- Non-fee earning LP kickoff - By invitation-only, Sunday evening
- Career Advancement Lunch - Real talk on hiring, promotions, and what it takes to move up
- Coffee & LP Networking - Built into the Opening Forum schedule
- Single Family Office Networking - Dedicated time on Tuesday morning
- LP Roundtables - Discuss portfolios in intimate peer groups.
- Wellness Mornings - Sunrise yoga, desert hikes, or pilates. Start your day right.
- Broadsource Unsessions - No presentations. Just peers solving problems together.
Women’s Private Equity Summit
March 8 -11, 2026. Arizona Biltmore
Attending as an Allocator
Insight. Strategy. Connection.
Navigate market shifts and unlock new opportunities with peers and managers fueling private equity.
With over 200 allocators, exclusive LP-only programming, and curated networking built into every day, the Women's Private Equity Summit delivers what you need to refine your portfolio strategy and make smarter allocation decisions. This is where due diligence meets deal flow and relationships equal returns.
Why attend
Sharpen your strategyWalk away with frameworks for navigating secondaries, democratization, and AI-era manager selection that you can immediately apply to your portfolio |
Access decision-makersConnect with 200+ allocators who are actively deploying, co-investing, and reshaping their PE allocations. |
Build relationships that matterThe deals, partnerships, and intelligence that drive returns come from relationships built over breakfast, wellness sessions, and intimate roundtables. |
Why Allocators choose this Summit
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Built with you in mind
Monday 9 March
Challenges and Solutions Forum
Focusing on private equity at a pension fund, endowment, family office or insurance company offers challenges and opportunities unique to institutional LPs. In this special workshop, we address specific challenges LPs are wrestling with in today’s evolving market environment and offer solutions for how to solve LPs most pressing issues. This event will provide in-depth insights into market trends and portfolio strategies.
Navigating through Chaos: How CIOs Are Finding Gains
Tariffs. Mixed Economic Signals. Soaring Stock Market. Sluggish Private Market Returns. Yes, chief investment officers have had a lot on their plate over the past year. In this session, you’ll hear from some of them as they give their views on the economy, the strategies they are favoring and, of course, their perspectives on private markets and whether they still make sense in a high-interest environment.
LP Trailblazer Interview
Tuesday 10 March
401(k) Plan Access to Private Assets: What Does It Mean for Allocators?
For years, policymakers have considered whether and how to allow 401(k) and other retirement plan investors to best access the private markets. With the growth of private equity and an ever-smaller slice of the economy being represented by the public markets, this question has become more urgent for policymakers.
Private Institutional Allocator Track
- How democratization impacts valuations, co-investment opportunities, and liquidity
- Evaluating managers in the AI era: What matters for the next 10 years?
- Accessing small and emerging managers effectively
Private Wealth Allocator Track
- Due diligence done right: Evaluating evergreen funds and new wealth vehicles
- Secondaries: Is now the time to pounce on institutional LP sales?
Growing Use of Secondary Transactions in Portfolio Management: What Must Firms Do to Ensure Success
As secondary transactions become an increasingly important alternative to traditional IPOs and M&A exits, both managers and investors are increasingly turning to them as strategic portfolio management tools.This panel will explore how firms can strategically leverage continuation funds and other secondary solutions, as well as the challenges they must navigate to achieve successful outcomes.
Wednesday 11 March
LP-GP Roundtables
Discuss portfolios and 2026 strategies in intimate peer groups.
And The Final Say Goes To…. The LPs
LPs share what they expect from GPs, how they view return generation, and what concerns them most heading into 2026.
Key speakers
Networking
Where relationships equal returns
The best conversations don't happen in ballrooms, they happen in the unscripted moments between sessions.
Here's where you'll connect:
A deeper look at the allocators in attendance last year
A selection of firms represented:
Public Pensions
• CalPERS • CalSTRS • Colorado PERA • CPP Investments • LA Fire & Police Pensions • LACERS • New York State Common Retirement Fund • OMERS • OPTrust • Oregon State Treasury • South Carolina Retirement System • Teacher Retirement System of Texas
Family Offices
• DFO Management • East Rock Capital • Fortress (Pete Briger's Family Office) • Gates Capital Partners • ICONIQ Capital • Krinsky Family Office • Loews Corporation • Makena Capital • Nicola Wealth • Wittington Investments
Endowments & Foundations
• Columbia Investment Management Company • Fordham University • Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation • Hershey Trust • J. Paul Getty Trust • Lumina Foundation • Mount Holyoke College • Northwestern University • PRINCO (Princeton) • Smithsonian Institution • Tufts University
Consultants & OCIOs
• Aksia • Albourne • Aon • Cambridge Associates • Cliffwater • IH International • Mercer • MLC Asset Management • NEPC • StepStone Group
Ready to join us?
Qualified allocators receive complimentary access to the Women’s Private Equity Summit. Complimentary attendance is exclusively available for professionals at institutional investors, family offices, and discretionary investment consultants who are responsible for investing in external funds.
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