Program

Held over one and a half days (9 & 10^th February 2026) – 12 Papers will be presented, namely:

Stephen King (Productivity Commission)
- The productivity potential in data and digital technology
Chris Adamek (Treasury)
- From Promise to Protocol: The Evolution of Financial Regulation in the Age of Protocol-enforced Finance
Heidi Richards (Better Regulation Advisory)
- CDR Action Initiation and the Complexity Curse
Lisa Schutz (Verifier)
- Lessons from the Frontline - Policy and Regulation lessons from an Australian digital pioneer
Anurag Soin (ANZ)
- Digital Assets : Vulnerabilities and their Classification
Lucy Stan and Eugene Zaid (Westpac)
- The Emerging Three-Tier System: Unpacking Australia’s Financial Future
Rhys Bollen (ASIC)
- When History Rhymes: regulating digital assets
Joe Dalessandro (APRA)
- Third-Party Ecosystem Resilience & Market Incentives
Don Russell (AustralianSuper)
- Digital Technology and Financial Guidance
- Digital Technology and Financial Guidance PPT
Gordon Noble (Monash University) and Warwick Peel (Amrop Carmichael Fisher)
- Developing a Digital Governance Reporting Framework
- Global-AI-Economics-Asia-Pacific-AI-Infrastructure-APAC-AI-Taskforce-We-Need-You
Ross Buckley (UNSW)
- StableCoins? The Coming Contest in Digital Currency between StableCoins and CBDCs: Who will likely win, and why?
Adam Gorajek (RBA)
- Estimating Household Valuations For Offline Digital Money