
Fintech · Conference
Future Tokenisation Forum 2026
DIFC's one-day institutional forum on tokenised assets, digital settlement and real-world asset adoption, with Dubai regulators.
5 November 2026 · Thu 8am – 4:50pm GMT+4
Jumeirah Mina Al Salam · Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Registration open · on futuretokenisationforum.com
About this event
Future Tokenisation Forum is the tokenisation track of Dubai Future Finance Week, run by DIFC with the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), and with the Capital Market Authority as regulatory partner. Under the theme "Building trust towards a tokenised economy", it puts regulators, banks, asset managers, investors and technology providers in one room to work on the rules and infrastructure tokenised markets need to scale.
Programme themes
The 2026 agenda is built around five pillars, delivered through keynotes, fireside chats, panels and private roundtables.
- Institutional capital and market transformation
- Regulation, trust and market infrastructure
- Interoperability and financial infrastructure
- Technology, AI and the Web3 economy
- Global collaboration and investment
On the agenda
Published sessions run from registration at 08:00 to closing remarks at 16:50.
- RWA token distribution: crypto rails, TradFi channels or a hybrid model
- Fixing liquidity in tokenised markets
- The settlement layer: stablecoins, CBDCs or bank money
- Regulating RWAs without breaking innovation
- Custody, compliance and trust
- Interoperability across chains
- Tokenising real estate
Part of Dubai Future Finance Week
The forum is one of the signature events of Dubai Future Finance Week (2 to 6 November 2026). Every delegate pass also includes an expo pass to Dubai FinTech Summit, the anchor event of the week.
- senior delegates expected in 2026
- 800+
- global speakers in 2026
- 40+
- countries represented in 2026
- 20+
Future Tokenisation Forum 2026 is a Fintech event taking place 5 Nov 2026 at Jumeirah Mina Al Salam, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Speakers12
- Ruben Bombardi
General Counsel Head of Regulatory Enablement
- Mark Steward
CEO, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA)
- H.E. Justin Sun
Founder / Advisor
- Michail Fekkas
First Vice Chairman
- William Mason
Director General
- Senator Osita Izunaso
Chairman, Senate Committee on Capital Markets
- Yosef (Seffy) Zinger
Chairman
- Melissa Guzy
Managing Partner & Founder
- Paul Boots
Senior Director - Head of Sector Development
Agenda
Thursday, November 5
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Registration & Networking
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM
The New Capital Order: How Tokenisation Is Reshaping the Future of Finance?
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM
RWA Token Distribution: Crypto Rails, TradFi Channels, or a New Hybrid Model?
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Issuance Without Liquidity Is Innovation Theatre: Fixing Tokenised Markets
11:40 AM – 12:00 PM
The Missing Settlement Layer: Stablecoins, CBDCs, or Bank Money?
12:00 PM – 12:40 PM
Regulating RWAs Without Breaking Innovation
12:40 PM – 1:00 PM
Leading the Way: How the UAE Is Leading the Tokenisation Revolution
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM
The AI Dividend: Driving the Next Market Advantage
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM
Who Holds the Keys? Custody, Compliance & the Trust Imperative
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM
Web3 Unpacked: The Next Growth Engines
3:00 PM – 3:40 PM
Buying Is Easy. Ownership, Transparency & Control Are Not: Why Put Assets on Blockchain at All?
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM
One Asset, Many Chains: Solving the Interoperability Problem
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM
The Property Protocol: Tokenising the World's Largest Asset Class
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM
The Alpha Contenders: Which Assets Will Lead the Tokenisation Revolution?
Partners6
Location
Jumeirah Mina Al Salam
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, Madinat Jumeirah, Al Sufouh 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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