Industry Lunch | Digital Money: What Comes Next? Unlocking Real-World Value from Tokenised Assets and Stablecoins (By Invitation)

​Session: Industry Lunch | Digital Money: What Comes Next? Unlocking Real-World Value from Tokenised Assets and Stablecoins (By Invitation)
Date: Thursday 6 August 2026.
Time: 12:00pm to 2:00pm

​Westpac Institutional Bank, in partnership with BlockchainAPAC, invites senior leaders to an executive lunch discussion on the future of digital money and what it means for Australian businesses. As stablecoins and tokenised assets move towards real-world adoption, this session examines where value is emerging today, what comes next and how Australia's regulatory landscape is evolving.

​The discussion will cover:

• ​Where value is emerging today: practical use cases for stablecoins and tokenised assets

• ​What is enabling adoption: the infrastructure, standards and global market developments supporting scale

• ​The Australian outlook: regulatory developments and their implications for business

• ​Opportunities across payments, treasury and capital markets, and where digital money may create tangible value

• ​What comes next: the future trajectory of digital money and how organisations can prepare

​Speakers:

• ​Steve Vallas, CEO, BlockchainAPAC

• ​Richelle Cox, COO, BlockchainAPAC

• ​Jeff Byrne, Managing Director, Global Transaction Services, Westpac

• ​Danielle Johnson, Managing Director, International Payments and Digital Assets, Global Transaction Services, Westpac

​Places are limited and non-transferable.