Vault Summit arrives at Le Majestic in Cannes on April 1, 2026 — bringing together the protocol teams, asset managers, and financial institutions shaping the next layer of institutional onchain capital.
As the dedicated conference for onchain vault infrastructure, Vault Summit moves past broad DeFi narratives and into the mechanics that matter: vault-level allocation, risk frameworks, and the operational realities of integrating onchain infrastructure into institutional portfolios. Where other events cover programmable money at a distance, Vault Summit gets specific — built for the practitioners who are actively allocating, managing, and overseeing capital through onchain vaults.
The agenda is technically grounded and practitioner-driven, designed to support real institutional decision-making rather than surface-level debate. Whether evaluating vault architecture, capital strategies, or adoption pathways, attendees come to Vault Summit to work through the questions that don’t have easy answers yet.
First launched at DeFiConnect and now expanding as an independent flagship in 2026, Vault Summit is where the infrastructure conversation goes deeper.
Speakers include:
- Paul Frambot, CEO, Morpho
- Hong Kim, Co-Founder & CTO, Bitwise Asset Management
- Jeroen Offerijns, Co-Founder & CTO, Centrifuge Labs
- Christine Moy, Partner, Head of Digital Assets, Apollo Global Management, Inc.
- Merlin Egalite, Co-Founder, Morpho
- Sylvain Prigent, CPO, SG-Forge
- David Vatchev, Head of Tokenization, Fasanara Capital
- Rupert Poland, Digital Asset Leader, Aon
- Rafael Mastroberardino, Digital Assets Partnership Development, Franklin Templeton
- Paul-Adrien Hyppolite, Co-Founder & CEO, Spiko
- Wojtek Pawlowski, CEO & Co-Founder, Accountable
- Laszlo Szabo, CEO & Co-Founder, Kiln
- Charles Jansen, Head of DeFi Transformation, S&P Global
- Debbie Soon, Head of Marketing, Privy
- Nenter (Nathan) Chow, Global CEO, BitMart
- Patrick Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder, MembersCap
- Lancelot de Ferrière, Co-Founder & CTO, Hyli
- James Harris, CEO, Tesseract
- Margaux Frisque, Partner, d&a partners
- Mehdi Lebbar, Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, YO Labs
- Patrick Hennes, Blockchain & Digital Assets Expert
- Redwan Meslem, Executive Director, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
- Thomas Lefort, Co-Founder & CEO, Exponent
- Jeremiah Smith, Co-Founder & CEO, OpenCover
- Giel Detienne, Head of Risk Curation, kpk (formerly karpatkey)
- Dennis Bree, Head of Institutional Growth, Morpho
- Anastasiia Zbandut, Dr, Blockworks Advisory
- Ariel Madjar, Product Manager, Utila
- Calvin Leyon, Alchemist, Head of Onchain, Kraken
- Carsten Hermann, Co-Founder & CTO, Particula Ratings
- Driss Benamour, Co-Founder & CEO, YO Labs
- engn33r, Solutions Architect, Yearn
- Ethan Luc, Growth Lead, Upshift Finance
- Lee McClelland, Head of Risk, Nexus Mutual
- Marcin Kazmierczak, Co-Founder, RedStone & Credora
- Nassim Alexandre, Head of On-Chain Asset Management and Curation, RockawayX
- Stéphane Daniel, Lawyer, d&a partners
- Darren Camas, Founder, IPOR Fusion
- Hugo Volz Oliveira, Partnerships Lead, ScopeLift
- Shiv Shankar, CEO, Boundless
- Alexis Bourdillat, Head of DeFi Risk, Steakhouse Financial
- Andy C, Co-Founder, The Rollup
- Gabriel Halm, Senior Research Analyst, Sentora
- Simon Mathonnet, Partnerships, Gauntlet
- Thibault Labidi, Head of DeFi Product & Growth, Maven11
- Weso, CTO, Cap
- Charles St. Louis, DeFi, Ethereum Foundation
- Nicholas Del Zingaro, DeFi Curation Lead, Gauntlet
- Anlin Z, Senior Protocol Strategist, Gauntlet
✨ This is a side event for the Ethereum Community Conference 9 (EthCC) in Cannes.
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