Futures Literacy

Will robots use cash? At first glance this question seems too silly to warrant a response.

Delegates from central banks, the cash industry, and academia gathered in Madrid for the 2022 edition of the Future of Cash, a much-anticipated event initially scheduled for April 2020.

CashEssentials will be holding a Futures Literacy Lab on the role of cash in the future monetary landscape.

The German central bank is working with strategic foresight researchers to create different future plausible scenarios for cash in Germany in 15 to 20 years. The objective is to steer the future of cash and be prepared for future challenges.

CashEssentials will be holding a Futures Literacy Lab on the role of cash in the future monetary landscape. This advanced, field-tested methodology will take participants beyond deterministic extrapolations and techno-fatalism to examine changes that are inspired by open and creative futures.

The Future of Cash Conference, to be held in Madrid on September 14-16, 2022, will bring together all stakeholders to discuss new strategies for creating the cash cycle of the future.

During the third and final webinar, our panel combining industry experts and futurists, designed a desirable future for cash and discussed the roadmap to make it happen. Our next Webinar ‘Is CashTech the Future of Cash’ will look at how new entrants can leverage technology to disrupt the cash cycle.

Cash is an infrastructure and the cash community needs to develop a long-term vision, to be able to pro-actively steer the cash cycle and address the challenges cash is facing today.