Igor Pejic

Tech booms are occurring ever more frequently and creating ever more wealth. Igor Pejic, one of today’s leading experts on tech trends and money, shows how every investor can benefit from the tech age. In this keynote he teaches systematic ways to ride technological revolutions today and tomorrow. From crypto, to GenAI, and quantum computing – the opportunities are getting more, not less. And progress is unfolding in predictable cycles.

While investing in technology often seems like luck, art, or fortunetelling, it is neither. The rules are new, but the successful game plan is straightforward: Learn how to tell tech tops from tech flops. Understand when to put money into the tops. And pick calculated asymmetric bets.

Audience takeaways:

• Master the most important rules of technology investing

• Identify emerging and frontier technologies

• Ride technology trajectories before others do

• Fire up your portfolio with asymmetric investments like digital assets or 100-baggers

• Build long-term wealth by focusing your portfolio on tech 

Today’s most successful investors don’t toil in technical analysis. They anticipate waves of technological progress. They realize long-term excess returns thanks to banking on the winners of tomorrow’s tech revolutions. Yet how to build a tech-savvy investment portfolio, remains an enigma for most people. Join Igor Pejic, an award-winning author on technology and money, as he takes the audience through three proven strategies to outperform the market. Whether you are a risk-taker or security-seeker, whether you are looking for a strategy on autopilot or enjoy searching for moats, there is a strategy for you. Build a strong tech portfolio now and speed run your road to financial independence.

Audience Takeaways:

• Find the strategy that best fits your risk-tolerance and time-budget

• Learn how to build your optimal portfolio, which is both stable and ambitious

• Tell disruptive technologies apart from those that will fade into oblivion

• Consciously decide when to invest, which companies and investment vehicles to choose, and how-to bring risk to the bare minimum

Executives and managers around the world face the same challenges: How to know when to pour money into a technology or to enter a technology market? Is there still an early-mover advantage in Gen AI? Or is it rather too early to get in? Is blockchain an overpriced database or an opportunity to achieve tremendous ROI? When should you start thinking about quantum technologies? 

Award-winning author Igor Pejic explains how to interpret market and customer behavior in a hyper-fast, accelerating world. Finding and following the subtle clues of tech progress can turn your company in a long-term winner. There is a reason why the likes of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft regularly end up on top of multiple technological revolutions. Learn how to replicate their mindset and how to follow their playbook.

Audience Takeaways:

• Realize a competitive advantage by investing in the right technology at the right time

• Prevent overinvesting in technologies that will flop or soon mature

• Recognize who is driving the technology’s adoption and whether it can be sustainable

• Understand tech scenario planning

• Learn how to deploy parallel and competing bet strategy

What everybody gets wrong about Bitcoin and other cryptos and how to turn them into a powerful catalyst in your portfolio.

In seven out of the last ten years, Bitcoin has outperformed all other assets and indices. By unseen margins. But the ups are contrasted with sharp downs. Unsurprisingly, there is no shortage of tools and formulas to forecast the crypto market cycle. The problem: They are all wrong. In this keynote, the globally renowned digital asset expert Igor Pejic looks at the real drivers of past and future growth of crypto-investments. Is it too late to buy into Bitcoin or Ethereum? Does utility value matter in the crypto-sphere? Is crypto different to other tech investments? And what role should crypto play in your portfolio? Pejic answers the questions that keep investors up at night and shows how to turn crypto into a powerful catalyst in your portfolio rather than a ticking time bomb.

Audience Takeaways:

• Understand the unparalleled potency of crypto-assets in any portfolio

• Know where best to look for asymmetric investment opportunities in the crypto world

• Learn about the price drivers of major coins and how to spot the end of their growth curves

• Avoid pitfalls that may cause complete loss of your assets without the compensation of an adequate upside potential 

As banks are wrestling to implement blockchain applications to improve back end processes, they must not lose sight of the game-changing potential of the technology. But the change might be different than what doomsayers predict. Speaker Igor Pejic, the author of
Blockchain Babel
and a banker himself, has analyzed various myths that can lead to fatal strategic blunders. Even if the technology’s final form has not yet materialized, management theory can be a powerful compass to predict where the market is going.

In this session, speaker Igor Pejic will share:

What blockchain-strategies financial institutions are pursuing

How the blockchain can change business models in finance and open new revenue channels

Which challenges are most likely to use blockchain technology to cut into banks’ profit pools and how to counter it, and how to identify the primary audience, decision-makers and experts in the finance and banking industry.

How Blockchain Will Transform The Economy And How To Harness It For Your Business

The technology behind cryptocurrencies is truly game-changing, not just for money transactions. From energy production to human identities, algorithmic trust is set to unleash large-scale disruption unseen since the rise of the internet. But what does it mean for your business?

In this keynote, speaker Igor Pejic will answer:

Introduction to cryptocurrencies, blockchain, DLT, and smart contracts

The dawn of a new techno-economic paradigm, enabled by pervasive and cheap “trust” becoming the new key resource

A step-by-step guide on when a blockchain makes sense for your company and which basic type of setup to use

Finance is the world’s largest industry and thus the ultimate target for Silicon Valley’s giants. Google is teaming up with Citibank, Apple with Goldman Sachs. Facebook has announced the launch of Libra, a new digital currency threatening the US dollar. In China, the likes of Ant Financial and Tencent have long captured the payments realm. The enabler: groundbreaking technology. But can they succeed?

In this session, speaker Igor Pejic will discuss:

Why data giants push into finance and their odds of winning

Which channels are the most vulnerable and most crucial vectors of attack

Which tech titans pose the largest threat

What incumbents can do to protect their business

Many incumbent and challenger banks will founder in the coming years; not because they fail with new technology or the latest regulation, but because they can’t grasp the changing nature of customer demands. Hyper-connectivity, platform economics, and new lifestyles make societies rethink money.

In this session, speaker Igor Pejic will discuss:

How 21st century technological and social dynamics shape new customer expectations

Clear recommendations on how to prioritize products and features

Which partnerships make sense, and which ones don’t

A guide on how to communicate about banking products, offers, and brands