Agenda

Opening remarks by Ramesh Raskar, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, and Neha Narula

Fireside Chat: The Importance of Digital Currency and Project Hamilton + Impact

• Eric Rosengren: MIT Sloan School of Management, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and member of the Federal Open Market Committee
• Neha Narula: MIT Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab
  
  

Panel Discussion: Digital Currency + Digital Public Infrastructure 

• Timothy Massad:  Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• Jose Fernandez da Ponte: PayPal, SVP and General Manager, Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currencies
• Glen Weyl: Microsoft/RadicalxChange Foundation, Research Lead, Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory/Founder
  
• Neha Narula: MIT Digital Currency Initiative at the Media Lab
  
  

Ten-Minute Break 

Student Pitches 

• Mohammad Amiri, Camera Culture 
• Tobin South, Human Dynamics
  
• Gabriela Torres, MIT School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management; MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Product Manager, Central Bank Digital Currency
  
• Alistair Hughes, Harvard Business School; MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Product Manager, Central Bank Digital Currency
  
  

Keynote: Responsibly Building a Decentralized Society

• Glen Weyl: Microsoft/RadicalxChange Foundation, Research Lead, Decentralized Social Technology Collaboratory/Founder
  
  

Panel Discussion: Decentralized Societies

• Ramesh Raskar: Camera Culture
• Frank Ricotta: BurstIQ, CEO and Founder
• Medha Parlikar: CasperLabs, Co-Founder and CTO
• Ryan Chin: Tram Global, Co-Founder and COO  
  
• Ahmer Inam: Relanto, Chief Data and AI Officer