December 1-2, 2026
DUBAI, UAEFestival Arena
Co-located with
Blockchain Life 2026
Blockchain Life 2026
The place where the Future is born
The leading international conference on AI, Web3 and future technologies.
15000+
attendees
200+
speakers
200+
sponsors
130+
countries
Forum topics
Speakers
Garrett Jin
Legendary Crypto Whale
Arthur Hayes
CIO of Maelstrom
Jamie King
Co-Founder of Rockstar Games
Ben Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybit
Mert Mumtaz
CEO of Helius
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder of Polygon
Sergei Khitrov
Founder of Listing.Help, Jets.Capital, Blockchain Life
Tony Ashraf
Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Asset Transformation, BlackRock
Kelvin Koh
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, The Spartan Group
Sunny Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Vechain
Andrei Grachev
Managing Partner of DWF Labs
Felix Fan
CEO of Trust Wallet
Rajat Sakhuja
Director of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard
Marius Smith
Co-Founder of Ethereum Institutional
Saeeda Jaffar
Managing Director International at Circle
Anwesha Kar
NVIDIA
Daniil & David Liberman
Co-creators of the Gonka protocol & Former CPO at Snapchat
John Cahil
COO Asia at Galaxy Digital
Daniel Ishag
CCO at Bakkt
Dmitry Fedotov
Head of EMERGING TECH at ADGM
Dishang Patel
Executive VP & Head of Digital Assets at Rakbank
Ruben Bombardi
General Counsel & Head of Regulatory Enablement at VARA
Yat Siu
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands
Alex Falcon
Biggest CIS Podcast Host, Founder
Nikita Anufriev
Founder of Headliners Podcast
Ben El-Baz
HashKey MENA MD, Head of International markets, Hashkey Exchange
Alex Scott
Member of Solana Superteam UAE
Karl Naïm
CCO of XBTO
Estelle Roiena
Institutional Finance & Asset Integrations Lead, Cardano Foundation
Vugar Usi Zade
CEO of MEXC
Alicia Kao
Managing Director at KuCoin
Max Rabinovitch
CSO of Chiliz
Davis Hui
VP of Canaan
Brendan Ma
Head of Investment Strategy at Arbitrum Foundation
Luke Judges
Partner Director at Ripple
Arnaud Simeray
VP GTM at Dune
Alice Liu
Research Lead at CoinMarketCap
Akshay Singh Dalal
Head of Regional Risk & Compliance, Middle East Turkey & Africa at Google
Irina Heaver
Crypto Lawyer & Founder of NeosLegal
Charles d’Haussy
CEO of dYdX Foundation
Naeem Aslam
Columnist at Nasdaq, CNN, Forbes Middle East, CIO of Zaye Capital Markets
Kevin Lee
CSO at BingX
Marcin Kaźmierczak
Co-Founder & COO of RedStone Oracles
Li HanQiang
Co-Founder & CEO of SpiderPool
Gourav Sarkar
Product Management Executive at Oracle
Emil Panakhov
Co-Founder of Alpha-one.io
Edwin Cheung
Executive Director at Gate.io
Chris MMCrypto
Cryptocurrency Expert
Leonid Maloletov
Crypto Influencer
Nic Puckrin
Co-Founder & CEO of Coin Bureau
Danil Gaidamakin
COO of Jets.Capital
Amit Mehra
General Partner of Borderless
Derek Dai
Country Manager, MENA at Bybit
Senthil Velu
Amar Odedra
CCO at Algorand Foundation
Marcin Matyja
Associate Director, Blockchain & Digital Assets at BCG
Robert Farquhar
CEO for MENA at Ctrl Alt
Marc Shawn Brown
Founder of MSB Intel
Mitchell Amador
CEO of Immunefi
James Wo
Founder & CEO of Digital Finance Group
Ambre Soubiran
CEO of Kaiko
Alessia Baumgartner
VP of Ecosystems at DWF Labs
Aishwary Gupta
Head of Payments & Tokenisation of Polygon Labs
Ahmed Allam
Senior Financial Expert at H.H. the Ruler's Court of Dubai
Mohamed Issa
Regional Director at TRM
Matthias Mende
Co-Founder of Dubai Blockchain Center
Hadir Gaber
CEO of ChainMena
Jeroen Gillekens
Middle East Lead at LayerZero
Joseph Collement
CLO of Bitcoin.com
Omesh Tickoo
Chief Data Scientist at PNNL DOE (U.S. Department of Energy)
Paul Dawalibi
CEO of Innovation City
Husni Khuffash
Managing Director at Positron
Oliver Bou Eid
Ai artist
Farhan Rakhangi
AI Content Creator & Founder of BM Agentic Martech
Bas Lemmens
CRO of Chainalysis
Padam Sundar Kafle
CEO of vCodes Software Solutions
Baraa Ibrahim
Founder of Arabian AI School & AI Innovation Lead at FLITC
Yana Minaylova
Head of Institutional Sales, MENA&CIS at Binance
Thomas Kralow
Chairman of EVEDEX
Sander Gortjes
Co-Founder & CEO of HELLO Labs
Fehmida Hussain
Professor in CEI, Head & Founder of MIH at Middlesex University Dubai
Pavel Kulikov
Crypto Lawyer, Educator & Lecturer
Paul Shikhaleev
Head of Sales & Partnership at Cointelegraph
Nikita Sachdev
Founder & CEO of Luna PR
Magzhan Madiyev
CEO of AstanaHub
Lakshya Kanyakubja
Head of BD at CertiK MENA
Joaquin Mendes
COO of Taiko
Elena Gonta
Regional Ambassador of AIWC
Dmitry Machikhin
CEO & Founder of BitOK
Damu Winston
ex Former ex Global Head, Web3 Innovation & Digital Products at Amazon
Crypto Kid
Crypto Analyst & Entrepreneur
Crypto Jack
Crypto Trader & YouTube Influencer
Arina Rumiantseva
Lead Legal Counsel at Sumsub
Anton Feingold
Director at Hypertracker
Andres Meneses
Vice Chairman, Colombian Business Council Dubai & Founder of Orbyt X
Alenka Shmalko
Advisor in tokenisation & digital assets, Co-host of Onchain, Honestly! podcast
Abdelilah Arahal
Co-Founder of Python Arabic Community
Alexey Korolenko
Executive Director at Cifra Markets
Christopher Smith
CEO of Quantus
Daniel Badalian
CEO of QuickShock.io & Head of Growth at ASCN.ai
Andrey Tugarin
CEO of GMT Legal
Sujal Jethwani
Crypto & AI Influencer
Maxim Hamaha
Crypto Influencer & Professional Trader
Mr. KEY
Founder of KEY Difference
Hossamudin Hassan
AI Educator & Founder of ePreneurs
Aidana Kaskyrbek
CEO of Blockchain & Ai Technology Center at Astana Hub
Chingiz Nasirov
CEO of CoinW (CIS)
Pavel Durov
Founder of Telegram
Paolo Ardoino
CEO of Tether
Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder of Chainlink
Errol Musk
Entrepreneur, Digital Assets & AI Investor, Elon Musk’s father
Bobby Ong
Co-Founder of CoinGecko
Ben Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybit
Reeve Collins
Co-Founder Tether/STBL/WeFi & Pending Chairman of ReserveOne
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder of Polygon
Sergei Khitrov
Founder of Listing.Help, Jets.Capital, Blockchain Life
Justin Sun
Founder of TRON & Advisor to HTX
Arthur Breitman
Co-Founder of Tezos
Kostas Chalkias
Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs
Brandon Green
Chief of Staff at BTC Inc
Yat Siu
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands
Yoann Turpin
Co-Founder of Wintermute
Pascal Gauthier
Chairman and CEO of Ledger
Dr. Zuoxing Yang
Founder & CEO of MicroBT
Dr. Marwan Alzarouni
CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center
Frederik Gregaard
CEO of Cardano Foundation
Tim Draper
Founder of Draper Associates and DFJ
Xinxi Wang
Co-Founder of Litecoin
Dominic Williams
Founder & Chief Scientist of DFINITY (ICP)
Fred Thiel
CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings
Xmei Lin
President of Mining Division, Bitmain
Eowyn Chen
CEO of Trust Wallet
Andrei Grachev
Managing Partner of DWF Labs
Dmitry Fedotov
Head of EMERGING TECH at ADGM
Sunny Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Vechain
Rachel Conlan
CMO of Binance
Bhavik Patel
CIO of Arrington Capital
Alice Liu
Research Lead at CoinMarketCap
Alicia Kao
Managing Director at KuCoin
Brock Pierce
Co-Founder of DNA Fund
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer at OKX
Roger Ver
Founder of Bitcoin.com
Chef Kids
Co-Founder of PancakeSwap
Ben Goertzel
CEO of SingularityNET
Charles d’Haussy
CEO of dYdX Foundation
Zied Brini
Program Lead for MetaMask at Consensys
Miriam Kiwan
Vice President at Circle
Yoann Turpin
Co-Founder of Wintermute
Reece Merrick
Senior Director, Global Strategic Partnerships at Ripple
Mohammad Alblooshi
CEO of DIFC Innovation Hub
Sunny Aggarwal
Co-Founder of Osmosis Labs
Koray Koska
CEO of Ether.fi Cash
Yves La Rose
Co-Founder & CEO of EOS Network Foundation
Danilo S. Carlucci
Founder & CEO of Morningstar Ventures
Brandon Green
Chief of Staff at BTC Inc
Rajat Sakhuja
Director of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard
Tiago Henriques
Head of AI/ML Technology Practice, Google Cloud EMEA
Pär Helgosson
Head of PSG Labs
Nikita Anufriev
Founder of Headliners Podcast
Alex Falcon
Biggest CIS Podcast Host, Founder
2026
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