WELCOMING REMARKS

James A. Dorn, Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute

A conversation with Jeb Hensarling, former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, and Phil Gramm, former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee

Moderated by John B. Taylor, Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

PANEL I: DIGITAL CURRENCY: STATE V. MARKET

Tobias Adrian, Financial Counsellor and Director, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Neha Narula, Director, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Lawrence H. White, Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University

Moderated by Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, New York Times

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PANEL II: DIGITAL CURRENCY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES

Jill Carlson, Cofounder, Open Money Initiatives
Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation
Martin Chorzempa, Research Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Moderated by Rachel Siegel, Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter, Washington Post

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
TEN STABLECOIN PREDICTIONS AND THEIR MONETARY POLICY IMPLICATIONS

Caitlin Long, Founder and CEO, Avanti Financial Group

PANEL III: DIGITAL CURRENCY, COMPETITION, AND MONETARY POLICY

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute
David Andolfatto, Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Dong He, Deputy Director, IMF Monetary and Capital Markets Department

Moderated by Nick Timiraos, Chief Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal

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PANEL IV: DIGITAL CURRENCY AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION

Michael J. Casey, Chief Content Officer, CoinDesk
Charles W. Calomiris, Chief Economist and Senior Deputy Comptroller for Economics, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Diego Zuluaga, Associate Director of Financial Regulation Studies, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

Moderated by Jen Wieczner, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine

CLOSING REMARKS

John A. Allison, Chair, Executive Advisory Council, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute