Signal Week

THE BRIDGE BETWEEN
TRADFI & DIGITAL ASSETS

SW2027 | ETHOS

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Executive Summary

Position
The Institutional Summit for Digital Assets
Supporting Line
The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets
Dates
July 6th and 7th, 2027
Venue
Palais des Congrès, Paris
Size
10,000+ over 2 days
Composition
Inherits Paris Blockchain Week's >70% decision-maker concentration (C-suite, founders, policymakers, asset managers)
Co-location
RAISE (world's leading AI summit) - same week, same venue, separate brand

Signal Week is not a rebrand of Paris Blockchain Week. It is an elevation. Where Paris Blockchain Week built credibility as Europe's leading institutional digital assets conference, Signal Week takes that credibility and positions it for the decade ahead - under a name that matches where the industry actually is.

Signal Week is the definitive annual summit for the institutional digital assets economy - where the builders of on-chain infrastructure meet the institutions deploying it at scale.

But the story doesn't end there.

Institutional adoption of digital assets is no longer just a question of regulation or capital allocation. It is a question of intelligence. The systems being built today - agentic compliance, AI-driven risk management, intelligent capital deployment, automated on-chain execution - are what make digital assets operable at institutional scale. Without AI, the infrastructure exists, but can't run at the speed institutions require. Without on-chain infrastructure, AI has no programmable financial layer to operate on.

These two worlds are not parallel. They are convergent. And Signal Week - co-located with RAISE, the world's leading AI summit - is the only place in the world where both communities are in the same building, in the same week, building toward the same outcome.

That's not a coincidence. That's the thesis.

  • The Institutional Summit for Digital Assets.
  • The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital Assets
  • You Don't Discover Signal Week. You Get Invited to It.
  • The Most Consequential Room in Digital Assets
  • Where the foundations of modern financial systems are built
  • The highest-value room in digital assets - now with a name that matches
  • Where the institutions shaping the future of finance meet the infrastructure powering it.
  • 10,000+ leaders. 70%+ decision-makers. 100+ countries. The room that moved markets - elevated.
  • PBW built the room. Signal Week names what happens inside it.
  • Every conversation is a signal. Every handshake moves markets
  • The most strategic audience in digital assets - curated, credentialed, and connected - under a name built for the next decade.
  • From the Louvre to the Palais des Congrès: same mission, bigger stage, sharper audience.
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The Core Differentiator: Category Ownership

Most events compete on scale, on speakers, on city. Signal Week competes on something different: owning the category.

What is forming is not just a rebranded conference. It is the founding moment of a new positioning - the convergence of programmable capital, onchain infrastructure, AI-driven automation, and institutional adoption into a single, coherent economic sector.

That sector does not have a home yet. No event owns it. No publication covers it seriously. No annual gathering defines it. Signal Week gets to be first.

And being first - and being credible - is the only position that matters when a new category forms. You don't catch up to the event that named the movement. You either are it, or you aren't.

>70%
C-suite or investment decision-makers
36,000+
Facilitated networking meetings PBW 2025
94.7%
Likelihood to return
97.4%
Satisfaction with networking quality
$50T+
AUM represented in the room
1,312
Banks and Institutions
389
Government Officials & Policymakers
1,743
Fintech and Payments
1,187
Investments & Family Offices
1,369
CEOs and Co-Founders

The community that forms around a new sector is not an audience. It is a constituency. They return every year not because the lineup is good, but because this is where their industry lives.

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Value Proposition

Europe's highest-value network for institutional digital assets - now positioned for the decade where on-chain infrastructure, AI, and institutional capital converge.

  • Curated expo halls for activations and encounters, not booths and banners
  • Decision density: 10,000+ leaders, 70%+ C-level — at scale, not despite it
  • Brand storytelling set against Paris's institutional landmarks
  • Collisions that turn into capital - through design, not chance
  • The intersection of on-chain infrastructure, policy, capital, AI, and coordination
  • Two co-located ecosystems (Signal Week + RAISE) that amplify each other without diluting either
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What's The Signal Week Narrative

Signal Week brings together the leaders who fund, regulate, and build the next generation of financial infrastructure. At the Palais des Congrès in Paris, 10,000+ decision-makers - over 70% C-level - shape how digital assets evolve from on-chain infrastructure into a fully deployed institutional economy. This is not another expo; it is a curated environment where programmable capital meets policy, and builders meet the institutions deploying their work at scale. The only week in Europe where you see the full stack - where on-chain infrastructure meets agentic intelligence at institutional scale

At Signal Week, your brand enters the founding moment of a new category in institutional digital assets. Partner with the summit that unites TradFi leaders, asset managers, policymakers, and protocol builders - where every activation is curated for strategic outcomes, not footfall. Signal Week offers positioning that amplifies credibility, trust, and visibility with the audiences shaping the next financial system. In this room, reputation compounds. Founding Signal Partners don't just sponsor an event - they help define the category.

In Paris, infrastructure meets capital. At Signal Week, the next modern financial system is built.

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Problem & Mission

The digital assets industry has outgrown its events. The majority of conferences are still optimised for an earlier era - attendance over outcomes, noise over substance, hype over institutional adoption. Meanwhile, the real activity - programmable capital, tokenised assets, institutional Decentralised Finance, on-chain infrastructure, agentic automation - has moved far beyond what any legacy conference format can contain.

The result: decision-makers attend out of obligation but extract diminishing value. The category needs a summit that matches where the sector actually is - not where it was five years ago.

Signal Week rejects the conference model that optimises for noise. It inherits PBW's proven formula - scale with substance, 10,000+ leaders, curated access, institutional credibility - and positions it for the next decade.

While competitors fight over the "biggest event" title, Signal Week steps outside the category entirely. It becomes the institutional-first summit for the next era of digital assets - where on-chain infrastructure, capital, policy, and AI-driven coordination converge to define the future of finance.

Signal Week is on its way to become the world's defining summit for institutional digital assets - the annual gathering that the constituency returns to not because the lineup is good, but because this is where their industry lives.

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The Raise Co-Location

RAISE and Signal Week are not merging. They are co-located - deliberately, architecturally, on purpose.

Two sovereign brands. Separate stages. Separate audiences. Separate programming. But the same week, the same venue, the same city.

The question the industry keeps asking is: when does institutional adoption of digital assets actually happen at scale? The answer is not just regulation. It's not just capital. It's intelligence. Agentic systems capable of enforcing compliance in real time. AI-driven models that manage risk across on-chain portfolios. Automated infrastructure that runs 24/7 without the operational overhead that keeps institutions on the sidelines.

AI is what makes digital assets institutionally operable. On-chain infrastructure is what gives AI a programmable financial layer to work on. One without the other is incomplete.

Signal Week and RAISE intersect there. What forms in the shared space between them is something neither event could create alone - the first place in Europe where the people building on-chain infrastructure meet the institutions deploying it, alongside the people building the AI layer that makes it all run at scale.

A RAISE keynote speaker on AI infrastructure can step onto the Signal Week stage and speak directly to how that technology unlocks institutional digital assets - and vice versa. Thought leadership compounds across two stages instead of one. For speakers, that's unmatched reach. For attendees, it's the full picture in one week.

RAISE brings AI infrastructure leaders, compute-scale operators, and enterprise AI decision-makers into the same venue. These are not peripheral guests. They are the people building the systems that institutional digital assets will run on. No standalone digital assets event can attract this crowd. Signal Week gets them by design.

Founding Signal Partners who operate at the convergence of on-chain and AI infrastructure get one package, credit across both ecosystems, visibility in both programmes. For those building at this intersection, there is no other week like this.

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What Signal Week Stands For

The Bridge Between TradFi and Digital AssetsWhere Infrastructure Meets CapitalSame Mission. Bigger Stage. Sharper Audience.The Room That Moved Markets - Elevated.Where the Modern Financial System Gets BuiltAt Signal Week, Infrastructure Becomes Institution.The Founding Moment of a New Sector.Every Conversation Is a Signal.

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