Virtual Day - June 2021

Thursday, 17.06.2021

• Public Part

  • 14:00 - 14:05
    CfC St. Moritz Welcome address

    • Nicolo Stöhr
  • 14:05 - 14:30
    Switzerland and Blockchain: Now What? (Fireside-chat)

    • Michael Manz,
    • Katharina Bart

    After Switzerland ushered in a new DLT law in February - how is its vibrant blockchain community fitting into the fabric of the real economy and what regulatory challenges remain?
  • 14:30 - 14:55
    Token Safe Harbor Proposal 2.0 (Fireside-chat)

    • Hester Peirce,
    • David Wachsman

    Commissioner Peirce will share her views and discuss the updated version of the token safe harbor proposal that she originally suggested in February 2020.
  • 14:55 - 15:00
    - BREAK -

    Speaker(s) will be announced shortly

• Private Part

  • 15:00 - 15:40
    The Central Bank Perspective: State of CBDCs (Panel)

    • Thomas Moser,
    • Jim Cunha,
    • Sopnendu Mohanty,
    • Ali Nejadmalayeri

    Pros and Cons of a national digital currency from a central bank perspective. How does a central bank prepare for this and consider the impact on society?
  • 15:40 - 16:00
    Why Institutions need to get serious about cryptocurrencies (Impuls-Keynote)

    • Stephen Stonberg

    With the rapid global trends in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and CBCDs, Stephen breaks down on why traditional financial institutions need to seriously rethink their approaches to these new forms of money or risk being left behind in the 21st century and sheds light on how some of these challenges can be approached.
  • 16:00 - 16:40
    Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets: Challenges and Opportunities (Fireside-Chat)

    • Tim Grant,
    • David Olsson,
    • Stephen Stonberg,
    • Mathias Imbach,
    • David Wachsman

    In 2021, the promise of institutional crypto has finally been realized. In a dynamic conversation, the industry experts will ponder the international regulatory apparatus supporting the institutional side of the industry, the advent of sophisticated trading systems, custodianship, and prime brokerage, and the possibilities yet to be realized for security tokens, among other burning topics.
  • 16:40 - 16:45
    - BREAK -

    Speaker(s) will be announced shortly
  • 16:45 - 17:20
    DeFi-Regulation (Panel)

    • Prof. Dr. Fabian Schär,
    • Dr. Joachim Schwerin,
    • Rebecca Rettig,
    • Jacek Czarnecki,
    • David Johnston

    With anarchists to former bankers seeking to rebuild a more trusted and inclusive financial services sector - how to regulate this sector?
  • 17:20 - 17:55
    The (r)evolution of traditional capital markets (Fireside-chat)

    • Christine Moy,
    • Alan Lane,
    • Diogo Mónica,
    • Michael Bucella

    Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology are changing the way institutions and individuals are interacting with capital markets. The legacy market structure is quietly being upended by the very firms that underlie them...and a few new entrants. Welcome to the (r)evolution.
  • 17:55 - 18:25
    The Next Next Big Thing (Fireside-Chat)

    • Alex Pack,
    • Ken Seiff,
    • Rob Schmults

    Overnight BitClout became a sensation. But before its launch, over 70 investors like Sequoia, Andreesen, Coinbase, etc, were quietly on board. After its launch, its product market fit was immediately evident. By its second full week, over 100,000 Daily Active Users were on the site. It is a decentralized twitter. But then again, it's not. Calling it that now would have been a bit like calling Amazon a bookstore in 1998. What it is and what it could be are not the same.
  • 18:25 - 18:30
    - BREAK -

    Speaker(s) will be announced shortly
  • 18:30 - 18:55
    Institutional adoption of Regulated Digital Assets, blockchain and ESG (Fireside-chat)

    • Sheila Warren,
    • Michael Sung,
    • Zenobia Godschalk

    2021 will be a pivotal year of accelerated momentum with the institutional adoption of digital currencies and assets, from central banks to capital markets. What are the key considerations that will catalyse this impending future world of regulated digital assets and institutional blockchain use cases? How will the global trend of sustainability and ESG drive enterprise adoption of blockchain applications and tokenised assets?
  • 18:55 - 19:25
    The ABC’s of NFTs (Fireside-chat)

    • Olta Andoni,
    • Jake Brukhman,
    • Donna Redel

    A quick review of what is an NFT and the current landscape.
  • 19:25 - 20:00
    NFTs and the Art Market (Panel)

    • Johann König,
    • Priyanka Desai,
    • Kenny Schachter,
    • Kevin Abosch,
    • Georg Bak

    The NFT art market offers artists a direct way to interact with art collectors. How does the traditional art market adapt to this new technology and what do art collectors need to know when expanding their collection into this new medium?
  • 20:00 - 20:05
    Closing words & Outlook

    • Nicolo Stöhr

• Networking

  • 20:05 - 20:45
    Virtual Networking

    Speaker(s) will be announced shortly