Speakers

World-class business leaders and speakers

Lucy Rigby

Economic Secretary to the Treasury

UK Government

Sumeera Younis

Chief of Operations - Crypto Task Force

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

David Mercer

CEO

LMAX Group

Barnali Biswal

CEO

Hilbert Group

Anatoly Crachilov

CEO & Founding Partner

Nickel Digital Asset Management

Michael Shaulov

CEO

Fireblocks

Christopher Perkins

CEO

250 Digital Asset Management

Vikash Gupta

CEO, VAR Capital, Co-Founder

Monument Bank

Antonio Henriques

CEO

Bison Bank

Miller Whitehouse- Levine

CEO

Solana Policy Institute

Jan-Oliver Sell

CEO

Qivalis

Bhaskar Dasgupta

Chairman

Middle East Stablecoin Association (MESA)

Salim Dhanani

CEO & Co-Founder

Pave Bank

Bryan Pascoe

CEO

International Capital Markets Association

Jakob Palmstierna

President

GSR

Paul Neuner

Founder & CEO

Telcoin

Emily Smart

Chief Product Officer, Investments

Aberdeen

Dr Lisa Cameron

Founder, UKUS Crypto Alliance, Ex-MP, UK Parliament

UK/US Crypto Alliance

Myles Harrison

Chief Product Officer

AMINA Bank

Sasha Mills

Executive Director of Financial Market Infrastructure

Bank of England

Audrey Metzger

Director of Innovation and Financial Markets Infrastructures

Banque de France

Thomas Moser

Alternate Member of the Governing Board

Swiss National Bank

Thomas Vlassopoulos

Director General for Market Infrastructure and Payments

European Central Bank

Matthew Long

Director- Payments & Digital Assets

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Ivan Zammit

Chief Operating Officer

Malta Financial Services Authority

John O'Neill

Group Head of Digital Assets

HSBC

Joy Adams

Chief Operating Officer - Digital Assets

Deutsche Bank

Rene Michau

Global Head, Digital Assets

Standard Chartered

Stephen Richardson

Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Banking

Fireblocks

Kathleen Wyrnn

Global Head of Digital Assets

Invesco

Kim Hochfeld

Global Head of Cash, Securities, Lending and Digital Assets

State Street Investment Management

Victor Jung

Managing Director & Head of Digital Assets

Hamilton Lane

Angus Fletcher

Global Head of Digital Solutions

State Street

Leyla Sharifullina

Director- Head of Operations, Europe

Bitwise Asset Management

Preeti Chaturvedi

US Head of Domestic and Emerging Payments

HSBC

Alexander Bechtel

Global Head of Digital Products

DWS Asset Management

Stephanie Cabossioras

Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer

Societe Generale-FORGE

Jessica Renier

Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Finance

Institute for International Finance (IIF)

Sandip Wadje

Managing Director- Global Head of Emerging Technology Risks

BNP Paribas

Prof. Dr. Naseem Naqvi MBE

Founding President

British Blockchain Association

Ian Taylor

Director & Board Advisor

CryptoUK

Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell

President

European Law Institute

Roberto Pagliari

Director- DLT Based Cash and Markets

Commerzbank

Richard Portes

Professor of Economics , Founder & Honorary President

London Business School, Centre for Economic Policy Research

Morten Bech

Centre Head- Switzerland, BIS Innovation Hub

Bank for International Settlements- BIS

Larisa Yarovaya

Director, Advisor

Centre for Digital Finance, The British Blockchain Association

Claer Barrett

Consumer Editor

Financial Times

Christoph Hock

Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets

Union Investment

Imke Jacob

General Executive Manager & Head of Transaction Banking

DZ Bank

Geoffrey Kendrick

Global Head of Digital Assets Research

Standard Chartered

Ryan Hayward

Global Head of Digital Assets and Strategic Investments

Barclays

Emma Lovett

Executive Director- Markets DLT, Credit Lead , Co-Chair - FIntech and Advisory

J.P. Morgan, International Capital Markets Association (ICMA)

Peter Left

Head of Digital and Market Innovation

Lloyds Banking Group

Nicola Borri

Lian Group Chair in Fintech and Blockchain Technology, and Associate Professor of Finance

Luiss University

Hilary Allen

Professor of Law

American University Washington College of Law

Natasha Deloge

Head of Innovation

Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF)

Nick Kerigan

Managing Director & Head of Innovation

Swift

Mike Oswin

Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation

World Gold Council

Jannah Patchay

Executive in Residence and Company Board Member

Global Digital Finance

Shreyosee Dutta Roy

Director, Group Digital Assets

UBS

Ben Brophy

Head of Institutional Growth- Europe

Solana Foundation

Keith Vander Leest

General Manager - US

BVNK

Laura Navaratnam

UK Policy Lead

Crypto Council for Innovation

Marlene Amstad

Chair

Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Michael O'Keeffe

Director of Policy and International

Central Bank of Ireland

Jean-Marc Bonnefous

Managing Partner

Tellurian Capital

Arun Sundaram

Head of Commercial Data & Analytics

LMAX

Dovile Silenskyte

Director, Digital Assets Research

WisdomTree

Mark Rakhmilevich

VP Product Management and Platform Software Development

Oracle

Andrea Vianelli

COO- Asset Management and Strategic Advisory

Laser Digital, Nomura Group

Emma Landriault

Executive Director, Product - JPM Coin (Global)

J.P. Morgan Chase

Poonam Ajuha

Director, Senior Product Owner - DLT

Commzerzbank

Bob Rutherford

CEO

Clear Street Digital

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Digital markets correspondent

Financial Times

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US trading and crypto correspondent

Financial Times

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Financial regulation editor

Financial Times

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Executive Editor

The Banker

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Senior editor

The Banker

Sally Hickey

Reporter

The Banker

Laith Al-Khalaf

Banking and fintech reporter

Financial Times

Aliya Shibli

Senior Reporter

The Banker

Steve Johnson

ETF Correspondent

Financial Times

Daniel Flatt

Risk and Regulation Editor

The Banker

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