Where European FinTech meets up, with Douglas Mackenzie (Fintech Meetup Europe)
So this is one of the the brilliant things that our event director Gary Dempsey is very keen on, the fact that when you attend FinTech Meetup Europe, you can do everything.
And we work really hard to make that scheduling appropriate. When the talks are happening, nothing else is running. We protect it. We make it so this giant event turns into a lovely summit where you can actually have pushing the needle conversations and then pushing the envelope hopefully, financially when it comes to your your meetings afterwards. Everyone can relax and go to the actual track talks where we get into the nuts and bolts of how we're going to improve Europe and European financial institutions. and then obviously the the extracurricular and the parties happen after all of that too.
Bringing together multiple viewpoints, both in person and in data with Sanjib Kalita (Fintech Meetup and Guppy)
After having been in events for over a decade, I had worked on events that talked about technology and yet, as far as using technology for the event itself, I felt that there was a bit of a gap there.
And so then when I saw what Fintech Meetup was doing in terms of using technology to maximise meeting the right people or being exposed to the right ideas, you know, I thought that just took that to a new level: it was a financial technology conference that actually used technology.
And so, as an example, we had 4,000 people at the event and we had over 43,000, 44,000 meetings scheduled!