Consensus 2025 Attendance Guide
Reprinted from jinse
02/13/2025·2MCompiled by: Golden Finance
From February 18 to 20, 2025, the Consensus 2025 Conference will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. This conference brings together many big names in the industry and Golden Finance specially compiles the conference guide to help you attend the conference with peace of mind.
1. Speakers
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Chan Mo-po, Financial Secretary for the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Xu Zhengyu, Director of Financial Affairs and Treasury Affairs Bureau
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Adam Back, Blockstream CEO
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Richard Teng, Binance CEO
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Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation
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Adrian Cheng, Chairman of Hong Kong Wealth Inheritance Academy
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Hong Fang, President of OKX
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Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack
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Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood GM & VP
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Steve Yun, member of the TON Foundation Board of Directors
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David Tse, Babylon Inc.
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Avery Ching, CEO of Aptos Labs
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Mike Silagadze, CEO of ether.fi
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Momir Amidzic, Managing Partner at IOSG Ventures
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Niki Ariyasinghe, Head of Business Development, Chainlink
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Man Ho Allen Au, Professor and Deputy Director, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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John Cahill, Galaxy Digital COO
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Yam Ki Chan, Vice President of Partnerships and Business, Circle
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Charles d'Haussy, CEO of dYdX Foundation
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Ian De Bode, Chief Strategy Officer, Ondo Finance
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Yi Li, Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
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Patrick McCorry, Arbitrum Foundation Developer
2. Meeting agenda
The meeting lasted for three days.
February 18 (Tuesday)
**7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
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Location: The Henderson
Event: Consensus Opening Party: ZHU’s Roof Carnival
February 19 (Wednesday)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable discussion: The inspiration that DeepSeek successfully brings to Web3AI
Participating guests:
PublicAl Lianchuang & CMO Jordan Gray, Hyperbolic Marketing Director Joelly Gloria, OKX Ventures Partner Jeff Ren, 0G Lianchuang & CTO Ming Wu
9:35 AM - 9:45 AM
Location: Mainstage
Opening Keynote
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Guest: Chan Mo-bo, Financial Secretary, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: Mainstage
Roundtable discussion: Bitcoin: The foundation of the new financial system?
Participating guests:
Blockstream CEO & Lianchuang Adam Back, JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, Babylon Inc. Lianchuang David Tse, CoinDesk Senior Analyst James Van Straten
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Builders Stage
Conversation: Why SUI can swallow the world
Participating guests:
Adeniyi Abiodun, Chief Product Officer at Mysten Labs, George Danezis, Chief Scientist at Mysten Labs
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Location: Emerging Tech Stage
Conversation: Welcome to the Web3 Arts and Culture Summit
Participating guests:
DASTAN Chairman Farokh Sarmad, Director of Media Innovation Sam Ewen, CoinDesk
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion: A Perspective from Wall Street to Cryptocurrency
Participating guests:
Fabio Frontini, Founder of Abraxas Capital Management, Mike Kuehnel, CEO of Flow Traders, CEO of Brevan Howard Digital, Gautam Sharma, Managing Director of CoinDesk Events
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion: Organizations: Forecasts and Next Steps
Participating guests:
Figment Lorien Gabel, CEO of Deus X Capital Tim Grant, CEO of Talos Anton Katz, Managing Director of Ripple Asia Pacific, Ella Arwyn Jones, Content and Business Director, Haymarket Media
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Location: Mainstage
Dialogue: Hong Kong: How will regulation develop next?
Participating guests:
Julia Leung, CEO of Securities and Futures Commission, Sam Reynolds, Senior Reporter of CoinDesk
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable discussion: Global regulatory team
Participating guests:
Matthew White, CEO of Virtual Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau, Eric Yip, Executive Director of Securities and Futures Commission, CoinDesk Regulatory Reporter Cheyenne Ligon
11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Location: Mainstage
Conversation: More than Bitcoin: Shaping the Future with Binance
Participating guests:
Binance CEO Richard Teng, Consensus Hong Kong Chairman Michael Lau
11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Location: Money Reimagined
Topic: USDC as a platform for global prosperity
Speaker:
Yam Ki Chan, Vice President, Cooperation and Business, Circle, Asia Pacific
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location: Mainstage
Roundtable discussion: Where will Ethereum go next?
Participating guests:
Scroll Sandy Peng, MegaETH C00 Laura Shi, ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze, RedStone Oracles Marcin Kazmierczak
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable discussion: How sovereign wealth funds acquire digital assets
Participating guests:
Further Ventures Managing Partner Mohamed Hamdy, Oman Investment Authority Investment Assistant Hamood Al Fanna, Coinbase Institutional Strategy Head John D'agostino
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Location: Builders Stage
Topic: The Size of the Cryptocurrency Market
Speaker:
Andrei Grachev, managing partner at DWF Labs
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable discussion: Where is the market momentum? Understand how the market flows
Participating guests:
Michael Higgins, CEO and Global Head of Corporate Development at Hidden Road International, Yongjin Kim, B2C2 CEO Thomas Restout, Emma Pecenicic, Head of Digital Proposal and Cooperation at Fidelity International Asia Pacific (except Japan)
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Location: Mainstage
Dialogue: DeFi meets with organizations: Build trust and infrastructure on Sui
Participating guests:
Mysten Labs Lianchuang & CEO Evan Cheng, CoinDesk Editor-in-Chief Sam Kessler
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Mainstage
Dialogue: Solana: Build a global Internet capital market
Participating guests:
Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation, Nine Blocks Capital Management Henri Arslanian
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Location: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion: The Metauniverse is Dead: Artificial Intelligence Rises, Becoming the King of Digital Innovation
Participating guests:
Pundi Al Zac Cheah, FLock.io CEO Jiahao Sun, Kite Al CTO & Lianchuang Scott Shi, Al Square CEO Louis Boka
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Mainstage
Conversation: Robinhood Crypto and Solana – Is the retail industry moving on the chain?
Participating guests:
Johann Kerbrat, General Manager and Vice President of CryptoRobinhood, Lily Liu, Chairman of the Solana Foundation, and Christine Lee, Senior CoinDesk anchor
February 20 (Thursday)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Location: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable discussion: The inspiration that DeepSeek brings to Web3AI
Participating guests:
PublicAl Lianchuang & CMO Jordan Gray, Hyperbolic Marketing Director Joelly Gloria, OKX Ventures Partner Jeff Ren, 0G Lianchuang & CTO Ming Wu
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Location: Mainstage
Roundtable discussion: Bitcoin: The foundation of the new financial system?
Participating guests:
Blockstream CEO & Lianchuang Adam Back, JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, Babylon inc. Lianchuang David Tse, CoinDesk Senior Analyst James Van Straten
10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Location: Mainstage
Conversation: How Memecoin went from picture to fanatic token in 2024
Participating guests:
Selini founder Jordi Alexander, BONK core contributor Nom Bonk, CoinDesk token insight analyst Shaurya Malwa
11:20 AM - 11:50 AM
Location: Money Reimagined
Roundtable discussion: The future of DeFi
Participating guests:
Justin Kim, Asia Director of Ava Labs, Kanny Lee, SecondSwap Founder, Daniel Oon, Polygon DeFi Director, CoinGecko Bobby Ong
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Emerging Tech Stage
Roundtable discussion: (decentralized) computing, serving all others
Participating guests:
Filecoin Foundation Founder Clara Tsao, Aethir Chief Strategy Officer Mark Rydon, loTeX Jing Sun
12:50 PM - 1:05 PM
Location: Money Reimagined
Theme of the speech: The next wave: Public Bitcoin Treasury Ticket
Speaker: Roger Hamilton, CEO of Genius Group Limited
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Location: Mainstage
Speech Topic: Promoting Financial Liberalization in Frontier Markets
Speaker: Steve Yun, TON Foundation Board
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion: From Custody to Liquidity: How Tokenization Changes Financial Markets
Participating guests:
Zodia Custody Chief Commercial Officer James Harris, Bullish Group Compliance Director Priscilla Adams, and UBS UBS Asset Management Executive Director Andrew Wong
2:00 PM - 2:35 PM
Location: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion: DePIN Revolution: Connecting the Physical and Digital Worlds
Participating guests:
Helium - Nova Labs COO Frank Mong, DIMO Rob Solomon, Wingbits CEO & Robin Wingardh
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Location: Builders Stage
Roundtable discussion: Leading the next wave of Web3 Innovation: Direction of venture capital firms betting
Participating guests:
Newman Group Founder Yu Kan Adrian Lai, IVC Partner Akio Tanaka, Titan Fund Managing Partner Shiau Sin Yen
3. Surrounding activities
Sunday, February 16
Topic: MOVE to Mansion - Mainnet Version
Time: 13:00 - 18:30
Location: Exchange Square Block 3
Topic: Consumer Web3 Meetup: Shenzhen Unified!
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Location: Shenzhen
Monday, February 17
Topic: WAVE 2025——Inspur 2025
Time: 9:30 - 18:00
Location: Sky 100 Hong Kong Observation Deck
Topic: PayFi Summit Consensus Hong Kong
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Location: Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Location: Register to view address
Topic: Artificial Intelligence Agents and Verified Computing
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: AWS Hong Kong
Topic: Crypto 2025: A new era of digital economy under the reshaping of AI, MEME, and ETFs
Time: 14:30 - 18:30
Location: ByteDance
Topic: RWA Tokenization Use Cases: From Bonds to Real Estate
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Register to view address
Tuesday, February 18
theme: Solana Hong Kong Summit
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Location: Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Topic: The secret to cryptocurrency success in 2025: Hong Kong’s regulatory and business forecasts
Time: 11:00 - 15:30
Location: SPIGA
theme: Experience the Artificial Intelligence Summit
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: Register to view address
Topic: Innovation Finance Day | Hong Kong 2025
Time: 13:00 - 19:00
Location: Register to view address
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Location: Register to view address
theme: Memecoin Summit, Alpha Traders, OKX Wallet's "Rise of Artificial Intelligence"
Time: 21:00 - 5:00
Location: Register to view address
Wednesday, February 19
Topic: DeepSeek's success inspired Web3AI
Time: 9:30 - 10:30
Location: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Topic: Fat Penguin Community Hiking
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Location: Register to view address
Topic: Investor DeFAI Day
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Location: 22/F Sugar+, 25-31 Sugar street, Causeway Bay
theme: Meet the venture capitalists at Consensus HK
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Location: Register to view address
Topic: RWA Consensus: Physical Assets, Real Transformation
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: Times Square
Thursday, February 20
Topic: TON Global Hacker Home 2025 (AI, BTCFi, Telegram Stars)
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Location: Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Topic: Consensus AI Web3 Festival Hong Kong—Asia’s No. 1 Digital Assets and Innovation Summit
Time: 13:00 - 22:30
Location: Midtown Soundwill Plaza II
Topic: Regulatory-driven Web3 2025: Compliance and Security in the Web3 Era
Time: 15:00 - 18:00
Location: Register to view address
Topic: AI Mysterious Night: Exploring Fortune Telling Algorithms
Time: 19:30 - 23:30
Location: Soho House Hong Kong
Friday, February 21
Topic: Consensus Hong Kong Week - Web3 Seaside Running
Time: 8:00 - 9:00
Location: Golden Bauhinia Square
Topic: Hong Kong DePIN Day
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
Location: Register to view address
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Location: Exchange Square
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