IBW Institutional Forum 2026
India's first invite-only, closed-door forum bringing together senior decision-makers from banking, fintech, enterprises, regulators, and global financial institutions to shape the future of blockchain in finance.
Everyone will eventually hear about the next breakthrough. Very few will be part of the conversations that made it possible. This room exists for those conversations.
IBW Institutional Forum creates the environment those conversations deserve. Closed-door, invite-only, and governed by the Chatham House Rule, it enables leaders to exchange perspectives without the pressure of public narratives.
Limited to 120 LeadersThis is the third roomThe Institutional Forum is the third room of India Blockchain Week Conference, created exclusively to bring together a select group of leaders for the conversations across finance and blockchain.
One closed-door room.
The whole conversation.
A curated, invite-only two-day forum within India Blockchain Week Conference where senior financial leaders discuss real-world blockchain adoption through closed-door conversations.
A decade in the making.
A curated cross-section.
C-suite & director-level — Head of Digital Assets / Blockchain, CTO / Chief Digital Officer, Head of Payments & Settlement, and Treasury & capital-markets product heads.
The Chatham House Rule.
Participants are free to use what they hear. They are not free to reveal who said it. No names, no firms, no attribution. That single rule is what turns a panel into a candid conversation, and what lets senior leaders speak without a position to defend.
“Where ideas can leave the room, but identities never do.”
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What we'll get into.
CBDC & programmable money
Conditional disbursements, offline payments, and a programmable rupee moving from pilot to production.
Tokenisation & real-world assets
From fractional equities to tokenised funds — where the rails, the custody and the rules actually stand.
Trade finance & settlement
Letters of credit, e-way bills and cross-border settlement moving onto shared infrastructure.
Capital-markets infrastructure
DLT covenant monitoring, regulatory sandbox pilots, and the next layer of market plumbing.
Institutional DLT & enterprise infra
Production systems from the enterprise builders already live across Indian institutions.
AI × blockchain
Where autonomous agents and verifiable on-chain infrastructure begin to meet.
The calibre IBW convenes.
Confirmed for the Institutional Forum: the regulator that built GIFT IFSC, the clearing corporation behind India's commodity markets, the counsel who structure what happens inside them, and the firms building the rails. Policy, law and market infrastructure, in one closed room.
The operating system behind India Blockchain Week Conference.
We are the venture capital arm of Hashed, backing builders from India and emerging markets shaping the onchain and machine economy frontier — investing at the earliest stages and amplifying growth through our expertise and network. The Institutional Forum is our newest programme.
The Institutional Forum is capped, closed, and off the record. Nothing said in the room leaves with a name attached, which is why the conversation gets past the talking points.
The brands that have built India Blockchain Week Conference.
Across three editions, these are the brands that have anchored India Blockchain Week Conference, from Ethereum and Polygon to Coinbase and Binance. The same ecosystem the Institutional Forum now opens to institutions.
The partners behind the 2026 Forum.
The organisations backing the Institutional Forum this edition, alongside the convenors and the institutions in the room.
Join IBW Institutional Forum
IBW Institutional Forum is an invitation-only gathering where participation is limited to selected applicants. Every attendee is carefully reviewed to ensure the right mix of expertise, leadership, and institutional perspective, creating a trusted environment for meaningful dialogue, strategic collaboration, and lasting industry impact.