KEYNOTE: A Voice from the Future

9:20AM

The opening keynote by Mark Ruddock will set the stage for the day. Mark has over 20 years experience building mobile-first, customer focused businesses. Mark was CEO of 4Finance which has 3500 employees across 17 countries, generating $500MM.

Bringing a wealth of experience, Mark will talk about lessons and challenges in innovative lending space in Europe, Latin America and Asia. He will start the day looking at growth strategies globally and discuss opportunities for the Canadian market.

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2018 Lenders Summit

Date: Nov 21, 2018 • 7:15am

Location: Deloitte Canada, 8 Adelaide St. W., Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5H 0A9, CA

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Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:00 AM

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Setting the Stage

8:45 AM

Canadian Lenders Association President and Chair welcomes participants and presents the agenda for the Summit.

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KEYNOTE: Canada – A Global Review

9:00 AM

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance presents lessons and insights from 2018. CCAF is partnered with the CLA to drive world-class innovative lending analysis and policy nationally and…

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KEYNOTE & Panel: B2B Acquisition Strategies

9:45 AM

Mini Keynote by Microsoft on innovative strategies to reduce Customer Acquisition Cost and then sit down to discuss strategies, learnings and successes with Linkedin, Progressa, Lendified and Thinking Capital.

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MORNING NETWORKING BREAK

10:30 AM

30 minute coffee and shmooze sponsored by the AION.network.

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PANEL: The Lending Blockchain: Case Studies & Insights

11:00 AM

Going beyond blockchain 101, Plaza Corp, CORL, MortageBlox, SVBS and SwiftSale deep dive into lending use cases. The panel is moderated by Soumak Chatterjee, Blockchain Lead at…

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KEYNOTE & PANEL: The ROI in Lending AI

11:45 AM

Mini Keynote by Google on the "ROI in AI" Panel: Frank Currie, Head of Customer Engineering for Financial Services joins Norm Cappell from Savvyy, Nick Seelert from Senso.AI…

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ROI LUNCHEON

12:30 PM

Have lunch with colleagues in the main hall. Alongside the networking luncheon, there will be optional interactive lunch session. PayNet and CLA have partnered to build…

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ROUNDTABLE 1: New Lending Tools & Capital Strategies

1:30 PM

Choose between one of the following topics: ROUNDTABLE A: Tips on Mid-Market Lenders Seeking Capital ROUNDTABLE B: Leveraging Machine Learning and Data to Drive Results

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ROUNDTABLE 2: Legal Deep-Dive

2:00 PM

Choose between one of the following sessions with Ana Badour from McCarthy and Elizabeth Sales from Blakes. Both explore regulation, the changing landscape of the law…

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AFTERNOON NETWORKING BREAK

2:30 PM

Quick 15 minute shmooze sponsored by Salesforce.

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AWARDS: Innovation Announcements & Award Presentation

2:45 PM

Amar Ahluwalia, VP Partnerships & Capital Markets, OnDeck Capital sets the stage with a mini-keynote on the role of innovation in lending. Sue Britton, head of the…

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KEYNOTE & PANEL: Capturing the Consumer

3:15 PM

Mini Keynote by Snap Chat on innovative strategies to drive engagement via social media. Joe Strolz sits down with principals from PayBright, Paays, Refresh and Borrowell to discuss lessons learned…

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PANEL: The Great Data Debate

4:00 PM

Incumbent data verses new data: how do we work toward an open data economy? Kirsten Thompson, who was recently appointed by Minister of Finance Bill Morneau to…

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PANEL: Seeking Capital on the Global Stage

4:30 PM

A discussion involving actual war stories on arranging capital for Canadian alternative lenders. Romit Malhotra, board member of the Canadian Lenders Association, moderates a panel of…

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Vice-Chair Insights & Conclusion

5:15 PM

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NETWORK RECEPTION

5:20 PM

Mark Lehman, Executive Director, Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada congratulates innovative lenders nominees and the Innovative Lender of the Year 2018.

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