Engage Expert Guidance for Today's Financial Markets Disruptions

We’re living in an unprecedented time for global economies, trade pressures such as tariffs, and the looming influence of AI. To face it, financial sector leaders need experts they can rely on with well researched, accurate and easily applicable strategies for rising to the challenges of today’s ever-changing financial landscape.

These top authorities can help you make sense of current market conditions while providing tactics for getting ahead of tomorrow’s trends.

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Guiding Global Finance Into the Digital Future

Neha Narula is the director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and a foremost authority on the impact of decentralized digital currencies. She is a vital resource for central banks and financial institutions worldwide as they explore the potentials and challenges of national digital currencies, stablecoins and asset tokenization.

Real-Time Policy Analysis of the U.S. Budget, Tariffs, Taxes and the Labor Market

Natasha Sarin is president and co-founder of the Budget Lab at Yale, the preeminent non-partisan source for real-time economic analysis, including on tariff impacts in the United States. She offers business and government leaders up-to-the-minute policy analysis and clarity around the current state of labor markets, taxes and the broader macroeconomy.

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Tools in the World of Finance

Andrew Lo is a world-renowned economist, financial scholar, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering and a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His expertise extends beyond traditional finance to apply economic theories to healthcare, investing and leadership.

Making Better Decisions in Financial Services: More Analytics and More Intuition

Tom Davenport is an operations and information management professor at Babson College, a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and co-founder of the International Institute for Analytics. He helps financial institutions maximize both the power of analytics as well as the ability of human intuition to ensure decisions are made with high value and low risk in today’s new economic and regulatory environment.

Practical AI Applications for the Banking and Financial Sectors

Jason Wild, co-author of “Genius at Scale: How Great Leaders Drive Innovation” (March 2026), is an award-winning growth and strategy executive who has extensive experience helping leading banks and financial institutions leverage AI. He has delivered standout keynotes for the IMF, Bank of America, Spanish Banking Consortium, PayPal and many more.

Using AI to Make Financial Decisions: From the 1980s to Today

Vasant Dhar is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science. A machine learning pioneer, he was responsible for the first AI prediction system on Wall Street in the 1980s. A transformative AI practitioner and renowned academic, he expertly advises business and government leaders alike on truth, trust and governance in AI.

Bring the Rigor of Financial Accounting to Carbon Emissions

Oxford University professor Karthik Ramanna is co-chair of the Technical Expert Panel on Carbon Accounting and co-creator of the E-ledgers Institute, a non-profit that aims to give organizations a standardized global method for measuring carbon emissions and footprints. He has extensive experience as a leading expert on corporate-government relations, sustainable capitalism, ESG issues and corporate reporting.

Money: The Most Powerful Technology Ever Invented

David McWilliams is a former central banker, investment bank economist and author of the international bestseller “The History of Money: A Story of Humanity.” With humor and depth, he helps audiences understand what’s really driving markets, behavior and risk. He has made it his life’s mission to wrestle economics from the jaws of economists and bring it vividly to life for the rest of us.

How Human Behavior Can Provide Guidance to Weather Financial Storms

Kelly Peters is a behavioral economics scholar and a leading expert on applying human insights to organizational strategy, marketing and operations. As business leaders watch investments plummet, potentially leading them to irrational investment behaviors, Peters outlines key biases influencing investment decisions and how to overcome them.

Psychological Strategies for Boosting Financial Well-Being in the Face of Scarcity

Jiaying Zhao is a leading behavioral scientist whose research addresses critical social and environmental challenges such as promoting sustainability and fighting scarcity. She provides an accessible understanding of how individuals experiencing scarcity can be empowered through both psychological strategies and better support from services, including the banking industry and the housing sector.

Increase Your Artificial Intelligence ROI

David De Cremer is dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, founder of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind and a global authority at the intersection of leadership, AI and the future of work. With frameworks that are especially useful for big tech, insurance and financial services, he advocates for purpose-driven leadership that understands AI as a collaborator and stimulant for organizational growth.

Forge a Powerful Financial Path Forward With an AI Economics Primer

Daniel Rock is a Wharton School professor and Stanford Digital Economy Lab fellow. An economist and digital strategy authority, he brings an engineering mindset to investigating the economics of AI and its impacts on global markets and business competition. Rock leverages a unique skillset that blends engineering with a background in financial markets to provide leaders with an accessible primer on the effects of AI on monetary systems, both internally and externally.

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