Wednesday, November 5

Agenda 

12:00 pm – Registration and lunch – Palm Beach Lake Pavilion

1:00 pm – Forum Starts

Panel: Digital Asset Treasury

  • Michael Blankenship, Managing Partner, Houston & Co-Chair, Capital Markets Practice, Winston & Strawn 
  • Andrew Keys, Co-Founder and Chairman, The Ether Machine (NASDAQ: ETHM)
  • Joseph Quintilian, Partner, Distributed Capital Partners, and Co-Founder, Ajna Labs LLC​

Panel: Private Equity in Florida Sports

  • Michael Alford, Vice President and Director of Athletics, Florida State University
  • Robert DuPuy, Former President and COO, Major League Baseball
  • Rick Horrow, CEO, Horrow Sports Ventures

Panel: Private Equity Meets Founder and Family-Owned Businesses

Panel: Tech-Enabled Private Equity

Panel: Governance: The Evolution from Private to Public Markets

Panel: VC Investing in Latin America

Panel: AI: From Hospitality to Real Estate

  • Mark Harms, Chairman and CEO, Global Leisure Partners; Investor and Executive Committee Member, World Gym Corporation (TAI: 2762.TW)
  • Mary Allen Saunders, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Toast, Inc. (NYSE: TOST)
  • Hooman Shahidi, Managing Partner, Opus Bloom Capital; Co-Founder and Former CEO, EVPassport

Panel: Maximizing the Value of Directors on VC-Backed Boards

  • Sher Baig, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Salus
  • Ryan Keating, Partner – Outsource Accounting Services Practice, EisnerAmper​
  • Paul Quinlan, Founder and CEO, Quinlan Partners
  • Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital

Panel: Media Industry Dealmaking: Paramount Global and Beyond

5:00 pm – Trolleys depart for reception at The Cove Club