World Digital Assets Forum

WDAF 2026 Agenda

Herald Media Group is hosting its inaugural World Digital Assets Forum. This will be the place where real conversations between the real professionals will take place.

The theme for this year is

"The New Financial Architecture"

It reflects the changes and challenges in store for everyone riding the wave of on-chain finance.

Join us to rewire the global economy.

SPEAKERS

Speakers

Meet our speakers who are here to share their experience and insight on how the future of finance is being rewritten.

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Paulo Ardoino

Founder & CEO

Tether

Don Tapscott

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman

Blockchain Research Institute

Naveen Mallela

Global Head of Payments / Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Ltd.

Standard Chartered

Akshika Gupta

Global Head of Product Sales and Solutions

Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

Sagar Shah

Chief Business Officer(CBO)

Evernorth

Jae-Hyuk Lee

Partner

PwC Korea

Rania Rahardja

Senior Director, APAC

Ondo Finance

Daniel Kim

Founder & CEO

Tiger Research

Yongjae Lee

Head of Digital Asset Business Department

Mirae Asset Securities

Gabriel Gareth Foo

DeFi Growth Lead

Securitize

Christie Chan

Director of Digital Assets and Currencies

HSBC

Jongsub Lee

Professor of Finance

Seoul National University Business School

Ashfaq Shaik

Executive Vice President, Engineering & Digital Assets

Broadridge

Niki Ariyasinghe

Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Middle East

Chainlink Labs

Justin Kim

Vice President of International Business Development

Ava Labs

Seung Jae Yoo

Foreign Attorney

Kim & Chang

Gerald Goh

Co-Founder / CEO

Sygnum / Sygnum APAC

Jem Kim

Executive Director of Innovation & Strategy Department

Herald Media Group

Fabian Khoshbakht

Head of APAC for Global Payments & Trade

BNY

Jinnie Lee

Sales Director APAC

Ripple

Chris Park

Head of Korea Commercial Strategy

BitGo

Sagar Desai

APAC Head of Wholesale

Coinbase Institutional

Eric Ko

Chief Strategy Officer

Korea Digital Asset Custody

CJ Fong

APAC General Manager

GSR

David Katz

Vice President, Strategy and Policy for Asia Pacific

Circle Internet Group

Queenie Le

Regional Expansion Lead APAC

Tether

* More Speakers Coming Soon.

WDAF Speaker Application

We look forward to exploring how your insights can shape our 2027 agenda.
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis, and our team will be in touch if there is a mutual fit.

WDAF Speaker Application

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World Digital Assets Forum

WDAF 2026 Agenda

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