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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Stephanie K. Wickihalder
President
Swiss FinTech Innovations | SFTI
Stephanie brings over 20 years of international banking experience gained at Credit Suisse across investment banking, wealth management, and digitalization.
Since 2017, she has served as President of SFTI, where she and her team shape the future of the Swiss financial center by fostering innovation and collaboration through a thoughtful, technology-neutral approach.
Stephanie serves as a board member at DZ Privatbank (Switzerland) AG, holds several advisory mandates in the fintech sector, and is a guest lecturer at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Speaking at
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1:20–2:00pmTue 23 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets
From Pilots to Plumbing: How Switzerland is Building the Infrastructure for Programmable Money
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H.E. Adrian Cachinero VasiljevicCo-founderSteakhouse Financial
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Dr. Alexander ThomaHead of Digital AssetsPostFinance
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Frederik GregaardChief Executive OfficerCardano Foundation
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Dr. Roman StuderChief Executive OfficerSwiss Bankers Association
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Stephanie K. WickihalderPresidentSwiss FinTech Innovations | SFTI
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Nicola PlainPrincipal Business Consultant Digital AssetsZühlkeModerator
About this session
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.
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