🗓 Digital Assets Connect: Finance’s Inner Circle Gathers


Dates 1 - 3 Dec 2024
Location Geneva
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The Digital Assets Connect event will be held on December 2–3, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Digital Assets Connect conference organizer, Worldwide Business Research (WBR), is a UK-based company established in 1996. WBR has built a reputation for managing over 400 global conferences and producing 300+ specialized business reports.
[Digital Assets Connect] is an exclusive closed-door and invitation-only meeting, limited to only 70 decision makers from private banks, long-only asset managers, multi-strat fund managers, prop firms and global investment banks, who are responsible for leading their firms' digital assets strategy and investments,
the event organizers explained.
Digital Assets Connect Источник: digiassetsconnect.wbresearch.com

Digital Assets Connect Источник: digiassetsconnect.wbresearch.com

Highlights of the event:

  • Buy side-only brainstorming sessions: Addressing key topics such as boosting market efficiency, standardization efforts, and interoperability solutions. 
  • Focused workgroups: Targeting private banking, hedge funds, and asset management professionals.
  • One-on-one discussions: Discover cutting-edge infrastructure providers, investment instruments, and risk management approaches.
  • Exclusive networking dinner: Held at a VIP restaurant in Geneva.

Digital Assets Connect 2024 will explore 10 distinct tracks, such as:

  1. Preparing for the Transformation of Financial Markets ;
  2. Examining your Vendor Needs;
  3. Investment Trends and Predictions ;
  4. Rethinking your Infrastructure to Embrace Digital Assets;
  5. Striving for Market Scalability;
  6. Assessing the Impact of Macro & Geopolitical Risks;
  7. Exploring Tokenisation Developments;
  8. Reviewing the Latest Crypto ETP Developments;
  9. Driving Market Transformation Through Industry Co-opetition;
  10. Buy Side Only Working Groups.

Highlights from the event’s presentations include: 

  1. Building a visionary digital assets strategy: How have BBVA Private Bank adapted their strategy and services to integrate traditional and digital asset management?
  2. How to generate alpha (a figure calculated for securities or portfolios, reflecting their performance relative to the returns of a similar market index—editor’s note) in the digital asset market through liquid publicly traded markets?
  3. Tokenization, from here to there: Roadmapping the development and benefits of a tokenized financial ecosystem.
  4. Building an institutional consortium to accelerate progress: How can industry work together on new initiatives to improve the interoperability and scalability of the digital assets ecosystem?

The speaker lineup for Digital Assets Connect 2024 includes:

  • Kristin Johnson, Commissioner CFTC;
  • Peter Hilborne, Chief Operating Officer, Schroders;
  • Alfonso Gomez, CEO, BBVA Switzerland;
  • Jasmine Burgess, COO/CRO, Coinbase Asset Management;
  • Joseph Naggar, CEO and CIO, Republic Digital;
  • Malte Holzberger, Executive Director, Digital Assets Lead, UBS Asset Management;
  • Florian Ielpo, Head of Macro & Multi Asset Portfolio Manager, Lombard Odier Investment Managers;
  • Philippe Meyer, Head of Digital & Blockchain Solutions, BBVA Switzerland;
  • Stefan Brinaru, Head of Digital Assets, BNP Paribas Asset Management;
  • David Reed, Director, Emerging Technology, Invesco;
  • Marita McGinley, Head of Digital Assets Strategy, Schroders;
  • Duncan Moir, Senior Investment Manager, abrdn;
  • Liz Lawson, Lead Digital Assets Analyst, T. Rowe Price.

The event’s official sponsors are Boerse Stuttgart Digital, FalconX, Fidelity Digital Assets, Figment, R3, SIX Digital Exchange, Stellar, and Talos.

You can submit a participation request for the Digital Assets Connect conference here.

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