I’ve summarized below into an easy to read format, but the link is here if you want more.
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Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium 2026
“Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy”
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | Jackson Lake Lodge, Wyoming
All times below are Mountain Time (add 2 hours for ET)
Thursday, August 27
6:00pm — Opening Reception and Dinner
Host: Jeffrey Schmid, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Friday, August 28 (8:00am – 2:00pm)
Session Chair: Kristin J. Forbes, MIT
| Time | Session |
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| 8:00am | Opening Remarks / Keynote — Kevin Warsh, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (this is the headline speech — 10:00am ET) |
| 8:30am | Financial Innovation and the International Monetary System — Author: Eswar Prasad (Cornell); Discussant: Catherine L. Mann (Bank of England, MPC) |
| 9:05am | General Discussion |
| 9:55am | Innovation in Tokenized Finance — Author: Darrell Duffie (Stanford); Discussant: Isabel Schnabel (ECB Executive Board) |
| 10:30am | General Discussion |
| 10:55am | Panel: International Experience with Payments Innovation — Pablo Hernández de Cos (BIS), Stefano Scarpetta (OECD), Kristalina Georgieva (IMF) |
| 11:55am | General Discussion |
| 1:00pm | Luncheon Address — Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University |
Saturday, August 29 (8:00am – 12:00pm)
Session Chair: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago
| Time | Session |
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| 8:00am | Financial Innovation and the Future of Banking — Author: Christine A. Parlour (UC Berkeley); Discussant: Itay Goldstein (UPenn) |
| 8:35am | General Discussion |
| 9:00am | Financing Innovation — Author: Markus K. Brunnermeier (Princeton); Discussant: Raghuram G. Rajan (University of Chicago) |
| 10:00am | General Discussion |
| 10:25am | Panel: Financial Innovation — Considerations for Central Banking — Wenxin Du (Harvard), Arvind Krishnamurthy (Stanford), Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) |
| 11:25am | (General discussion / closing, per the agenda you’ve pasted — this appears to be where your paste cuts off) |