Cointelegraph heads to Davos for World Economic Forum

As the World Economic Forum brings planetary leaders unneurotic to tackle planetary issues, a fig of cryptocurrency and blockchain events volition make a vibrant sideshow successful the snowy skis destination successful the Swiss Alps.

Cointelegraph volition beryllium connected the crushed to screen the World Economic Forum (WEF) arsenic good arsenic a big of blockchain-focused events taking place. Key members from planetary governments, businesses and civilian nine converge connected the municipality annually for the WEF conference, but cryptocurrency and blockchain events are opening to marque their people during the exclusive event.

The authoritative WEF docket for 2023 has made proviso for cryptocurrency and blockchain arsenic talking points featuring during the week-long conference. A league titled ‘Finding the Right Balance for Crypto’ connected 19 January (15:00 CET) volition research the ‘boom and bust’ successful crypto markets successful 2022, and is acceptable to see the instauration of ‘robust regulation’ of cryptocurrencies portion ensuring ‘positive macroeconomic and societal outcomes.’

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse features successful the league alongside the Netherlands cardinal slope president Klaas Knot, the European Commission’s Mairead McGuinness, and Omar Sultan Al Olama, the UAE’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire volition caput up a league connected Tokenized Economies connected 17 January (16:15 CET), delving into which industries could spot the biggest power from tokenization.

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The Metaverse is different taxable that is acceptable to beryllium covered during WEF. A league titled ‘Deployment successful the Industrial Metaverse’ is scheduled for 19 January (09:00 CET). Meanwhile, Meta’s main merchandise serviceman Chris Cox headlines a sheet discussion, ‘A New Reality: Building the Metaverse’, which volition unpack an estimated $180 cardinal successful concern into the assemblage and its imaginable improvement driven by research, innovation, investment, and policy. This league is scheduled for 18 January (15:00 CET).

WEF is besides tapping into the metaverse done its ain 3D offering, allowing delegates to make avatars to research antithetic immersive environments.

Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr volition be WEF for the work and is scheduled to mean a fig of panels astatine events during the week.

This includes a league during GBBC's #BlockchainCentral Davos 2023 titled Interoperability and Climate Change connected 17 January (13:40 CET). Cornèr volition besides pb a sheet connected Liquidity successful Climate Markets & Discovering a Global Carbon Price astatine Hedera Haus connected 16 January (15:35 CET).

A sheet astatine Greek House connected 17 January (09:30 CET) volition spot Cornèr thrust a speech astir ‘The emergence of Breakthrough Technologies: caller ways to mobilize concern for Sustainable Investments’.

Cointelegraph writer Gareth Jenkinson volition beryllium covering GBBC's #BlockchainCentral Davos 2023 and CV Labs’ Blockchain Hub Davos. Jenkinson is besides acceptable to mean a league titled ‘Reports of Decentralized Finance Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated... DeFi 2.0 is Coming!’ astatine Blockchain Hub connected 17 January (15:30 CET) arsenic good arsenic a sheet connected ‘The Future of the Metaverse’ astatine GBBC connected 18 January (17:20 CET).

A big of influential manufacture participants from the cryptocurrency and blockchain abstraction are acceptable to diagnostic prominently astatine antithetic events including the likes of AVA Labs CEO & co-founder Emin Gün Sirer, SkyBridge Capital laminitis Anthony Scaramucci, and Cambridge Analytica whistleblower and information extortion advocator Brittany Kaiser.