2018 Agenda

Take a look at the full agenda of 2018's Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems Workshop held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, including invited talks, panels, paper sessions, keynotes, and welcome addresses by an incredible global network of top-tier speakers.

Registration

8:00 am

9:00 am

Welcome Address & Introduction to Workshop

9:00 am

9:15 am

Paolo Tasca (University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies)

Keynote Speech: Three Stages of Money

9:15 am

9:45 am

Robert C. Hockett (Cornell Law School)

Morning Coffee Break

10:45 am

11:00 am

First Presentation: Winner's Curse in an Online Lending Marketplace

11:00 am

11:25 am

Don Carmichael (University of Houston)

Second Presentation: Blockchain and Business Model Innovation Designing a P2P Mortgage Lending System

11:25 am

11:50 am

Ricardo Henriquez (EAE Business School)

Third Presentation: Dynamics of the Real-Time Settlement Payment System in Mexico

11:50 am

12:15 am

Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova (Banco de México)

First Paper Discussion

12:15 pm

12:45 pm

First Invited Talk: Central Bank Currency Design Thinking

12:45 pm

1:15 pm

Antoine Martin (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Lunch Break

1:15 pm

2:00 pm

Second Invited Talk: Cellular Structure for A Digital Fiat Currency

2:00 pm

2:30 pm

Robleh Ali (MIT DCI)

Second Panel: Regulations, Regulations and Payments

4:45 pm

5:45 pm

Charley Cooper (R3), Gary Gensler (MIT Sloan), Rebecca Rettig (Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig LLP), Nikolas Guggenberger (University Munster School of Law), and Wulf Kaal (University of St. Thomas)

Keynote Speech: An Ex-Regulator's Thoughts on Central Bank Digital Currencies

5:45 pm

6:20 pm

Gary Gensler (MIT Sloan)

Drinks and Networking

6:20 pm

7:00 pm

Formal Dinner and Speech

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

Registration

8:00 am

9:00 am

Welcome Address

9:00 am

9:15 am

Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)

Keynote Speech: Monetary Policy Implications of Central Bank Issued Digital Currency

9:15 am

9:45 am

Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)

First Panel: The Role of Currency in the New Digital Economy

9:45 am

10:45 am

Katrin Assenmacher (ECB), Ryan Zagone (Ripple), Steve Kirsch (Token), Robert C. Hockett (Cornell Law School), Antoine Martin (FRB NY)

Morning Coffee Break

10:45 am

11:00 am

First Presentation: Towards a Design Philosophy for Interoperable Blockchain Systems

11:00 am

11:25 am

Thomas Hardjono (MIT Trust, Data Consortium)

Second Presentation: Blockchain Upgrade as a Coordination Game

11:25 am

11:50 am

Stephanie Hurder (Prysm Group)

Third Presentation: Legal Aspects and Regulatory Issues of Crypto Currencies (An EU Perspective)

11:50 am

12:15 pm

Demelza Hays (University of Lichtenstein)

First Paper Discussion

12:15 pm

12:45 pm

Garrick Hileman (University of Cambridge)

First Invited Talk: Crypto-Asset Regulation in Europe

12:45 pm

1:15 pm

Nikolas Guggenberger (University Münster School of Law)

BARAC Lunch Meeting

1:15 pm

2:00 pm

Second Invited Talk: Estimating the Relative Impact of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology on Different Industry Sectors

2:00 pm

2:15 pm

Garrick Hileman (University of Cambridge)

Fourth Presentation: Initial Coin Offering and Platform Building

2:30 pm

3:00 pm

Jiasun Li (George Mason University)

Fifth Presentation: Programmable Money and Human Readable Smart Contracts

3:00 pm

3:30 pm

Henning Diedrich (Authinc)

Second Paper Discussion

3:30 pm

4:00 pm

Afternoon Coffee Break

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

Third Invited Talk: Future of Smart Contracting

4:15 pm

4:45 pm

Wulf Kaal (University of St.Thomas)

Second Panel: FinTech

4:45 pm

6:30 pm

Garrick Hileman (University of Cambridge), Francois de Laigue (Dotted Square), Mike Warner (FRB San Francisco), Steve Kirsch (Token), and Bonnie Buchannan (Seattle University)

Second Keynote Speech: Towards a Stable Tokenized Medium of Exchange

5:45 pm

6:30 pm

Alexander Lipton

Drinks and Networking

6:00 pm

7:00 pm