Proof of Talk to gather 120+ C-suite execs, $18T AUM at Louvre

Proof of Talk confirmed its 2026 program and opened remaining passes for its fourth edition at the Louvre Palace in Paris on June 2–3. The conference will feature more than 120 speakers, roughly 95% holding CEO or founder titles, and represent a combined $18 trillion in assets under management. Attendance is capped at 2,500; the event sold out in 2024 and 2025.

Confirmed participants include Jenny Johnson of Franklin Templeton, Tom Zschach of Swift, Ken Moore of Mastercard, Emma Landriault of JP Morgan, Caroline D. Pham of MoonPay, Stani Kulechov of Aave Labs, Michael Arrington of Arrington Capital, Adam Back of Blockstream, Evan Cheng of Mysten Labs, Johann Kerbrat of Robinhood and Steven Goldfeder of Offchain Labs. Organizers said additional names will be announced in the coming weeks.

Proof of Pitch, the startup competition run with Spectrum, will return to the program. Early-stage founders will pitch live to venture partners from Arrington Capital, Dragonfly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates and CoinFund. Organizers expect more than 200 institutional investors at the conference, providing founders direct access to potential capital and strategic partners.

The program begins June 1 with an invitation-only Golf Prelude at Racing Club de France La Boulie for VIP Black ticket holders. On June 3 the Louvre Palace will host StableDay, a focused stream for participants building payments, stablecoins, tokenization and digital dollar infrastructure. Sessions on StableDay will cover market structure, integration timelines, interoperability and the role of programmable money in finance.

Across both conference days a Bittensor Track will examine intersections between decentralized AI and blockchain infrastructure, while a Canton Track will feature institutions working on the future of financial market infrastructures. The public agenda will be complemented by two private dinners: an off-the-record Investor Dinner for fund managers, family offices and institutional allocators, and a Speaker & VIP Dinner that gathers nearly all speakers for informal discussion.

Proof of Talk is held annually at the Louvre Palace and operates without pay-to-speak arrangements. Organizers describe the agenda as journalist-led and focused on institutional discussions of market structure and emerging financial infrastructure.