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Finance, Reimagined

From digital assets to payments to tokenized funds, the future of finance starts in New York.

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Thomas Zschach
Chief Innovation Officer, Swift
Chris Perry
President, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Nelli Zaltsman
Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Kinexys by JPMorgan
Bryan Steil
Congressman, House of Representatives
Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé
Head of Strategy, Swift
Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
David Mills
Senior Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington
G. Daniel (Dan) Doney
Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, DTCC Digital Assets, DTCC
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From Crypto to Capitol Hill

SmartCon brings governments, financial institutions, and leading Web3 projects together to discuss the blockchain technologies transforming markets, public services, and the global economy. The conference will enable leaders across capital markets, government, and Web3 to define how global markets move onchain, shape the next evolution of Web3, and discuss how onchain technology can strengthen trust, transparency, and efficiency in government systems.

Capital Markets

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Future of Asset Management

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Onchain/Offchain Payments

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Regulated Stablecoins and Digital Money

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Collateral Mobility

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Modernizing Market Infrastructure

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Compliance and Privacy

Web3

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DEFI

BTCFi
Liquid Staking
Derivative

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Blockchains

Research
Governance
Regional Trends

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Privacy

Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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Technologies

Interoperability
Layer 2s
Programmable Money
AI and Blockchain

Government

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U.S. Digital Asset Landscape

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Tokenized Assets

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Identity and Proof of Reserve

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SmartCon is the premier conference for leaders across finance, Web3, and government to explore the convergence of traditional finance and the onchain world. It’s where the most important updates in the blockchain industry are shared and where the future of the global financial system comes into view.

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Thomas Zschach
Chief Innovation Officer, Swift
Tom Zschach is Chief Innovation Officer at Swift, where he leads efforts to future-proof the global financial system through innovation in digital assets, artificial intelligence, and next-generation payment infrastructure. A former investment banker and technology executive, Tom now focuses on making Swift the trusted orchestration layer for tokenized finance. His work bridges traditional financial institutions with the emerging digital economy, ensuring scale, safety, and global interoperability.
Chris Perry
President, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Chris Perry serves as President of Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR). A global technology leader and part of the S&P 500® Index, Broadridge offers trusted expertise and transformative technology to help clients and the financial services industry operate, innovate, and grow. The company powers investing, governance, and communications – managing over 7 billion communications per year and underpinning the daily trading of more than $10 trillion in securities globally – driving operational resiliency, elevating business performance, and transforming investor experiences.

He is focused on driving Broadridge's overall growth strategy, including overseeing Broadridge International as well as helping lead M&A, DEI and ESG strategies. Chris also oversees all client and marketing activities globally and is responsible for delivering the company’s annual sales targets spanning all business units and product lines. He has been a driving force behind the transformation of the organization from a portfolio of companies to an enterprise cloud-based services provider. Broadridge has enjoyed eight years of consecutive record setting sales under Chris' leadership.

Prior to joining Broadridge, Chris has held numerous management and commercial roles at Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), and its predecessor, Thomson Financial. There he served as Global Managing Director of Risk for the Financial and Risk Division, where he was responsible for overseeing Governance, Risk and Compliance, as well as Pricing and Reference services. Previously, he served as President of Global Sales and Account Management of the Financial and Risk Division responsible for US$6 billion in revenue and responsible for 4,000 professionals worldwide. Earlier in his career, Chris worked in several FinTech companies and institutional trading and retail brokerage for Kemper Financial Services', Blunt Ellis & Lowie unit as well as correspondent firms of both Prudential and Pershing.

In January 2019, Chris was elected to the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Institute (FSI) and is former Chairman and ongoing member of British American Business, a membership organization that enables transatlantic commerce. Chris serves on the Board of Directors on several non-profits including Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey, NPower an organization that provides underprivileged youths and military veterans with the opportunity to build tech skills and achieve their potential, the United Way of NYC and the Community Food Bank of New Jersey. In addition, he is a sponsor of the Women on Wall Street Association, a New York-based business leadership organization that helps accelerate careers of women in financial services and unites business professionals in support of equality, executive leadership and breaking the glass ceiling.

Chris holds a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Northern Illinois University and an MBA in Marketing from Lewis University, where he serves on the Board of Trustees.
Nelli Zaltsman
Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Kinexys by JPMorgan
Nelli is the Head of Platform Settlement Solutions at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, where she focuses on product development and industry collaboration that enables the use of the Kinexys Digital Payments product suite (formerly JPM Coin), a first-of-its-kind cash on chain solution, as an integrated settlement solution with a wide range of transactional infrastructures, including both new tokenized RWA infrastructures and traditional financial platforms.

Nelli has been on the leadership team for Kinexys Digital Payment and its predecessor organizations since 2019. Prior to her product leadership role, Nelli was an attorney and the global legal lead for Payments blockchain initiatives at J.P. Morgan. As the first product attorney at JPMorgan to cover in-production use of blockchain, Nelli led the creation of the legal frameworks for core Kinexys products and platforms.
Bryan Steil
Congressman, House of Representatives
Congressman Bryan Steil (WI-01) represents Wisconsin's First Congressional District. He is Chairman of both the Committee on House Administration and House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence.

Steil authored the STABLE Act, the House companion to the GENIUS Act, creating a legal framework for the issuance and operation of stablecoins in the United States. He is also an original cosponsor of the CLARITY Act, which creates a regulatory framework for digital assets. Steil is focused on establishing clear regulations that encourage innovation and development of Web3 businesses in the United States while protecting consumers.

Prior to being elected to Congress, Steil was an attorney at a large plastics manufacturing company headquartered in Wisconsin. Steil lives in Janesville, WI.
Jonathan Ehrenfeld Solé
Head of Strategy, Swift
Jonathan Ehrenfeld is responsible for Swift’s strategy across payments, securities, FX, trade and digital assets. Based in New York, he represents Swift at multiple working groups and associations, including the International Securities Services Association (ISSA). Jonathan is the author of several articles published in the Journal of Securities Operations & Custody, among other publications. Jonathan is an advocate for responsible innovation in blockchain, Web3, and tokenised assets and has helped many fintech companies go from start-ups to established leaders in financial services. Before joining Swift in 2011, he was an assistant professor at the University of Brussels. Jonathan earned both his BA and MA Hons in Communication and Information Science and Technology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Raj Dhamodharan
Executive Vice President, Blockchain and Digital Currencies, Mastercard
Raj Dhamodharan is the executive vice president for blockchain and digital assets at Mastercard. As the company continues to bring relevant payments solutions and programs to the blockchain and digital assets ecosystem, Raj is responsible for managing Mastercard’s strategy, products, and partnerships in the space.  

Raj and his dynamic, global team work closely with crypto-native players, traditional financial institutions, and governments alike to advance Mastercard’s blockchain strategy, innovate consumer choice in payments, and instill a foundation of trust in crypto and digital assets. Raj is focused on bringing the best of what Mastercard’s technology has to offer to the digital assets ecosystem, proving new use cases for blockchain and crypto technology, and enabling safety and security for the ever-changing landscape.  

Raj joined Mastercard in 2010 and has held several roles at the company, including managing Mastercard’s relationships with global digital partners, developing and commercializing new payments innovations and standards – including digital wallets and Click to Pay – and leading Mastercard’s digital payment products and Labs group in Asia Pacific.   

Raj has deep expertise in payments and previously held executive positions at Visa, in addition to co-founding Think Business Networks, a telecom software company in Silicon Valley that built products for multinational organizations across the world. He also holds several patents in the field of loyalty marketing, advertising, and payments.  

Raj graduated from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India with a BS in Computer Technology. He holds MBA degrees from Columbia Business School, and Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley.
David Mills
Senior Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
David Mills is a Senior Associate Director at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System – Division of Reserve Bank Operations and Payment Systems, Washington, District of Columbia.

David has responsibility for the Board’s innovations in payments, retail payments, FedNow Service oversight, fiscal agency and payments economic research programs. David is a key leader in the Board’s and the System’s overall focus on digital innovations topics, especially developments in digital assets, stablecoins, tokenization of money and financial assets, and distributed ledger technologies.

David is active in several international organizations. He is a member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and chairs its Future of Payments working group. He is a co-chair of the Financial Stability Board’s Financial Innovation Network. He is a member of the G7’s Digital Payments Expert Group. He is also on the academic advisory council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Consumer Finance Institute.

David has published articles related to payments and monetary theory in a variety of journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, the International Economic Review, the Review of Economic Dynamics and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

David received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University and has a B.A. in Economics and Classical Languages from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
E. David Burt
Premier of Bermuda, Government of Bermuda
Premier the Hon. E. David Burt, JP, MP, is Bermuda’s 13th and youngest Premier when he was elected to the Government of Bermuda’s highest office at the age of 38.

Premier Burt graduated from Florida Air Academy, where he earned his private pilot’s license as a teenager. He is also an alumnus of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he graduated cum laude and received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a double major in Finance and Information Systems.

Premier Burt was initiated into the Nu Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated in the Spring of 1998. He was awarded the George Washington University Presidential Administrative Fellowship and received his Master of Science in Information Systems Development in 2003. Mr. Burt attained a Project Management Professional certification in 2009.

As an entrepreneur, in 2004, upon returning to Bermuda, Premier Burt started GMD Consulting Limited, an IT consulting company focusing on project management. He served as president from its inception until 2016, when he stepped down upon being appointed leader of the opposition. Premier Burt co-founded HITCH Limited and was the lead developer for the award-winning HITCH Mobile App, enabling Bermuda residents to hail taxis.

As the leader of the Bermuda Progressive Labour Party since 2016, he has led his party to three landslide election victories in 2017, 2020, and 2025.

Since winning his first election and becoming Premier of Bermuda, he has led a Government with a progressive agenda of fairness, opportunity, and innovation. Under his leadership, the Progressive Labour Party Government has implemented transformational reforms that include the establishment of Bermuda’s first-ever statutory minimum wage, decriminalizing cannabis for personal possession, reducing payroll taxes on hardworking Bermudians to the lowest levels in the island’s history, while increasing taxes for high earners.

His Government has taken measures to ensure that Bermudians are supported, including increasing funding for professional development for teachers and scholarships for students, making a record investment in affordable housing, launching a Mortgage Guarantee Programme, reducing down payment and interest costs for first-time homeowners, and increasing seniors’ pensions seven times in line with the rate of inflation.

This has all been done while Premier Burt has worked tirelessly to position Bermuda as a global leader in digital finance and delivered Bermuda’s first budget surplus in over two decades last year.

In the past, Premier Burt has served on the Bermuda Tourism Board, National Training Board, as a Director of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce and has been a Director of the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation.
Premier Burt and his wife Kristin have been married since 2012 and have two beautiful children, Nia and Edward.
Mark Garabedian
Director of Digital Assets and Tokenization, Wellington
As the director of the Digital Assets & Tokenization initiative, Mark is focused on connecting the firm to the market infrastructure needed to manage and trade digital assets and tokens, for both public and private investment vehicles. This involves evaluating and performing due diligence on digital asset service providers as well as developing internal workflows and the necessary data architecture to manage the assets. In addition, Mark is helping to foster a continued understanding within the firm of the new technology and its potential for disruption, helping to build a network of external digital asset relationships, and looking to explore the broader concept of tokenization as it can apply to our product offering.
G. Daniel (Dan) Doney
Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, DTCC Digital Assets, DTCC
G. Daniel (Dan) Doney serves as Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer of DTCC Digital Assets, the firm’s institutional-grade, digital asset infrastructure and products (formerly Securrency). DTCC Digital Asset’s products unlock the value of digital assets and advance the industry’s digital transformation journey. Within this role, Dan is responsible for overseeing the technology strategy that underpins the firm’s digital asset products and services while ensuring they evolve in tandem with client and regulatory needs.

Before DTCC, Dan was Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Securrency. As CTO, Dan was the architect of platforms leveraging blockchain to transform financial market infrastructure. This technology is at the core of the first publicly available, regulator approved, US registered funds on the blockchain. Dan authored 4 awarded patents (and 11 pending) to enable secure, compliant, scalable institutional use of blockchain networks.

Prior to founding Securrency, Dan served as the U.S. intelligence community’s first Chief Innovation Officer from 2012-2015. While there, he implemented an aggressive Innovation Strategy, the first of its kind in government, to support the rapid assessment of emerging technology and enhance agency execution agility. His initiatives yielded significant savings, channeled ideas into mission impact, and streamlined the adoption of emerging technology. Dan received the 2014 Federal Fierce 15 award for his work as a change agent in government. He also consulted for the FBI Office of Private Sector executing a mission to help protect private sector entities from Cyber, Criminal, Counterintelligence and Terrorism threats. Dan started his career as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.

A recognized expert in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Enterprise Architecture, Identity and Data Solutions, Dan has been an innovator across a wide variety of fields drawing on his background in social systems, control theory, software engineering, and more. Dan graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1992 with a B.S. in Control Systems Engineering and an additional major in Economics and received an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT in 1994.