Full Jackson Hole Symposium Schedule:

Aug. 27, 2026

6:00 p.m. MT (8:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 a.m. BST, Aug. 28)

Opening Reception and Dinner

Jeffrey Schmid | Host
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Aug. 28, 2026

8:00 a.m. MT (10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST)

Friday Session

Kristin J. Forbes | Chair
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

8:00 a.m. MT (10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST)

Opening Remarks

Kevin Warsh | Keynote
Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System

8:30 a.m. MT (10:30 a.m. EDT / 3:30 p.m. BST)

Financial Innovation and the International Monetary System

Eswar Prasad | Author
Professor, Cornell University

Catherine L. Mann | Discussant
External Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

9:05 a.m. MT (11:05 a.m. EDT / 4:05 p.m. BST)

General Discussion

9:55 a.m. MT (11:55 a.m. EDT / 4:55 p.m. BST)

Innovation in Tokenized Finance

Darrell Duffie | Author
Professor, Stanford University

Isabel Schnabel | Discussant
Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank

10:30 a.m. MT (12:30 p.m. EDT / 5:30 p.m. BST)

General Discussion

10:55 a.m. MT (12:55 p.m. EDT / 5:55 p.m. BST)

Panel: International Experience with Payments Innovation

Pablo Hernández de Cos | Panelist
General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Stefano Scarpetta | Panelist
Chief Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Kristalina Georgieva | Panelist
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

11:55 a.m. MT (1:55 p.m. EDT / 6:55 p.m. BST)

General Discussion

1:00 p.m. MT (3:00 p.m. EDT / 8:00 p.m. BST)

Luncheon Address

Kenneth Rogoff | Speaker
Professor, Harvard University

Aug. 29, 2026

8:00 a.m. MT (10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST)

Saturday Session

Anil Kashyap | Chair
Professor, University of Chicago

8:00 a.m. MT (10:00 a.m. EDT / 3:00 p.m. BST)

Financial Innovation and the Future of Banking

Christine A. Parlour | Author
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Itay Goldstein | Discussant
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

8:35 a.m. MT (10:35 a.m. EDT / 3:35 p.m. BST)

General Discussion

9:00 a.m. MT (11:00 a.m. EDT / 4:00 p.m. BST)

Financing Innovation

Markus K. Brunnermeier | Author
Professor, Princeton University

Raghuram G. Rajan | Discussant
Professor, University of Chicago

10:00 a.m. MT (12:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. BST)

General Discussion

10:25 a.m. MT (12:25 p.m. EDT / 5:25 p.m. BST)

Panel: Financial Innovation: Considerations for Central Banking

Wenxin Du | Panelist
Professor, Harvard University

Arvind Krishnamurthy | Panelist
Professor, Stanford University

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde | Panelist
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Jackson Hole is the symposium where the market-moving content has historically come from the Fed chair's opening remarks on the Friday morning, and this schedule confirms that slot, with Warsh delivering the keynote at the head of the Friday session. The rest of the programme is thematic rather than conjunctural: papers on financial innovation, tokenized finance and the international monetary system, with Schnabel, Mann and Hernández de Cos in discussant or panel roles, is the kind of academic agenda that rarely re-prices anything on its own. Precedent is that the chair's speech frames the near-term policy path, and the front end and the dollar have typically taken their cue from how it reads against the prevailing stance, while discussant commentary from other central bankers has mattered only at the margin, mainly for relative-rate stories where an ECB or BoE voice diverges from the Fed tone. The follow-ons in past episodes have been the text release at the start of the remarks, any departure from prepared language in delivery, and whether other Fed officials on the sidelines echo or soften the signal over the following days. Until the keynote, the schedule itself is informational; the calendar risk is concentrated in a single 30-minute window on the Friday.