CfC St. Moritz Industry Days 2026
Curated. Connected. Collaborative.
From January 13th to 17th, 2026, the CfC St. Moritz Industry Days return – a curated, multi-day event dedicated to the technologies shaping the future of digital infrastructure. Designed in close collaboration with leading partners, the format combines vertical content with trusted conversations, high-level networking, and exclusive gatherings across St. Moritz.
Over the course of three late afternoons, each day focuses on a clearly defined theme – from Bitcoin and tokenization to AI, digital infrastructure and new frameworks. Complemented by informal community activations and curated side formats, the Industry Days offer a setting where innovation meets application, and dialogue leads to action.
This is not just about emerging technology – it’s about how institutions, enterprises, and regulators are actively engaging with it. The CfC St. Moritz Industry Days provide the clarity, depth, and strategic context needed as blockchain and adjacent technologies move from experimentation to adoption.
WHAT
A curated, multi-day event focused on blockchain, AI, tokenization, infrastructure, and regulation – with keynotes, panels, fireside chats and networking.
WHEN
January 13th to 17th, 2026
WHERE
St. Moritz, Switzerland
The CfC St. Moritz Industry Days 2026 will take place at Villa Beaulieu; a newly renovated venue in the heart of St. Moritz, located between the iconic Badrutt’s Palace Hotel and Hotel Schweizerhof.
This exclusive location features a coffee bar, restaurant, private dining areas, meeting rooms, and a limited number of boutique hotel rooms. The official opening of Villa Beaulieu is scheduled just before Christmas 2025. More details about the venue and setup will be shared soon.
Wednesday, 14.01.2026
Bitcoin Day: Exploring Bitcoin’s evolving role as infrastructure, asset class, and policy vector.
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Block 1
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16:00 - 16:30
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16:30 - 16:50
Bitcoin's Ascent - From Dead to Productive Capital in a New Financial Order
Bitcoin has moved beyond its origins as idle “dead capital,” emerging as a yield-generating settlement layer powering Bitcoin Capital Markets and next-generation financial rails. What began as a store of value is now seeing broad institutional adoption, reinforced by global policy shifts that increasingly recognize Bitcoin as a distinct asset class — even amid volatility.
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16:50 - 17:15
Sovereignty & Self-Custody: Still the Core of the Bitcoin Ethos?
With institutional adoption growing, how do we preserve user autonomy and align innovation with core values of decentralization?
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17:15 - 17:45
Institutional Bitcoin in 2026: Infrastructure, Custody & Use Cases
What’s driving institutional interest in Bitcoin infrastructure, and which real-world applications are leading the way?
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17:45 - 18:05
Bitcoin Yield is a Lie: The Search for BTC Income
Amidst bitcoin’s growing institutionalization, holders are seeking ways to make the asset productive. We will examine purported methods for generating yield and the risks inherent in them. Lastly, we will review the most effective ways to make BTC productive and their associated trade-offs.
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18:05 - 18:30
Building Trusted Platforms: How Tech Enables Regulated Digital Asset Markets
A cross-industry discussion exploring how infrastructure providers and enterprise players are shaping compliant digital asset environments — from custody and identity to regulatory-grade scalability.
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18:30 - 19:00
Perspectives on Bitcoin: Regulation, Infrastructure and Global Impact
A focused look at how institutional players shape Bitcoin’s market structure across liquidity, execution and oversight.
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Networking
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19:00 - 20:00
Networking Drinks
Unwind with conversations, drinks, and community connections.
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Evening program
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20:30 - 23:00
Drinks & Dinner
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Thursday, 15.01.2026
Tokenization, custody, regulation, and the evolving architecture of finance.
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Block 1
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16:00 - 16:30
Industry Days attendees only.
Welcome and entry.
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16:30 - 16:50
How Financial Infrastructure Is Being Rebuilt: Trust, Tokenization, and the Next Wave
Global financial infrastructure is moving from controlled experimentation toward live, regulated deployment as institutions extend tokenisation into post-trade, settlement, and reconciliation processes. This shift is exposing a governance gap, where automation and interoperability increasingly outpace existing oversight models. Addressing this challenge requires shared standards, verifiable accountability, and neutral infrastructure that enables institutions to scale digital assets responsibly while preserving regulatory continuity and market trust.
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16:50 - 17:15
Tokenization in Practice: Lessons from Real-World Assets
How real-world assets are tokenized in production environments, who is already live with institutional deployments, and what operational constraints still limit scale.
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17:15 - 17:45
Navigating Legal Uncertainty: Global Crypto Regulation in Flux
Custody is no longer just about protection – it’s enabling new services, revenue models, and trust. infrastructure, and which real-world applications are leading the way?
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17:45 - 18:05
Programmable Privacy: Unlocking Regulated Finance with Zero-Knowledge
This keynote explores how zero-knowledge cryptography enables a new paradigm: Programmable Privacy. Financial systems are at an inflection point. On one side: the demand for transparency, compliance, and auditability. On the other: the non-negotiable need for financial privacy, data protection, and confidentiality.
Private markets and payments are the only way for crypto to become mainstream.
Diving deep into how capital markets, traders, national security, defense, payroll providers and civil society aid providers benefit from the technology the most. -
18:05 - 18:30
Institutional DeFi without Bridges
How institutions execute cross-chain trades without bridges, how existing trading infrastructure connects to DeFi, and what this enables for real-world institutional use cases today.
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18:30 - 19:00
The Future of Money: From Stablecoins to Tokenized Assets
As monetary layers diversify, what roles will public and private issuers play in shaping digital finance?
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Networking
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19:00 - 20:00
Networking Drinks
Unwind with conversations, drinks, and community connections.
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Evening program
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20:30 - 23:00
Drinks & Dinner
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23:45 - 02:00
Awe-inspiring party (invitation only)
Invitation only.
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Friday, 16.01.2026
DeepTech & AI: At the forefront of cryptography, quantum technology, artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure.
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Block 1
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16:00 - 16:30
Industry Days attendees only.
Welcome and entry.
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16:30 - 16:50
Quantum Computing Is No Longer Experimental
Industrial-Scale Use Cases Define the Next Computing Megacycle
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16:50 - 17:15
From Fragmentation to Coordination
Why finance and Al are both stuck with fragmented rails and systems, and how orchestration turns complexity into execution.
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17:15 - 17:45
Digital Infrastructure for Emerging Tech: What’s Missing?
Power, compute, connectivity – what foundational gaps still need to be solved for frontier tech to scale?
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17:45 - 17:50
From National Vision to Global Relevance?
As Deputy Prime Minister and later Prime Minister during Liechtenstein’s first-mover phase with the TVTG and MiCA, Daniel Risch reflects briefly on the governmental vision, the rationale for moving quickly at national level, and the expectations for international relevance and adoption.
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17:50 - 18:00
The Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network: Purpose, Structure, and Strategic Context
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18:00 - 18:20
Foundation Is Easy. Adoption Is Hard.
A conversation on institutional readiness versus real-world traction. Why do strong frameworks not automatically lead to adoption? What do early partners and ecosystem stakeholders see as the missing links for broader engagement?
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18:20 - 18:40
First Mover Positioning: Advantage or Limitation?
A critical look at Liechtenstein’s role as a first mover. What worked, what didn’t, and what lessons can be drawn from early pilots, returned licenses, and the evolution of regulatory expectations in a more mature market environment?
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18:40 - 19:00
Scaling Trust Through Collaborative Development
This panel examines the role of institutional co-innovation, reuse of open results, and aligned experimentation. How can collaboration across disciplines and competitors reduce friction, accelerate learning, and create resilient digital infrastructure?
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19:00 - 19:15
Been there, done that - what's missing?
Drawing on Mack McCauley’s personal journey of helping build and scale some of the world’s most influential technology companies, this session explores why he chose to engage again, what he believes those platforms ultimately could not unlock, and why going back to first principles with a “blank sheet” approach is essential to address the missing layers of trust, coordination, and real-world adoption.
Mack McCauley - former technology executive at IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Facebook, Google and Nvidia who shaped all the world’s most influential technology companies.
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Networking
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19:15 - 20:30
Networking Drinks
Final exchanges at altitude – unwind and reflect on a week of ideas and innovation.
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Evening program
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20:30 - 23:00
Drinks & Dinner
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Saturday, 17.01.2026
Farewell Brunch on a Mountain Hut (invitation only)
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12:00 - 16:00
Farewell Brunch on a Mountain Hut
Invitation only.
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Speakers
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Laura Borum
Tech Investments ManagerMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark -

Julian Liniger
CEORelai -

Mahsa Behzadi
Senior Technical Program ManagerGoogle Switzerland -

Brett Reeves
Head of European SalesBitGo -

Sandro Knöpfel
Global Business Development LeadCardano Foundation -

Vít Jedlička
Founder and PresidentFree Republic of Liberland -

Clarisse Hagège
CEODfns -

Kyle Ellicott
Executive DirectorStacks Asia Foundation -

Aqsa Zubair
Assistant Director, FinTechBermuda Monetary Authority -

Mike McCoy
Head of Business DevelopmentAleo Network Foundation -

Anna Wroblewska
Chief Business OfficerDinari -

Julian La Picque
Group CFOChiliz -

Lia Müller Peña
FounderIntuitively AI -

Wojciech Kaszycki
Founder & ChairmanBTSE -

Kerem Kolcuoglu
Digital Finance AdvisorGovernment of Bermuda - Ministry of Finance -

Müge Cöteli
CEO Relm EuropeRelm Insurance -

Orest Gavryliak
Chief Legal Officer1inch -

Daniela Herrmann
Co-FounderDynex / Dynex Moonshots -

Lorna Hutchman
CMOPenrose Partners -

Philipp Zentner
Founder & CEOLI.FI -

Max J. Heinzle
Founder & CEO21X -

Amar Odedra
Global Head - Investments & Capital MarketsAlgorand Foundation -

Sebastien Badault
EVP EntepriseLedger -

Matt Kummel
Chief Commercial OfficerNEAR Foundation -

Daniel Risch
Senior Advisor & former Prime Minister Liechtensteint minus 5 -

Alexander Blume
Co-Founder & CEOTwo Prime -

Marcus Maute
Managing DirectorSolstice -

Lothar Seidemann
CTOSolidCrypt Technologies Ltd (BASF) -

Elcin Mustafa Guven
Worldwide Digital Assets Sales LeadIBM -

Bernhard Kronfellner
Partner & ADBoston Consulting Group -

G Clay Miller
Partner / U.S. Digital Finance AdvisorPenrose / Government of Bermuda -

Rolf Günter
Managing PartnerRWG MARECO -

Aleksandra Fetisova
Head of BD1inch -

Dennis Platzl
CEOSwiss Subnet -

Marcel Hostettler
Managing PartnerAllegra LAW AG -

Franz Wirnsperger
ChairmanLTIN -

Gregory Chew
CEOQPQ AG -

Lucian Aguilar
CEOFoundation for the New Creative Economies (FNCE) & LUKSO -

Michael Healy
Co-Founder at Unit Network | Investor at Unit VenturesUnit Network & Unit Ventures -

Marc Degen
Chair Advisory BoardLTIN - Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network -

Marcel Fleisch
Chief Product OfficerVP Bank -

Markus Menzl
Chief Client Officer EMEAAMINA Bank AG -

Patrick Chopard
CEOEthtry -

Ravi de Silva
CEOde Risk Partners -

Yves Holenstein
Head Custody & YieldBitcoin Suisse AG -

Pascal Arnold
Strategy & OperationsCfC St. Moritz Industry Days -

Dr. Kathrin Gabriele Kind
Chief Quantum-Driven Solutions OfficerDynex



































