You are cordially invited to attend the University of Essex and Kaplan Singapore Symposium. Please register here and upon acceptance of your participation into this free-of-charge symposium, you will be sent a Zoom link one week prior to event. It takes place on Thursday July 22nd, 2021, 5 pm – 10 pm SGT.
Programme
5 – 5:05pm
Welcome speech
Mike Christie, Chief Operating Officer, Kaplan Singapore
5:05 – 5:20pm
Introduction to the symposium’s themes
Dr Stevphen Shukaitis, Reader,Essex Business School, University of Essex
5:20 – 5:50pm
Cryptocurrency cultures: Exploring the imaginaries of Bitcoin and Ethereum
Dr Paul J. Ennis, College of Business, University College Dublin
5:50pm – 6:35pm
Crowdfunding, Peer-to-peer financing & memeification
Victor Say, Forex trader and trainer
6:35 – 6:50pm
Break
6:50 – 7pm
Introduction to the Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (JALT)
Dr Juergen Rudolph, Head of Research, Kaplan Singapore; Editor-in-chief, Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
7 – 7:30pm
Gamification and psychology in stock market trading
Dr Christopher Goh, Kaplan Singapore adjunct faculty
7:30 – 8pm
The future of payments
Pratyush Prasanna, Head of Merchant Payments, Gojek
8 – 8:05pm
Short break
8:05 – 8:35pm
Alternative debt platforms (interview)
Nanda Thiruvengadam, Chief Product Officer, Lend East
8:35 – 9:05pm
Towards a post-capitalist economic media: From a decentralized hedge fund (Robin Hood Minor Asset Management) to a grammar for expressing social derivatives (Economic Space Agency)
Dr Akseli Virtanen
9:05 – 9:35pm
Panel discussion
9:35 – 9:40pm
Closing remarks
Dr Juergen Rudolph
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Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alternative-finance-rethinking-financial-education-tickets-144233577513
For more information on Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching: http://journals.sfu.ca/jaltEssex-Kaplan2021