Wired has announced a one-day summit, Wired Money, that will focus on innovations, technologies and business models disrupting the financial sector.
Wired Money will explore all aspects of this industry, including personal finance, market trading, big data and finance, crowd funding, payments, the digital economy, innovations in money management, and security and privacy.
Confirmed speakers at the event include Grey Baker of Gocardless; Errol Dammelin, Founder & CEO of Wonga; Jacob de Geer of iZettle; Paul Hawtin, CEO & Founder of Derwent Capital Partners; John Lunn, Global Director of Paypal; Anne Pascual, Design Director of Ideo; Entrepreneur Kevin Slavin; and Peter Vessenes, CEO of Bitcoin.
"We're excited to launch this new one-day conference on the disruptive ways technology is transforming the worlds of finance and transactions," said David Rowan, Editor of Wired magazine. "Wired Money builds on the success of Wired's acclaimed two-day conferences each October, where we bring together expert international speakers and a high-quality crowd to explore the trends that are reshaping our world."
Hosted at Canary Wharf's soon-to-open Level39, home to Europe's largest accelerator space for finance and retail technology start-ups, the event will be a haven for disruptive thinking and innovation.
For more information, and to buy tickets, visit wiredmoney.co.uk.
Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/26/wired-money