Schedule 7:00am+ PRIVATE MEETINGS 11:30 LUNCH WITH RIPPLE 12:30 - 1:30 A CONVERSATION WITH DR. BEN BERNANKE
DR. BEN BERNANKE - Chairman, Federal Reserve System (2006-2014)
GENE SPERLING - National Economic Council Director and National Economic Advisor under Presidents Clinton and Obama (1996-2001, 2011-2014)
2:00 - 3:00 IF ONLY MY BANKS OFFERED...
In this no-holds-barred fireside chat, these corporate giants reveal how payments are evolving in their businesses and the services they’d like to see their banks offer.
JEFF JOHN ROBERTS - Tech Writer, Fortune Magazine, Moderator
KRISTEN MICHAUD - Managing Director, Treasury Operations, GE Capital
KAPIL MOKHAT - Global Director Payments Programs and Partnerships, Airbnb
PAUL SNAITH - Manager of Treasury Operations for Capital Markets and Banking and Payments, The World Bank
3:30 - 4:30 - FOLLOW THE FLOWS: STRIKE WHILE THE IRON’S HOT
As global commerce expands, payment flows change, presenting financial institutions new revenue opportunities. These RippleNet customers share global payment trends in their parts of the world.
DILIP RAO - Managing Director of APAC/MENA, Ripple Moderator
ED METZGER - Head of Innovation, Banco Santander
TAKASHI OKITA - CEO, SBI Ripple Asia
DR. ARAK SUTIVONG - SEVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Siam Commercial Bank
5:00 - 6:00 THE REAL DEAL WITH DIGITAL ASSETS
Market leaders recognize digital assets can play a lynchpin role in global payments. From regulation to trends, this panel will address it all.
BRIAN PATRICK EHA -Author, How Money Got Free: Bitcoin and the Fight for the Future of Finance Moderator
OLIVER T. BUSSMANN - Founder and Managing Partner, Bussmann Advisory
MARWAN FORZLEY - CEO and Co-Founder, Veem
PATRICK GRIFFIN - SVP of B
Day 2 7:00am+ PRIVATE MEETINGS 11:30 LUNCH WITH RIPPLE 12:30 - 1:30 A LOOK AHEAD INTO THE FUTURE OF TECH
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (Inventor of the World Wide Web) discusses how he conceived and developed the Web, and details what’s next on the horizon for the Web we know today.
2:00 - 2:45 UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH, UM, THE COMPETITION
New payments players have emerged and are giving banks a run for their money. During this session, we uncover the market opportunity and how these new players are getting traction.
KAUSIK RAJGOPAL - Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, U.S. Western Region Moderator
SERGIO FOGEL- Co-Founder, dLocal
CORINNE MACMILLAN - CTO, Cambridge Global Payments RAHUL PAI - COO, UAE Exchange
3:00 - 3:45 - FIRST MOVERS TELL ALL
This series of flash talks spotlight first-mover banks who discuss specific use cases, how they built a business case and key results from using Ripple.
MARCUS TREACHER - Global Head of Srategic Accounts, Ripple Moderator
HIROFUMI AIHARA - General Manager, Digital Innovation, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
RICHARD BELL - Blockchain Innovation Lead, Banco Santander
PAULA DA SILVA - Head of Transaction Services, SEB
DHARMESH DESAI - Group EVP, Yes Bank
4:00 - 5:00 FUTURE OF BLOCKCHAIN
Luminaries in blockchain address the elephant in the room: which blockchain technology will reign supreme? We bring the big guns to the stage for a live debate on the future of bitcoin and blockchain.
MICHAEL DEL CASTILLO - Journalist, Coindesk, Moderator
BRIAN BEHLENDORF - Executive Director, The Hyperledger Project
VITALIK BUTERIN- Founder, Ethereum
TOM JESSOP - President, Chain Inc.
STEFAN THOMAS - CTO, Ripple
5:00 - 10:00pm Refreshments & Social
Day 3
7:00am+ PRIVATE MEETINGS 11:30 LUNCH WITH RIPPLE 12:30 - 1:30 THE BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTION: STATE OF THE WORLD ADDRESS
Don Tapscott gave the closing keynote at Sibos 2008, two days after Lehman Brothers fell, and identified a number of deep problems with the financial system. Nine years later, he'll deliver the closing keynote at Swell, laying out a set of solutions to transform this industry for the 21st century.
2:30 Swell Concludes
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First Update from conference:
Ripple Partners with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create new interoperable system to bring the poor into the global economy.
Day 1 concludes and there is no news beside the partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation that came early in the morning. Most speakers spoke generally and did not hint at anything unexpected.
It is possibly that we might experience a trend where the price rises up into the morning expecting more news to come early and prior to the live-stream. Another trend to look out for might be that steep drop at lunch. Maybe the lunch was overcooked? Who know.
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So far nothing interesting coming out of the conference. Some speakers are even pessimistic about crypto altogether. Not ideal. It will take something big to recover from this.
I gotta say, currently the conference is pretty disappointing. First, no Dr. Ben Bernanke. 2nd, the for speakers were just horrible, there's not rhythm or sense of direction in their 1 hour live stream. I still cant take the guy from Airbnb serious when said we have a Passion and saying how blockchain is good and is connecting everything LOL, I mean really. However, who knows, maybe everything was already address with Dr. Ben Bernanke...
Still a firm believer of Ripple and XRP. Let's hope they recovers...
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@unitednoobies, What exactly do you believe in XRP? Why does XRP exist, like what purpose does it serve? I'm seriously interested in your answer.
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@billaddison, First thing you have know is that Ripple and XRP are different. What Ripple system is trying to achieve is to become the intermediary for all transactions big or small (interledger protocol). Ripple team is trying to integrate their crypto currency XRP into the financial institutions FI and banking institutions BI. So far, not too much luck. Due to heavy regulations and the governing bodies that does not want to accept a crypto currency as intermediary of exchange, for short, they love their own Fiat system for now. Also, due to the current value of the XRP of being around 0.30 cents with a total market cap of 30 billion, it is also difficult sell to BI and FI for real adaptions. These companies are moving billions and trillions. This means the price of XRP will need to move up to receive farther backings from the big players. One thing, that the Ripple team had done which positioned themselves quite well is the adaption of the Indian market. So why are they there? India is the #1 remittance market in the world. meaning small transactions and pity payments are used widely in India. This is like getting 2 birds with 1 stone. First Ripple can utilize the current real value of XRP which is being 0.30 cents a coin = pity retail/ transactions. 2nd, they can also show to larger players that are sitting on the sidelines that the Ripple system and XRP truly do work and can be a top player in the financial industry.Longer term, I see more adaptions, short term, lets pray if we can get to $1 dollar early next year or so.
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@unitednoobies, I understand the structure of Ripple the company and how XRP works, however what I don't see is the literal value of the XRP token within their ecosystem, i.e. public blockchain, particularly given that Ripple promise to facilitate fiat transactions. The token, as I understand it, is only needed to facilitate transactions on their public blockchain, not as a store of value itself. Additionally, it doesn't seem viable that any cryptocurrency could be used amongst poor as a daily transactional currency until the issue of volatility is solved – this applies to XRP.
I'd also add that in terms of blockchains there are far better ones out there like bitcoin for example which is secured by more hash-power, developers and time than any other and for which all other technologies requiring an immutable blockchain could be built upon. In any case, the question is why does XRP the token have any value at all?
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@billaddison, XRP's use case right now is and can facilitate the remittance market, (early stages of adaption). An average remittance transaction is around 200 - 300 usd. For developing countries this equates to a month worth of salary. By decreasing the transaction time and fees for this sector by 30 - 60% to us is almost nothing. However, to these developing countries, its a tremendous amount. Remittance market itself is a avg 500 billion market. Also, keep in mind of the expenses going into a nostro accounts to hold and trade currencies, XRP can bridge this outdated system. As for volatility, yes, banks don't like it very much. However, if the value of XRP begins to present itself, I see banks needs XRP to increase in value in order to have a more effective use cases. Based on transaction time frame of Ripple & XRP, the effect of volatility will be minimized. I see great usage for XRP Xrapid.
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@unitednoobies, Sorry to be blunt, but I think you don't have a clear understanding of what your talking about.