As the World Economic Forum brings global leaders together to tackle global issues, several cryptocurrency and blockchain events will make for a vibrant sideshow at a ski resort in the Swiss Alps.
Cointelegraph will be on the ground covering the World Economic Forum (WEF) as well as hosting blockchain-focused events. Key members of global governments, businesses and civil society gather in the city every year for the WEF conference, but cryptocurrency and blockchain events are starting to make their mark during exclusive events.
The official WEF agenda for 2023 has made provision for cryptocurrency and blockchain as a talking point presented during the week-long conference. The session entitled “Finding the Right Balance for Crypto” on January 19 at 15:00 CET will explore the “boom and bust” in the crypto market in 2022, and is set to consider creating “strong regulation” of cryptocurrencies while ensuring “macroeconomic results and positive social.”
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse appeared in the session together with Dutch central bank president Klaas Knot, Mairead McGuinness of the European Commission, and Omar Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications.
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire will lead a session on Tokenized Economies on January 17 at 16:15 CET, delving into the industries that could see the greatest impact from tokenization.
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The Metaverse is another topic that will be discussed during WEF. The session entitled ‘Deployment in the Industrial Metaverse’ is scheduled for January 19 at 9:00 CET. Meanwhile, Meta product chief Chris Cox headlined a panel discussion, “A New Reality: Building the Metaverse,” which will unlock approximately $180 billion in investment into the sector and potential development driven by research, innovation, investment, and policy. This session is scheduled for January 18 at 15:00 CET.
WEF also taps into the metaverse through its own 3D offering, allowing delegates to create avatars to explore different immersive environments.
Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief, Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, will attend WEF for the publication and is scheduled to moderate several panels at the event during the week.
This includes a session during GBBC’s #BlockchainCentral Davos 2023 titled Interoperability and Climate Change on January 17 at 13:40 CET. Cornèr will also lead a panel on Liquidity in Climate Markets & Finding a Global Carbon Price at the Hedera Haus on January 16 at 15:35 CET.
A panel at Greek House on January 17 at 9:30 am CET will see Cornèr driving the conversation on “The Emergence of Breakthrough Technologies: new ways to mobilize finance for Sustainable Investment.”
Cointelegraph reporter Gareth Jenkinson will be covering GBBC #BlockchainCentral Davos 2023 and CV Labs’ Blockchain Hub Davos. Jenkinson is also set to moderate a session titled “Reports of Decentralized Finance’s Death Are Exaggerated … DeFi 2.0 Is Coming!” at the Blockchain Hub on January 17 17 at 3:30 pm CET, as well as a panel on “The Future of the Metaverse” at GBBC on January 18 at 5:20 pm CET.
Many influential industry participants from the cryptocurrency and blockchain space are set to appear at various events such as AVA Labs CEO & co-founder Emin Gün Sirer, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and data protection advocate Brittany. Kaiser.