US Corporate Giants Head to Tashkent Investment Forum

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) — Some of Wall Street's biggest names and Silicon Valley's most powerful firms are converging on Tashkent next week — a signal of just how seriously American capital is beginning to take Central Asia's fastest-reforming economy.

The Uzbekistan–USA Business Forum is scheduled for June 16 at 10:00 a.m. in the Tashkent Hall of the CAEx exhibition complex, as part of the fifth Tashkent International Investment Forum. The event is designed to serve as a direct dialogue platform between business leaders, investors, and government officials from both countries, with a focus on identifying concrete joint investment, industrial, infrastructure, and technology initiatives.

The confirmed participant list reads like a roll call of American financial and corporate power. Asset managers BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Oppenheimer, and Morgan Stanley will sit alongside investment banks JP Morgan and Citi, as well as financial infrastructure firms Nasdaq, BNY Mellon, and Visa. Technology heavyweights Google, Oracle, and Meta are expected, as are industrial and manufacturing giants Boeing, General Motors, John Deere, CNH Industrial, Air Products, FLSmidth, Valmont Irrigation, and Traxys. Consumer brand The Coca-Cola Company also features on the roster.

Critically, the forum will also see representation from two key US government financing arms — the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) — whose participation signals potential sovereign-backed support for deals struck on the sidelines.

The agenda spans Uzbekistan's most strategically sensitive sectors: mining and metallurgy, infrastructure and transport, construction, digital technology, financial services, and agriculture — industries where Tashkent has been actively courting foreign capital as part of its sweeping post-2016 economic liberalisation programme.

Beyond the plenary sessions, the forum's organisers have structured dedicated B2B and G2B meetings to move conversations beyond the ceremonial and into actionable deal-making territory — a format increasingly favoured by serious investors who want direct access to both counterpart companies and the government officials capable of unblocking regulatory pathways.

The breadth of the American delegation, spanning finance, technology, heavy industry, and agriculture, suggests this is not a courtesy visit. For Uzbekistan, which has been methodically diversifying its investment partnerships beyond Russia and China, landing meaningful commitments from US institutions would mark a significant step in its ongoing integration into global capital markets.