Events

Good policy gets built in rooms where industry, institutions, and lawmakers are actually in the same place. These are the rooms the council has convened, first as WBBC and now as WDBC, and the coalitions it has joined.

Convening power

Why we put people in a room

Policy gets better when the people who write it hear from the people it governs. Our forums put founders, institutions, and public officials in one room, in public and on the record.

Coming up

Tuesday, December 8, 2026 · Milwaukee

Drafting 2027: Wisconsin Law for the Digital Economy

Wisconsin opens a new legislative session on January 4, with a new governor and many new members. This free, nonpartisan briefing covers what the Legislature’s interim study committees produced and what comes next: the update to Wisconsin’s commercial code for digital assets, the AI in health care drafts, and the federal stablecoin rules. It is built for incoming legislators and staff, the new administration, attorneys and policy professionals. Speakers will be announced soon.

Doors 4:45 pm, program 5:00 to 6:15 pm · Rotary Club of Milwaukee Community Room, Milwaukee Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave. · Free, 32 seats · In partnership with SheFi Wisconsin

This meeting is not sponsored or endorsed by the Milwaukee Public Library. Reasonable accommodations will be provided upon request. Contact the City of Milwaukee ADA Coordinator, (414) 286-3475 or adacoordinator@milwaukee.gov no later than seventy-two (72) hours before the scheduled event.

Where we have been

April 17, 2025 · Milwaukee

Wisconsin Digital Policy Forum

An evening at the Milwaukee County Historical Society built around the WIN Bill (the Office of Financial Technology Innovation Act) as the cornerstone digital policy for the session. The program paired a founder showcase demonstrating blockchain’s real-world impact in Wisconsin communities with a policy panel, “The WIN Bill: Advancing Digital & Financial Innovation.”

A panel of five seated in front of the building’s historic bank vault door, addressing a seated audience.

June 2025 · Washington, D.C.

GBBC Blockchain Central DC 2025

WBBC represented Wisconsin at the Global Blockchain Business Council’s flagship Washington convening, carrying the state’s creator economy and builder community into the national conversation.

July 2025 · Coalition letter

CLARITY Act sign-on letter

WBBC joined the Stand With Crypto Wisconsin chapter in signing a letter to Senator Ron Johnson supporting the CLARITY Act, which passed the House 294–134. Clear market-structure rules are a precondition for Wisconsin’s digital-asset businesses to grow.

May 28, 2026 · Wausau

Wisconsin’s Digital Asset Policy Forum

A statewide convening on digital-asset policy, bringing the conversation out of Madison and Milwaukee and into central Wisconsin.

Attendees seated around long tables in the meeting room, turned toward the front.

What comes next

Our 2027 program follows the two priorities on the agenda: putting the GENIUS Act to work in Wisconsin, and the rules AI runs on, starting with a privacy law Wisconsin businesses can follow. Both deserve open, on-the-record public discussion. Members help shape the program and get the invitation first.