Compiled by: Golden Finance
The Consensus 2025 conference will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center from February 18 to 20, 2025. This conference will bring together many industry leaders. Golden Finance has compiled a conference guide to help you attend the conference with peace of mind.
1. Speakers
Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Paul Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream
Richard Teng, CEO of Binance
Lily Liu, President of Solana Foundation
Adrian Cheng, Chairman of Hong Kong Wealth Inheritance Academy
Hong Fang, President of OKX
Armani Ferrante, Backpack CEO
Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood GM & VP
Steve Yun, TON Foundation Board Member
David Tse, Babylon Inc. Lianchuang
Avery Ching, Aptos Labs CEO
Mike Silagadze, ether.fi CEO
Momir Amidzic, IOSG Ventures Managing Partner
Niki Ariyasinghe, Head of Business Development, Chainlink
Man Ho Allen Au, Professor and Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
John Cahill, COO of Galaxy Digital
Yam Ki Chan, Vice President of Partnerships and Business of Circle
Charles d'Haussy, CEO of dYdX Foundation
Ian De Bode, Chief Strategy Officer of Ondo Finance
Yi Li, Associate Professor of Nanyang Technological University
Patrick McCorry, Developer of Arbitrum Foundation
II. Meeting Agenda
The meeting will last for three days.
Tuesday, February 18
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Where:The Henderson
Event:Consensus Opening Party: Rooftop Bash at ZHU
Wednesday, February 19
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Where:Spotlight Stage
Roundtable discussion:Inspiration brought by DeepSeek's success to Web3AI
Guests:
PublicAl Co-founder &CMO Jordan Gray, Hyperbolic Marketing Director Joelly Gloria, OKX Ventures Partner Jeff Ren, 0G Co-founder &CTO Ming Wu
9:35 AM - 9:45 AM
Location: Mainstage
Opening keynote
Guest: Hong Kong SAR Government Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Venue: Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion: Bitcoin: The foundation of a new financial system?
Guests:
Blockstream CEO & Co-founder Adam Back, JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, Babylon Inc. Co-founder David Tse, CoinDesk Senior Analyst James Van Straten
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Location:Builders Stage
Dialogue:Why SUI Can Eat the World
Guests:
Mysten Labs Chief Product Officer Adeniyi Abiodun, Mysten Labs Chief Scientist George Danezis
Where:Emerging Tech Stage
Dialogue:Welcome to the Web3 Arts & Culture Summit
Guests:
Farokh Sarmad, Chairman of DASTAN, Sam Ewen, Head of Media Innovation at CoinDesk
10:05 AM - 10:30 AM
Where:Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion:Perspectives from Wall Street to Crypto
Venue: Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion: Institutions: Predictions and Next Steps
Guests:
Figment Co-founder & CEO Lorien Gabel, Deus X Capital CEO Tim Grant, Talos Co-founder & CEO Anton Katz, Ripple Fiona Murray, Managing Director, Asia Pacific, and Ella Arwyn Jones, Content and Business Director, Haymarket MediaHaymarket Media
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Venue:Mainstage
Dialogue:Hong Kong: What’s next for regulation?
Guests:
Julia Leung, CEO of the Securities and Futures Commission, Sam Reynolds, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue:Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion:Global Regulatory Panel
Guests:
Matthew White, CEO of the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority, Eric Yip, Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission, Cheyenne Ligon, Regulatory Reporter at CoinDesk
11:25 AM - 11:45 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Venue:Money Reimagined
Topic:USDC as a Platform for Global Prosperity
Speaker:
Yam Ki, Vice President of Partnerships and Business, Asia Pacific, Circle Chan
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Location:Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:Where is Ethereum going next?
Guests:
Scroll Co-founder Sandy Peng, MegaETH C00 Laura Shi, ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze, RedStone Oracles Co-founder Marcin Kazmierczak
12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
Venue:Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion:How Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquire Digital Assets
Guests:
Further Ventures Managing Partner Mohamed Hamdy, Oman Investment Authority Investment Assistant Hamood Al Fanna, Coinbase Institutional Strategy Director John D'agostino
12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Location:Builders Stage
Topic:The Sizing of the Cryptocurrency Market
Speaker:
Andrei Grachev, Managing Partner, DWF Labs
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Location:Money Reimagined
Roundtable Discussion:What's Driving the Market? Get a deeper understanding of how the market flows
Guests:
Michael Higgins, International CEO and Global Head of Corporate Development at Hidden Road, Yongjin Kim, Co-founder of Presto, Thomas Restout, CEO of B2C2, Emma Pecenicic, Head of Digital Proposals and Partnerships, Asia Pacific (excluding Japan), Fidelity International
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Venue:Mainstage
Dialogue:DeFi Meets Institutions: Building Trust and Infrastructure on Sui
Guests:
Evan Cheng, Co-founder & CEO of Mysten Labs, Editor-in-Chief of CoinDesk Sam Kessler
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Location:Mainstage
Dialogue:Solana: Building a Global Internet Capital Market
Guests:
Lily Liu, Chairman of Solana Foundation, and Henri Arslanian, Co-Founder of Nine Blocks Capital Management
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Location:Spotlight Stage
left;">Roundtable Discussion:The Metaverse is Dead: The Rise of AI as the King of Digital Innovation
Guests:
Pundi Al Co-founder Zac Cheah, FLock.io CEO Jiahao Sun, Kite Al CTO& Co-founder Scott Shi, Al Square CEO Louis Boka
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue:Mainstage
Dialogue:Robinhood Crypto and Solana - Is Retail Moving On-Chain?
Guests:
CryptoRobinhood General Manager and Vice President Johann Kerbrat, Solana Foundation Chairman Lily Liu, CoinDesk Senior Anchor Christine Lee
February 20 (Thursday)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Venue:Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion:The inspiration brought by DeepSeek's success to Web3AI
Guests:
PublicAl Co-founder & CMO Jordan Gray, Hyperbolic Marketing Director Joelly Gloria, OKX Ventures Partner Jeff Ren, 0G Co-founder & CTO Ming Wu
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Venue:Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:Bitcoin: The Foundation of a New Financial System?
Guests:
Blockstream CEO & Co-founder Adam Back, JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, Babylon inc. Co-founder David Tse, CoinDesk Senior Analyst James Van Straten
10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Location:Mainstage
Dialogue:How Memecoin Will Go From a Picture to a Crazy Token in 2024
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
Guests:
Justin Kim, Head of Asia at Ava Labs, Kanny Lee, Founder of SecondSwap, Daniel Oon, Head of Polygon DeFi, Bobby Ong, Co-Founder of CoinGecko
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location:Emerging Tech Stage
Left;">Roundtable Discussion: (Decentralized) Computation, Serving All Else
Guests:
Clara Tsao, Founder of Filecoin Foundation, Mark Rydon, Chief Strategy Officer of Aethir, Jing Sun, Co-founder of loTeX
12:50 PM - 1:05 PM
Venue:Money Reimagined
Topic:The Next Wave: Public Bitcoin Treasury
Speaker:Roger Hamilton, CEO of Genius Group Limited
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Location: Mainstage
Speech Topic: Advancing Financial Liberalization in Frontier Markets
Speaker: Steve Yun, Board of Directors of TON Foundation
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Spotlight Stage
Roundtable Discussion: From Custody to Liquidity: How Tokenization Changes Financial Markets
Guests:
James Harris, Chief Commercial Officer of Zodia Custody, Priscilla Adams, Group Compliance Director of Bullish, Andrew, Executive Director of UBS Asset Management Wong
2:00 PM - 2:35 PM
Location:Mainstage
Roundtable Discussion:The DePIN Revolution: Connecting the Physical and Digital Worlds
Guests:
Helium - Nova Labs COO Frank Mong, DIMO Co-founder Rob Solomon, Wingbits CEO & Co-founder Robin Wingardh
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Location:Builders Stage
left;">Roundtable Discussion:Leading the Next Wave of Web3 Innovation: The Direction Venture Capital Firms Bet On
Guests:
Yu Kan Adrian Lai, Founder of Newman Group, Akio Tanaka, Partner of IVC, Shiau Sin Yen, Managing Partner of Titan Fund
III. Peripheral Activities
Sunday, February 16
Theme:MOVE to Mansion - Mainnet Version
Location:Exchange Square Block 3
Topic:Consumer Web3 Meetup: Shenzhen Unified!
Time:14:00 - 18:00
Location:Shenzhen
Monday, February 17
Topic:Consumer Web3 Meetup: Shenzhen Unified! href="https://lu.ma/coybec3e" target="_blank">WAVE 2025 - Wave 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 Harbor View Hotel
Topic: Future Stablecoin Summit: Challenges and Opportunities of Hong Kong's Fiat Reference Stablecoin (FRS) System and Ecosystem
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Location: Registration View Address
Topic: Artificial Intelligence Agents and Verifiable Computation
Time: 13:00 - 18:00
Location: AWS Hong Kong
Topic: Crypto 2025: Decoding the new era of digital economy reshaped by AI, MEME, and ETF
Time: 14:30 - 18:30
Location: ByteDance
Topic: RWA tokenization use case: from bonds to real estate
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Location: Registration view address
Theme: Solana Hong Kong Summit
Time:10:00 - 18:00
Venue:Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Theme:Secrets to Cryptocurrency Success in 2025: Regulatory and Business Forecasts in Hong Kong
Time:11:00 - 15:30
Location:SPIGA
Theme:Experience AI Summit
Time:13:00 - 18:00
Location:Registration View Address
Theme: href="https://lu.ma/PythHK" target="_blank">Innovative Finance Day | Hong Kong 2025
Time:13:00 - 19:00
Venue:Registration view address
Theme:Crypto AI Workshop: Self-management and Development of Crypto Communities and Social Media
Time:18:00 - 19:00
Venue:Registration view address
Theme:The Rise of Artificial Intelligence at Memecoin Summit, Alpha Traders, OKX Wallet
Time:21:00 - 5:00
Location: Register to view address
Wednesday, February 19
Theme:DeepSeek's success inspired Web3AI
Time:9:30 - 10:30
Location:Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Theme:Fat Penguin Community Walk
Time:10:00 - 13:00
Location:Registration View Address
Theme:Investor DeFAI Day
Time:11:00 - 17:00
Venue: 22/F Sugar+, 25-31 Sugar street, Causeway Bay
Theme: Meet up with VCs from Consensus HK
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Venue: Registration address
Theme: RWA Consensus: Physical assets, real transformation
Time:13:00 - 18:00
Location:Times Square
Thursday, February 20
Theme:TON Global Hacker House 2025 (AI, BTCFi, Telegram Stars)
Time:10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Renaissance Hong Kong Harbour View Hotel
Theme: Consensus AI Web3 Festival Hong Kong - Asia's Premier Digital Asset and Innovation Summit
Time: 13:00 - 22:30
Venue: Midtown Soundwill Plaza II
Theme: Regulatory-Driven Web3 2025: Compliance and Security in the Web3 Era
Theme: AI Mystery Night: Exploring Fortune Telling Algorithms
Time: 19:30 - 23:30
Location: Soho House Hong Kong
Friday 21 February
Theme: Consensus Hong Kong Week - Web3 Seaside Run
Time:8:00 - 9:00
Location:Golden Bauhinia Square
Theme:DePIN Day in Hong Kong
Time:11:00 - 16:00
Location:Registration View Address
Theme:2025 Global AI Awards: Honoring AI + Pioneers in the crypto space
Time:14:00 - 18:00
Location:Exchange Square
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