Topics:
● Central Asia: A New Hub of Investment Growth (speaker –Alexander Zaboev, head of the Centre for Integration Studies, Eurasian Development Bank (EDB))
● How Central Asia's economic growth and financial market development are translating into client demand, investment activity and new opportunities for financial businesses (speaker –Timur Turlov, founder and CEO, Freedom Holding Corp.)
● How international investors view Kazakhstan and Central Asia today: what attracts capital to the region and what affects the cost and availability of financing (REDD Intelligence research) (speaker – Olzhas Auyezov, CIS Sovereign Debt Correspondent, REDD Intelligence)
● An international perspective on Kazakhstan's economy and the region's financial markets: key trends and Kazakhstan's position among other emerging and frontier markets (speaker – Alessio Chiesa, emerging markets economist and strategist, WOOD & Company)

Topics:
● Building Kazakhstan’s Derivatives Market: Regulation, Infrastructure and the First Steps in Market Development (speaker – Vladimir Savov, Managing Director, Financial Markets Office, AFSA (Astana Financial Services Authority))
● India: How the World's Largest Index Options Market Was Built, and What It Means for Central Asia (speaker – Prashant Mohanraj, head of liquid alternatives, Alpha Alternatives)
● Derivatives Through a Broker's Eyes: Client Demand, Liquidity and Market-Making (speaker – Sergey Lukyanov, chairman of the management board, Freedom Finance JSC; chairman of the board of directors, Freedom Finance Global PLC)
● Why Some Derivatives Products Succeed and Others Don't (speaker – Nikolay Ruzaykin, chairman of the management board, N1broker JSC)

Speaker: Mufti Muhammad Ibrahim Essa – chairman, ITS Shariah Supervisory Board; CEO, Alhamd Sharia Advisory Services; AAOIFI Certified Sharia Advisor and Auditor
Moderator: Felix Light – Reuters correspondent for Central Asia

Topics:
● The New Retail Investor: Changing Behaviour, Risk and Product Choices – and the Opportunities This Creates for ITS Products (speaker –Alexander Diakovsky, Managing Director, ITS)
● The Future of Asset Management: How to Create a Competitive Advantage in the Era of AI, Tokenization, and the New Investment Economy. Speaker: Kristina Vasenmiller, Director, Strategy and Transactions Practice, EY-Parthenon.
● From World Event to Investment Idea: Event-Driven Markets as a New Data Source (speaker –Andrei Chekavsky,Advisor to the General Director of INVIA Investments, INVIA, Armenia)
● Islamic investing as a growing international segment (sukuk, ETFs, investor demand, new products) (speaker –Lim Say Cheong, CEO, Saudi Venture Capital Investment Company (SVCIC); member, AIFC Islamic Finance Advisory Council)
● Brokerage Meets Telecom: A New Distribution Model (speaker –Abduvoris Kalandarov, CEO, Birzhevoy Broker LLC (Tajikistan); AAOIFI-certified Shariah adviser and auditor)

Speakers:
● Dmitry Dolgin – Chief Economist for the CIS, ING
● Stanislav Levin – CFO of Forte Bank JSC

Key takeaways from the conference and new opportunities for financial businesses arising from changing markets, technological advances and the development of new financial instruments.