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LinkedIn's Chief Economist Karin Kimbrough and OpenAI's Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji close the Summit with a conversation about AI's impact on jobs and productivity in small business.

AI and digital finance hold genuine promise for small businesses—but realizing that promise requires getting the design, implementation, and policy environment right. This panel brings together a small business owner actively using AI, technology advisors helping small firms navigate adoption, and experts on trust and policy to explore what it actually takes to make innovation work for Main Street.

Digital currencies and blockchain have been hyped as transformational—but what’s the reality for small businesses? This session explores where these technologies could genuinely reshape access to capital, payments, and ownership, and what barriers—regulatory, technical, or practical—stand in the way of small businesses using these tools at scale.

This panel brings together leading companies and startups building AI tools for small businesses. Together, they explore what’s working in the market, where gaps remain, and what breakthroughs could reshape how small businesses access capital, reach customers, and compete.

This panel puts small business owners front and center. Grounded in a new survey of nearly 1,000 owners from PPSI, 14 partner organizations, and PayPal, this session brings together small business owners with leaders representing national small business networks to explore how businesses are adopting AI (or not), what’s holding them back, and what needs to happen next to drive adoption.