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p2pfisy 2026 Astana Speakers
P2PFISY 2026 features speakers from the National Bank of Kazakhstan and its network alongside international experts from academia, industry, and central banks — covering crypto regulation, CBDC, DeFi, AI, digital payments, and financial inclusion.
Timur Suleimenov
National Bank of Kazakhstan, Governor
Renat Bekturov
Astana International Finance Center (AIFC), CEO
Zhanar Samayeva
National Payment Corporation of Kazakhstan (NPCK), Chairman of the Board
Binur Zhalenov
National Bank of Kazakhstan, Vice Governor & Chief Digital Officer
Aizhan Arinova
Head Innovation & Fintech Division, National Bank of Kazakhstan
Timur Abylkassymov
ARDFM, Vice Chairperson
Juan Carlos Reyes
Digital Assets Commission of El Salvador, President
Odun Olowookere
Centre for International Governance Innovation, Director of Research
Prof. Paolo Tasca
P2PFISY and Exponential Science, Chairman
Nikhil Vadgama
Exponential Science, Director
Dias Savetkanov
Kazakhstan Fintech Network, CEO
Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr
Venice Innovation tech Hub, 100Women@Davos, Founder - Ambassador at Cointelegraph
Arlen Moldabekov
National Bank of Kazakhstan, Head Innovation & Digital Assets Division
Ruslan Konurbayev
National Payment Corporation of Kazakhstan (NPCK), Product Owner
Dr. Jiahua Xu
UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies | UK Centre for Blockchain Technologies, Executive Director | UCL, Associate Professor
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Juan Ignacio Ibañez
General Secretary of the MiCA Crypto Alliance
Avv. Alberto Borri
Lexify, Partner - Attorney at law
Pavlina Pavlova
ChainComply, Co-Founder & CEO
Arman Assakayev
General Manager, First Validator
Ettore Maria Lombardi
Professor at University of Florence
Previous P2PFISY Speakers
This workshop is proud to bring together exceptional experts andscholars from around the world in one renowned venue.
Esteemed speakers from the Swiss National Bank, the Bank forInternational Settlements, the IMF, the Bank of Lithuania, the Bankof Italy, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the FederalReserve Board have joined the workshop in previous years.
Yuki Ito
PhD in Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley
Aditya Turakhia
Senior Director at Ripple
Angela Walch
Research Associate at UCL - Professor of Law at St. Mary's University School of Law
Antony Welfare
CBDC Strategic Advisor at Ripple Labs
Arno Pernthaler
Co-Founder and Executive Board Member at DEC Institute
Brett Mollin
Technical Director and Partner Success at Ripple
David Andolfatto
Senior VP at Federal Reserve Bank of St. Luis - Professor of Economics at University of Miami Herbert Business School
Helene Oger Zaher
Senior Innovation Manager at Financial Conduct Authority
Jun Aoyagi
Assistant Professor of Finance at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lewis Gudgeon
Co-founder of Gyroscope Protocol - PhD candidate at Imperial College London
Roman Kozhan
Professor of Finance at Warwick Business School
Xiaoran Ni
Associate Professor at Xiamen University
Xin Liu
Associate Professor at School of Finance, Renmin University of China
Zhigang Qiu
Doctor of Philosophy at Renmin University of China
Karsten Paetzmann
Professor at Universität Hamburg
Liyi Zhou
PhD in Philosophy at Imperial College London
Maarten Van Oordt
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), Professor
Yuanrong Wang
PhD in Philosophy at UCL
Arthur Gervais
Professor of Information Security at UCL
Gaspard Pedruzzi
CEO at APWine
