WAIB Summit Monaco June 9-10 to host Web3 and AI leaders

WAIB Summit Monaco will return June 9-10, 2026 at One Monte‑Carlo on Casino Square. The two-day event follows the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix and is expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees from the finance and technology sectors.

Confirmed participants include BNP Paribas, Natixis, Franklin Templeton, CoinShares, Kraken and KuCoin EU, along with the European Commission, the European Parliament and delegations from the governments of Liechtenstein and Monaco.

Program features include a private Family Offices VIP dinner at the Yacht Club de Monaco for 80 selected guests; the WAIB Summit Monte Carlo Awards; venture-capital and startup pitching sessions with investors such as Draper University and CV VC Labs; the AI Film Festival Monaco and a 24-hour hackathon supported by Alibaba Cloud. The summit will close with The Moon Party, a beachfront reception along the Riviera.

Announced speakers span policy, institutional finance and Web3 infrastructure. They include Peter Kerstens, adviser at the European Commission’s DG FISMA; Julien Clausse, head of Asset Foundry at BNP Paribas; Georg Harer, co-CEO of Bybit EU; Sabina Liu, managing director of KuCoin EU; Ada Vaughan, head of DeFi at the Stellar Development Foundation; and Rafael Mastroberardino of Franklin Templeton.

The 2025 edition featured more than 150 speakers and 50 key opinion leaders with a combined social reach exceeding six million followers and generated more than 1.3 million impressions. Companies represented in 2025 included Microsoft, Coinbase, OKX, B2C2 and AS Monaco.

Organizers describe WAIB Summit as an annual conference that connects institutional investors, family offices, Web3 founders, regulators and AI innovators. The summit is held each year after the Monaco Formula 1 weekend. Early-bird tickets are available at waibsummit.com. Sponsorship, speaking and media inquiries should be sent to [email protected].