Welcome to ADGM. The Path To Forward.

The CEO of FSRA at ADGM sets the tone for Asset Abu Dhabi, highlighting how asset management, global capital flows and strategic innovation will shape the path to forward.

Global Growth Powered by Abu Dhabi

As Abu Dhabi asserts itself as a global growth engine, channeling capital into advanced industries and uncharted markets, this keynote highlights how its vision is shaping markets and inspiring confidence across the world economy.

Situational Awareness: The 5 Years Ahead

Some of the most senior figures in global investing share how they read signals, manage risk and position for advantage in an uncertain world. Expect candid insights on market cycles, technology shifts and the moves that could define the next five years.

The Evolving Art of Hedge Funds

Billion-dollar bets and precise risk management keep hedge funds at the sharp edge of finance. With industry AUM now past $4 trillion, what risks are worth taking, and how do the masters of the trade turn volatility into opportunity?

Innovation: The Ultimate Asset

In markets where ideas outrun capital, is innovation the currency of lasting power? Today’s visionaries are transforming ambitious concepts into bankable realities. The question remains: where will the next breakthrough rise, and who will rise with it?

Capital, Conviction & Transformation: Investing for the Next Generation

Every society is built twice: first in imagination, then in concrete and capital. From rising cities to enduring communities, global investment leaders reveal how today’s choices are shaping the world the next generation will inherit.

Where Smart Money Moves Next

Markets never stand still, and neither does smart capital. This session dissects how institutional flows are adjusting to interest rates, sustainability priorities and geopolitical shifts. Where will tomorrow’s most decisive bets land, and who will seize them first?

5 Hypotheses on the Future

Witness five visionary perspectives on the forces that will shape economies, capital, and society in the decade ahead, challenging assumptions and sparking debate on where tomorrow’s opportunities and risks lie.

Strategies, Risks & Opportunities: The Outlook to 2026 Markets

As rates shift, innovation races ahead and geopolitics reset the stage, will 2026 be a bull’s charge or a bear’s retreat? Top market minds chart the risks to dodge and the opportunities waiting to unfold.

The Physics of the Great Wealth Transfer

An estimated $84 trillion is set to change hands globally by 2045, redrawing the map of influence and opportunity. This discussion looks at the forces driving this historic shift, the barriers slowing it, and the impact it will have on global wealth.

Surveying the Landscape of Real Estate

With global values topping $300 trillion, real estate is the canvas of ambition. In this discussion, visionaries explore how the skylines and neighbourhood hubs of today will stand as the landmarks of tomorrow.

Optimizing Allocation: Strategic Frameworks for Institutional Investors

Join institutional titans as they unveil the sophisticated strategies they employ to calibrate asset allocations for long-term resilience and growth. This session examines dynamic allocation models, partnership strategies and frameworks, liquidity-risk trade-offs, and diversification across alternative asset classes, offering practical frameworks for institutional allocators to enhance portfolio robustness and capture emerging opportunities.

Bridging Sovereign Capital: Unlocking Gulf-Asia Private Market Potential

Sovereign capital is rewriting the investment map between the Gulf and Asia, fuelling partnerships in technology, infrastructure and next-generation industries. Hear how major players are steering this powerful flow of capital and reshaping both region’s investment stories.

The Trader: In Conversation with Dmitry Balyasny

Step inside the mind of one of the world’s leading multi-strategy traders, and the mastermind behind a $28 billion AUM hedge fund titan. A candid look at how instinct, discipline and data shape the art of seizing opportunities before they surface on the global radar.

Liquidity, Leverage and the Changing Market Order

As liquidity tightens and leverage comes under scrutiny, this session examines how banks and market-makers are recalibrating balance sheets and capital structures to adapt to a more disciplined market order.

Champions of the Falcon Economy

This special segment will showcase the investment thesis and growth strategies of several listed industrial champions as they shape Abu Dhabi’s economic future.

Deals, Value and Growth Strategy: The Evolution of Private Equity

Global private equity assets surged to $10.8 trillion in 2024, marking an 11.6% year‑on‑year gain. As fundraising slows and dry powder ages, the future lies in creative value creation, disciplined deal cycles, and strategic exit timing.

The Valuable Art of Collecting

From masterpieces to marketplaces, art, rare watches, handbags and collectible cars are redefining the space where passion meets portfolio. Discover how scarcity, shifting tastes and a new wave of buyers are transforming these objects into enduring stores of wealth.

The Anatomy of a Great Deal

What turns a promising transaction into a market-defining success? Top dealmakers reveal how they source opportunities, structure terms, align stakeholders, and navigate risk to create deals that deliver lasting value and leave competitors wishing they’d moved first.

Innovations & Strategies in Private Credit

Private credit is stepping into the spotlight, attracting record allocations and fresh competition. Join leading voices in this session as they discuss where innovation is creating real advantage, how strategies are evolving, and which risks could shake confidence in this booming asset class.

Digital Assets Graduation to the Institutional Mainstream

Digital assets are moving from the margins to the mainstream, reshaping capital flows, speed and institutional strategy. In this discussion, leaders explore how tokenization, regulation and adoption are redefining trust, liquidity and market architecture in the next era of global finance.

Welcome to the 2025 International Family Office Congress

Welcome Remarks of the 3rd International Family Office Congress will set the stage for insightful, high-level discussions on wealth stewardship, innovation, and the future of multi-generational capital management.

Opening Address, with the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce & Industry

International Family Office Congress' Opening Address will underscore Abu Dhabi’s vision to foster family business resilience, cross-border collaboration and a stronger ecosystem for generational wealth creation. The address will highlight Abu Dhabi’s growing role as a global hub for family offices, setting the stage for a congress that bridges tradition with modern opportunities.

2026 in Focus: Where Optimism Meets Uncertainty

What will spark the next wave of growth and market leadership, and what risks could hold it back? This keynote explores where momentum could build across asset classes and which pressures may challenge the outlook.

Wealth in Motion: Navigating the Great Wealth Transfer

As the historic wealth transfer accelerates, this transformative era is reshaping wealth creation and inheritance. This session will examine the challenges and opportunities global families face across generations, and continents, and highlight how global connectivity fosters collaboration, innovation, and avenues to build lasting legacies in a rapidly evolving world.

The Master Investor: In Conversation

Join us as we sit down with Jim Mellon, one of UK’s most well-known businessman, investor and philanthropist. Jim will share stories from his journey, views on where the big opportunities are coming from, and lessons on building value that lasts across generations.

Driven by Desire: Turning Car Passion into Portfolio Value

This presentation will reveal how passion investments like the ultra rare 1955 Mercedes Benz 300 SLR can deliver extraordinary portfolio value, selling for an astonishing $140 million, blending heritage, rarity, and investment upside.

Mapping Asset Allocation: Making Sense of Modern Portfolios

Modern family office portfolios are being redefined. Across regions, allocations now span public equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, alternatives, and an increasing share toward digital assets. This session explores the strategies and regional tilts defining today’s family office investment environment.

In Spotlight: Abu Dhabi Family Business Stories

Get up close and personal with some of Abu Dhabi’s most influential family businesses. Hear directly from leaders about their journeys, the values that guide them, and how they balance tradition, growth, and passing the torch to the next generation. This session highlights lessons on resilience, governance, and building a lasting legacy.

The Risk Playbook: Investing in Volatile Markets

Global affairs, family relocations, market volatility and succession gaps. What are top family offices doing today to weather tomorrow?

The $100 Trillion Question: Are Families Ready for the Generational Shift?

Projections show that wealth transferred by 2048 will total $124 trillion. As trillions shift hands across generations, family offices must prepare for a new era of wealth, governance, and values. This session brings regional insights from North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific on how families are managing this unprecedented transfer.

The New Age of Philanthropy

This session explores how philanthropy is evolving from traditional giving into strategic, purpose-driven capital. It will highlight UAE's leadership in global philanthropic initiatives and discuss how next-generation families are balancing wealth stewardship with measurable change across education, healthcare and sustainability.

Welcome to The ALTS Forum

The Data Era: Industry Transformations in a New Digital Era

The financial industry has long relied on instinct, networks and narrative but a new era is emerging, driven by data, algorithms and global intelligence. In this keynote, explore how data and AI have the potential to dramatically change the way we operate. As AI helps us unlock new patterns and the volume of data explodes, how should leaders ensure their organizations are prepared to ingest and utilize this information and create new opportunities?

Patient Capital in an Impatient World: Backing the Builders of Tomorrow

Venture capital has long been associated with speed. Rapid rounds, fast scaling, and quick exits. But the market is shifting, and long-term value creation is back in focus. This fireside explores the future of venture investing: what sustainable growth really looks like, how partnerships with founders are evolving, and why the next decade of venture may be defined less by velocity and more by resilience and responsibility.

The Next Wave: An Honest Conversation

Two influential voices in private markets explore how the nature of capital is changing. From multi-strategy, global firms to the rise of nimble entrepreneurial vehicles, investors are redefining their strategies amid shifting global flows, rising rates and new partnership models. What does the future of private capital look like and where will it be deployed next?

Debt Is the New Equity: Rethinking Growth Finance for a High-Rate World

As capital becomes more cautious and valuations reset, entrepreneurs and investors are increasingly turning to non-dilutive growth capital, from mezzanine and convertible structures to fintech-enabled credit and tokenised debt. This session explores the rebalancing of the capital stack: how private lenders, structured credit investors and alternative platforms are enabling scale without sacrificing control. In a world where equity is expensive, debt is strategic and the smartest capital isn't always the loudest.

Private Equity’s Prime Time: Why the Macroeconomy is Fueling a New Golden Era

From inflation to interest rates, today’s macro shifts are rewriting the private equity playbook and creating one of the most attractive entry points in a generation. In this fireside, leading PE voices unpack how tighter capital, asset repricing, and shifting risk appetites are driving smarter deals, longer holds and more strategic exits. Is this the comeback of patient capital or the start of a new model altogether?

The TikTok Investor: What's Changing in Wealth Management?

The next generation of investors is reshaping how wealth is built, advised, and managed. Favouring transparency, digital access and values-driven portfolios over traditional gatekeepers. This session explores how generational shifts, social platforms and fintech innovation are redefining wealth management models, forcing incumbents to adapt to new expectations, behaviours and technologies.

The Investor-Partner Divide: Rethinking Support Beyond Funding

Founders no longer want 'just capital' they need investors who can open doors, navigate regulation and help them scale with discipline. In this candid conversation, explore how the venture–operator relationship has changed, where it often breaks down and what founders now expect from their investors if they’re going to win in tighter, more competitive markets.

Sustainable Growth Beyond the Harvest: Rethinking Private Equity Success

Private equity is evolving beyond the traditional focus on harvesting returns to embrace sustained, long-term value creation. This panel brings together experienced leaders to discuss how patient capital, strategic partnerships, and operational excellence drive enduring growth. Explore approaches that balance financial performance with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, redefining what success means in today’s dynamic investment landscape.

Founders on the Frontline: Hard Lessons in Capital and Growth

Behind every headline success is a founder who’s navigated brutal pivots, tough cap tables and the sharp end of scale. This candid session brings together current CEOs, builders turned backers and entrepreneurs who’ve raised, exited and now invest themselves, to share what they got wrong, what they’d do differently and what founders today need to understand about the evolving rules of capital. From early-stage resilience to growth-stage reality checks, it’s a no-fluff conversation on leadership, liquidity and learning the hard way.

New Asset Classes, Real Returns: Where Investment is Delivering

This panel explores emerging investment opportunities in venture capital, highlighting sectors and strategies that are generating real, sustainable returns. With cycles resetting and trust being rebuilt, the conversation will spotlight the signals that serious capital is watching - from infrastructure bets to the next breakout use case. Experts will discuss how to identify promising asset classes amid evolving market dynamics and investor expectations.

The Global Silicon Valley: What It Takes to Win Outside the US

What does it take to build global growth? This panel explores all from regulatory navigation to talent migration and local capital flow, delving into the unique challenges, strategies and opportunities of scaling tech ecosystems beyond Silicon Valley’s shadow. Revealing what it really takes to build globally competitive companies from the ground up.

Welcome to the Infrastructure Summit 2025

A warm welcome to the inaugural edition of the Infrastructure Summit, setting the tone for a transformative dialogue. The EMCEE will introduce the vision and themes shaping Abu Dhabi’s next chapter as a global hub for sustainable, future-ready infrastructure.

Unlocking Value in Abu Dhabi's Real Estate

A forward-looking address from Abu Dhabi Real Estate Centre, outlining market trends, investment priorities, and strategic developments shaping Abu Dhabi’s position as a global hub for sustainable, resilient, and high-value real estate.

Inside Mubadala's Infrastructure Strategy

Gain an insider’s perspective on Mubadala’s approach to building world-class infrastructure across energy, transport, and digital infrastructure. Explore how long-term thinking, global diversification, and global impact converge in one of the world’s most dynamic investment portfolios, while generating strong, sustainable returns for Abu Dhabi.

A Masterclass in Infrastructure Investment

This masterclass brings together two powerhouses shaping the global infrastructure landscape. Abu Dhabi Investment Council’s strategic lens on capital deployment with Sadek Wahba’s global outlook on infrastructure as an asset class. Find out why infrastructure remains one of the most compelling avenues for sustainable, long-term returns.

Champions of the Falcon Economy

This special segment will showcase the investment thesis and growth strategies of several listed industrial champions as they shape Abu Dhabi’s economic future.

Building for the AI Era

As AI reshapes industries, the demands on connectivity, data centers, energy systems and smart networks are evolving rapidly. This session will bring leading digital infrastructure investors and data center operators to discuss how strategic investments and next-generation technologies are enabling scalable, resilient, and future-ready infrastructure for the AI era.

Real Estate, Real Returns

From residential and commercial yields to cross-border market trends and urban planning policies, multiple factors are shaping the global property sector. Join this panel to explore what’s driving investor concerns, uncover emerging opportunities, and understand the key forces influencing real estate markets worldwide.

Curating Abu Dhabi's Cultural Landscape

This session brings together leaders shaping museums, entertainment hubs and creative districts to discuss how cultural assets are financed, operated, and leveraged for positive returns. From global family office perspectives to the strategies of Abu Dhabi’s flagship developers, the panel explores how culture is being built as an investable asset class in the capital.

UBS Investor Forum

Global Financial Regulators Summit

IMF Closed-Door Roundtable on the Transformation of the Global Financial Landscape

Treasury & CFO Forum with NeuGroup

Global Hedge Fund Leaders Roundtable

The ADFW Speakers Dinner

VVIP Dinner