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My background
I’m the Senior Executive Manager of FinTech Fusion, a research
programme funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to
support collaboration between industry and academia.
FinTech Fusion brings together three SFI research centres,
ADAPT, Insight and Lero, and the financial services and
insurance sectors to drive innovation and enable enterprises to
remain at the cutting edge of technology. At the same time,
academic researchers get to see their research and technology
deployed in real world settings. It’s a really exciting space to be
LAURA CLIFFORD
SENIOR EXECUTIVE MANAGER,
FINTECH FUSION,
ADAPT
in. Prior to that, I was involved in the development of a large
scale IoT test bed as well as many years in the laboratory
technology sector working with pharmaceutical, food,
agricultural and clinical sectors.
ADAPT - how you enable businesses in the
"Become open to collaboration
– digital transformation cannot
happen in silos, nor will it
happen in a single enterprise
trying to achieve success in
isolation. Establish what paths
and models will work for your
organisation to evolve."
Financial Services sector and your role in
this
The core objective of FinTech Fusion is to facilitate
collaboration between the financial service and insurance
sectors and academia. The programme gives our industry
partners access to ground breaking research and talent as well
as first line of sight of emerging technology. We enable that by
providing a single point of access to the diverse range of
expertise that is within the partner Universities and support
the processes involved in the engagement. My role is to act as
the interface between academia and industry, to guide the
process and initiate the supports that are in place such as cofunding options. Working with FinTech Fusion gives our
partners the ability to scale their research
into PayTech, RegTechand Insuretech by using AI and machine
learning, chatbots, blockchain, semantic web, risk analysis,
fraud detection technologies, predictive analytics and much
more.
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