CV Summit

The program of CV Summit 2026 in Zurich was organized in four tracks. Financial Infrastructure dealt with stablecoins, digital custody and the connections between financial market systems. Tokenization of Capital Markets covered tokenized securities and digital exchanges, and the same track also looked at institutional DeFi and trading infrastructure.

The track AI & the Intelligent Economy discussed AI in finance, autonomous systems and AI agents. Wealth & Asset Management asked how investment strategies adapt when banks and asset managers adopt these technologies. In its review of the 2026 edition, the organizer named AI agents and the infrastructure behind them as the main themes of the year.

CV Summit 2026 had about 200 speakers on three stages and in workshops. The organizer reports that more than 85 percent of attendees hold C-level, director or senior management roles, and that over 60 percent travel in from across Europe. All sessions are held in English, and CV Summit 2026 was not livestreamed, so every session had to be attended in person.

Speakers in 2026 included Christopher Perkins, Head of Franklin Crypto Investments at Franklin Templeton, and Manuel Klein, who leads market management for payments and digital currencies at Deutsche Bank. Alexander Thoma spoke as head of digital assets of PostFinance, while Mathias Imbach appeared as co-founder and group CEO of Sygnum. Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman and CEO of DMCC, was on the program as well, and so was Frederik Gregaard, CEO of the Cardano Foundation.

Sponsor packages of the summit range from exhibition stands to VIP dinners. On the evening of the second day of CV Summit 2026, ticket holders boarded the Panta Rhei for an evening of networking on Lake Zurich.

CV Summit is organized by the venture capital firm CV VC together with its ecosystem business CV Labs. CV VC makes seed investments in technology companies, runs an accelerator and has funded more than 75 startups worldwide. CV Labs was established in Zug in 2018 and runs hubs in Zug, Vaduz, Cape Town, Berlin and Lisbon.

Mathias Ruch is the founder and CEO of CV VC and of CV Labs, and Philipp Rickenbacher chairs the CV VC board of directors. Both of them spoke at CV Summit 2026 in Zurich. CV Labs is based in Zug, in the center of Crypto Valley, the Swiss crypto and blockchain ecosystem that reaches from Zug to Zurich and other cantons.

Franklin Templeton was the presenting partner of CV Summit 2026, next to the organizers CV VC and CV Labs. The other partners came in platinum, gold and silver tiers, followed by community partners from associations and universities and by media partners. Swiss banks, global asset managers, crypto exchanges and blockchain foundations made up most of the partners.

Eight companies were platinum partners of the summit in Zurich. From Switzerland came the Swiss Post subsidiary PostFinance, the cantonal bank Luzerner Kantonalbank and the law, tax and compliance firm MME. The Swiss stablecoin venue Scrypt was a platinum partner too, together with the crypto payment app Unblock. The other platinum partners were the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre DMCC, the blockchain payments company Ripple and the embedded finance provider Ephelia.

Among the community partners was the Crypto Valley Association, an association that is separate from the Crypto Valley ecosystem itself. Universities and research groups such as the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts also supported the summit as community partners.

CV Summit 2027 has no published date yet, and tickets for the next edition are not on sale. Anyone interested can join the waitlist for CV Summit 2027 to hear when early bird tickets go on sale. The last edition, CV Summit 2026, took place on 29 and 30 September 2026 in Zurich.

CV Summit 2026 took place at the Kongresshaus Zurich, Claridenstrasse 5, 8002 Zurich, in Switzerland. It was the second edition of the conference at the Kongresshaus, and the venue is accessible by wheelchair.

The agenda of CV Summit 2026 covered two days with talks, panels and workshops on three stages. The whole program is held in English, and the organizers recommend business casual to business formal clothing for the conference days.

For CV Summit 2026 the organizers sold one-day, two-day and VIP passes with different access to networking areas and side events. Early bird passes cannot be refunded, but their holders can transfer them to another person. General and final admission passes can be refunded up to 24 hours before the start of the conference.

Crypto Valley is the crypto and blockchain ecosystem in Switzerland, centered on Zug and reaching Zurich and other cantons. CV Summit is the conference of CV Labs, which was established in 2018 in Zug and works with startups, corporates and investors there. The Crypto Valley Association is a separate association within this ecosystem and one of the community partners of the summit.