- Where are AI conversations actually happening in your fund operations today and which ones make you nervous?
- The question is where can AI add enough value to compensate for the additional risk?
- Deterministic vs probabilistic: Advantages and differences in application. How do you combine a deterministic calculation engine's ability to produce the same result every time with AI's ability to produce greater speed and user experience?
- AI as efficiency, not replacement: The concept of "service as a service"
- Using MCPs to bring proprietary software into your own AI workflow
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- The impact of higher-for-longer interest rates on dealmaking, leverage and exits
- Regulation as a defining macro force for private markets
- AI's influence on investment strategy, due diligence and portfolio operations
- Geopolitical fragmentation, re-shoring and changing sector priorities
- The liquidity reset: evolving LP expectations, fundraising and exit strategies.
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From rate trajectories to geopolitical fragmentation, the macroeconomic environment continues to reshape the risk-return calculus across private markets. Senior allocators and managers convene to separate signal from noise.
- The impact of higher-for-longer interest rates on dealmaking, leverage and exits.
- Regulation as a defining macro force for private markets.
- AI's influence on investment strategy, due diligence and portfolio operations.
- Geopolitical fragmentation, re-shoring and changing sector priorities.
- The liquidity reset: evolving LP expectations, fundraising and exit strategies.
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Perpetual-life vehicles have moved from novelty to structural fixture, yet their operational and governance complexities remain in flux. This session interrogates the architecture behind evergreen strategies and the trade-offs that define them.
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Workshop A: The Specialist Advantage: Finding Alpha in Niche Markets
As competition for high-quality assets intensifies, more firms are building deep expertise in specific industries rather than competing as generalists. This workshop examines how firms identify opportunities in niche sectors, leverage proprietary networks to source differentiated assets, and use sector-specific knowledge to drive value creation.
Speakers:
- Bill Cisneros, President, Primary Wave
- Alex Meyer, Director, Certares
Workshop B: Valuations and Reporting Across Asset Classes
With regulatory and LP scrutiny of private markets valuations at an all-time high, consistent and defensible methodology has become a competitive differentiator. This roundtable examines emerging standards and the pressure points firms are navigating in real time.
Speakers:
- Peter Egli, Executive Director, LGT Capital Partners
Workshop C: The Changing Terms of Capital: Inside the New Fundraising Dynamic
As fundraising timelines lengthen and LPs become increasingly selective, managers are being forced to rethink not only how they attract capital, but how funds are structured and negotiated to secure commitments. This session examines evolving trends around fundraising, from fund formation and LP negotiations to shifting terms, structures and the path to final close.
- Competing for capital: Standing out in a crowded fundraising market as LPs become more selective over where and with whom they allocate
- Making the proposition land: Communicating strategy, differentiation and value clearly enough to build investor conviction and fundraising momentum
- Structuring for the investor: Building fund and financing propositions around the differing needs of institutional, private wealth and retail capital
- The negotiation dynamic: Navigating shifting fund terms, side letters, co-investment rights and bespoke LP requirements without compromising the wider fund proposition
- From interest to commitment: Maintaining fundraising momentum from first close through to final close
Speaker:
- Marvin Rosen, Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Workshop D: Capital, Energy and Public Consent in The Data Centre Buildout
The continued integration of AI into our society and economy is causing an unprecedented demand for compute power, which private capital is at the forefront of financing.
Data centre construction requires levels of expenditure that can be daunting for even the largest firms. How do GPs mobilise the resources needed to participate in these deals?
Energy grids are already under strain. How can these projects meet their significant energy demands, while minimising their environmental impact?
And as public opposition mounts to both data centre construction and AI more broadly, how do these projects ensure they have buy-in from local communities?
Speaker:
- Jack Arrowsmith, Journalist, Private Equity Wire®
- Robert Huang, Executive Director, Morrison
Workshop E: Emerging Managers Assembly
A dedicated forum for the next generation of private markets managers navigating the structural headwinds of first-time fundraising in a highly selective LP environment. Candid discussion on differentiation, track record construction, and building institutional-grade operations.
Speaker:
- David Horton, Partner, Baker Tilly X Anchin
- Liam Croke, Director, Alternative Investment Business Due Diligence, Bank of America
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The private credit market has never been more crowded, more diverse, or more consequential to portfolio construction. This session maps the competitive dynamics separating the disciplined from the desperate for yield.
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As traditional bank balance sheets continue to retreat, asset-based finance is emerging as a defining pillar of the modern credit ecosystem. Leading practitioners examine the opportunity set and the underwriting rigour it demands.
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The most compelling private equity franchises are built not in benign conditions, but in periods of disruption. This session surfaces the strategic and operational playbooks behind transformational value creation in an uncertain environment
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In a challenging deal environment, speed to conviction can be the difference when it comes to closing a transaction – an achievement that requires an interplay of sharp context, efficiency and differentiated insight. Learn how firms are putting their judgment into every AI tool they use, and building conviction acorss the deal lifecycle.
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Infrastructure and real estate debt offer inflation linkage and capital preservation — but not without complexity in structuring and execution. This session navigates the nuances of lending across two of private markets' most enduring asset classes.
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The secondary market for private credit is evolving rapidly, offering liquidity solutions where few once existed. This session examines the mechanics of credit secondaries and the structural considerations that govern pricing and duration alignment.
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The operational backbone of private credit is under greater scrutiny as portfolios scale and regulators sharpen their focus on mark practices. Practitioners discuss what best-in-class looks like across the full credit lifecycle.
Direct lending has navigated a dramatic rate cycle and emerged — tested but resilient — as a cornerstone of institutional portfolios. Senior practitioners assess where spreads, structures, and default dynamics stand heading into the next phase.
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Artificial intelligence is simultaneously a portfolio theme and an operational imperative, reshaping how managers source, diligence, and manage investments. This session interrogates the gap between AI's promise and its current delivery across the private equity landscape.
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The operational agenda facing private equity firms has never been broader — spanning contested valuation methodologies, evolving liquidity demands, and the structural challenges of reaching retail capital at scale. Senior operators chart their course through competing priorities.
GP-led transactions have transformed from a liquidity tool of last resort into a sophisticated instrument of portfolio management. This session assesses deal volume, valuation discipline, and what continuation vehicles signal about the health of the primary market.
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Democratisation of access brings with it a new and complex responsibility: communicating private markets to audiences unaccustomed to illiquidity, complexity, and fee structures. This session examines the reputational and regulatory stakes of getting retail engagement wrong.
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Permanent capital is the industry's most coveted prize — stable, scalable, and increasingly within reach through new vehicle structures and distribution channels. Leaders explore what it truly takes to secure and sustain it.
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Behind every allocation decision lies a framework shaped by mandate, conviction, and constraint. This session offers unfiltered insight into how today's most sophisticated LPs are constructing, reviewing, and repositioning their private markets exposure.
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Following the Private Equity Wire® Summit, join us for an evening of celebration and networking!
For more than a decade, Private Equity Wire® has been recognising excellence in the fields of fundraising, portfolio performance,
and service provision. This year, we're bringing all our US awards together into one, stellar evening, where we will celebrate
all those driving innovation, transformation and growth across the private markets landscape.