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SUMMARY:A New Foundation for the Global Digital Economy Symposium
DESCRIPTION:27 June 2022 | MIT | Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, US \n8:00am – 9:00am Arrival\, registration\, and breakfast \n9:00am – 9:20am \nWelcoming Remarks from Prosperity Collaborative \nSandy Pentland – Director\, MIT Connection Science\, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nAnders Agerskov – Senior Public Sector Specialist and Program Manager Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth Trust Fund\, World Bank \nJeff Saviano – EY Global Tax Innovation Leader\, MIT Connection Science Fellow \n  \n9:20am – 9:50am \nPerspective on the Role of Digital Transformation \nShlomit Wagman – Harvard Kennedy School Research Fellow\, Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center\, Harvard Law School\, former Head of Israel Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing Prohibition Authority \nYasuhide Nakayama – Former State Minister of Defense of Japan (remote) \nPublio de Gracia – Director of Revenue\, Dirección General de Ingresos\, Panama \nDr. Terra Saidimu – Commissioner of Intelligence & Strategic Operations\, Kenya Revenue Authority (remote) \n  \n10:00am – 11:30am \nTheme I Discussion: Growth Strategies in the Digital Economy \nModerators: \nChiara Bronchi – Practice Manager\, Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth\, Macroeconomics\, Trade\, and Investment Global Practice\, World Bank \nSandra Ro – CEO\, Global Blockchain Business Council \nDiscussion Topics: \nGrowth strategies for the new digital economy \nAdvanced analytical platforms for better economic policy making \nPromoting private sector innovation and digital ecosystems \nRole of disruptive technologies in promoting growth \n11:30am – 12:30pm Lunch and Networking \n  \n12:30pm – 2:00pm \nTheme II Discussion: Investing in Foundational Digital Public Infrastructure  \nModerators: \nValentina Ion – Global Public Finance Industry Leader\, Microsoft \nSharad Sharma – Co-founder\, iSPIRT Foundation (India-based non-profit technology think-tank developing digital public goods) \nDiscussion Topics: \nEnabling seamless global trade through digitization \nTransforming tax and finance systems and processes \nDigital identity as the foundation for a government data strategy \nThe role of advanced technologies \n2:10pm – 3:40pm \nTheme III Discussion: Governance of Multistakeholder Systems \nModerators: \nJeff Saviano – EY Global Tax Innovation Leader\, MIT Connection Science Fellow \nDanielle Allen – James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University\, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics\, Harvard University \nDiscussion Topics: \nThe importance of DPI\, its governance\, and the existence of a governance gap \nA new era for technology policy\, regulation\, and incentives \nNew organizational structures for multi-party technology systems \nComputational law and regulatory certainty; governance for economic foresight and anticipating the next crisis \n  \n3:50pm – 4:30pm \nWhere to Go from Here \nChiara Bronchi – Practice Manager\, Fiscal Policy and Sustainable Growth\, Macroeconomics\, Trade\, and Investment Global Practice\, World Bank \nSandy Pentland – Director\, MIT Connection Science\, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \nChris Sanger – Global Government and Risk Tax Leader and EY EMEIA and UK&I (Tax Centre) Tax Policy Leader\, EY \n  \nSponsors:
URL:https://bostonglobalforum.org/event/a-new-foundation-for-the-global-digital-economy-symposium/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Building E14\, 75 Amherst Street Wiesner Building (E15)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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