Speakers
Isadora Arredondo
Vice President, Global Policy
Hedera
View LinkedIn profileIsadora Arredondo is VP of Global Policy at Hedera, where she leads global engagement with regulators, policymakers, and industry stakeholders at the intersection of technology, finance, and public policy. She brings 10+ years of experience working in both the public and private sectors, more recently working as an advisor to leading financial institutions, investors, and tech companies on regulatory and policy issues across the EU and UK. Previously, she worked at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, where she developed regulatory policy for investment, payments, and digital assets firms.
Her early career included roles at the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation, BCG, and the Economist Intelligence Unit, where she led policy-focused thought leadership across EMEA, US and Latam. She holds an MBA-accredited degree from Imperial College Business School and an MsC in Politics and Communications from the London School of Economics.
Speaking At
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9:00–10:30amTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Sovereignty & Resilience
Designing for Resilience in Digital Money Infrastructure
Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
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Dr. Abbas AlbashaSenior Strategy Consultant CBDCGiesecke+Devrient (G+D)
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Danny RussellHead of Payment Innovation Product and TechnologyBank of England
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Dea MarkovaDirector of PolicyFireblocks
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Isadora ArredondoVice President, Global PolicyHedera
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Kelvin LiSenior Vice PresidentAnt International
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Takatoshi ShibayamaHead of Asia PacificLedger Enterprise
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Zilong LiHead of Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction ServicesDBS Bank
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Daniela BarbosaGeneral Manager, Decentralized Technologies, Linux Foundation & Executive DirectorLF Decentralized TrustModerator
About this session
As digital money infrastructure matures, more institutions are converging on the same handful of providers for custody, reserves, and connectivity. This concentration brings real efficiency and security benefits but it also creates correlated risk: a single provider's failure, outage, or reserve issue can propagate across multiple institutions at once, often in ways that aren't visible until it happens.
This session brings regulators and industry together to examine what resilient design actually requires as tokenization scales and the market consolidates, across technical redundancy, structural safeguards, transparency of dependency chains, and governance during a shared-provider failure. This roundtable aims to produce a set of principles on where responsibility should sit across the chain(s). -

