Soft Rails of Economic Transformation — How to Design Regulation, Standards and Policy to Enable Digital Economies

As jurisdictions accelerate into the next phase of digital transformation — including digital assets, AI, and quantum-era security — the decisive factor is no longer technology alone. It is trust infrastructure: regulation, standards, supervisory frameworks and interoperability agreements that allow innovation to scale safely and attract serious capital. 

This session reframes regulation not as restriction, but as enabling infrastructure — the “soft rails” that make markets investable, reduce systemic risk, protect consumers and unlock cross-border collaboration.