Alongside the main stage program, Dutch Blockchain Week Summit 2026 will feature a dedicated breakout program hosted by leading companies, institutions, and innovators from across the global digital assets and Web3 industry.
The breakout sessions offer attendees the opportunity to explore key topics of finance, technology, and blockchain, including digital assets, stablecoins, payments, tokenization, institutional infrastructure, regulation, custody, AI, compliance, and Web3 adoption.
Hosted by companies such as Visa, Mastercard, Deloitte, PwC, Fireblocks, Bitvavo, OVHcloud, zerohash euope, Watsonlaw, and many more. These sessions are designed to provide practical insights, real-world use cases, and direct access to the people building the next generation of digital finance.
Each breakout session is an opportunity to:• Connect directly with industry leaders and innovators• Gain insights into the latest developments across Web3 and digital assets• Explore practical use cases, infrastructure, regulation, and adoption strategies• Engage in more focused and interactive discussions beyond the main stage
Whether you are a builder, investor, institution, policymaker, founder, or Web3 enthusiast, the breakout program is designed to inform, connect, and inspire. In the networking app you can already sign up for a breakout session!
Below you will find the full overview of breakout sessions, including speakers, topics, companies, and timings.
Maria Dinescu
An introduction to the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program and how Mastercard partners across the crypto ecosystem to help scale trusted, real-world digital asset use cases.
Willem-Jan Smits, Rens Kattenbelt
A practical session on the next phase of crypto regulation and supervisory practice under MiCA
Jasper Verwaal
To dominate the evolving digital assets landscape in the EU, organizations must master six critical pillars, divided into strategic core growth drivers and operational must-do's. Learn what they are, whether you are transitioning from the traditional financial services industry into digital assets or a crypto-native firm that is starting to offer traditional financial services.
Rens de Groot, Elmer Zwols
T+2 settlements lock up merchant capital and slow down global commerce. zerohash and Worldpay are live with a better solution. Rens de Groot and Elmer Zwols share real use cases of stablecoin-powered T+0 settlements across Worldpay's global merchant portfolio. Join to see why stablecoin settlements are becoming the new standard for PSPs.
Chhay Lin Lim
This session explores whether a traditional bank account can be functionally replaced using Web3 infrastructure. We break down the core functions of a bank account and show how Monflo is replacing these with a Web3 IBAN and a debit card.
The session introduces financial autonomy as a tangible outcome and examines what this shift means for managing money today.
Glenn Tan
The Blockchain for Good Alliance (BGA) will host a curated breakout session bringing together key industry stakeholders for a focused discussion on the evolving role of blockchain in real-world systems and global governance.
This session will introduce key insights from the BGA Impact Report, highlighting the industry’s shift from speculative narratives toward infrastructure for trust, coordination, and public-good applications. Participants will engage in an interactive segment exploring deployment challenges and opportunities for cross-sector collaboration.
Designed as a high-level convening, the session aims to facilitate meaningful dialogue between builders and decision-makers, and to identify actionable pathways for partnership.
Participants will also be invited to continue engagement through BGA’s global initiatives, including the upcoming BGA Impact Leaders Summit and BGAwards 2026 in London.
Marjolein Geus, Johannes Wirtz, Andries Doets
As crypto markets mature and regulation accelerates, legal compliance is becoming a strategic asset. In this Bird & Bird session, experienced lawyers unpack current and upcoming regulatory themes affecting crypto and DLT players—from payments and AML rules to market integration and adoption by traditional financial institutions. The discussion combines regulatory lessons learned with a forward‑looking view on PSD3, AMLR, AI in AML, DAC8, and the Digital Euro, helping attendees to understand how regulation can enhance innovation.
Pierre Castronovo
Visa will dive into the future of payment rails and its innovation strategy around stablecoin-linked cards, stablecoin settlement, and current experience with issuers enabling stablecoin use cases globally.
Joost Vermeer, Eelco Brienesse
Crypto businesses – both TradFi and native crypto – operating in Europe and the Netherlands today are facing an evolving landscape of accounting standards, regulatory requirements, and tax complexities. In this session, we’ll explore how companies are overcoming these challenges to start, scale, and sustain their growth.
Topics include:
• Sharing experiences from players in the market to achieve growth
• Practical approaches to crypto accounting and bookkeeping and how to benefit from these in order to achieve growth
• Strategies for managing regulatory and compliance hurdles to enable growth
• Insight into navigating tax and information reporting obligations across EU to remain complaint
Hear from industry leaders who are on the frontline of these developments, sharing their firsthand experiences and best practices.
Whether you’re from the crypto world or traditional finance, gain actionable insights to confidently steer your crypto business through today’s complex environment. Join us to gain practical insights on how to move forward.
Alice Ollivier
Stablecoins are no longer a crypto-native experiment — they're becoming the settlement layer of choice for European institutions, exchanges, and payment fintechs. But operating stablecoin infrastructure compliantly under MiCA is more complex than it looks: custody requirements, Travel Rule obligations, on/off-ramp controls, and yield strategies all need to work together without creating regulatory exposure.
In this session, Fireblocks walks through how leading European operators are building production-ready stablecoin stacks — from secure custody and programmable settlement flows to generating yield on idle balances through DeFi integrations like Morpho and Aave. Whether you're a fintech launching a stablecoin payment product, an exchange managing large USDC or EURC positions, or an institution exploring tokenized money market funds, you'll leave with a clear framework for what compliant, yield-generating stablecoin infrastructure looks like in practice.
You'll walk away with:
- A guide for MiCA-compliant stablecoin custody and settlement
- A blueprint for an infrastructure stack that integrates DeFi protocols
- Real examples of how European firms are running stablecoin operations on Fireblocks today
Adnan Patka, 2nd speaker TBC
Fireside chat about how blockchain organisations can survive and thrive in the bear market, and outline potential new opportunities in key areas (e.g. RWA / stablecoins / agentic AI)
David Kurz
This breakout session dives into the key differences between brokers and exchanges, while examining how institutional crypto adoption is evolving globally.
Mike Toffolo, Andrew Theodosiou
Generating alpha is only half the battle, the infrastructure you use to act on it determines how much of that edge survives contact with the market. In this breakout session, Talos explores the critical but often underestimated gap between signal and realised return: latency in order routing, fragmentation across liquidity venues, the cost of manual workflows, and the compounding drag of disconnected systems. Drawing on real-world examples from institutional crypto trading desks, we walk through how modern execution infrastructure, from smart order routing and algorithmic execution to consolidated connectivity across prime brokers and venues, directly shapes slippage, fill quality, and ultimately P&L. Whether you are running a systematic strategy or discretionary book, attendees will leave with a clearer framework for auditing their own execution stack and understanding where infrastructure is silently eroding performance.
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