When the Midlands met FinTech...

In the past, we have hosted events in Birmingham specific to FinTech. In 2015, we hosted the Blockchain meets Birmingham event. We were fortunate to have a great selection of speakers and participants at this event considering how early on in the blockchain timeline we were. Some of our keynote speakers included people from Cryptography, Legal, Intelligence and broader Financial backgrounds.

The event was split into three separate sessions. ‘Foundational Concepts and Fundamental Questions’, ‘Blockchain meets Finance’ and ‘Blockchain meets IoT’. 

Blockchain meets Birmingham was sponsored by Security and Privacy Group@University of Birmingham and Obillex. The Security and Privacy Group@University of Birmingham is a team of eleven academic staff based in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. For over a decade, the group has remained committed to its ethos of tackling cybersecurity problems that are important to society. Working in collaboration with academia, industry and government, the Group consistently produces internationally leading research on key issues that has led to recognition by GCHQ as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research.