Community Finance Week
Connect communities, municipalities and regional authorities to the Crowdfunding Ecosystem
Community Finance Week: Virtual Workshop for Representatives of Public Authorities and Public Banks
Agenda
Monday, 4th October
11:30 A.M.
ALTFINATOR POLICY NETWORK – Current Status of the European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuc-qsqTkjHNwZ8WyOgKz7Wpo8-6kBwLSB
Tuesday, 5th October
9 A.M. – 4 P.M.
European Centre for Alternative Finance Conference 2021 (Utrecht University)
Wednesday, 6th October – Friday, 8th October: CROWDTHERMAL Workshop
Wednesday 6th October:
- 10 A.M. -12:30 P.M. : Technical session implementing of community funding meeting CROWDTHERMAL partners and Crowdfunding platforms
- 2 P.M. – 5 P.M. : CROWDTHRMAL Consortium meeting to prepare the general assembly
Thursday 7th October:
- 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. : CROWDTHERMAL 2nd General Assembly
- 5:30 P.M. – 8 P.M. : Diner
Friday 8th October:
- 9 A.M. – 3 P.M. : Workshop: international conference on new financial mechanisms for geothermal energy (risk mitigation, social, financial), with AB participation
Organiser
Mr. Kleverlaan and Mr. Wenzlaff have been working on Alternative Finance and Crowdfunding since 2011, with a particular focus on how to connect communities, municipalities and regional authorities to the Crowdfunding ecosystem.
Both are closely involved with the new pan-European Crowdfunding Regulation – the European Crowdfunding Service Provider Regime. With the AltFinator Policy Network, they connect more than 700 industry experts and regulators with each other.
Ronald Kleverlaan
Ronald Kleverlaan is a thought leader on Community and Alternative Finance in Europe. He is the founder and senior partner at CrowdfundingHub. He is appointed as Director of the European Centre for Alternative Finance, an academic research centre of Utrecht University with a multi-disciplinary approach (finance, entrepreneurship, law, sociology) to research the potential of Alternative Finance. His speciality and academic interest is in community finance and community ownership. He is involved in a number of European consulting projects, was co-founder of the European Crowdfunding Network and member of the advisory board of several industry associations in Europe, China, Africa and USA.
Karsten Wenzlaff
Karsten Wenzlaff is Secretary-General of the German Crowdfunding Association and co-founded the AltFinator Policy Network together with Ronald Kleverlaan. He was a member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholder Forum of the European Commission and has collaborated closely with Crowdfunding Associations all over Europe to shape the new European Crowdfunding Regulation. He is Researcher at the University of Hamburg, Research Affiliate at the European Alternative Finance Center at the University of Utrecht and Research Affiliate at the Centre for Alternative Finance at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge. He has been asked several times to comment on Crowdfunding and Fintech Legislation in the Finance and Digital Affairs committee of the German Parliament. He owns the Crowdfunding Consultant Firm ikosom.