The workshop aims to provide an environment and a new platform to discuss recent trends in digitalization, AI and machine learning, contemporary business practices and technological developments in finance and economics. It provides a new platform to discuss, exchange ideas and learn about the latest developments related to CBDC, blockchain and cryptocurrencies as well as broader digital and AI transformation. Challenges, risks and opportunities will be discussed in detail. 

In an era of innumerable innovations, rising trend of uncertainties and countless efforts to build new standards, the drivers behind this rapid and impressive developments shall matter as much. Relatively dynamic vanguard of innovations, cutting edge solutions and more efficient payment and transfer systems, pros and cons of digital currencies and new developments in the field of Central Bank Digital Currency will be examined thoroughly.

The workshop provides a new opportunity to discuss, learn and even shape the future of digitalization. The goal, hence, is to provide a space for open and active discussions about issues surrounding digital and AI transformation. The workshop aims to bring together different opinions, expectations, cutting-edge research in these new fields.