360tech insight session slides

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Facilitator: Prof Mark Skilton

PA Consulting Group/ University of Warwick

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Jon BradfordManaging Director, TechStars

Accelerated Change

Starting a Business

It has never been a better time to be a startup.The costs starting a business are dramatically lower, it is simpler and scalable solutions are much easier and faster to deploy and distribution to a market with social networks, search and Apps Stores.

@jd

• MD of Techstars London

• Co-founder of F6S & tech.eu

• Co-founder of Ignite, Startup Wise Guys, Eleven

• Ex Accountant & VC

• #pretenddad

@techstars

• Founded 2006

• David Cohen & Brad Feld

• Originally in Boulder

• Now 20 programs

• 700+ Companies

• $2bn+ raised

Our Journey

Corporate Clients

• Disney (Entertainment)• Ford (Mobility)• Sprint (Healthcare)• Barclays (FinTech)• Metro AG (Retail)

• RGA (IoT)• Rackspace (Cloud)• Qualcomm (Robotics)• TBA

Adoption

Competition?

Behind Glass

Blockchain (aka Bitcoin)

Global Opportunity

The end of the beginning

[email protected]@jd

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Dug Campbell Head of Products, MiiCard

@dugcampbell | Digital Thinking

bitcoin, the blockchain ...and why it matters

SECC Glasgow | 3rd September 2015


SatoshiNakamoto


the world’s first, completely decentralised peer-to-peer digital currency


it’s money that you can email


Because it doesn’t rely on a third party to keep count of who owns what


FastPermissionlessSecureGlobalCheap


1. Durable2. Scarce3. Global4. Cheap/free 5. Fast

let’s design some perfect money...

6. Divisible7. Accessible 8. Uniform9. Fixed supply10. Faith


November 2013$147 million bitcoin transaction

Cost?

Zero


faith


“How seriously should you take this? About as seriously as the concept of the internet in the early 1990’s. It’s a big deal”

“The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates. The market for financial blockchain applications will ultimately be measured in the trillions”

Blythe Masters, former Head of Global Commodites at JP Morgan, led development of credit default swaps, now CEO of Digital Asset Holdings


the world’s first global transaction network


computing paradigms1.mainframe / PC2.internet3.mobile4.social networking5.connected/relying on blockchain tech


Levels of Data

1.Dumb (unenhanced)

1.Socially-recommended

1.Blockchain-consensus validated


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Dug Campbell

@dugcampbell

www.dugcampbell.com

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Marino FreschHead of Marketing, Eventbrite

From an idea to a billion dollar company

Marino FreschHead of Marketing

mfresch

Silicon Valley

Eventbrite - a quick introduction

Long tail ticketingLow fees

Innovative technology

Big eventsHigh fees

Antiquated technology

Let’s talk about bots?

A global platform for any event

200 million tickets processed in 187 countries$1 billion in gross ticket sales

500 employees on 4 continents$200 million VC funding raised

$1 billion valuation

• Growth through innovation• Data-driven growth• Scalable growth

Thank you!

@mfresch

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Sharon Moore CTO of Digital Engagement, IBM


Panel Session

- Jon Bradford,Techstars - Dug Campbell, MiiCard - Marino Fresch, Eventbrite - Sharon Moore, IBM