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Second annual Concentric/ERMAK Technology Forum

13 June 2016

‘How Cyber-attacks Steer the Course of International Politics’

For the second year Concentric and ERMAK co-hosted the regular Technology Forum. The speaker this year was Cathal McDaid, Chief Intelligence Officer at AdaptiveMobile.

Cathal discussed Geo-politics & Cyber Security, and how cyber-attacks steer the course of international politics. His bio is summarised below.

Cathal McDaid

AdaptiveMobile is a privately owned mobile security company that works with 70 mobile operators around the world to protect the security of over 1.5 billion mobile phone users. Cathal is responsible for a global team dedicated to stopping cyber-attacks on mobile devices, as well as researching, uncovering and counteracting new threats. Cathal has over fifteen years’ experience in telecoms and security, has been interviewed by the BBC, Forbes, Bloomberg and USA Today, and has been a guest speaker at the world’s top security events.

Currently, he is leading the industry effort to secure the global mobile telecom infrastructure from newly-discovered critical vulnerabilities. Previously, he was Chairman of the GSM Association’s Mobile Malware Group. His academic background includes a BEng (University of Limerick) and an Executive MBA (INSEAD).

Families and Venture Capital – A Venture into the Unknown or a Return to its Roots?

9 June 2016

At Concentric we have ongoing discussions with family offices in relation to their venture exposure. Over the years it has become apparent that families are struggling with this particular ‘asset class’. Most families would like exposure to venture capital but are unsure in what form, or what such engagement could look like.

Denis Shafranik was invited to present Concentric findings on families’ approach to venture capital at the 3rd annual Global Family Office Conference in London.

Combined with some background facts on family offices, the purpose of the presentation was to surface some of Concentric’s key findings gathered as a result of discussions with 300+ family offices across the world. We also aim to use our findings to make predictions and to elaborate on key trends in family office venture capital investing.

The case study is attached.

Global family office community website

Concentric Nordic Tech Excursion

20 May 2016

In cooperation with Bloomberg, earlier in May Concentric organised an invite only Tech Excursion to Oslo and Copenhagen.

The Participants, mostly international venture investors, were able to get an insight into the start-up scene in the two countries, as there were 10 pitches in each of the cities.

In addition Concentric organised two panel debates where critical aspects such as investment frameworks, role models, culture, internationalisation etc. were discussed, with input from some of the leading local thought leaders, entrepreneurs and investors.

This note presents the overview of the event.

Concentric Financial Inclusion Summit

11 May 2016

The Financial Inclusion summit, organised by Concentric in partnership with Bloomberg marks the second event in a series of events discussing and highlighting some of the most current topics across technology and business.

We decided to focus on financial inclusion, given the topic’s increasing prevalence in today’s world. To the untrained eye, financial inclusion might appear as a concept associated with the developing world, but it could not be further from the truth! Some of the facts and figures which we saw demonstrated that financial inclusion is indeed a world-wide problem. It’s a problem which should be addressed by both the public and the private sectors (and we indeed had participants from both sides of the fence) and one where technology, as an enabler, could be of great value.

Learning from our previous experience with the ecommerce event, we are also including links to the videos from the different sessions:

Introduction & keynote
The importance of financial inclusion
Mobile and financial inclusion
Financial inclusion products and delivery
Closing remarks

This note presents the key findings and messages from the different panels, highlighting some of the unique insights we heard through the morning.

We hope you find it helpful and we look forward to seeing you at our next events and to keep the dialogue.

Concentric Cross-Border eCommerce Summit

18 March 2016

Concentric in collaboration with Bloomberg conducted its first seminar on cross-border eCommerce.

The core discussion panels were represented by leaders in their respective verticals: Alibaba, Global Fashion Group, Privalia, PrettySocial, Ebay, Neteven, Hybris, SAP, IBM, Currencies Direct, Worldfirst, Accenture, Temando, Docdata, B2CEurope and Arvato.

Presenters covered a wide range of topics including trans-continental trade, emerging trends in the global eCommerce sector, success stories from emerging markets, as well as outlook for the next 10 years.

Links to videos from the day’s sessions:

Keynote: Growing Globally
Panel I: Go Global
Panel II: Raise the Operational Barriers
Panel III: Choose the Best Logistic Solution

A summary transcript of the event can be found here:

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