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Teddy Pornprinya is Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Plume Network, an Ethereum layer 2 blockchain dedicated to real-world assets (RWAs). He co-founded Plume in January 2024 alongside Chris and Eugene to build a blockchain infrastructure specifically designed for RWA tokenisation, addressing a gap he identified between RWA projects' needs and the capabilities of generalist blockchain platforms. Plume has raised $30 million from investors including Binance Labs, Han Ventures, Galaxy Digital, SuperScript, and Hashkey, among other institutional investors.

Before founding Plume, Pornprinya served as Business Development Lead at Binance from February to September 2023, where he focused on onboarding RWA projects to BNB Chain. Prior to Binance, he was Head of Business Development at Swim Protocol from September 2021 to February 2023, and before that held a Corporate Development role at Coinbase from March to September 2021. His career began in traditional finance, where he worked in investment banking at DC Advisory in San Francisco from July 2018 to March 2021. He holds a degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Thanasis Noulas is Vice President of Engineering at Bitvavo, a Amsterdam-based platform for buying, selling, and storing digital assets, a position he has held since September 2023. In this role, he leads the Trading and Data domains within the Engineering organisation.

Prior to Bitvavo, Noulas held a Vice President of Engineering role at Trade Republic, where he worked on building engineering teams across software engineering, site reliability, data science, and data engineering. His broader career spans people management and hands-on technical roles at Netflix, Airbnb, Uber, Booking.com, and Source Capital. He has applied Machine Learning, Causal Inference, and Mechanism Design across problem areas including trading, content, travel data, and peer-to-peer marketplaces. His technical work has involved Python, C++, R, Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Presto, Vertica, and Snowflake. Alongside his full-time roles, since January 2023 he has operated as a strategic advisor to Series A+ startups, focusing on marketplace dynamics, pricing, monetisation, and data platform initiatives. His total professional experience spans approximately 20 years.

The Big Whale is an independent market intelligence platform focused on digital assets, co-founded in Paris in 2022 by Raphaël Bloch and Grégory Raymond. The platform serves over 150 financial institutions, providing institutional-grade research, editorial coverage, weekly briefings, curated events, and an intelligence hub with thematic dashboards. Its stated mandate is to bridge traditional finance and onchain finance, offering decision-makers strategic and actionable intelligence on digital assets.

The platform's coverage spans markets, technology, and regulation, with a stated client base that includes banks, asset managers, advisory firms, and public institutions. Its editorial and research output is positioned as independent, with a focus on filtering signal from noise in the digital asset space. Raphaël Bloch, who leads the company as CEO, previously reported on crypto for Les Echos and L'Express from 2016 onward. Grégory Raymond serves as Head of Research and co-founder, having covered crypto at Capital Magazine since 2017. The team includes analysts based across multiple geographies, including Paris, London, and Lagos. The Big Whale operates a membership model and hosts monthly in-person events across Europe aimed at C-level and senior decision-makers in finance.

Theo Chapman is based in Madrid and works at Lombard Finance. He has international experience in the technology and innovation sector, with an extensive network in the crypto ecosystem.

Thomas Campione is Director and Digital Asset Accelerator Centre Lead at Deloitte Luxembourg, a position he has held since joining the firm in 2025. He leads the Digital Asset Accelerator Centre (DA2C), launched in November 2025, which is structured around defining a European vision for digital assets and DLT, serving as an activation hub within the Luxembourg financial ecosystem, and supporting clients in the digital transformation of their operations in line with applicable regulatory frameworks. His stated mandate covers advising clients on strategy, regulation, risk, and technology as they transition toward DLT and digital asset-based models.

Thomas has five years of specialisation in digital assets, with service areas that include strategy, market entry assessment, target operating model definition, regulatory considerations, crypto-fund setup, asset tokenisation, crypto-asset valuation, and accounting. Prior to joining Deloitte, he spent six years at PwC Luxembourg as Director and Blockchain Crypto-assets Leader. He has served since September 2020 as Co-chair of the Blockchain Finance Working Group at INATBA (International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications) and previously served as a Board Member of LëtzBlock, the Luxembourg Blockchain and DLT Association, from September 2020 to July 2025. He holds a master's degree in finance (Engineering), is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder since 2015, and completed the MIT Executive programme in Blockchain technologies. He is fluent in French and English.

Thomas Chevallier is Director, Digital Assets at BlackRock, a position he has held since July 2025, based in New York. His role sits within the Product department.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Chevallier spent approximately six years at McKinsey & Company, where he progressed from Engagement Manager to Associate Partner before departing in September 2024. At McKinsey, his work spanned commercial transformations, go-to-market strategy, product strategy for financial institutions, data strategy in insurance, and GenAI application development. He also completed a summer MBA internship at Amazon in Seattle in 2017. He holds a degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Thomas CMF is an independent insurance agent, Medicare specialist, and cryptocurrency investor based in the Chicago area. He is also a founder and is recognized for his expertise and commitment to clients.

Tibor Bartels is Managing Director and Head of Transaction Services Americas at ING. The Transaction Services team provides working capital and liquidity management structures, receivables and supply chain finance advisory, and traditional trade services to clients operating across Asia, Europe and the U.S. Bartels moved to ING Americas in 2016 and in 2025 oversaw an expansion of the Transaction Services team in the U.S. Bartels also sits on the advisory board of CeFPro.

Tim McCourt is Senior MD and Global Head of Equities, FX and Alternative Products at CME Group, leading its equity index, FX, cryptocurrency and alternative product strategies. Before CME (2013) he ran the Americas index and Delta One book at RBS and spent a decade at JPMorgan. BA Boston College, MBA Wharton.

Tizian Rotermund is Jr. Relationship Manager at STOKR, an alternative investment marketplace focused on tokenisation of alternative assets, a role he has held since January 2025 and is based in Berlin. STOKR is headquartered in Luxembourg and operates as a regulated financial services platform.

Prior to joining STOKR, Rotermund worked as a Research Associate at i-unit group, a business consulting firm specialising in corporate finance, M&A, and strategy, for two months in mid-2023. He also held operational roles at Beets&Roots GmbH in Berlin between July 2022 and January 2023. He studied International Management across campuses in Berlin, Barcelona, and New York through the International School of Management, Germany. His bachelor thesis examined crypto tokens as financing instruments for startups in the context of venture capital. He is fluent in German and English.

TN Lee is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Pendle, a DeFi protocol deployed on Ethereum in June 2021 that enables users to tokenize and trade future yield. He has held a director-level role at Pendle since September 2020. Prior to Pendle, he worked at Kyber Network. He is based in Hong Kong and is fluent in English, Chinese, and Malay.

Under his leadership, Pendle grew its total value locked from approximately $250 million to a peak of $6.7 billion in June 2024, driven by demand for yield and airdrop point exposure across protocols including EtherFi and EigenLayer, before settling at around $2.7 billion by end of August 2024. The protocol experienced a 40% TVL decline at end of June 2024, attributed to the maturity of several liquidity pools. Lee has outlined a plan for the protocol covering the next two to three years, with Bitcoin restaking identified as a priority area, citing the Babylon protocol as a driver of new yield sources for Bitcoin holders. Pendle intends to offer exposure to Bitcoin-based airdrop points and stablecoin yields in this context. In 2025, Lee represented Pendle alongside Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Anchorage Digital in a meeting with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister in New York, where he made the case for asset tokenization in the context of Vietnam's International Financial Center.

Tobias Seidl is CEO of STOKR, a Luxembourg-based digital securities platform he co-founded in 2018. STOKR focuses on tokenized investments for institutional clients, with cumulative digital securities issuances of $1.9 billion on Bitcoin's Liquid Network. The platform has been registered with Luxembourg's CSSF as a Virtual Asset Service Provider since 2022, making it one of the first VASP-registered digital securities platforms in the EU, and holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for information security management. STOKR raised a total of $12.6 million across two funding rounds, including an $8 million Series A in October 2024 led by Fulgur Ventures.

A defining milestone in STOKR's trajectory was the 2021 launch of the Blockstream Mining Notes (BMN), a securitised hashrate product developed with Adam Back and Samson Mow at Blockstream. Seidl identifies this as one of the first genuinely tokenised real-world assets and credits it with establishing STOKR's track record among Bitcoin-native investors, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. His stated thesis is that Bitcoin functions as both a store of value and a high-performance settlement layer, and that this combination constitutes the foundational infrastructure for institutional-grade digital capital markets. Prior to founding STOKR, Seidl practiced as an attorney-at-law at Hogan Lovells. He has been active in digital asset regulation through ThinkBlockTank in Luxembourg and INATBA at the European level.

Todd Sudak is Head of Digital Lending and Alternative Assets at Broadridge, a position he has held since February 2025. In this role, he leads executive product responsibilities across Digital Lending — covering Securities Based Lending, Commercial and Margin — as well as Alternative Assets and Data Aggregation capabilities within Broadridge Wealth Management.

Sudak joined Broadridge in March 2022 as GM, Head of Product and Program Management for Rockall, a Securities Based Lending SaaS platform and Broadridge subsidiary acquired in 2019. In that position, he held responsibility for product management, engineering, and client implementation teams across North America, EMEA, and APAC, and was accountable for segment acquisition strategies, client retention, and the strategic product roadmap. Prior to Broadridge, he spent nearly four years at Morningstar as Global Head of Product Management for Enterprise Solutions, where he was responsible for Morningstar's Advisor Workstation and Enterprise Components platforms, covering product strategy, roadmap, revenue growth, and client retention for the firm's global advisor user base. Before that role, he served as Head of Product Management for the Morningstar Direct Platform from 2011 to 2018. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor's degree in industrial technology from Illinois State University.

Tomas Calatayud Guidi is Product Director, Executive Director – Kinexys at J.P. Morgan, a position he has held since February 2025. In this role he works on product development for Kinexys Digital Payments, with a focus on payments, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, and FX.

Calatayud Guidi has been part of J.P. Morgan's Kinexys unit since August 2022, when he joined as Product Manager Vice President, covering the same product areas before being promoted to his current title. Prior to that, from February 2021 to August 2022, he held a Vice President role in FX Product Management at J.P. Morgan in the United States, focused on FX payments new product development. He joined J.P. Morgan in October 2014 as an FX Operations Analyst in Argentina, progressing through senior analyst and operations manager roles before moving into product management as an Associate in New York in September 2018. Before J.P. Morgan, he worked as a Treasury Analyst at Noble Group in Argentina from May 2012 to September 2014, where his responsibilities included FX spot and futures operations, money market activity, financial planning, and foreign trade regulatory compliance. His total experience across these roles spans approximately thirteen years.

Thomas Patrick Sullivan is Director of Data Management at DTCC, specializing in overseeing data governance and strategy within the financial services industry.

Tony Ashraf is Managing Director at BlackRock, holding two concurrent roles: Global Head of Digital Asset Transformation, a position he has held since January 2023, and Head of Technology & Operations Middle East & Africa, which he assumed in May 2025. Both roles are based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

In his digital asset mandate, Ashraf works across BlackRock internally and with external industry partners to apply blockchain and distributed ledger technology to traditional operating models, with a focus on partnerships, scale creation, and product development. His responsibilities include DLT-based market infrastructure, tokenisation, and the development of institutional-grade crypto asset solutions. BlackRock's digital asset initiatives during his tenure include IBIT, a Bitcoin ETF that reached $25.4B AUM, and BUIDL, an on-chain institutional money market fund that exceeded $1.95B in total value locked. Ashraf has publicly stated that a core strategic focus has been targeting crypto-native participants already operating on-chain, rather than traditional finance converts, to reduce the barrier to entry for institutional digital asset products. Prior to BlackRock, he held roles at Morgan Stanley and Barclays, spanning operations, technology, project management, business management, and client service functions across the UK, Japan, China, Singapore, and Hungary.

Tony McLaughlin is the founder and CEO of Ubyx, a stablecoin clearing platform. He founded the company after two decades at Citi, where he created the vision behind the Regulated Liability Network (RLN) for tokenized deposits and authored the RLN whitepaper. He also contributed to the launch of Project Agora with the BIS and the IIF. His career spans more than 30 years in traditional finance, covering payments, foreign exchange and corporate treasury, with positions at Citi, ABN AMRO and HSBC.

Tugdual Chevalier is a Vice President in HSBC's Institutional Client Group within Corporate and Institutional Banking at HSBC Continental Europe, based in Paris. He works in the Financial Institutions Group coverage team serving institutional clients across banks, asset managers and fintechs.

Vaibhav Chellani is Founder & CEO at Socket, a protocol that enables developers to build chain-abstracted applications that can compose with any app across chains, currently within the EVM ecosystem. Socket was founded in 2021 and raised $5 million in September 2023. The protocol allows exchange platforms and DeFi protocols to design solutions that enable users to move between blockchains without friction. As of the time of reporting, more than 400 entities were building on Socket's technical stack.

Prior to founding Socket, Chellani served as Protocol Head at Matic Network (later Polygon) from July 2018 to February 2020. He has also participated in Google Summer of Code through the Python Hydra project. Earlier in his career, he worked as a blockchain developer at Toshblocks and Karachain. He has been recognised by teams at Gnosis, Zcash, and Consensys for blockchain applications, and won multiple national hackathons in blockchain and fintech. In addition to his operating role, Chellani is an angel investor with at least three recorded seed investments, including a participation in OneBalance's $5 million seed round in August 2024, as well as investments in Superform and Derive. He graduated from Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in New Delhi.

Valentin Demé is Co-founder and CEO at Cube Network, a Web3 and tech startup incubator and accelerator based in Angers, France, which he co-founded in May 2023. Cube selects approximately ten startups per year from over 300 applications, providing structural support, financing, and mentorship. The incubation phase runs around six months for early-stage companies with no revenues yet, followed by a twelve-month acceleration phase for projects facing regulatory or financial scaling challenges. Cube has facilitated €7 million raised across its portfolio over two years. Mentors and advisers associated with the programme include Faustine Fleuret from Adan, Owen Simonin from Meria, and Ivan de Lastours from Bpifrance.

Demé is also co-founder and producer at 8s Productions, a media production company operating studios under the REDBOX brand in Angers, producing content for YouTube, television, and cinema. He co-founded Cryptoast, a media outlet focused on crypto and Web3. He sits on the board of directors of Adan, the French association representing the Web3 sector, a position he has held since June 2023. He is the author of Bitcoin et autres cryptomonnaies, bien comprendre avant d'investir, published by Larousse, with 30,000 copies sold. In 2025, Cube launched Spotlight, a competition and YouTube programme designed to identify and select entrepreneurs for its third intake, co-produced with content creator Amixem and judged by a panel including Éric Larchevêque and Nicolas Louvet.

Valerio Cicco is Deputy Director, Digital Banking at Banca Sella, a role he has held since March 2026. In this position he oversees HYPE (www.hype.it) and all Group digital touchpoints across online and omnichannel banking, with focus on the banking value proposition and the end-to-end product lifecycle of both Banca Sella Digital and HYPE. He also supervises the Group's digital assets and blockchain strategy in his capacity as a co-founder of that team. Immediately prior, from March 2025 to March 2026, he served as Head of AI Strategy, DLT & Digital Assets at the same institution.

His involvement in digital assets at Banca Sella dates to November 2022, when he co-founded the Digital Assets team from scratch, building it to approximately ten staff by 2025. As Co-Head, DLT & Digital Assets, he set strategy and led its execution within the Sella Group. His work in this period included participation in Banca d'Italia's Call for Proposals on DLT with a test stablecoin project described as the first of its kind in Italy, and leading the Group's exploration of an EU Stablecoin consortium opportunity, which he presented to the Board of Directors. He conducted more than 20 meetings with the national regulator. He also led the integration of HYPE S.p.A. into Banca Sella as Project Lead, including the definition of the 2026 Product Roadmap. Before moving into the Digital Assets mandate, he served as Executive Assistant to the Group Chief Executive Officer at Sella from November 2018 to October 2022. Earlier in his career he held roles at Axerve, including Special Project Manager and Strategic Planning Assistant, with responsibilities covering product launches and mergers and acquisitions scouting. Cicco holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and Business Administration from Università Commerciale 'Luigi Bocconi', graduating with 108/110, and completed a Double Degree in International Management with Fudan University, achieving 110 cum Laude.

Varun Paul is Senior Director, Financial Markets at Fireblocks, where his mandate covers Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Market Infrastructures, and blockchains. In this role he supports central banks and financial market infrastructures in their digital asset programmes. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, focused on the application of digital asset custody technology to CBDCs and tokenised settlement at financial market infrastructures. At Fireblocks, he has authored technical research on tokenised money, including a paper modelling free convertibility between CBDCs, tokenised deposits, and stablecoins using smart contracts.

Paul joined Fireblocks in April 2022 as CBDC and Market Infrastructure Director, before moving into his current Senior Director role in October 2023. Prior to Fireblocks, he spent over 14 years at the Bank of England, where he held a series of roles across financial stability and fintech. His positions there included Senior Economist for Financial Stability, Head of Projects and Fintech within Financial Stability, Senior Manager for Future of Finance, and, most recently, Head of the Fintech Hub, where he focused on the future of money and the digital economy. He also served as Private Secretary to the Executive Director for Financial Stability. He studied Economics at the University of Cambridge and holds a Masters in Economics from University College London.

Victor Charpiat is Head of Legal & Compliance at Spiko, a Paris-based financial services firm that provides daily-paying interest products on cash. He has held this role since January 2025. Spiko was founded in 2023 and has raised $25.8M in total funding.

Prior to joining Spiko, Charpiat spent over six years at the Paris office of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, where he worked as an associate specializing in fintech, cryptocurrencies, and PSAN (Prestataire de Services sur Actifs Numériques) matters. Between January 2022 and January 2023, he founded Kolat, a financial services company based in the Paris area. Before Kramer Levin, he worked at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in Paris from April 2017 to October 2018 in the corporate general practice group, having completed a final internship there earlier that year. He also held a legal tech internship at 11.100.34 Avocats Associés in late 2016. He holds law degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Université Paris II-Panthéon Assas.

Vijay Chandok is Managing Director and CEO of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL), which he joined on 29 November 2024 after the appointment was cleared by SEBI. Chandok was previously Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Securities from 2019 to 2024. Before that, Chandok spent 26 years at ICICI Bank from 1993, rising from management trainee to President in 2010 and Executive Director on the bank's board in 2016. Chandok holds a master's degree in management studies from SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) and an engineering degree.

Viktoria Klich is co-founder of w3.group in Berlin, an expert in Web3, entrepreneurship, and content marketing. She invests in Web3 startups and leads community and educational initiatives.

Vinay Singh is Director, Non-Payment Crypto Solutions at American Express, a position he has held since March 2019 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. His stated areas of specialization are crypto, blockchain, and cloud, and he also operates as an angel investor.

Prior to joining American Express, Singh served as Director of Software Development at REPAY - Realtime Electronic Payments from December 2017 to March 2019, based in Tempe, Arizona. Before that, he spent approximately a decade at Apriva in Scottsdale, Arizona, progressing from Senior Software Engineer (2007–2013) to Principal Engineer (2013–2015) and then Engineering Manager (2015–2017). Earlier in his career, he worked as a Software Developer at Qualcomm in the San Diego area for one year and briefly as a Mobile Application Solution Developer at SmartReply. His total professional experience spans approximately 23 years, the majority of which has been in engineering and technical roles before moving into general management and director-level positions.

Vincent Martin is Managing Director, Cross-Border Tax M&A at Deloitte Luxembourg, a position he has held since September 2017. He joined Deloitte Luxembourg in October 2008 as a junior in the Cross-Border Tax M&A department, where he has remained throughout his career, progressing from Junior to Senior Manager before reaching his current role.

His work focuses on tax structuring for alternative asset managers, covering private equity and real estate clients across domestic and international mandates, including merger and acquisition transactions, global tax optimisation, and tax due diligence. He has a specific focus on the African market, both inbound and outbound. He has published analysis on VAT treatment of security tokens in the EU and on accounting for crypto assets in Luxembourg, co-authored with colleagues at Deloitte Luxembourg. Prior to joining Deloitte, he worked as a legal adviser at two French law firms: Cabinet Paul Denizot Avocats from January 2007 to September 2008, and SCP Baur & Associés from June to December 2006, where he handled agreement drafting, company structuring, and legal and tax advisory work. He holds a qualification in Tax Law with an additional specialisation in Business Administration, and completed further studies at IAE France in Paris between 2007 and 2008.

Vivek Raman is Co-Founder and CEO of Etherealize, a New York-based company he founded in August 2024 with backing from the Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik Buterin. Etherealize functions as the institutional marketing and product arm for the Ethereum blockchain, focused on bridging traditional finance with Ethereum infrastructure. Raman leads a team across product, research, business development, and marketing, with responsibilities spanning the development of institutional-grade products, blockchain education initiatives, and strategic partnerships with banks, asset managers, and hedge funds. He has represented Ethereum in Washington, engaging with the Treasury, SEC, Congress, and the White House, and has testified before the U.S. Congress to advocate for clear regulatory frameworks for digital assets. Etherealize raised $40 million in funding, announced in September 2025.

Prior to founding Etherealize, Raman served as Managing Director of Crypto and AI Investment Banking at BitOoda, where he led capital raises for Bitcoin miners, data centers, and AI companies, and built an Ethereum tokenization vertical. Before that, he held the role of Head of Proof-of-Stake Product Development at BitOoda, focusing on the ETH and Layer 2 space, including tokenization and institutional ETH staking. Earlier, he was Senior DeFi Researcher at Celsius Network, conducting diligence on DeFi protocols across the EVM blockchain and building institutional partnerships with Ethereum Layer 2 networks. His traditional finance career spanned over a decade, with Vice President and Director-level roles in high-yield and distressed credit trading at Nomura, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Morgan Stanley. He holds a B.A. in Economics, completed between 2007 and 2010.

Waqar Chaudry is Executive Director, Digital Assets at Standard Chartered, based in London. He leads within the bank's Financing and Securities Services division, which sits under Corporate and Investment Banking. He is also listed as a speaker at FinTech Connect 2026 in this capacity.

Chaudry's stated areas of expertise include distributed ledger technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, product strategy, market design, and transformation planning. His LinkedIn profile describes him as a markets practitioner and executive leader, with skills spanning post-merger integration, empirical research, and decision making.

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Waqar Chaudry is Executive Director, Digital Assets at Standard Chartered, sitting within the bank's Financing and Securities Services division under Corporate and Investment Banking, and based in London. He is listed as a speaker at FinTech Connect 2026 in this role.

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William Bailey is Co-Founder and CEO of Bolero, a Paris-based financial services company he co-founded in 2021 that enables individuals and institutions to invest in tokenized music rights. Bolero's platform facilitates the buying and selling of publishing and master rights in the form of Song Shares and Catalog Shares, with the stated goal of creating a liquid, transparent asset class from music rights. Bailey has described the core problem as one of untradeable rights: artists and publishers hold rights tied to the commercial distribution of works — a market representing $41.5 billion annually — but those rights have historically lacked liquidity or tradability. Bolero's infrastructure uses blockchain to address this, allowing artists to monetize their catalogs without surrendering creative control.

Bailey's path to Bolero began during the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020, when contact with friends in the music industry who lost income overnight prompted him to examine the structure of music rights. He co-founded Bolero with Arthur Amon, whom he met at a Le Wagon coding bootcamp. Prior to Bolero, Bailey worked as a Product Manager at Smartly.ai, a conversational AI SaaS company, from 2017 to 2020. Earlier roles include a production assistant position at Filmworks Group in Dubai and a corporate services role at Endemol Shine Group. He holds a Master's degree in Innovation Management — Technologies and Entrepreneurship from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 2025, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in the Entertainment category, and in 2026 to the Entrepreneur Choiseul 200 list in Economy and Business.

William O'Rorke is a Partner at ORWL Avocats, where he leads the regulatory practice, focusing on crypto-asset regulation. He has advised clients in the crypto-finance sector for nearly a decade, with a practice centred on MiCA, MiFID, and DORA. His client base includes crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), payment and e-money institutions issuing stablecoins, banks, asset managers, and technology providers such as SaaS platforms, custodians-as-a-service, DeFi protocols, and layer-1/2 foundations. He co-founded ORWL Avocats, which was established in 2018.

O'Rorke co-authored Droit des crypto-actifs, published by LexisNexis, described as the reference textbook in the field. He lectures at the Paris Bar School (EFB) and at several master's programmes, and has taught at institutions including La Sorbonne, Assas, HEC, and Polytechnique. His team has been ranked "Highly Recommended" by Leaders League for four consecutive years and is listed in Chambers & Partners' FinTech rankings at Band 4. Separately, he serves as Board Member and Secretary of ADAN, a nonprofit representing Web3 actors in France and Europe, where he contributes to EU-level discussions on crypto regulation. He has also participated in working groups with Medef, France Stratégie, and Finance Innovation. He studied at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Yanis Mekhfi is a Research Analyst at The Big Whale, a European media outlet covering crypto and blockchain, a position he has held since November 2024. His published work at The Big Whale covers topics including Bitcoin treasury strategies, ICO financing models, the XRP/Ripple ecosystem, and crypto AI agents.

Prior to joining The Big Whale, Mekhfi spent nearly two years as an Investment Analyst at PyratzLabs, a Web3-focused investment fund and accelerator based in Levallois-Perret, France, where he worked within the finance and accounting function. Before that, he contributed as a Web Content Editor at Start in Blockchain, writing explainer articles on stablecoins, decentralized applications, cryptography, and Web3 social networks. He also briefly held a Founder Associate role at Kolat, a DeFi-oriented project. Mekhfi holds a degree from KEDGE Business School and a data science certification from Le Wagon.

Yaniv Gidron is a Co-Founder of Monee Financial Technologies, a fintech company incorporated in London in 2025 that works on digital securities and has participated in the Bank of England and FCA Digital Securities Sandbox. He serves as Co-Chief Executive alongside co-founder Vinay Anupindi and leads asset strategy and operations.

Gidron brings around 14 years of experience in private banking and wealth management, including time as a private banker focused on private wealth management at Scotiabank, before co-founding Monee.

Yat Siu is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, a blockchain and gaming company dedicated to establishing digital property rights for virtual assets. He also serves as a member of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development established by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a position he has held since July 2023. At Animoca Brands, he has led the company's strategic direction into NFTs, blockchain gaming, and the open metaverse, overseeing an investment portfolio that has grown to more than 300 Web3 and crypto start-ups. He serves on the BAFTA advisory board and on the board of directors of the Asian Youth Orchestra, and is a director at the Dalton Foundation, the sponsoring body of the Dalton School Hong Kong.

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1973, Siu began his career at Atari Germany before moving to Hong Kong in 1996, where he founded Cybercity, later renamed Freenation, described as Asia's first free web page and email provider. In 1998 he founded Outblaze, which developed multilingual white-label web services and grew to serve over 75 million end-users. In April 2009, Outblaze's messaging assets were sold to IBM, which used them to open its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. Siu subsequently transformed Outblaze into an incubator for digital entertainment projects, from which Animoca Brands emerged. He studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, with training in cello, flute, and piano. He has received the Standard Chartered Platinum Achievers Award, the URENCO Innovation Award, and was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow.

Yorick de Mombynes is a Conseiller Maître at the Cour des Comptes, France's national audit office, a position he has held since January 2025. He previously served as Conseiller Référendaire at the same institution from 2017. He is a prominent commentator on Bitcoin, having published extensively on the subject in outlets including Les Echos, L'ADN, and the Polytechnique alumni journal La Jaune et la Rouge, and has spoken at events including Surfin'Bitcoin and the Université d'été d'économie politique in Aix-en-Provence. His public positions include opposition to central bank digital currencies, which he views as incompatible with Bitcoin, and support for Bitcoin as a monetary and political phenomenon he describes as a Copernican revolution.

Before returning to the Cour des Comptes, he served as an advisor to Prime Minister François Fillon at Matignon from 2007 to 2010, and subsequently held several senior roles at Total E&P, including VP for Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique, and VP for Algeria and Mauritania, before departing in January 2016. Earlier in his career he lectured in politics and economics at Sciences Po Paris for nearly five years. He holds a degree in philosophy, is a graduate of ESCP and IEP Paris, and is a former student of ENA. He also authored a work on the aesthetic philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Youssef Boudrigua is Senior Project Lead at CACEIS Consulting in Paris, focusing on project delivery and consulting. Educated at IAE Nantes/Audencia Business School.