Future of Cash Agenda Made Public

The Future of Cash conference takes place in Istanbul 6-8 November, with the early booking delegate fee ending on 15 September.

The programme has been published and the big themes of the conference, and the relevant speakers, are now known.

Key themes: In addition to an opening workshop that examines whether cash is a public good and a public right, the key themes are: 

• Getting to grips with the cash paradox

• Re-designing the cash cycle in an increasingly digital world

• Building a more resilience cash ecosystem.

Round table: There is also a round table session where attendees can choose to join tables in which experts will lead conversations on a range of topics such as access to cash, acceptance of cash, redesigning the cash cycle, CashTech and innovation, cash & CBDC, cash and crises, the environmental sustainability of cash, how to fund the cash cycle and data management. There will be time to join in on several conversations.

The speaker list is predominantly central and commercial banks from every continent, along with a number of expert speakers.

Workshop: In addition, there will be two workshops, one titled, ‘The Best Defence is Offence: Pioneering a Cash Narrative to Defeat Cashless Propaganda’, led by Brett Scott, the monetary anthropologist.

The second will be a panel led workshop discussing how ‘CashTech can boost innovation in the cash cycle?’ it will be followed by the presentation of the be CashTech Innovation Awards based on three categories: 

• Best CashTech – open to all organisations

• Best CashTech Innovator – open to start-ups and companies founded after 2016

• Best CashTech Start-Up – open to start-ups companies founded after 2020.

This conference is highly focused, bringing together experts from across the world. It is an opportunity to discuss, exchange ideas, to learn and to challenge.

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