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In 2013, Jón Helgi Egilsson @jon_helgi was appointed to the supervisory board of the Central Bank of Iceland. He served as vice chairman and chairman through 2017. Still on the board, in 2016, he co-founded a company to put regulated money on a blockchain. That company is Monerium @monerium, which he describes as the first company licensed to issue stablecoins: a MiCA-licensed euro e-money institution, passported across the EEA, and the regulated issuer of EURe and GBPe. He is Co-Founder and Head of Strategic Partnerships, and before Monerium he was Head of Capital Markets at Landsbanki. His question for Abu Dhabi is the choice every bank now faces: issue a stablecoin, partner with a licensed issuer, or watch deposits migrate. He has lived under MiCA since day one and will say plainly what Europe's first years mean for Gulf regulators, and what on-chain euros could do for the Gulf-Europe corridor. We are delighted to welcome him for the first time. Jón Helgi Egilsson, Co-Founder of Monerium, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Jón Helgi Egilsson -Co-Founder and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Monerium -Former Chairman, Supervisory Board of the Central Bank of Iceland (2013 to 2017) -Executive Fellow, King's Business School; Forbes contributor Speaker 11 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Clarisse Hagège @clarisse_hagege spent a decade in global investment banking at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Crédit Agricole CIB before co-founding DFNS to build the mission-critical plumbing that safely connects institutional finance to blockchains. DFNS @dfnsHQ is the core banking platform for digital assets: the infrastructure layer between a regulated institution's existing systems and the blockchains where value moves and settles. More than 400 institutions and fintechs run on it, among them Standard Chartered, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Stripe, Kraken and Circle. It is one of the 15 partners DTCC brought together for its Tokenization Service, where institutions hold, move and govern tokenised securities on Canton and DTCC's Besu network. Her test for an institution is not whether it can hold a key or sign a transaction, but whether it can run onchain with the control, governance and auditability its board, its regulators and its clients expect. In Abu Dhabi she takes that question to the core of the bank itself. We are delighted to welcome her for the first time. Clarisse Hagège, Co-Founder and CEO of DFNS, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Clarisse Hagège Co-Founder and CEO, DFNS Board member, MPC Alliance Formerly Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Crédit Agricole CIB Speaker 10 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Nadine Chakar @nchakar has built an institutional digital asset business from three different seats: inside a global custodian, at the head of the technology company, and now inside the market utility that acquired it. The first seat was State Street. She came up through traditional finance, with roles at Manulife and BNY Mellon, before becoming Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Global Markets. The crossing into digital started from the inside: as Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Digital, she set up a new integrated business and operating model to carry clients through the entire digital investment cycle, pre-trade, trade and post-trade. The second was Securrency, where she was Chief Executive Officer of a provider of institutional-grade digital asset technology. The third began in October 2023, when DTCC @The_DTCC acquired Securrency. She is now Managing Director, Global Head of DTCC Digital Assets, overseeing the firm's digital asset technology, and she sits on the DTCC Executive Committee. Her own description of the work is the argument: partnering with clients and key stakeholders to transform and evolve their operating models, and to create new digital asset services. Not a product launch. A rebuild of how the market actually runs, which is the part that only counts once the plumbing moves. She has led that rebuild from the client's side, the vendor's side and the infrastructure's side, and each institution has trusted her with more than the one before. In October 2026, DTCC's tokenization service went live. Her words on the day: "This is only the beginning." We are delighted she is joining us. Nadine Chakar is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Nadine Chakar -Managing Director, Digital Assets, DTCC; member of the DTCC Executive Committee -Former CEO, Securrency, acquired by DTCC in October 2023 -Former EVP and Head of State Street Digital, and of State Street Global Markets; earlier roles at BNY Mellon and Manulife Speaker 4 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

Before he asked banks to build on Ethereum, David Cunningham @davebarna helped build tokenised money inside one of them. He spent nearly four years at Citi as Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Digital Assets in Citi Services, where he helped develop and commercialise Citi Token Services: a platform that integrates tokenised deposits and smart contracts into Citi's global network to upgrade cash management and trade finance. He joined in August 2022, when, as he put it on leaving, "the world of digital assets in banking was full of uncertainty and big questions". He crossed to Consensys @Consensys in March 2026, and in September was named President and Chief Business Officer of the newly formed company. Consensys is the protocols and institutional infrastructure company behind Linea, Besu and Teku, in his words "foundational infrastructure that is already the cornerstone of blockchain activity at many of the world's leading financial institutions and Financial Market Infrastructure". His job is to lead its work with banks, asset managers, payment providers and financial market infrastructures as they move tokenisation and 24/7 settlement into production. His argument is a sentence he wrote the week he took the role: "The move to a 24/7 operating model in the most important global financial marketplaces is happening now, and it'll only happen once in history." What is left is production: contracts, controls, settlement that works on a Sunday. He has carried a digital asset product through a global bank's own committees, and now he builds the rails those banks will run on, so he knows which question the risk officer will ask and which one the engineer will. He was with us at the Louvre Palace in June. We are delighted he is joining us again. David Cunningham is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About David Cunningham -President and Chief Business Officer, Consensys -Former Global Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Digital Assets, Citi Services -Helped develop and commercialise Citi Token Services Speaker 5 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Before he ran the world's largest crypto exchange, Richard Teng @_RichardTeng wrote the rules it had to live by. From Abu Dhabi. Thirteen years at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, ending as Director of Corporate Finance. Chief Regulatory Officer of the Singapore Exchange, responsible for the rules on listing, trading and clearing. From 2015, six years as CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority at Abu Dhabi Global Market, where he built the framework digital asset firms in this city still work under. In August 2021 he crossed the table and joined Binance @binance as CEO of its Singapore business. Within two years he was running every Binance market outside the United States. In November 2023 he took the global top job, and since December 2025 he has led the company as Co-CEO alongside co-founder Yi He. His argument has never changed: the person best placed to make the largest exchange in the world legible to regulators is someone who used to be one. He is back in Abu Dhabi this December, this time at the Louvre. Richard Teng is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Richard Teng • Co-CEO of Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange • Former CEO of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority, Abu Dhabi Global Market • Former Chief Regulatory Officer, Singapore Exchange, and thirteen years at the Monetary Authority of Singapore Speaker 6 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.

Before traditional finance can hold a digital asset, it has to agree what that asset is worth. Ambre Soubiran @ambresoub leads Kaiko @KaikoData, a company built to supply that answer. She trained in applied mathematics and computer science at Paris Dauphine University, then started in traditional markets in equity derivatives at HSBC Global Markets in London. She has been involved in cryptocurrencies since 2012, with two decades of finance behind her. Today she is CEO and Chairman of Kaiko , which she describes as the leading independent provider of cryptocurrency market data and analytics. She has raised over $80 million in venture funding and expanded the company globally. Markets that never close need pricing that never closes. Institutions putting real assets on chain need pricing they can rely on and indices they can defend. That is the layer Kaiko provides. We are delighted she is joining us. Ambre Soubiran, CEO of Kaiko, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Ambre Soubiran -CEO and Chairman, Kaiko -Formerly HSBC Global Markets, London, equity derivatives Speaker 8 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

“AI is the new electricity. And the meter is running.” Philip Guido published that line this week, from the keynote stage at the Agentic AI Exchange in New York. The first half is the promise. The second, he writes, is what he hears about most from CIOs: how quickly can you put AI to work, and how much business value can you generate for every token you spend? He has spent a career on the second question. More than 30 years at IBM, where he ran IBM North America, led its infrastructure services business and finished as global managing partner of strategic sales at IBM Consulting. In 2023 he joined @AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. His reading of the last four years is four leaps: conversational in 2022, multimodal in 2023, reasoning in 2024, agentic in 2025. A personal agent makes one person more productive. A team of agents multiplies what a whole function delivers. And every productivity multiplier, he reminds his own industry, is a compute multiplier. He knows the region. At LEAP 2026 he was with HUMAIN on “AI in a box”. He spoke at AI Everything Abu Dhabi this year, and his recent visits have taken in Core42, EDGE and the Ajman Digital Government. On 9 November, AMD, Khalifa University and the GSMA opened RFGPT, a radio-frequency foundation model running on @AMD compute, to telecom operators. We are delighted he is joining us. Philip Guido is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. About Philip Guido Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, AMD More than 30 years at IBM, including General Manager of IBM North America Speaker 7 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

Growth is the easy part of this industry. What a company is actually worth is decided in the weeks when markets turn, when confidence is tested, and when every decision is made in public. Changpeng Zhao @cz_binance has had more of those weeks than almost any founder in crypto. He was building for markets that break before crypto existed. Years of trading systems across New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, then Fusion Systems in 2005, writing high-frequency trading software for brokers. In 2013 he sold his Shanghai apartment and put the proceeds into Bitcoin. In July 2017 he launched Binance @binance. Inside six months it was the largest crypto exchange in the world by trading volume, and it has held that position through crashes, regulatory reversals and repeated cycles of fear and recovery, in a market where stability has to be proven again every time the conditions change. He no longer runs the company. Much of his attention now goes to Giggle Academy, the free online education platform for children he founded in 2024, and he has been blunt about what he thinks the AI era punishes: building a career as a reliable cog in someone else's machine. Changpeng Zhao, known across the industry as CZ, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. Expect a view that is not hedged. About Changpeng Zhao • Founder of Binance, launched in 2017 • Founder of Giggle Academy, a free education platform for children • Investor across crypto and frontier technologies Speaker 3 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026. Request your access: link in the first comment.

Goldman Sachs, Citi and 19 other banks just committed $270 million to their own dollar stablecoin, launching in 2027. The same day, Visa added Monad to its stablecoin settlement network. Its stablecoin settlement now runs above $25 billion a year, ten times last year. Wall Street isn’t watching stablecoins anymore. It’s building them. That’s the conversation we’re bringing to Proof of Talk, inside the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

Last week, one of the biggest names in AI flew to Abu Dhabi and left with agreements spanning energy, investment and government. The Gulf has been building toward this moment for years. That’s the conversation we’re bringing to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The final seats are going fast. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

We have far more requests than seats for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi, so we’re taking the time to read every single one. If you’re waiting, it will be worth it. If you haven’t applied, that’s the part to worry about. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026

We're three applications deep for every seat. The room caps at 2,000, and every application is read by a person before a seat is offered. Does your work speak for itself? Request your seat. Link in the first comment.

Our founders lost at chess in Cannes. They insist it was on purpose. At the invite-only Selini Summit, they sat down across the board from Jordi Alexander. The way they tell it, they threw the game so we could get Jordi to Abu Dhabi. They have also been practising at least three games a day ever since. We're not saying the two facts are connected. We're saying their version has holes in it. Either way, it worked. And word is that Selini is bringing a chess moment of its own to the Louvre Abu Dhabi. More on that soon. But first, the man of the hour. You might know him from his game theory threads on X, or from the Steady Lads podcast. Jordi Alexander @gametheorizing, Founder and CEO of Selini Capital @SeliniCapital, is confirmed for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. He runs a digital asset trading and investing firm and invests as an angel across frontier technologies. At the Louvre Abu Dhabi he's taking on one of the harder questions on the board: the tokenization of AI investments. Capital is pouring into AI. The rails to represent, fund and trade that value onchain are being built right now, by people who have to be right about both halves of the sentence. He'll be with us for both days. Whether our founders get their rematch is another question. About Jordi Alexander • Founder and CEO of Selini Capital, a digital asset trading and investing firm • Co-host of the crypto podcast Steady Lads • Active angel investor across frontier technologies Speaker 2 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.

The CEO of a $1.7 trillion firm made us a promise in Paris. Then she moved her calendar to keep it. Well , all marketing aside, this is the real stuff you need to see from a leader! In June, on our main stage at the Louvre in Paris, Jenny Johnson told us: "If you do an event in Abu Dhabi, I will come again." We took it as advice. Six months and one Louvre later, she is the first speaker we are announcing for Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi. Paris was a full day for her. She announced a tokenisation partnership with MoonPay from our stage, went live on Bloomberg Crypto with Adam Back from inside the museum, and left us a one line review: "Proof of Talk is an incredibly efficient use of time." Abu Dhabi Finance Week opens days after we close, so the efficient plan was one trip. She is making two. In for a day with us, out again, back for ADFW. Her calendar objected. She overruled it! Franklin Templeton @FranklnTempletn manages around $1.7 trillion. Time is still the one asset with no secondary market, and she is spending a day of it keeping her word. Nobody would have held a CEO of her stature to one sentence said in Paris. She held herself to it. That is the example we want our own team to see. Her bio is below and it is a serious one. What we will remember is simpler: she said she would come, and she is coming. Integrity and kindness, in a world that could use more of both. YOLO, but make it fiduciary. About Jenny Johnson - President and CEO of Franklin Templeton, CEO since February 2020 More than 35 years at the firm, with leadership roles in every major division, including Chief Operating Officer, Co-President and Chief Information Officer Led the acquisitions of Legg Mason, Putnam Investments, Lexington Partners and Alcentra - Franklin's OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, known as BENJI, was the first US-registered mutual fund to record share ownership on a public blockchain Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific, and a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore - Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women four years running, and a 2026 CNBC Changemaker - Many of the firms joining us in December are deciding whether to build or buy their way into what comes next. She has done both, at scale. Worth finding in Abu Dhabi. Speaker 1 of 120. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · 3 and 4 December 2026 Request your access: link in the first comment.

Last week, Wall Street’s biggest firms started putting real securities on-chain. That’s the conversation we’re taking inside the Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the final seats are going fast. Request access → proofoftalk.io/abu-dhabi/req… Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4

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34 days to the Louvre. 2,000 people under the same dome, 85% of them deciding where digital assets and AI go next. Selective by design. You apply, a person reads it, and every seat is earned. The final seats are being decided now. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4

Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi is pleased to welcome MarketAcross @MarketAcross as an Official PR Partner for Abu Dhabi 2026. Founded in 2012, MarketAcross is one of the most recognised names in Web3 communications. More than 1,000 brands to date, including Binance, Polygon, Avalanche, Solana, Crypto.com, Polkadot and eToro. Crypto-native from the start. The partnership extends an existing relationship. From the Louvre Palace in Paris to Abu Dhabi next. Abu Dhabi brings that partnership into a room of 2,000 decision-makers shaping the region’s institutional digital asset and AI agenda. The conversations happening inside the Louvre deserve to reach the world outside it. MarketAcross makes that happen. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

Proof of Talk Abu Dhabi welcomes Luna PR @LunaPRofficial, joining as PR Partner, Abu Dhabi 2026. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dubai, Luna PR has spent nearly a decade representing the companies building Web3 and digital assets. More than 750 clients to date, across crypto, capital markets and emerging technology. The partnership extends an existing relationship that began at the Louvre Palace in Paris. One Louvre to the next. Abu Dhabi brings that same partnership into a room of 2,000 decision-makers shaping the region’s institutional digital asset market. Wherever the conversation is, Luna PR is already there. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4, 2026.

The people who make the headlines are already confirmed. Proof of Talk · Louvre Abu Dhabi · December 3 and 4.