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ALFONSO PECCATIELLO

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MAUREEN DOWNEY

Conference Address
San Francisco, CA - Online - Zoom

AGENDA - Wednesday January 14th



Venue:
*San Francisco, CA /Zoom

9:00 a.m., Initial Greetings - Breakfast

9:30 a.m. Begin Broadcast
Breakfast - Coffee

930-9:45, Initial Greetings


Matthew Mangan, Partner - K&L Gates

9:45-10:30, Economic Outlook 2026


Alfonso Peccatiello, CIO of Palinuro Capital (Macro Hedge Fund) | Founder @ The Macro Compass

10:30-11:20, Alternative Alpha Strategies 2026

Tyson Halsey, Managing Member - Income Growth Advisors
Toby Zhang, Partner - Prairie Capital | Investor-Operator
Eveline Gerck, Family Office , KFund - Board Advisor
Ryan Baird, Chief Executive Officer - Baird Augustine
Moderator - Peter Dickstein, Founder, CEO, CFO, Advisor - PMD Advisors

11:20 - 11:45 pm , Opportunities in Private Equity

Gary Post, Managing Partner - K Funds

11:45 - 12:10 pm , RewardedTV

Michael Jelen, CEO - RewardedTV

12:10 - 12:20 pm , Eyedaptic

Jay Cormier - Eyedaptic

12:20 - 1:10 p.m. , Deeptech

Ethan Doyle, Partner - Advantary Capital Partners
Skip Sanzeri, CEO and Founder - AI PQ Audit
Jenny Chen, Neuro Radiologist - 3DHEALS
Ryan Wang, Managing Partner - Solaris Venture Partners
Moderator - Erika Cramer , Co-Founder and General Partner - How Women Invest

1:10 - 2:10 pm , Alternative Health Care Opportunities

Tom Nix , Consultant | Board Advisor - Agentic Initiatives Group ·
Dr Michael Berg, MedaCube
Divya Yerraguntla, Chief Client Officer- SRM Technologies
Maureen Downey, Venture Partner - DigitalDx Ventures
Regina Atim, CEO - Clinicians Touch Allyve
Moderator - David Whelan, Managing Director - Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.

2:10 - 3:00 p.m. , Healthcare Finance and Strategies 2026

Alfred Slanetz, Chair - National Foundation for Cancer Research
Matt Oguz Chief Investment Officer - IRIS
Sean Coveleski, Stand Up To Cancer
Moderator - David Whelan, Managing Director - Bespoke Business Strategy Inc.

3:00 - 3:25 p.m. , Longevity Fireside Chat

Wei-Wu He, Ph.D, Executive Chairman - Human Longevity Inc
Moderator - Elizabeth Cho Fertikh

3:25 - 3:50 p.m. , Real Estate Fireside Chat

Wen Shiau, Founder & Managing Partner - Cypress Capital Group
Moderator - Deborah Chan Mangan

3:50 - 4:15 p.m. , Real Estate Fireside Chat

Joe Tobin, Founder & CEO - Tobin Capital
Moderator - Deborah Chan Mangan

4:15 - 4:50 pm , 2026 Outlook on the Direction of Cancer Research and Diagnostics

Julian Adams, CEO - Stand Up To Cancer

Date: Wednesday January 14th, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Pacific Time


Ivyfon Agenda - - Day 2
Registration-

AGENDA - Thursday January 15th

Venue:

*San Francisco, CA/Zoom

9:05 a.m., Initial Greetings - Coffee


9:15-9:45, Economic Outlook 2026


Jeffrey Huge, Founder & CIO - JWH Investment Partners

9:45 - 10:45 pm , Venture Capital 2026

Fred Campbell, Managing Partner - TRAC
Yana Yasevich, Partner - Alter Global
Charles Callahan, Managing Partner - Triangle Venture Partners
Morgan Livermore, Founder - Supercruise Capital
Yashwanth (Yash) Hemaraj, General Partner - BGV,
Moderator - Paul Rubens, Managing Member - Tamarack Investment Partners, LLC

10:45 - 11:30 , Private Equity and M&A

Butch Andreini, Managing Director - Headlands Capital
Patti Pan, General Partner - Solaris Venture Partners
Serge Jonnaert, THE.MERGER.COMPANY
Moderator - Gary Sawka, Founding Partner - Crimson Growth Partners

11:30 - 12:10 pm , Manager Selection

Tarrell Gamble, Trustee - Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association
Ellen Snibbe Baker, Partner - Baker Aurora LLC

Moderator - Moderator - Mark Heil, Managing Director - Pickwick Capital Partners

12:10 - 1:10 pm , Innovation in Longevity

Nathan Cheng, General Partner - Healthspan Capital
Dana LaRocca, Founder and CEO - FurtherBio
Michael West, Chief Executive Officer - Lifecraft Sciences
Moderator - Gail Gannon, Founder/CEO Ensante & Faculty @ UC Berkeley

1:10- 2:00 pm , Artificial Intelligence Outlook

Jeff Allen, CEO & Product - FlikForge
Kevin Sieck, Head of Generative & Agentic AI - Capgemini
Manny Fernandez, Co-Founder & CEO - ImpacterAI
Rupam Shrivastava, CFA, Founder and GP - Frontiers Capital
Moderator - Moderator - Mark Heil, Managing Director - Pickwick Capital Partners

Date: Thursday January 15th, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM Pacific Time

PAUL VERADDITTAKIT,

Managing Partner

Pantera Capital

ALAN SNYDER

Founder & CEO

Shinnecock Partners / aShareX



JEFFREY HUGE

Founder& CIO

JWH Investment Partners

AXEL MERK

President & CIO

Merk Investments

K&L Gates

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