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 through the city in full ceremonial splendour, sheriffs and aldermen trailing behind him, to declare open I promise I am not embellishing an exhibition of household articles.
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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, the
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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 plunges,
April 2025 · Butlins, Skegness & Minehead Can I confess something? I cannot remember the last time I had an uninterrupted quiet time. Not one. Somewhere between the school run and the small person who needs a drink of water at the precise moment I open my Bible, the still small voice has had to
April 8–10, 2025 · Carrousel du Louvre, Paris Consider the geography for a moment, because nobody involved seems to have noticed how funny it is. Some ten thousand people gathered to debate the future of money in the Carrousel du Louvre, which is, to be precise, a shopping centre in a basement, directly beneath the
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Summer 2025 · Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet Picture a field in Somerset in August. Fourteen thousand people, several thousand tents, and the particular English optimism required to pitch canvas in a country where the forecast is a rumour. There is a queue for the showers. There is a child, not yours, wailing somewhere
Late spring 2025 · Pembrokeshire, Wales Can I tell you the most embarrassing thing about me? For years, I optimised my rest. I scheduled it. I read about it. I had a protocol for winding down, and I was, I am not proud to say, quite competitive about my sleep score. I approached recovery with
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February 18–21, 2026 · National Western Centre, Denver The mascot is a buffalo crossed with a unicorn. It is called the Bufficorn, and nobody involved appears remotely embarrassed about this. Tickets to the world’s largest Ethereum gathering are free; there is an official event called the Finality Party, and among the speakers you will find
February 18–20, 2025 · Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Here is a fact I find quite astonishing, and it is the key to this entire event. Trading cryptocurrency is banned on the Chinese mainland. It is licensed, regulated and actively courted in Hong Kong — a city that is part of China. Somewhere in
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