9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Conference Welcome and a Look Ahead for the Blockchain Center

Prof. Dr. Co-Pierre Georg

Frankfurt School Blockchain Center

Main Stage

9:10 AM

9:25 AM

Opening Keynote: Bridging Traditional and Digital Finance for a Sovereign European Ecosystem

Dr. Thomas Book

Deutsche Börse Group

Main Stage

9:25 AM

10:10 AM

Panel Discussion: Europe’s Digital Asset Moment - What drives European Digital Assets Space 2026 and beyond?

Dr. Alexandra Hachmeister

Deutsche Bundesbank

Akash Daryanani

Banco Santander

Marat Faritov

Moody's Ratings

Mykolas Majauskas

Bybit EU

Christoph Hock

Union Investment / International Capital Market Association (ICMA)

Dr. Tim Kreutzmann (Moderator)

German Investment Funds Association (BVI)

Main Stage

10:10 AM

10:20 AM

Keynote: Digital Assets und Europas Zukunft: Rahmen, Chancen, Verantwortung

Thomas Jarzombek

Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung

Main Stage

10:20 AM

10:45 AM

Fireside Chat: Institutional Crypto: Adoption in a Hybrid World

Carlo Kölzer

360T - Deutsche Börse Group

Dominik Beier

Bitpanda

Main Stage

10:45 AM

11:10 AM

Panel Discussion: Digital Assets Across the Atlantic – What Europe Can Learn from U.S. Market Dynamics

Dr. Patrick Scholl

Mayer Brown

David Beam

Mayer Brown

Marcel Hörauf

Mayer Brown

Main Stage

11:10 AM

11:55 AM

Panel Discussion: Europe’s Digital Asset Landscape in the Dynamic Geopolitical Environment – Learnings, Challenges, Opportunities

Andreas Sack

DekaBank

Julian Fuchs

McKinsey & Company

Tobias Tenner

Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V

Patrick Hansen

Circle

Ralf Wandmacher

21X

Astrid Dörner (Moderator)

Handelsblatt

Main Stage

11:55 AM

12:20 PM

Keynote: Fiat Chain – Rethinking Public Blockchain Infrastructure Without Native Tokens

Silvio Micali

Algorand

Main Stage

12:20 PM

12:35 PM

Philipp Sandner Memorial Award in Digital Finance Research - Welcome Address & Award Ceremony

Joachim Lauterbach

WM Gruppe

Prof. Dr. Co-Pierre Georg

Frankfurt School Blockchain Center

Main Stage

12:35 PM

1:05 PM

Panel Discussion: The Future of Financial Research: The Philipp Sandner Memorial Award 2026

Prof. Dr. Co-Pierre Georg

Frankfurt School Blockchain Center

Souâd Benkredda

DZ Bank

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Schönleber

Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Turin

Judith Bohnenkamp

Miami Herbert Business School

Prof. Dr. Martina Fraschini

University of Luxembourg

Sebastian Schmid (Moderator)

Börsen Zeitung

Main Stage

1:05 PM

1:50 PM

Lunch Break

Main Stage

1:50 PM

2:10 PM

Presentation: The Future of ISINs: Automated Delivery via Smart Contracts

Dr. Marc Henniges

d-fine

Dr. Duc Au

WM Gruppe

Main Stage

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

Keynote: Crypto: Just Another Asset Class? Moving Toward Seamless Access to All Assets

Marco Kessler

SIX

Main Stage

2:30 PM

3:15 PM

Panel Discussion: How does the Role of Market Infrastructures Evolve with the Convergence of Crypto and Digital Securities?

Clarisse Hagège

Dfns

Marco Kessler

SIX

David Durouchoux

Société Générale FORGE

Georg Schneider

Digital Asset

Marianne Webber

Standard Chartered

Sven Wagenknecht (Moderator)

BTC-ECHO

Main Stage

3:15 PM

3:25 PM

Presentation: The Government Bond Experiment - How does the Full Lifecycle unfold on the Blockchain, from Issuance to Repayment?

Jonathan Leßmann

SWIAT

Main Stage

3:25 PM

4:10 PM

Panel Discussion: Transforming Industrial Payments: Digital Assets in Action

Ricky Lamberty

Bosch

Jakob Bosshard

VIA Science

Jonathan Leßmann

SWIAT

Heinz-Günter Lux

Evonik

Daniela Boback (Moderator)

Blockchain Bundesverband

Main Stage

4:10 PM

4:55 PM

Panel Discussion: Beyond Wrappers - How Tokenized Funds and Money Market Funds transform Fund Distribution, Settlement and Collateral

Robert Crossley

Franklin Templeton

David Durouchoux

Société Générale FORGE

Stefan Brinaru

BNP Paribas

Paul-Adrien Hyppolite

Spiko

Angus Fletcher

State Street

Coco Chen (Moderator)

afme

Main Stage

4:55 PM

5:40 PM

Panel Discussion: How Tokenization will Redefine Capital Markets & Payments

Sebastien Van Campenhoudt

Euroclear

Guillaume Déchaux

Consensys

Kim Beuttler

DWS

Jan-Oliver Sell

Qivalis

Michael Duttlinger

Cashlink

Adrian Matak (Moderator)

Global Blockchain Business Council

Main Stage

5:40 PM

6:25 PM

Panel Discussion: The European DLT Stack - Interoperability, Control Planes, and the Path to Scale

Mohamad Zaraket

BNY

Dirk Kruwinnus

Seturion

Martin Onyeador

NatWest Markets

Christoph Hock

Union Investment / International Capital Market Association (ICMA)

Martin Hock (Moderator)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

Main Stage

6:25 PM

7:30 PM

Networking with Drinks & Nibbles

Main Stage

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