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12:30 PM	Registration
1:00 PM	Opening Speech
1:02 PM	Venue host introduction
1:05 PM	Keynote Kyle Fry, Chief Financial Officer, MLG Blockchain
1:25 PM	Keynote Grace Chen, Director of Investment Sourcing, Meixin Finance “Wealth Tech Deep Dive”
1:45 PM	Keynote Liang Bai, Founder, 01Caijing and 01 Thinktank “Super-corn: Chinese Fintech Investing Leading the World”
	Startup Track	Institution Track
2:10 PM	Judge introduction	Theme: Fintech in Institutions — Innovation in Value Transaction Sebastien Meunier, Senior Manager, Chappuis Halder & Co. “Action: Blockchain in Financial Institutions” S. M. Quamrul Hasan, Senior Procurement Specialist, The World Bank “Global e-GP Architecture using Blockchain Technology” Hee Lee, Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young “Is Auditing Dead in the Era of Blockchain” David Zhang, Head of Securitized Products Research, MSCI “AI mortgage models”
2:25 PM	Explanation of Competition Rules
2:30 PM	Fintech startups Competition Zhenghua Zhang, Founder and CEO, Unpay Tra Vu, COO, Kambria and OhmniLabs Visraant Lyer, Co-founder and CFO, Chord Hugo Renaudin, CEO, LGOMarkets NeoPlace
5:00 PM	Volunteer recognition and group photo
	Evening Black-Tie Award Ceremony
5:00 PM	Registration and Networking
6:00 PM	Keynote Alex Mashinsky, Managing Partner, Governing Dynamics “How Can a Blockchain Startup Raise $1Billion VC Funding”
6:30 PM	Keynote William Nichols, Senior Advisor, Information Architecture and Innovation, US Treasury Office of Financial Research (invited and accepted, await corporate approval) “Standards, Standards, Standards in the Singularity of Blockchain Explosion”
7:00 PM	Dinner, and Toast Speeches by Judges, Contestants, VIP ticket holders, and AaA Committee members
8:00 PM	Award Announcement and AaA Winner Speech
8:10 PM	Judge Panel Discussion: Competition Review
8:40 PM	Bloomberg TV Interview with AaA Winners by Kathleen Hays AaA 2018 Winner (to be determined by the competition on January 18th) AaA 2017 Winner L.D. Salmanson CEO of Cherre