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.

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

Google

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

Sessions begin at 12 pm.

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

Closing Reception

Legal, Reg & Compliance in Frontier Tech

Josh Peschko

Talos

Hedi Navazan

1Inch

Teymour Farman-Farmaian

Higlobe

Alexandra C. Scheibe

Steptoe

Legal Perspectives on Prediction Markets

AI's Impact on Security

Dele Atanda

MetaME

Channi Greenwall

Olympix

The Claw Moment: Personal AI Agents

Kaya Jones

Forever 22

Shefali Kumar

Wealthfront

Neil Desilva

IC3 at Cornell Tech

AI and the Transformation of Healthcare

Fei Wang

WCM Institute of AI

Thomas Knox

VitVio

Tanzeem Choudhury

Cornell Tech

Building at AI Start-Up

Ellie Li

Nomie

Sagar Shah

Fondu

CeFi & DeFi Markets

Verizon

Tata

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

Google

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

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

Closing Reception

April 24, 2026

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Cornell Tech, New York City

April 24, 2026

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Cornell Tech, New York City

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