Palandöken Economic Forum | PEF 2026 Erzurum

The snowy peaks of Palandöken and PEF 2026

CAPITAL INGLOBAL FLUX:THE NEW INVESTMENT EQUATIONKÜRESEL BELİRSİZLİK ALTINDASERMAYE: YATIRIMIN YENİ DENKLEMİ

GLOBAL
PARTICIPATION

NEW
IDEAS

STRONG
PARTNERSHIPS

Palandöken Ski Resort in its night lights

5–6 December 2026

ERZURUMPALANDÖKEN

PEF 2026 SESSIONS

SPECIAL SESSIONS5

Republic of Türkiye Ministers’ Session

Türkiye’s Investment Vision: Competitiveness and Strategic Priorities

This session applies the Forum’s main theme to Türkiye.

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Eurasian Trade Ministers’ Session

Trade and Investment in Eurasia: Corridors, Connectivity and Cooperation

This session examines trade and investment relations across Eurasia against a backdrop reshaped by the fragmentation of the global trading order.

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Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Investment and Finance Office – African Union States Session

Türkiye–Africa Trade and Investment Partnership: New Markets, Value Chains and Shared Growth

This session examines trade and investment relations between Türkiye and the member states of the African Union in the context of changing global conditions.

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TOBB–League of Arab States Mission to Türkiye Session

Türkiye–Arab States Investment Partnerships: Shifting Capital Flows and New Areas of Cooperation

The session will examine how shifting global capital flows can be translated into long-term investment partnerships between Türkiye and Arab states based on mutual benefit and trust.

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Turkic World Session

The Turkic World’s New Geostrategic Position: Strategic Autonomy, Regional Weight and Global Influence

This session examines the growing strategic importance of the Turkic world within a changing global system along the axes of institutional integration, economic cooperation, connectivity, investment, energy and digitalization.

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THEMATIC SESSIONS5

The Changing Rules of the Global Economy: New Routes in a Fragmenting World

This session examines the global environment that sets the parameters of the investment equation. The changing rules of the global economy are also changing capital’s direction.

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Financing the Future: Risk, Return and Trust

This session examines how the financial sector interprets the new risk environment. With trust increasingly valued almost as a factor of production, the discussion will focus on how reliable policy frameworks can lower the cost of capital.

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Capital’s Preferences: AI, Strategic Industries and the Investment Race

This session examines how technological transformation and geopolitical uncertainty shape investment preferences. The focus is less on what technology is changing than on the areas capital favors in response to these changes.

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Whose Transformation, Whose Cost? Climate, Energy and Equity

This session examines the costs and benefits of transformation through the lenses of climate, energy and distribution.

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The Place of People in Capital: Regions, Entrepreneurs and Talent

This session examines the place of people in the capital and investment equation through regions, entrepreneurs and talent.

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PEF SPOTLIGHT2

Türkiye amid Global Uncertainty: Economic Confidence and the Future of Investment

This session will examine the current state and outlook of the Turkish economy in light of rising uncertainty in the global economy, shifting capital flows and developments in the international investment environment.

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A Call for Courage, Justice and Human Solidarity in a World Full of Socio-Endemic Suffering

Our world is being devastated by war, fear, incitement, injustice, greed, poverty, climate change and hatred. Violence has been normalized, politicized and weaponized; too often it is shielded by impunity rather than met with accountability.

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PALANDÖKEN ECONOMIC FORUM 2026

Capital in Global Flux:
The New Investment Equation

Belirsizlik Altında Sermaye:
Yatırımın Yeni Denklemi

OUR PEF 2025 GUESTS

Our distinguished guests
who gathered in Erzurum
at PEF 2025.

PEF 2025’te Erzurum’da
bir araya gelen değerli
konuklarımız.

Erzurum’s historic landmarks, the Double Minaret Madrasa and the Palandöken skyline

Where Culture, History and Economy Meet

DISCOVER ERZURUM

Kültürün, Tarihin ve Ekonominin Buluşma Noktası Erzurum’u Keşfet

A NEW PERSPECTIVE OPENS

Palandöken Economic Forum 2026 — Capital in Global Flux: The New Investment Equation

5–6 December 20265·6DECEMBER 2026ARALIK