Switzerland is not debating whether programmable money works - it is building it. Various pilots are now looking to answer the same question: how does programmable money move from laboratory to the infrastructure layer of everyday finance? This session examines where deposit tokens, stablecoins, and CBDCs serve genuinely different use cases, and what the rest of the world can learn from the Swiss approach.
Speakers:
Dr. Alexander Thoma, Head of Digital Assets, PostFinance
Dr. Roman Studer, Chief Executive Officer of the Swiss Bankers Association
Frederik Gregaard, Chief Executive Officer of the Cardano Foundation
H.E. Adrian Cachinero Vasiljevic, Co-Founder of Steakhouse Financial
Stephanie K. Wickihalder, President of Swiss FinTech Innovations (SFTI)
Host:
Nicola Plain, Principal Business Consultant Digital Assets of Zühlke