TWC 2025 AGENDA

ON-CAMPUS & ON-LINE VENUE

FACULTY OF LAW, GARCÍA POLAVIEJA HALL
COMILLAS PONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY, ICADE, MADRID
Calle Alberto Aguilera, 23. 28015 Madrid

REGISTRATION:

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

 10:00 h WELCOMING WORDS

Antonio Allende, SJ
Rector of the Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid, ESP)

María González Gordon
Socia IP & Negocio Digital, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo

Miguel Ángel Domínguez
Chairman of Alastria

PART I. TOKENS AND DIGITAL LAW

10.30 h – Presentation: Tratado de Derecho de la Sociedad Digital (Reus: Madrid)

Carmen Alonso
President, 2nd Section (Commercial Law) of the Comisión General de Codificación, Ministry of Justice, ESP

Moisés Barrio
Letrado del Consejo de Estado 

Javier W. Ibáñez Jiménez
Professor of Commercial Law.
Academic Head, CMS-COMILLAS OBSERVATORY OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

PART II. TOKEN ECONOMY AND POLICY MAKING

11:15 h – Tokenized Microfinance: key DLT insights

Suzana Maranhao
Blockchain Technology Strategy & Portfolio Project Manager. World Food Programme (UN) / University of Geneva. Former BNDES member (BRA)

11:30 h     Coffee break

12:00 h – Seizure of tokens in insolvency proceedings  

Alexandre Soveral Martins
Professor Associado com Agregação.  Researcher of the Law Institue, Faculty of Law, U. de Coimbra (POR)

12:20 h – To what extent the EU economy is and will be a token economy?

Joachim Schwerin
Principal Economist. Directorate-General Internal Market (EU COM)

12: 40 h – Tokens in the metaverse: IP issues

Javier Ibáñez
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Standardization Evaluation Group (SEG) 15 -Metaverse-, Working Stream 5 (Regulation) Chair
David Durand
President, International Intellectual Property Forum -Québec (FORPIQ)
IEC SEG 15. Working Stream 5 (Regulation) Chair

PART III. TOKENS AND DATA SOCIETY

13.20 h – European Data Protection Board: Draft Guidelines on Blockchain Technology

Jörn Erbguth
President, Geneva Macro Labs (SWI). Consultant on Blockchain & GDPR

13:40 h       Lunch break

15:30 h – The social and legal impact of tokens

Carlos de Cores
Professor of Civil Law. Rector at the CLAEH University (Montevideo, URU)

PART IV. TOKEN REGULATION AND GLOBAL LEGAL CHALLENGES

16:00 h – NFTs and Intellectual Property in the US

James. G. Gatto (USA)
Partner at SheppardMullin, Washington DC

 16:30 h – Round table: Possession and control of tokens in UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets

Reyes Palá (UNIZAR) 
Ana F. Muñoz (URJC)
María del Sagrario Navarro (UCLM)
Professors of Commercial Law

17:00 h – 2025 UK Financial Services Regulatory Updates for Cryptoassets

Eilis Ferran. Professor of Commercial Law. Cambridge University (UK)
Diana Nichols Mutter. LLM, York University. PhD researcher. Cambridge University

17:30 h – Tokens in the UK Law Commission 2025 consultation: solving the DLT omniterritoriality problem

Charles Kerrigan
Bank of England’s Financial Markets Law Committee on Virtual Currencies
Partner at CMS London (UK)

18:00 h – CLOSING REMARKS AND CONCLUSION

Alfonso Codes
Socio Director de CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo