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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

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.

Patrick Osborne

Senior Associate Consultant at University College London

Tarik Roukny

Associate Professor of Finance at KU Leuven

Yakko Majuri

Advisor at BlockchainBH

Kary Bheemaiah

Vice President at Capgemini Invent

Kirill Shakhnov

Senior Lecturer at University of Surrey

Mark Esposito

Clinical Professor at Arizona State University

Peter Zimmerman

Research Economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Raphael Auer

Head of the Eurosystem Centre at Bank for International Settlements

Christina Frankopan

Senior Consultant at Lazard Financial Advisory

Fabbio Braggion

Professor of Finance and Financial History at Tilburg University

Ke Tang

Professor and Director of the Institute of Economics at Tsinghua University

Kevin Werbach

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at University of Pennsylvania, Wharton

Michael Kumhof

Senior Research Advisor at The Bank of England

Sonja Davidovic

Economist, Digital Currency Expert at IMF

Janus Zhang

Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

Paolo Sironi

FinTech Thought Leader and Author at IBM

Thomas Hardjono

Jason Chlipala

COO at Stellar Development Foundation

Mirko Zichichi

Research Scientist at IOTA Foundation - PhD in Philosophy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Thomas Moser

Alternate Member of the Governing Board at Swiss National Bank