My keynote from the Canadian Fintech 3.0 Summit in April 2019 in Toronto, Canada. I explain how universities and colleges are solving a pain point for Fintech founders, investors and incumbents by training talent and providing research. I give suggestions on how to motivate and train students on Fintech using experiential learning such as hackathons, case competitions, speakers, and writing articles.

1. The Canada Fintech Project:
Connecting Founders with Talent
Prof. Michael R. King
Co-Founder of Ivey’s Fintech Research Centre
mking@ivey.ca
April 16, 2019

2. Fintech ecosystem

3. Connecting fintech founders with talent
After customers and funding, every Fintech needs employees.
Do you want…
…to attract smart, motivated students with training in finance, marketing
and business development?
…to have an article written about your company?
…to be the focus of an international case competition?
…to meet hackers with coding skills and innovative ideas?
…to receive free strategy and marketing consulting for your company?
…to speak in front of an audience of adoring students?
…to learn about the latest Fintech research from around the world?
…to have your Fintech company profiled on www.CanadaFintech.ca ?
…to connect locally with academics interested in Fintech and blockchain?

4. The problem is not a lack of
engineering and technical skills, but
exists on the left side of the
organizational chart – in marketing
and business development roles.
Fintech pain point?

5. Disrupting how students learn
Is the right way to teach students
about FinTech in a classroom?
…Or to have students teach
themselves through experiential
learning?

6. Experiential learning

7. Students created their own website and starting writing articles about Fintech in a magazine that
they designed called “Perspectives”. (Copies are circulating around the room)
Fintech articles

8. Over 500 students and 105
teams from 10 Canadian
universities. Winners got
$1,000 and first round
interviews at IBM.
Case competitions

9. In 2018, 500+ hackers selected from 2,100 applicants to participate in teams
of four from across Canada & USA. 105 projects submitted at end of weekend.
Ivey partnered with Western’s accelerator, Propel, and awarded $3,000 in seed
funding to the winning team
Companies of all sizes sponsored prizes, sent mentors for coaching &
demos, and brought recruiters (loaded with swag): Google, Startech, Square,
Fiix, Magnet Forensics, Sun Life, Distributed ID, TD, Scotia, Rogers, Audodata
Solutions, Blackberry, Wealthsimple…
https://hackwestern.com/Hackathons

10. In the prior two semesters, Ivey Fintech Club’s
Pro-bono Consulting Program has successfully
partnered with and completed 7 projects for
local Toronto clients.
This 3rd cohort of the program hosts 4
clients. Clients are primarily from Toronto, and
range from larger firms with +$100mm in
revenue to pre-seed and seed stage start-ups.
For the launch, 20 students forming 4
consulting teams, gathered for a training
bootcamp.
Teams were introduced to various problem
structuring and data analysis methods, and
walked through past case studies and how
those projects were approached. Teams were
also given a primer on strong client
communications, and a brief introduction to
prevailing Fintech trends.
Consulting

11. Speakers and panels

12. Andrew Sarta – PhD Candidate, Ivey
• Wealth management and digital alternatives to financial advice
• Behavioural decision-making & technological change
Nur Ahmed – PhD Candidate, Ivey
• Artificial intelligence and banking
• Organizational response to scientific breakthroughs
Jungsoo Ahn – PhD Candidate, Ivey
• Initial coin offerings (ICOs), crypto ventures and blockchain
• Market categorization and sensemaking
Prof. JP Vergne - Strategy, Ivey
• Cryptoeconomics & currencies, Blockchain, DAOs
Prof. Chuck Grace - Finance, Ivey
• Digital wealth management, robo-advice
Prof. Hubert Pun - Management Science, Ivey
• Blockchain, counterfeiting & security
Ying-Ying Hsieh –Assistant Prof, Imperial College London
• Blockchain governance and tokenization
• DAOs and decentralized platform ecosystems
Prof. Markos Zachariadis - Info Systems, Warwick (Visitor to Ivey 2019)
• Open banking and business model transformation for incumbents
• Blockchain platform governance, AI in Wealth Management
Research

13. On March 14-15, 2019 Ivey organized this second interdisciplinary
conference featuring 41 Fintech papers from scholars at 48 universities
globally. Papers covered a vast array of FinTech topics, including: peer-to-
peer lending, cryptoeconomics, crowdfunding, firm response to the diffusion
of technologies such as blockchain and AI, and the evolution of market
infrastructure.
EXAMPLES OF PAPERS:
• The Real Effects of Financial Technology: Marketplace Lending and
Personal Bankruptcy
• The Performance of Marketplace Lenders: Evidence from Lending Club
Payment Data
• Angels in the Crowd: Evidence from Online Equity Crowdfunding
• Network Effects in Crowdfunding
• Shocks and Technology Adoption: Evidence
from Electronic Payment Systems
• Equilibrium Bitcoin Pricing
• Tokenomics: when tokens beat equity
• What Shapes Attention to New Technology?
A Multilevel Study of Organizational Attention
to FinTech by Incumbent Banks
https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/
Conferences

14. Research

16. www.CanadaFintech.ca
Written by students for:
• Consumers
• Investors
• Potential partners
• Regulators
• Future Employees!!!
Fintech Profiles

17. Each company profile covers:
• Key statistics
• Senior management
• History
• Funding
• Key corporate
developments
• Products / pricing
• Technology
• Distribution
• Marketing
• Competitors

18. Connecting fintech founders with talent
mking@ivey.ca
Or connect on LinkedIn
(search Michael King Ivey)
andreas.park@Rotman
.Utoronto.Ca
ryan.riordan@queensu.ca
Maria.Pacurar@dal.ca v.lemieux@ubc.ca
fahad.saleh@mcgill.ca
malinovk@mcmaster.ca
…at universities across Canada.