Invest Digital Assets Forum 2025 | Block 2 Ground Floor - Al Sufouh - Dubai Knowledge Park - Dubai

About Invest Digital Assets Forum 2025

Invest Digital Assets Forum 2025 is a one-day deep dive into the changing world of digital finance, taking place on October 15, 2025, at Dubai Knowledge Park. Organized by Giakaa Capital, this forum pulls together institutional investors, regulators, fintech innovators, Web3 leaders, and asset managers to explore how digital assets are becoming woven into mainstream finance.

The agenda is built around the real challenges and opportunities: institutional adoption, regulation, blockchain infrastructure resilience, tokenization of real-world assets, and strategies for secure custody and ESG-aligned innovation. There’ll be startup pitches too — a chance for new projects to present directly to top investors, gaining exposure and potential strategic partnerships.

For anyone working in or watching the digital assets space seriously — from asset managers to compliance officers to startup founders — this forum promises to deliver clarity, networking, and actionable insight. If you want to see not just where digital assets are headed, but how they’ll actually be used, this is the place to be.

Speakers

Ahmed Al Mahmood

Strategic Planning & Excellence Advisor

Dariia Vasylieva

Founder & GP GETVISION | FD CAPITAL CSO at Dubai Blockchain Centre Dubai Blockchain Centre

Ayman Al Awadhi

Group Managing Director at The Corporate Group The Corporate Group

Juliet Su

Partner at NewTribe Capital NewTribe Capital

Seyed Mohammed Siam Hosseini

Founder & CEO at Maincore AI Maincore Artificial Intelligence

Alexandra Khasirdzheva

Web3 & Blockchain Investment Strategist, ex-Cointelegraph Accelerator

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Dmitrii Duberman

Head of Growth at TorusChain TorusChain

Mariya Spartalis

Founder at Spartalis Capital Spartalis Capital

Sofia Kostiunina

Managing Director at 100VP 100VP

Countessina Anna De bacci

CEO at De Bacci capital De Bacci capital

Nabil Arnous

Executive Director - Commercial at Innovation City Innovation City

Amna Usman Chaudhry

Financial Economist and Frontier Tech Strategist

Ksenia Babochkina

Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) at AlphaBerry Capital AlphaBerry Capital

Eva Oloumi

Founder and CEO at Paradeigma Paradeigma

Aya De Quiroz‎

Founder at Azintafy Azintafy

Cindy Amar

Managing Partner at Glass Venture Glass Ventures

Maryna Barysheva

CEO at LKI Consulting LKI Consulting

Erin Grover

Advisor at T8 Capital T8 Capital

Kamila Michalkiewicz

Co-Founder and CEO at Most Capital Connections Most Capital Connections

Laura Inamedinova

Chief Global Ecosystem Officer at Gate.io Gate.io

Amira Soliman

CEO & Co-founder at Time Guardian Time Guardian

Erica Badocco

Founder and Legal Consultant at BLegal.ae BLegal.ae

Malak Albaw

CEO at Alba Ventures Alba Ventures

Kiana Saleh

Head of Investment & Partnerships at 4Plus Ventures 4+Ventures

Andra Nicolau

Co-Founder at LYS Labs LYS Labs

Genia Xasis

Founder at Multiplyers Multiplyers

Laura Inamedinova

Chief Global Ecosystem Officer at Gate.io Gate.io

4 ICO

$14 340 602

Sergey Sevantsyan

Head of Information at Kanzz AI Kanzz AI

Evgeny Filichkin

Managing Director at AlphaBerry Capital AlphaBerry Capital

Armands Murnieks

Founder & CEO at FNT Crypto | Investor | RWA Innovator FNT Crypto

Michael Clare

Head of Digital Assets and Fintech Operations at Liongate Bahamas Limited Liongate Bahamas Limited

Max Lighter

General Manager at XT.COM XT.COM Exchange

Dr. Wale j Daramola

Founder at DiFiMeta DiFiMeta

Brendan James McKittrick

Chief Executive Officer at Internet of Aviation Internet of Aviation

Sarah Abuagela

Partner at Ceras Ventures Ceras Ventures

Armands Murnieks

Founder & CEO at FNT Crypto | Investor | RWA Innovator FNT Crypto

Prof. Dr. Demir Bektic

Head, Multi Asset Solutions at Commerzbank AG Commerzbank AG

Max Lighter

Partner at MaxCapital investment fund MaxCapital investment fund

Shailesh Kunnath

Founder at Masary Capital Masary Capital

Ralph Gebran, M.Fin.

Managing Partner at Onramp MENA Onramp MENA

Suraj Thorat

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Hillroute Capital Ltd Hillroute Capital

Beka Tchulukhadze

CEO at FU Capital FU Capital

Anton Golub

CIO at FreedX FreedX

Berthold Baurek-Karlic

CE at Venionaire Capital AG Venionaire Capital

Artak Seyranyan

Deal Flow Manager at ChainGPT Pad ChainGPT Pad

Carolina Rios

Associate Partner and Head of Virtual Assets at KARM Legal Consultants Karm Legal Consultants

Fefe Demeny

Crypto Investor & Trader at Crypto Banter Crypto Banter

Milind Bansia

Chief Strategy Officer at Polytrade Polytrade

Matas Čepulis

CEO at Luvkaizen LuvKaizen

Roman Chechushkov

Founder & CEO at RWA.CAPITAL, Head of Investment Analytics at Bank Renaissance Credit

Michael Nicklas

Managing Partner at Valor Capital Group Valor Capital Group

Raine Renaldi

Chief of Economy & Digital Asset Committe, President of ID Opentech Group, Indonesian Chamber of commerce (KADIN) & ID KADIN

Tzvi Lev

CEO at AYA Strategic AYA Strategic

Yiannos Ashiotis

Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Pnyx Hill Pnyx Hill

Mr.Sudeep Saxena

Co Founder at Coin Gabbar Coin Gabbar

Amardeep Singh Thandi

Head of Digital Assets at Chainalysis Chainalysis

Ruan Botha

Co-Founder at Provenance Compliance Provenance

Bilal Javaid

Head of Finance at Hub71 Hub71

Ling Meng

CEO at Lucia Protocol Lucia Protocol

David Vardanyan

Founding Member & CEO at LibraChain LibraChain

Cris D. Tran

Co-founder at MoneyFi MoneyFi

Andal Seshadri

Legal Compliance Advisor at Aston VIP Aston VIP

Tomas Martunas

Unicorn Builder / AI & Web3 Investor at WhiteBridge AI / ZenCapital WhiteBridge.ai

Sanjana Raheja

Sr Venture Scout at LvlUp Ventures and MENA Partner at Strategy Tools Strategy Tools

Martin Wichmann

CEO at Kvarn Capital Kvarn

Abhishek Kaushal

Global Director HR at ASML ASML

Silvia Mogas

CEO & Founder at BMBWeb3 Ventures | Blockchain Marketing Boutique BMBWeb3 Ventures

Gerald Chenyi

Founder at Mobile Wallet Incorporated Mobile Wallet

Alisa Serebrianyk

General Partner at Infodriver Capital Infodriver Capital LLC

Milentina Marcus

Romanian Community Ambassador for Sustainable Investment and Innovation

Adel Elmessiry

Co-Founder at Lussa/AIVP/AlphaFin Lussa

Wesley Russon

COO at Outline Investment Outline Investment

Jeff Cafolla

Chief Marketing Officer at Stealth Startup Stealth Startup

Mariano Rubinstein

Co-Founder & CEO at Sura Gaming | Sura Ventures Sura Gaming

Igor Bershadsky

Chief Growth Officer at Hacken.io Hacken

Nadim Alain Souss

Co-Founder at Why Protocol WHY Protocol

Animositas

CEO at Lizard Labs Lizard Labs

Chris James Murphy

Co-Founder at Klink Finance Klink Finance

Jan Švach

Portfolio Manager at Black Alpha Capital Black Alpha Capital

Robbie Jeo

CEO at Kommunitas Kommunitas

Chirag Mehta

Head Institutional Partnerships and Strategic Deals at Hedgit Hedgit

Mona Tiesler

Head of Investments, tokentus VC | Venture Partner at Edge Capital Edge Capital Group

Benedek Orban

Head of Ecosystem at CV VC CV VC

Petro Yanytskyi

Senior Investment Analyst at Monolith Monolith

Patrick Martin

Managing Partner at EMF Family Office, Head of Strategy at Uphold.com US Uphold

Sasha Mai

Co-Founder at RISE RISE

Anastasia Yermolova

COO at AlphaStack Ventures AlphaStack Ventures

Hardeep Singh Mehta

Partner at Rosato Ventures Rosato Ventures

Joydeep Mondal

Founder at Terra Forum Terra Forum

Megan Nilsson

Founder at Crypto Megan Crypto Megan

Jake Lee

Founder and CEO at Magnet Magnet

Daniel Malinovski

Co-Founder & CEO at Simplicity Group Simplicity Group

Mariangel García

Chief Marketing Officer at Mintlayer Mintlayer

Yeo Gan Peng

CEO / Co-Founder at PeerHive PeerHive

Bob Vosalik

Founder and CIO at 319 Capital 319 Capital

Vlad Svitanko

Founder at Cryptorsy Cryptorsy.io

Katherine Dowling

General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Bitwise Asset Management Bitwise

Abhay Mishra

Founder & CEO at Monet Work Monet Work

Nadine Wilke

Co-Founder & CGO at Particula Particula

Laura Estefania

CEO & Founder at Conquista PR Conquista PR

Parker Tagtmeier

Co-Founder and CMO at 3VO 3VO

Adrià Roig Bravo

CEO & Founder at FOHLE Finance FOHLE Finance

Iris Meng

Co-Founder, Investment Officer at Jadeite Family Office Jadeite Family Office

Rupesh Pednekar

Partner at ALTINAD Capital ALTINAD

Ben James

Founder at 404 (Bittensor Subnet 17) 404

Martin de Rijke

Head of Growth at Maple Finance Maple

Renee Francis

Founder & Director at Take3 Take3

Gary Yang

Founding Partner at Eureka Capital and Skysaga Capital Eureka Meta Capital

Ismael Hishon-Rezaizadeh

Co-Founder & CEO at Lagrange Lagrange Labs

Bassel Assaad

Founder & CEO at Tracee Tracee

John Bui

Venture Partner at Trive Digital TRIVE Digital

2 ICO

$1 530 602

Claus Skaaning

CEO and Co-Founder at DigiShares DigiShares

Radoslav Poljasevic

Sales Director at Kaiko Kaiko

Andrew Vranjes

Chief Revenue Officer at Blockdaemon Blockdaemon

Tiffany Chang

Investment VP at Gate Ventures Gate Ventures

Vignesh Keserala Raja

Founding Partner at Amigoo Ventures Amigoo Ventures

Marc Taverner

Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder at XEROF XEROF

Zsófia Szathmáry

Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Business Development at InsightX InsightX

Milan Jandik

Founder & CEO at Frictionless Network Frictionless Network

Evgen Verzun

Founder at Kaizen.Finance Kaizen.Finance

Faraj Abutalibov

Co-founder & CBDO of CrossCurve by Eywa CrossCurve

Mark Magliocco

Founder at Lexie Crypto Lexie Crypto

Robert Hirsch

CEO at Continuum Protocol Co. | Founder at ZKalyx ZKalyx

James Henry

Senior Director at Maslow Capital Maslow Capital

Josh Roizen

Founder & CEO at The GG Company The GG Company

Le Zhuo

Vice President at Amber Group Amber Group

9 ICO

$33 271 215

Aly Madhavji

Managing Partner at Blockchain Founders Fund Blockchain Founders Fund

Gaspard Bonnot

Founder & CEO at DIV Protocol DIV Protocol

Alexis Sirkia

Chairman at Yellow Yellow

Ashish Baphana

Co Founder at Law Blocks Law Blocks

Sadri Sali

Managing Partner at Sali Law Group Sali Law Group

Mantas (Matt) Jalincas

Co-founder / CEO at Spirex.io Spirex

Cole Kennelly

Founder & CEO at Volmex Labs Volmex Labs

Anastasia Lukach

CEO at Marsbase Marsbase

Samuel Macintyre

CEO & Co-Founder at Zenith Labs Zenith Labs

Steve Wood

Founder/CEO at Earnscape Earnscape

Adrien Stern

Founder & CEO at Reveel Reveel

Andrés Felipe Fonseca Duque

Cofounder - COO at VIIO VIIO

Jasvir Dhillon

CEO & Co-founder at Penomo penomo

Mihai Mosneanu

Capital Markets Chief, Penomo | ex-Executive Director at JPMorgan J.P. Morgan

Duncan Murray

Co-Founder at TAC Innovation TAC Innovation

Heston Harper

CEO & Founder at GIGATONS GIGATONS

Illia Pashkov

CEO at SINT SINT

Akshay Aggarwal

Founder & CEO at Blockchained India Blockchained India

Ruchir Punjabi

Co-founder & CEO at ReNRG ReNRG

Krishnendu Chatterjee

Co-founder, CEO at XTrading XTrading

6 ICO

$55 632 705

Michael Gord

Co-Founder & CEO at GDA Capital GDA Capital

Mikael boshian

CEO at SFTY.AI Sfty.ai

Nawal Kishor

Founder at Bepay Bepay

Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward

Co-founder & CEO at Manifest Manifest

Sandeep Nawal

Co-Founder at Polygon Labs | Founder at Blockchain for Impact (BFI) Polygon Labs

Leena Khalil

Partner at Key Capital Key Capital

Tomasz Wojewoda

Founder and CEO at TomekGroup TomekGroup

Aneri Merchant

Investment Manager at XVC Tech XVC Tech

Mr Evan Luthra

General Partner at KOL Capital KOL Capital

Ulviyya Ahmadova

Head of Business Development and Investment at Al Maktoum Aleh Tech Al Maktoum Aleh Tech

Cláudia Pinto

Head of Sustainability Advisor at The Executive Office of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Amira Soliman

CEO & Co-founder at Time Guardian Time Guardian

Agenda

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