The curated conference and meeting point for strategists and managers in charge of digital assets, the new money stack and our industrial digital infrastructure.
Our vision
What Is the Digital Assets Day?The Digital Assets Day wants to pave the way for strategic discussions and hands-on assessments of the building blocks needed to drive European digital sovereignty and economic efficiency. As digital assets become mainstream, we discuss tokenization, stablecoins, digital capital markets, institutional trust infrastructure, and regulation under one roof.
The ambition is to bring together the key players shaping the future of digital finance, from policymakers and financial institutions to technology and industry leaders, investors and innovators.
Participants will gain actionable insights, connect with senior decision-makers, and explore the technologies and policies driving the next generation of financial markets, and the touchpoints between blockchain and AI based innovation in the finance sector and the operational reality of all other industries. Whether you are a forward thinker, a builder, an investor, or in charge of regulation or legal operations, the Digital Assets Day is where strategy, innovation and collaboration converge.
Programme
Agenda StructureThree stages running in parallel: the Main Stage sets the agenda, the Executive Forum goes deep in curated formats, and the Future Stage shows what industry already builds. All three open together with the joint opening session. This is Bundesblock's working draft and may still change, and only speakers who have confirmed are named.
Main Stage
Classic conference set up
Executive Forum
Curated deep dive formats
Future Stage
Industry and technology in practice
08:45 – 9:00 · 15 min
Welcome & Opening
Daniela Boback, Sebastian Becker, Hagen Weiss, Florian Haller
09:00 – 9:10 · 10 min
Opening Speech
Florian Haller
09:10 – 9:25 · 15 min
The State of Digital Assets 2026
Manfred Richels
09:25 – 9:45 · 20 min
A European Digital Assets Strategy? The French-German Task Force on the Future of Financial Markets
Christoph Hock, Hagen Weiss (moderation)
09:45 – 10:00 · 15 min
From Digital Euro to Stablecoin Rails - The New Money Stack
Franziska Huber
10:00 – 10:35 · 35 min
The New Money Stack - what's Europe's positioning
Claus George, Courtney Lamar Williams, Ramin Ghafari, Henri de Jong, Matthias Kröner (moderation)
10:55 – 11:10 · 15 min
Portfolio Construction in the Age of Digital Assets
Christoph Pliessnig
11:10 – 11:45 · 35 min
Capital Markets 2.0 - Digital Securities & Market Infrastructure
Simone Cortese, Michael Reinhard, Christian Bock, Stefan Grasmann (moderation)
11:45 – 12:20 · 35 min
AI x Blockchain Beyond Payments - Agents, Data Markets & Trusted Automation
Jens Strüker, Patrick Tobler, Andre Liesenfeld, Sarah Gottwald (moderation)
13:15 – 13:35 · 20 min
Tokenization & the Road to Real World Influence
13:35 – 14:15 · 40 min
What should be Tokenized First?
Raphael Neuberger, Lorenzo Rigatti, Christian Million, Moritz Stumpf, Jessica Kreysar (moderation)
14:15 – 14:40 · 25 min
European Champions: Forming Future Financial Players in the German-speaking Markets
Lewin Boehnke, Michael Reinhard, Oliver Schmitt (moderation)
14:40 – 14:55 · 15 min
Institutional Trust Infrastructure - What enables Trust?
Jacek Trzmiel, Sebastian Becker (moderation)
14:55 – 15:30 · 35 min
Scaling Institutional Trust: Custody, Wallets, Identity & Security
Martin Kreitmair, Niclas Voigt, Jonas Gantenbein, Oliver Naegele (moderation)
15:50 – 16:15 · 25 min
How to Collaborate: Industry x Blockchain Foundations
Patricia Albrecht, Fabian Bormann, Heinz-Günther Lux, Sebastian Becker (moderation)
16:15 – 16:35 · 20 min
Digital Public Infrastructure - EU Business Wallet, Deutschland Stack & European Sovereignty
Jens Strüker, Jacek Trzmiel
16:35 – 17:00 · 25 min
Regulation, Tax & Competitiveness - MiCA 2.0, DAC8, DORA and beyond
Alireza Siadat, Dr. Nina-Luisa Siedler (moderation)
17:00 – 17:35 · 35 min
Society 2035 - AI, Digital Assets & our Future Economic Backend
Stephan Lutz, Dyma Budorin, Max Muth (moderation)
17:35 – 18:00 · 25 min
The Race for international Digital Assets Leadership
08:50 – 9:35 · 45 min
Opening Session (Main Stage)
09:35 – 10:15 · 40 min
AI x Blockchain Beyond Payments - Decision-Maker Briefing
Peter Busch, Silvan Jongerius, Lukas Beckenbauer
10:15 – 10:40 · 25 min
The Race for Value Chain Re-Modelling: How AI & Digital Assets will drive Business Value and Impact
Prof. Eduard Grün
11:00 – 11:50 · 50 min
Corporate Treasuries & Agentic AI Payments - must-have Capabilities for the German Economy
Claus George, Valerie von Lucke, Bernhard Schweizer, Paul Wong, Prof. Philipp Maume (moderation)
11:50 – 12:40 · 50 min
Portfolio Construction & Institutional Allocation
Marcel Uhlmann, Ralf Kubli, Christian Bock, Hannes Claut, Daniela Boback (moderation)
13:25 – 13:55 · 30 min
European Banking Consortia driving Digital Capital Markets
Michael Cyrus
13:55 – 14:20 · 25 min
The Innovation Challenge - a Call to Action
Alexander Höptner
14:20 – 15:15 · 55 min
Tokenization Deep Dive - Assets, Adoption & Distribution
Daniel Wernicke, Markus Kluge, Raphael Neuberger, Christoph Jentzsch
15:40 – 16:00 · 20 min
From Tokenization to Allocation: How Institutions Evaluate On-Chain Real-World Assets
16:05 – 17:00 · 55 min
Trust Infrastructure for Institutions - Custody, Wallets, Identity & Compliance
Lewin Boehnke, Niclas Voigt, Dr. Thomas Endress, Alexandra Lloyd
17:00 – 17:35 · 35 min
Rewiring of Financial Market Infrastructure & the vision for a Deutschland AG 2.0
Oliver Naegele, Robert Heinze, Hagen Weiss (moderation)
08:50 – 9:45 · 55 min
Opening Session (Main Stage)
10:00 – 10:20 · 20 min
Digital Product Passport
10:20 – 10:50 · 30 min
How to manage energy in the future
Prof. Thomas Fürstner
11:10 – 11:30 · 20 min
From ERP to Autonomous Enterprises
11:30 – 11:40 · 10 min
Tokenization & Industry Utility in the Steel Sector
Tobias Rethmeyer
11:40 – 11:50 · 10 min
From the cockpit to the blockchain: How & why an aviation company is building a MiCAR-compliant token
Gerhard Wimmer
11:50 – 12:30 · 40 min
The programmable Company
Jürgen Kleeberger, Christoph Jentzsch, Jan-Gero Alexander Hannemann, Radoslav Albrecht (moderation)
12:30 – 12:50 · 20 min
x402 - M2M Payments
13:25 – 13:35 · 10 min
AI & Blockchain: Trust Design & the AI Act
13:35 – 13:55 · 20 min
How to Manage & Settle Europe's Production Data Layer
13:55 – 14:40 · 45 min
All ways lead to Rome: Pontes, Appia & the necessary marriage of financial & technical sovereignty
Jens Paulsen, Dolf Diederichsen, Jork Leonhardt
14:40 – 15:25 · 45 min
Leaders vs. Laggards: Financial Institutions of the Future
David Kurz, Charles Moussy, Marco Bodewein, Alireza Siadat (moderation)
15:50 – 16:00 · 10 min
Title to be announced
16:00 – 16:20 · 20 min
Bridging the crypto Language gap - how Technology, Institutions and Regulators can understand each other
Afra Stöhr
16:20 – 17:05 · 45 min
A strategic look at the Crypto Taxation Debate in Germany & Austria
Marie Christin Rinke, Florian Wimmer, Paul Pöltner (moderation)
08:00 – 8:45 · 45 min
Arrival & Networking · Main Stage
08:45 – 9:00 · 15 min · Main Stage
Welcome & Opening
Speakers:
Daniela Boback
Head of Ecosystem & Strategic Partnerships, Bundesblock
Sebastian Becker
Managing Director, Bundesblock
Hagen Weiss
Digital Assets Lead, PwC Legal
Florian Haller
08:50 – 9:35 · 45 min · Executive Forum
Opening Session (Main Stage)
08:50 – 9:45 · 55 min · Future Stage
Opening Session (Main Stage)
09:00 – 9:10 · 10 min · Main Stage
Opening Speech
Speaker:
Florian Haller
09:10 – 9:25 · 15 min · Main Stage
The State of Digital Assets 2026
Speaker:
Manfred Richels
Head of Corporate Payments, Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband
09:25 – 9:45 · 20 min · Main Stage
A European Digital Assets Strategy? The French-German Task Force on the Future of Financial Markets
Speakers:
Christoph Hock
Head of Tokenisation & Digital Assets, Union Investment
Hagen Weiss
Digital Assets Lead, PwC Legal
Moderation
09:35 – 10:15 · 40 min · Executive Forum
AI x Blockchain Beyond Payments - Decision-Maker Briefing
Speakers:
Peter Busch
Director Technology Enablement, Robert Bosch GmbH
Silvan Jongerius
Lukas Beckenbauer
CEO, deAI Labs
09:45 – 10:00 · 15 min · Main Stage
From Digital Euro to Stablecoin Rails - The New Money Stack
Speaker:
Franziska Huber
Economist / Expert CBDC, Deutsche Bundesbank
10:00 – 10:20 · 20 min · Future Stage
Digital Product Passport
10:00 – 10:35 · 35 min · Main Stage
The New Money Stack - what's Europe's positioning
Speakers:
Claus George
Courtney Lamar Williams
Executive Advisor, Digital Assets and Market Infrastructure, Clius Global Partners
Ramin Ghafari
Head of Financial Technologies, Siemens AG
Henri de Jong
Chief Business Development Officer, Quantoz Payments
Matthias Kröner
Managing Partner, GFTN Europe
Moderation
10:15 – 10:40 · 25 min · Executive Forum
The Race for Value Chain Re-Modelling: How AI & Digital Assets will drive Business Value and Impact
Speaker:
Prof. Eduard Grün
10:20 – 10:50 · 30 min · Future Stage
How to manage energy in the future
Speaker:
Prof. Thomas Fürstner
10:35 – 10:55 · 20 min
Coffee Break · Main Stage
10:40 – 11:00 · 20 min
Coffee-Break · Executive Forum
10:50 – 11:10 · 20 min
Coffee-Break · Future Stage
10:55 – 11:10 · 15 min · Main Stage
Portfolio Construction in the Age of Digital Assets
Speaker:
Christoph Pliessnig
11:00 – 11:50 · 50 min · Executive Forum
Corporate Treasuries & Agentic AI Payments - must-have Capabilities for the German Economy
Speakers:
Claus George
Valerie von Lucke
Principal Product Owner DLT & Digital Assets, Commerzbank AG
Bernhard Schweizer
Head of Digital Currency Payments and Assets, SAP
Paul Wong
Prof. Philipp Maume
Professor of Law, Technical University of Munich
Moderation
11:10 – 11:30 · 20 min · Future Stage
From ERP to Autonomous Enterprises
11:10 – 11:45 · 35 min · Main Stage
Capital Markets 2.0 - Digital Securities & Market Infrastructure
Speakers:
Simone Cortese
Chief Product Officer, Fnality
Michael Reinhard
Christian Bock
Sales Director, Talos
Stefan Grasmann
Signal in the Noise · Digital Assets, Independent
Moderation
11:30 – 11:40 · 10 min · Future Stage
Tokenization & Industry Utility in the Steel Sector
Speaker:
Tobias Rethmeyer
Director, SC Steelcoin GmbH
11:40 – 11:50 · 10 min · Future Stage
From the cockpit to the blockchain: How & why an aviation company is building a MiCAR-compliant token
Speaker:
Gerhard Wimmer
CEO, Skygate Network GmbH
11:45 – 12:20 · 35 min · Main Stage
AI x Blockchain Beyond Payments - Agents, Data Markets & Trusted Automation
Speakers:
Jens Strüker
Patrick Tobler
Andre Liesenfeld
Sarah Gottwald
CSO, deAI Labs GmbH
Moderation
11:50 – 12:40 · 50 min · Executive Forum
Portfolio Construction & Institutional Allocation
Speakers:
Marcel Uhlmann
Managing Director, Tradevest Digital Assets GmbH
Ralf Kubli
Board Member, Validation Cloud
Christian Bock
Sales Director, Talos
Hannes Claut
Manager, PwC GmbH
Daniela Boback
Head of Ecosystem & Strategic Partnerships, Bundesblock
Moderation
11:50 – 12:30 · 40 min · Future Stage
The programmable Company
Speakers:
Jürgen Kleeberger
Christoph Jentzsch
Founder, beel
Jan-Gero Alexander Hannemann
PhD Researcher (AI, Blockchain & IP), University of Cambridge
Radoslav Albrecht
Founder & CEO, Bitbond
Moderation
12:20 – 13:15 · 55 min
Lunch Break · Main Stage
12:30 – 12:50 · 20 min · Future Stage
x402 - M2M Payments
12:40 – 13:25 · 45 min
Lunch Break · Executive Forum
12:50 – 13:25 · 35 min
Lunch-Break · Future Stage
13:15 – 13:35 · 20 min · Main Stage
Tokenization & the Road to Real World Influence
13:25 – 13:55 · 30 min · Executive Forum
European Banking Consortia driving Digital Capital Markets
Speaker:
Michael Cyrus
Head of Collateral Trading, DekaBank
13:25 – 13:35 · 10 min · Future Stage
AI & Blockchain: Trust Design & the AI Act
13:35 – 13:55 · 20 min · Future Stage
How to Manage & Settle Europe's Production Data Layer
13:35 – 14:15 · 40 min · Main Stage
What should be Tokenized First?
Speakers:
Raphael Neuberger
COO & CFO, Cashlink
Lorenzo Rigatti
CEO & Co-Founder, BlockInvest
Christian Million
Managing Partner, Convista Consulting AG
Moritz Stumpf
Jessica Kreysar
Founder, Financial Educator, Turn the Curve
Moderation
13:55 – 14:20 · 25 min · Executive Forum
The Innovation Challenge - a Call to Action
Speaker:
Alexander Höptner
CEO, AllUnity GmbH
13:55 – 14:40 · 45 min · Future Stage
All ways lead to Rome: Pontes, Appia & the necessary marriage of financial & technical sovereignty
Speakers:
Jens Paulsen
Dolf Diederichsen
Co-founder and CEO, Hyphe Markets GmbH
Jork Leonhardt
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, corpus.core GmbH
14:15 – 14:40 · 25 min · Main Stage
European Champions: Forming Future Financial Players in the German-speaking Markets
Speakers:
Lewin Boehnke
Chief Strategy Officer, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group
Michael Reinhard
Oliver Schmitt
CEO, VALUEX / VI3NNA Congress
Moderation
14:20 – 15:15 · 55 min · Executive Forum
Tokenization Deep Dive - Assets, Adoption & Distribution
Speakers:
Daniel Wernicke
Co-CEO, NYALA
Markus Kluge
CPO & Co-Founder, tokenforge GmbH
Raphael Neuberger
COO & CFO, Cashlink
Christoph Jentzsch
Founder, beel
14:40 – 15:25 · 45 min · Future Stage
Leaders vs. Laggards: Financial Institutions of the Future
Speakers:
David Kurz
Business Development, Bitvavo
Charles Moussy
EU Policy Director, Bybit
Marco Bodewein
Managing Director, Bullish
Alireza Siadat
Lead Blockchain & Digital Assets EMEA, Deloitte Legal
Moderation
14:40 – 14:55 · 15 min · Main Stage
Institutional Trust Infrastructure - What enables Trust?
Speakers:
Jacek Trzmiel
Sebastian Becker
Managing Director, Bundesblock
Moderation
14:55 – 15:30 · 35 min · Main Stage
Scaling Institutional Trust: Custody, Wallets, Identity & Security
Speakers:
Martin Kreitmair
CEO, Tangany GmbH
Niclas Voigt
VP Digital Assets, Commerzbank AG
Jonas Gantenbein
Head of Product Innovation & Business Solutions, Celsion Bank AG
Oliver Naegele
Board Member, Blockchain Bundesverband
Moderation
15:15 – 15:40 · 25 min
Coffee Break · Executive Forum
15:25 – 15:50 · 25 min
Coffee-Break · Future Stage
15:30 – 15:50 · 20 min
Coffee Break · Main Stage
15:40 – 16:00 · 20 min · Executive Forum
From Tokenization to Allocation: How Institutions Evaluate On-Chain Real-World Assets
15:50 – 16:00 · 10 min · Future Stage
Title to be announced
15:50 – 16:15 · 25 min · Main Stage
How to Collaborate: Industry x Blockchain Foundations
Speakers:
Patricia Albrecht
Country Lead, Solana Germany
Fabian Bormann
Director of Ecosystem Engineering, Cardano Foundation
Heinz-Günther Lux
Sebastian Becker
Managing Director, Bundesblock
Moderation
16:00 – 16:20 · 20 min · Future Stage
Bridging the crypto Language gap - how Technology, Institutions and Regulators can understand each other
Speaker:
Afra Stöhr
Founder, 0xcounting
16:05 – 17:00 · 55 min · Executive Forum
Trust Infrastructure for Institutions - Custody, Wallets, Identity & Compliance
Speakers:
Lewin Boehnke
Chief Strategy Officer, Crypto Finance | Deutsche Börse Group
Niclas Voigt
VP Digital Assets, Commerzbank AG
Dr. Thomas Endress
Alexandra Lloyd
Head of AML, Youhodler
16:15 – 16:35 · 20 min · Main Stage
Digital Public Infrastructure - EU Business Wallet, Deutschland Stack & European Sovereignty
Speakers:
Jens Strüker
Jacek Trzmiel
16:20 – 17:05 · 45 min · Future Stage
A strategic look at the Crypto Taxation Debate in Germany & Austria
Speakers:
Marie Christin Rinke
Partner, Tax Advisor, Möhrle Happ Luther
Florian Wimmer
Co-Founder & CEO, Blockpit AG
Paul Pöltner
Moderation
16:35 – 17:00 · 25 min · Main Stage
Regulation, Tax & Competitiveness - MiCA 2.0, DAC8, DORA and beyond
Speakers:
Alireza Siadat
Lead Blockchain & Digital Assets EMEA, Deloitte Legal
Dr. Nina-Luisa Siedler
Lawyer, Board Member, siedler legal, DAAvern, Bundesblock
Moderation
17:00 – 17:35 · 35 min · Executive Forum
Rewiring of Financial Market Infrastructure & the vision for a Deutschland AG 2.0
Speakers:
Oliver Naegele
Board Member, Blockchain Bundesverband
Robert Heinze
Hagen Weiss
Digital Assets Lead, PwC Legal
Moderation
17:00 – 17:35 · 35 min · Main Stage
Society 2035 - AI, Digital Assets & our Future Economic Backend
Speakers:
Stephan Lutz
Dyma Budorin
CEO and cofounder, Hacken
Max Muth
Moderation
17:35 – 18:00 · 25 min · Main Stage
The Race for international Digital Assets Leadership
Join us
TicketsThe Digital Assets Day is Day 2 of the TUM Blockchain Conference 26 + Hackathon, so one conference ticket gets you into all of it.
Your ticket covers the full conference and Hackathon, October 29 to 31 in Munich. Bundesblock member? Reach out to the team below for discounts.
Get in touch
ContactTalk to the Bundesblock team
Questions about the Digital Assets Day, or a Bundesblock member asking about discounts? Send us a message and we will get back to you.
Your Bundesblock contacts
Daniela Boback
daniela@bundesblock.deSebastian Becker
sebastian@bundesblock.de