Learn more about international programs supporting the finance of digital innovations and high-tech startups, including the the first EU Deep Tech investment Fund, focused on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.
The objective of this session is share experiences on how to enhance the access to finance for highly innovative blockchain SMEs and startups. The session will explore the topic of the existing investment gaps in blockchain technologies, assess the underlying challenges in financing digital innovations and deep tech companies and propose possible solutions to enhance the access to finance for early stage and the scale-up of blockchain SMEs and startups. The session will also provide an overview of the EU AI/Blockchain investment fund and investment support program that will be launched in early 2020.
Please join us at the Convergence Global Blockchain Congress in Malaga
Panel discussion 13 November, 2019 - 09:15 am -10:15 am
Key Note Address: Investing in the Future of blockchain technologies?
● Harald Gruber, Head of Division, Digital Infrastructure, EIB
Opening Remarks
● Sorin Moisă, Co-Founder Skyy Network, Former Member of the European Parliament
Panel: Financing of Innovations by International Financial Institutions
Moderator
● Gerard de Graaf, Director, Digital Single Market, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Speakers
● Richard Williams, Managing Director and CIO, EBRD
● Samia Melhelm, Lead Specialist, Digital Development, World Bank Group
● Greg Medcraft, Director, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs at OECD
● Alejandro Pardo, Lead Specialist IDB Lab, Inter-American Development Bank
● Nadia Filali, Head of Blockchain Programs, Caisse des Dépôts
● David Dana, Head of Investments, ICT, European Investment Fund
Useful links
Investment Support program to support the new AI/Blockchain Investment Fund
Financing the Deep Tech Revolution
Artificial Intelligence
Coordinated Plan on Artificial Intelligence "Made in Europe"
Q & A Coordinated Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence
Principal Organizer:
Bjorn-Soren Gigler, PhD
Senior Digital Innovation Specialist
European Commission
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Unit F3, Digital Innovations and Blockchain
Avenue de Beaulieu 33, 1160 Brussels/Belgium
Tel: +(32) 229-816-26