Meet the speakers joining Agentic Zero at SF Tech Week
Integrating AI agents into broader finance creates questions.
What can it spend? Which services can it pay for? How does the person or business behind it keep control? Developers, payment providers, and financial institutions, influence different bits and pieces of this, often working separately.
On October 7, Agentic Zero brings these perspectives together at The Avalon in San Francisco during SF Tech Week. We focus on agentic finance: how AI agents hold and direct value, and what it takes for the systems around them to support that activity.
Our first speakers are already being announced!
Sam Green, Founder & CEO of Cambrian Network, joins us from a team building financial data infrastructure for agents and institutions. An agent making a financial decision needs access to information it can use and verify. Cambrian’s work connects that requirement to market data, wallet activity, and risk analysis.
Shaw Walters, Founder of Eliza Labs, and Chris Johnson, Head of Business Development at Virtuals Protocol, bring perspectives from building the platforms and connections for agents to interact with capital and transactions that require complex coordination. The open-source Eliza framework gives developers tools to connect agents to applications and blockchain interactions. Virtuals provides infrastructure through which agents can discover, hire, and pay other agents for services.
Coordinating on work depends on payment infrastructure. Danny Organ, Product Marketing Lead for Agentic Products at Circle, joins a lineup examining how software gains the ability to transact. Circle’s Agent Stack combines wallets, service discovery, and payments, with spending policies that let people define limits on an agent’s activity. A payment becomes part of completing the task, with controls around how money can move. Both Danny Organ and Chris Johnson also bring the perspectives on developing standards for the future of agentic finance.
Connecting these systems to everyday financial activity matters too. Manuel Beaudroit, Co-founder & CEO of Belo, and Gianluca Minoprio, Head of Growth at Daimo, bring perspectives from products connecting digital assets and existing payment methods. Belo supports payments, transfers, and exchanges between crypto and local money. Daimo lets users fund stablecoin applications through local bank deposits. These connections matter wherever agent-driven services need to serve people and businesses using different currencies and payment systems.
Julian Love, Managing Principal & Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton, adds an investment perspective to the discussion. His participation places asset management alongside the teams building agent capabilities and payment infrastructure. As agents gain access to financial services, we need to examine where they create value, the risks they introduce, and how much control institutions retain over their use.
Enterprise adoption and financial crime add further requirements. Ken Priyadarshi, EY’s Global Prompt Engineering Lead, builds AI-enabled products for large businesses. Mickey Negus joins from TRM Labs, whose tools help institutions investigate and combat financial crime. Their work brings implementation and oversight into the same discussion as agent capabilities.
We’re bringing these speakers together so builders can engage directly with the requirements of financial services, and institutions can examine the systems taking shape. For attendees, it is an opportunity to understand how decisions in one part of agentic finance affect the others and meet the people working on them.
Explore the full speaker lineup and register for October 7. Admission is free, and more speakers will be announced.