Wednesday, November 4, 2026 - Thursday, November 5, 2026

CorpGov, IPO Edge and PE Edge will host the sixth annual Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on November 4-5, 2026, at the Palm Beach Lake Pavilion and The Cove Club, both located waterfront with sweeping views of Palm Beach Island, along with a reception at Cucina Palm Beach. The Forum will feature a VC-focused keynote panel on Wednesday evening and a full day of panels on Thursday, with networking events both nights.

Our audience will include approximately 300 attendees including institutional investors, board directors, family offices/HNWIs, attorneys, investment bankers and key advisors.

 

Preliminary Agenda

Wednesday, November 4 at The Cove Club​

4:00pm — Registration opens at The Cove Club​

5:00pm — Reception begins for welcome cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres​

5:30pm — Keynote panel ​

6:00pm — Reception resumes with cocktails and heavy hors d’oeuvres​

7:30pm — Reception ends ​

Thursday, November 5 at The Palm Beach Lake Pavilion and Cucina Palm Beach​​

9:00am — Registration opens at The Lake Pavilion with light breakfast ​

10:00am — Morning session begins: private markets focused​

12:30pm — Boxed lunches from Johan’s Joe served​

1:00pm — Afternoon session begins: public markets focused​

5:00pm — Depart for Cucina Palm Beach reception ​​

Friday, November 6 at The Breakers Palm Beach – Golf​

3rd Palm Beach CorpGov Invitational  ​

Preliminary Panels: Palm Beach CorpGov Forum 2026 

• Sports Investing
• AI Governance
• Shareholder Activism and Defense
• Stablecoins
• Defense Tech
• IPOs and Equity Capital Markets
• Venture Capital/Private Equity
• Entertainment/Media

Preliminary Speakers 

• Craig DeDomenico, Managing Director, Equity and Equity-Linked Capital Markets, Stifel
• Adam Dobrik, Director, Shareholder Activism Practice, Forward Risk
• Christopher R. Drewry, Partner, Global Co-Chair, Shareholder Activism and Takeover Defense Practice, Latham & Watkins​
• Don Duffy, Chairman, ICR Capital ​​
• Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director, Okapi Partners
• Bruce Goldfarb, President and CEO, Okapi Partners​
• Brenda Gosselin, Partner, Goodmans LLP​
• John Grau, President, InvestorCom ​
• Mary Guzman, Founder and CEO, Crown Jewel Insurance​
• ​Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)​
• Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures​​
• Rafique Jiwani, Head of GTM Value Creation, Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs Private Equity 
• Andy Katz, General Partner, BrknPar Ventures (Sport Tech Growth Equity Fund)​
• Ryan Keating, Partner, Industry Leader, Venture Services, EisnerAmper   ​
• Adam Kommel, Activism Data Product Manager, Bloomberg
• Harrison Lance, Head of Capital Markets, Southeast, New York Stock Exchange​
• Robert Maciejko, Founder, AI Strategy and Board Advisor, Board AI Institute; Co-Founder, INSEAD AI
• Ron Orol, Senior Editor, The Deal
• Charles Orozco, Senior Vice President – Group Director, Flagstar Private Bank
• Kory Patrick, Principal, Risk Advisory Services, Kaufman, Rossin &Co.
• Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and co-founder, Ajna Labs LLC​​​
• Michael W. Robinson, Chairman and CEO, The Montgomery Strategies Group​
• Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital ​​
• Karen Snow, CEO, Rose & Co Capital Advisors, Former Global Head of Listings, Nasdaq​
• Charles Soranno, Managing Director, Protiviti​
• Ken Traub, Chairman, President and CEO, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (Nasdaq: CMTL)​
• Greg Veltri, Stock Plan Lifecycle Director, Infinite Equity
• Judson Wallace, Managing Director, White Rabbit Capital​
• Dan Zacchei, Managing Partner, Longacre Square Partners​
• Ned Zelles, Director, Head of GTS Corporate Services, GTS
• Katie Creaser, Partner, Technology, ICR​
• Jarrett Banks, Editor-at-Large, CorpGov  (Moderator) ​
• John Jannarone, Editor-in-Chief, CorpGov (Moderator)

*PLEASE NOTE: "Institutional Investors and operating company executives” are attendees who CorpGov classifies as such and does not include SERVICE PROVIDERS (RIAs, private bank executives, accountants, lawyers, real estate agents, IR professionals, PR executives, among others). CorpGov, at its sole discretion, will make the determination of qualifications; disqualification will result in the cancelation of a submitted registration.