Pascal Martino;
Credit: Deloitte Luxembourg
On Thursday 12 December, Deloitte Luxembourg hosted their fourth edition of the Disrupted or Disrupter Conference at the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT).
In front of a large panel of innovation stakeholders gathered at the LHoFT, international experts discussed the latest digital innovations and opportunities emerging in a rapidly changing market. Topics ranged from the future of food production to the evolving landscape for FinTech and neuroscience.
Mark Post, Co-Founder of Mosa Meat at SingularityU, opened the presentations with his hypothesis on "The future of food production", in which he highlighted the challenges of digitalisation versus those of sustainable food production. Gabrielle Inzirillo of Plug and Play Tech Center then led an analysis entitled "FinTech is dead! Long live FinTech!", in which she explained how the FinTech we know today is unlikely to be the same in the coming years. Finally, Dr. Roeland Dietvorst, Founder and Scientific Director at Alpha.one, delivered a presentation entitled "Improve the quality of your decisions with neuroscience", in which he offered an interactive demonstration on how technologies associated with algorithms such as machine learning techniques improve our ability to understand and analyse our thoughts.
Organised by Deloitte Digital Co-Leaders and Partners, Pascal Martino and Ronan Vander Elst, this annual conference was moderated by LHoFT CEO, Nasir Zubairi. The event intended to inspire participants to think outside the box and encourage them to reflect on the real impacts developed by certain innovations outside the financial industry.
Pascal Martino, Partner and Deloitte Digital Co-Leader in Luxembourg, commented: “At Deloitte Digital we combine industry and strategy with technology and design to help prepare our clients for the ‘next season’, to look to the future and anticipate long-term shifts in the industry. This is why we create conferences such as Disrupted or Disrupter to focus on the trends of tomorrow that may not impact us in the coming months, but will do so in the next few years".
For the Deloitte Digital team, the main takeaway point was to urge the industry to focus on digitalisation, to utilise the power of technology not as an addition but as a main driver in both the infrastructure of a company and the running of its business.
