IBM at Point Zero Forum 2025

Join us at the Point Zero Forum 2025, Europe's Definitive Finance, Tech and Policy Forum.

Over 2,000 of the world's leading policymakers, central bankers, regulators, and industry experts are coming to The Global Finance & Technology Network's (GFTN) annual global policy gathering, the Point Zero Forum. Over three days of dialogue and collaboration, we will tackle pressing challenges and explore actionable policy, finance, and technology pathways forward to drive progress in sustainability, inclusivity, innovation, and efficiency across the global financial system.

IBM and IBM Research is participating in this year's Point Zero Forum through an innovation tour, a workshop providing an overview of industry challenges and IBM's differentiated offerings in the space, and round table discussions on critical infrastructure cybersecurity and next generation Financial Market Infrastructures.

May 5th, 13:00-17:00: PZF Innovation tour "Moving Regulated Digital Assets from Conception to Reality", hosted by IBM and Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust. This tour demonstrates IBM’s full-stack offerings for regulated digital assets, including Central Bank Digital Currencies (retail and wholesale), Tokenized Deposits, Stablecoins, and Securities, that spotlights first of a kind requirements of these systems around transparency, privacy and regulation compliance in an unprecedented scale - allowing wholesale or retail incarnations of these systems at once. And this is done considering quantum-readiness throughout the full stack. Banque de France will also be demonstrating DL3S, the European wholesale CBDC candidate, that is based on open technologies.  Register here, where you can also find additional information.

May 7th, 10:00-11:00: PZF Workshop “Scaling Trust: The Future of Digital Assets and Transaction Processing in a Regulated and Interoperable World” powered by IBM.  Join us for a vivid discussion among financial system pioneers on the challenges for delivering digital assets at scale, followed by an exclusive deep dive into IBM’s cutting-edge digital asset technologies and ecosystem collaborations. 

May 7th, 13:50-14:20: PFZ Panel Discussion "Cyber Resilience in the Age of Converging Technologies" This panel will explore the growing opportunities and risks associated with technological convergence within financial services, how to best balance risk and innovation, and the robust security approaches needed to safeguard critical systems, financial services, and global digital infrastructure.

May 7th, 16:00-18:00: PFZ Panel Discussion "DLT for FMI: What is missing?" This panel will discuss which key elements are still missing, or are insufficiently mature, to enable DLT to truly reshape FMI? Is the main hurdle the current regulatory framework, or do challenges around standardization, interoperability with legacy systems, scalability, governance, and proven use cases with sufficient value bear the greatest responsibility?