Formerly known as Corrosion Technology Week, STE addresses AMPP’s new standards development while providing opportunities to exchange information on a variety of coatings and corrosion issues.

Hear from committee members Robert Cameron, Kat Coronado, and Ardjan Kopliku as they discuss the importance of being involved in AMPP committees and why they are excited for this year’s STE.

To learn more about STE 2022, visit
https://ampp.org/events/standards-and-technical-exchange

Why do people in Venezuela buy their bread with bitcoins, whereas in other regions of the world, blockchain technology seems to be for nerds, only? What makes people accept a new technology? Max Kops, passionate about Security Token Offerings and blockchain, tries to answer these questions.  He has been working with start-ups and big companies on tech financing and talks about how these technologies will change finance.  Max Kops is a best-selling author, public speaker and disruptor, who helps start-ups and established companies to be grow with innovation. For several years, he has been working with Blockchain Technologies and ‘Security Token Offerings’ (STO) to help financing of start-ups and big companies. He shares his experience at conferences world wide.

Max studied at the University of Münster and came back to share what he has learnt about innovation and people, particularly with examples of how tokenization and security tokes can improve start-up investments and personal finance, giving people freedom and power over their own finances. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Adrienne Porter Felt, Google; Richard Barnes, Cisco; April King, Mozilla; Chris Palmer, Chris Bentzel, and Parisa Tabriz, Google

HTTPS ensures that the Web has a base level of privacy and integrity. Security engineers, researchers, and browser vendors have long worked to spread HTTPS to as much of the Web as possible via outreach efforts, developer tools, and browser changes. How much progress have we made toward this goal of widespread HTTPS adoption? We gather metrics to benchmark the status and progress of HTTPS adoption on the Web in 2017. To evaluate HTTPS adoption from a user perspective, we collect large-scale, aggregate user metrics from two major browsers (Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox). To measure HTTPS adoption from a Web developer perspective, we survey server support for HTTPS among top and long-tail websites. We draw on these metrics to gain insight into the current state of the HTTPS ecosystem.

View the full program: https://www.usenix.org/sec17/program

Paul Francis Walvik-Joynt, SVP Payments International, Nets gives FinextraTV his predictions for the year ahead, where we will see concrete adoption and piloting, and the technologies that underpin this evolution. We learn about what companies need to prioritise post-pandemic, the social responsibility companies must commit to, and how sustainability has been put high up on the 2021 agenda.

For all your fintech-related news, please visit https://www.finextra.com.