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: Innovation at Scale, Institutions & Innovators, How Markets Fund Transformations, AI & Organizational Reinvention, Agentic Commerce, Stablecoins, Tokenization, Digital Assets & Wealth Management, DeFi Lending Protocols, Blockchain Guardrails for AI Data Use, Verifiable Digital Content & Culture, AI & Healthcare, The Clawbot Moment, Managing Disruption.

​​📣 Our first speaker announcements are below. Expect many more in the coming weeks. See you on April 24th!

• ​Jed Finn — Head of Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley

• ​Jon Herrick — Chief Product Officer, NYSE

• ​Hans Tung — Managing Partner, Notable Capital (investor in Anthropic & Coinbase)

• ​Katie Burke — COO, Harvey

• ​Vasant Prabhu — Former Vice Chair & CFO, Visa

• ​Raina Moskowitz — CEO, The Knot

• ​Rishin Sharma — Head of AI Growth, Solana Foundation

• ​Neil DeSilva — EIR, IC3 at Cornell Tech

• ​Denise Leonhard — GM, Zelle, Early Warning

• ​Emin Gun Sirer — Co-Founder & CEO, Ava Labs

• ​Prashant Kher — Managing Director, Digital Assets Leader, EY-Parthenon

• ​Leo Schwartz — Senior Reporter, Fortune

• ​Sandy Kaul — EVP, Head of Innovation, Franklin Templeton

• ​Mark Daly — Chief Business Officer, zerohash

• ​John Wu — President, Ava Labs

• ​Michael Pastor — Dean, Technology Law, New York Law School

• ​Steven J. Baum, CPA — Managing Director, CBIZ

• ​Kun Peng — GP & Founder, Blockchain Builders

• ​Nassim Eddequiouaq — Co-Founder & CEO, Bastion

• ​Gil Rosen — GP, Blockchain Builders | President, Stanford Blockchain Accelerator

• ​Alexandra Scheibe — Partner, Steptoe

• ​Adam Lowe, Ph.D. — Chief Product & Innovation Officer, CompoSecure

• ​Neeraj Prasad — Chief Engineer, MoonPay Labs

• ​Channi Greenwall — CEO, Olympix

• ​Kyle Rojas — Institutional Lead Americas, Ethereum Foundation

• ​Ari Juels — Co-Director, IC3

• ​Adrian Wall — Managing Director, Digital Sovereignty Alliance

• ​Matthew D'Amore — Director, Law, Tech & Entrepreneurship, Cornell Tech

• ​Jill R. Shah — US Trading & Crypto Correspondent, Financial Times

• ​Ben Mills — SVP Product, MoonPay

• ​Rich Widmann — Head of Strategy Web3, Google

• ​Zoe Cruz — Founder & CEO, Menai

• ​Vicky Fu — Founder, BlockRun.AI

​​2026 Conference Co-Hosts: Cornell Blockchain, Blockchain @ Cornell Tech, Blockchain Builders, and Cornell Tech AI Society