Proof of Talk to host 120+ C-level leaders at Louvre

Proof of Talk will convene more than 120 C-level speakers representing a combined $18 trillion in assets under management at the Louvre Palace in Paris on June 2–3, 2026. Attendance for the fourth edition is capped at 2,500, and organizers have opened remaining passes after sellouts in 2024 and 2025.

Ninety-five percent of the speakers are at CEO or founder level. Confirmed participants include Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton; Tom Zschach, CIO at Swift; Ken Moore, CIO at Mastercard; Emma Landriault, JPM Coin Global Executive Director at JPMorgan; Kathleen Wrynn, Head of Digital Assets at Invesco; Caroline D. Pham, CLO at MoonPay and former CFTC commissioner; Stani Kulechov, founder of Aave Labs; Michael Arrington, general partner at Arrington Capital; Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream; Evan Cheng, CEO of Mysten Labs; Johann Kerbrat, SVP Crypto at Robinhood; Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Offchain Labs; Tom Lee, CIO at Fundstrat; Rob Hadick, GP at Dragonfly; Diogo Mónica, GP at Haun Ventures; Stéphanie Cabossioras, Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer at SG Forge; Tero Reuna, CEO, EU at Paxos; Chris Cox, Head of Investor Services at Citi; Moritz Platt, Capital Markets Technology Manager at Google; Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck; and Jacob Steeves and Ala Shaabana, co‑founders of Bittensor. Organizers said additional names will be announced in the coming weeks.

The conference will host Proof of Pitch, a live startup competition in which early-stage founders will pitch on the Louvre stage to partners from funds including Arrington Capital, Dragonfly, Haun Ventures, Draper Associates and CoinFund. Organizers expect more than 200 institutional investors to attend the conference, creating direct opportunities for fundraising and partnership discussions.

Programming begins June 1 with an invitation-only Golf Prelude at Racing Club de France La Boulie for VIP Black ticket holders. StableDay on June 3 is a focused programme for banks, fintechs, protocols, corporates and regulators working on stablecoins, payments, tokenization and digital dollar infrastructure. Sessions on StableDay will address market structure, integration timelines and interoperability for programmable money in global finance.

Across both conference days, a Bittensor Track will examine intersections between decentralized artificial intelligence and blockchain infrastructure. A Canton Track will showcase institutions working on next-generation financial market infrastructure. The organisers will host two private dinners: an Investor Dinner for fund managers, family offices and institutional allocators to discuss capital allocation and market structure off the record, and a Speaker & VIP Dinner that gathers nearly all speakers for private conversations outside the public agenda.

Proof of Talk is held annually at the Louvre Palace and operates without pay-to-speak arrangements, following a journalist-led agenda focused on institutional discussions about market structure and financial infrastructure. Passes for the June 2–3 conference are available through the event ticketing site. Media inquiries can be directed to [email protected].