With over 80 participants, I was very excited to kick off the ‘Guest Speaker Series’ initiative at Warwick Business School, with the help of marina antoniou (pictured below), and the WhatWeWantApp start-up.
In this 40 minute talk, Marina covered the 4 key areas of FinTech to watch out for:
- Mixed Reality: Wearable and biologically embedded technology
- Web 3.0: Internet of things and semantic web
- Artificial Intelligence: Machine learning, chatbots and rob advisors
- Big Data: Sources and uses
And the WWW team shared their start-up journey, challenges they’ve faced and how they overcame and persevered. In particular, their fundraising efforts during COVID-19 to help the community – https://linktr.ee/WWWyaf25.
A great start to the series! ✨ Below is a 10-minute feature of the webinar, available to view on YouTube.
Speaker Bio’s
Marina Antoniou, is a banking consultant with experience in auditing financial institutions globally. She has previously held the position of Senior Vice President & Head of Audit at Citi Group in London, as well as other European Citi Group locations. She is a University of Warwick alumni, having done a Masters in Finance and Economics, before getting her FCA Chartered Accountant qualification. She is a mentor at Warwick University and the Global Thinkers Forum, and has also studied FinTech at the University of Oxford Said Business School, during which she developed a FinTech innovation idea aiming at fundraising for people impacted by natural disasters. Her full profile can be found here: http://www.globalthinkersforum.org/people/marina-antoniou
Fintech start-up, ‘WhatWeWant’ share some of the practical applications of FinTech (and a flavour of setting up a start-up). WWW’s business model is an app is based on crowdfunding gifts, either posting something you want funded or to set up a group gift for someone else. Given the current global situation, WWW have adapted their business model to develop an on-line platform and easy-to-use app for charitable crowdfunding, with a quick turnaround, giving them an advantage over the larger, less agile crowdfunding companies. Here is a bit more about them:https://businessmondays.co.uk/whatwewant-encourages-people-to-perform-acts-of-kindness/
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