Agenda-2023 - DC Fintech Week

The 7th Annual DC Fintech Week

November 6 - 8

8:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Welcome by Chris Brummer, Faculty Director, Institute of International and Economic Law, Linda Jeng, Head of Global Web3 Strategy, Crypto Council of Innovation and Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University and Jon Frost, Head of Economics for the Americas, Bank for International Settlements

9:00 - 10:30 a.m.

Unlocking Crypto Wallets: A Beginner’s Guide
(interactive workshop, in-person only)

Speakers:

Linda Jeng
Head of Global Web3 Strategy, Crypto Council for Innovation and
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University

Katherine Wu
Research Fellow, Crypto Council for Innovation

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:45 - 12:00 p.m.

Everyday Applications of Blockchain:
Understanding its Real-World Utility

Moderators:

Speakers:

Wayne Chang
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, SpruceID

Jacob Hample
Head of US Government Affairs, Filecoin

Justin Melliloe
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder, Mona

Chris Osborn
Founder, Dialect

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 – 1:30 p.m.

The Economic Implications of the Metaverse

Moderator:

Carlos Cantú
Senior economist, Bank for International Settlements

Speakers:

Fabian Schär
Professor, University of Basel

Keith Soljacich
Executive Vice President and Head of Innovation, Publicis Media

Kathryn White
Global Responsible Metaverse Lead, Accenture

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.

How Does Tokenization Work in Practice?

Moderator:

Sebastian Doerr
Economist, Bank for International Settlements

Speakers:

Carmelle Cadet
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, EMTECH

Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy, Circle

Fabian Schär
Professor, University of Basel

Wee Kee Toh
Global Head of Business Architecture for Onyx Coin Systems, JP Morgan

2:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

2:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Taking DLT Out of the Sandbox

Moderator:

Martynas Pilkis
Technical Advisor, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure

Speakers:

Peter Kerstens
Advisor, Advisor, European Commission

Tony McLaughlin
Managing Director, Emerging Payments and Business Development,
Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions

David Newns
Head, SDX

Jennifer Peve
Managing Director, Head of Strategy & Business Development,
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation

2:45 – 3:15 p.m.

The Experience with CBDCs and Fast Payment Systems

Moderator:

Jon Frost
Head of Economics for the Americas, Bank for International Settlements

Speakers:

Sharon Branch
Economist, Central Bank of the Bahamas

Musa Itopa Jimoh
Director, Payments System Management Department, Central Bank of Nigeria

Robyn King
Director for Industry Relations, Payments Canada

Aaron Klein
Miriam K. Carliner-Chair and Senior Fellow in Economic Studies, The Brookings Institute

Ricardo Mourão
Chief of Staff to the Deputy Governor for Licensing and Resolution, Central Bank of Brazil

3:15 – 3:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.

Governance of Cross-border Payments:
Theory and Practice

Moderator:

Martynas Pilkis
Technical Advisor, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure

Speakers:

Maria Teresa Chimienti
Senior Payment Specialist, World Bank

Mehdi Manaa
CEO, The Arab Regional Payments Clearing and Settlement Organization

Kah Kit Yip
Advisor, BISIH Singapore

8:50 – 9:00 a.m.

Welcome by Chris Brummer, Faculty
Director, Institute of International
and Economic Law

Session 1

9:02 – 9:15 a.m.

Investing in Emerging Technologies:
Data from PitchBook

Speaker:

Robert Le
Crypto Analyst, Pitchbook

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

A Conversation with Michael Barr, Vice Chair
for Supervision, Federal Reserve

Speaker:

Michael Barr
Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve

9:45 - 9:55 a.m.

Break

Session 2

9:55 – 10:20 a.m.

Latest Trends and Applications in AI

Speaker:

Dominic Delmolino
Vice President of Technology, Amazon

10:20 – 10:45 a.m.

A Conversation with Acting Comptroller Mike Hsu

Moderator:

Romaine Bostick
Bloomberg TV

Speaker:

Mike Hsu
Acting Comptroller of the Currency

10:45 – 11:00 a.m.

Where is Technology "Emerging"?

Speaker:

Olugbenga Agboola
CEO, Flutterwave

11:00 – 11:15 a.m.

Break

Session 3

11:15 – 11:45 a.m.

What Makes Generative AI Smarter —
and Dumber — than Legacy AI?

Moderator:

Sara Weed
Partner, Gibson Dunn

Speakers:

Steve Holden
SVP, Single-Family Analytics and Modeling, Fannie Mae

Jessica Rusu
Chief Data, Information, and Intelligence Officer, Financial Conduct Authority

Elizabeth Kelly
Special Assistant to the President, White House

Phil Bronner
Co-Founder, Ardent Venture Partners

11:45 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Houses, AI, and Blockchains

Moderator:

Chastity Murphy
Senior Advisor, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions,
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Speakers:

Mike Cagney
Chief Executive Officer, Figure

Brian Brooks
Partner, O’Melveny

12:10 – 12:40 p.m.

Lunch

Lunch Fireside (Virtual):

Cecilia Skingsley
Head, Innovation Hub Bank for International Settlements

Session 4

12:40 – 1:10 p.m.

Augmented Reality: Dispatches from Gaming and Philosophy

Speakers:

Justin Melillo
CEO and Founder of Mona

Will Fleisher
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

1:10 – 1:25 p.m.

Preventing Skynet

Speaker:

Michael Inlander
Assistant Director, OESET, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

1:25 – 1:55 p.m.

Explaining the Unexplainable?
Answering AI’s Most Inscrutable
Regulatory Question

Moderator:

Jason Cave
Deputy Director, Division of Conservatorship, FHFA

Speakers:

Francesca Hopwood Road
Head, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub
London Centre

Melissa Koide
Chief Executive Officer, FinRegLab

Tim Massad
Harvard, Former Chair, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

1:55 - 2:00 p.m.

Break

Session 5

2:00 – 2:10 p.m.

Underserved Communities, Banks and AI

Speaker:

Seke Ballard
Chief Executive Officer, Beta Financial

2:15 – 2:40 p.m.

A Conversation with Nellie Liang,
Under Secretary, Domestic Finance
at the U.S. Treasury

Speaker:

Nellie Liang
Under Secretary, Domestic Finance at the U.S. Treasury

2:40 – 3:05 p.m.

How to Regulate AI

Speaker:

Adrienne Harris
Superintendent, New York State Department
of Financial Services

3:05 – 3:30 p.m.

The Future of Debt

Moderator:

Felipe Millon
Senior Manager Federal Financial, Amazon

Speakers:

Jelena McWilliams
Managing Partner, Cravath

Caitlin Long
CEO, Custodia Bank

Ben Miller
Chief Executive Officer, Fundrise

Josh Frost
Assistant Secretary for Financial Markets, U.S. Treasury Department

3:30 - 3:35 p.m.

Break

Session 6

3:35 – 4:00 p.m.

Congress and Fintech in 2024

Moderator:

Emily Wilkins
Washington Correspondent, CNBC

Speakers:

French Hill (R)
U.S. Representative, Arkansas
Vice Chair, House Financial Services Committee

Wiley Nickel (D)
U.S. Representative, North Carolina

8:45 - 9:00 a.m.

Welcome by Chris Brummer, Faculty
Director, Institute of International
and Economic Law

9:00 – 9:25 a.m.

What’s Next for Ripple?:
A Conversation with Brad Garlinghouse

Moderator:

Kailey Leinz
Co-Anchor, Bloomberg Crypto

Speaker:

Brad Garlinghouse
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Ripple

9:25 – 9:50 a.m.

A Conversation with Rostin Behnam, Chairman, CFTC

Speaker:

Rostin Behnam
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

9:50 – 10:20 a.m.

The Future of Exchanges

Moderator:

MacKenzie Sigalos
CNBC Tech reporter

Speakers:

Michael Novogratz
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Galaxy

Mary Catherine Lader
Chief Operating Oﬀicer, Uniswap

David Ripley
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Kraken

Daniel Vogel
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Bitso

10:20 – 10:25 a.m.

The Startup Economy

Speaker:

Robert Le
Crypto Analyst, PitchBook

10:25 – 11:00 a.m.

What Does the Retail Investor Want (to Know)?

Moderators:

Professor Yesha Yadav
Milton R. Underwood Chair, Vanderbilt Law

Speakers:

Lule Demmissie
Chief Executive Oﬀicer (U.S.) & Board Member, eToro U.S.

Stephen Sikes
Chief Operating Oﬀicer, Public

Michael Sonnenshein
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Grayscale Investments

Peter Kerstens
Advisor, European Union

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Tokenized Assets

Moderator:

MacKenzie Sigalos
CNBC Tech reporter

Speakers:

Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Oﬀicer, Circle

Martin Moloney
Secretary General, International Organization of Securities Commissions

Sheila Warren
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Crypto Council for Innovation

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

A Conversation with Gary
Gensler, Chairperson, U.S.
Securities and Exchange
Commission

Speakers:

Gary Gensler
Chairperson, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

12:00 – 12:30 p.m.

Lunch

12:30 – 12:40 p.m.

Hong Kong’s Crypto Agenda

Speaker:

Julia Leung
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
of Hong Kong

12:45 – 1:15 p.m.

Technology, Economic Statecraft,
and the Future of the U.S. Dollar

Speakers:

Maj. Margaret Smith (Army)
Director, Cyber Project, Irregular Warfare Initiative; Senior Fellow,
Atlantic Council

Chris Giancarlo
Former Chairman, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Michael Greenwald
Global Lead, Digital Assets, and Financial Innovation, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

1:15 – 1:30 p.m.

Implementing MiCA: A
Conversation with Verena Ross,
Chair, ESMA

Speaker:

Verena Ross
Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority

1:30 – 1:50 p.m.

FedNow and FedFuture

Speaker:

Nick Stanescu
Senior Vice President, FedNow

1:50 – 2:10 p.m.

Towards a Unified Ledger: A Conversation with
Agustín Carstens, General Manager, BIS

Speaker:

Agustin Carstens
General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

2:10 – 2:35 p.m.

The Global Race for Faster Payments

Moderator:

Jon Frost
Head of Economics for the Americas,
Bank for International Settlements Americas Office

Speakers:

Róger Madrigal
Governor, Central Bank of Costa Rica

Kwame Oppong
Head of FinTech and Innovation, Bank of Ghana

Ricardo Mourao
Chief of Staff to the Deputy Governor for Licensing and Resolution,
Central Bank of Brazil

Simonas Krepsta
Board Member, Bank of Lithuania

Yvonne Decius-Cooper
Assistant Manager at the Central Bank of the Bahamas

2:35 – 3:00 p.m.

The Future of Wallets

Moderator:

Dan Zinn
General Counsel, OTC Markets

Speakers:

Nic Carter
Founder, Castle Island Ventures

Rebecca Rettig
Chief Legal & Policy Oﬀicer, Polygon

Robby Greenfield
Co-Founder, Umoja Labs

Paul Grewal
Chief Legal Oﬀicer, Coinbase

3:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Base Layer RegTech
Infrastructures

Moderator:

Yvette Valdez
Partner, Latham

Speakers:

Rich Widmann
Global Head of Strategy for Web3, Google Cloud

Patrick Murck
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Surus

Sandra Lee
Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department

Johnny Reinsch
Chief Executive Oﬀicer, Tradable