You fly to a forum to come back with meetings. You come back with a stack of business cards, half of which you cannot place a week later.
This page collects Kazakhstan's major business and finance forums: dates, cities, organisers, published scale and links to the official sites. One page instead of ten. Eleven events are listed below; each was checked against the organiser's own site or against business-press coverage. Where a source did not confirm a number, we say so rather than rounding it.
Verified 7 September 2026
As of 7 September 2026.
“AFD 2026: Delivering Impact. Capital in Action” — the ninth edition.
Announced and expected speakers named in the sources include representatives of BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, HKEX, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Binance, Mastercard and Telegram/TON.
Official site: astanafindays.orgThe Central Asian fintech summit.
Official site: centralasiafintech.kzA forum aimed at company chief executives.
The edition has its own microsite: kgf.kgforum.kz.
Official site: kgforum.kzThe Digital Bridge international technology forum, under its new name.
A direct request to the official site returned HTTP 403, so the site's own content could not be verified. The dates, city and venues are confirmed by Astana Hub's own article and by The Astana Times.
Official site: digitalbridge.aiThe ninth edition of Cbonds' Kazakhstan capital-markets conference.
Earlier editions were held in Almaty at the DoubleTree by Hilton Almaty: the VII on 17 October 2024, the VIII on 9 October 2025. The source does not name the 2026 venue.
The link points at the general Cbonds Congress events listing: a dedicated page for this specific edition could not be confirmed.
Official site: cbonds-congress.comUseful for reading the annual cycle and planning next year early.
Not a conference but the exchange's business-breakfast format. Most recent confirmed edition.
The format rotates between cities: it has been held in Astana, Almaty, Shymkent, Aktobe, Tashkent, Minsk, Moscow and London.
The link points at the general KASE events index: the page for the February 2026 edition itself returned HTTP 404.
Official site: kase.kzThe forum's first stop of 2026.
This is the renamed successor to Digital Almaty, held in Almaty since 2018. The 2026 programme deliberately moved away from a single host city and is designed to rotate across the regions.
Official site: digitalqazaqstan.kzThe fifth edition.
This is an intergovernmental EAEU summit rather than a finance-professional conference. It is listed here on the basis of scale; treating it as finance-adjacent is the research's own judgement, not the organiser's claim.
Official site: forum.eaeunion.orgThe sixteenth edition of the congress.
This is a mining-and-metals event, not a finance one. It is included as one of Kazakhstan's largest cross-industry investment gatherings, drawing banks and investors alongside miners — that framing is the research's judgement, not the organiser's claim.
Official site: amm.kzCbonds' regional forum, hosted by Kazakhstan in 2026.
This is a rotating regional Cbonds forum: the previous edition, the XXI Eurasian Bond Congress, was held in Kyrgyzstan. Whether the 2027 edition returns to Kazakhstan is not confirmed.
Official site: cbonds-congress.com“Eurasia 2030+: Investments, Growth, and New Opportunities”.
Official site: am.eabr.orgTwo further events appeared in the sources but could not be confirmed against a second independent source. They are listed here precisely as unverified: “New Vision Forum 2026” (Almaty, reportedly 11–13 June 2026, per a city-akimat site) and the “NEXT MBA 2026” business forum (Almaty, reportedly 14 May 2026, per a ticketing site). Check them with the organiser before planning a trip.
Six things that actually work.
Agendas and speaker lists are published in advance — Cbonds, for instance, puts out the agenda and participant lists as static PDFs. Build a list of five to ten specific names. “I'll go and see” is a hope, not a plan.
A short message with a specific hook — a session, a topic, a question — beats an approach at the coffee break, when the person has a cup in one hand and a queue behind them. Ask for fifteen minutes about something specific, not for “a chat”.
“We'll find each other” almost always means you will not: a thousand people, three halls and no signal. Phrase it so the meeting cannot be missed — “day two, 11:40, by the registration desk”.
Astana Finance Days has its own app, with the agenda, attendee profiles and meeting scheduling. AI & Digital Bridge uses Astana Hub as its companion app — ticket and QR entry. Central Asia Fintech Summit offers a public Telegram group instead of an app. Cbonds Congress publishes agendas and participant lists as static PDFs. For the other six forums on this list, no app was found in the sources checked — you will be arranging things yourself.
Not that evening at the hotel — right away: the name, what they do, what you agreed, what you promised to send. Three days later you will not recover it; the name and the company survive and everything else is gone. That is what we built PeersBridge for: scan the card, add private notes and tags, set a reminder for the follow-up you promised.
Referring to what you agreed, and carrying what you promised. One email sent on time is worth more than a hundred cards in a desk drawer. If there is nothing to send, there was no meeting — there was an exchange of cards.
9–10 September 2026 in Astana. It is the forum's ninth edition, organised by the AIFC, the Astana International Financial Centre. More than 5,500 participants from over 80 countries are expected; the 2025 edition drew 5,500 people from 82 countries and 160 speakers. The official site is astanafindays.org.
In Almaty in 2026: the Central Asia Fintech Summit on 11 September at the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture; Kazakhstan Growth Forum'26 on 16 September at The Ritz-Carlton; the IX “Capital Markets Kazakhstan” conference by Cbonds Congress on 8 October; and the EDB annual meeting and business forum on 25–26 June, which has already taken place. In Astana the same year: Astana Finance Days on 9–10 September and AI & Digital Bridge on 1–3 October.
Astana Finance Days has its own app, published on both the App Store and Google Play; per the store description it carries the agenda, speaker and attendee profiles, and meeting scheduling. AI & Digital Bridge uses the Astana Hub app as its companion — for ticket activation and QR entry; no attendee-matchmaking feature is documented in the sources found. The Central Asia Fintech Summit has no app and points attendees to a public Telegram group instead. Cbonds Congress publishes agendas and participant lists as static PDFs. For the other six forums on this list no app was found in the sources checked — that is absence of evidence, not proven absence.
One or two weeks out, build a list of five to ten people you actually want to talk to, from the published agenda. Write each of them a short message with a specific hook — a session, a topic, a question — and propose a specific time and place: “day two, 11:40, by the registration desk”. “We'll find each other” almost always means you will not. On the day, write the person down immediately: name, what they do, what you agreed, what you promised to send. Send the follow-up within a week.
As of 7 September 2026 these have already been held: KASE Day in Astana on 10 February; Digital Qazaqstan in Shymkent on 27 March; the Eurasian Economic Forum in Astana on 28–29 May; Astana Mining & Metallurgy in Astana on 11–12 June; the XXII Eurasian Capital Markets Forum by Cbonds in Borovoe on 18–19 June; and the EDB annual meeting and business forum in Almaty on 25–26 June.
It is the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange's business-breakfast format, running since 2017 for private- and quasi-public-sector representatives and the exchange's partners. It is not a mass-attendance conference. The format rotates between cities: it has been held in Astana, Almaty, Shymkent, Aktobe, Tashkent, Minsk, Moscow and London. The most recent confirmed edition was on 10 February 2026 in Astana.
PeersBridge is a networking CRM for iPhone. Scan the card, add your own private notes and tags, set a reminder for the follow-up you promised — so the name still means something in a year.
Android is in development.
The app is free to download. Being matched, and joining events and activities, needs a subscription bought inside the app. Current prices and terms are on the App Store listing.
Every date, city, organiser and figure on this page comes from an organiser's own site or from business-press coverage, checked on 7 September 2026. Three official pages were not directly reachable that day (Digital Bridge returned HTTP 403; the specific “Capital Markets Kazakhstan” edition page and the February “KASE Day” page returned HTTP 404) — where that is the case, the event's own card says so. Programmes change: check the official site before you travel.