The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets
"The Programmable Economy: AI & Blockchain Redefining Markets" Conference takes place on April 24, 2026 at Cornell Tech in New York City, minutes from midtown.
🎫 Limited Early Bird tickets are live! Register now! The Co-Hosts are proud to offer tickets at prices consistent with Cornell Tech’s educational mission.
Last year in NYC, we welcomed leaders and builders across finance, tech, AI, crypto, and academia. This year, we expect over a 1,000 professionals, investors and builders expanding the conversation around what matters most to institutions and entrepreneurs now: how frontier technologies get built, deployed, and scaled.
Expect 60 speakers in AI, blockchain, finance, & tech across 25 panels and fireside chats.
💡 Why AI + blockchain in one day? AI is transforming how work and decisions happen; blockchain is transforming how value moves and gets verified. Together, they are creating new infrastructure for a new economy, and NYC is where these technologies meet real use cases, real deployment environments, and real market opportunities.
Agenda Overview: Tokenization, Agentic AI and Agentic Commerce, Stablecoins, AI-driven operational transformation, Crypto in Wealth Management, Blockchain Guardrails for AI Data Use, Verifiable Digital Content & Culture, Managing Disruptive Innovation and Jobs, and the Next Chapter for Finance
📣 Our first speaker announcements are below. Expect many more in the coming weeks. See you on April 24th!
Jed Finn | Head of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Vasant Prabhu | Former Vice Chair & CFO, Visa
Rich Widmann | Head of Web3 Strategy, Google
Jon Herrick | Chief Product Officer, NYSE
Sandy Kaul | EVP and Head of Innovation, Franklin Templeton
Neil DeSilva, EIR, IC3 at Cornell Tech
Denise Leonhard | GM of Zelle, Early Warning®
Emin Gun Sirer | Founder & CEO, Ava Labs
Michael Pastor, Dean Technology Law, New York Law School
Leo Schwartz, Senior Reporter, Fortune
Matthew D'Amore, Director, Law, Tech & Entrepreneurship, Cornell Tech
2026 Conference Co-Hosts: Cornell Blockchain, Blockchain @ Cornell Tech, Blockchain Builders, and AI @ Cornell Tech.