Family offices have spent the past few years moving from the sidelines of the digital asset conversation to the table itself. Where crypto exposure was once quietly delegated to a junior analyst or ring-fenced as a curiosity allocation, more single and multi-family offices across Asia are now asking harder questions: how to custody digital assets responsibly, how to evaluate tokenisation as a portfolio tool, and how blockchain infrastructure fits into a multi-generational wealth strategy. That shift is exactly why an event that, on paper, looks like a traditional wealth-management summit deserves attention from readers who follow Bitcoin and the broader digital asset industry.
From 15 to 16 October 2026, the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong hosts the seventh edition of the World Family Office Forum | Asia, organised by Connect Group, a long-established name in global family office events. The gathering is invitation-only and deliberately small, built around closed-door panels, roundtables and off-the-record conversation rather than a trade-show floor. The audience is the point: family principals, single and multi-family office executives, and a tightly curated group of advisors and asset managers, brought together specifically to talk candidly about capital, governance and the future of family wealth in the region.
Digital assets get a dedicated seat on the agenda
For an event rooted in succession planning, governance and traditional asset allocation, the forum gives real estate to crypto and blockchain. On the afternoon of 15 October, a panel titled “Digital Assets & Blockchain: The Next Chapter of Innovation” examines how digital assets are moving from a niche allocation toward a more institutional slice of diversified portfolios, covering opportunities, risks, tokenisation, and the broader evolution of blockchain infrastructure. It is followed immediately by a keynote, “Building the Digital Asset Economy,” focused on the technology and infrastructure powering the next generation of financial innovation.
The panel is moderated by Karl Naim, Group Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Executive Officer Middle East at XBTO, a digital asset investment firm. Naim brings nearly two decades of experience across venture capital, wealth management and asset management, including stints at UBS, Goldman Sachs and Mubadala before founding fintech ventures of his own — a background that puts him squarely at the intersection of institutional finance and the digital asset world this audience already tracks closely.
That the organisers scheduled this discussion alongside sessions on private equity, private debt, real estate and venture capital is itself telling. Digital assets are being treated not as a speculative sideshow but as one more asset class family offices are actively underwriting against the same criteria as everything else on the balance sheet.
Why the crypto industry should care about the room, not just the agenda
The value of this forum for anyone building in Bitcoin, blockchain infrastructure or digital asset management is less about the sessions than about who is sitting in them. Confirmed participants include family office principals and executives from firms such as Harrison Asset Management, Golden Alpha, Farro Capital, Asia Capital and Finkeissen Holdings, alongside senior figures from Corient, Central Group and Luen Thai Holdings. These are capital stewards who allocate on multi-year horizons and increasingly need to form a view on digital assets whether or not they have a crypto specialist in-house.
For founders, fund managers and infrastructure providers in the digital asset space, that combination — genuine allocators, a private and confidential setting, and a program that already treats blockchain as a legitimate agenda item — is a rarer opportunity than another public crypto conference. It is a chance to be in the room when family offices are actively forming their thinking on tokenisation, custody and portfolio construction, rather than pitching after the decision has already been made elsewhere.
The practical details
The forum runs across two full days, opening with a welcome from event chair Friska Wirya and closing with a forward-looking panel on “The Future Family Office: Structure & Strategy.” Beyond the digital assets discussion, the agenda covers family governance and succession, venture capital, real estate, credit markets, AI, and philanthropy and impact investing — giving digital asset professionals a genuine window into the full range of priorities competing for family office capital, not just the crypto line item.
Because the event is invitation-only, prospective attendees should reach out directly through the forum’s website (asia.worldfamilyofficeforum.com) or Connect Group’s own channels rather than expecting open registration. For anyone in the Bitcoin and digital asset industry looking to build relationships with Asia’s family office community on its own terms, that extra step is likely to be worth it.