Booking 2026 // 2027 stages

AI KEYNOTE SPEAKER BANKING + FINTECH + INSURANCE + WEB3

Travis Wright on The Fourth Web: what happens when AI agents start moving the money. The only keynote speaker who has worked across Symantec cybersecurity, VARA-regulated Web3, GENIUS Act era banking, and FX/CFD capital markets. One speaker, no panel required.

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Radio City Music HallAvalanche SummitCES Book of the YearRWA Summit Dubai 2026NBC150+ stages
Dubai-based. Speaks worldwide. // Updated July 2026
Travis Wright delivering an AI keynote at Radio City Music Hall, New York City
Radio City Music Hall // New York City
Stage proof

Not a one-off. A track record.

Radio City to Buenos Aires, CES to NBC. Drag the strip, tap a card, watch it in place.

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The thesis

The Fourth Web, in four sentences.

The Fourth Web is the era of agentic AI commerce: machines autonomously initiating payments, contracts, and settlements. The GENIUS Act gave stablecoins a federal rulebook, so the rails are now legal, regulated, and moving. Every industry that touches money is about to meet a customer that is not human. The institutions that prepare early will set the terms; the rest will integrate on someone else's.

011991
WEB1
Read

Static pages, one-way transmission. You consumed what others published.

"The internet talks to you."
022004
WEB2
Read / Write

Blogs, social, user-generated everything. The internet became a conversation.

"You talk back. At everyone. Forever."
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WEB3
Read / Write / Own

Blockchain, digital assets, wallets. You could finally hold the deed to your digital life.

"You hold the deed to your digital life."
04Now
WEB4
Read / Write / Own / Build

Autonomous agents act, transact, and build on your behalf, settling at machine speed in stablecoins.

"Your agents build while you sleep."
Your industry

The thesis, in your vertical.

Deep-linked for committee members in a hurry. Find your room; the talk is already built for it.

Banking + Payments + Fintech

When agents hold wallets, core banking becomes an API for machines.

The GENIUS Act did not make stablecoins interesting; it made them inevitable. There is now a federal rulebook for dollar-pegged settlement, which moves the question from whether to whose balance sheet. Meanwhile AI agents are learning to initiate payments, negotiate terms, and reconcile accounts without a human in the loop. Your core systems were built for customers with fingers. The next hundred million accounts will not have any. I run this convergence inside a regulated financial group with 18 licenses and roughly $35 billion in daily volume, so this is not a theory deck. It is my Tuesday.

The room leaves with
  • A working map of stablecoin settlement after the GENIUS Act, from a practitioner rather than a policy panel
  • What agent-initiated payments break in core banking, KYC, and fraud models, and what to rebuild first
  • A 24-month readiness sequence your product and compliance teams can actually run
Signature talkBanking Enters the Fourth Web
ProofWeb4 Banking Report for Diebold Nixdorf // CIO, MultiBank Group
Relevant atMoney20/20, SIBOS, Fiserv Forum, Circle Converge, Dubai FinTech Summit
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Insurance + Insurtech

Machine-quoted, machine-bound, machine-settled. Underwriting the Fourth Web.

Agentic AI turns the policy lifecycle into software: quoting, binding, claims, and settlement negotiated between systems in seconds. Parametric products move on-chain, where payout is a contract condition rather than an adjuster's judgment call. And the convergence of agentic AI and blockchain creates an entirely new category of cyber risk that most carriers have not priced, because the actuarial tables have never met an attacker with an API key and infinite patience. I speak to this as an operator who worked the security side at Symantec and now works the digital-asset side at a VARA-regulated group, which is precisely the collision your cyber book is heading into.

The room leaves with
  • The new cyber risk category created when autonomous agents meet blockchain rails, and how practitioners are modeling it
  • Where parametric, on-chain insurance works today, and where it is still a demo
  • What agentic underwriting means for distribution, fraud, and the loss ratio you report in 2028
Signature talkWelcome to Web4, delivered as "Underwriting the Fourth Web"
ProofSymantec-era security + VARA-regulated digital assets, one speaker
Relevant atITC Vegas, Insurtech Insights, RISKWORLD
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Asset Management + Wealth + Sovereign Funds

Tokenized assets meet autonomous mandates. Custody will never be the same.

Real-world assets are moving on-chain at institutional scale: funds, treasuries, real estate, commodities. Tokenization compresses settlement from days to seconds and turns custody into code. Now add agents that execute mandates autonomously, rebalance around the clock, and never call in sick. The Gulf is the live sandbox; VARA in Dubai and ADGM in Abu Dhabi wrote the rulebooks while other regulators wrote press releases. I keynoted RWA Summit Dubai 2026 and help run a VARA-regulated tokenization business, so the case studies are first-person.

The room leaves with
  • The practitioner's guide to RWA tokenization: infrastructure, regulatory fit, and risk-adjusted return
  • How autonomous agents change mandate execution, custody, and the definition of fiduciary care
  • Why the Gulf regulatory stack matters to your allocation strategy even if you never open a Dubai office
Signature talkWelcome to Web4
ProofKeynoted RWA Summit Dubai 2026 // VARA-regulated operator
Relevant atMilken Institute, Consensus, TOKEN2049, ADFW, RWA Summit
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Financial Cybersecurity

The agentic SOC in a Web3 world. Defend a bank whose customers are machines.

Security teams are about to defend institutions where both the attacker and the customer are autonomous. Blockchain threat intelligence, stablecoin attack vectors, wallet-draining agents, and deepfake-grade social engineering are one product cycle from mainstream. Meanwhile the SOC itself is going agentic, because human analysts cannot triage machine-speed attacks. I started in enterprise security at Symantec and now operate inside a regulated digital-asset group, which is exactly the intersection most threat models are missing. Proof of Human is the talk about trust when nothing on the wire can be assumed human, and it lands hardest in rooms full of CISOs.

The room leaves with
  • Stablecoin and RWA attack vectors your current controls do not cover
  • What an agentic SOC changes about staffing, tooling, and incident response
  • A trust framework for the deepfake era: customers, counterparties, and boards
Signature talkProof of Human
ProofSymantec era enterprise security // regulated digital-asset operator
Relevant atFal.Con, GITEX, FS-ISAC, private CISO summits
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Real Estate Tokenization

Title, escrow, and settlement move on-chain. Dubai got there first.

Fractional ownership, instant settlement, and programmable escrow are live in the market where I operate, and the playbook transfers.

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Commodities + Trading

FX, gold, and oil learn to settle themselves.

Tokenized commodities and agentic execution rewrite market microstructure, and MultiBank Group's daily volume is my lab.

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Signature keynotes

Four talks. Built for the rooms where money sits.

Named, productized, and customized per audience. Pick one and your committee has an agenda line; pick none and we build it on the discovery call.

BankingPaymentsFintech

Banking Enters the Fourth Web

What the GENIUS Act, stablecoins, and agent-initiated payments do to the business of banking, told by someone who runs the rails.

The room leaves withThe five-paths map, and the case for becoming the trust layer of agentic commerce before a non-bank does.
45-min keynote // fireside // executive briefing // virtual
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WealthWeb3Leadership summits

Welcome to Web4

The macro thesis. Agents are a new class of participant in the economy, the first builders who are not human. Here is where the value pools form first.

The room leaves withA working model of the agent economy and how to position before it is obvious.
45-min keynote // fireside // board session // virtual
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EnterpriseTeamsOffsites

Level Everyone Up

The AI workflows that turn an ordinary team into power users, drawn from systems I actually run every day, not vendor demos.

The room leaves withPlaybooks they can run Monday morning, no new budget required.
45-min keynote // half-day workshop // virtual
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CISOsBrandsTrust + risk

Proof of Human

When AI floods every feed and your attackers scale like software, trust becomes the scarcest asset on the internet. Here is how to defend it.

The room leaves withA trust playbook for institutions operating in a synthetic world.
45-min keynote // fireside // executive briefing // virtual
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Why him, not another AI speaker

Four domains. One speaker. No panel required.

Cybersecurity

Symantec era

Enterprise and financial-sector threat modeling, from the inside.

Web3 / RWA

VARA-regulated

Live RWA tokenization at MultiBank Group, not a whitepaper.

Banking regulation

GENIUS Act depth

Author of the Web4 Banking Report for Diebold Nixdorf.

Capital markets

~$35B daily

FX/CFD, derivatives, and tokenized asset distribution at mb.io.

One speaker

Every audience gets material three or four of their peer speakers cannot produce from a single source. The insurance CISO hears blockchain threat modeling from a fintech practitioner. The sovereign wealth CIO gets an agentic AI thesis from someone who runs the product. The payments executive gets a cyber framework, a DeFi settlement roadmap, and a regulatory timeline in one talk.

Chief Innovation Officer, MultiBank Group // World's First Chief Web4 Officer

Author of Wiley's Digital Sense, the 2018 CES Book of the Year. Co-host of The Bad Crypto Podcast: 800+ episodes, 1,000+ thought leaders interviewed. See the day job →

Working with Travis

Booked like a professional, because he is one.

Discovery

Every keynote starts with your audience, not his slides. A discovery call maps who is in the room and what they need to walk out ready to do.

Customization

The thesis stays; the examples change. Regulation, case studies, and vocabulary rebuilt for your industry and region.

Formats

Keynote, fireside, executive briefing, half-day workshop, virtual. Same speaker at closing dinner conversations as on the mainstage.

Promotion

You get a promo clip, headshots, and bios in three lengths, and he promotes the event to his own audience across the podcast and newsletter.

AV

A mic and a screen. No fog machines, no 14-page rider. The confidence monitor is appreciated but optional.

Dubai-based

GCC events carry no travel line item at all. Everywhere else: he has 150+ stages worth of frequent flyer status.

What they are saying

The rooms talk back.

Planner FAQ

The questions committees actually ask.

Straight answers // Updated July 2026
What does it cost to book Travis Wright for a keynote?

Fees depend on format, region, customization depth, and whether an executive workshop is attached. Share your budget band in the inquiry form and you get an answer on fit within 24 hours. Events in Dubai and the GCC carry no travel costs because Travis Wright is based in Dubai.

How far in advance should we book a keynote speaker?

Major conference mainstages book six to twelve months out. Corporate events can move faster. If your date is inside eight weeks, say so in the inquiry and it gets triaged first.

Does Travis Wright travel internationally for keynotes?

Yes. Travis Wright is based in Dubai and speaks worldwide, with 150+ keynotes delivered across the US, Europe, LATAM, Asia, and the Gulf.

How customized is each keynote?

Every engagement starts with a discovery call. The Fourth Web thesis stays; the examples, regulation, and case studies are rebuilt for the audience's industry and region. A banking audience and an insurance audience do not hear the same talk.

Does Travis Wright speak at virtual and hybrid events?

Yes. Keynotes, firesides, and executive briefings all run in virtual and hybrid formats with broadcast-grade audio and video from a dedicated studio.

Does Travis Wright speak at events in Dubai and the GCC?

Constantly. Travis Wright lives in Dubai, operates inside the VARA regulatory perimeter at MultiBank Group, and keynoted RWA Summit Dubai 2026. GCC bookings skip travel costs entirely.

Who is a good AI keynote speaker for banking and fintech conferences?

A good AI keynote speaker for a banking or fintech conference needs operating credibility, not just stage polish. Travis Wright is Chief Innovation Officer of MultiBank Group, wrote the Web4 Banking Report for Diebold Nixdorf, and speaks on what agentic AI commerce does to payments, compliance, and core systems.

What does the AV setup for a Travis Wright keynote require?

A microphone, a screen, and a confidence monitor if available. There is no complicated rider.

Can we use Travis Wright in our event marketing?

Yes. Organizers receive headshots, bios in three lengths, and a short promo clip, and Travis Wright promotes the appearance to his own audience across The Bad Crypto Podcast, The Signal, and his newsletter.

Are keynote recordings allowed?

Recording rights are handled per event in the agreement. Most organizers get full internal-use rights, and public clips are agreed case by case.

The forwardable version.

Headshots, bio, the four signature talks, stage credits, and contact. One page, built to be forwarded to your committee without a login, a form, or a follow-up sequence.

PDF // no email required
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