Speakers

Alan Marquard

Executive Vice President, Commercial & New Payment Flows, Mastercard

Dr. Alessandro Curioni

IBM Fellow, Vice President, Europe & Africa and Director, IBM Research - Zurich, IBM

Andrea M Maechler

Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Antonio Alvarez Lorenzo

Chief Compliance Officer, Crypto.com

Ari Redbord

Global Head of Policy and Government Affairs, TRM Labs

Audrey Metzger

Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures, Banque de France

Dr. Axel Weber

President, Center for Financial Studies

Caesar Sengupta

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Arta Finance

Carmen Hett

Corporate Treasurers, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Catrin Hinkel

Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Switzerland, Microsoft

Cecilia Skingsley

Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Chan Yam Ki

Vice President, Asia Pacific, Circle

Prof. Chris Brummer

Chief Executive Officer, Bluprynt and The Fintech Foundation, Georgetown University Law Center

Christian Kettel Thomsen

Chairman of the Board of Governors, Danmarks Nationalbank

David Brear

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, 11:FS

David Rutter

Chief Executive Officer, R3

Dr. Dirk Klee

Country Head, BlackRock Switzerland

Doug Feagin

President, Ant International

Elise Soucie Watts

Executive Director, Global Digital Finance

Emma Butterworth

Head of Innovation & Payments Policy, Bank of England

Faryar Shirzad

Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase

Frederik Gregaard

Chief Executive Officer, Cardano Foundation

Friederike Lange

Head of Digital Finance, Payment Services and Cybersecurity, German Federal Ministry of Finance

Gregor Kaelin

Head of Financial Services, Google Cloud Switzerland

Guy Parmelin

Minister at the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), Government of Switzerland

Hans Koning

Digital Transformation Officer, Former International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)

Holger Neuhaus

Head of Market Innovation and Integration Division, European Central Bank

Johann Kerbrat

Senior Vice President & General Manager, Crypto, Robinhood

Laust Bertelsen

Chief Executive Officer, Banking Circle SA

Leong Sing Chiong

Deputy Managing Director, Markets and Development, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Liz Oakes

Independent Advisor, Bank of England

Maha El Dimachki

Centre Head, BIS Innovation Hub - Singapore Centre

Dr. Mampho Modise (Virtual)

Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank (SARB)

Marco Bizzozero

Head of International & Member of the Executive Committee, iCapital

Marianne Bechara

Senior Counsel, International Monetary Fund

Martin Schlegel

Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank

Prof. Michael Otmar Hengartner

President, ETH Board

Mike Dargan

Group Chief Operations and Technology Officer, UBS AG

Naoto Shimoda

Deputy Director-General, Payment and Settlement Systems Department, Bank of Japan

Nic Dreckmann

Chief Operating Officer & Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Julius Baer

Dr. Nicola Jentzsch

Head of Innovation, Deutsche Bundesbank

Peter Kerstens

Advisor, DG FISMA, European Commission

Petra Tschudin

Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank

Pradyumna Agrawal

Managing Director, Investment, Temasek

Prajit Nanu

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Nium

Rene Michau

Global Head, Digital Assets, Standard Chartered

Richard Teng

Chief Executive Officer, Binance

Prof. Ross Buckley

Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney

Sam Hinton-Smith

Head of Public Policy APAC and EMEA, Stripe

Sarah Breeden

Deputy Governor, Bank of England

Sasha Rubel

Head of Generative AI & AI Policy, EMEA, AWS

Simon Taylor

Head of Strategy, Sardine

Sopnendu Mohanty

Group Chief Executive Officer, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

Stu Alderoty

Chief Legal Officer, Ripple

Todd Fox

Head of Global Policy, Visa

Tom Mutton

Director, Fintech & CBDC, Bank of England

Varun Paul

Senior Director, Financial Markets, Fireblocks

Walter Hessert

Head of Strategy, Paxos

Dr. Wolfram Seidemann

Chief Executive Officer, Currency Technology, Giesecke+Devrient

Gottfried Leibbrandt

Member of the Board, CLS Group

Gwen Jettain

Vice President, Green Fintech Network

Hannah Anderson

Policy Advisor, Institute of International Finance (IIF)

Hans Kuhn

Partner, Lawside LLC

Henriikka Säkö

Global Lead Supply Chain Sustainability, VAT Group

Dr. Henrike Mueller

Manager, Financial Conduct Authority

Hildevig Svaizer

Group Head of Supply Chain Sustainability & Due Diligence, ABB

Hugo Coelho

Head of Digital Policy and Regulation, Financial Innovation for Impact (FII) & Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School

Humphrey Valenbreder

Chief Executive Officer, Partior

Ian Manns

VP of Cards and Global Indices, FXC Intelligence

Iota Kaousar Nassr

Senior Policy Advisor, OECD

Prof. Irene Ng

Group Chief Executive Officer, Dataswyft

2025 Featured Speakers