The Leaders Defining the Future of Digital Finance
At Paris Blockchain Week 2026
Carrousel du Louvre
April 15th & 16th, 2026
“Paris Blockchain week is the fastest growing Tech & AI conference in Europe, and maybe in history.”
Eric Schmidt
Ex Google CEO
"Paris Blockchain Week has become an unmissable event in Europe– and beyond – for the Web3 sector. Thanks to its organisers who every year bring together – in the heart of our capital, the best players in the Web3 ecosystem and its future talent."
Marina Ferrari
Ex-French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs
320+
Speakers
C-suite leaders and regulators shaping institutional adoption of the digital economy
70%+
C-Suite or Policy-Makers
Unparalleled decision density across every conversation and panel.
150+
Thought-Provoking Sessions
Covering policy, tokenization, AI, infrastructure, and the evolution of global markets.
Defining Global Markets
At Paris Blockchain Week, global leaders across finance, regulation, and technology gather to define the next chapter of markets.
Voices of Influence
Our speakers represent the institutions, investors, and innovators driving adoption, shaping frameworks, and transforming policy into practice.
Dialogue That Drives Change
Every dialogue here carries weight, with each speaker carefully curated for the highest level of dialogue on the stage that matters the most!
Ambassador for Digital Affairs and Artificial Intelligence, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France
French Government
Dr Adam Back
Co-founder & CEO
Blockstream
Kara Kennedy
Co-Head of Kinexys
J.P. Morgan
Sabih Behzad
Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation
Deutsche Bank
Mike Belshe
Co-Founder & CEO
BitGo
Yoyee Wang
Head of Business-to-Business Unit (BBU)
Bybit
Rachel Conlan
Chief Marketing Officer
Binance
Chuck Mounts
Chief DeFi Officer
S&P Global
Georg Harer
Co-CEO and Head of Legal & Compliance
Bybit
Silvio Micali
Blockchain Founder & Turing Award Winner
Ben Slavin
Global Head of ETFs
BNY
Kathleen Wrynn
Global Head of Digital Assets
Invesco Ltd.
Frederik Gregaard
CEO
The Cardano Foundation
Darko Hajdukovic
Head of Digital Markets Infrastructure
London Stock Exchange Group
Natasha Cazenave
Executive Director
ESMA
Jean-Marc Stenger
CEO
Forge
Catherine Chen
Head of VIP & Institutional
Binance
Marat Faritov
Vice President of Digital Finance
Moody's Ratings
Iana Dimitrova
CEO
OpenPayd
Nikhil Sharma
Director, Digital Assets
BlackRock
Stéphanie Cabossioras
Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer, Societe Generale
Forge
Jacques Darcy
Senior Regional Representative France – Switzerland - Director
European Investment Fund
Dan Held
GP
Asymmetric
Gillian Lynch
Head of Europe and UK
Binance
Giovanni Cunti
Chief Executive Officer Europe
GATE
Odelia Torteman
Corporate Adoption Director of Corporate Adoption
XRPL Commons
Stijn Vander Straeten
CEO
Crypto Finance
Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad
CEO
Bitpanda
Matthew White
Chief Executive Officer
Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)
Thomas Vogel
Partner
Latham & Watkins
Harald Eltvedt
Operating Member
SC Ventures by Standard Chartered
Eric Anziani
President and COO
Crypto.com
Daniel Seifert
Vice President and Regional Managing Director (EMEA)
Coinbase
Thomas Restout
Group CEO
B2C2
Martha Reyes
Senior Digital Assets Research Analyst
Fidelity Digital Assets
Robby Yung
CEO of Investments
Animoca Brands
Arnaud Simeray
GTM
Dune
lan Weisberger
CEO and Co-Founder
CoinRoutes
Raja Chakravorti
CBO
Stellar Development Foundation
Cristian Ulloa
Founder & CEO
Liquid Loans
Miller Whitehouse-Levine
Founder & CEO
Solana Policy Institute
Alix Bouxaguet
Country Manager
Kraken
Markus Infanger
Senior Vice President, RippleX
Ripple
Abel Peña
Partner and Chief Sales Officer
Bit2Me
Salvador Yañez
Chief Product Officer
Movantis
Éric Larchevêque
Co-Founder
The Bitcoin Society
Mark Foster
EU Policy Lead
Crypto Council for Innovation
Emma Joyce
CRO & Head of EMEA
GBBC
Lawrence Wintermeyer
Chair
GDF
Caroline Malcolm
Executive in Residence on AI, data and digital markets
GDF
Raphaël Bloch
Co-founder & CEO
The Big Whale
Sanja Kon
VP, Partnerships & Business Development, EMEA
Circle
Dayana Aleksandrova
New Media Lead
WalletConnect
Moritz Platt
Capital Markets Technology Manager
Google
Lewis Clifford
CEO
Bitcoin Casino
Brian Huang
Co-founder
Glider
Jessi Brooks
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Ribbit
Adam Levine
SVP Corporate Development & Partnerships, Fireblocks & CEO of Fireblocks Trust Company
Fireblocks
Robert Wachen
Co-Founder & President
Etched
Nenter Chow
Global CEO
BitMart
Mark Surman
President
Mozilla
Jason Xavier
Head of EMEA & Asia ETFs
Franklin Templeton
Mati Staniszewski
Co-Founder and CEO
Elevenlabs
Mathias Imbach
Co-Founder and Group CEO
Sygnum Bank
William Falcon
Founder and CEO
Lightning AI
Jess Houlgrave
CEO
WalletConnect
Ozan Kaya
President of Lightning AI and Former CEO of Voltage Park
Voltage Park
Cinderella Amar
Partner, Vizier; Board Adviser to Global Firms
Vizier
Professor Ronghui Gu
Co-founder and CEO of CertiK
CertiK
Jeremy Fraenkel
CEO & Co-Founder
Fundamental tech
Ben Grout
VP of Sales and Partnerships
Zero Hash
Charlie Kawwas
President
Broadcom
Ivan Keller
Team Lead for DLT at DG FISMA
European Commission
Mark Hura
President
Oracle
Solomon Tesfaye
CBO
Aptos
Josh Wolfe
Partner and Co-Founder
Lux Capital
Ethan Pierse
Partner
Borderless Ventures
Venkat Ramakrishnan
President & COO
Neubird AI
Bradley Duke
Managing Director, Head of Europe
Bitwise
Matan Grinberg
Founder & CEO
Factory
Sheraz Ahmed
Managing Partner
STORM Partners
Elad Raz
Founder and CEO
Next Silicon
Simon Letort
Head of Strategic Initiatives
Canton Network
Winston Weinberg
CEO & Co-Founder
Harvey
Kaitlin Argeaux
Founder & CEO
CryptoMondays London
Michael Hurlston
President and CEO
Lumentum
Christian Rau
Senior Vice President
Mastercard
Philip Rathle
CTO
Neo4j
Reinhard Hochrieser
SVP of Product and Technology
Jumio
Sara Achour
Co-Founder & Research Fellow
Unconventional AI
Anna Irrera
Senior Editor
Bloomberg
Anish Agarwal
CEO
Traversal
Thomas J. Lee
Chairman of the Board; Fundstrat: Co-founder & Head of Research
Bitmine
Yann LeCun
Chairman
AMI
Dr. Ulli Spankowski
CPO and Managing Director
Boerse Stuttgart Digital
Alexandre LeBrun
CEO
AMI
Ivan Zhiznevsky
Founder & CEO
3S Money
Zain Asgar
CEO & Co-Founder
Gimlet Labs
Kash Razzaghi
Chief Commercial Officer
Circle
Ganesh Venkat
CEO & Co-Founder
DensityAI
Ronit Ghose
Global Head Future of Finance
Citi
Ivan Burazin
CEO & Co-Founder
Daytona
Lex Fisun
CEO and co-founder
Global Ledger
Wayne Nelms
Co-Founder & CTO
Ornn
Amin Vahdat
Chief Technologist/SVP, AI and Infrastructure
Google
Michael Toutonghi
Lead Developer
Verus
Julia Andre
Partner
Index Ventures
Alexandre Laizet
Board Director of Bitcoin Strategy
Capital B
Sahir Azam
Partner
Index Ventures
Germán Soto Sanchez
Chief Product and Digital Assets Officer
Broadridge
Marco Argenti
Chief Information Officer
Goldman Sachs & Co
Yana Prikhodchenko
CEO
Cointelegraph
Kaoutar Sghiouer
Global Head of Data & AI
Sanofi
Stephanie Hurry
Head of Business Development and Partnerships
Boerse Stuttgart Digital
Luboslava Uram
Chief Operating & Technology Officer
Solvd Group
Brian McGleenon
Global Head of News
BeInCrypto
Jean-Michel Garcia
Group Chief Technology Officer
BNP Paribas
Petrix Barbosa
CEO and Founder
Matchain
Lieven Van der Veken
Senior Partner and Global Leader
QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
Stan Havryliuk
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sats Terminal
Grzegorz Ombach
Senior deep-tech executive & Board Member
Airbus
Ajinkya Tulpule
Director and COO at HashKey Europe
HashKey
Chanz Strong
Executive Director, Technology & Analytics and Chief Privacy Officer
CMPA
Rafael Castaneda
Lead Ambassador
EverValue Coin
Matthieu Caillat
Group Technology & AI Officer
AXA
James Bowater
Founder & Chief Executive
The Digital Commonwealth
Alice Guéhennec
Group Chief Tech, Data & Digital Officer
Sodexo
Cody Carbone
CEO
The Digital Chamber
Anthony Moisant
Chief Information Officer & Chief Security Officer
Indeed
Jessica Wright
Ecosystem & Growth Lead
Darklake
Kiran Patel
Chief Technology Officer
WGSN
Gareth Jenkinson
Head of Multimedia
The Block
Hein Tibosch
Head of Digital Assets OTC & Products
Flow Traders
Linz Phillips
Chief Information Officer
Croda
Ivan de Lastours
Blockchain & Crypto Lead
Bpifrance
Susan Doniz
Executive Vice President, Chief Information & Data Officer
The Walt Disney
Damien Avignon
Investment Director
Bpifrance
Alessandro de Luca
Head of Digital Enterprise Solutions and Group CIO
Merck
Henri Arslanian
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Nine Blocks Capital Management
Dimitris Bountolos
Chief Information and Innovation Officer
Ferrovial
Ian Allison
Senior Reporter
CoinDesk
Damien Wattez
Chief AI & Innovation
SNCF TGV
Antonio Queiroz
Chief Digital Officer
Euroclear
Claire Lebarz
CTO
Malt
Declan Fox
VP & Head of Linea
Consensys
Yves Caseau
CDIO
Michelin Group
Tero Reuna
Head of Growth, EU
Paxos
David Flynn
CEO
Hammerspace
Michelle O’Connor
Global Marketing & Communications Strategist
GBBC
Or Lenchner
CEO
Bright Data
John Woods
CEO
Nillion
Ariel Shulman
Chief Product Officer
Bright Data
Tim Haldorsson
Founder
Lunar Strategy
Molly Presley
CMO
Hammerspace
Alexandre Chessé
Head of Sales EMEA
Fireblocks
Jyoti Bansal
CEO & Co-Founder
Harness
Margaux Nosland
Senior Relationship Manager for Crypto & Web3
Worldpay
Ameya Bhatawdekar
VP, Field CTO
Braintrust
Allen Helm
Co-Founder
Bitcoin for Corporations
Simon Muskett
Principal, AI & Quantum
Digital Realty
Justin Sun
Founder
Tron
María Ridruejo
AI Solutions Lead
Protopia AI
Daniela Barbosa
General Manager of Decentralized Technologies
Linux Foundation
Walter Goodwin
Founder and CEO
Fractile
Dave Treat
CTO
Pearson
Marshall Lipman
VP of Partnerships
Hypernative
Burak Budak
Business Development Manager
Paribu
Sergej Kunz
Co-Founder
1inch
Fahmi Syed
President
Midnight Foundation
Haider Rafique
Global Managing Partner, Government Affairs
OKX
Rocío Jiménez
Global Sales Manager
BANXA
Jennifer Shaughnessy
Chief Revenue Officer
CoinRoutes
Erald Ghoos
CEO EEA
OKX
Tim Copeland
Head of Growth
The Block
Gauthier Vila
Founder
Zyfai
David Olsson
Chief Commercial Officer
EDX Markets
Matthew Felice Pace
CEO
Spectrum Nodes
Frank Schuil
Founder & CEO
Safello
Nimrod Knoller
Head of Foundation
Lava Network
Siam Kidd
Founder/CIO
DSV Fund
Jacob Robert Steeves
CEO
Bittensor
Josh Sergent
Founder and CEO
Keystone OS
Avishay Yanai
CEO
Soda Labs
Samiz Bayan
Partner
Draper Dragon
Jacob Lindberg
Chief Revenue Officer
Valour
Andrew Isaacs
COO
Aurum Foundation
Slava Malchenko
Managing Partner
Flare Ventures
Maurice Schulmann
Chief Digital, Technology & Data Officer Groupe Partouche & President Partouche Multiverse
Groupe Partouche & Partouche Multiverse
Thiago de Marco
Head of Brand Strategy
Gravitaslabs
Pär Helgosson
Head of PSG Labs
PSG
Charlie Meraud
CEO Woorton & Founder PBW
Woorton & Paris Blockchain Week
Anne Le Hénanff
Minister-Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs
Henri Delahaye
Co-Founder
Raise Summit
Cosmin Staicu
Director of Listing
Bit2me
Neil Batchelor
Co-Founder
Zetta Capital
Sheldon Hunt
Founder
Sundial Protocol
Franck Guiader
Head of Innovation & FinTech Practice
Gide
Ben James
Founder
404
James Ross
Founder
Synth
Arnaud Deffuant
Head of BD
Manako
Patrick Tobler
CEO & Founder
Masumi
Alan Gormley
Co-Founder
Libertum
James Dunthorne
CEO and Co-founder
Neuron Innovations Ltd
Oskars Jepsis
Chief Executive Officer
Deploi
Karamvir Gosal
Founder
The Risk Protocol
Peter Glyman
Founder and CEO
Coinbax
David Bchiri
President
XRPL Commons
Tomasz Stanczak
Founder
Nethermind
Shahab Hanjani
Ecosystem Manager
Paris Blockchain Week
Mark Zinenberg
Co-Chairman
KRYPTOSPHERE Europe
Andrew Spencer
Founder
Developer
Denis Angell
Co-Creator
Xahau Developer
Brett Sun
Co-Founder
Prelude
Shane Morand
Chief Network Development Officer
Aurum Foundation
Krishna Omkar
Head of Product, Digital Markets Infrastructure
LSEG
Patrick McNab
Bitmine
Jean-Didier Berger
Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Interior
Kartik Talwar
Co-founder
ETHGlobal
Charles Hoskinson
Co-Founder
IOHK, Ethereum, Cardano
Clara Chappaz
Ex-Minister of State
Digital Affairs of France
Monica Long
President
Ripple
Silvio Micali
Blockchain Founder
Turing Award Winner
Adam Back
Co-Founder & CEO
Blockstream
Eric Anziani
President & COO
Crypto.com
David Ripley
Co-CEO
Kraken
Eric Piscini
CEO
Hashgraph
Robby Yung
CEO of Investments
Animoca Brands
Tim Draper
Founder & Managing Partner
Draper Associates, DFJ & The Draper Venture Network
Jeremy Allaire
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO
Circle
Stani Kulechov
Founder & CEO
Aave Labs
“Paris Blockchain Week is extraordinary. Everyone, anywhere in the world should be here so they understand what this amazing world is going to look like.”
Tim Draper
Draper Associates, Draper Associates
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