Quick 15 minute shmooze sponsored by Salesforce.
Canadian Lenders Association President and Chair welcomes participants and presents the agenda for the Summit.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.