CONF3RENCE @conf3rence

Konstantin Dagianis from PwC Germany is confirmed for CONF3RENCE 2026. Financial Services Partner and Digital Assets Leader at PwC Germany. He advises banks, insurers, and asset managers on tokenization, digital asset infrastructure, and crypto compliance. His current thesis: the pilot phase is over, digital assets are moving into production, and the institutions acting now will define the architecture. Also an active early-stage startup investor. 15 & 16 September, Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund

CONF3RENCE 2026: not a conference. An event campus. 15–16 Sept, Kokerei Hansa Dortmund — inside FATT, the week-long Festival of Arts, Tech & Taste. Day 1: B2B. Decision-makers, investors, deal flow. Day 2: free & open. Users, communities, hands-on. Around it: concerts, art, Michelin-level food. Less hype. More outcomes. Sponsor & partner slots open.

Dierk Wilhelmsmeyer, Founder and CEO of Tradevest, is confirmed for CONF3RENCE 2026. Munich-based digital infrastructure for regulated trading, custody, and staking — fully BaFin-authorized as of May 2026. First market maker on 21X (Europe's first DLT-based regulated exchange). Integrates AllUnity's EURAU euro stablecoin for atomic settlement. Before founding Tradevest in 2022: Head of Audit at UniCredit, 11 years at DAB BNP Paribas (COO and CTO), Head of Business Development at Baader Bank.

Jan-Oliver Sell, CEO of Qivalis, is confirmed for CONF3RENCE 2026. @qivaliseu is the Amsterdam-based bank consortium building a regulated euro stablecoin — now 37 European banks across 15 countries, including BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit, BBVA, DZ BANK, DekaBank, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, and Intesa Sanpaolo. Pursuing authorization from De Nederlandsche Bank, launch planned H2 2026. Before Qivalis: 4.5 years at Coinbase, most recently MD Germany.

Alexander Höptner from @AllUnityStable is joining CONF3RENCE 2026. CEO of AllUnity, the JV of DWS, Galaxy, and Flow Traders behind EURAU — the first BaFin-regulated, MiCAR-compliant euro stablecoin. Just expanded into a Swiss franc stablecoin too. Before AllUnity: Group CEO of BitMEX, CEO of Börse Stuttgart, plus 15 years at Deutsche Börse. Regulated exchange leadership meets crypto operating experience.

Christoph Hock from Union Investment is joining CONF3RENCE 2026. Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets at one of Germany's largest asset managers. Chairs the EFAMA Tokenisation Taskforce, sits on the ICMA Board, member of the ECB Pontes Market Contact Group, Co-Chair of the Eurex Exchange Council. 25+ years in capital markets — J.P. Morgan, Tungsten Capital, Barclays. One of the most influential voices in European tokenisation.

Peter Kohl-Landgraf from DZ BANK is joining CONF3RENCE 2026. Digital Transformation Manager, Capital Markets at Germany's second-largest bank by assets. Product Owner of the Smart Financial Contract Project — a cross-institutional initiative piloting DLT-based OTC derivatives and bonds. Co-authored the original Smart Derivative Contracts paper with LMU Munich back in 2018. Quant by training, 20 years inside DZ BANK.

Stanislas de Maistre, General Partner of Belem Capital, will be on stage at CONF3RENCE 2026. Belem Capital is the first Luxembourg CSSF-regulated AIF giving institutional investors access to DeFi without private keys or direct crypto exposure. Powered by MEV Capital ($1.8B+ AUM). Market-neutral yield strategies on Morpho, Uniswap, and stablecoin pools — institutional-grade scoring, multiparty custody, positive net returns every quarter since inception.

Sebastian Foerste from @gunnercooke is joining CONF3RENCE 2026. Banking & Finance Partner specialising in FinTech, crypto, and blockchain regulation in Germany. Past clients include Nuri, Bitpanda, and the IOTA Foundation. Trained as a Data Scientist on top of his legal practice — rare combination in this field. Stops along the way: Hengeler Mueller, Freshfields, Taylor Wessing, Winheller!

𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Global Head of Partnerships for Banking and Capital Markets. His team works with Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, UBS, Mastercard, FTSE Russell, Deutsche Börse, and S&P Global on bringing tokenization and interoperability into traditional finance. Before Chainlink: 10+ years at NTT Data UK, where he co-created the Blockchain Banking practice in 2016. Author of The Internet of Value.

𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫é 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Product Specialist in Microsoft's EMEA AI & Business Group. Also an author of several books on blockchain, Web3, and AI integration. 30+ years in enterprise tech. One of the few voices inside big tech who has been making the case for why AI needs blockchain — from deepfake prevention to decentralized identity — for years, not just since it became fashionable.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer. Before Algorand: VP Marketing at Google, where he launched Android and grew it to billions of users. Also led Google Play and Google's hardware marketing. Later CMO at Medallia, CEO at Rulai. Stanford MBA. Now applying that same adoption playbook to a Layer 1 that just shipped the first quantum-resistant mainnet transaction in the industry.

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. General Partner of a Luxembourg-based fund that tokenizes bonds and structures RWAs for wealth managers, family offices, and HNWIs — distributed through regulated digital exchanges and DeFi. 20 years scaling businesses across APAC, Europe, and the Middle East!

Andreas Horn from IBM is speaking at CONF3RENCE 2026. Head of AIOps EMEA at @IBM. His team connects AI models to real production systems across European enterprises — incident response, FinOps, hybrid cloud ops. Also one of the most followed AI voices on LinkedIn (200K+ followers, top 1% LinkedIn Germany). Dense technical content, zero hype.

Coinbase is coming to CONF3RENCE 2026 — represented by Denny Morawiak, Managing Director Germany. @Coinbase: S&P 500 listed, BaFin-licensed in Germany, 100M+ users globally. Denny runs the German business since January 2025. Before Coinbase: CCO at Ratepay, Director at Wayfair, nearly a decade at McKinsey.

Dotun Rominiyi from @AsseteraGlobal is speaking at CONF3RENCE 2026. CTO & CPO of Assetera, an Austrian MiFID II-licensed exchange for tokenized real-world assets on Polygon. Before that: 6.5 years at the London Stock Exchange Group leading blockchain strategy across capital markets. Still writes Solidity and Rust.

𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐮𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Head of Business Application Platform, EMEA North. APIs are how AI agents connect to enterprise systems. Without them, agents can't execute. 24+ years in enterprise tech (IBM, Microsoft, Google).

Alireza Siadat from Deloitte Legal is confirmed for CONF3RENCE 2026. Partner at @Deloitte in Frankfurt. One of Germany's leading regulatory lawyers for blockchain, DLT, and crypto assets. He was in the Board at INATBA, advises Blockchain Founders Group (BFG) and @tokenforge and also just recently joined the board of @bundesblock. Expert witness in the German Bundestag on crypto legislation, co-editor of ZdiW at Wolters Kluwer. Ranked by Chambers, Legal500, JUVE, and WWL. When European crypto regulation gets written, he is in the room.

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝟑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. Managing Director of @Bullish Europe GmbH, headquartered in Frankfurt with BaFin crypto licenses and a full MiCAR authorization. Previously CEO of Bitcoin Group SE and board member at futurum bank AG. Over a decade in TradFi, seven years building regulated crypto infrastructure in Germany. Few people in the market combine that depth on both sides.

Michaël van de Poppe @CryptoMichNL will take the stage at CONF3RENCE 2026. Founder and CIO of @MNFund_, a Dutch-registered investment fund focused on volatility trading and OTCs. Also runs @MNCapital_vc , investing in early-stage projects. 820K+ followers on X, host of the New Era Finance Podcast. One of the few crypto voices in Europe who combines large-scale audience reach with running actual regulated capital.