This is a draft agenda. Changes may occur in due course.
| 10:30 | Opening – ECN | |
| 10:45 | Keynote – EC work for innovating access to finance – Peteris Zilgalvis, European Commission | TRACK A: Innovation and new technologies for accessing finance |
| 11:00 | Panel 1 – Blockchain and AI: their potential to improve online access to finance – Ingi Sigurdsson, Karolina Engine; Mads Dalsgaard, Funderbeam; Audrius Ramoska, 123c Consulting; Darius Kavaliauskas, Barclays Rise (moderator) | |
| 11:45 | Spotlight on – Accessing SMEs finance in 2017: technologies for a faster, safer and more user friendly customer journey – Rolands Mesters, Nordigen; Lauri Teder, Everypay; Liudas Kanapienis, PaySera | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Panel 2 – Is it tech or fin the key to develop online lending in the future? – Rein Ojavere, Bondora; Pietro Cesati, Soisy; Evaldas Remeikis, Paskolu Klubas; Peteris Kisis, Swaper; Matthias Klaes, ECN (moderator) | |
| 14:15 | Speed dating | |
| 14:30 | Keynote – Joy Cuerten, European Institute of Technology | TRACK B: Public institutions and corporates meet Alternative finance
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| 14:45 | Panel 3 – Public organizations getting active in alternative finance: hype or trend? – Martina Lodi, Aster; Barry McGrath, EIF; Matthew Caruana, Zaar; Rotem Shneor, University of Agder (moderator) | |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 16:00 | Keynote – When BIG commercial corporations enter the alternative finance space: the Chinese case – Andrea Funk, University of Wuerzburg | |
| 16:15 | Panel 4 – How are banks and traditional financial actors reacting to a new paradigm of online access to finance? – Jekaterina Govina, Bank of Lithuania; Lasse Maekela, Invesdor; Dan Rajkumar, Rebuildingsociety; Mantas Zalatorius, Lithuanian Banks Aassociation; Yoann Nesme, PPL (moderator) | |
| 17:00 | Closing remarks – Vilius Sapoka, Lithuanian Minister of Finance | |
| 17:15 | Networking Drinks |
