Blockchain in Industry - Presented by: Coinbase, Waterloo Blockchain & Konfer
Step inside the future of financial rails at Waterloo Tech Week 2025. This event brings together the powerhouses of finance and tech with the likes of: Coinbase, IBM, KPMG, Google Cloud, JPMorgan, DTCC, and plenty of blockchain companies supporting the shift as well. Join us for a rare look at how blockchain is scaling from classroom concepts to trillions in live markets. Along the way, you’ll get career workshops and recruiter access to supercharge your co-op hunt.
❓ What’s on Tap?
Keynotes & Firesides: Institutional market infrastructure, tokenization of funds, on-chain FX and payments.
Panels & Demos: Stablecoin checkout in action, real-world rollups.
Expo Atrium: Recruiters' booths, merch, and networking over coffee and food.
🌍 Why It Matters
Institutional scale: Hear how JPMorgan’s Kinexys has handled over $1.5 trillion in live volume and processes $2 billion/day.
Market plumbing unlocked: DTCC is piloting tokenized clearing for all clearings after processing $3.8 quadrillion of securities in 2024.
Policy in motion: The U.S. GENIUS Act just codified 1:1 reserve requirements and AML guardrails for payment stablecoins.
🚀 Who Should Come?
Students in Accounting & Finance, CS, Software Engineering, ECE, Math & Data.
Faculty and alumni who are eager to connect theory with practice.
Anyone curious how blockchain is powering real financial rails and career opportunities.
“4 trillion is in crypto, why aren’t you?”
We are official event hosts with Waterloo Tech Week 2025, a celebration of what’s been built here, and what’s still to come. We’re building something great together. September 8-11, 2025. waterlootechweek.ca