software; Lionel Slusny, Loftfi (moderator)

17:30 Closing Day 1

17:45 Networking Drinks

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