Consensus Hong Kong 2027 (1-3 February): CoinDesk’s third edition, prices out, speakers not yet

CoinDesk will hold Consensus Hong Kong 2027 from 1 to 3 February 2027 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) in Wan Chai. It is the third Hong Kong edition of the Consensus conference, after its debut in February 2025 and a second run in February 2026. The exhibition floor opens on 2 and 3 February. The home page lists 1 February too, but the FAQ mentions only early badge pickup that day.

Three months out, the event has dates, a venue, a format and prices. It has no named speakers. On 23 October 2026 the speakers page carried an “All Speakers” heading with nothing under it.

Programme: four stages under a “Money. Markets. Machines.” banner

The organiser builds the 2027 edition on three pillars. Digital Assets at Scale covers the tokenisation of equities and real-world assets, stablecoins used as payment rails, and DeFi. The AI pillar looks at Chinese AI companies going global and at how funds and banks use AI. The Agentic Economy pillar is about AI agents that trade and manage portfolios, and about who controls them.

The agenda-at-a-glance page spreads the sessions over four stages. The Mainstage takes the keynotes. The Summit Stage hosts a Future of Finance Summit and an AI Summit, and the Convergence Stage runs tracks on stablecoins, tokenisation and Asian macro. A Spotlight Stage is kept for partner content and announcements. CoinDesk promises “125+ sessions” and “400+ speakers” and aims for 10,000 attendees from more than 100 countries: projections, not counts. The agenda gives no session titles or times, and the speaker and sponsor applications are still open.

The 2027 line-up: no speaker confirmed so far

The home page shows Michael Saylor (Strategy), Kevin O’Leary (O’Leary Ventures) and Amy Oldenburg (Morgan Stanley). They appear as quotes about Consensus in general, under a testimonials block, and nothing on the site presents them as 2027 speakers. We do not list them as such. For scale, CoinDesk’s closing releases counted more than 300 speakers in 2025 and more than 350 in 2026.

Consensus Hong Kong 2027 tickets and prices

The registration page lists three passes in US dollars, at an early rate that ends with “Register by Nov 13”. The page gives no year; with the event in February 2027, the deadline can only be 13 November 2026. We read the page on 21 and again on 23 October 2026. No euro price is shown, so check the live rate with your bank or card issuer.

Deal Flow+ meetings are set up by the Consensus team, and only for passes bought before 15 January. Group codes take 5% off for three people or more (BUY3), 10% for five (BUY5) and 20% for ten (BUY10), and they are case sensitive. There is no day pass and no exhibition-only rate.

The FAQ is strict on refunds: none, for any kind of cancellation. A pass can be handed to someone else free of charge if the request arrives by Monday 4 January 2027; after that, a transfer is not guaranteed. CoinDesk takes Amex, Visa, Mastercard and Discover, plus “various cryptocurrencies” that it does not list. Academics, developers, scholarship applicants, the military and government officials can apply for a discount, and their registration stays pending until the fee is paid.

Badge pickup at the HKCEC, and visas

The HKCEC sits at 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, on the Hong Kong Island waterfront. Badges are collected on site on Monday 1 February from 12:00 to 20:00, on Tuesday 2 February from 08:00 to 18:00 and on Wednesday 3 February from 08:00 to 16:00, Hong Kong time (UTC+8, no daylight saving). The show floor opens at 09:00 on both conference days. CoinDesk has not published a closing hour for 2027.

Only the named holder can collect a badge, with a government photo ID. A lost badge or wristband costs US$200 to replace.

Visas are the attendee’s problem: the FAQ links to the Hong Kong government’s visa requirements page. Hotels go through an official travel portal whose hotel names and rates we could not see on the site. Most sessions will be livestreamed and kept on demand, which matters for a reader in Paris or Milan weighing a long-haul flight against a laptop.

Two editions in Hong Kong: what the figures say

The first Hong Kong edition ran from 18 to 20 February 2025 at the same venue. In its closing release of 25 February 2025, CoinDesk reported a sold-out event with nearly 10,000 in-person attendees from 102 countries, more than 350 side events and an estimated HK$275 million spent in the city.

That week also produced news. The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) set out a 12-point roadmap for virtual assets, and Standard Chartered announced a joint venture with Animoca Brands and HKT to seek a licence for a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. Bullish Group, which owns CoinDesk, said its Hong Kong trading arm had received SFC licensing approval.

The second edition, from 10 to 12 February 2026, was bigger. CoinDesk’s release of 12 February 2026 counted 11,000 registered attendees from more than 122 countries and regions, with a near 50/50 split between Asia and the rest of the world and 62% in senior roles. It listed more than 350 speakers, over 400 side events, 124 sponsors and an estimated economic impact close to HK$300 million. More than 1,000 developers took part in the EasyA hackathon and 240 startups in PitchFest.

On stage were Chief Executive John Lee, who opened the conference, Financial Secretary Paul Chan, Binance co-CEO Richard Teng, Solana Foundation president Lily Liu and Charles Hoskinson, chief executive of Input Output. Every figure above comes from the organiser.

Why Hong Kong officials use this stage

The conference matters less for its exhibitors than for what the city’s officials choose to say there. In a video speech at the 2026 edition, John Lee said first approvals of stablecoin issuer licences by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) were expected “as early as next month”, The Standard reported on 11 February 2026. The CoinDesk release quotes him: “The Hong Kong Government is committed to establishing Hong Kong as a global hub for innovation in digital assets.”

March passed without a licence. Hong Kong’s Stablecoins Ordinance (Cap. 656) has applied since 1 August 2025, and on 10 April 2026 the HKMA granted the first two issuer licences, to Anchorpoint Financial Limited and to The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). The HKMA said both intended to “launch business in the coming few months”.

HSBC’s stablecoin page now says its HSBC RedCoin (RCHKD) is live in the PayMe app, for transfers between users and payments at participating merchants; the rollout started on 23 October 2026, as we reported the same day. The HSBC HK banking app does not carry it yet. We found no launch announcement from Anchorpoint.

Exchanges have their own licence. As of 16 October 2026, the SFC listed 13 licensed virtual-asset trading platforms, from OSL and HashKey Exchange to Bixin.com. Bullish, the organiser’s sister company, is one of them, licensed on 18 February 2025, the opening day of the first Hong Kong Consensus.

For a reader new to the subject, our guide what are stablecoins explains how these coins hold their value. Hong Kong’s regime is its own. It is not MiCA, and a token licensed by the HKMA is not by that fact authorised in the European Union. For readers in Africa, the event has little direct relevance unless a business is looking for Asian partners.

Same week, other cities

The Digital Assets Forum London runs on 1 and 2 February 2027, the same days, and is the nearer choice for readers in Europe. CoinDesk’s main event, Consensus 2027 in Miami, is a separate conference with its own tickets.

What is not known yet

As of 23 October 2026, CoinDesk had not published the 2027 speakers, session titles and times, the sponsor list, the closing hour of each day, the price after 13 November or whether taxes are included. The FAQ says the conference runs on 2 and 3 February while the home page says 1 to 3 February; the safe reading is badge pickup on the 1st and sessions on the next two days. We will update this page when the first speakers are named.