15:00 – 15:30
Networking Coffee and Opening Remarks
15:30 – 16:00
Key Notes
16:00 – 16:45
Round Table The New Financial System: Decentralized?
- Is decentralized currency and financial system viable?
- Who will benefit and who will lose out from decentralized currencies?
- Could independent currencies help emerging economies to overcome inflation and weak financial institutions?
- How can decentralized currencies increase transparency and accountability?
- How would international trade benefit from the new system?
Alex Cukierman, Bank of Israel's Monetary Committee, Prof. Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University
Gauti Eggertsson, ex IMF and FED New York
Ashish Dev, Principal Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Gary Gensler, Chairman of the CFTC (president Obama term) (TBC),
Ken Rogoff, Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (TBC)
17:00 – 17:30
Round Table Toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
How access to credit, global currency and payment system help SDG: No poverty, hunger and deseases. Education. Equality. Work. Water and Energy. Communities. Peace and Institutions. Immigration.
Kate Roberts, PSI, Maverick Collective
Luigi Zingales, author Saving Capitalizm from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets
Elen Agler, The End Fund
17:30 – 18:00
Round Table The Board and Monetary Policy for Decentralized Currency
- How should a global central bank and monetary policy be designed and governed?
- How independent currency supply could be regulated to mitigate volatility and inflation?
- How credit multiplier will work there: P2P loans vs banks?
- What is the roadmap for "stable" independent currency?
Belke Ansgar, author Monetary Economics in Globalised Financial Markets
Joshua Aizenman, National Bureau of Economic Research, co-editor Journal of International Money and Finance
Miles Kimball, National Bureau of Economics Research
18:00 – 18:45
Round Table State on Blockchain as a Service
What is the potential to automate state services consuming $20+ trillion in taxes each year?
Elections, State Finance, Identity, Registry, Courts
19:00 – 21:30
Cocktail Reception
