Is Bitcoin the Currency of Criminals or the Future of Money?

Monday, 2nd July 2018, 18:00 – 23:00

Winckworth Sherwood LLP, Minerva House, 5 Montague Cl, London, SE1 9BB

Event Details

This event is designed to be a fun and irreverent (slightly alcohol fuelled) yet educational evening designed to educate both the AML / Financial Crime and the Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency / Block-chain communities and to get both communities talking and networking to jointly see if we can’t solve some of the problems that these new technologies present and learn how they can enhance and complement existing business models.

We recognise that on the whole; both communities have very deep knowledge of their own ecosystems, but much sketchier knowledge of the other ecosystem.

To that end we have designed the evening to initially provide an overview of each community’s core values and information for the professionals of the other community. This will be done with two short small group sessions for each community stream.

We will then bring everyone together for a stand up drink in hand ROAST with a small panel of Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) to help discuss the headline topic “Is Bitcoin the Currency of Criminals or the Future of Money?”

We are expecting a very lively debate with a lot of strongly held and possibly divergent opinions being openly debated to give everyone some real knowledge and perspective and also a lot of fun!

 

The full detailed evening schedule is shown below

Tickets are limited and available on a first come first served basis – we expect this event to be significantly oversubscribed!

There is a nominal £10.00* ticket fee to discourage sign up without attendance and Drinks are included in the admission ticket fee

The event will be hosted at Winckworth Sherwood LLP, Minerva House, 5 Montague Cl, London, SE1 9BB

 

 

 

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We are pleased to have Compliance Recruitment Solutions joining us as a Bronze Sponsor 

18:00 – 18:30	Registration and Drinks Get settled in and enjoy some snacks and several beverages (either alcoholic or not!) as we get started with the evening’s activities!
18:30 – 19:30	Stream A for Financial Crime Professionals   Room 1- Bitcoin / block-chain 101 – the mechanics of the block-chain and bitcoin / other cryptocurrencies – how do they work, what is a distributed ledger, what is mining, what are wallets, etc.! This session will be presented by Sameer Ismail, Chief Risk Officer at Coinify.   Room 2 – ICO’s what are they, how do they work? This session will be presented by Grant Blaisdell, Coinfirm’s co-founder.	Stream B for Cryptocurrency Professionals   Room 1- The duties of an MLRO – what does it entail, what are the pressures on an MLRO, the key legislative triggers and the idea of KYC and UBO. This session will be presented by MLROs.com Advisory Board Member Peter Wilson.   Room 2 – An overview of the current and known upcoming AML and financial crime legislation, including criminal finance act, failure to prevent legislation, etc. This session will be presented by Lee Byrne- Head of Anti-Money Laundering, Coinfirm
19:30 – 19:45	Drinks Break After the separated streams we will have some time to get some more drinks and network ahead of the main panel discussion. There will also be a small presentation by Fenestra
20:00 – 21:00	The Roast! Is Bitcoin the Currency of Criminals or the Future of Money? Panel Members: Mary Inman, Constantine Cannon, Andy McDonald, Former head of the NTFIU, Anita Clifford, Bright Line Law & Grant Blaisdell, Coinfirm, Sameer Ismail, Coinify & Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Humaniq Ltd Everyone will join together with their newfound knowledge and participate in an interesting and we suspect heated discussion on the topic “Is Bitcoin the Currency of Criminals or the Future of Money?” This will be followed by an opportunity to network, build new meaningful relationships and have a few more drinks whilst exploring the new expanded joint ecosystem the evening will hopefully have created.
21:00 – 23:00	Networking Drinks Time to unwind and further discuss the evening’s events with your fellow delegates and the speakers

*Ticket fee excludes booking and handling fees charged directly by Eventbrite