Digital Euro Conference 2026

AGENDA

March 26, 2026

Explore the DEC26 Agenda

The DEC26 will feature three dedicated spaces:

Main Stage (Audimax) – Keynotes and panel discussions.

Innovation Room – Showcasing cutting-edge solutions.

Roundtable Room – Interactive discussions and deep dives. Invite only and will not be streamed. Register using the buttons for each roundtable session.

Each room offers a unique experience with exclusive sessions and industry insights. Select a room below to explore the line-up!

 

DEC26 Side Events

Check out the DEC26 Side Events
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DEC 26 Floor Plan
08:15 → 08:50
Registration
Check-in Desk
All Day
Room Moderation
moderation
MAIN STAGE & ONLINE
Marcel Kaiser
Financial Services Consultant at FinPlanet
08:50 → 09:10
Welcome Introduction
Opening
Main Stage & Online
Dr. Jonas Gross
DEA Chairman
Anne-Sophie Gógl
Manager at KPMG and Vice Chairwoman at DEA
09:10 → 09:20
Retail and Wholesale Markets in Transition: Visions for Europe
Keynote
Main Stage & Online
Dr. Jürgen Schaaf
Advisor to the Senior Management at ECB
09:20 → 09:30
Stablecoins from the Regulator Perspective
Keynote
Main Stage & Online
Stephan Mögelin
Lead Senior Officer at BaFin
09:30 → 10:20
CBDCs in Motion: Adoption, Impact, and the First Real Tests
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Dr. Alexandra Hachmeister
Director General Digital Euro at Deutsche Bundesbank
Agnese Gentile
Digital Euro Unit Advisor at Banca d'Italia
Dr. Jan Rosam
EY Germany Financial Services Technology Consulting Leader
Jan Haas
Head of Digital Money at msg for banking ag
Luca Cassetti
Secretary General at Ecommerce Europe
Dr. Jonas Gross
DEA Chairman
MODERATOR

10:20 → 10:40

Networking Break

Foyer
10:40 → 11:00
Enabling Offline Payments at Scale: Bankable, Implementable, Governed as Digital Money
Keynote
Main Stage & Online
Joachim Samuelsson
CEO at Crunchfish
11:00 → 11:40
The Euro’s Settlement Stack:
Pontes Progress, Ambitions for Appia
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Adeline Bachellerie
Deputy Director, Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures at Banque de France
Marco Kessler
Head Product and Business Development for Digital Assets at SIX Group
Christoph Hock
Head of Tokenization & Digital Assets at Union Investment
Bert Staufenbiel
Senior Manager Digital Transformation at KfW
Anne-Sophie Gógl
Manager at KPMG and Vice Chairwoman at DEA
MODERATOR
11:40 → 12:00
Unlocking the Wholesale Digital Euro: A New Era for European CSDs — The SIX‑Iberclear Contribution
Keynote
Main Stage & Online
Marco Kessler
Head Product and Business Development for Digital Assets at SIX Group
12:00 → 12:40
The Future Financial Stack: How Public Chains, Enterprise Systems, and Banks Connect
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Marius Smith
Enterprise Lead at Ethereum Foundation
Nick Kerigan
Managing Director, Head of Innovation at Swift
Ivica Aračić
CTO at SWIAT GmbH
Tom Chudy
Product Manager at Google Cloud
Tamara F Schmidt
Executive Director at DEA
MODERATOR

12:40 → 13:50

Lunch & Networking Break

Foyer
13:50 → 14:10
Aligning Bank Strategy and Tech Execution for Tokenized Money
Keynote
Main Stage & Online
Mark Rakhmilevich
VP of Product Management and Platform Software Development at Oracle
14:10 → 14:50
Tokenized Markets Need Tokenized Money: Europe’s Roadmap from Pilots to Production
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Mark Rakhmilevich
VP of Product Management and Platform Software at Oracle
Heiko Nix
Head of Cash Management and Payments at Siemens AG
Mehtaj Syed
EMEA Head, Business Development at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Manuel Klein
Head of Market Management Payments & Digital Currencies at Deutsche Bank
Lena Grale
Business Consultant at msg for banking & Board Member at DEA
MODERATOR
14:50 → 15:10
European Sovereignty in Practice: A Resilient Cloud Stack for Payments in Europe
KEYNOTE
Main Stage & Online
Ruben Debeerst
Partner, Principal Consultant at Senacor
15:10 → 15:50
Euros On-Chain: Roles, Use-Cases, Guardrails
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Alexander E. Brunner
Senior Advisor at VIA Science
Patrick Hansen
Senior Director, EU Strategy & Policy at Circle
Tony McLaughlin
CEO at Ubyx Inc.
Jan Sell
CEO at Qivalis BV
Daniela Boback
Head BD & Ecosystem at Blockchain Bundesverband e.V.
MODERATOR
15:50 → 16:10
DEUSS - a Pan-European Project to Drive SME Financing via Tokenized Bonds
FIRESIDE CHAT
Main Stage & Online
Ondřej Kovařík
DEUSS & ex-MEP
Sebastian Becker
MD of Blockchain Bundesverband e.V.

16:10 → 16:40

Networking Break

Foyer
16:40 → 17:20
Europe 2030: The Digital Money Stack
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Dr. Stephan Ludwig
Digital Euro Team Lead, Product at Deutsche Bundesbank
Thibault Pelé
Global Head of Digital Currency at Worldline
Ulrich Bindseil
Professor at TU Berlin
Marieke Flament
Co-Author at Currency of Power
Conrad Kraft
Managing Director at DEA
MODERATOR
17:20 → 18:00
Geopolitics and Digital Money: European Strategic Autonomy in a Connected World
Panel Discussion
Main Stage & Online
Menno Broos
Project Lead Digital Euro at De Nederlandsche Bank
Sonja Davidovic
Senior Digital Currency Expert at IMF
Ruben Debeerst
Partner, Principal Consultant at Senacor
Martin Hullin
Director, Network for Technological Resilience & Sovereignty, Europe’s Future Program at Bertelsmann Stiftung
Anne-Sophie Kappel
Executive Director at DEA
MODERATOR
18:00 → 18:10
Closing Remarks & Wrap-Up
Closing
Main Stage & Online
Dr. Jonas Gross
DEA Chairman

18:10 → 19:30

Networking Wine Reception

Foyer
All Day
Room Moderation
Moderation
Innovation Room & Online
Robby Schwertner
Co-Founder Validvent Technology GmbH
10:40 → 11:10
The fundamental transformation of Payments – new rails, rich data & programmability – Real life examples of how banks are getting prepared
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
Jens Siebert
Partner at KPMG
11:10 → 12:10
Conservative Approach to Distributing Digital Instruments on Public Blockchains
Workshop
Innovation Room & Online
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Mark Rakhmilevich
VP of Product Management and Platform Software Development at Oracle
Lorenzo Cremona
Director, Outbound Product Management at Oracle
12:10 → 12:40
Central Bank Digital Currencies and Commercial Banks - Embracing the Coming Innovation
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
John Velissarios
CEO at OtrantoEQ

12:40 → 13:50

Lunch & Networking Break

Foyer
13:50 → 14:20
Trust is a bridge - The role of a CSD in a tokenized integrated financial ecosystem
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
Simon Papenkort
Manager at d-fine GmbH
Thomas Wißbach
Director, Project Management of Digital Product & Market Design at Deutsche Börse AG
14:20 → 14:40
CBDC Implementation across the Globe: An Overview
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
John Kiff
Research Director at Kiffmeister LLC
14:40 → 15:00
What to Expect from the Digital Shekel Project
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
Yoav Soffer
Digital Shekel Project at Bank of Israel
15:00 → 15:20
Digital Innovation from the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank: Lessons and Opportunities from a Live CBDC
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
Karina A. Johnson
Project Specialist at ECCB
15:20 → 15:40
Digital Innovation from the Central Bank of Kazakhstan
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
John Velissarios
CEO at OtrantoEQ
15:40 → 16:00
Digital Innovation from the Central Bank of Brazil: The DREX Initiative
Presentation
INNOVATION ROOM & ONLINE
Alessandro Fraga
Specialist at Banco Central do Brasil

16:10 → 16:40

Networking Break

Foyer
16:40 → 17:00
Thoughts on Strategic Autonomy in Payments
Presentation
Innovation Room & Online
Diederik Bruggink
Senior Director - Payments and Digital Finance at WSBI ESBG
10:40 → 11:40
From Crypto Payments and the Digital Euro to Efficient KYC: EUDI and the EU Business Wallet as the Key to Digital Business Models in Payments and Banking
Workshop
Roundtable Room
Open to All Attendees
Gereon Neuhaus
Division Manager Industry at msg security advisors
Steffen Schwalm
Senior Manager Digital Identity & Trust at msg security advisors
11:40 → 12:40
Digital Euro Readiness & Implementation Challenges
Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Room
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Dr. Jan Rosam
EY Germany Financial Services Technology Consulting Leader
Vikas Kumar Sonigara
Director, Technology Consulting at EY
Jakob Bouchetob
Senior Manager, Financial Services, EY Consulting GmbH
Thibault Pelé
Global Head of Digital Currency at Worldline

12:40 → 13:50

Lunch & Networking Break

Foyer
13:50 → 14:50
The Promise and Challenges of Implementing Stablecoins at Financial Institutions
Workshop
Roundtable Room
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Geetha Panchapakesan
CEO & Founder at Tesser
Dana Weinstein
Head of Product at Tesser Payments
Jonathan Knoll
Co-Founder at etonec GmbH
14:50 → 15:50
Institutional Privacy on Public Blockchains with Ethereum’s Institutional Privacy Task Force
Workshop
Roundtable Room
Register Here
Oskar Thorén
Technical Lead of the Institutional Privacy Task Force Team at Ethereum Foundation
Yanis Meziane
Applied Cryptography Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Aaryamann Challani
Research Engineer at Ethereum Foundation
Mo Jalil
Institutional Privacy Lead at Ethereum Foundation
15:50 → 16:50
Can CBDCs truly Digitize Cash Payments? Lessons from EV Charging
Workshop
Roundtable Room
Open to All Attendees
Matthias Rübo
Partner, Principal Consultant at Senacor

DEC26 Side Events

March 25, 2026

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Digital Finance Night

​Join Finance Loop for meaningful connections with like-minded innovators and decision makers in finance and fintech. This event targets institutional use cases in digital assets, tokenization, stablecoins, custody, and compliant onchain finance.

Organizers: Finance Loop, Venturebloxx
Date/Time: 25 March/18:00 - 21:00
Venue: Nextower

More Details and Registration Here


Host a Side Event

Boost Your Visibility
Showcase your innovative ideas and solutions to a global audience of policymakers, industry leaders, and financial experts shaping the future of digital money.

Exclusive Networking Opportunities
Engage with key decision-makers, forge strategic partnerships, and expand your influence in the European digital currency and payments ecosystem.

Contribute to the Community
Enhance the conference experience by hosting insightful discussions, interactive workshops, or networking sessions that drive thought leadership and collaboration.

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