•
The Revolution Will Be Tokenised
Talks about payments, financial institutions and banking infrastructure
DB
David Birch
International Keynote Speaker, Published Author, Global Advisor and Investor in Digital Financial Services. Fintech | CBDC | Digital currency | Digital Identity | Tokens | NFTs
Woking, England
Overview
David Birch is an accomplished international keynote speaker, published author, and global advisor and investor in digital financial services, specializing in fintech, CBDC, digital currency, digital identity, tokens, and NFTs. With a background that includes serving on advisory boards, holding principal roles, and being a venture partner, Birch's career highlights include being a Director at Consult Hyperion and a Non-Executive Chairman at DIGISEQ Limited.
Work Experience
Principal
2017 - Current
I am Principal at 15Mb Ltd., in which capacity I deliver board-level advice and global commentary on digital financial services.
Advisor to the Board
2024
I am an advisor to the board of OneID, helping them through to the next stage of their exciting journey.
Advisory Board Member
2024
The Deepfake Summit (www.thedeepfakesummit.com) is the only event exclusively dedicated to exploring and understanding the rapidly evolving, cutting-edge technology driving deepfakes, harnessing broad-based interdisciplinary expertise to advance their appropriate use, and creating solutions to protect and defend against the dangers of their exploitation. The inaugural event will be held in New York in early November.
Member of the Payments Advisory Board
2023
Venture Partner
2020
1414 Ventures is a US-based fund that invests in early stage companies in the digital identity space.
1414 Ventures is a digital identity venture capital firm offering pre-seed or seed-stage investments.
Global Ambassador
1986
Global Ambassador, responsible for building relationships around the world. I was a founder of the company and performed a variety of roles through to acquisition by Fime. Fime’s global reach coupled with Consult Hyperion’s specialised consulting and advisory expertise, creates a uniquely positioned offering to serve clients ranging from startups to established market leaders, with the ability to adapt to the needs of local markets worldwide.
Non Executive Chairman
2020
Digiseq is a UK-based startup that delivers identity to the internet of things. Their platform for the management of microchips in devices, ranging from wristwatches to the Golden Globe awards, enables payment-ready, provenance-ready and other secure services for the new economy built on smart objects
Senior Research Fellow, Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance
2022
Research into central bank digital currencies and decentralised financial services with particular emphasis on the impact of new technologies on central bank strategies and policies.
Digital Fellow
2021
DIGIT Lab is a five year programme providing research insights, knowledge frameworks and practical techniques to accelerate digital transformation in the UK. The Centre works with large organisations to help them to reinvent themselves for the digital age. to reimagine them for the digital age. The Centre combines active research, education and industrial co-development to tackle key issues. I help to bridge academic research and enterprise strategy.
Associate
2021
I lecture on digital financial services in senior management development programmes for the Institute at Churchill College, Cambridge.
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
•
Faster and Slower Payments
Talks about digital currency, account-to-account transfers and decentralised finance
•
Where are the customers' bots?
Talks about fintech podcast, experiment and audience feedback
•
Contactless Friction
Talks about payment systems, contactless payment and digital wallets