April 20–26, 2026 · Fiera Milano, Rho & citywide · 1,900+ exhibitors, 32 countries Once a year, Milan drops the act and admits what it quietly is the rest of the time: the design capital of the world. I have a real soft spot for this one. The 64th Salone del Mobile anchored a citywide
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March 25, 2026 · Kerry Hotel, Hong Kong · 1,000+ industry gues Can I confess a small bias of mine? I don’t entirely trust people who claim not to care about restaurant rankings. We all care. We pretend we’re above it, right up until someone mentions they’ve eaten somewhere on the list and then, suddenly,
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May 5–7, 2026 · Miami Beach Convention Center · 20,000+ attendees I have a soft spot for the way people describe crypto’s big gatherings. If TOKEN2049 is the festival and the Bitcoin Conference is the revival meeting, all whooping and true belief, then Consensus is unmistakably the boardroom. Fewer laser eyes. Rather more lanyards and
October 1–2, 2025 · Marina Bay Sands, Singapore There is something gloriously on-brand about 25,000 people flying to Singapore, taking over a five-floor casino resort complete with ziplines, rock-climbing walls and cold plunges, and then spending two days earnestly agreeing that the wild party is finally over. That, in a sentence, was TOKEN2049 Singapore and
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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 is
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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 with
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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 why
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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 I’d like
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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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