Black Swan Summit Australia 2026

23 March 2026 – 25 March 2026

Winthrop Hall, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

35 sessions · 142 speakers

Organiser (1)

GFTN

Sponsors (2)

BTQ Technologies · ST Engineering

Supporting Partners (54)

Spacecubed · ViewTrade · Hong Kong Fintech Industry Association · Australian Computer Society · Global FinTech Institute · FF News · WA Data Science Innovation Hub · FIAKS · Timepledge.org · Founders Factory · Innovate Australia · DIGIJANUS · Digital Euro Association · The Digital Assets Association · Blockchain NZ · Murdoch University · Global Digital Finance · Women in Technology WA (WiTWA) · CyberWest Hub · Blockchain for Europe · Efinancialcareers · Unbuilt Labs · CERI · India FinTech Forum · DEEPTECH TIMES · 6ONE · Association for Women in Crypto · Singapore Fintech Association · 100 Women In Finance · Tenity · Perth USAsia Centre · Business Events Perth · Australian Information Security Association (AISA) · Creative Tech Village · PaySpace Magazine · AllConfsBot · OMFIF · Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment · Disruption Banking · UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (PERTH) · AI Tools Network · Blockchain Association Singapore · City of Perth · CFTE · Digital Economy Council of Australia · StartupWA · UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG · THE REGTECH ASSOCIATION · ACCESS Singapore · Insurtech Australia · The Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance (AGRC) · Asian Institute of Digital Finance (NUS) · xCube · Techsauce

Agenda

• Innovation Tours 23 March 2026 · External Location
• [Side Event by Quantum Australia Western Australia Node] UWA Quantum Lab Deep Dive & Innovation Tour - Step Inside the Quantum Revolution 23 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 1
• Indo-Pacific Unplugged - Digital Connectivity as Critical Infrastructure 23 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 2
• VIP Dinner powered by ST Engineering (By invite only) 23 March 2026 · External Location
• Building the Next Economy - Machines • Money • Humanity 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Address by Guest of Honour 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Life, Finance & the Quantum Universe 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Green Critical Infrastructure for the Next Economy - Building the Indo-Pacific Stack for Energy, Compute & Trust 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• The Race for Quantum Resilience & First-Mover Advantage - How Industry & Governments Should Act 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Launch of Q-FINEX (Quantum Finance Industry Experimentation) 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• How to Build Better Money - Trust Stack for Money in Motion 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• The Long Game in the Indo-Pacific - Engineering Conviction in the World’s Most Compelling Investment Region 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Why Are We Here? Beyond Machines & Money - Meaning, Consciousness & the Human Future 24 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• [Closed-Door Roundtable] Indo-Pacific Digital Money Infrastructures - Building the Next Wholesale Payment Rails 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 1
• [Roundtable] Wiring the Indo-Pacific - Why Western Australia is the Place for Green Compute Infrastructure at Scale 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 2
• Quantum Finance in Practice - Demo of the Q‑FINEX Testbed 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 1
• Building the Blockchain Foundation - Reinventing Decentralised Systems for a Resilient Next Economy 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 2
• [Roundtable] Where’s the Real Value? Investing Beyond Hype in the Next Economy (Quantum, AI, Tokenization, Green Infrastructure) 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 2
• [Roundtable] What Works in AI Delivery? Successes, Failures, & Solutions that Scale 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 1
• Networking Reception 24 March 2026 · UniClub - Terrace
• [Side Event by UWA Data Institute & UWA Institute of Advanced Studies] The Outer & Inner Universe - Cosmos, Consciousness & the Limits of Reality : A Public Lecture by Bernard Carr, Professor of Mathematics & Astronomy, University of London 24 March 2026 · Woolnough Lecture Theatre
• Welcome Back to the Black Swan Summit - From “Why” to “How” 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Bankwest’s Digital-First Transition – From Modernisation to Readiness for Scale 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Agentic AI Is Here: How to Deploy Autonomous Agents Without Losing Control 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Trade, Intelligence, and Trust - From Small Town to Global Village 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Trust Under Attack - The Identity Layer We Need for Real Time Money, Tokenization & AI 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Tokenizing Real-World Assets: Can Pilots Mature into Real Markets? 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Regulation as Enabling Infrastructure - Trust, Interoperability & Investment-Ready Markets 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Talent as Critical Infrastructure - Rebuilding Work, Skills & Opportunity in the Age of AI 25 March 2026 · Winthrop Hall
• Lunch 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Banquet Hall
• [Roundtable] Cutting the Costs of Cross-Border Trade – Modern Digital Money in Practice 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 2
• [Side Event by WAWEB3] Innovating in Western Australia - Hubs, Grants, & Go-to-Market Pathways 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 1
• [Roundtable] How to Design Quantum-Safe Systems - A Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration Plan for Critical Infrastructure 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 1
• [Roundtable] Tokenized Trade & Investment Advantage - Making Real-World Assets Liquid & Trusted Across Borders 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Roundtable Room 2
• [Side Event by CyberWest Hub] Building Cyber Resilience - Moving People from Awareness to Action 25 March 2026 · UniClub - Workshop Room 2