The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) is going to hold a public meeting which will focus on financial technology (fintech) including blockchain and virtual currencies.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at CFTC’s headquarters in Washington, DC. CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz is the sponsor of the TAC, and Daniel Gorfine, Director of LabCFTC, is the Designated Federal Officer.

According to the meeting agenda, the meeting will feature panel discussions on topics including potential application of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the derivatives markets; market and regulatory developments with virtual currencies and related futures products; the future of machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and computing power, among others.

Industry participants include Charley Cooper, Managing Director, R3; Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center; Phyllis Schneck, Managing Director and Global Leader of Cyber Solutions, Promontory Financial Group / IBM; Larry Tabb, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TABB Group, and others

“The TAC will discuss the scope, plan, and approach for the Committee’s efforts in 2018, including the identification of work streams and/or subcommittees that can help generate actionable recommendations for the Commission,” the CFTC said.

The meeting comes on the heels of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on virtual currencies. The chairs of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – Jay Clayton and J. Christopher Giancarlo, respectively – gave their testimonies at the hearing.