{"id":334397,"date":"2019-08-14T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=334397"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:12:29","slug":"2019-fintech-conference-digital-banks-crypto-ai-mobile-banking-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/334397\/2019-fintech-conference-digital-banks-crypto-ai-mobile-banking-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 FinTech Conference &#8211; Digital banks, Crypto, AI, Mobile banking, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fintechconference.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The 2019 FinTech Conference<\/strong><\/a> will take place on 11 September 2019 at The Venue in Melrose Arch, featuring top speakers in the field.<\/p>\n<p>This one-day conference will cover a range of fintech topics, including digital banking, mobile banking, fintech disruption, mobile payments, cryptocurrency, blockchain, AI and machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>The Money Show\u2019s Bruce Whitfield, is the emcee for the event, and he will be joined by fintech experts from South Africa\u2019s top financial and technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates will hear from the managing executive for M-Pesa at Vodacom Group Chris Williamson, the CEO for consumer at FNB Christoph Nieuwoudt, and Bankymoon founder Lorien Gamaroff.<\/p>\n<p>Additional speakers include Tymebank CEO Tauriq Keraan, Tautona AI\u2019s founder and CEO John Holdsworth, and Akash Dowra from Discovery Bank.<\/p>\n<p>BusinessTech editor Gareth Vorster said the conference will provide delegates with better insight into the local fintech industry and the latest innovations in this burgeoning sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Register now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early-bird tickets for the conference have been sold out, but BusinessTech has made an additional 50 tickets available at a discounted rate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For more information, and to register, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fintechconference.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>2019 FinTech Conference Website<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that the discounted tickets will only be available for a week, and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 FinTech Conference will feature top speakers from South Africa\u2019s major banks, fintech companies and cryptocurrency players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":325167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[14177,14231,13636,14225,14227,26,66,14229],"class_list":["post-334397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-2019-fintech-conference","tag-akash-dowra","tag-bruce-whitfield","tag-chris-williamson","tag-christoph-nieuwoudt","tag-headline","tag-john-holdsworth","tag-lorien-gamaroff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334397"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334569,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334397\/revisions\/334569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}