PAYMENT REVOLUTION IN POST PANDEMIC ERA

June 17, 2020 – 3:00 to 4:30 PM PT

Virtual event on Zoom

L.A.MBA presents "Payment Revolution in Post Pandemic Era", for L.A.MBA alumni interested in keeping abreast of major changes in payment systems. These changes will impact everyone & most businesses, but professionals in Finance, especially Fintech, will especially benefit from this session. The panel will also address challenges & opportunities in payment systems due to Covid-19.

The event is a collaboration by Sloan, Kellogg & Booth. Five distinguished panelists with a variety of payment/banking service backgrounds from cutting-edge firms will discuss points of view regarding:

How will new technologies transform the payment system?
How does Covid-19 impact the payment system?
What are the challenges and opportunities in the post pandemic era for payment platform?

Panelists include:

Terry Angelos (Sloan) : SVP Global Head of Fintech at Visa, Co-founder & CEO TrialPay. Prior to a career in the tech industry, Terry was in product management. His special interest is 'anyplace where I can shape how new ideas meet customers.'

Yiting Shen (Sloan): Global Head of External Network Management, TTS, Head of Developing Currency Clearing, Citibank.

Jennifer (Hongbo) Jiang (Sloan): Co-founder & CEO of BlockTest, former Global Head of RMB Solutions, JPM; Exec. Dir. of BoAMs. Jennifer holds an M.Sc in MIT Sloan

Nakul Gupta (Booth): Business operations at Venmo, with responsibility for revenue growth & P&L at Venmo. He was previously at Credit Karma and BCG.

Colton Dillon (Kellogg): COO of Crypto Hedgehog, who will talk about "If This, Then Cash: Programmable Money, Decentralization, and Self-Determination".

Moderator: Jessie (Xiaohua) Liu (Sloan), Executive Committee member of L.A.MBA, Board member of MITCSC, VP of BOCUSA.

Note: Payment Revolution event is the first in a series of L.A.MBA events centered on business innovations, covering industries ranging from Medical & health, Biotech, Entertainment, Fintech, etc.

P.S. On 4/29/20, L.A.MBA partner school Sloan/MIT hosted a virtual event: "Covid-19 impact on Economy, Finance and Politics," which featured Jacob Cohen, Sr. Assoc. Dean, & three Sloan professors with expertise in globalization, China, applied economics, supply, & budgeting/finance. This event became the most popular virtual event of Sloan's alumni club- registration channel. Registration had to be closed before the deadline to avoid a Zoom overload. Feel free to check the slides & video record. Note that the introduction starts at minute 4:20 & panel starts at 8:27. Link to view that past session is here.