Full Name
John Wingate
Job Title
CEO
Company
BankSocial
Speaker Bio
John Wingate is an entrepreneur, technologist, and best-selling author, and the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of BankSocial, a fintech platform building decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure for traditional financial institutions. His career sits at the convergence of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and cooperative finance, where he has built the infrastructure that allows credit unions and banks to deliver secure, user-controlled financial experiences.
He is the author of the #1 best-selling Quantularity: A Quantum Framework for the Human Experience, winner of the Literary Titan Gold Award. The book argues that humanity's future lies not in merging into a single AI consciousness but in expanding across dimensions through interconnected intelligence, quantum systems, and cooperative value frameworks. Its reimagining of technology, consciousness, and economics has drawn readers from futurists to financial leaders.
His new book, Going Agentic: What Changes When You Stop Doing the Work, turns from theory to practice. It is a clear-eyed guide to delegating real authority to AI agents and to the accountability that follows. When drafts arrive finished and decisions arrive made, the job shifts from doing the work to directing it, and the question becomes not what you can produce but what you still answer for. Going Agentic is the second book in a trilogy that moves from measuring the world, to acting on it, to what holds when everything acts at once.
John is a driving force behind the integration of artificial intelligence, digital finance, decentralized recovery systems, and real-time fraud prevention across both traditional and DeFi rails. A frequent speaker at global forums — including the World Economic Forum in Davos — he champions open finance and next-generation trust frameworks as the foundation of a reshaped financial landscape, and has advised some of the world's largest institutions, including the World Bank.
He has also collaborated on initiatives with leading universities worldwide, including Harvard, MIT, and King's College, supporting emerging research and ventures through the Converge Accelerator.
He is the author of the #1 best-selling Quantularity: A Quantum Framework for the Human Experience, winner of the Literary Titan Gold Award. The book argues that humanity's future lies not in merging into a single AI consciousness but in expanding across dimensions through interconnected intelligence, quantum systems, and cooperative value frameworks. Its reimagining of technology, consciousness, and economics has drawn readers from futurists to financial leaders.
His new book, Going Agentic: What Changes When You Stop Doing the Work, turns from theory to practice. It is a clear-eyed guide to delegating real authority to AI agents and to the accountability that follows. When drafts arrive finished and decisions arrive made, the job shifts from doing the work to directing it, and the question becomes not what you can produce but what you still answer for. Going Agentic is the second book in a trilogy that moves from measuring the world, to acting on it, to what holds when everything acts at once.
John is a driving force behind the integration of artificial intelligence, digital finance, decentralized recovery systems, and real-time fraud prevention across both traditional and DeFi rails. A frequent speaker at global forums — including the World Economic Forum in Davos — he champions open finance and next-generation trust frameworks as the foundation of a reshaped financial landscape, and has advised some of the world's largest institutions, including the World Bank.
He has also collaborated on initiatives with leading universities worldwide, including Harvard, MIT, and King's College, supporting emerging research and ventures through the Converge Accelerator.
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