00:00Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Future of Finance.
00:10The Future of Finance is a one day conference.
00:12We're hosting, bringing together some of the top minds in industries from lending to crypto to banking to talk about where money is headed.
00:21We've got a packed house here. It's really encouraging to me as a co-chair to see the room full of people engaged, people talking.
00:27The pace of change, as we say, will never be as slow as it is today. Right. Everything's just getting faster.
00:35Especially AI, you've got to have a good quality of data and also can fetch those data much more easily.
00:41There is no better partner in the world than Fortune.
00:44No more trusted brand in the world than Fortune in terms of bringing together the most powerful, most forward leaning leaders in the world of finance,
00:53as well as attacking and really talking about some of the most substantive and pressing issues in this world.
01:03We needed to convene the world's most forward leaning leaders because you've never seen a time that has more dynamism than this moment,
01:11more change than this moment where technology is changing the landscape.
01:15You know, you feel like you're overregulated. We're actually trying to pull this further into the regulatory perimeter and to have kind of a greater regulatory framework and greater regulatory clarity.
01:23This year, the discussion topics are around AI. Everybody's talking about AI, how it impacts them, how we think it's going to impact them,
01:30how it's going to change the environment, the economy, our lives, the financial markets, the way we invest.
01:36Believe it or not, crypto is back. We've got our, you know, one of our lead speakers, BlackRock.
01:41They 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.
01:49That shows how far we've come.
01:54First, I will say we are very eager for there to be federal legislation on cryptocurrency and on stablecoins.
02:00We're all here gathered today to learn best practices. But this time next year, things may have changed totally.
02:07So it's good to keep upskilling and learning and staying on top of what's going on in the industry.
02:13We're not hiring based on experience. We're hiring based on a skill set.
02:17Best engineers in the world won't want to work here if we don't give them these tools.
02:22Because they're available in the industry and it makes them better.
02:26Fortune's strength is its power of curation.
02:28Our reporters and editors know the right people who trust us, trust our journalism, to bring them together and put on a truly A-list event next year.
02:36It's going to be bigger, it's going to be better.
02:38And once again, we'll have the key players, the biggest names from finance, from technology, from fintech, from crypto, all in the same room with attendees.
02:46We're also all many of them executives themselves and for very high-level discussion, new ideas and even new friendships.
02:52I encourage everyone to attend.
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