

Prof. Armin Schwienbacher
SKEMA Business School, France

Dr. Clara Guerra
Office for Financial Market Innovation, Liechtenstein
The 3rd International Conference for Alternative Finance Research is a dedicated forum for alternative finance researchers and practitioners from all around the globe. It covers themes addressing crowdfunding, digital fundraising and lending, microfinance and prosocial lending, invoice trading, crypto assets and currencies, etc.
The conference serves as a cross-disciplinary meeting place for scholars of information systems, economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and marketing under one roof to exchange ideas and help develop the field both theoretically and practically, while engaging in close dialog with industry stakeholders and policy makers.
The 2023 event is organized as a collaboration between the University of Agder's School of Business and Law and the Utrecht University European Center of Alternative Finance, and is hosted by the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 05.02.2024
Author notification: by 15.03.2024
Early-bird registration: until 15.04.2024
Abstract submission for proceedings: 25.05.2024
Paper presentation delivery: 29.05.2024
Keynote Speakers:
Panel Discussion Participants: (to be continuously announced)


Prof. Andrew Schwartz
School of Law, University of Colorado, USA

Peter Morgan
Asia Development Bank Institute, Japan

Prof. Ziaul Haque Munim
University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway

Tok Yoke Wang
IMF International Monetary Fund, Singapore
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Dr. Vanesa Pesqué-Cela
Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Siri-Helen Egeland
School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway

Dr. Godsway Korku Tetteh
University of Strathclyde, UK

Prof. Rotem Shneor
School of Business and Law, University of Agder, Norway

Prof. Angela Itzkovich
ESN Africa, South Africa

Paul Pöltner
President, Digital Asset Association Austria, and Founder of Simply Tokenized, Austria
05.06.2024 - Panel 1:
Alternative Finance and Financial Inclusion: Expectations, Reality, and What's Next?
06.06.2024 - Panel 2:
Blockchain Applications in Crowdfunding: Opportunities and Challenges