We spent months building this room. BlackRock. HSBC. SWIFT. Fidelity. Franklin Templeton. BIS. The decision-makers driving digital asset adoption across APAC are joining us. Will you? Early bird tickets are live, secure your place: luma.com/CosmoverseHongKong

Swift joins us at Cosmoverse in Hong Kong 🇭🇰

We are pleased to welcome Devendra Verma, Business Lead, Digital Assets at Swift, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Devendra spearheads strategic client engagements for Swift's Shared Digital Ledger initiative, partnering with global financial institutions to drive the integration of digital assets into the global financial ecosystem, with a focus on interoperability and strategic alignment. His participation brings a senior perspective on how digital assets are being integrated into global financial infrastructure, and what interoperability looks like in practice when the world's leading financial messaging network engages digital rails.

AI Agents will want capital efficiency, and they will select the currencies that deliver that. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research and Strategy at @BlockchainforEU, argues that the agentic economy is a regulatory question as much as a technology one.

The euro is the second largest currency in the world and holds just 1% of global stablecoin volume. Erwin Voloder, Director for Research & Strategy at @BlockchainforEU walked us through why that gap exists and what it would take to change it. New episode of Beyond Cosmoverse.

We are pleased to welcome Christie Chan, Director – Group Digital Assets and Currencies at HSBC, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Based in Hong Kong, Christie is central to the strategic build-out of digital assets and currencies capabilities for HSBC in the region. Since joining the firm in 2022, her work has included the landmark HKSAR Government Digital Green Bond issuances on HSBC Orion and HSBC's involvement in the HKMA's Project Ensemble. Her participation brings an institutional perspective on how digital asset and currency capabilities are being built and deployed in practice within one of the world's largest banking organisations, at a moment when Hong Kong's digital asset market infrastructure is entering a new phase of execution.

We are pleased to welcome Abdelhamid Bizid, Head of Product Development APAC at @BlackRock, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Known as Abdel, he leads product development and governance across BlackRock's APAC investment platform, working to deliver a differentiated offering across active and private markets for institutional clients in the region. He also oversees BlackRock's China onshore product strategy, driving product innovation within the firm's local wealth and fund management subsidiaries. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with approximately US$13.9 trillion in assets under management as of Q1 2026. The firm has been one of the most active institutional participants in the tokenization of financial markets globally, from BlackRock's tokenized money market fund, now at approximately US$2.5 billion in assets, to new filings for tokenized Treasury and money market fund structures. His participation brings a senior product development perspective on how the world's largest asset manager is building and scaling institutional-grade tokenised product infrastructure across Asia Pacific.

We are pleased to welcome Barton Lui, Director, Global Product Solutions at @BlackRock, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Barton sits within BlackRock's Global Product Solutions team in Hong Kong, focused on product development across the firm's investment platform. His work spans asset management product strategy and distribution, connecting institutional client needs with BlackRock's global product capabilities across Asia. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with approximately US$13.9 trillion in assets under management as of Q1 2026. The firm has been one of the most active institutional participants in digital asset market development globally, from its spot Bitcoin ETF, the fastest-growing ETF ever launched, to BlackRock's tokenized money market fund, which has grown to approximately US$2.5 billion in assets and expanded across multiple blockchain networks. His participation brings a product and distribution perspective from the world’s largest asset manager, at a moment when institutional product development and digital asset infrastructure are converging in practice across Asia Pacific.

We are pleased to welcome Tom Digby, Managing Director, Head of APAC ETF Distribution at Invesco, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Tom leads ETF distribution across Asia Pacific for Invesco, one of the world's largest ETF providers with over $638 billion in ETF and index assets under management globally. His work spans the full distribution architecture for one of the most active ETF businesses in the region, from capital markets and liquidity to retail, wealth, and institutional distribution across APAC. Invesco has been an active participant in Hong Kong’s evolving digital asset ETF market and has published institutional research on digital asset ETF opportunities, including Bitcoin and blockchain infrastructure. In February 2025, Invesco cross-listed its flagship QQQ ETF on HKEX, the first cross-listing of the fund outside North America, reflecting the firm’s strategic commitment to Hong Kong as a distribution hub for the region. His participation brings a senior distribution perspective on how institutional-grade ETF infrastructure is evolving to accommodate digital assets, and what access, liquidity, and market structure look like in practice for one of the world’s largest ETF providers operating across Asia Pacific.

We are excited to welcome Peggy Kwok, Senior Vice President, Fintech at Invest Hong Kong, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. In her role, Peggy is responsible for InvestHK's fintech engagement as part of the government department responsible for attracting and retaining foreign direct investment into Hong Kong. In her role, she works closely with financial institutions, fintech companies, and infrastructure operators to support the development of Hong Kong's digital asset and fintech ecosystem, connecting international participants with the regulatory and commercial conditions the city offers. Her presence brings a public-sector perspective on the conditions, regulatory, commercial, and institutional, that are shaping Hong Kong's position as a leading jurisdiction for digital asset market development.

AI won't replace you. It will replace what you do. Every major technology in history has done exactly that, and the economy has always found new things for people to do with the time it created. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer of Pairpoint by Vodafone:

We are pleased to welcome Angelina Kwan, CEO of Stratford Advisory, to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Angelina brings one of the most distinctive career profiles in Hong Kong's financial and digital asset landscape, spanning regulatory leadership, exchange operations, digital asset infrastructure, and compliance advisory across more than three decades. She began her career at Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, where she served as Director of Enforcement and then Director of Supervision of Markets, building and leading teams responsible for supervising the city's financial markets and developing rules and regulatory frameworks for new products and services. She served as Managing Director and Head of Group Regulatory Compliance at HKEX, where she established the exchange's Group Regulatory Compliance Department and served as its primary interface with global regulators. She subsequently served as Global Chief Operating Officer at BitMEX and later as Group COO and Chief Risk Officer at HashKey Group, two of the most consequential digital asset institutions in Asia. Since 2019, she has led Stratford Advisory, a consulting firm specialising in regulatory and operational strategy for financial services and digital asset firms across the region. Angelina serves as Chair of The Women's Foundation and contributes to multiple Hong Kong government boards and committees, including the Financial Services Development Council. Her participation brings a perspective grounded in both sides of digital asset market development, the regulatory architecture that governs it and the operational infrastructure required to run it to institutional standards.

We are bringing the largest APAC players together. More names dropping soon!

We are pleased to welcome Don Ng, Director, Digital Assets at @ChinaAMC_HQ (HK), to our Hong Kong Digital Asset Summit. Don is part of the digital assets team at ChinaAMC (HK), one of China's largest fund management firms and one of the most active institutional players in Hong Kong's digital asset market. In early 2025, ChinaAMC (HK) launched the ChinaAMC HKD, USD, and RMB Digital Money Market Funds - the first retail tokenised fund suite in the APAC region - and the only asset manager globally to offer tokenised money market funds across all three major currencies. This marks a significant milestone in the firm's broader digital assets strategy, which also encompasses Asia's first spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs and Asia's first Solana ETF. Don brings a career spanning Web3 investment, crypto wealth management, and traditional banking across Hong Kong. This breadth of experience bridges the operational realities of digital asset markets with the rigour of institutional finance, giving him a rare vantage point across the full spectrum of the digital assets ecosystem. His presence brings a senior asset management perspective on how tokenisation moves from regulatory approval into live product infrastructure, and what institutional-grade digital asset deployment looks like in practice for one of Asia's most active fund managers in digital assets.

The system is built for 8 billion people transacting. By 2030, we could have 100 billion AI agents. David Palmer, Chief Product Officer of Pairpoint by Vodafone, is clear, the industry is not prepared for what is coming ⬇️

Vodafone has 250 million connected IoT devices. David Palmer's job: give them identity and the ability to transact. New episode of Beyond Cosmoverse dives into IoT as the next data frontier for AI ⬇️

The Hong Kong Tourism Board is joining Cosmoverse as a Supporting Organization. Hong Kong has a regulated digital asset framework, government backing, and institutional capital. HKTB's support reflects that.

.@Cryptocito didn't come from finance. He came from community, a Mandarin degree, and a tweet. From grassroots meetups in Shanghai to a summit where the ECB and Revolut share the stage with blockchain devs. This is a special edition of Beyond Cosmoverse, the origin episode ⬇️

🇭🇰 The 2026 speaker lineup is taking shape. Franklin Templeton. InvestHK. Fidelity International. EVIDENT. EFPA. World Bank Group. #Cosmoverse26

Use AI tools, build with them, but understand the business model behind them! Peter Busch, 35 years at Bosch, advice to the next generation: