Teaching Personal Finance Conference Livestream

Registration for the in-person event is now closed, but you can still join us live online. The program features both plenary and concurrent sessions, streaming across two channels throughout the day on September 25, 2026. Register and tune in to their respective channels below.

Channel 1 Channel 2

Channel 1

To watch the following sessions, please tune into Channel 1.
Registration

9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PT

Keynote Address: Bringing Economic and Financial Thinking to Everyday Life

Speaker: Justin Wolfers, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Michigan, Founder of Platypus Economics
Moderators: Michael Boskin and Annamaria Lusardi, Stanford University

10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PT

Session 1: How Colleges and Universities Can Strengthen Personal Finance Education in High Schools (plenary)

Speakers: Eli Lesser, Senior Executive Director of the Wharton Global Youth Program, University of Pennsylvania; Beth Kobliner, Financial Journalist and Creator of Get A Financial Life NYC
Moderator: Tim Ranzetta, Co-Founder and CEO, NextGen Personal Finance

11:30 to 12:30 p.m. PT

Session 2: An International Focus on Personal Finance Teaching (plenary)

Speakers: Elena Beccalli, Rector, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy; Miguel Ferreira, Professor of Finance, Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Moderator: Natalya Guseva, Head of Financial Markets and Resilience Initiatives, World Economic Forum

1:30 to 2:30 p.m. PT

Session 3: AI in Financial Education (concurrent)

Speakers: Jodi Letkiewicz, Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge; Daniel Chi, Chair, Department of Finance, University of Las Vegas, Nevada; Hakan Ozyilmaz, Associate Director of Impact Evaluation, IFDM
Moderator: Angela Amarillas, Program Director, Stanford Financial Wellness

2:55 to 3:55 p.m. PT

Session 5: Using Data to Strengthen Teaching (concurrent)

Speakers: Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Senior Economic Education Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Annamaria Lusardi and Matthew Lang, Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM)
Moderator: Carlos Garriga, Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

4:00 to 5:00 p.m. PT

Session 7: A Multidisciplinary Look at Sports Betting (plenary)

Speakers: Paul Oyer, Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Anna Lembke, Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine; Nick Grasley, Consultant, National Economic Research Associates; and Matthew Lang, Lecturer, IFDM
Moderator: Michael Canady, Chief Operating and Financial Officer, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Channel 2

To watch the following sessions, please tune into Channel 2.
Registration

1.30 to 2.30 p.m. PT

Session 4: Wealth Building in Early Years (concurrent)

Speakers: Guglielmo Briscese, Director, Center for AI and Insights, Applied Economics and Behavioral Science at Vanguard; J. Michael Dedmon, Managing Director, Research and Innovation, National Endowment for Financial Education; Libby Schaaf, President & CEO, Bay Area Council
Moderator: Olivia Mitchell, Professor of Insurance/Risk Management and Business Economics/Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

2.55 to 3.55 p.m. PT

Session 6: Money and Women (concurrent)

Speakers: Caezilia Loibl, Chair of Consumer Sciences Program, Ohio State University; Mahnaz Mahdavi, Professor of Economics, Smith College; René Heavlow, Director of the Conway Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, Smith College
Moderator: Stacey Vanek Smith, Senior Economics Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek, and co-host of the Everybody’s Business podcast