{"id":337271,"date":"2019-08-28T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=337271"},"modified":"2019-08-28T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:45:40","slug":"2019-fintech-conference-final-speaker-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/337271\/2019-fintech-conference-final-speaker-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 FinTech Conference &#8211; Final speaker line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/fintechconference.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>2019 FinTech Conference<\/strong><\/a> will take place on 11 September 2019 at The Venue in Melrose Arch with speakers from Discovery Bank, Tymebank, FNB and Vodacom.<\/p>\n<p>These speakers will cover a range of fintech topics, including digital banking, mobile banking, mobile payments, cryptocurrency, blockchain, AI and machine learning.<\/p>\n<p>The emcee for the event is The Money Show\u2019s Bruce Whitfield, who will be joined on stage by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tauriq Keraan &#8211; Tymebank CEO<\/li>\n<li>Chris Williamson &#8211; Vodacom Group\u2019s managing executive for M-Pesa<\/li>\n<li>Lorien Gamaroff \u2013 Bankymoon founder and cryptocurrency expert<\/li>\n<li>Christoph Nieuwoudt &#8211; FNB CEO for consumer<\/li>\n<li>John Holdsworth &#8211; Tautona AI founder and CEO<\/li>\n<li>Akash Dowra &#8211; Discovery Bank\u2019s head of technical marketing and client insights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Standard tickets for the conference have been sold out, but BusinessTech has made an additional 20 tickets available for late registrations.<\/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 additional 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 has attracted an excellent speaker line-up from top companies, including Discovery Bank, Tymebank, Vodacom and FNB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[14177],"class_list":["post-337271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-2019-fintech-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271","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=337271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337277,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337271\/revisions\/337277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}