February 11–14, 2025 · Messe Nuremberg, Germany I have a small, faintly antisocial habit: in a shop, I read the back of the jar before I read the front. The front is where the poetry lives — botanical, clean, derived from nature, words chosen by someone paid handsomely to make me feel virtuous. The back […]
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November 12–14, 2025 · Singapore EXPO There were no Lamborghinis in the car park. That, more than any keynote, is how you measure the distance crypto has travelled. The Singapore FinTech Festival is where the people who actually run the money system gather — central bankers, the heads of the world’s largest asset managers, regulators
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September 22–27, 2025 · Seoul, South Korea At most crypto conferences, the nearest thing to a celebrity is a founder in an expensive hoodie. At Korea Blockchain Week, actual pop stars turned up — along with, by several accounts, the directors of a wildly popular film about K-pop demon hunters. That single detail tells you
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September 4–8, 2025 · Paris I care about the room I’m sitting in rather more than is strictly reasonable. Not in a show-home way — I’ve no interest in a space that looks immaculate and feels like nobody’s allowed to live in it — but because home is where I actually spend my life, and
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June 20–22, 2025 · Aspen, Colorado Here is a fact nobody warns you about: Aspen sits at nearly 8,000 feet, and wine at altitude is a considerably more persuasive companion than wine at sea level. The Rocky Mountains will, quite politely, take one glass and charge you for two. Which makes the Food & Wine
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October 13, 2025 · Old Billingsgate, London There is a joke buried in the venue, and I refuse to believe anyone planned it. Europe’s most senior gathering of traditional finance and crypto took place at Old Billingsgate, which for the better part of a thousand years was London’s fish market. Bankers from Goldman Sachs, Citi
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December 2025 · Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi Somewhere between the tokenised uranium and the artificially intelligent whiskey appraiser, I began to suspect that Solana’s annual conference had rather lost its inhibitions. Breakpoint 2025 brought us a small Himalayan kingdom proposing to put its national gold reserves onto a blockchain, an investment bank arranging commercial paper
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March 21 – April 6, 2025 · Olympia, London On the morning of the eighth of October, 1908, the Lord Mayor of London climbed into his coach and processed through the city in full ceremonial splendour, sheriffs and aldermen trailing behind him, to declare open — I promise I am not embellishing — an exhibition
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May 27–29, 2025 · The Venetian, Las Vegas Let me tell you my favourite fact in all of finance, and I promise you need to know absolutely nothing about computers to enjoy it. When Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor switched the thing on in January 2009, he tucked a little message into its very first entry —
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Spring 2025 · Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai I want you to picture the scene, because I do not think I could invent it. Fifteen thousand people, seventy per cent of them chief-something-or-others, gathered on the Dubai coastline to discuss the future of global finance — and the official programme offered them ziplines, a climbing wall, cold
