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The FinTech Factor: Driving Atlanta’s Rise as a Global Tech Hub

Name: The FinTech Factor: Driving Atlanta’s Rise as a Global Tech Hub
Start: 2019-04-25T11:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-04-25T13:30:00-04:00

April 25, 2019 at 11:30 am - 1:30 pm

The verdict is in: Atlanta is ‘Transaction Alley,’ a hub for the payments sector and the place where 70 percent of U.S. electronic transactions converge. It’s a story the city itself has just awakened to in the past few years, but even in that short time, financial technology has already become the emerging tech mecca’s calling card to the world.

Join the Cumming-Forsyth Chamber of Commerce and Global Atlanta for the chamber’s annual International Luncheon to hear how Atlanta-born companies are making their way in the world and how Atlanta’s traditional payments dominance has become a platform for recruiting foreign firms, from disruptive startups to established industry players.

Introductions

Grant Wainscott, Director of Technology, Metro Atlanta Chamber

Mike Whitacre, CPA Partner, Frazier & Deeter

Panel Discussion

Moderated by: Trevor Williams, Editor, Global Atlanta

-Steve Villegas, VP of Partner Management, PPRO. A UK-based fintech firm specializing in helping payment processors reach the rest of the ecommerce world beyond traditional card payments.

-Alex Bermudez, Privacy Consulting Manager of the America, OneTrust. OneTrust is the largest and most widely used technology platform to operationalize privacy, security and third-party risk management.

-Adwait Joshi, Chief Seer, DataSeers. An Alpharetta-based firm to that assist banking and payments industry with Big Data applications using machine learning and A.I.

-Glen Sarvady, Managing Principal, 154 Advisors. A consulting firm that specializes in online payments, digital wallets, customer segmentation and consumer behavior.

Cost is $20 for all attendees.

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