On Tuesday, October 6, 2026, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Governance and Culture Reform Initiative ("Culture Initiative") hosted its annual conference on culture and behavior in the financial services industry. This program explored how rapidly evolving technology is shaping organizational cultures and the behavioral impacts of innovation.
The Culture Initiative is designed to foster discussion about governance and the implications of culture and behavior in the financial services sector.
See the agenda for timing of specific conference segments.
October 6, 2026
8:30am-1:30pm EDT
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY
This event was open to press in person and all remarks were on record. For more information, please contact Abbigail.Ramnarine@ny.frb.org.
| 8:30am-9:00am | Networking Breakfast |
| 9:00am-9:05am | Opening Remarks (00:01:22) Rick Ostrander, General Counsel & Head of Legal Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| 9:05am-9:50am | Moderated Discussion (00:04:04) Moderator: John C. Williams, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Caryn Seidman Becker, Chairman & CEO of CLEAR |
| 9:50am-10:35am | Presentation (00:46:40) Alex Chesterfield, Behavioral Scientist & Director of Human-AI Collaboration, Salesforce |
| 10:35am-10:55am | Networking Break |
| 10:55am-11:50am | Panel Discussion: AI Culture and Ethics (01:44:45) Moderator: Rick Ostrander, General Counsel & Head of Legal Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Panelists: Steve Shaw, Assistant Professor of Marketing, King’s College London Jose Placido, CEO, BNP Paribas USA and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) Americas Ross Overline, CEO of Scholars of Finance |
| 11:50am-12:35pm | Panel Discussion: AI in the Workplace: Behaviors, Incentives & Inequality (02:48:52) Moderator: Kartik Athreya, Head of Research & Statistics Group and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Panelists: Roshni Raveendhran, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Arvind Karunakaran, Assistant Professor of Management Science & Engineering and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University |
| 12:35pm-12:45pm | Closing Remarks (03:29:34) Kartik Athreya, Head of Research & Statistics Group and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| 12:45pm-1:30pm | Networking Luncheon |
