2023 Edition - Luxembourg Blockchain Week

October 10th Photos!

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Speakers

Agenda

Crash courses - (Digital learning hub, esch-belval)

Monday, October 9

13:00 ¦ Opening words Emilie Allaert, Luxembourg Blockchain Lab

13:15 ¦ Inspirational speech Serge Linckels, DLH

13:30 ¦ Blockchain Wim Stalmans, The Blockchain Academy

14:00 ¦ Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) Adnan Imeri, LIST

14:30 ¦ Regenerative Finance Vincent Katchavenda, Erable

15:00 ¦ DeFi Andy Bryant, Vektor

15:30 ¦ Tokenisation Thierry Grandjean, LIST

16:00 ¦ Bear Market: lessons learned and the path forward Artem Sinyakin, Oak Invest & Wasabee Consulting

Luxembourg Blockchain Lab Day - (D'COQUE, LUXEMBOURG)

Tuesday, October 10

9:45 ¦ Bitcoin: The driving force behind the SDGs – Keynote by Sascha Grumbach, Green Mining DAO

10:00 ¦ Education – In discussion with Niamkey Kouamé, Servichain

10:15 ¦ Climate – In discussion with Alexander Neumüller Lead Climate Aspects Cambridge Digital Assets Programme (CDAP) and Adnan Imeri, LIST

10:30 ¦ How can DLT help with impact investing? Panel moderated by Maria Tapia, LSFI with Vincent Katchavenda, Erable; Ala Presenti, Moniflo; Monique Bachner, Bachner Legal

10:20 ¦ Fireside chat with Hedera – A balance sheet for the Planet by Laurence Stijns-Collignon, Paypal and Jonathan Rackoff, The HBAR Foundation

11:35 ¦ Credits market: biodiversity, carbon; is DLT an enabler towards sustainability goals? Panel moderated by Vanessa Müller, EY Luxembourg with Nura Linggih, Pleno; Sascha Grumbach, Green Mining DAO; Hanna Fiegenbaum, Research & Development, Jonathan Rackoff, The HBAR Foundation

12:10– 13:15 ¦ LUNCH BREAK

13:15 ¦ POST Philately entering a new dimension by Marco Van Maris, POST Luxembourg

13:30 ¦ Challenges and Opportunities: Blockchain’s Journey in Sustainable Supply Chains by LIST

¦ Blockchain Applications for Sustainable Finance

14:30 ¦ Innovation Pitches by

Vincent De Smedt – Terya, Camille Bossel – Kapital, Rushank Bardolia & Abhimanyu Singh – Green Earth Agro, Raphael Scheuren – Blochome

15:10 ¦ Blockchain Applications for Sustainable Finance Panel moderated by Alex Panican with Ankit Arora, LIST; Camille Bossell, HACK Capital; Guénolé de Cadoudal, CACIB

15:55 – 16:15 ¦ COFFEE BREAK

16:15 ¦ Powering new business model with Blockchain pitches by: Terya, Blochome, Cent Finance,

18:00 ¦ LëtzStake After-Work & After Party Brought to you by ACI, Aleph.im, Massa, and Tezos / Nomadic Labs, the afterparty is free, but due to limited capacity, registration is subject to approval

Infrachain Summit Day - (d'Coque, luxembourg)

Wednesday, October 11

Leading the Change: How the EU Drives Global Blockchain Adoption

10:00 | Registration

10:30 | Welcome words by Fabrice Croiseaux, Chairman of the Board, Infrachain a.s.b.l.

10:35 | ReimaginingEurope’s Digital Future: The Power of EBSI and Verified Identity by Christophe Maertens, Belgium, FPS BOSA & Blockchain4Belgium

10:55 | “The European Blockchain Services Infrastructure – EBSI” by Pierre Marro, Administrator for Communication Networks, Content and Technology, DG Connect (European Commission)

11:10 | “Turning Vision into Reality: The Role of EBSI-VECTOR and EBSI-NE in Advancing the European Blockchain Service Infrastructure” by Alla Aboudaka (VECTOR Project)

11:25 | “BlockStand” by Ricardo Simoes, Executive Director (INATBA)

11:40 | “EBSI, Blockchain and National Policies” by Alberto López, Deputy Director of the Innovation Lab, INCM – Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda (Portugal), Piotr Rutkowski, Expert for blockchain and the development of digital technologies, Ministry of Digital Affairs (Poland), Patrick Weber, Project Manager, Ministry for Digitalisation (Luxembourg)

12:00 | Panel discussion With Alla Aboudaka, Alberto López, Christophe MAertens, Pierre Marro, Piotr Rutkowski, Ricardo Simoes, Patrick Weber, Moderated by Alexandra Höß, Doctoral Researcher, SnT

Lunch break – 12:30 pm – 14:00

Securing Business With Blockchain: Cybersecurity, Privacy and Compliance

14:00 | Afternoon opening

14:35 | “Understanding Basic Attacks on Ethereum Blockchains” by Antonio Ken Iannillo, Research Scientist, SnT

14:50 | “Reaching A New Frontier In Smart Contract Security And Insurance” by Dr. Peter Bärnreuther, Chief Underwriting Officer, Chainproof

15:05 | Use case Regulatory IT challenges related to Blockchain by Luc Maquil, Managing Partner, Maqit

15:20 | Panel discussion “How to anticipate and address cybersecurity risks and compliance requirementsto preserve and develop trust in blockchain capabilities for 2024 and beyond?” With Yevheniia Broshevan, Co-founder & CBDO, Hacken, Dr. Peter Bärnreuther, Yevheniia Broshevan, Antonio Ken, Moderated by Cédric Mauny, President, CLUSIL

Coffee break 16:00 – 16:20

Redefining Power: the Present and Future of Decentralized Governance

16:20 | DAOs– Is Decentralized Governance, a Decentralization of Power? by Jaguar A. Gal, Adv. CPA, CEO, JAGuar AI Reg&Comp. & JAGuar Lawyers

16:35 | “Creating a DAO: Centralisation Issues” by Wim Stalmans, Decentralisation Officer, TBA DAO

16:50 | Use case: Alpha Persei, by Harry Ghillemyn

17:05 | “Kleros and the Birth of Decentralized Justice” by Federico Ast, President, Kleros

17:20 | Panel discussion With Jaguar A. Gal, Adv. CPA, Federico Ast, Harry Ghillemyn, Wim Stalmans, Moderated by Sunny Jiang, Founder, MaasDAO

Networking cocktail sponsored by Net Service 18:00 – 19:00

Finance & Investments Day (D'COQUE, LUXEMBOURG)

Thursday, October 12

8:45 ¦ Is the regulatory framework finally aligned with the needs of the crypto market players? by CMS Panel discussion with Martin Watkins, Montis ; Jack Ehlers, Bitstamp; André Rendeiro, Bison Bank; Aurélia Viémont, CMS

9:45 ¦ BREAKFAST

¦ DeFi

10:15 ¦ Welcome and introduction by Ananda Kautz, Head of Innovation, Digital Banking & Payments, Member of the Management Board – ABBL

10:25 ¦ Decentralised Finance: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities by Prof. Dr. Dirk Andreas Zetzsche, Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance – University of Luxembourg

11:05 ¦ Is decentralised finance a game changer for traditional financial institutions? Panel discussion moderated by Thomas Campione, CFA. Advisory Director, Blockchain & crypto-assets Leader – PwC Luxembourg, Sara Berujon, Head of Payments Luxembourg – J.P.Morgan SE, Luxembourg Branch, Christophe Medinger, Deputy Head of Business Unit Digitalisation, Spuerkeess; Christian Dohmen, General Counsel, Luxembourg Stock Exchange; Prof. Dr. Gilbert FRIDGEN, Professor and PayPal-FNR PEARL Chair in Digital Financial Services, SnT – University of Luxembourg

11:45 – 13:00 ¦ Networking Lunch

¦ The future of Finance

13:00 ¦ Keynote by Nestor Verrier, Swissquote

13:15 ¦ Custody, regulations and new financial assets: is the impossible finally made possible? A panel moderated by Chris Hollifield, LFF with Marina Baudéan, 21Shares; Nestor Verrier, Swissquote; Jan Brzezek, Crypto Finance AG; Pierre Gérard from Scorechain

14:00 ¦ The Digital Money Dashboard: A one-stop-shop for everything digital money Presentation of the CDAP by Christopher Jack and Keynote by Roman Proskalovich

14:25 ¦ Interoperability Jean Diederich, Finegan in discussion with Roberto Petrarulo, Clearstream

14:40 ¦ Blockchain as a new generation a discussion led by Emilie Allaert, Luxembourg Blockchain Lab with Paolo Brignardello, FundsDLT

¦ Tokenisation

15:00 ¦ RWA Tokenization Explained Keynote by Luc Falempin

15:15 ¦ Fireside chat With Luc Falempin, Tokeny & Kevin Demeyer, Deloitte

15:30 ¦ A practical use case

16:00 ¦ An innovative outlook on Tokenization Panel discussion by Daniel Coheur, Tokeny; Philippe Noeltner, A&O; Veronica Martinez Sotillo, Quintet Private Bank ; Xavier Rouayroux, Olkypay

¦ DIGITAL ASSETS: BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER IN 2024?

17:30 ¦ Panel discussion with Karima Lachgar, Regulation crypto expert, Laurent Marochini, Head of Innovation SGSS Luxembourg, David Durouchoux, Deputy CEO of SG FORGE, Josselin Hebert Senior Digital Innovation Officer at ESM, Alexandre Briand, Economist, Project Manager, Market Infrastructures and Payment Systems at Banque centrale du Luxembourg

18:30 ¦ Networking Cocktail