Told you I'll be back with
updates :) On what? Well, on our FINkers
United event, of course.
Don't have the date booked in
your calendars yet? It's time you do. Because I promise you, we'll
have the "unconference" time of our lives.
Here is how the show will go
on, and on, and on :)
09:00-09:30 - Registration and welcome
coffee
09:30-10:30 - Setting the scene. Sharing
ideas. Creating value
Start of our journey. Take a
short tour to setup a common map. We'll visit the regions of:
impact of open source in banking, bankers' perspective on adopting
it, projects and initiatives in other industries, financial
market's current status and trends, government regulations, impact
on the operational business model, the financial community as a key
to success. Final destination: finding ways to make this a
compelling alternative.
10:30-11:15 - Workshop preview
session
Just a short interactive
discussion to see what we need to pack for our voyage and to sketch
together the coordinates we need to touch on the
map.
11:15-11:30 - Coffee break
11:30-12:30 - Workshop: From closed to
open
First checkpoint. Trying to
identify together the routes to take us from close to open. The
easiest ones (in terms of implementation), the safest ones - with
less obstacles/risks, the legal ones (not to get any fines), the
most operational ones, the ones that even the acquisitions would
take, the ones that the entire community will find
agreeable.
12:30-13:30 - Lunch
We've come a long way. Let's
stop for a little feast to give us strength for the road ahead. We
all deserve some culinary delights for our
efforts.
13:30-14:30 - Workshop: How open is
open?
Next checkpoint. Analysing in
more details some of the most viable routes we have identified. How
open are they? Cause we don't want road blocks. Pay attention to
the road signs that show the directions towards IT town, Legal
region, Operations lake, Acquisition /investment plateau, Marketing
city. Help each other if we have a flat tire or run out of gas,
because we need travel companions to make it to the final
destination.
14:30-14:45 - Coffee break
14:45-15:30 - Wrap-up
session
The end of this short tour, but
far from being the end of our journey. Sketch a line on our map
that takes us to our destination (a trusted open source application
and a reliable community). Mark the stops that we have to make.
Calculate distances. Come up with solutions for our first
kilometres. In a few words, summarize this trip's
journal.
15:30-16:00 - Awards session
There is a reward for everyone
who joined us in this voyage. Also, for those who packed their
business cards, there is a chance to win one of the two Apple
tablets or one of the two huge champagne
bottles.
Important people will accompany
us on this trip, guiding our way in finding the right paths. And
for that, we would like to thank them:
Kosta Peric, Head of Innovation and
Co-founder of Innotribe, SWIFT
Petru Rares, President Romanian Banking
Institute (to be confirmed)
Radu Ghetea, President CEC
Bank
Rodica Tuchila, Director ARB (Romanian
Banking Association)
Ruud van der Horst, Independent Consultant
Walter van Holst, Consultant, MITOPICS
I hope now you want to take this tour with us. See you next week
:)