Previous Editions' Speakers

This workshop is always proud to bring you exceptional engagement from experts and scholars around the world in one renowned venue.   

Esteemed speakers from the Swiss National Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, the IMF, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bank of Italy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Board have joined the workshop in previous years.

Guerino Ardizzi

Senior Economist, Banca d'Italia

Guido Caldarelli

Professor at IMT Lucca

Hania Othman

Director Sustainable Impact Europe/Africa at The HBAR Foundation

Hans Peter Grüner

Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim

Harald Stieber

Senior Economist at EU Commission - Research Features

Harish Natarajan

Lead Financial Sector Specialist on Payments and Market Infrastructures

Harold Duineveld

Head of Europe at Archax

Helena Zhang

Director, Asian Institute of Digital Finance

Helene Oger Zaher

Senior Innovation Manager at Financial Conduct Authority

Helmut Wacket

Head of Division at ECB

Henning Diedrich

CEO at Eonblast

Hugo Philion

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Flare Network

Ian Putter

Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Tokinvest

Iddo de Jong

Team Lead at the European Central Bank

Ignazio Visco

Governor, Banca d'Italia

Ikhlaq Sidhu

Dean of IE University - Founding Director of UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center

Isaiah Hull

Senior Economist at Sweden Central Bank

Jan Pieter Krahnen

Founding Director Emeritus at Research Center SAFE, Goethe University Frankfurt

Janus Zhang

Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

Jason Chlipala

COO at Stellar Development Foundation

Jeffrey M. Bandman

Former Senior Official at US CFTC

Jiahua (Java) Xu

Associate Professor in Financial Computing at UCL, Head of Science at DLT Science Foundation, UK CBT

Jiasun Li

Associate Professor at George Mason University

Joanna Hysi

Senior Regulatory Counsel at Sovos - Prev. Jr. Attorney-in-Law at Koutalidis Law Firm

John Barrdear.

Senior Research Economist at Bank of England

John Schindler

Senior Associate Director at FSB's Financial Innovation Network, Federal Reserve Board

John Shawe Taylor

Professor at University College London

Jon Matonis

Founding Director at Bitcoin Foundation

Joseph Bitar

Assistant Professor of Economics at American University in Dubai

Juan Ignacio Ibañez

Technical Committee Member of the MiCA Crypto Alliance

Juile Maupin

Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute

Jun Aoyagi

Assistant Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Karen Kerrigan

Chief Legal Officer at Seedrs

Karsten Paetzmann

Professor at Universität Hamburg

Karsten Wenzlaff

Founder and CEO at Ikosom

Kary Bheemaiah

Vice President at Capgemini Invent

Kathrin Gfall-Gapp

Head of Long-Term Funding & Execution at Erste Group

Katrin Assenmacher

Head of Stress Test Modelling Division at ECB

Katya Malinova

Associate Professor at University of Toronto

Ke Tang

Professor and Director of the Institute of Economics at Tsinghua University

Keith Saxton

Independent Advisor

Kerstin Junius

Senior Market Infrastructure Expert, European Central Bank

Kevin Werbach

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

Kirill Shakhnov

Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey

Kristi Swartz

Partner at DLA Piper - Hedera

Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr

Strategic Advisor, Ambassador at Cointelegraph

Laura Rinaldi

Head of the Financial Sector and Access to Finance, DG-REFORM, European Commission

Lee Braine

Managing Director at Barclays

Leemon Baird

Chief Scientist at Swirlds Labs

Leonardo Gambacorta

Head of Innovation and the Digital Economy, Bank for International Settlements