The WDF is a world-leading platform which focusing on the ethics and development of decentralised technologies. Held at the World Trade Centre in the city of Barcelona and including headline and keynote talks, presentations, workshops, networking lunches, drinks and parties based around the conference site, the WDF brings together experts, enthusiasts and investors from around the world. Talks and presentations will range over areas including mass data and data-analytic technologies, their use and safeguards, the importance of limits or lack of limits to access for security agencies and government, data rights, the commercial use of data by marketing, media organizations and big business, as well as recent innovations in artificial intelligence, the development of cryptocurrency and ICO regulation, and the benefits and pitfalls of blockchain technology and its future applications.