description
Revolutionary technologies have greatly accelerated their pace in the last 20 years. From the Internet in the 1990’s, to social networks in the 2010’s, to mobile commerce and payments - and now Bitcoin. The Internet brought us eCommerce and information that are now at our fingertips with mobile devices and even beyond with the emergence of IoT protocols.
Social platforms have quickly created thriving news hubs and marketplaces by enabling instant, decentralized, peer to peer exchanges, connecting the world as never before. The internet has become a platform for innovation that we couldn’t have imagined at its advent, and Bitcoin’s underlying blockchain technology is considered by many to be the “Internet of money."
Bitcoin’s blockchain technology holds the potential to revolutionize the financial sector by transforming how we handle contracts, transactions and their documentation, and perform exchange of value between two non-trusting parties.
But how much truth and reality are behind these statements? That’s what we want to discuss in this event, bringing together thought leaders in the financial sector and Bitcoin industry.
This BayPay event will cover innovations and investments happening in the currencies, applications and platforms of the future and will highlight beyond Bitcoin the business opportunities and challenges in front of us.
agenda
Agenda
6:00 pm: Reception and Networking
6:20 pm: Introduction of speakers and companies’ vision
6:45 pm: Panel moderated by Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at The BayPay Forum and with audience participation
Paul Puey, CEO and Founder at Airbitz Inc
Ken Miller, Chief Operating Officer at Gem
Alyse Killeen, Associate Venture Capital Investor at March Capital Partners
Steve Beauregard, CEO & Founder at GoCoin.com
7:35 pm: Wrap up and Networking
8:00 pm: Further networking at the Otheroom | Venice beach
speakers
Panelists Bios
Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at The BayPayForum
Daniel Chatelain is a payment industry executive focused on innovation in commerce and sitting on the board of directors or advisors of emerging companies. He started The BayPay Forum to help foster innovation in payment and commerce. The organization gathers today over 8,000 executives from over 2,800 different companies and organizes events for senior executives to understand new trends and network with peers. Prior to that, Daniel was CEO, President & COO of companies he started as an entrepreneur or within the Lagardere (Elle, Woman’s Day, Car & Driver, Hachette, Canal Satellite) and EADS group (Airbus, Ariane, Eurocopter) and Vice President of a VC backed companies giving him a wide experience of growing companies domestically and internationally in the banking, telecom and interactive media industries as an entrepreneur, corporate or VC backed senior executive.
Paul Puey, CEO and Founder at Airbitz Inc
Paul is CEO and Co-Founder of Airbitz, a company with a vision of delivering privacy and security of digital assets through ease of use and decentralization. Airbitz has won accolades including being one of the top 3 mobile apps for bitcoin in the 2014 Blockchain Awards, being voted the #1 Bitcoin Company by the World Crypto Network, and being voted in the 'Top 50 FinTech Companies to Watch' by AlwaysOn Inc.
As an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate of UC Berkeley, Paul possesses a wide range of technical skills from 3D visual engineering to development of custom web content management systems. He held lead engineering positions with Nvidia Corp and Chromatic Research. Most recently he owned and operated several non-technical small businesses where he implemented solutions to streamline the intersection of people, business, and technology.
Paul combines his lifelong technical and business experience to drive Airbitz to be the leading platform for digital currencies.
Ken Miller, Chief Operating Officer at Gem
A simple and secure platform for blockchain developers. Gem’s mission is to empower individuals to have control over their own assets, starting with bitcoin. An experienced veteran in the payments and start-up world, Ken’s background encompasses executive roles throughout the evolution of payments, from brick and mortar banks, to online payments, and now Bitcoin. Ken was the VP of Risk Management and employee #22 at PayPal, where he built PayPal’s anti-fraud and credit systems that helped keep PayPal solvent and are still in use today. He went on to become Co-Founder and CEO of Anchor Intelligence, a company focused on ad optimization and eradicating click fraud, and then served as Vice-President of Product, XD, and Risk Services at Intuit, where he led payment initiatives for Intuit’s base of 5 million small businesses through payment products via Quickbooks, mobile, and Point-of-Sale. Along the way, he has also served as an advisor to numerous companies including Square, CapLinked, and Balanced, and currently advises the Better Than Cash Alliance, an Omidyar Network and Gates Foundation funded non-profit with a charter to convert cash to electronic payments in emerging countries. Ken’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, CIO Magazine, Bloomberg, New York Times, USA Today, and TechCrunch.
Alyse Killeen, Associate Venture Capital Investor at March Capital Partners
Alyse has previously invested with FuturePerfect Ventures in NYC, and Clearstone Venture Partners in Santa Monica. Distributed ledger technologies, data application, connected devices (IoT), and digital banking are areas of investment focus. Alyse has presented globally on the confluence of cryptographic currency and IoT, the development of innovation ecosystems, and the Sharing Economy, and has authored a book chapter in the Handbook of Digital Currency titled: The Confluence of Bitcoin and the Global Sharing Economy. She is a mentor at the Silicon Valley based Plug and Play Tech Center in the Bitcoin and Fintech accelerator tracks. Prior to working in Venture Capital, Alyse conducted research in the field of biopsychology and earned an MS degree in Health Psychology as a Maytag Fellow at the University of Miami. Alyse received her M.B.A. from USC as a Forte Fellow, and is active in LA's Mensa Chapter.
Steve Beauregard, CEO & Founder at GoCoin.com
Steve is serial entrepreneur with a keen eye for emerging technologies and the business instincts to develop businesses in the critical path of the trends. In the early 90’s, Steve helped DIRECTV launch the first commercial satellite television service in the US and Latin American. In the late 90's, Steve identified email as the next “killer app” and launched a successful Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration practice and later became the first BlackBerry partner in the western US bringing mobile email to west coast law practices and entertainment industry giants.
bios and presentations
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