A Conversation with Tarek Mansour, Kalshi Co-founder and CEO

Prediction markets are reshaping decision-making in business and society. Join us for a conversation with one of the pioneers of this new and rapidly-growing space to explore its benefits and challenges.

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Stanford University
CEMEX Auditorium
655 Knight Way
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

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Featured Speaker

Tarek Mansour

Co-founder and CEO, Kalshi

Tarek Mansour is Co-founder and CEO of Kalshi, the world’s next-generation financial exchange. Founded in 2018, Kalshi created and established prediction markets as a new financial asset class called “event contracts,” which allow traders to take positions on whether a future event will happen or not. Users can trade on real-world events to predict the outcomes of events that have real-time market impact, such as elections, economic indicators, cultural moments, and more. Kalshi has ushered in a fundamental shift in consumer behavior, where people have gone from passive watchers to active participants in what’s happening around them in the world.

Moderator

Darrell Duffie

The Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at the Stanford GSB. He is a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Duffie is a past president of the American Finance Association and chaired the Financial Stability Board’s Market Participants Group on Reference Rate Reform. He is an independent director of the Dimensional Funds and a member of the leadership teams of the G30 Working Groups chaired by Tim Geithner on Treasury Market Liquidity and chaired by Bill Dudley on Bank Failures and Contagion: Lender of Last Resort, Liquidity, and Risk Management.