4TH CANADIAN FINTECH & AI AWARDS 2018 NOVEMBER 26, 2018 THE CARLU, TORONTO
CELEBRATING CANADIAN INNOVATION
Table of Contents 05
The Awards
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Partner & Sponsors
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Speakers
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Agenda
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Entertainment
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Award Presenters
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Advisors & Judges
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Award Categories Nominees in House
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FinTech Startups
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FinTech Companies
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AI Companies
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Law Firms & Advisory Firms
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Financial Institutions & RegTech Companies
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Blockchain Companies & Investment Firms
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Global Impact in FinTech & AI for Good
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Accelerators & Incubators
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Message from our Founder
#FinTechAwards Celebrating Canadian Innovation 04
About Us The Digital Finance Institute is a think tank for financial technology and artificial intelligence. We represent a strategic link in digital finance between the financial services industry, NGOs, academia, financial regulators and policy makers to promote financial innovation and vibrancy through thought leadership, engagement, advocacy, research and education.
Awards The Canadian FinTech & AI Awards were started in Toronto in 2015 by the Digital Finance Institute to recognize and celebrate Canadian innovation in financial technology and artificial intelligence. The Awards bring together, on an annual basis, Canada’s leaders in finance to celebrate and support Canadian technology from coast to coast to coast.
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Industry Partner
Master of Ceremonies
Auditor
Sponsors
Raffle Donations
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Master of Ceremonies Geoffrey Cher – Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Geoff Cher is a partner at the law firm of Wildeboer Dellelce LLP in Toronto and a well known lawyer in the FinTech sector. He practices in the areas of corporate and securities law.
Ellis Odynn – Digital Finance Institute Ellis Odynn is the Executive Director of the Digital Finance Institute. She heads the DFI’s artificial intelligence division and research team. Ms. Odynn responsibilities span many of institute’s key initiatives — from building partnerships, conducting outreach and managing international affairs.
Opening Remarks John Tory – Mayor of Toronto John Tory, the 65th Mayor of Toronto, has been a long-time champion of Toronto, including in FInTech & AI. He uses his experience leading organizations and businesses to promote Toronto on the world stage, attract jobs and investment, and secure the city’s future as a global capital for business.
Keynote Peter Maoloni – Interac Corp. Peter Maoloni is VP, Product & Platform Delivery at Interac. His expert knowledge of global payments standards and payment modernization make him a leading authority. With over 20 years at Interac, Peter is a veteran in the payments space and leads Interac's vision and platform development. 07
AGE 7:00
Awards Ceremony Start
7:15
Awards Magic
7:30
Opening Remarks –Mayor John Tory
7:40
Keynote
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– Peter Maoloni of Interac Corp. Salad Served
7:55
RegTech Company of the Year
8:02
Accelerator of the Year
8:09
Global Impact in FinTech
8:16
FinTech Leader of the Year
8:25
Judge’s Choice 1 Award
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Main Course
8:32
AI for Good
8:40
Advisory Firm of the Year
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NDA Networking
Singing Performance
9:00
AI Leader of the Year
9:10
Blockchain Company of the Year
9:17
Law Firm of the Year
9:24
Dessert
AI Company of the Year
9:31
Investment Firm of the Year
9:38
Judge's Choice 2 Award
9:45
FinTech Startup of the Year
9:54
FinTech Company of the Year
10:01
Dance Performance
10:08
Financial Institution of the Year
10:13
Closing Remarks
10:20
Awards End
10:30
Move to Awards After Party
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TNEMNIATRETNE 10
WORLD RENOWNED COMEDY MAGICIAN
Mark Correira
SINGING ACT
Rebecca Willow
CLOSING PERFORMANCE
DAAM Dance Group
Awards Presenters In order of appearance
Michael Wekerle Former CBC Dragon
Ann Kaplan iFinance Canada
Christine Duhaime Digital Finance Institute
Ozge Yeloglu Microsoft Canada
Paul Parisi Paypal Canada
Arthur B. McDonald Nobel Prize Winner
Anthony Di Iorio Decentral
Stuart Holt Dunn Holdun
Santanu Pal CIBC
Mark O'Connell Interac Corp.
Alain Bergeron Mackenzie Investments
Scott Davidson NEO Exchange
Ellis Odynn Digital Finance Institute
Perry Dellelce Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Margaret Stuart BlackBerry
Craig Smith CPA Ontario
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Advisors & Judges
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Advisors & Judges
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Abhishek Gupta Microsoft
Abhishek Punia Draper Associates
Alex Norman TechTO
Alexander Peh RBC
Alexandra Posadzki The Globe and Mail
Alvaro Lozada Cauduro American Express
Andrew McCormack Payments Canada
Balinder Ahluwalia Mastercard
Brian Klein Baker Marquart LLP
Bryan Rutledge McAfee
Cari Covent Canadian Tire Corp
Chris Hatton HSBC
Dan Wardle Vidyard
Ed White HSBC
Frank Holmes Hive Technologies
Gillian Riley Scotiabank
Greg Elcich CIBC
Isabel Lee Global Payments Inc.
Janos Barberis SuperCharger
Jeff Overall Microsoft
Jennifer Urbanski LinkedIn
Jeremy Bornstein Mastercard
Jim Brown Samsung Pay Canada
Jim Orlando OMERS Ventures
Kieran Beer ACAMS 13
Advisors & Judges
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Kikelomo Lawal Interac Corp.
Mark Cauwels Capital One Canada
Mark O'Connell Interac Corp.
Markus Templer LinkedIn
Marshall Self Google
Mathieu Plouffe Oracle
Megh Gupta Element AI
Oshoma Momoh MaRS Discovery District
Ozge Yeloglu Microsoft Canada
Rajan Kanwar EY
Roger Ver Bitcoin.com
Sanjay Srivastava Genpact
Siddha Ganju Nvidia
Simon Chan Communitech
Stefano Capaccioli CoinLex
Stephen Lund Opportunities New Brunswick
Stuart Davis BMO Financial Group
Susanne Chishti FINTECH Circle
Tom Osborne Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Tony Cyriac BMO Financial Group
Valentine Goddard Artificial Intelligence Impact Alliance
Vivek Nair Visa
Wendy Chamberlin Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Xavier-Henri HervĂŠ District 3 Innovation Centre
Yoni Levy Facebook & Instagram
15 AWARD CATEGORIES
FinTech Startup of the Year FinTech Company of the Year AI Company of the Year Global Impact in FinTech AI for Good Law Firm of the Year Advisory Firm of the Year Financial Institution of the Year
Blockchain Company of the Year RegTech Company of the Year Investment Firm of the Year Accelerator of the Year FinTech Leader of the Year AI Leader of the Year Judge’s Choice Award
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NOMINEES IN HOUSE
Mark Tse mtse@bluink.ca
FINTECH STARTUPS
media@borrowell.com
Laura Wilson laura.wilson@coinsquare.com
Yves-Gabriel Leboeuf yg@flinks.io
Peter-Paul Van Hoeken peter-paul@frontfundr.com
Monique Morden monique.morden@judi.ai
Andrew Kirkland andrew@justwealth.com
Julien Brault julien@hardbacon.com
Bruner Noziere bruner@netdollar.ca
Eric Arnold eric@planswell.com
Vlad Sherbatov info@smarter.loans
Hanif Joshaghani hanif@symend.com
Declan McDonald declan@pricerazzi.com
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NOMINEES IN HOUSE
Rahul Deb rdeb@encorefx.com
Steve Taylor steve.taylor@bluerush.com
David Souaid david@evolocity.ca
Kathryn Barban kbarban@flexiti.com
Peter Maoloni pmaoloni@interac.ca
Candice Co Candice_Co@intuit.com
John Shmuel john@lowestrates.ca
Natalie Bell natalie@magicalcredit.ca
Wayne Pommen wayne@paybright.com
Alyssa Furtado alyssa@ratehub.ca 18
FINTECH COMPANIES
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
John McLeod john.mcleod@versapay.com
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
FINTECH COMPANIES
Rob Maurin media@waveapps.com
AI COMPANIES
Marc Poirier mpoirier@web.com
Eli Fathi eli@mindbridge.ai 19
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
LAW FIRMS
Paul Horbal phorbal@bereskinparr.com
Ana Badour abadour@mccarthy.ca
Geoffrey Cher gcher@wildlaw.ca
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
ADVISORY FIRMS
Rob Maurin media@waveapps.com 21
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Peter Poon Peter.Poon@bmo.com
Cheryl Brean cheryl.brean@rbc.com
Anastasia Mourogova-Millin amourogova-millin@vcib.ca
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
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Tel Matrundola TelM@versabank.com
REGTECH COMPANIES
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
Laura Wilson laura.wilson@coinsquare.com
BLOCKCHAIN COMPANIES
Elena Sinelnikova Elena.sinelnikova@cryptochicks.ca
Alyson Gaffney agaffney@leonovus.com
Bilal Hammoud bilal.hammoud@ndax.io
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
INVESTMENT FIRMS
Abi Tamot abi.tamot@investfortuna.com
Kate Grant kate@informationvp.com
Karim Gillani karim@luge.vc
Karel Vuong kvuong@p3vc.com 23
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
GLOBAL IMPACT IN FINTECH
E. Jay Saunders ejsaunders@semosancus.com
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
Hemal Mehta Hemal.Mehta@haptik.ai
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AI FOR GOOD
NOMINEES IN HOUSE
ACCELERATORS/ INCUBATORS
Helen Kontozopoulos helen@cs.toronto.edu
Tabatha Laverty tlaverty@acceleratorcentre.com
Yashin Shah yashin.shah@ryerson.ca
Jan Christopher Arp jan@holtaccelerator.ai
Sue Britton sbritton@fintechgrowthsyndic ate.com
Sarah Howe showe@yorku.ca
Tiffany Linke-Boyko tiffany@startupedmonton.com
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In 2015, we started the Canadian FinTech & AI Awards to recognize Canadians excelling in financial services, to celebrate innovation leadership and to create an annual event where the FinTech & AI community could come together from across the country. For our first year, a few hundred people gathered in Toronto. Now the Awards attracts over 2,800 attendees. Canadians have an incredible history of global innovation leadership - we invented insulin, alkaline batteries, the gas mask, the pace maker, and even the Bloody Caesar. In technology, we invented the telephone, the first quantum computer, java programming language, and the first smart contract which registers copyright on the Blockchain. Our impact in business leadership is felt around the world - for example in Africa, a shoe is called a "bata" (after Canada's Bata Shoes), and the electric street car you ride in San Francisco was invented in Canada. Not only that, the artificial sugar you put in your coffee - also a Canadian invention. At the Digital Finance Institute, we created the Awards to recognize this type of leading innovation in Canada with a focus on financial services. Our financial services community is full of countless stories of incredible vision, ground breaking innovation and timeless hard work that we recognize tonight. FinTech & AI are the future of global finance and by working together and supporting each others' successes, Canada will reach that future faster. On behalf of the Institute, thank you for joining our Awards Gala Dinner to celebrate Canadian Innovation.
Christine Duhaime, BA, JD Founder, Digital Finance Institute 27
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