Rise To The Challenge: Cyber Security

Rise Cape Town, together with Jonathan Gill, Head of Cyber Security at Barclays Africa invite you to the next edition of Rise To The Challenge: Cyber Security.

This month's event will discuss topics such as fraud, authentication and enterprise security.

Will biometrics make payments quicker and securer? How do banks and fintech companies stay ahead of the fraudsters and hackers? Each session is gathering an audience of startups, VCs, financial institutions and topic experts to unravel these burning hot topics.

Agenda

16:30 Arrival and registration
17:00 Welcome and introductions
17:10 – 17:50 Presentations
Keynote: Jonathan Gill - Head of Cyber Security Risk, Barclays Africa Group

17:50 – 18:10 Panel discussion with questions from the audience
18:10 – 18:30 Drinks, networking and wrap up

RSVP essential. Parking available first come first serve onthe c/o Hercules and Page Lane.

Rise to the Challenge: FinTech is an events series exploring the technology areas that are shaping the future of the financial industry. Rise is bringing together topic experts, startups and Barclays senior leaders to host a thought provoking discussion around what the future holds.

Rise to the Challenge aims to shake the current thinking and identify the strengths and weaknesses of banks and startups to critically assess where to steer the future focus for investing in FinTech.

Each event will identify specific challenges areas to help the movers and shakers in the financial industry to focus their curiosity and start experimenting with specific concepts.

Rise to the Challenge events will run globally and connect the UK, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Mumbai and Vilnius to identify the latest technology solutions in respective markets and encourage collaboration for shaping the future of financial services.