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Maxime Coniglio is Head of Market Intelligence at The Big Whale, the market intelligence company specialised in digital finance, from wallets and stablecoins to tokenisation and agentic finance. He sits within its research team, which serves the firm's institutional clients.

Noé Giglio leads Strategic Partnerships and Private Events at The Big Whale, a market intelligence platform on digital assets founded in 2022 and headquartered in Paris. He is based in London and has been active in the digital assets sector since 2019, building expertise across onchain finance and investment strategies and a network spanning financial institutions, corporates, and digital asset companies across Europe.

Julian Sawyer is Chief Executive Officer of Zodia Custody, an institutional digital asset custody firm backed by Standard Chartered and Northern Trust.

He brings more than three decades of experience across financial services and digital assets. Sawyer served as CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp from 2020 to 2022, and before that was Managing Director for Europe at Gemini. He co-founded UK challenger bank Starling Bank, where he was Chief Operating Officer until 2019. He holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from the University of Portsmouth.