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.

Connecting Capital with Opportunity, with ADCB

At the heart of global capital markets lies Abu Dhabi’s ability to connect investors, businesses, and communities to long-term opportunities. This keynote reflects on the future of financial intermediation, from mobilising private capital and institutional flows to sustaining liquidity and market confidence, offering a lens on how financial institutions can anchor growth in a world of shifting cycles.

Announcement: The 2025 Global Financial Centre Competitiveness Index

Unveiling the landmark New York University Global Financial Centre Competitiveness Index, a new initiative driving research and dialogue on global competitiveness, and outlining the realities of the world economic order.

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 at a Crossroads: Why Private Markets Matter More Than Ever

Private markets continue to power the ideas, companies, and leaders driving the global economy forward. Join Carlyle’s Harvey Schwartz and David Rubenstein for a conversation on how the evolution of capital and leadership is unlocking new potential in 2026 and beyond.

What Endures When Markets Shift

[VIRTUAL] A reflection from one of the world’s most influential investors, offering a perspective that looks beyond predictions to permanence. Against a backdrop of changing rates, shifting liquidity, and artificial intelligence rewriting productivity itself, Steve Schwarzman shares how discipline, scale, and innovation remain the quiet constants of enduring firms and resilient economies.

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?

Private Markets in the Next Cycle: The Reconfiguration of the Economy

The session highlights how the next generation of technology leads to an accelerating economic transformation across industries, reshaping winning business models and redistributing profit pools. The rise of tech-driven cross-sector leaders will define a new business landscape. This “Brave New World” commands a thematic and transformational investment approach to succeed.

The Inside Brief: In Conversation with Dmitry Balyasny

Tracing his rise from door-to-door sales to managing a $23bn hedge fund, Dmitry Balyasny reveals the mindset, resilience and strategic discipline behind building one of the world’s most influential multi-strategy platforms.

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.

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.

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.

Markets Re-wired

As global growth finance confronts multi-faceted shifts - consolidation, private market expansion, shifting formulas for funding growth & evolving geo-economic centres. These new realities mean investors face a fundamental shift in how and where value is created and extracted. This session brings together senior leaders from global banking, tech-driven hedge funds and private credit to examine how scale, strategy and structural change are redefining investment potential. Moderated by NYU Stern Dean Robert Salomon, the discussion offers a rare strategic roadmap for navigating a more fragmented, competitive capital landscape.

Private Capital as the New Public Market

As public listings dwindle, private capital rises as the arena of choice for growth and diversification. This session explores the expanding deal flow, the boom in secondaries, and how GP stakes are opening new gateways to liquidity and long-term value.

Champions of the Falcon Economy, with ADX

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.

Inside Today's Art Market

Where passion meets precision, today’s art market is a world of bold collectors, shifting tastes and soaring valuations. This presentation from one of the leading global art advisors will peel back the canvas on collecting, revealing the opportunities and benefits that come with engaging with this complex asset class.

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.

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.

Innovations & Strategies in Private Markets

Private markets are evolving fast, blurring the lines between credit, equity, and hybrid capital. This session explores the innovations redefining access, liquidity, and structure, from bespoke financing and secondaries to the next generation of private credit strategies powering growth.

Strategic Capital Alliance for Future Security

Hanwha Asset Management leads the global K-Defense investment category, with No. 1 in K-Defense performance. Backed by Hanwha Group’s vertically integrated defense ecosystem, this keynote introduces Hanwha’s defense-focused strategy and its new global funds in defense, space, and dual-use technologies.

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.

The UAE’s Modern Formula for SME Growth and Entrepreneurial Success

Every national champion begins with a founder. This keynote explores how the Emirates Growth Fund (EGF)empowers UAE-based SME founders in the missing middle to scale sustainably, drive innovation and build enduring enterprises that strengthen the nation’s economic foundation. It highlights how growth capital, beyond just financing, builds capability, resilience and scale - the UAE’s modern formula for entrepreneurial success and the creation of homegrown national champions shaping the country’s future

ADGM Academy Presents: A Fireside Chat with Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio will share firsthand insights on today’s market landscape, his commitment to education, the Dalio Markets Principles Programme, and the strategic partnership with ADGM Academy - a collaboration dedicated to developing talent in wealth and asset management across the region.

Driven by Desire: Turning Cars into Portfolio Value

This talk 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

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 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?

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 a close look at how Abu Dhabi’s family enterprises power growth, diversification, and exports. The discussion spotlights how ADFBC helps families scale, access capital and markets, adopt innovation, and build regional platforms that create jobs and deepen supply chains. Clear takeaways on momentum, partnership, and impact.

The New Age of Investing for Impact

This session explores how impact investing is reshaping the meaning of purpose. It highlights how a new age of wealth stewards are directing capital toward education, healthcare, and sustainability-creating lasting impact and generational legacy.

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 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.

Culture, Capital and Creativity: The Guggenheim Legacy

This session explores how leadership, strategic capital, and creative vision intersect to build one of the world’s most influential cultural institutions, sustaining a family legacy that fosters innovation and lasting cultural impact.

What Is The Expiry Date on Humans in Wealth Management?

Even as AI continues to transform the wealth management landscape, human relationships continue to remain vital, allowing personal advisors to provide tailored services at scale. But will we ever reach a point where AI provides everything investors need, and the human advisor becomes obsolete? This session explores the steps professionals need to take to stay relevant as AI becomes an ever greater part of the industry

Women Shaping Capital & Culture

Women in leadership are central to the momentum of Abu Dhabi’s growth. This panel session brings together senior leaders and rising talent from across the financial ecosystem to explore how women are shaping the future of capital and culture, locally and globally. Through candid dialogue and peer exchange, the panellists will discuss how to navigate influence and authority across cultures and share their strategies driving impact and performance in complex layered environments.

Private Credit Boom in the GCC

Welcome to The ALTS Forum

Welcome to The ALTS Forum, a focus on how capital is evolving, from venture creation to global asset allocation. As private and public markets converge, investors, founders and asset owners unite to explore where conviction, innovation and long-term value will come from next.

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 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?

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?

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.

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.

From Capital Calls to Market Access: Financing Innovation Without Friction

A new era of capital formation is emerging, one defined by continuous liquidity, tokenised assets and on-demand growth capital. This session brings together the pioneers building the next generation of financial market infrastructure, bridging the gap between private and public capital and creating “firsts” that will shape how innovation is financed in the decade ahead.

Alts Prime Time: Why the Macroeconomy is Powering a New Playbook

Investing is no longer just about harvesting returns, it’s about building value that lasts. In this high-level discussion, leading voices from global GPs, LPs and advisory platforms explore how long-term capital, operational excellence, and strategic partnerships are redefining what success looks like. From ESG integration to navigating today’s macro headwinds, this panel sheds light on how the private equity model is evolving for the next era of growth.

Sustainable Growth: Inside the Institutional Pivot to Long-Term Value

From inflation to interest rates, today’s macro shifts are rewriting the private equity playbook and opening one of the most attractive investment windows in years. In this fireside, global and regional leaders explore how tighter capital, asset repricing, and shifting risk appetites are reshaping the market - driving longer holds, smarter structuring, and more disciplined exits. Is this the comeback of patient capital, or the start of a fundamentally new model?

Investment Opportunities Across the Markets

This panel explores investment opportunities across credit markets, comparing credit and equity for investors and companies, analyzing the credit cycle, and examining how macro conditions shape financing strategies. Panelists will discuss attractive opportunities, relative value across credit asset classes, capital structures, and emerging sectors and themes of interest.

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.

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.

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.

Abu Dhabi’s Urban Masterplan

As Abu Dhabi evolves into one of the world’s most forward-looking cities, the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT) plays a central role in charting its physical and social landscape. In this fireside chat, the Acting Director General of the Urban Planning & Permits Center unveils how the roadmap for Abu Dhabi’s next chapter is being defined by liveability, innovation, and resilience.

The 10x Jurisdiction: What You Need To Know About ADGM Real Estate

This session explores ADGM’s emergence as a fast-evolving real estate jurisdiction. Discover the frameworks, incentives and market dynamics driving its rise as one of the region’s most efficient platforms for institutional real estate investment.

A Masterclass in Infrastructure Investment

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.

Champions of the Falcon Economy, with ADX

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.

Abu Dhabi & the Global Grid

As the world rewires through new energy, trade, and digital corridors, Abu Dhabi stands at the crossroads of the Global Grid, channeling capital, infrastructure, and innovation to connect economies, power growth, and shape the next era of global connectivity.

The Next Year in Infrastructure: A CEO's View

As markets recalibrate and governments double down on transition investments, Allianz Global Investors’ CEO Tobias Pross shares his perspective on the year ahead in infrastructure, where capital is moving, risks are shifting, and new opportunities are emerging worldwide.

Harnessing Private Capital for Public Infrastructure Growth

Governments in the region and around the world are looking to private capital to play a role to deliver much needed public infrastructure to close the infrastructure gap. Hear how public-private partnership models are being used to deliver outstanding outcomes for governments and providing investors with long-term, high-quality investment opportunities.

Welcome & Introductory Remarks

Welcome remarks by AIMA open the inaugural Private Credit Summit at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, uniting the world’s leading asset managers, investors, and policymakers to shape the future of private credit

Financing the Economy: 2025 Research Launch

Official launch of Financing the Economy 2025 - exclusive insights from the latest edition of this industry bellwether research series on the growth of the global private credit industry.

In Conversation - Private Credit Financial Stability and Economic Resilience

A focused dialogue between industry leaders and regulators on the findings from Financing the Economy 2025, exploring their implications for financial stability and economic resilience at a pivotal moment for global markets.

CIO Panel: Private Credit vs. Everything - Allocation Priorities in 2026

A candid look at CIO priorities for 2026, weighing the value of private credit against Investment Grade and High Yield markets, lessons from 2025 on performance dispersion and defaults and how redemptions and re-ups are shaping allocation decisions.

Financing the Next Generation of Infrastructure

Leaders explore how capital is being mobilised for the next wave of energy, digital and transport infrastructure, appetite for thematic and regional mandates alongside the catalytic role of sovereign funds, DFIs and blended finance in this market.

Asset-Based Lending (ABL) - How Far Can Private Credit Stretch in this Market?

Exploring the emergence of ABL as a growth engine for private credit. This session will cover deal sourcing, relative value for investors, and where opportunities in asset-backed private credit remain untapped.

Private Credit Megatrends

This panel explores the structural forces redefining private credit: including rising public and private debt burdens, the retailisation of private markets, and the transformative influence of AI on both the economy and the financial sector.

The Evolving Line Between Syndicated and Direct Lending

As syndicated and direct lending increasingly converge, market participants face new dynamics in liquidity, transparency, and pricing. This shift is also redefining underwriting discipline, regulatory scrutiny, and long-term investor allocation strategies across private credit markets.

Closing Remarks

Virtual Remarks by Jean-Paul Servais.

UBS Investor Forum

Global Financial Regulators Summit

Transformation of the Global Financial Landscape

The global financial landscape is experiencing a historic moment, where market fundamentals are being tested and new elements are reshaping the flow of capital. Understanding the potential implications of the forces transforming the global financial architecture is crucial for policymakers, regulators, and market participants alike to effectively navigate this evolving environment. A shifting global financial landscape carries substantial implications for financial centers, both established and emerging. Fintech and technological advances are not only redefining the nature of financial services, but also the scope and location of the requisite ecosystems they foster. Accordingly, understanding the needs of future financial systems and capital markets, including the size and direction of financial flows, is critical to determine the strategies governing the adjustment of existing financial centers and evolution of emerging financial centers.

Treasury & CFO Forum with NeuGroup

This roundtable will be open to strategic group treasurers and CFOs and strategic group treasurers from select companies. CFOs will be invited to emphasize their role in strategy and transformation of finance to a business value creator. Treasurers will be invited to spotlight their role in implementing business value enhancement strategies through funding, liquidity management, risk optimization, and technology.

Global Hedge Fund Leaders Roundtable

Climate Driven Value Creation, hosted by Mubadala

Join Mubadala for a high-impact roundtable exploring how sustainability is becoming a powerful lever for value creation. As climate forces reshape economic fundamentals, forward-looking investors are embedding climate considerations across the investment lifecycle to drive returns, resilience and growth. Hear from Mubadala about investor-focused sustainability value creation approaches that integrate climate into strategy and operations. Discover how this thinking is unlocking opportunities across sectors and shaping investing.

The ADFW Speakers Dinner

Executive Finance Roundtable

Capital Vibes