Abu Dhabi Finance Week 2025

ADFW 2025:
Engineering the Capital Network

Over four transformative days, Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) 2025 achieved yet another milestone gathering, the largest to date, bringing together 35,000+ participants and global finance’s most influential voices. With its five established flagship forums and over 65 curated events, ADFW is designed to foster collaboration, unlock opportunity, and accelerate economic growth.

The 4th edition of ADFW centred around the theme: Engineering the Capital Network - exploring the purposeful design of new financial systems built to harness innovation, artificial intelligence, and a rebalancing of global capital flows. The theme reflects the growing influence of the UAE, and the GCC, as a gravitational centre for capital and forward-looking investment strategy.

Abu Dhabi Finance Week (ADFW) is the MENA region’s premier business and investment summit, bringing together global leaders, market experts, policymakers, and investors from over 100 countries to drive impactful dialogue and collaboration.

ADFW 2025 Highlights


62+
Trillion USD in Assets Present
35000+
Participants
800+
Speakers
65+
Events
390+
Sessions
175+
Nationalities Present


Featured Speakers

Larry Fink
H.E. Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Managing Director & Group CEO, Mubadala Investment Company
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Chairman, Gates Foundation
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio
Founder & Mentor, Bridgewater Associates and Dalio Family Office
Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph
Former CEO & Co-Founder, Netflix
David Rubenstein
David Rubenstein
Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, Carlyle Group
Oliver Bäte
Oliver Bäte
CEO, Allianz SE
Sergio Ermotti
Sergio Ermotti
Group CEO, UBS AG
Stephen Schwarzman
Stephen Schwarzman
Chairman & CEO, Blackstone

The ADFW Story: From Abu Dhabi to the Global Stage

Each year, ADFW pushes the boundaries of transformation in the business, investment, and financial landscapes. What began as a spark - a vision - rooted in Abu Dhabi to promote impactful collaboration and create a continuum of innovation across the UAE and the broader MENA region, has since sent ripples of change resonating far beyond.

Across past editions, ADFW has served as a launchpad of groundbreaking ideas and initiatives: from unveiling the Falcon Economy, to witnessing the signing of 100 Memorandums of Understanding between international and regional players.

Today, ADFW has firmly cemented its position on the global financial stage as a platform where business innovation, entrepreneurship, and financial collaboration converge, underscored by Abu Dhabi’s prosperous, diversified, and forward-looking economy.

From reshaping the future of finance and investing in the transition era, to exploring the power of capital, and now engineering the foundations that are repositioning the UAE, and the GCC, at the heart of global finance - the ADFW story continues.

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ADFW 4th Edition Market Report:
Engineering the Capital Network

Explore a comprehensive breakdown of highlights, insights, and key takeaways from ADFW 2025. This annual report captures a week of thought-provoking discussions and markets intelligence across 394 sessions, led by over 800 leaders and global experts.

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ADFW Editions

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The third edition of ADFW explored the facets and power of financial, human, and technological capital as a competitive propellor for economic growth.

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ADFW 2023

Investing in the Transition Era

Explore the second edition of ADFW focused on the economic, technological, and energy transitions that are expected to shape the next decade.

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