Business and government leaders will explore evolving market structures and emerging policy challenges shaping the finance industry amid rapid transformation.
Washington, DC (March 3, 2026) — The Milken Institute today opened its Future of Finance event at the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream, bringing together leaders from across finance, government, technology, and policy to examine the trends reshaping global markets and economic opportunity.
Over two days, the event will bring together senior executives from leading financial institutions, institutional investors, fintech innovators, policymakers, and experts advancing economic mobility pathways and retirement security. Conversations will explore the forces reshaping finance, including access to capital, community resilience, financial innovation, lifetime financial security, artificial intelligence, and shifting geo-economic dynamics.
“Finance is undergoing a period of rapid transformation driven by technology, evolving market structures, and new policy challenges,” said Michael Piwowar, PhD, executive vice president of finance at the Milken Institute. “The Future of Finance event brings together leaders across sectors to exchange ideas, identify practical solutions, and help ensure financial systems evolve in ways that expand opportunity, strengthen markets, and support long-term economic growth.”
Dan Carol, managing director on the Milken Institute Finance team, added, “We’re focused on connecting innovative financing and public-private collaboration to accelerate resilient, community-scale infrastructure, entrepreneurship, and regional growth. By bringing together leaders from finance, government, and technology, this event is helping turn bold ideas into scalable solutions that strengthen economic resilience and opportunity for communities nationwide.”
The opening day program features headline conversations with government officials and industry leaders, including an opening plenary on modernizing market regulation with Paul Atkins, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Additional sessions will explore the next era of digital assets, the global economic outlook, and the role of artificial intelligence in accelerating digital transformation.
Featured speakers also include Angela Alsobrooks, U.S Senator, Maryland; Ben Black, CEO, US International Development Finance Corporation; Kevin Hassett, Director, National Economic Council of the United States; French Hill, US Representative, Arkansas; Chairman, US House Financial Services Committee; John Jovanovic, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Dan Katz, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund; Kim Lew, CEO and President, Columbia Investment Management Company; Bryan Steil, US Representative, Wisconsin; Chairman, US House Financial Services, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence; Scott Turner, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and many more changemakers from global finance, public policy, and innovation.
Through expert dialogue and cross-sector collaboration, the Future of Finance event reflects the Milken Institute’s ongoing work to connect capital, innovation, and policy in ways that advance financial stability, broaden access to opportunity, and support inclusive economic growth.
The Milken Institute will live-stream the public sessions of the Future of Finance to broaden access and participation. View the conference agenda and watch the public sessions here.
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