Signal Week Rebrands to Bridge Crypto and Traditional Finance in Paris
Paris Blockchain Week has been renamed Signal Week to reflect cryptocurrency's expanding role in institutional markets. The event is merging with AI conferences to attract 2,500 attendees and facilitate connections between crypto leaders and traditional finance executives.
What was once known as Paris Blockchain Week has undergone a rebrand to become Signal Week, signaling the maturation of digital assets within the broader financial ecosystem. The renamed gathering is now consolidating with RAISE Summit, an annual conference focused on artificial intelligence and professional networking, as well as Machina Summit, recognized as Europe's premier event for physical AI applications. Organizers anticipate drawing around 2,500 participants, underscoring blockchain technology's increasing prominence in the market.
The industry has changed a lot. We really want to be the place where we bridge traditional finance and digital assets. It's where the market is finally, and we are embracing it completely. We have the desire to go abroad to launch other conferences. So it made sense that … we join everything under the same roof, but different flows, different marketing and different ticketing.
Michael Amar, chairman of RAISE Summit and co-founder of Signal Week
Amar and Charlie Meraud, who serves as chairman of RAISE Summit and co-founder of Signal Week, outlined the conference's direction during an exclusive conversation with Gemma Allen on theCUBE, the livestreaming platform operated by SiliconANGLE Media. Their remarks centered on what attendees can expect from the 2027 gathering and the trajectory of the cryptocurrency sector.
A signal of crypto's growing presence
Signal Week's programming is structured around the convergence of institutional finance and digital asset markets. According to Meraud, the tokenized real-world assets sector has expanded to $40 billion since cryptocurrency's inception. The conference schedule will incorporate the CXO Summit, an exclusive forum for senior executives.
The CXO Summit is organizing a roundtable under Chatham House rules with these … crypto-native players discussing all sophisticated topics around what they are building and how they can partner all year long. This is the kind of activation that makes people book a flight, buy a ticket and come to Signal Week. The industry needed a room for these players to connect and start actually doing business.
Charlie Meraud
Both organizers view enabling substantive dialogue between cryptocurrency industry leaders and executives from conventional financial institutions as central to the conference's mission. The event is expected to draw the chief executives of Kaiko, Morpho and Fireblocks, three prominent companies in the digital asset space. Amar and Meraud have also emphasized that regulators from the European Union will participate, a development they consider essential for navigating the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance.
We're creating those moments where people can get the most out of the conference. If you talk about the C-suite, people coming from traditional finance and meeting the makers of the crypto industry, we're creating the space where they will have talks in a very small room where actually we go very much into the details of the use cases of the implementation of a digital asset solution for a bank, for example.
Michael Amar
Custody—the practice of securing private keys that demonstrate ownership of cryptocurrency addresses and associated holdings—will receive significant attention at both Signal Week and RAISE Summit. The cryptocurrency sector has long grappled with security concerns, prompting the development of numerous protective mechanisms.
When we started … self-custody was one of the promised digital assets. A lot of players have been offering different ways of custodying digital assets. And having the most sophisticated solution coming to Signal Week, explaining all the new features, they've been building over the years is one of the reasons financial institutions are willing to connect and network with our audience.
Charlie Meraud