Lior Glass is a Director of Product Management in Oracle's Mission-Critical Systems group, focusing on developing new digital asset solutions for the financial services industry. He has over a decade of experience promoting digital asset adoption in financial services, including roles as the Global Blockchain Lead at BNY Mellon and the Cryptocustody Strategy Lead at Citi. In his current role, he’s driving Oracle’s innovations in digital assets capabilities across public and permissioned blockchains with AI-powered compliance and supervision.  Lior holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a B.Sc. in Engineering from the Technion.

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CB+DC Academy: Tales from the CBDC Trenches

After years of exploration and proof-of-concepts, we’re now entering the “money time” for digital currency initiatives, such as stablecoins and CBDCs to deliver tangible results. Amid growing competition for digital money many central banks face urgent need to move beyond the initial exploration into live, operational systems that can modernize payments and enhance financial inclusion.

Oracle is actively involved in global CBDC initiatives for both wholesale as well as retail digital currencies. The session will showcase a CBDC project implementation using Oracle Blockchain Platform and Oracle’s extended CBDC Sandbox providing a robust, scalable, interoperable, and secure infrastructure to meet central banks’ needs.  We’ll review architectures for advanced use cases ranging from cross-border wholesale payments to scalable domestic retail CBDC deployments. We will also explore best practices for designing, deploying and managing CBDC projects, based on Oracle’s engagement with CBDC pilots, long history in financial services and many large-scale payments projects.

This session is for decision-makers and technical leads in financial institutions and central banks who want to move beyond the experimental phase to build a sustainable future with digital assets and CBDCs.

 

Breakout Session: Build It by Noon: Unfolding Oracle’s FinTech Data Platform Initiative for Safe Digital Assets in Regulated Banking and Finance

A core challenge for policymakers in the CBDC space and other digital asset projects is the alignment of technological capabilities with stringent compliance and governance requirements. Key questions arise: How can necessary controls be robustly implemented? How can confidentiality and privacy be ensured on a shared ledger while maintaining essential oversight?

This session addresses these challenges by presenting a modular, composable solution designed specifically to meet policy objectives. The architecture leverages available building blocks, such as secure and verifiable ledgers based on DLT and immutable database, an atomic transaction coordinator with AI-enhanced workflows, and advanced analytical capabilities leveraging advanced AI with multi-LLM integration. These core services are seamlessly integrated with pre-built, customizable application components, including smart contract templates and libraries, rich integration and workflow libraries, intuitive user interfaces, comprehensive analytics and reporting dashboards, and financial crime compliance using machine learning models.

This approach significantly reduces development complexity, using low-code development tooling for every component, from smart contracts to workflows, application UIs, and analytics. It empowers policymakers by enabling the rapid implementation of controls and providing transparent, auditable oversight capabilities. The session will expand on the available building blocks and demonstrate a practical use case, illustrating how these elements are used in practice. A quick overview of next steps, including expanding the use case and preparing for production deployment, will conclude the session.