The Digital Economist Summit in partnership with Yale University

This June, The Digital Economist convenes its bi-annual summit as a working lab focused on advancing accountability across intelligent systems, markets, and institutions. Across two days, the program moves from organizational design to system-level foundations—examining how trust is operationalized through infrastructure, governance, and coordination at scale.

​Day 1, The Human Architecture for a Digital Economy, focuses on how institutions integrate and govern AI in practice, while Day 2, Foundations of a Regenerative Global Economy, shifts to the underlying systems that sustain those institutions—from infrastructure and policy to long-term resilience.

​The sessions are structured to move beyond discussion toward implementation, with a focus on actionable pathways, cross-sector collaboration, and real-world application.

​The Outcome:

​Participants will not just listen, they will audit, adapt, and activate. This is an open invitation to transition from the imagination of trust to the infrastructure of accountability

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​Day 1 | June 11th
The Human Architecture for a Digital Economy

​10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Opening
Welcome & Event Structure
A framing of the summit’s objectives and structure, positioning each session as part of a working sequence focused on advancing accountability frameworks into practical implementation.

​10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
Roundtable 1
The Trust Paradox: From Pilot to Production
Organizations are rapidly adopting AI tools, yet most deployments remain limited to pilots or low-risk use cases. This session examines the conditions required to move AI into mission-critical environments, focusing on trust, accountability, and governance at the point of operational deployment.

​11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Roundtable 2
Solving the 80% Problem: Cultural Debt in AI
AI performance is often constrained not by technology, but by organizational design. This session explores how workflows, incentives, and capabilities must evolve to enable effective human–AI collaboration and sustained institutional adoption.

​11:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Roundtable 3
Shadow AI: Securing the $670K Blind Spot
The growing use of unmanaged AI tools introduces significant risks across data, compliance, and intellectual property. This session focuses on how organizations can establish governance and visibility without limiting adoption or productivity.

12:40 PM - 13:30 PM
Roundtable 4
Mythos of Security: Leading Through Permanent Vulnerability
As organizations operate in increasingly interconnected and AI-driven environments, security can no longer rely on rigid boundaries alone. This session explores how institutions can build resilience, adaptive trust, and decentralized security models that enable innovation while navigating continuous exposure and evolving threats.

13:30 PM - 14:20 PM
Roundtable 5
The Price of Being Sick
Healthcare systems remain fragmented across policy, care delivery, and financial structures. This session examines how these layers interact and where targeted interventions can improve access, outcomes, and system alignment.

14:20 - 14:30 PM
Closing
A synthesis of Day 1 insights, highlighting priority actions and setting the context for Day 2’s focus on systems, infrastructure, and governance.

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​Day 2 | June 12th

​Foundations of a Regenerative Global Economy

​10:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Opening
Welcome Day 2
Building on Day 1’s focus on institutional design, Day 2 shifts to the foundations that sustain those systems, examining infrastructure, governance, and resilience across a regenerative global economy.

​10:10 AM - 11:00 AM
Roundtable 6
Intent in the Infrastructure Race: Beyond Geopolitics and Toward Regenerative Foundations
As digital infrastructure expands, it places increasing pressure on energy systems, resources, and environmental limits. This session examines how infrastructure can be designed and governed as a regenerative system rather than an extractive one.

​11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Roundtable 7
Governance at Scale: Navigating the Policy Labyrinth
The growing complexity of AI and technology regulation is creating fragmented governance environments. This session explores how institutions can operate across jurisdictions while maintaining coherence, compliance, and effectiveness.

​11:50 AM - 12:40 PM
Roundtable 8
The Quantum-Secure Commons: Future-Proofing Accountability in a Post-Quantum World
Emerging computational capabilities will challenge existing security and trust infrastructures. This session focuses on how institutions can prepare for transition and design systems resilient to future technological disruption.

12:40 PM - 13:30 PM
Roundtable 9
Time as a Strategic Asset
Automation is creating new capacity, but most organizations fail to deploy it strategically. This session reframes time as a resource, examining how it can be redirected toward decision-making, innovation, and institutional capability.

13:30 PM - 14:20 PM
Roundtable 10
Implementing Accountability
This closing session synthesizes insights from across the summit into actionable pathways, focusing on implementation through pilots, partnerships, and institutional commitments.

14:20 - 15:00 PM
Open Space and Reflections
An open forum to consolidate insights, reflect on commitments, and identify next steps for advancing accountable systems across contexts.

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