Stash is a mobile-first investment platform that currently helps over one million people simplify investing and saving through education and an intuitive user experience. Investors can customize their own portfolio starting with as little as $5, and receive ongoing guidance through the Stash App.
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Epson has established a diverse ecosystem of solution providers, using augmented reality to solve problems, connect people, and change the way we experience the world. Epson smart glasses create a top of the line user experience, providing AR that is comfortable, light and immersive. Their glasses can be used in many ways, personal, multi-user and industrial.
In addition, Epson has released a cutting edge drone complement for your DJI drone.
Providing footage, controls and statistics, all while maintaining your line-of-sight.
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Blockspace Labs offers blockchain training, tokenomics & ICO turnkey solutions for startups and investors, including:
ICO Project/White Paper Review and development (for investors and startups); Blockchain idea/concept validation from value, Technological, architectural and development perspectives; Blockchain/DLT cost-benefit analysis; Business model tokenization; Ecosystem building/evaluation & scalability assessment and ICO staging.
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The mission of Urban FT is to deliver an exceptionally compelling mobile and Web banking user experience along with best-in-class digital banking features and functionality to empower small-to-midsize financial institutions to compete effectively against all comers.
Urban FT has an award-winning platform, which 10% of U.
S.-based financial institutions now leverage, simplifying the process of designing, building and delivering digital banking solutions, minimizing cost and accelerating speed to market and ROI for clients.
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Every day small banks are forced into dreadful contracts by their Core and IT suppliers. Community banks are disappearing. They are being acquired on a daily basis and with it, the personalized touch of banking goes out the window as well. A veteran in the fields of finance, banking and technology, Alexander Lopatine, now Managing Director at Paladin (paladin-fs.com), joins us to explain what they are doing to help community banks and credit unions get on an even playing field with their outsourced Core & IT services, in order to survive and thrive in the fast-evolving climate.
Paladin is a well-known consulting firm in the banking space, with Lopatine now leading their newly-created Fintech Advantage division. The focus is on helping community banks and credit unions gain access to financial technology or the fintech they need to be sustainable and successful in their industry.
In this intriguing interview, Lopatine enlightens us on how the team at Paladin fs are helping community banks and credit unions understand and action contract negotiations, merger solutions, vendor selection, quote checks and lifetime protection services with their Core and IT vendors.
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Chris Ostoich is the co-founder and chief innovation officer of Lisnr, a communication protocol that uses ultrasonic audio to translate and transfer information. “Sound is infrastructure that’s all around us- in every room, car, office, device, concert- it’s there already, and historically we just haven’t used it as a communication mechanism,” says Ostoich.
With about 30 million devices today and the expectation of close to 100 million this year, Lisnr has already powered the grammy app and boasts Ticketmaster as one of their biggest clients.
So, what are the benefits of this protocol versus so many others? Ultrasonic data transmission is easily embedded into existing infrastructures and ecosystems, does not require wifi or bluetooth, and is hardwareless, requiring nothing but sound, a speaker and a microphone.
To learn more, visit lisnr.com.
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Jeff Berwick is a strong believer in financial freedom and the power of cryptocurrencies to allow people an escape from the central banking and financial system. He is also the creator of The Dollar Vigilante, a unique financial newsletter that recommends a variety of investments and cryptocurrencies, and offers the latest news in the crypto and investment space.
Berwick envisions a world in which people own their money, act as their own banks and have complete control over their financial futures.
“Most poverty in the world is caused by governments and central banks…so the more we can do to take away that power from them…through cryptocurrencies, the better chance we have at a truly free and peaceful world,” says Berwick.
Berwick explains why the backing of cryptocurrencies with fiat currency is a bad idea, why EOS has the potential to compete with Ethereum, and why people should be educating themselves on and entering the crypto space sooner rather than later.
Tune in to learn more, and visit dollarvigilante.com.
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Max Smetannikov is a returning guest and the chief information officer at Vimana Global, an international blockchain airspace company that aims to enable blockchain airspace. Smetannikov explains that blockchain airspace is a blockchain-based communications network that supplements control air towers and manages the increasing volume of drone traffic. The team at Vimana Global is working hard to enable the blockchain-based network to support regular blockchain transactions and thereby maintain the same level of comfort and transparency in airspace as there is on any regular blockchain.
In more recent news, Vimana Global has created a drone that carries the transformer for the Vimana blockchain. “We possess a very unique technology…where we can effectively land, take off and convert from vertical flight to horizontal flight seamlessly, which is a huge step forward in the development of airspace in general; an equivalent step was taken when the helicopter was invented,” says Smetannikov.
As a global company, Vimana intends to reach markets around the world and is getting ready to kick off an Asian tour where they will talk with future partners, explain how blockchain airspace will impact the everyday life of ordinary people around the world, and explain how exactly Vimana will be deployed in major cities. Smetannikov discusses the excitement that “smart cities”- cities that have long been embracing IT as a solution to different problems- are showing with regard to this new technology. In fact, Vimana has already received several requests for the implementation of mini buses, ferries, and subways.
Tune in to hear the details, and visit vimana.global.
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LifeBEAM, founded several years ago, was originally developed for pilots, astronauts and special forces to monitor their bodies and to avoid risky physical situations. They are now bringing you Vi, a consumer fitness product that is wearable using your phone, watch or earbud.
The mission and passion for Vi are to combine artificial intelligence and voice to bring quality, personalized, personal training to users, wherever you are. The unique technology can profile the individual wearing the device and will process information gathered to help you meet your fitness and health goals.
Vi uses a person’s posture, cadence, heart rate and other vitals taken from your phone, watch, or earphone to determine current physical status and how to get you your heart rate and activity to the optimal level for best results.
The system delivers the results through voice commands and selection of specific music and sounds based on your likes and physical output during a workout.
Vi turns your everyday, monotonous workout into an exciting experience that leads you to real results. The system currently supports walking, running, spinning and cycling in addition to many other activities that are continually being added, including the use of a treadmill.
For more information, visit: getvi.com in
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A veteran in his field, Jacob Ervin has been working in the mixed and virtual reality technology space for nearly 10 years. Ervin now sits as Program Manager at Occipital, a computer vision company which aims to teach computers how to see and understand the world around us through augmented and virtual reality and environmental scanning.
Occipital has launched products aimed to improve several industries by using your own personal handheld device. For example, their Structure Sensor allows users to capture the world by 3D by scanning of objects and then it uses that model to create a mixed reality experience on a device, where virtual objects appear to interact with the physical world.
Additionally, powered by Structure Sensor, the Canvas app takes capturing a 3D model of a room easy.
Users just need to tap scan, walk around a room, and watch as a scaled model is built on your device. This is advancing the way real-estate and construction companies, for example, can do business.
Occipital has also released their Bridge Engine, providing mixed reality capabilities in a simple to deploy software engine.
Join us as Ervin takes us through the fascinating AR/VR fantasies that have now become realities in this exciting interview with one of the leader’s in this industry.
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