How money moves, how markets work, and how AI is reshaping both.
Financial infrastructure is being reshaped by two powerful and converging forces: the evolution of digital money and the rapid advancement of machine intelligence. This MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) symposium brings together leading MIT faculty and industry leaders to examine how these forces are transforming payments, market structure, and financial decision-making.
The program explores the emerging architecture of next-generation payment systems, including the role of digital currencies in enabling faster settlement, continuous trading, and new forms of competition across the financial ecosystem. It also examines how advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping not only how decisions are made, but how financial systems operate, introducing new models of automation, coordination, and autonomy.
Through perspectives spanning market design, digital currency innovation, and AI-enabled finance, the symposium highlights both the opportunities and the challenges facing financial institutions as the underlying infrastructure of global finance evolves. The program concludes with a showcase of MIT startups demonstrating how these technologies are being deployed in practice, from payment infrastructure and risk systems to autonomous agents and machine-to-machine economic networks.
Registration Fee:
ILP Members: Complimentary
HSBC Employees: Limited complimentary in-person seats available
General Public: $500 for in-person
For additional guests, please contact ocrevents@mit.edu for more information.
The agenda below is subject to change without prior notice.
You may cancel your registration for a full refund through May 4. Refunds will be issued to the original form of payment. From May 4 to May 11, partial refunds will be available, minus a service fee ($50 for in-person registrations and $25 for virtual). No refunds will be issued after May 11. To cancel, please email ocrevents@mit.edu.
