April 24, 2026
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Cornell Tech, New York City
Agenda
The 2026 Conference takes place at Cornell Tech in two adjacent spaces. The Verizon Executive Education Center will kick off the day at 9am and continue to 5pm before the Closing Reception. Starting at 12pm, the Tata Innovation Center will host in parallel its own sessions on some of the newest growth areas in tech.
Meals, Breaks and the Closing Reception will be held in Verizon. Click on the session cards below to learn more about the speakers' biographies.
The 2026 Conference takes place at Cornell Tech in two adjacent spaces. The Verizon Executive Education Center will kick off the day at 9am and continue to 5pm before the Closing Reception. Starting at 12pm, the Tata Innovation Center will host in parallel its own sessions on some of the newest growth areas in tech.
Meals, Breaks and the Closing Reception will be held in Verizon. Click on the session cards below to learn more about the speakers' biographies.

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Breakfast
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The Endless Frontier

Hans Tung
Notable

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
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Transforming Wealth Management

Jed Finn
Morgan Stanley

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
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The Future of Securities Trading

Jon Herrick
New York Stock Exchange

Jill Shah
Financial Times

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Break
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Architecture of Innovation

Sandy Kaul
Franklin Templeton

Denise Leonhard
Early Warning

Vasant Prabhu
Visa
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Institutional Tokenization
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Next Gen Payments

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Break
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Scaling Web3 via AI

Rich Widmann

Ari Juels
Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3)
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AI and Operational Change
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AI & Thoughtful Disruption

Zoe Cruz
Menai

Michael Pastor
New York Law School

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
Sessions begin at 12 pm.
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Lunch
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Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets

Artem Korenyuk
Citi

David Duong
Coinbase

Germán Soto Sanchez
Broadridge

Robb Layfield
Customers Bank

Prashant Kher
EY-Parthenon
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Technologies of Impact

Eric van Miltenburg
Ripple

Kara Gustafson
RBC Foundation USA
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Agentic Infrastructure
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Designing the Future of Layer 1 Infrastructure
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Stablecoin and Digital Money Movement
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AI on Blockchain Rails
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Rebuilding the Internet's Financial Layer
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Institutional Infrastructure
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Venture Capital
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Closing Reception
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Legal, Reg & Compliance in Frontier Tech

Josh Peschko
Talos

Hedi Navazan
1Inch

Teymour Farman-Farmaian
Higlobe

Alexandra C. Scheibe
Steptoe
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Legal Perspectives on Prediction Markets
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AI's Impact on Security

Dele Atanda
MetaME

Channi Greenwall
Olympix
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The Claw Moment: Personal AI Agents

Kaya Jones
Forever 22

Shefali Kumar
Wealthfront

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
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AI and the Transformation of Healthcare

Fei Wang
WCM Institute of AI

Thomas Knox
VitVio

Tanzeem Choudhury
Cornell Tech
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Building at AI Start-Up

Ellie Li
Nomie

Sagar Shah
Fondu
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CeFi & DeFi Markets
Verizon
Tata
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Breakfast
–
The Endless Frontier

Hans Tung
Notable

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
–
Transforming Wealth Management

Jed Finn
Morgan Stanley

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
–
The Future of Securities Trading

Jon Herrick
New York Stock Exchange

Jill Shah
Financial Times
–

Break
–
Architecture of Innovation

Sandy Kaul
Franklin Templeton

Denise Leonhard
Early Warning

Vasant Prabhu
Visa
–
Institutional Tokenization
–
Next Gen Payments
–

Break
–
Scaling Web3 via AI

Rich Widmann

Ari Juels
Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3)
–
AI and Operational Change
–
AI & Thoughtful Disruption

Zoe Cruz
Menai

Michael Pastor
New York Law School

Neil Desilva
IC3 at Cornell Tech
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Lunch
–
Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets

Artem Korenyuk
Citi

David Duong
Coinbase

Germán Soto Sanchez
Broadridge

Robb Layfield
Customers Bank

Prashant Kher
EY-Parthenon
–
Technologies of Impact

Eric van Miltenburg
Ripple

Kara Gustafson
RBC Foundation USA
–
Agentic Infrastructure
–
Designing the Future of Layer 1 Infrastructure
–
Stablecoin and Digital Money Movement
–
AI on Blockchain Rails
–
Rebuilding the Internet's Financial Layer
–
Institutional Infrastructure
–
Venture Capital
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Closing Reception
April 24, 2026
|
Cornell Tech, New York City
April 24, 2026
|
Cornell Tech, New York City