Youri is a C-level executive with 20+ years of global experience scaling businesses across tech, media, and public sectors. Former YouTube leader at Google, now VP at SICPA, he drives digital business growth and partnerships. A multilingual strategist, he excels in P&L, M&A, and international expansion.

With decades of experience in monetary security, SICPA offers advanced CBDC solutions for both retail and wholesale needs. Our technology ensures cash-like offline use, interoperability, and real-time insights—empowering central banks with digital sovereignty. As a proud sponsor of the 2025 CBDC Conference, we help shape secure, inclusive digital finance.

As the world moves toward digital money, central banks must evolve their mandate to defend and enable sovereignty in the digital space. This speech will explore how SICPA’s 70-year legacy in safeguarding physical currency translates into digital solutions like inclusive, offline-capable CBDC. It will argue that the real issue is not technology but control: who governs the money of tomorrow? SICPA presents a long-term, sovereign-by-design alternative that supports national resilience and societal inclusion.

Breakout session: How can CBDC and broader tokenisation initiatives protect sovereignty while achieving inclusion goals

The Breakout Session introduction will explore how CBDC (and sovereign tokenisation) can both reinforce national sovereignty and promote inclusion—if designed with these goals in mind. It frames the risks of dollarization, private digital currencies, uncontrolled token ecosystems, positioning SICPA as a sovereignty-first approach to inclusive digital cash.The introduction will open a dialogue on how central banks can retain control and protect currency’s role as a public good.