When the usual playbook stops working — banks turn selective, insurers step back, trade routes close, and AI rewrites the economics of whole industries — how do the best companies keep financing, moving, protecting and growing their business?
That's the question at the heart of the Malakut Business Forum 2026.
Hosted at The Meydan Hotel, Dubai, in collaboration with Malakut and the Commodity Trading Club, the Forum brings together senior decision-makers from commodity trading, finance, insurance, risk, logistics and technology for one day of candid, case-driven discussion and high-value networking.
Building on the 2025 Malakut Trade Forum, the 2026 edition goes deeper into a single theme: business resilience when conditions turn against you — told through real decisions real companies made, not theory.
Come with an open mind, leave inspired with insights and supercharged with new connections.
Agenda
The programme spans five streams and a cross-stream, built around live case studies and frank conversations rather than sales pitches:
Finance — the new regional capital stack, keeping trade finance moving when correspondent banks withdraw, managing cash and trapped liquidity under pressure, investing through dislocation, and turning high-risk projects bankable.
Risk & Insurance — securing political violence and war-risk cover during active conflict, where the next wave of non-payment claims will surface, winning complex claims before the loss occurs, and what to do when the market simply won't take the risk.
Logistics — rerouting during conflict, the rise of air cargo, exceptional solutions for exceptional conditions, and which wartime workarounds are becoming permanent supply-chain redesigns.
Technology — industries transformed overnight, the investments that changed unit economics, modernising core systems without stopping the business, and lessons from real cyber incidents.
Artificial Intelligence — AI savings that actually reached the P&L, AI as a new revenue stream, the true enterprise cost of tokens and compute, the shift from copilots to autonomous agents, and where leaders refuse to automate.
Leadership & Strategy — capital allocation when forecasts stop predicting, the resilience premium and who pays for it, what becomes valuable when intelligence gets cheap, and why deep expertise sometimes blocks change.
Who should attend
The Forum is designed for senior professionals and decision-makers, including:
Commodity Traders & Originators
Investment Funds, Private Equity & Family Offices
Trade Finance & Banking Institutions
Risk, Insurance & Credit Professionals
Logistics & Supply Chain Leaders
Technology & AI Decision-Makers
Government Representatives & Strategic Advisors
Market Intelligence Professionals
Attendance
Free attendance for both members and non-members.
Limited places available. Secure your place now.
Partnership & sponsorship
The Malakut Business Forum offers partners direct, senior-level access to decision-makers across trading, finance, insurance, logistics and technology — in an intimate, high-trust setting rather than a crowded exhibition hall. Sponsorship positions your brand at the centre of the conversations shaping global trade, with speaking, branding, and hosted-networking opportunities available.
Contact us to build an impactful partnership: events@commoditytrading.club