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SUMMIT

DUBAI

JUMEIRAH BEACH HOTEL

SEPT 22-23

2025

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2025-08-22T16:43:00.000Z

Quantum Days

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Steve Suarez

In this week’s episode Steve Suarez from Horizon X Quantum and one on the speakers at the Futurists Summit discusses the reality of the famed Q-Day or Quantum Day - a date sometime in the near future when Quantum computers can break our existing RSA encryption technologies exposing banks, government and military to significant cyber security risk. How real is it and how can we prepare our institutions for this change? Suarez and Brett get into it

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2023-09-21T22:47:59.891Z

Future of Payments and Identity

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Dave Birch

In this week's episode we talk to Dave Birch, the author of 'Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin', The Currency Cold War, and Identity is the New Money about all things identity, digital assets and the future of Crypto. Dave is one of the world's preeminent experts on payments tech globally as well. But when we get into how AI's will make payments and hold bank accounts, it gets very interesting indeed.

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2024-12-02T17:09:00.000Z

Huawei Does Gen-Fi

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Jason Cao

This week on The Futurists, a cross-over episode with Breaking Banks as host Brett King takes us to Shanghai for a riveting discussion with Jason Cao, CEO of Huawei’s Global Financial Services competency. In this eye-opening episode, they uncover how China is shaping the future with AI—not as a mere tool for profit, but as core infrastructure driving the world’s fastest-growing economy. Discover why GenFi LLMs (Generational Financial Language Models) don’t exist yet—and what’s holding AI like ChatGPT back from transforming banking as we know it. Explore how China’s unique approach to technology infrastructure is setting them apart from the rest, helping them to create a Smart Economy of the Future. Tune in for a conversation that could redefine the future of global finance and AI!