Good morning everyone and welcome to the Future of Finance.
The Future of Finance is a one day conference we're
hosting, bringing together some of the top minds in industries
from lending to crypto to banking to talk about where
money is headed.
We've had a packed house here.
It's really, you know, encouraging to me as a Co
chair to see the room full of people engaged, people
talking.
The pace of change, as we say, will never be
as slow as it is today, right?
Everything's just getting faster, especially AI.
You've got to have a good quality of data and
also can fetch those data much more easily.
There is no better partner in the world than Fortune,
no more trusted brand in the world than Fortune in
terms of bringing together the most powerful, most cleaning leaders
in the world of finance, as well as attacking and
really talking about some of the most substantive and pressing
issues in this world.
We needed to convene the world's most forward leaning leaders
because you've never seen a time that has more dynamism
than this moment, more change than this moment where technology
is changing the landscape.
You know, you feel like you're over regulated.
We're actually trying to pull this further into the regulatory
perimeter and to have kind of a a greater regulatory
framework and greater regulatory clarity this year.
The discussion tops her on AI.
Everybody's talking about AI, how it impacts them, how we
think it's going to impact them, how it's going to
change the environment, the economy, our lives, the financial markets,
the way we invest.
Believe it or not, crypto's back.
We've got our, you know, one of our lead speakers
say BlackRock, they launched Bitcoin ETFs and we're learning now
who owns those ETFs.
It's like pension funds, state governments, the government of Wisconsin
now owns Bitcoin.
That shows how far we've come.
First, I will say we are very eager for there
to be federal legislation on cryptocurrency and unstable coins.
We're all here gathered today to learn best practices, but
this time next year things may have changed totally.
So it's good to keep upskilling and and learning and
staying on top of what's going on in the industry.
We're not.
We're not hiring based on experience.
We're hiring based on a skill set.
Best engineers in the world won't want to work here
if we don't give them these tools because they're available
in the industry and it makes them better.
Fortune strength.
This is power of curation.
Our reporters and editors know the right people who trust
us, trust our journalism.
We bring them together and put on a truly a
list event.
Next year, it's going to be bigger, it's going to
be better.
And once again though, we'll have the key players, the
biggest names from finance, from technology, from fintech, from crypto,
all in the same room with attendees who are also
all, many of them executives themselves.
And for very high level discussion, new ideas and even
new friendships, encourage everyone to attend.