The Central & Eastern European Forum

Gain exclusive insight, renew critical relationships, and build new opportunities — all within two transformative days. The CEE Forum 2026 is the most efficient, most effective, and most influential way to begin the financial year. 

This is the largest and most influential event for CEE markets. After a record-breaking 2025 edition that welcomed more than 2,000 delegates from 54 countries, the Central and Eastern European Forum returns to Vienna on 13–14 January 2026 — as part of the Financial Times — bigger, bolder, and more indispensable than ever. For 31 years, the CEE Forum has been the definitive meeting place for all countries, governments, markets, and investors. Recognised as the largest, most influential, and most established gathering of its kind, it is where the region’s financial pulse is set for the year ahead.

Each January, the Forum provides an unparalleled platform for finance ministers, central bank governors, leading banks, corporates, and global investors to connect, exchange ideas, and shape the direction of funding and investment across the entire CEE region. From high-level policy insight to groundbreaking market intelligence, the conversations that begin here reverberate across the region for months to come.