HSС Asset Management Abu Dhabi 9-10 December
9 December
Global Investment, Digital Assets & Technology
Global Forum: Global Investment & Technology
10:00 – 10:10 — Keynote: Opening Speech
Speakers:
Vadim Krekotin, Founder HSС Asset Management & M-Post Media Group
William Wang, Chief Representative Middle East & Africa, SIEF
10:10 – 10:20 — Keynote: Opening Speech
Speaker:
H.E. Dr. Abdullah Mohammed Al Sheiba Al Ali, Member of the General Assembly
10:20 – 10:30 — Keynote: Opening Speech
Speaker:
Dr. Jean Fares, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Economy
10:30 – 11:15 — Panel: Digital Assets Are an Asset Class, Now Act Like It
Participants:
Nikita Sachdev, Founder & CEO, Luna PR
Leeor Groen, Partner, Spartan
Akshat Vaidya, Managing Partner, Maelstrom
Richard Muirhead, Co-Founder, Managing Partner & Chairman, Fabric Ventures
Melvis Langyintuo, Executive Director, Canton Network
11:15 – 11:35 — Fireside Chat: From Cryptography to Mass Adoption — How ZK Enters the Conventional World and When Capital Must Move
Participants:
Vadim, Founder HSС Asset Management & M-Post Media Group
Eli Bin Sasson, Co-Founder & CEO, StarkWare
Akshat Vaidya, Managing Partner, Maelstrom
11:35 – 12:20 — Panel: The Future of Asset Management — Digital, Traditional, and Hybrid Models Competing for Capital
Participants:
Hashim Nabulsi, Co-Founder & CEO, AI966; Ex-Investment Director, NEOM
Wahid Chammas, CEO & Chairman, ATTN Company
Matt Szilagyi, CIO, Aspen Digital
Biswajit Dasgupta, CIO, ASAS Capital
Artem Stopnevich, CGO, Tría Finance
Ray Tam, CEO, REVO Digital Family office
12:20 – 13:05 — Panel: Compute Is the New Reserve Asset — How AI Will Reprice Capital Markets
Participants:
Arpit Sharma, Head of Ecosystem, Aethir
Andrew Sobko, Founder & CEO, Argentum AI
YQ, Founder, AltLayer
Raj Karan, CPO, IO.NET
13:05 – 14:00 — Lunch Time
14:00 – 14:45 — Panel: Digital Assets and Stablecoins — Opportunities for Business Adoption
Participants:
Feroz Sanaulla, Partner, LEK
Raj Kamal, CEO & Founder, TransFi
Saeed Hareb Al Darmaki, Co-Founder, Alphabit Digital Currency Fund; ex-ADIA
Tristan Brandt, Head of Digital, A&M
William Wu, Founder & CEO, Altuva Group
14:45 – 15:05 — Fireside Chat: AI, Privacy, and Trading
Participants:
MoCo, CEO, Privex
Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO, COTI
15:05 – 15:50 — Panel: Real-World Assets Are Not a Buzzword — They’re a Bid
Participants:
Aleksandra Fetisova, Head of Business Development, 1inch
Mohammed Alkaff AlHashmi, Founder, MCPM Group and Haqq Network
Ben, RWA, BNB Chain
Redouane Elkamhi, Core Contributor, GOAT Network; Professor of Finance, University of Toronto
15:50 – 16:10 — Fireside Chat: The Tokenized Composability Shift — New Strategies, New Products
Participants:
Steve Whyman, Head of Institutions, Ctrl Alt
Theo Golden, Investment Manager & Tokenisation Lead, Baillie Gifford
16:10 – 17:00 — Panel: Tokenized Markets Are Here — How RWA Becomes the Core of Global Finance
Participants:
Alena Shmalko, Director of Ecosystem, TON
Francesco Ranieri Fabracci, Institutional Expansion Manager, Hadron (Tether)
Scott Thiel, Co-Founder & CEO, Tokinvest
Julia Miao, Deputy CEO & CFO, Sihuan Pharmaceutical Group
Global Investment, Digital Assets & Technology
Grand Forum
10:30 – 11:15 — Panel: The Future Stack of Digital Finance — Investments, Transactions, Custody, and the New Market Architecture
Participants:
David Gevorkian, MD, TWO23 Group
Kevin Lee, CBO, Gate
Jessica Wu, Head of APAC, Bitpanda Technology Solutions
Yana Minaylova, Head of Institutional Sales & BD, MENA, Binance
11:15 – 11:35 — Monologue: “Leading from the Future”
Speaker:
Tariq Qureishy, CEO, Xponential Group
11:35 – 12:20 — Panel: Liquidity Without Borders — Building Cross-Chain Rails
Participants:
Egor, Treasurer & Commercial Lead, Infinex
Ivar Wiersma, Head of EMEA, LayerZero
Sergej Kunz, Co-Founder, 1inch
Vadim Khramov, Founder, Edge Capital
Armaan Mittal, BD & Growth, Turtle
12:20 – 13:05 — Panel: PayFi, Remittances and Real-World Usage
Participants:
Saqr Ereiqat, Chairman, Dubai Digital Asset Association
Dr. Sabrina Tachdjian, VP Fintech & Payments, Hedera Foundation
Jonathan Rigg, VP Commercial, Fuze
Aishwary Gupta, Head of Payments, Polygon
13:05 – 14:00 — Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 — Panel: The Infrastructure Race Nobody Sees — DA, ZK, Routing and Bitcoin L2s Behind the Scenes
Participants:
Seung Hyun Lee, Founder, CoinEasy
Mustafa Al-Bassam, Co-Founder, Celestia
Charlie Hu, Co-Founder, Bitlayer Labs
Anurag Arjun, Co-Founder, Avail
Antonio Senatore, CTO, VeChain
14:45 – 15:00 — Fireside Chat: Digital Culture as Capital — How Ownership Reshapes Global Economies
Participants:
Ciara Sun, Founder & Managing Partner, C² Ventures
Alex Gluchowski, Founder, ZKsync
Yat Siu, Co-Founder & Chairman, Animoca Brands
15:00 – 15:45 — Panel: The Trust Layer — UX, Identity and the Future of Secure On-Chain Interaction
Participants:
Mary Pedler, Founder, Input
Jamie Elkaleh, CMO, Bitget Wallet
Francesco Andreolí, Director of DevRel, MetaMask
Nick DiSisto, Business Development Lead, Trust Wallet
Halil Mirakhmed, CSO, TOP & Wallet in Telegram
15:45 – 16:30 — Panel: The End of Spray-and-Pray? What a Serious Token Portfolio Looks Like in the Next Cycle
Participants:
Tomer Sharoni, Co-Founder & CEO, Addressable
Clement Chaikov, Founder, Notalone Ventures
Sarah Abuagela, Partner, Ceras Ventures
Alice Li, Partner, Foresight Ventures
Alessia Baumgartner, VP Ecosystems, DWF Labs
16:30 – 17:15 — Panel: The Builders’ Roundtable — What Will Actually Scale in 2026–2028
Participants:
AJ, Co-Founder, EasyFlow
Anton Bukov, Co-Founder, 1inch
Sebastian Borget, Co-Founder, The Sandbox
Bryan Benson, CEO, Aurum
Mark Rydon, Co-Founder, Aethir
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