Who is speaking at ETHDenver 2026 in Denver, February 18 to 21: 13 speakers from Vitalik Buterin to the SEC, Base and Robinhood, with roles and session times.
Denver — ETHDenver 2026 opens its main event at the National Western Center in Denver on Wednesday, February 18, and runs through Saturday, February 21. The organizer's speaker list reaches from the chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and five tracks run in parallel, so nobody will see everything. These are the 13 speakers worth building a schedule around, with verified roles and the session details published so far.
At a glance
- Dates: BUIDLWeek and Camp BUIDL February 15 to 17, 2026; main event February 18 to 21, 2026
- Venue: National Western Center, 4850 National Western Drive, Denver, Colorado
- Organizer: ETHDenver
- Full list: ETHDenver 2026 speakers page
- Official site: ethdenver.com
Regulators on the ETHDenver 2026 speakers list
Paul Atkins, Chairman, US Securities and Exchange Commission
Atkins was sworn in as the 34th chairman of the SEC on April 21, 2025. Before returning to the agency he was chief executive of Patomak Global Partners, a firm he founded in 2009. The SEC's public calendar lists Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce at ETHDenver on Wednesday, February 18 from 4:00 pm to 4:30 pm Eastern, which is 2:00 pm in Denver.
Hester Peirce, Commissioner, US Securities and Exchange Commission
Peirce has served as an SEC commissioner since January 2018. Earlier in her career she was counsel to Atkins during his own term as a commissioner, and senior counsel on the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. She is listed alongside Atkins in the SEC's February 18 notice.
Patrick Witt, Executive Director, President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, The White House
Witt leads the council that develops and coordinates national policy on digital assets, according to his organizer biography. His session is the one to attend for teams whose plans depend on federal policy timelines, including stablecoin issuers, exchanges and anyone raising from US institutions.
Tung Chan, Securities Commissioner, State of Colorado
Chan heads the Colorado Division of Securities and has chaired the fintech committee for state securities regulators. She also served as the first general counsel of the Ethereum Foundation. Founders incorporated in, or raising money in, the host state should make time for her.
Ethereum's core teams and builders
Vitalik Buterin, Co-Founder, Ethereum
Buterin co-founded Ethereum and remains its most closely followed voice on where the protocol goes next. The organizer's schedule lists "The Next Epoch of Ethereum" on the Main Stage on Wednesday, February 18 at 10:20 am, in the opening block of the main event, which starts with a welcome at 9:30 am.
Joe Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum, Founder and CEO, Consensys
Lubin co-founded Ethereum and runs Consensys, the company that develops the MetaMask wallet. Product and partnership teams building on wallets or developer tooling should watch for his slot on the organizer's schedule.
Tomasz Stańczak, Co-Executive Director, Ethereum Foundation
Stańczak co-leads the Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit that supports the development of Ethereum. Off campus, he is listed for a fireside chat titled "Ethereum's Next Chapter: Scaling, Security, and the Road Ahead" at Builder Nights Denver on Tuesday, February 17 at 7:30 pm, according to the host's event page.
Danny Ryan, Cofounder and President, Etherealize
Ryan spent seven years at the Ethereum Foundation leading its research group and helped drive protocol upgrades including the Merge. He now works on bringing Wall Street firms onchain at Etherealize. The organizer's schedule lists "One Year In: Etherealize's Wall Street Report Card" on the Main Stage on Wednesday, February 18 at 1:20 pm.
Jesse Pollak, Creator of Base
Pollak created Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 network incubated by Coinbase, after leading Coinbase's consumer engineering from 2017 to 2021. Consumer app founders will get the most from him. The schedule also lists a separate session, "Base: State of the Chain and Builder Roadmap," on the Prosperia Stage on February 18 at 1:25 pm.
Wall Street and brokerage names
Johann Kerbrat, SVP and General Manager of Crypto, Robinhood
Kerbrat oversees strategy for Robinhood's crypto business. He previously held engineering roles at Airbnb and Iron Fish. For teams that want distribution to retail investors, he is the mainstream brokerage voice on the speaker list.
Joseph Chalom, CEO, Sharplink
Chalom became chief executive of Nasdaq-listed Sharplink in July 2025 after more than 20 years at BlackRock, where he was head of strategic ecosystem partnerships. His organizer biography credits him with a central role in launching the iShares Bitcoin Trust, the iShares Ethereum Trust and BUIDL, BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund on Ethereum.
Privacy and security specialists
Zooko Wilcox, Chief Product Officer, Shielded Labs
Wilcox founded Zcash and co-founded the Electric Coin Company, which launched the protocol. He now leads product at Shielded Labs. The schedule lists "Fireside: Zcash's Zooko Wilcox" on Wednesday, February 18 at 1:40 pm on the Confluence Stage in the CSU Spur Hydro building.
Charles Guillemet, CTO, Ledger
Guillemet joined Ledger in 2017 as chief security officer and has been CTO since 2019. He is also listed at the Quantum Summit, a side event on Thursday, February 19, for a panel on post-quantum cryptography from 11:00 am to 11:30 am, according to the host's event page.
How to plan around the ETHDenver 2026 speakers
The organizer has grouped each day and stage into themed summits. Pick the two or three people who matter to your goals, then check the organizer's site for final times.
For dates, venue and tickets, see the ETHDenver 2026 preview and our ETHDenver 2026 conference page. For the evenings, see the guide to ETHDenver 2026 side events.
Frequently asked questions
Who is speaking at ETHDenver 2026?
The organizer's speaker page lists Vitalik Buterin, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, Patrick Witt of the White House, Joe Lubin of Consensys and Jesse Pollak of Base, among many others.
When and where is ETHDenver 2026?
The main event runs from Wednesday, February 18 to Saturday, February 21, 2026, at the National Western Center, 4850 National Western Drive, Denver. BUIDLWeek and Camp BUIDL come first, from February 15 to 17.
Has ETHDenver published session times for every speaker?
Not for everyone. Sessions that carry a day, time and stage on the organizer's site or an official notice are included above. Others had no published slot at the time of writing, so check ethdenver.com each morning.
Planning for ETHDenver 2026?
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