Smart Contract Summit 2021: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs) and Blockchain Panel
Channel: Smart Contract Research
Date: 2021-08-05

Join us at https://www.smartcontractresearch.org/t/623 after watching to share your thoughts and experiences on CBDCs, ask the panelists questions, and explore the source material.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are currently being explored by a significant portion of Central Banks globally. This raises many questions from the specific problems that CBDCs are solving to what these solutions might actually look like. In this panel, we hear from academics from the EU and US on the current state of CBDCs, relevant concerns, and why this activity is taking place now.

We're joined by:

- Andrew Miller, an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science, where he leads the Decentralized Systems Lab. He’s also an Associate Director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3), and a technical advisor for Chainlink Labs.

- Ariel Zetlin-Jones is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ariel holds both a Doctorate and Masters in Economics from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Economy and Mathematics from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

- Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). From 2018 to 2020, he was ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he has been a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. He is also on the Board of Directors of Avaloq Ventures and of the Blockchain Founders Group, a Liechtenstein-based venture capital company focusing on blockchain startups.