SESSIONS February 2-3, 2021 CST UTC -6 Time Zone DAY 1 - 02/02/2021 Virtual Event
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SuperTechnology North America SESSIONS February 2-3, 2021 CST UTC -6 Time Zone DAY 1 - 02/02/2021 Virtual event Dedicated networking time Technology investing today: Buyout The online debate: LP-GP relations today perspectives 08:35 - 09:30 11:45 - 12:10 10:25 - 11:00 Day 1 Dedicated time to catch up with peers and business Day 1 contacts. Has tech permanently replaced the need for in-person • What are the different ways the ‘tech sector’ can be meetings between LPs and GPs? Will competitors Set your availability in the Eventfinity platform. segmented? have an edge if they take meetings ‘offline’? How can • Isn’t everything a tech investment today? LPs and GPs build solid relationships in the new online You can schedule 1-to-1 or group meetings in • What valuations and risks are acceptable when world? Can LPs do effective due diligence on a designated time slots. approaching a new tech investment? manager without ever meeting them? • How are underlying assets being transformed by All meetings will be held through a secure video • The LP view: LP 1 and LP 2 in conversation with conferencing solution. technological innovation? • Is the tech sector in a bubble? (15 minutes) • Tech businesses vs tech-enabled businesses: • The GP view: GP 1 and GP 2 in conversation with where’s the line? (15 minutes) Chair’s welcome address • + 10minute Q&A Participants 09:30 - 09:35 Participants Day 1 In conversation with: Marc der Kinderen - Managing Partner, 747 Capital Eliot Hodges - Chief Executive Officer, Anduin In conversation with: Kelly DePonte - Managing Technology fundraising activity Daniel Berglund - Partner, Technology & Payments, Nordic Capital Director , Probitas Partners 09:35 - 09:55 David Golob - CIO, Francisco Partners Steven Hartt - Principal, Meketa Investment Group Day 1 • How has fundraising in the US, Canada and Mexico been affected by Covid? Networking break GPs originating, diligencing and managing • What does ‘normal’ look like now? companies digitally 11:00 - 11:45 • Which funds and areas of the market have Day 1 12:15 - 12:50 benefited or struggled the most? Day 1 • Will 2021 be the year of the tech fundraise? While you wait for the next session, stay tuned for our • How might 2020/21 funds compare with other exclusive interviews In what ways have new GPs had to change their vintages? origination and valuation processes? To what extent • How many new tech funds have entered the can the difficulties of meeting founders and doing in- market? CONNECTION SESSION 1: Covid-19 impact – person due diligence be mitigated by technology? Is there a push for better automating investment, where next for tech investors? Participants monitoring and management processes of portfolio Jesse Fahy - Vice President, Private Capital, Preqin 11:00 - 11:45 companies? How have companies and supply chains Connection Session which have been negatively affected by the pandemic used technology to mitigate some of the issues? In LP/GP networking session run under the Chatham what ways have new GPs had to change their process The LP perspective: technology funds and House Rule. Open to 26 pre-registered LP and GP to manage deal-flow? investments attendees. For GP registrations please email 10:00 - 10:20 [email protected] For LP registrations Participants please email [email protected] Day 1 Moderator: Joncarlo Mark - Founder & Managing Member, Upwelling Capital Group • How are LPs accessing Buyout, Growth and VC Participants tech investments through their existing GP The LP view: Brian Schuman - Investment Eugene Zhang - Founding Partner, TSVC relationships? Professional, PepsiCo Technology Ventures • How are LPs accessing oversubscribed technology The LP view: Eric Woo - Head of Institutional Capital, funds? AngelList • Are LPs comfortable with making investments in managers they have never invested in before in the The VC and Growth view: Rudina Seseri - Founder and current climate? Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures • How has the commitment and draw-down process changed? • How have LPs pushed for liquidity in 2020? Networking break • What long-lasting changes have LPs because of Covid? 12:50 - 13:35 • VC, Growth, or Buyout – what are LPs preferring Day 1 now? While you wait for the next session, stay tuned for our Participants exclusive interviews Jonathan Grabel - Chief Investment Officer, LACERA (Los Angeles County Retirement Association) informaconnect.com/supertechnology-north- +44 (0)20 7017 7200 america/ [email protected] SuperTechnology North America SESSIONS February 2-3, 2021 CST UTC -6 Time Zone DAY 1 - 02/02/2021 Virtual event CONNECTION SESSION 2: Sector focus: Networking break No longer flying-over opportunity: the VC where’s the opportunity? ecosystem and North American tech 14:45 - 15:30 12:50 - 13:35 Day 1 16:05 - 16:40 Connection Session Day 1 While you wait for the next session, stay tuned for our LP/GP networking session run under the Chatham exclusive interviews • Where are start-ups and different VCs finding tech House Rule. Open to 26 pre-registered LP and GP opportunities? attendees. For GP registrations please email • How has the ecosystem become decentralized? [email protected] For LP registrations CONNECTION SESSION 3: What’s happening in • How are VCs providing strategic vision today? please email [email protected] GP-led Secondaries? • What does the diligence on a VC vs Growth vs Buyout look like? Participants 14:45 - 15:30 • Are sector specialists more spread out today (post- Connection Session pandemic)? Host: Ted Maidenberg - Partner and Co-Founder, Tribe • When does it make sense to go from local Capital LP/GP networking session run under the Chatham specialists to more generalist investor? House Rule. Open to 26 pre-registered LP and GP attendees. To register please email Participants “Nothing stays private for long”: the [email protected] & technology IPO today [email protected] Moderator: Justin Field - Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, National Venture Capital 13:35 - 14:10 Participants Association (NVCA) Day 1 Discussion Leader: Cari Lodge - Managing Director, Panellists: Steve Case - Chairman & CEO, Revolution • Are software and ‘pure-tech’ investments the best Commonfund Capital LLC place to find a deal that will ve entually go public? Priscilla Guevara - Head of Investor Relations, Science • Which sectors are seeing the most successful Inc. IPOs? LP views on technology: from investments to Mike Venerable - CEO, CincyTech • To what degree are public markets still volatile? operations • Are traditional routes to an IPO better than a SPAC? • Are relative valuations too high? 15:30 - 16:00 • Direct listings vs IPO vs traditional IPO – which is Day 1 Chair’s closing remarks and end of better? SuperTechnology North America Virtual Day 1 • How is tech impacting fund analysis and manager Participants due diligence? 16:45 - 16:50 • How are over allocated LPs approaching tech as an Moderator: Bradley Rowbotham - Research investment possibility? Consultant, Private Markets, NEPC • Does the growth of tech disruption to underlying Day 1 Afternoon Dedicated Networking Time Panellists: Rami Reyes - Co-Founder & Managing assets concern LPs? 16:50 - 17:45 Director, NextEquity Partners • What is the demand for proven tech investment today? Sunil Dhaliwal - General Partner, Amplify Partners Dedicated time to catch up with peers and business Participants contacts. Michael Block - Managing Director and Special Advisor, Adit Ventures LLC Moderator: Chris Sparenberg - Director, Product and Set your availability in the Eventfinity platform. Data Strategy, IHS Markit You can schedule 1-to-1 or group meetings in Panellists: Josh Geller - Deputy City Attorney, Public designated time slots. Technology creating diversity: using new tools Pensions General Counsel Division, Los Angeles City to create diverse teams Attorney All meetings will be held through a secure video 14:15 - 14:45 Maurice Gordon - Managing Director & Head Of Private conferencing solution. Day 1 Equity, The Guardian Life Insurance Company Of America • How has the ability to work from home and remotely enabled the widening of the workforce? David Rutledge - Portfolio Manager Private Markets • What opportunities and challenges has tech Group, OP Trust created for leaders managing teams? • Is the future of work here to stay? • Has the work/life balance been thrown out of the window? Participants Interviewer: Dadong Yan - Portfolio Manager, MassMutual Interviewee: Cindy Padnos - Founder & Managing Partner, Illuminate Ventures informaconnect.com/supertechnology-north- +44 (0)20 7017 7200 america/ [email protected] SuperTechnology North America SCHEDULE February 2-3, 2021 CST UTC -6 Time Zone DAY 1 - 02/02/2021 Virtual event TIME CONNECTION SESSION DAY 1 08:00 08:35 - Dedicated networking time 08:35 - Dedicated networking time 09:00 09:30 - Chair’s welcome address 09:35 - Technology fundraising activity 10:00 10:00 - The LP perspective: technology funds and investments 10:25 - Technology investing today: Buyout perspectives 11:00 11:00 - CONNECTION SESSION 1: Covid-19 impact – where 11:00 - Networking break next for tech investors? 11:45 - The online debate: LP-GP relations today 12:00 12:50 - CONNECTION SESSION 2: Sector focus: where’s the op- 12:15 - GPs originating, diligencing and managing companies portunity? digitally 12:50 - Networking break 13:00 13:35 - “Nothing stays private for long”: the technology IPO to- day 14:00 14:45 - CONNECTION SESSION