Agenda

The 2027 Agenda.

Three days of content at Villa Beaulieu, opened by a Partner Dinner on Tuesday evening. Every content day runs the same rhythm: open mornings, a hosted roundtable lunch and curated afternoon sessions.

Every Content Day

Open Mornings, Curated Afternoons.

  1. 08:30–12:00 Coworking & Networking Lounge

    Social activities in parallel, registration in advance.

  2. 12:15–13:45 Roundtable Lunch at Le Bar

    A small circle by invitation, hosted by a partner. All other guests lunch and cowork at the villa.

  3. 14:00–17:30 Afternoon Sessions

    Two keynotes, two panels and two firesides, with a break at 15:35 and a wrap-up at 17:30.

  4. 18:00 Apéro and Dinner

    Apéro at Le Bar, followed by dinner at the villa.

Wednesday, January 13

AI & Agents

From pilot to production: what changes when agents decide, act and pay.

  1. 12:15 Roundtable Lunch

    From AI Pilots to Organizational Redesign

    What does an organization decide differently once AI leaves the pilot stage?

  2. 14:00 Opening of the Day
  3. 14:10 Keynote

    DeepTech in Production: Why Pilots Stall

    What actually stops new technology between a convincing pilot and daily operation?

  4. 14:35 Panel

    Physical AI: Who Owns the Bottleneck?

    Chips, optics, energy and data centers: which constraints decide real-world deployment?

  5. 15:10 Fireside

    Agents in the Workflow: Beyond the Demo

    Where do reliability and trust set the limits for agents in everyday work?

  6. 15:35 Break
  7. 16:05 Keynote

    Can We Give an Agent the Keys?

    Which permissions, credentials and data should an agent hold, and who stays in control?

  8. 16:30 Panel

    Agents That Pay: Who Is Liable?

    Wallets, payment rails and insurance: what has to be settled before agents transact?

  9. 17:05 Fireside

    Twelve Months of Agents: What We Got Wrong

    Which assumptions from last January held, and which did not?

  10. 17:30 Wrap-Up
  11. 18:00 Apéro at Le Bar
Thursday, January 14

Quantum, Cyber & Trust

Which infrastructure, security and governance create trust that holds?

  1. 12:15 Roundtable Lunch · Closed Door

    Cryptographic Inventory: Where Banks Start

    A confidential exchange under the Chatham House Rule.

  2. 14:00 Opening of the Day
  3. 14:10 Keynote

    AI Attacks Need Adaptive Defense

    How does AI change the attack surface faster than static defense can follow?

  4. 14:35 Panel

    Post-Quantum Readiness: From Inventory to Migration

    What does a credible migration look like, including protection against harvest now, decrypt later?

  5. 15:10 Fireside

    Onchain Compliance in Practice

    How do compliance and reporting become operational onchain?

  6. 15:35 Break
  7. 16:05 Keynote

    Identity as the Trust Layer

    How do people, companies and agents prove who they are without giving up privacy?

  8. 16:30 Panel

    Digital Sovereignty: Who Really Decides?

    Companies, infrastructure providers, policy and capital: who shapes standards and access, and where does Europe hold real strengths?

  9. 17:05 Fireside

    The Human Factor

    Why even quantum-safe cryptography does not protect against the wrong click.

  10. 17:30 Wrap-Up
  11. 18:00 Apéro at Le Bar
Friday, January 15 Provisional

Finance & FX

How traditional finance, digital assets and real adoption connect.

Sessions for this day are provisional.

  1. 12:15 Roundtable Lunch

    Wealth Management and Digital Assets

    How do wealth managers speak with the next generation about digital assets?

  2. 14:00 Opening of the Day
  3. 14:10 Keynote

    Digital Assets in Advice: What Changes Under License

    What does it take when digital assets are advised and managed, not only held?

  4. 14:35 Panel

    Tokenization in Production: What Runs, What Is Missing

    Where tokenization already works, and where liquidity or legal certainty is still lacking.

  5. 15:10 Fireside

    Custody From the Operator's Seat

    What running custody has taught that no concept paper mentioned.

  6. 15:35 Break
  7. 16:05 Keynote

    Tokenized Equity: Lessons From a Live Admission

    What a company learns when it takes its own securities through the process.

  8. 16:30 Panel

    Digital Asset Treasury: Risk Before Return

    Which risks a treasury has to understand before yield becomes an argument.

  9. 17:05 Fireside

    Old Money on New Rails

    What changes in wealth management, and what has to stay.

  10. 17:30 Wrap-Up
  11. 18:00 Apéro at Le Bar
Formats

Short on Stage, Long at the Table.

Keynote
18 minutes plus Q&A.
Panel
30 minutes, four voices at most.
Fireside
25 minutes, one conversation in depth.
Roundtable Lunch
A small circle at Le Bar, by invitation, hosted by a partner.

Speakers and hosts confirm across autumn. The agenda is curated and may change. See the Full 2026 Past Edition →

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