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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.
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
