Conference Agenda
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
🕗 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration and Breakfast
🕘 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Presented by Christopher J. Waller (Federal Reserve Governor)
🕤 9:20 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Topic: Reshaping Traditional Finance with Digital Asset Ecosystem
Host: Rebecca Rettig (Jito Labs)
Speaker:
• Sergey Nazarov, Co-founder and CEO of Chainlink
• Jackie Reses, CEO of Lead Bank
• Michael Shaulov, CEO of Fireblocks
• Jennifer Barker, Head of Global Treasury Services and Custody Receipts at BNY
☕ 10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Break
🕚 10:50 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
Topic: Use Cases and Business Models of Stablecoins
Moderator: Kyle Samani (Multicoin Capital)
Speakers:
• Charles Cascarilla, Co-Founder and CEO of Paxos
• Tim Spence, CEO of Fifth Third Bank
• Fernando Terres, CEO of Dolar App
• Heath Tarbert, President of Circle
🍽️ 11:50 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Lunch
🕐 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Payments
Moderator: Matt Marcus (Modern Treasury)
Speakers:
• Cathie Wood, CEO of Ark Invest
• Alesia Haas, CFO of Coinbase
• Emily Sands, Head of AI at Stripe
• James Tromans, Director of Google Cloud Web3 and Digital Assets
☕ 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Break
🕝 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Topic: Tokenized Products
Moderator: Colleen Sullivan (Brevan Howard Digital)
Speakers:
• Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton
• Don Wilson, Founder and CEO of DRW
• Rob Goldstein, COO of BlackRock
• Kara Kennedy, Co-Head of JPM Kinexys
🕞 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Presented by Christopher J. Waller (Federal Reserve Governor)
