December 4, 2018
Date & Time
December 4, 2018 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Uptown Charlotte: Foundation for the Carolinas
220 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC 28202
Registration
Register by December 3, 2018 12:00 AM
We often hear the buzzwords like digital transformation, APIs, AI, and machine learning, but rarely do we see how they are actually shaping financial services today. Banks and financial service providers are adopting these advancements in the background, but what the general public doesn’t see is how these technologies are improving interactions with their financial institutions, and thus their overall experience.
Join us on December 4 in the heart of Charlotte to hear from the Levvel Financial Services team, the Levvel Product team, and our panel of guests who work for financial service providers. You’ll hear them discuss how these technology advancements are reshaping the customer experience.
Agenda
Additional Details
Meet the speakers
Devin Smith
Vice President, Strategy
Scott Harkey
Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Financial Services & Payments
Kara Ford
Senior Financial Services Consultant
Steve Selfridge
SVP, Emerging Payments and Commerce, Bank of America
Meet the speakers
Vice President, Strategy
Devin helps guide strategic direction at Levvel. He brings 20 years of experience in design, advertising, and development across a range of industries, including financial services, e-commerce, retail, and automotive. Having a passion for connecting design principles to business, he has led teams at multiple companies with an emphasis on driving growth through relentless dedication to quality and serving customers. He uses design thinking to provide a holistic, customer-centered, and cross-functional approach to solving real business problems.
Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Financial Services & Payments
Scott Harkey is Levvel's Chief Strategy Officer while also leading the Payments and Financial Services work. He has 15 years of banking experience including leading the technology team that implemented digital wallet products at Bank of America along with 10 years of technology merger integration and IT operations outsourcing work at Wells Fargo. Scott brings a unique “insider” point of view combined with a proven track record of delivery to banks, technology providers, and merchants exploring the digital payments space.
Senior Financial Services Consultant
Kara Ford is a Senior Financial Services Consultant who works with financial institutions, merchants and enterprises of all sizes to help them identify and implement their payment strategies. She comes to Levvel with 7+ years of experience in banking as a payments professional with deep knowledge in financial services offerings for commercial and retail customers. She has focused the last three years on P2P and Real-time payments with a focus on product strategy, architecture, and implementation of the services for customers.
SVP, Emerging Payments and Commerce, Bank of America
Steve Selfridge is responsible for the design, development, and deployment of emerging payment solutions and commerce capabilities across Bank of America’s consumer bank. Steve was directly involved in bringing Zelle and multiple Digital Wallets to market. He continues to drive Bank of America’s Zelle strategy and represents Bank of America on the EWS Enterprise Payments Advisory Board. Steve holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. He currently lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife and two children.
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