Agenda

Here's what's scheduled for the event. All times are in GMT. 

8:30 AM
Registration, networking and morning coffee
 
9:00 AM
Conference introduction

Maurice Button, CEO, City Week, and CEO, City & Financial Global 

9:05 AM
Chair’s opening remarks

Emma Joyce, Chief Revenue Officer, Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) 

9:10 AM
Opening Keynote The UK’s Digital Financial Roadmap: From Legislation to Implementation

The Rt Hon Lucy Rigby KC MP, The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, City Minister, HM Treasury 

9:25 AM
Keynote address: Accelerating Execution: Strategy for a Tokenised Capital Market

In conversation with

Chris Woolard CBE, Wholesale Digital Markets Champion 

9:40 AM
Keynote address: The GENIUS Act in Practice: Navigating the New US Stablecoin Standard
 
9:55 AM
The Global Rulebook for Tokenised Markets and Stablecoins: Where Regulation Is Converging, and Where It Isn’t

Moderator

Chris Chapman, Partner, Mayer Brown

Panellists

David Geale, Executive Director for Payments and Digital Finance, FCA

Emmanuel Givanakis, CEO – Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) 

Dr Eric Yip, Executive Director of Intermediaries, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) 

10:35 AM
Tokenised Capital Markets: Delivering Measurable Value in Capital Markets - What Is Already Changing in Issuance, Trading and Post-Trade

Bradley Duke, Managing Director, Head of Europe, Bitwise Asset Management

Fahmi Syed, President, Midnight Foundation 

11:15 AM
Networking and morning coffee
 
11:45 AM
Tokenisation in Production: Live Deals, Scale Cases and What’s Actually Working - From private markets and funds to bonds, treasuries and alternative assets, where is tokenisation delivering measurable value?

Moderator

Joseph Castelluccio, Partner, Mayer Brown

Panellists

Nikhil Sharma, Director of Digital Assets, BlackRock

Emma Lovett, Executive Director, Markets Digital Assets at J.P. Morgan

Theo Golden, Investment Manager and Tokenisation Lead, Baillie Gifford

Antoine Scalia, Founder & CEO, Cryptio 

12:25 PM
Institutional Infrastructure at Scale: Connectivity, Governance, Interoperability and Cyber Resilience. Competing Models for Digital Financial Market Infrastructure

Angus Fletcher, Global Head of Digital Solutions and Senior Vice President, State Street

Kathleen Wrynn, Global Head of Digital Assets, Invesco

Stephen Fishbourne, Partner, Financial Regulation, Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Hemant Pandit, CRO, Cryptio 

1:05 PM
Networking and lunch
 
2:05 PM
Afternoon Chair’s welcome

Lawrence Wintermeyer, Chairman, Global Digital Finance (GDF) 

2:10 PM
Keynote address: Regulation and Use Cases of Systemic Stablecoins

Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England 

2:25 PM
Fireside chat The US-UK Opportunity: Harmonizing the Global Tokenisation Framework
 
2:40 PM
Programmable Settlement: Unlocking Liquidity, Collateral Mobility and Atomic Markets

Moderator

Ferdisha Snagg, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Paneliists

Previn Singh, Digital Assets, Fidelity International Ltd

Ryan Hayward, Global Head of Digital Assets, Head of Strategic Investments, Europe and Asia, Barclays

Yalini Isweran, Executive Director of Product Management and Innovation Strategy, Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC)

Kate Lowe, Deputy Chief Business Officer, Euroclear UK and International, and Head of Data Product, Euroclear 

3:20 PM
Networking and afternoon tea
 
3:50 PM
The Digital Money Stack: Stablecoins, Tokenised Deposits and CBDCs – Interoperability, Settlement Layer, and Cross-Border Payments. Who Wins the Digital Money Stack: Banks, Fintechs or Stablecoin Issuers?

Moderator

Rosali Pretorius, Partner, Financial Services, Simmons & Simmons LLP

Panellists

Emma Landriault, Global Head of Kinexys Labs and JPM Coin, J.P. Morgan

Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets and Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank

Marat Faritov, Vice President, Digital Economy, Moody’s 

4:30 PM
The Agentic Economy: AI, Digital Identity, and the Future of Programmable Payments - convergence of AI, tokenisation and quantum computing

Moderator

Martin Dowdall, Partner, Winston Taylor 

Panellists

John Jackson, Head of Division, Wholesale Payments Division, Bank of England

5:10 PM
Chair’s closing remarks
 
5:15 PM
Networking drinks reception and close of proceedings
 

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Unrivaled Access to the Institutional Ecosystem - including Global Heads, Heads of Digital Assets, CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of Blockchain and Tokenisation—alongside central banks, regulators, tokenization platforms, RWA projects, exchanges, liquidity providers, infrastructure and custody providers, blockchain networks, DeFi protocols, investors, insurance firms, data and analytics providers, advisors, legal and compliance experts, and innovative founders shaping the future of digital assets and real-world asset tokenization.