Opening and Welcome
Pete Harris, Conference Chair & Editor, Digital Assets & Tokenisation Insight, A-Team Group

Opening Keynote Fireside Chat: Replumbing capital markets: Taking tokenisation into production

What does it take to bring tokenisation into production? Jason Emery, Managing Director and Head of Product, DTCC, explores:

• What has changed after years of industry experimentation?
• What does it take to build a scalable, production-grade service?
• How could tokenisation improve collateral mobility and support broader adoption?

Interview with: Jason Emery, Managing Director and Head of Product, DTCC
Interviewed by: Victoria Garrity, Head of Risk, Fnality Group

Panel: Drivers for institutional momentum in digital assets – applications, use cases and regulatory evolution

• What applications and use cases are driving interest and adoption of tokenisation and digital assets?
• How are industry-wide regulatory updates and risk mitigation initiatives providing opportunities for new tokenisation use cases?
• Are industry leaders and FOMO playing a role in accelerating adoption?
• Have any anecdotal and quantitative metrics emerged that support the investment in tokenisation initiatives?
• What industry developments will be needed to scale significant adoption of digital assets? For which applications and markets?

Moderator: Mary Ann Callahan, Senior Consultant, Patomak Global Partners
Simon Barnby, CMO, Archax
Alex Krasnow, DeFi Lead, Aon Risk Solutions
Ryan Louvar, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Business and Legal Affairs, WisdomTree
Alan Konevsky, CEO, tZERO

Application Case Study Keynote: Managing Risk in Tokenised Markets: Building Institutional-Grade Digital Asset Infrastructure

• How does an institution like BNY build risk and control frameworks for digital asset initiatives, and where do they differ from those for traditional infrastructure?
• How are technology and cyber risk, operational resilience, governance and compliance embedded into product development from day one rather than added at the end?
• What are the practical challenges of connecting traditional financial infrastructure with on-chain assets, and how are they being addressed?
• What controls do institutional clients and regulators need to see before they will adopt tokenised products at scale?
• What lessons has BNY learned along the way, and what should firms earlier in the journey prioritise?

Ashley Shillingford, Senior Director Digital Assets Risk Lead, BNY

Panel: What’s new and next with stablecoins and tokenised deposits – for humans and the agentic economy

• How are institutions preparing for the implementation of the GENIUS Act and related legislation in the US?
• What are the business drivers and pros/cons of adopting stablecoins vs tokenised deposits?
• As the number of stablecoins in production increases, how are institutions determining which to support?
• Given stablecoin payments are instant and irreversible, do institutions face increased fraud risk? Are there any facilities to freeze suspicious transfers?
• Are institutions ready to support stablecoins that are used by AI agents, and which might route thousands of sub-cent micro-payments per hour?

Moderator: Pete Harris, Conference Chair & Editor, Digital Assets & Tokenisation Insight, A-Team Group
James Brown, Managing Director, Investment Banking, TD Securities
Sam ten Cate, MD, Head of Digital Assets Strategy, State Street Investment Management
Emilio Rivero Coello, Managing Director, Product International Banking, Anchorage Digital
Maharaja Subramanian, Head of Product Management – Americas, Volante Technologies

Panel: From strategy to scale: The critical decisions behind fund tokenization

• How are asset managers navigating the interconnected choices required before, during and after a tokenised fund launch?
• Are there best practices for evaluating token product structures alongside essential legal and regulatory considerations?
• How standardised are guidelines for determining token market demand, distribution channels and investor requirements?
• What are key considerations when designing the technology architecture and establishing a robust tokenisation operating model?
• What tokenisation vendor selection and ongoing operations aspects are critical?
• How current structural choices will either enable or limit future opportunities in the tokenisation era?

Moderated by: Jay Biancamano, Founder, NovaPoint Advisory
Representative from Securitize
John Denza, Head of Americas, Apex Digital
Vishal Gupta, Independent Capital Markets Executive

Briefing Concludes