2025 Summit Programme - Blockchain for Europe Summit 2024

Programme

DAY 1

2 December 2025

08:30 - 09:00 AM

Registration & Welcome breakfast

09:00 - 09:20 AM

Keynote: The next wave of EU digital asset regulation

Maria Luis Albuquerque

Commissioner, DG FISMA

Moderated by

Robert Kopitsch

Secretary-General, Blockchain for Europe

09:20 - 10:10 AM

Tokenisation and the SIU - Match made in heaven?

10:10 - 10:35 AM

Tokenisation and the views of Europe's regulators

10:35 - 10:50 AM

Break

10:50 - 11:10 AM

Fireside chat 1

11:10 - 12:00 AM

MiCA's first year - Let's take stock!

12:00 - 12:25 PM

Stablecoins - How relevant is the tokenised Euro today?

12:25 - 13:25 PM

Lunch Break

13:25 - 13:45 PM

Fireside chat 2

13:45 - 14:35 PM

MiCA's global regulatory alternatives - Perspectives

14:35 - 15:00 PM

"Financial Compliance I" (Market Abuse & Market making)

15:00 - 15:15 PM

Break

15:15 - 16:05 PM

Decentralised infrastructure as the next big leap in finance

16:05 - 16:35 PM

"DeFi"

16:35 - 16:50 PM

Break

16:50 - 17:15 PM

"Financial Compliance II" (Travel Rule & AML(A))

17:15 - 17:40 PM

"The future of EU supervision"

17:40 - 18:00 PM

Fireside chat 3

18:00 PM

Networking Drinks

DAY 2

3 December 2025

08:30 - 09:00 AM

Registration & Welcome breakfast

09:00 - 09:20 AM

Keynote / Welcome to day 2

09:20 - 10:10 AM

RWA Tokenisation - A game changer for EU's economy?

10:10 - 10:35 AM

"Non-financial Use Cases"

10:35 - 10:50 AM

Break

10:50 - 11:10 AM

Fireside chat 4

11:10 - 12:00 AM

The EU Data Union and its implications for the digital assets industry and Europe's consumers

12:00 - 12:25 PM

Implications of GDPR for decentralised infrastructure

12:25 - 13:25 PM

Lunch Break

13:25 - 13:45 PM

Fireside chat 5

13:45 - 14:10 PM

An industry perspective on the EU's data economy today

14:10 - 15:05 PM

Why the EU's start-up/scale-up strategy needs to succeed

15:05 - 15:35 PM

Break

15:35 - 16:05

Sustainability - A forgotten strength of blockchain technology

16:05 - 16:30 PM

"Europe needs a vision beyond regulation - Perspectives"

16:30 - 16:50 PM

Fireside chat 6

16:50 - 17:00 PM

Concluding remarks