Cassandra Q2 Forum
Come and Experience the Frontier of Fintech Research and Collective Intelligence!
Among the speakers presenting are:
Lucian Pera, Partner at Adams and Reese LLP and author of The Playbook: How to Extend the Reach of an Arizona ABS Law Firm to the Entire U.S., on the tools and structures innovators are using today to deliver legal services nationally through Arizona's Alternative Business Structures — covering referral-fee arrangements, the two-company/MSO model, and the staffing company model
Charley Zhao, Co-Founder of the Berkeley Student Credit Union, on chartering a de novo student-owned credit union at UC Berkeley and the pledge-based field-of-membership strategy behind it
George Pennacchi, IBE Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois and author of "Narrow Banking" (Annual Review of Financial Economics), on the historical case that U.S. banks were far narrower before the Fed and FDIC — and that maturity transformation and loan commitments, now considered essential, arose only after the federal safety net made them viable
Robin Hanson, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, pioneer of prediction markets since 1988, inventor of the Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule (LMSR), and architect of DARPA's Policy Analysis Market, on the latest developments in prediction markets and the path toward futarchy
Todd Phillips, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University's Robinson College of Business and author of the amicus brief in Kalshi v. Maryland, on why the CFTC regulates hedging — not sports gambling — and how courts should distinguish genuine commodity derivatives from gaming products dressed up as event contracts
Josh Lerner, Co-Executive Director of People Powered, founder of the Participatory Budgeting Project, and author of Making Democracy Fun and Everyone Counts — having helped 534,000 people across 30 cities directly decide how to spend $337M — on how participatory budgeting and gamified civic engagement connect to prediction markets and futarchy as mechanisms for collective decision-making
Laurence Kotlikoff, William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University and author of Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking, on where the Limited Purpose Banking thesis stands 15 years after the book, what fintech and crypto infrastructure have changed about its feasibility, and what a show-me banking system actually looks like in practice