Thu 19 Nov9:50–10:20amFestival Stage
The Autonomous Economy: Where the Intelligence Layer Meets the Exchange of Value
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About This Session
Imagine an economy where software doesn't just recommend decisions—it makes them, negotiates them, and settles them, all without a human in the loop. That future arrives when agentic AI meets programmable money. Autonomous agents that can transact, and digital money that can execute logic on its own, together unlock machine-speed commerce that today's financial rails were never built to handle. Learn how agentic AI and programmable money combine to reshape payments, settlement, and value exchange, what new risks emerge when agents transact autonomously, and how institutions should prepare for an economy that runs itself.
- When
- Thursday 19 November9:50–10:20am, Singapore time
- Where
- Festival StageHall 1, Singapore EXPO
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