Exchange of experience
Exchange of experience
Share your developments, get feedback from leading specialists, find comrades for complex projects
December 1-2, 2026
DUBAI, UAEFestival Arena
Co-located with
Blockchain Life 2026
Blockchain Life 2026
The place where the Future is born
The leading international conference on AI, Web3 and future technologies.
15000+
attendees
200+
speakers
200+
sponsors
130+
countries
From the organizers of Blockchain Life forum,
the world’s largest blockchain event, which will be held for the 17th time alongside the AI Future Forum
Why attend
Access to knowledge
Access to knowledge
Learn about the latest trends, tools, and libraries (for example, how to combine machine learning with smart contracts)
Solve real problems
Solve real problems
Participate in hackathons and competitions from the forum's partners to apply your skills in practice
Source of ideas and talents
Source of ideas and talents
Find a promising team for a startup or a unique idea for investment here
In-depth trend analysis
In-depth trend analysis
Discover which areas in AI and Blockchain are truly promising
Networking
Networking
Establish direct contacts with industry leaders who are building the products of the future today
Be at the cutting edge
Be at the cutting edge
Be the first to learn about breakthroughs and revolutionary projects
Get answers
Get answers
Ask questions and get quality, detailed answers from the community, not from superficial articles
Customer search
Customer search
Get to know the companies and customers who are down to cooperate
Forum topics
Will AI empower us or replace us?
How do you launch your first app?
Can you make a film with AI?
Where can AI cut your costs?
How do you fix AI coding errors?
Can a small team do more with AI?
Which AI skills should you learn?
How do you build your own agent?
What comes after chatbots?
Speakers
Garrett Jin
Legendary Crypto Whale
Arthur Hayes
CIO of Maelstrom
BIO
Jamie King
Co-Founder of Rockstar Games
BIO
Ben Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybit
BIO
Mert Mumtaz
CEO of Helius
BIO
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder of Polygon
BIO
Sergei Khitrov
Founder of Listing.Help, Jets.Capital, Blockchain Life
BIO
Tony Ashraf
Managing Director & Global Head of Digital Asset Transformation, BlackRock
BIO
Kelvin Koh
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, The Spartan Group
BIO
Sunny Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Vechain
BIO
Andrei Grachev
Managing Partner of DWF Labs
BIO
Felix Fan
CEO of Trust Wallet
BIO
Rajat Sakhuja
Director of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard
BIO
Marius Smith
Co-Founder of Ethereum Institutional
BIO
Saeeda Jaffar
Managing Director International at Circle
BIO
Anwesha Kar
NVIDIA
BIO
Daniil & David Liberman
Co-creators of the Gonka protocol & Former CPO at Snapchat
BIO
John Cahill
COO Asia at Galaxy Digital
BIO
Daniel Ishag
CCO at Bakkt
BIO
Dmitry Fedotov
Head of EMERGING TECH at ADGM
BIO
Dishang Patel
Executive VP & Head of Digital Assets at Rakbank
BIO
Ruben Bombardi
General Counsel & Head of Regulatory Enablement at VARA
BIO
Yat Siu
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands
BIO
Alex Falcon
Biggest CIS Podcast Host, Founder
BIO
Nikita Anufriev
Founder of Headliners Podcast
BIO
Ben El-Baz
HashKey MENA MD, Head of International markets, Hashkey Exchange
BIO
Alex Scott
Member of Solana Superteam UAE
BIO
Karl Naïm
CCO of XBTO
BIO
Estelle Roiena
Institutional Finance & Asset Integrations Lead, Cardano Foundation
BIO
Vugar Usi Zade
CEO of MEXC
BIO
Alicia Kao
Managing Director at KuCoin
BIO
Max Rabinovitch
CSO of Chiliz
BIO
Davis Hui
VP of Canaan
BIO
Brendan Ma
Head of Investment Strategy at Arbitrum Foundation
BIO
Luke Judges
Partner Director at Ripple
BIO
Arnaud Simeray
VP GTM at Dune
BIO
Alice Liu
Research Lead at CoinMarketCap
BIO
Akshay Singh Dalal
Head of Regional Risk & Compliance, Middle East Turkey & Africa at Google
BIO
Irina Heaver
Crypto Lawyer & Founder of NeosLegal
BIO
Charles d’Haussy
CEO of dYdX Foundation
BIO
Naeem Aslam
Columnist at Nasdaq, CNN, Forbes Middle East, CIO of Zaye Capital Markets
BIO
Kevin Lee
CSO at BingX
BIO
Marcin Kaźmierczak
Co-Founder & COO of RedStone Oracles
BIO
Li HanQiang
Co-Founder & CEO of SpiderPool
BIO
Gourav Sarkar
Product Management Executive at Oracle
Emil Panakhov
Co-Founder of Alpha-one.io
BIO
Edwin Cheung
Executive Director at Gate.io
Chris MMCrypto
Cryptocurrency Expert
BIO
Leonid Maloletov
Crypto Influencer
Nic Puckrin
Co-Founder & CEO of Coin Bureau
BIO
Danil Gaidamakin
COO of Jets.Capital
BIO
Amit Mehra
General Partner of Borderless
BIO
Derek Dai
Country Manager, MENA at Bybit
BIO
Senthil Velu
BIO
Amar Odedra
CCO at Algorand Foundation
BIO
Marcin Matyja
Associate Director, Blockchain & Digital Assets at BCG
BIO
Robert Farquhar
CEO for MENA at Ctrl Alt
BIO
Marc Shawn Brown
Founder of MSB Intel
BIO
Mitchell Amador
CEO of Immunefi
BIO
James Wo
Founder & CEO of Digital Finance Group
BIO
Ambre Soubiran
CEO of Kaiko
BIO
Alessia Baumgartner
VP of Ecosystems at DWF Labs
BIO
Aishwary Gupta
Head of Payments & Tokenisation of Polygon Labs
BIO
Ahmed Allam
Senior Financial Expert at H.H. the Ruler's Court of Dubai
Mohamed Issa
Regional Director at TRM
Matthias Mende
Co-Founder of Dubai Blockchain Center
Hadir Gaber
CEO of ChainMena
Jeroen Gillekens
Middle East Lead at LayerZero
BIO
Joseph Collement
CLO of Bitcoin.com
BIO
Omesh Tickoo
Chief Data Scientist at PNNL DOE (U.S. Department of Energy)
Paul Dawalibi
CEO of Innovation City
Husni Khuffash
Managing Director at Positron
BIO
Oliver Bou Eid
Ai artist
Farhan Rakhangi
AI Content Creator & Founder of BM Agentic Martech
Bas Lemmens
CRO of Chainalysis
BIO
Padam Sundar Kafle
CEO of vCodes Software Solutions
Baraa Ibrahim
Founder of Arabian AI School & AI Product Manager at FLITC
BIO
Yana Minaylova
Head of Institutional Sales, MENA&CIS at Binance
BIO
Thomas Kralow
Chairman of EVEDEX
BIO
Sander Gortjes
Co-Founder & CEO of HELLO Labs
BIO
Fehmida Hussain
Professor in CEI, Head & Founder of MIH at Middlesex University Dubai
BIO
Pavel Kulikov
Crypto Lawyer, Educator & Lecturer
BIO
Paul Shikhaleev
Head of Sales & Partnership at Cointelegraph
BIO
Nikita Sachdev
Founder & CEO of Luna PR
Magzhan Madiyev
CEO of AstanaHub
Lakshya Kanyakubja
Head of BD at CertiK MENA
BIO
Joaquin Mendes
COO of Taiko
BIO
Elena Gonta
Regional Ambassador of AIWC
BIO
Dmitry Machikhin
CEO & Founder of BitOK
BIO
Damu Winston
ex Former ex Global Head, Web3 Innovation & Digital Products at Amazon
BIO
Crypto Kid
Crypto Analyst & Entrepreneur
Crypto Jack
Crypto Trader & YouTube Influencer
Arina Rumiantseva
Lead Legal Counsel at Sumsub
BIO
Anton Feingold
Director at Hypertracker
BIO
Andres Meneses
Vice Chairman, Colombian Business Council Dubai & Founder of Orbyt X
Alenka Shmalko
Advisor in tokenisation & digital assets, Co-host of Onchain, Honestly! podcast
Abdelilah Arahal
Co-Founder of Python Arabic Community
BIO
Alexey Korolenko
Executive Director at Cifra Markets
BIO
Christopher Smith
CEO of Quantus
Daniel Badalian
CEO of QuickShock.io & Head of Growth at ASCN.ai
BIO
Andrey Tugarin
CEO of GMT Legal
BIO
Sujal Jethwani
Crypto & AI Influencer
Maxim Hamaha
Crypto Influencer & Professional Trader
Mr. KEY
Founder of KEY Difference
BIO
Hossamudin Hassan
AI Educator & Founder of ePreneurs
Aidana Kaskyrbek
CEO of Blockchain & Ai Technology Center at Astana Hub
Chingiz Nasirov
CEO of CoinW (CIS)
BIO
Mohamad Charafeddine
VP of Data & AI and Product at Careem
BIO
Rockman Zhang
CTO of Bybit
BIO
Ashna Vaghela
CCO at Mercuryo
BIO
Daniel Ong
Head of Institutional Growth at Binance
BIO
Sean Ballard
Head of Derivatives at Bybit
BIO
Yaroslav Bocharov
Product Owner at ASCN.AI
BIO
Pavel Durov
Founder of Telegram
Paolo Ardoino
CEO of Tether
Sergey Nazarov
Co-Founder of Chainlink
Errol Musk
Entrepreneur, Digital Assets & AI Investor, Elon Musk’s father
Bobby Ong
Co-Founder of CoinGecko
Ben Zhou
Co-Founder and CEO of Bybit
Reeve Collins
Co-Founder Tether/STBL/WeFi & Pending Chairman of ReserveOne
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder of Polygon
Sergei Khitrov
Founder of Listing.Help, Jets.Capital, Blockchain Life
Justin Sun
Founder of TRON & Advisor to HTX
Arthur Breitman
Co-Founder of Tezos
Kostas Chalkias
Co-Founder & Chief Cryptographer of Mysten Labs
Brandon Green
Chief of Staff at BTC Inc
Yat Siu
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands
Yoann Turpin
Co-Founder of Wintermute
Pascal Gauthier
Chairman and CEO of Ledger
Dr. Zuoxing Yang
Founder & CEO of MicroBT
Dr. Marwan Alzarouni
CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center
Frederik Gregaard
CEO of Cardano Foundation
Tim Draper
Founder of Draper Associates and DFJ
Xinxi Wang
Co-Founder of Litecoin
Dominic Williams
Founder & Chief Scientist of DFINITY (ICP)
Fred Thiel
CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings
Xmei Lin
President of Mining Division, Bitmain
Eowyn Chen
CEO of Trust Wallet
Andrei Grachev
Managing Partner of DWF Labs
Dmitry Fedotov
Head of EMERGING TECH at ADGM
Sunny Lu
Co-Founder and CEO of Vechain
Rachel Conlan
CMO of Binance
Bhavik Patel
CIO of Arrington Capital
Alice Liu
Research Lead at CoinMarketCap
Alicia Kao
Managing Director at KuCoin
Brock Pierce
Co-Founder of DNA Fund
Jason Lau
Chief Innovation Officer at OKX
Roger Ver
Founder of Bitcoin.com
Chef Kids
Co-Founder of PancakeSwap
Ben Goertzel
CEO of SingularityNET
Charles d’Haussy
CEO of dYdX Foundation
Zied Brini
Program Lead for MetaMask at Consensys
Miriam Kiwan
Vice President at Circle
Yoann Turpin
Co-Founder of Wintermute
Reece Merrick
Senior Director, Global Strategic Partnerships at Ripple
Mohammad Alblooshi
CEO of DIFC Innovation Hub
Sunny Aggarwal
Co-Founder of Osmosis Labs
Koray Koska
CEO of Ether.fi Cash
Yves La Rose
Co-Founder & CEO of EOS Network Foundation
Danilo S. Carlucci
Founder & CEO of Morningstar Ventures
Brandon Green
Chief of Staff at BTC Inc
Rajat Sakhuja
Director of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Mastercard
Tiago Henriques
Head of AI/ML Technology Practice, Google Cloud EMEA
Pär Helgosson
Head of PSG Labs
Nikita Anufriev
Founder of Headliners Podcast
Alex Falcon
Biggest CIS Podcast Host, Founder
Agenda
PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE — More sessions to be announced. Subject to change.
Tuesday, December 1
Registration and expo are open
Opening Keynote
From Venture Bets to Strategic Acquisitions: Institutional Crypto’s New Playbook
TBA
The Future of Finance Won’t Look Like a Bank or an Exchange
The 2 Quadrillion Dollar Wave
Crypto Privacy in the Age of AI and Quantum Computing
Agent Economy and Blockchain
From Onchain Data to InfoFi: The New Intelligence Stack for Crypto
AI-Driven Markets: Smarter Execution, Faster Trading, New Attack Surfaces
Tuesday, December 1
Lunch Time
Stablecoin Cards and the Battle for Everyday Spending
Who Owns the Future of Compute? Chips, Inference and Decentralised AI Infrastructure
TBA
The Great Shift: Transitioning Global Financial Infrastructure from Private to Public Blockchains
The Next $1T RWA Unlock: Onchain Settlement of Digital Assets
Bitcoin Beyond HODL: The Rise of BTCFi
TBA
From Remittances to Corporate FX: Stablecoins as the New Cross-Border Rail
Tuesday, December 1
End of the first day of the Forum
Choose your ticket
early bird
STANDARD
Expo access at Blockchain Life & AI Future
Explore booths of various blockchain, mining and web3 companies and startups.
Expo access at Blockchain Life & AI Future
Access to the conference halls at Blockchain Life & AI Future
Enjoy the professional market analytics and insider tips from the most popular industry experts.
Access to the conference halls at Blockchain Life & AI Future
Access to the official app for smart networking
Join an innovative online platform similar to a social network. Connect with people who share your interests, communicate and set up appointments. Smart filters help you to find the specific category of attendees you need.
Access to the official app for smart networking
Free water, coffee & tea
Free water, coffee and tea on both days of the Forum.
Free water, coffee & tea
$189
$399
early bird
BUSINESS
All options included in
the STANDARD ticket
This type of ticket includes all
the benefits of "Standard" ticket,
plus the additional features below.
All options included in
the STANDARD ticket
the STANDARD ticket
Gourmet lunch by the chef
Enjoy a gourmet lunch prepared by the chef exclusively for you on both days of the Forum (main course, salad, dessert, beverage).
Gourmet lunch by the chef
Video recordings of speeches
You’ll get one year of access to multi-camera recordings from the Space, MEXC and AI Future Stages.
Video recordings of speeches
$329
$729
early bird
VIP
All options included in
the BUSINESS ticket
This type of ticket includes all
the benefits of a "Business" ticket,
plus the additional exclusive features below.
All options included in
the BUSINESS ticket
the BUSINESS ticket
VIP registration desks
Enjoy the convenience of
a private entrance to the venue and separate registration area exclusively for VIP attendees
and speakers.
VIP registration desks
VIP/Speaker Lounge: luxury networking, fancy coffee breaks and gourmet lunches
Meet world-renowned speakers, company leaders, and fund owners in the VIP lounge. Relax on cozy sofas while enjoying snacks and drinks.
VIP/Speaker Lounge: luxury networking, fancy coffee breaks and gourmet lunches
Official Afterparty (food, drinks and show included)
on December 2,
9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
1300+ VIP attendees and speakers. Meet crypto leaders, build new partnerships, and make friends in a relaxed atmosphere at the grand culminating point
of Blockchain Life 2026.
Official Afterparty (food, drinks and show included)
on December 2,
9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
$999
$2099
Each ticket grants access to the Blockchain Life Forum
Tickets price forecast
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